The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-16
DriyerIsn't Acknowledgements
for Football Fans.
Coach Works on Motley Crew OF
Near Impossibles.
HE HAS GOOD RECORD
Turns Out Basketball TeamThat
Looked Like Champions.
Work of Weede and Bob Stewart
May Help Him.

The first call for the Washburn foot
ball team drew eighteen eiigibles from
the ranks of last year Most of them
were of the scrub and freshmen teams,
Varsity players waiting to come in
with the band. The eighteen youths
of odd sizes and shapes gathered at the
Thomas gymnasium and dOnned their
khaki clothes. The freshmen of this
year will not be allotted suits until
Monday.
Although Coach W. L. Driver expect
ed to take the men out on the turf for
the evenings work, the rain became
too brisk and he was forced to start
them on the gymnasium floor.
He got them off to a speedy go-and,
as a matter of fact, it's all up to
Driver. If he can get this gang into q
system of culture which will develop
them into football players, he will be
deserving of credit. Garfield Weede
and Bob Stewart made the attempt ana
failed. There are some changes, OF
course, and these two former mentors
hammered hard and persistently, which
may have caused some of the grldlron
ideas to penetrate, but for the most
part it IS the same motley crowd OF
near-impossibles.
Driver isn't making any speeches on
what he is going to do He wouldn
dare. But he made a basketball team
out of raw stuff, which was entitled to
the state championship HaO tllS SCACN
ule been arranged so that one could
have been actually declared, and ne
NAV be able to do as well with the
bunch now at hand.
Some Good Ones Out.
The men who reported last night in
cluded Capt. Burkhart' CrumpIne, me
two Rogers, Bishop, Lowe, McCarerty'
Palmer, Barrett, Harrington, Bowman
Bearg. Sanders, Rankin, Tucker, Nor
ris Emmons and John Shaw, Dig EEL
low who is a sophomore and eligible
but has had little previous experience
Titus. McIntire Mcintosh, Smiley,
Hardy, Bill Smith and DeFrantz, OF
whom a great deal is looked for tii5
season. failed to report last night but
are expected out today. Smith is con-
ditioned in his studies and is being de-
MED uniform until he regains his
scholastic standing.
New equipment is on the way for the
Varsity aspirants which is one reason
the freshmen We're not tnVited uIltl u
Monday. By that date the eligibies are
expected to be given new outfits and
their old turned over to the first year
men -
This season, like last, probably vii
be a hard one for the Blue, due to the
fact that the athletic authorities will
inglv handicapped themselves botf
ways from the ace They VIII play
Missouri valley conference rules VIII
Kansas and the Aggies which rules
bind them to use only sophomores OF
upper c1assmen, and with the smaller
Kansas schools they will not play frs
year men while those schools with ar
enrolment under 400 may do so.
The Washburn schedule has been re
vised in several particulars and while
the Missouri game was lost in the
shuttle, the booking appears to be the
most satisfactory in number of years
Nine games are on the list and all o.
these except Oklahoma, Ottawa anC
Paramount, whose drawing power hard
ly pays expenses here, will be played II
Topeka. Kansas, the Aggies, Haskell
and St. Marys are all good drawing
cards and their expenses are light.
The schedule as it stands ready fol-
play follows:
September sO-College of Empori'
at Topeka
october Ottawa at ottawa.
October 13-Fairmount at Wichita
October 21-Normal at Topeka.
October 2S-Oklahoma at Norman
November kansas at Topeka.
November list. Marys at Topeka
November 1s.=Haske1 at Topeka.
November 30-K. S. A. c. at Topeka