The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-06
RlRe Funk Appears ON WASH
burn GridirOn Today.
Poor Practice ShOwing-Many
Players Are Injured.
KANSAS DOPE IS TOPSY- TURvY
Southwestern Defeat Upsets
Conference Outlook.
Chicago Paper Praises Record
of Coach Gray.

The joys and glooms have been
chasing each other over the WASH
burn campus for nearly week. TO-
day the glooms, headed by old Colonel
Blue Funk have taken possession OF
the college grounds. 1t has peen as
covered by Trainer Ernest that seven
OF the regular varsity member OF the
football squad are suffering from IN
juries. In all possibility, only one man
will be out of the game with X: U.
Saturday-that is Billings. The other
six patients on the hospital list are
nursing painful bruises that undoubt-
eddy will "slow up" the team in the
contest one day after tomorrow.
Usually Washburn is in tip-top con-
dition for the annual game with Kan
sas The gruelling games at the De-
ginning Of the seasOn-Nebraska ana
Oklahoma Aggies-have battered up
the regulars. The Sons OF ichabod
are depending upon speed to win from
K U. Saturday. Unless the numerous
wounds undergo a marvellous process
Of quick healing. the much touted
speed will dwindle into walk.
The State Normars victory over
Southwestern yesterday has clearly up
set the entire Kansas conference dope.
Not football follower in Topeka pre-
dicted that the Teachers would have a
chance with the speed-mad South
western squad that defeated the Kan
SaS AggleS ana reaCHeO EHuPoI1d Will
clean goal line.
The Normals, however. encouraged
by the pretty offensive attack against
Washburn the Saturday before. tore
into the Winfield eleven with a new
pep" and won % to 10.
a doubtful position in the claim for
Kansas honors.
Southwestern defeated the Aggies.
TIL, Aggies trounced the Normals. The
Normals walloped Southwestern
Wasburn ran away from the NOrmalS
Apparently Washburn has margin
over the Aggies.
If Washburn can win from College of
Emporia, ST. Marys and the Aggies. the
Topeka school will have no competitors
in the field for Kansas conference
laurels.
Football dope is not dependable, how
ever.
The Kansas Aggies, for instance,
never play good football at the pegiE-
ming of the season. Coach LowmaI be-
gins the fall hostilities with a becfy
green squad. When THANKSGIVING
comes, the Aggies have been taught in
side football and they are prepared
with weight and knowledge to go
against Washburn.
II X. U. played the Aggies on Thanks
giving day. it might have been a diff
ferent story.
Apparently Coach Gray of Washburn
was a wonder in his old football Gays
at Oberlin. Read what the Chicago Rec
ord-Herald has to say about the Wash
burn mentor:
1t took many years of football how
ever, before the real star of Oberlin
shed his luster over the gridiron such
as none other had. The one who dis
placed the rest in the gallery of celeb
rites came to Oberlin in 1907 from
North Tonawanda high school, New
York. He was registered as Glen Carl
ton Gray. and when he graduated in
1911 he was given the palm as Oberlin
colleges greatest football player.
The fame of Gray was not confined to
his own school. They saw him streak
ing over many a gridiron east and west,
and he sprinted over the enemy's goal
line. In his own state he was regarded
as the greatest halfback of his day.
Cornell has been Oberlin's most con-
sistent opponent for years. Gray played
against the 1thacans for three years.
and he never failed to make a touch
down. He rubbed it in in 1909, when,
picking up the ball on his own one ward
line, he ran through the entire Cornell
team for a touchdown, a distance OF 1903
yards.
Gray, who played at haIfback posi-
ton as no other man had at Oberlin,
was wonderful open field runner and
one of the hardest men to stop. He was
always good for lone yard more" and
the Instructions issued by every coach
of an opposing team Ito get Gray be-
came proverbial. Gray was an all
around athlete. but he attained no such