The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-09
HOPE FOR BLUE
Washburn Plans for Football
Team of Better Grade.
Coach Driver Orders All Men to
Report September Is.
BISHOP WILL PLAY
Out of Game All Last Season
Because Of Injuries.
Kansas and Aggies VIII Be
StrOng-FOotball Gossip.

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and others have already returned.
Registration begins Wednesday and
Coach William L. Driver has 1sSg1ed
his call for Saturday, giving time for
the students to get their courses Sc
! Iected.
At least one man who had not be-
fore signified his intention of trying
out for the team, has made declara-
ton This one is Smith Bishop, who
was kept out of the game last season
| on account of injuries. Bishop was a
crack basketball player along with
Rack Smiley and Warren Crumbine in
the past season and has had previous
! experience in football These three
men, with Capt. Burkhart, Tomlinson
and Lowe present very good pros
poets for a fast back field Any OF
them, If shifted to end positions,
ought to develop into good forward
pass receivers.
McIntire. Mcintosh, the two Rogers,
Smith, Dimon and others of last year, s
SQUAD and the freshmen team are to
be in the bunch which Will work out
Many new men of high school exper-
ience will be on hand to train for the
team of the following year. Some of
them may be used in the Kansas con-
ference games of the approaching sea-
AS in former years. the great Wash
burn game will be that with Kansas
university which will be played IN
Topeka on November 4. The jay
haWkers will be under the direction
of a new coach this year, Sherwin OF
Dartmouth. He already is on the
field laying his plans.
Kansas VIII Be Strong.
The report that Pete" He'll. the
Topeka man who has battled with
Tommy Johnson for the past two
years for the quarterback position,
is not confirmed by the husky mid
get He will be there and the
chances are he will be one of the
very best quarters in the Missouri
Valley circuit. The Woodbury. broth
erS Kabler, Breezley, Davis and Capt.
Ammons, of the Kennedy gang also
will be there. The prospects there
are as good as they have been in re-
cent years.
Kansas Schools Are Hopeful.
Baker will be under the same coach.
L. D. Sherer, and will have most OF
her old men in uniform. Baker has
succeeded in getting heavy sched-
ule for 1911 and is out to plant her
self solid in football circles.
F'airmount, Normal and Ottawa are
calculated to put teams in the field a t
least as good as those of last season
and the Aggies. whom Washburn play
in Topeka on Thanksgiving day, are
said to have bunch Of freshmen of
of the unbeatables who died of old
age there last fall.
Other Football Gossip.
The greatest game to be staged in
this section of the cOnutry will be the
Michigan-Nebraska game at Lincoln,
become hard pressed for battles since |
their refusal to rejoin the western
conference or perhaps the Nebraska
capital would not be so fortunate.
Nebraska, like Kansas, will be under
the direction of new coach, but a
great deal is expected of Coach
Steihm. The Cornhuskers enter the
season without some of the most de-
pendable of last years stars. The
wonders which are expected of Frank
and Shonka, if the two men deliver,
will serve to compensate in part for
this. 1t is to be hoped that the won
derful little quarter, Jerry Warner,
can be induced to return. He is
flash on open field, and impossible to
down cleanly. individually, his equal
is not found in many a long journey.
AS team director, his generaIship at
quarterback was one of the biggest
fall. Cub Potter, who will take
quarter if Jerry fails to appear, could
well be used elsewhere
Much interest has been deduced |
from Missouri in this part of the coun- |
try by reason of the abolition of the |
Kansas City Thanksgiving game. Kan |
sas and Missouri will play Novem ber |
25 at Columbia instead. Coach Brew |
er is reported to be eIated over his |
prospects in view of the large number |
great goal kicker developed by Roper, |
Hackney. is expected back and also /
expected to make a back position on |
the Missouri valley team.
Walter Camp has a few words to
say regarding the play of the coming |
season as compared with that Of last. !
First, the excision of pushing and |
pulling rendered the problem of the
attack far more complicated At the |
same time it placed a greater premium
upon individual performance in the |
back field It was contended, and |
play of the past consisted in the aid /
thus rendered the runner, not in aid
ing him after he had passed that bull |
wark of the defense.
ITO a good old-time player nothing |
was prettier than the gathering of men |
about the runner. selling him. holding /
him upon his feet, and by united work |
moving that mass steadily onward for, |
som etimes, many yards before the play /
could be broken up by the defense It |
is no wonder that with the elimination /
of this the team play of 1910 seemed [
crude and it will be a season or two yet
before the new form of team play can |
reach any perfection that will really /
satisfy the old player for the loss Of /
this type of united effort
There were some indications of the 1
different kind of team work portrayed /
in the teams of the attacking side last
season, and this form will be more |
marked as experience aids coaches and I
captains in the development. The team
work of 1911 will show still greater 1
progress along the lines of deceptive \
movements tending to put the defense
in an awkward position for meeting
what will be the ultimate opening for
the play Minnesota in the west had \
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