The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-16
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who would have ever thunk it!
While everybody admitted that Me-
braska seemed to have the better
chance. not even the Huskers them
selves anticipated IS to victory
before the game Jumbo Sttehm made
the statement In Topeka that he was
not expecting q walkover by any
means. The very fact that Stiehm
came all the way to Topeka to watch
the Jayhawlkers and the fact that he
and his men kept their eyes constant
ly on the Lawrence camp indicates
that they were expecting more Of a
battle.
1t was simply a case Of being bet
ter than they themselves realized.
However, looking back over the sea-
sons records, any one should have
seen that the Nebraska machine was
Those who saw Saturdays game say
the playing Of Chamberlain, Ruther-
ford. Halligan and Potter was the best
they ever saw, and the statement of
the officials that the team Is as good
as any in the country gives Stiehm a
boost that practically lands him in the
Fielding Yost class
1t was not the inferiority of the
Jayhawkers that uncOrked the sur
prise, but the hitherto unappreciated
superiority Of the Nebraskans. Now
la Belgium benefit game between the
Huskers and either Michigan or ILL.,
nois is in order.
With every canine having his day,
people are beginning to wonder IL the
day of the Wolverines - drawing to
"a close while that of the Nebraska
Cornhuslers is just dawning. The
games Saturday and this season would
It'd 10 ~oH2 20 10 I~, H. 10
first time in the fifteen long years that
Yost has coached the Ann Arbor team
three games in one season have been
chalked against them this year. And
these defeats have come in spite Of the
fact that the Wolverines are apparent
ly as strong as they ever were. On
the other hand, Nebraska has demon
strated that she could at least have
held the fasteners as well as the Yost
men did. Is 1t possible that even in
football there Is a destiny that
shapes our ends. rough hew them as
we may?'
There will not be the interest in the
X. U.-Missourf game there would have
been If the Jayhawkers had won from
Nebraska ALI the same. there ought
to be a good game at Lawrence next
Saturday. Missouri has shown q won
derful reversal of form in the past
tory over Washington boosts her stock
considerably. 1885
This afternoon the Washburn Icha-
bods begin printing themselves for the
contest with ST. Marys Thursday.
Washburn looks like an easy winner in
this event. but there has been pep
slump in Gray's camp since the X. u.
battle and bugs must remember that
| this is a season of surprises.
The big game in the east this week
will be between Harvard and Yale. In
fact. this is the biggest game in all
people have already signifaed their in
tentton sof seeing 1t by making applt-
cation for tickets.4 Illinois, the loom
ing champion of the big nine, will
play Wisconsin Saturday and the VIC
torious Nebraskans meet the State uni
versity of Iowa at Iowa City.
Out in Baldwin, Kan, Coach Gal
lagher has a halfback by the name Of
Grove who is also about half Of the
whole team. Grove is pretty certain
of an allKansas position and in the
Creighton game at Omaha last satur-
day his playing was SO spectacular that
the opposing rooters cheered him time
after time. Grove has played spectac-
ular football in every game this sea.
son and his work has been brought
out more prominently because Of his
superiority over the rest of his team
mates In this respect he greatly re-
sembles Captain Langhof Of the st,
Marys eleven.
Barnard. Kan, Nov. ia record
football score was made here when the
local team won from Lincoln by a
score of 173 to 0.
Captain Brickley Of Harvard, who
was operated on for appendicitis five
| weeks ago, says he will play in the
Yale game next Saturday If Harvard
gets into a position where q field goal
Will win. Brickley is either blufi1ne
or else he is a bigger loon than people
/ have thought him.
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