The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-02
BLUE LOSES GAME
Poorest Exhibition of Football
Ever Shown at Washburn.
College of Emp0ria ROmps Away
With IL to O Score.
COLLEGE SLEEPS ON
Local Team Look Like Props at
First Practice.
SLEEPS ON
Coach Says Defeat May Revive
Athletic Spirit.

Emporia and enrolls several hundred
students who get a lot of college
spirit. This explanation is made to
preface the announcement that the
boy football team from that institu-
ton completely outclassed Washburn
on the local college gridiron Satur
day afternoon, and won the game by
a score of II to 0.
Coach Drivers six plays all went
the way of SNOWFALL in Dante's first
chapter and on defense his proteges
floundered over the field like a flock
of fish. Strong men wept at the do
| ings of his ends and halves and wo-
men nearly swooned at the sickening
performance of his line.
Meanwhile Coach Bill Hargis' boys
ran hither and yon with the ball,
sometimes kicking and sometimes
passing; all with perfect ease and |
confidence. They knew they were
going to win and the scoring of the |
points was only a matter of formal |
ity.
Think, if you can. past Washburn
grads and heros, think of the Col |
lege of Emporia rooters coming to |
Topeka and betting hundreds of dol |
lars even money that they would |
win from the BIueI Realize, if you /
are not struck dead, that they did it
by blank end score of II to 0.
Here Is the answer.
Search for an answer and you will
find it in the action of the board of |
athletic control. They have so ar
ranged it, that any team, whether
from large or small school, need fear
no defeat Clamoring for entrance /
they have elected to meet schools
thrice their size and with six times
the number of men on the latter's
terms. Granting this advantage to
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smaller schools = of the state, but
which have practically the same male
enrolment. and offer them the hand
leap Of playing freshmen while Wash
such conditions the local school can
expect nothing but a string of de-
feats.
Good Thing says Coach.
This was the first time in the his
tory of the world that the c. of E.
the first time they had ever scored. Il
Yet Coach Driver says: 1T was the Il
best thing that could happen to the
team this year. 1t ought to wake
from the student body. 1 was GER
tain of this defeat.
mo team will ever win without
some incentive. This bunch feel no
men can not play football. They must
have the support of their school,
There were no mass meeting and no
announcem ents; no sort of a cheer
for the boys and they feel no obli-
cations. This defeat, crushing as it
may seem, is the finest thing which
could have happened for the school
if athletics are ever to be revived here.
The school must get together or it
is hopeless case. l believe they will
and I am confident that we will have
a winning team before the season is
half over"
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tory of the Yale team last season A
little of the same on a smaller scale
is likely to be pulled through at
Washburn this year. Driver has be-
gun his system of team building from 4
the bottom. He hadn't gotten very
far up by Saturday.
Credit Due C. e. Team.
All credit is due the light team of
Emporia college. In every position
except center, they had the same men
who played them last season. 1t is :
the best team the school has ever
turned out by over 100 per cent.
Capt Schabinger is one of the best .
quarterbackS in the state and strange
the squad. He is the center and the
life of the team and as a general is
the rival of many in greater colleges
His ends, Willis and Lyon, and S
halves Frazier and EngIe and oliver I
are adept in handling the forward e
pass and they worked this play re- t
peatedly with excellent success. Will {
lis proved q star at receiving passes g
at the same tin7e making Cowgirl and t
Bowman left ends for Washburn and t
Mcintyre at left half look like prep 9
school freshmen. (
Schabinger made the first touchdown
after 10 minutes of play going over on +
a trick play. Willis ran 20 yards for {
the second one in the second quarter T
from a forward pass Smiley's attempt T
to tackle was inanimate. Frazier made
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run in the third quarter. Schabinger
kicked goals to the first and third
touchdowns. To show how the luck
hangs to the winners, both of these
kicks struck the cross bar and Topped
over.
Two Chances to Score.
Washburn had two beautiful chances
to score and several lesser ones. The Q
first good chance was when Mcintyre I
broke away and ran to the safety With I
the field open on both sides of this lone '
man, Matty bore into him head first, S
never attempting stiff arm, a side
step or even a straightaway race
The second great chance was at the q
close of the game and was lost be- t
cause of Crum bine's ivory bean Wash s
burn had the ball on the first down six P
feet from the Emporia goal line. EN- t
mons was at fullback. having replaced
Rogers. The son of Swat sent the
green and light Emmons against the d
line twice in succession and made I'D e
just five of those six feet. The final a
whistle blew with the ball one foot / o
from the Emporia line. Washburu lost s
the ball six times on downs and En- F
poria half as many Penalties were | il
and about evenly divided
Bishop of Washburn was disqualified
for roughness ubt was allowed to return p
at another period by Emporia's con- u
sent Il
The officials gave excellent service S
and the game progressed with little de- h
lay and no wrangling. About 500 peo- b