The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-13

! Despite the victory Of Saturday, the
first practice since the Jayhawker
/ game saw changes in the Washburn
lineup. Trobert has been shifted from
end to one of the backs in place of
( Cecil Lowe. The star kicker of the
Sons of Ichabod will be given
thorough try at the backf1eld job. His
work against the MosSe men was sucn
that the coaches are enthusiastic in the
+ belief that he will do the team more
good in the backfieId than at end. His
defensive work is better than that pu:
! up by Lowe. Lowe played well on the
offense but missed many chances to
stop Kansas on the defense and SO
! change is to be tried.
| This change will result in Mcintosh
| going to end, where he has had con-
siderable practice and shown we'll Dia-
mond and Marshall will fight it out
for the regular guard job, although i
is likely they will alternate on it. Both
are good men and improving. The one
who shows the greatest improvement
will get the place regularly if one
shows greater form than the other.
Both are working hard. have the quail
hcations required, and it is a ques-
ton if Coach Driver will make a per-
manent choice.
There isn't any cinch in the Drury
game for Washburn and one of the
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overconfdence on part of the men.
Drury made a good showing against
Washington Saturday. They will be a
rough bunch and will fight from start
to finish. It's going to take just as
hard playing as it did to beat Kan
sas and perhaps harder. But Wash
burn can do it if the men get down
and tight. And to be in shape for this
they must work hard the rest of the
week in the practice. Among other
things the Drury team is a forward
pass team and have all the pretty
formations for this play well in hand.
Lawrence writer's admit that Mosse
opened up every play available in an
effort to beat Washburn. While it
looked like this is true from the grand
stand the writer is rather skepticaI
about it Mosse wanted to win but
was hardly as anxious as he is to
beat Nebraska and Missouri. Wen
wait on the returns from the Corn
husker contest before passing judg-
ment There wasn't any particular
need of opening UP everything. the
Jayhawkers couldn't handle their SIM
plier formations well.
One of the surprises of the Wash
burn-kansas game which has not
heretofore been given publicity is the
splendid playing Of Whitcomb at CEN
ter Whitcomb has been in more or
less trouble all fall about his center
job. 1t has been intimated that he
was the weak sister of the team. But
Whit was there in many ways in
the Kansas contest. He didn't have
a chance to pull much spectacular stuff
but time after time when something
happened before Kansas got her Fet
plays well started Whitcomb was the
man on the bottom of the pile and
held the feet of the man with the
r1fcre sit W.
ed crack game all the way through
and did more good work than some
of the men whose performance was
more Spectacular.
While the training for this week is
against the Drury combination some
of the work that the coaches expect |
to put on against the Aggies is beins |
opened up for the team. This will be
continued more or less throughout the !
week Next week it will be put on |
in larger quantities with just enough |
of the stuff used regularly to insure
victory against St. Mary's. Then will |
come the final week of pounding the !
men into shape for the Aggieville con- !
test.
More good judgment than usual was |
used in selecting the schedule for the /
Washburn team this year. After tine /
game with Denver the games gradu- |
ally grew slightly heavier leading uP 1
TO the Kansas contest. Drury is strong I
er than was expected or the Saturday /
contest would have been an easy game, (
then contest with St. Marys, whicr
was doped as a little harder, and then /
the final clash with the coatenders /
or conference championship honors.
One of the features of football that
was overlooked by many of those who /
witnessed Saturdays contest was the 4
work of Johnston, when he took the i