The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-18

good account of themselves against
the heavy farmers. Crispin will rely
on old style football, as he wishes
to save his plays for the crucial game
with the College of Emporia. A squad
of seventeen men will go to Man
haitian.
Coach He'll of the High School team
expressed himself as anything but
pleased with his team in their Thurs
day workout. He'll works like a con-
centrated edition of Yost, only more
SO He drove the High school regulars
through the most severe practice they
have yet had and if they do not make
a showing against the Josies tomorrow
the Missouri team must be a classy ma.
chine. But the coach would express no
hope. The players had to get down and
work if they were to win he said.
Nevertheless the team looks good and
may be depended upon 20 give a good
account of the local school.
The T. H S. men are rounding into
better shape. Three are particularly
good according to the practices this
week One of them is Hoatson. And all
OF them are looking better in the work
than they did week ago. The players
are confident they will take the meas
ure of their opponents. The game is a
Missouri Valley championship contest
and the locals are anxious to put it on
One of the officials of the game, which
begins at 2:30 O'Clock on the WashbUrl
field is Barney Reilly, who played base
ball on the Holland team last season.
Reilly will referee the contest. He Is
from the Handover school and knows
football as we'll as he does the diamond
game. The other officials will be Mil
Ter, Kansas, umpire and Henderson OF
Oklahoma, head linesman.
Meanwhile the Blue squad has the Den
yer victory to back them and have had a
good weeks work. a lot of new stuff has
been worked out and the old plays
stock rose like an aeroplane in Topeka
when the Ichabods beat Denver. If the |
players can boost it again Saturday by 4 |
win the Congregationalists will likely |
prove hard for the Kansas conference |
teams to stop. The players and the coach |
realize this and will do their utmost to |
bring out the Blue students for another !
shirt tail parade.
lineup and the game with |
Denver and this weeks work has shown |
the coach what they are. There was no |
way to locate them save in work with |
other teams and the coach had to bide |
his time. He knows them now and has
been able to plug up some of the holes. /
Missourfans find them 1t will be hard for
the Blue to win Otherwise there is
in favor of the locals If they do come
home victorious And don't think there
will not be a football game at Liberty
Saturday.
With the varsity team out of town 10
cal attention turns to the high school
game with st. Joseph. Last year Topeka
won by an to score and the game was
a battle royal The game Saturday viii.
be hard fought from start to finish. Tn
Missourians Will come here loaded II
grizzlies and will probably find what they
are hunting. Coach He'll has his squad
going well. Losing their first game to a
team that had been playing together for
three years. they got their second wind
and whipped the Leavenworth bunch by n
ridiculous score. The team seems to have
more nearly struck the gait it is capable
of sustaining. Saturdays contest with
St Joseph will likely furnish as hard a
fight be witnessed in Kansas on
that day.
There's lot of nervousness in the Kan
sas camp today The Jayhawker team
goes out for the first Missouri Valley