The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27

Tor the time to meet before the leath-
er lunged rooters who will throng the
| Aggie stands Thanksgiving. Coach
| Lowman advises that his team will go
| into the game with full strength. The
| Washburn team will enter the contest
in frst-class condition. It should be a
! battle that will be remembered many
years. Two of the best fighting ma
| chimes in Kansas will meet, each MAX
ing its last stand. The football cham
| pionship of Kansas will rest on Icha-
| bods or Aggies after the meeting to-
morrow afternoon.
The two teams are demonstrators of
two widely different types of football
material and training. The Aggies, big
and speedy, rely mostly upon the old
style game for victory. They play the
old time game better than any team
| the writer knows of in this section
| this year. Just enough open work has
been disclosed this year to show that
| the Aggies are not as proficient in
it as they are in the other style of
| attack. Heretofore they have relied
| mostly on tackle swings and line
| plunges. There are some light back
| field players whose speed is counted
| upon TO carry them through enough
| plays to trade off with the line bucks
| But mostly the men are big and fast.
| The Washburn team is playing the
new game largely. The forward pass
| in the highest stage of perfection the
writer ever witnessed, is their favorite
play. The line is lighter than the
Aggie line and the backfield should be
about equal in weight owing to the
presence of Prather on the Aggie back
field. Otherwise the IchabodS would
likely have a slight advantage there.
1t will be the new against the old, the
open against the close formation. and
each team is the best of it's kind in
the state.
Can Driver smash those line bucks?
That is the question that Topekans
footballicly inclined are asking them
selves and each other. Upon the an
swer to this question the chances of
Washburn to win are declared to de-
pend. The coach isn't happy over the
job. Assistant Coach Dexter made
two trips to Aggieville to watch the
Lowman squad uncover. But this did
not suffice. And after taking part in
the scrimmage against the varsity
squad last week Coach Driver had it
announced that he was in the hospital
on account of injuries received. In
stead he watched the Aggies play the
Texas A. and NJ. college. The Man
haitian Mercury states that he stood
taking the plays. At any rate the
coach doesn't figure the game an easy
proposition.
On the eve of the contest new
star has appeared on the Washburn
horizon Ream who hasn't been eIigi-
BILE until recently, was out for the
Monday night scrimmage and showed
himself to be gun at the end job.
He'll get into the Manhattan game
without doubt. He made a showing
Monday night that startled the little
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Ream is kept out of the game largely
by parental objection to gridironics.
But it is worse than a shame for talent
like that displayed by Ream Monday
night to be wasted. Ream may not
start in the Manhattan game but there
isn't much doubt that he'll get a
chance to play.
There isn't any certainty even at
this late day who is going to play in |
that Aggie contest. Few indeed are /
the Washburnites certain of their job
in the last game of the season. This
isn't because the regulars are not
good enough for the places as much as
it is because the scrubs are too /
good to be kept out of the game. Bill /
ings is another who will likely get a |
chance in the Aggie contest. His !
splendid work in the st. Mary's con- /
test put him "in good with the /
one of the most likely men on the |
squad.
At last a good game has been /
scheduled for Coach Crumbine's fresh /
men. The next year men will go to .
Norton where they are assured a hard /
fight with the high school team there. I
They grow hefty high school players |
in the northwest. The freshmen |
haven't any snap to look forward to. |
And whether washburn wins or |
loses this has been a good year for !
the school and the team. From an |
almost winless team last year Coach |
Driver has built up a good machine.
Only the game against the Normal |
is thorn in the side, the Missouri |
contest being of little consequence
And tomorrow will settle it all.
Tuesday the Washburnites held an
meeting at the college and
there was enough spirit to go round
with plenty left over for the big oc-
casion The school was slow in re-
alizing the worth of its football team
but if seems to have awakened to the
value of the squad now. A good bunch
of rooters will make the Manhattan
trip according to information waited
this way. The Rock Island special will
leave Topeka after you've had your
fill of turkey and return leaving Man
haitian at $50. Go on out and catch