The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-16
Will SPIRIT WIN.
Kansas, Doping Weaker, Elk
poets to Defeat Nebraska.
Team Is Stronger Than When
the SOOners Won.

Lawrence, Kan. Nov. 16.-To stand
up and cheer a team in victory is a far
different thing than to cheer one in de-
feat. The Kansas rOoters have shown
probably the greatest college spirit that
has been known in Lawrence for a NUM-
Der of years in all of the games played
this season. When Bennie owens
brought his Sooners up and defeated his
alma mater the Kansas rooters anu
players were put to a test to dlsplay
what they would do in defeat.
Beat Nebraska is the one thought
which has driven all others from the
minds of the students on Mount Dread
SheriWn'S JayhaWkerS have been WHIP
ped, and at the same time they have
not changed in the estimation of their
followers in the university strange TO
say there IS more confidence that Inc
JayhaWkers will win from the Corn
huskers now than al any time this fall.
All admit that Nebraska has the dope
in j s favor, that Steihm inherited
wonderful team. and that the corn
huskers are confident Of victory There
are memories still around the campus
of games won by the Jayhawkers wren
everything pointed to walllaW9y Tor
Nebraska It is the same Kansas
spirit" which won these games that IS
in evidence in the Jayhawkers' camp
this week and it Will be this hat VAL
defeat the Cornhuskers if the Sherwin
machine is victorious Saturday
An Increase in Strength.
The spirit among the rooters -
shared by the players on the team E1V :
cry man on the squad earned MS posi-
ton only after hard tryout IN when
he proved to The coach that ne was Inc
man for the place and now thdt lhe
team is settled the men are working
not for any personal gain-but for the
sake of Kansas. The shift in the line
up of last week showed an increase II
the strength of the JayhaWkeIS' anu
with another week OF scrlnhnase VOTE
team SnOuiG
nave its greatest fighting capacity Tor
the Nebraska game
However, the Kansas supporters reahze
that the JayhawkeTs cannot expect ~
v-iT, because Of any superior charging
ability of the line or better speed IN L4ia
back field than the CornhusKeTTs3. +i -
Kansans have tied their hopes It y
this spirit which has won for Kansas ~
the mast which has taken advantage OF
mistakes and hard luck by the opposing
team to turn what looked like pure de-
feat into victory The NenTaskhai1s s.ls
had the victory tucked away I'VE were
unIuclxy. our fumbles We're costly ana thS
men did not play up to their usual form, =
# was all in the game, however. and Il
the Cornhuskers were not lit II was theit
own fault.
Ammons Back in Lineup.
The squad came out of the Oklahoma
game in remarkably good shape consider
ing the weather and the hard struggle.
In the serimmage with the freshmen int
regulars were stiff but after battling with
the heavy tyros for two hours nearly all
were pretty we'll 'Hmbered up. Captain
Ammons whose shoulder was bruised
the first quarter Of the OKLAHOMA game,
was back in the lineup at fullback- He
made a number of good gains but was not
worked hard. Coolidge, the hard fighting
halfback who was kept out of the Soon
er game to be saved for Nebraska, tore
up the freshman defense on end runs
While all of the players are more or less
bruised the team should be in good shape
by Saturday. Sherwin has his men in ex-
cellent physical condition and they are
affected only by the more serious in
juries.
The practice this week is behind closed
gates and it is the belief that the Jay
hawkers have few surprises for Ne
braska- which as vet have remained I'M
exposed. Among the ex-players who are
on the field in the afternoon are Red
Milton, Frank Ford Jay Bond and Carl
Pleasant. Arthur St Leger Mosse re-
turned to his farm at Leavenworth, but
will be out again In the middle of the
week. An army of ex-stars are expected
for the last few daSs of preparation OF
Stiehn1's Cornhuskers.