The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-24
THE. BIG BATTLE IN The WEST
Championship of Kansas II
Stake Thanksgiving.
Other Dope From Western
Gridiron Camps.

y, W.
1903 Washburn 4, Aggies q.
1903 Washburn 0. Aggies 70.
1910 Washburn 0. Aggies 80.
1871 1871 W Washbr s. Aggiss >, s.
Washburn 1888 points.
Aggies 132 points.
Washburn has won 8 games.
Agg1es have won games.
Washburn wants to come back!
After defeating the Kansas Aggies for
eight successive years. the Ichabods
weakened, the Farmers took on beef
and football knowledge. and for the
last five years the Blue has been I'M
able to win a contest. In the old days
Washburn looked upon the Manhattan
game as an afternoon OF practice in
preparation for another squad. Times
have changed--so has the Aggie foot
ball team-likeWise the Washburn
eleven-and the Farmers have fought
their way into the Missouri valley con-
ference.
This year Washburn is doubly anx-
tous to win from the Aggies. In the
first place the Blue is anxious to plas-
ter a good decisive victory over the
wounds Of former defeats. In the Sec
ond place, Washburn will be able to
have clear title to the champion
ship of the Kansas conference by a
score over the Farmers.
Practice began in earnest this after
noon. Only three days for the Icha-
bods to work up new plays to try out
against the Agricultural college eleven.
witnessed two full games between
Washburn and her opponents. One OF
these games with K U. when Wash
burn opened up in an attempt to win.
The Manhattan eleven has good
idea Of the style of attack and the de-
Tense formation Of the Blue. Coach
Gray has to work out a new pattern
for the Turkey day contest.
Apparently Manhattan intends to
come to Topeka en- masse Thanksgiv-
ing day. They predict q crowd OF
Here is the way the college paper
works up spirit for the party"
Washburn no: Thanksgiving day
the Lowman Aggies tackle the Wash
burn Blue in Topeka and the game
promises to be interesting. Washburn
has a good team this year and have
been playing we'll all season. William
manner than the Jayhawkers did the
job. The Kansas eleven did not pile
up the score against the Blue eleven
that 1t did against the Aggies in Man
haitian q few weeks before, but all
that has nothing to do with the pos
sibilities of an Aggie victory on Wash
burn field turkey day.
OO0S Auy OLC Ic1uClAOCE LILO OOIlOAA
of Topeka lads that trimmed the Jay
hawkers last season and then came
to the camp of the Aggies, who had
lost their game earlier in the season
to the Kansans at Lawrence, confident
Of trampling the Manhattan team into
the dirt? Well. sir, please tell us just
how much Of a show the Topeka
eleven stood when the Aggies decided
to score in that batt1e?- That's just
about the way that this seasons bat
tie is going to turn out, too. WASH
burn may have q good team but the
Aggies will be better In the crucial
test.
Coach Lowman announces that
there will be a special train run over
the Rock Island Turkey day, which
will leave here at 1 o'clock and arrive
turn at $3.50 that evening from the
capital city The Aggie band will
probably make the trip.
Owing to injuries to his back
Percy Burlxholder was not permit
ted to make the Texas trip and there
is a possibility that he will be out of
the Washburn battle. Washburn has
eies will need all of the old timers in
the battle that they can muster. The
backfield was crippled before the trip
to the southland also and as definite
reports of. the Texas contest have not
been received 1t is not known just
how well the new lineup behaved.
INJURIES to Ems and Hartwig robbed
who had made good in earlier games.
Hauck is playing great football but Is
new to the game.
The Aggie-Washburn game will be
the real big football contest IN Kan
sas. Thanksgiving day. The Kansas
conference championship including the
superiority of IA colleges, Is at stake.
Both schools have thousands of alumni
scattered throughout the west and hun
dreds of these out of town enthusiasts
always attend the annual Turkey Day
contest. The colleges have been NOR
tai football enemies for years. The at
tendance should break all records in
Topeka.
The K. U. alumni have sent out an
s.. o. S. call for Bonnie Owen. They
censure the coaching Of Mosse and
Frank. II Bonnie should came to K.
U. next year and turn out a champion
ship team with all the material Of this
years experience and freshmen veter-
ans Of other colleges. he would be
heralded as hero. It must be admit
ted, however, that there was something
the matter with Kansas this year. A
few opposing football players have de-
clared It was yellow streak This is
hardly plausible. Too many fans"
know how hard the Jayhawkers fight
against Missouri and Nebraska. The
Minnesota shift is the one lump that
sticks in the throats OF Kansas sup
porters. Washburn smashed 1t last
year and smashed 1t again this year.
Other elevens have been equally sue
cessful- It Is the opinion of the writ
ter that the Minnesota shift is a
wonderful play II it is worked illegally.
Otherwise any ffneman with n steady