The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-03
Will Take Prominent Part in
Missouri Valley Football.
WaShburn VIII Have Three
Games i'm the Conference.
WILL BE WATCHED SATURDAY
Kansas Must Depend on
Freshies of 1912.
Missouri and Nebraska Suffer
Losses Which May Be Fatal.

Kansas teams will be more active
and offer more resistance to other
teams in Missouri valley football TINS
season than ever before. Washburn
while not a member of the conference
will meet three teams-Nebraska, kan
sas Aggies and Kansas university. Inc
Kansas university team will meet the
Kansas Aggies, Missouri, Nebraska
Drake and Washington. The Kan
sas Aggies will meet Kansas universe
ty. Nebraska and Washburn.
Washburn will play the hardest sche-
dule they have had for number OF
years, and with the team representing
the Blue there should be a lively con-
test for supremacy on the gridiron. The
Washburn team will be strong and the
showing in the game with the Corn
huskers Saturday will be watched with
considerable interest. The Kansas un-
iversity and Aggie teams expect TO
make a good showing and will take no
chances against the Washburn squad
this year because of the treatment
they received by the team of the Blue
la st season.
The first real dope on the teams will
be available Saturday. Washburn OPP
ems against the Cornhuskers at Lin
coin Kansas opens with William Jew
ell at Lawrence and the Aggies will
play their first game. The other con-
ference teams will start the season in
which is believed to be easy games,
which. although preliminary contests,
Will show in a great degree, the playing
strength of the teams and give the
football public a chance to form an
idea of what might be expected of the
various organizations.
Coach Gray. of Washburn, has a
comparatively light bunch of men as
compared with Nebraska. The show
ing his team makes against the heavy
Cornhuskers will be watched with
eager eyes by the Missouri valley
coaches He is a new man in this
territory and not familiar with all con-
ditiOns but he seeks to overcome this
by putting team on the field which
Will have lots of speed and this may
result in a large number of scores
which they could not get under any
other condition. He appears to have
been successful in getting the speed.
The practice work of this week indi-
Gates that practically every man on
the club is a sprinter and the Corn
huskers will no doubt have to hustle
in the contest at the end of the week.
The back field is not only fast but the
men have had former experience which
will put them in class with any back
field in the Missouri valley. The men on
the line are not as heavy as is desired
but they have wonderful speed and
should be valuable in aiding the back
field men. Coach Gray will start his
men Saturday on straight football tao
tics and expects to work the forward
pass on every occasion permissible.
Coach Jumbo Steihm of Nebraska has a
hard problem to solve. He Will present
n strong back field but his line is mex
perlenced- The line has been strength
ened during the last few days with the
return of Clinton Ross the last holdOut.
VINO viii be seen at guard. Ross weighs
10 pounds and was a letter man last wear
He is one of the best of the team. Abbott
VIII probably be the other guard when
time is called. Heller. another guard is
out OF the game with an injured shoulder
L Frank, the whirlwind halfback who
started Kansas to defeat last Yea- will
not he with the team Purdy. the plung-
ing tullback. Pearson, Howard and Har-
mon are others who viii not be in the
game and Coach Steihm has had his trou-
bleS in trying to pick men who could fill
1nelr places with satisfaction This is
easy problem and how well he succeeds
VIII be known Saturday when they line up
against the WaShburn aggregation.
Freshmen of 1912 will be strong factors
in the varsity teams of 1918. 1t Will be re-
membered that the Kansas second team
Of 1872 was just about as strong as the
varsity.
Every team in the conference lost from
that the coaches must develop half of
their first team from last years second
squad and entirely new freshmen teams
from new men This is the first time in
three years that this problem has caused
the coaches SO much trouble.
Kansas is probably more fortunate
along this line than any of the other ag-
Bramwen. of this years team Captain