The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
TOPEKA LOST IT
The Soccer Game With the
Maple Hill Team.
An Interesting Contest-Next
Game at Topeka.

The Maple Hill soccer team defeated
! North Topeka in a game played on the
/ formers ground Sunday by a score OF
to l. The teams were evenly matched
except in the back field and at the
goals.
soccer is an English-Scotch game and
IS little known in the western states
except w, ere there are Scotch or Eng
fish Settlements. Maple Hill is a Scotch
community. Many of the big ranches
in Wabaunsee are wned by Scotchmen
and most of their employees are Scotch.
The Maple Hill team is probably one
of the best teams ia the west. Reid
and Jackson and Warren, playing back
field and goal, are wonderful players.
Soccer is an interesting game from
the spectators point of view. 1t is
based on football. but is played entirely
with the feet The player is not al
lowed to touch the ball with his hands.
He must kick. He can stop the ball
with his head or any portion of his
BODY. but if he touches the sphere with
his hands. a penalty is allowed against
his team. A goal counts one point, ana
there is no sucn thing as touchdown
in soccer.
The state Journal sporting editor does
not know a thing about soccer he
never saw a game until yesterday. He
cannot understand how any of the "
players were able to walk off the field
They rushed together in scrimmage
and every man kicked at the ball and
every other man kicked the man closest
him. They have no protection on their
legs. wear thin suits, and there is a
gan of six inches of bare skin between
the top of their low stockings and the
bottom of their high pants.
There were two features to this
soccer game. One was when three OF
the husky Maple Hill Scotchmen kicked
a goal with the Topeka goal keeper.
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Topeka goal keeper, not the ball. 1t is
true that the goal keeper had the ball
Rugged up to his breast. Three husky
Scotchmen rushed up; one kicked him
in the stomach, another in the shoulder
another in the eye. He went across
the goal as he had the ball, it counted
a goal. The goal keeper got up and re-
sumed his play, but he was the sorest
Scotchmsn in the United States of
America the rest of the afternoon But
the play was perfectly fair and proper.
The other feature was what happened
to an innocent bystander. He was a
Scotchman, too. He stood on a side line
with his hands in his pockets. Two
players ran over him. He lit on his
left ear. They sat him up on his feet
and he never took his hands out of his |
pockets. He never said word. but
went on watching the game with his |
hands in his pockets.
The coaching from the side lines |
was all lost on the sporting editor. |
It was mostly Gaelic. Several hun |
dred people gathered to see the game, |
most of them Scotchmen, and they |
enjoyed it heart and soul.
Tom Powell of Topeka, manager of |
the local team, expects to put on a |
couple of soccer games in Topeka in |
the near future. one with the Kansas |
City team and the other with the Ma |
pie Hill team. They ought to be in |
contests Powell will |
strengthen his back field and his po- |
sition of goal keeper. The forwards |
on the Topeka team played an even |
game with their Scotch opponents |
from Maple Hill.
On Sunday the weakness lay in the |
backs and in the defense of the goal. |
Following is the lineup of the |
teams:
Maple Hill-Goal, Warren; full |
backs, Jackson. G. Reid; halfbacks, |
]. Robinson, Frost, Hamilton; for /
wards, Burge, w. Robertson, A. Reid, |
BrownIea, Wiley.
Topeka-Goal, G. Barlow; fullbacks,
Fl. Price, Maggie; halfbacks, w. Joyce,
H. Powell, T. Williams; forwards,
John ellison, A. Joyce, ]. M. Bride, |
H. Cornelius, A. Powell.
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