The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-25
Kansas at Last DiScardS Old
Style Football.
Great Rally at Mt. Dread Is
Held Today.
SHIFTS STRENGTHEN KANSAS
Machine Not as
Weak as Dope Indicates.
Aggies Will Slightly Outweigh
the MOSse Bunch.

gieS tangle in their annual game Will
have the distinction of seeing the first
football contest in which Kansas has
made use of the new open style game.
For years other schools in the valley
have appeared with light speedy teams
and attempted to check the JayhaWk
ers with open play and tricks. But
standing immovably by straight foot
ball and boiling over their opponents
by greater strength and endurance
Kansas has given fame to a line of
coaches including Hurry Up" 1ost'
Weeks and Bert Kennedy.
Last year Sherwin came out from
the east, and while the team showed
only a slight knowledge of the new
game in the early season games, some
Of the wise ones said wait and KAN
sas will open up with plays which
will startle the natives" The country
folk was startled only by an in
vincible Stiehm Roller and a rather
tame Tiger.
Jayhawks Must Get Busy.
TIL e is no doubt but that it VIII
be up to the Jayhawkers to uncover
something a real merit to win against
the Aggies Saturday. To have four OIL
the regulars on the side lines with
no chance to enter the game is
problem which would tire the brain
of any coach. Where Kansas VIII need
the strength Saturday is the place
where the injuries to the squad have
played the most havoc
In Bully Magill, Coach Mosse had
a quarterback without a master in the
valley. He was pulling the team to-
gether in a manner which resembled
the days of Pooler. However, fate or
luck or some other agent took him out
of the game with badly bruised
shoulder. and the coaches have been
forced to break in two men at the
position Parker has been with -e
squad all season but Wilson has been
out less than a week. And Stuewe,
the big rangy fullback, is one of the
victims of the Drake game His knee
will not let him in the game for two
weeks. Miller, also at fullback, is limp
ing but will play part of the game
Saturday The greatest part of the
work at the position will fall on Hal
Rambo, who has been shifted over from
haIfback Rambo is the Kansas
hope" for the Aggie game and he
has the chance to become hero.
Coolidge bringing up the rear in the
hackfield fatalities injured his shoulder
in the scrimmage with the freshmen
vest erday.
This in a few words is the reason
why the Jayhawkers will break over
the line and use dice Saturday load
ed with the new game with all its
frills and trimmings. OF course the
Kansas coaches have offered the in
formation readily. The big gates to
McCook field have been closed through
out the week to all, save players,
coaches and trainers. It is improbable
that a closer vigilance will be adopted
before the game with the Missouri
Tigers. Sam Forter, whose toe is still
in the memory of the Tigers, and
Carl Pleasant, one time leader of the
after making clear their
identity were admitted to the field to
offer their assistance in printing the
team for the Aggies.
What Can Crippled Kansas Do?
Can the crippled backfield of Kan
sas circle the Aggie ends at will, or
hammer through the line for substan-
tiaI gains? Lowman would like to pur-
suade the Kansans that they can. But
if they fail. to what source will
Quarterback Parker or Wilson look to
ram the offense through for scores
Delaney's educated toe is missing, and
Burnham's best kicks seldom go A.
yards.
The forward pass and clever forma-
lions are left. The valley will see
Kansas at it's best in the new game
Saturday. On defense the prospects
are bright and the Jayhawker line
should prove impenetrable. Kansas has
a big job to win, but so has Manhat-
tan. The game will be far from a
love feast, and the battle will be worth
several trips to Reno to see a white
hope fade.
The state of Kansas will be as badly
split open in sentiment tomorrow as
On November 5, when the matter of
president for this country will be de-
cided. And it will all DE caused by
the fact that some future Kansas citi-
zens representing the University of
Kansas and the Kansas State Agricul- |
-uraI college VIII combat long and
81 RoIl
he greatest football eleven in Kansas |
his season.
The Aggies as is their custom before |
meeting the Jayhawkers, have built
heir machine with the sole purpose
Of slipping it over the university. /
Kansas has always considered the /
game with the Farmers as one Of the
earlier season games, and taken it as
l matter of course with best eye al !
ways on the Tigers or the Cornnusk- /
srs. The Jayhawkers are awake to the I
of the game this year, and |
he gates to McCook field have been /
is securely closed this week as those /
n Manhattan.
Big Rally at Dread Today.
A few of the professors of the Law
'ence institution got together and de- |
,ided that the Aggie game was q min !
IF proposition and placed a rule pre-
renting a mass meeting of the students +.
Friday morning after the chapel ser
ices. which has become almost a ira
lition on Mount Dread. Chuck"
Oolde, the yell leader. failed to get a !
lear Interpretation of the ruling, but
lie did get little enlightenment from
ONE of his "Thundering Thousand"
Who succeeded the Fighting zoo" in
he K. L. bleachers. The football rail-
y which has been planned for Friday
morning promises to be the biggest
n the history of the game between the
vvo Kansas schools. The Varsity Foot
lall band will march through the |
hapel after the last hymn has died |