The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-18
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This afternoon the Washburn fresh
men will journey to st. Marys for q
game with the academy team of that
place. The freshmen are in good con-
dition and have lots of pep" and they
expect to set the varsity pace that
will be hard to catch when they meet
st. Marys college tomorrow. Muir
head, one of the strong props OF the
cracked rib several weeks ago. will
probably be in the lineup this after
noon. Gray, He'll. Rice and kissier
will also be there.
| The Ichabods will scrimmage light
ly today and will be in prime con-
day afternoon they worked against the
high school boys and Grip Gray
gave them several new plays to spring
on the Catholics. If these plays prove
successful. they will also be tried
/ against the Aggies next Wednesday In
the closing game of the season.
| Intoxicated over their brilliant sue
cesses, the Nebraskans are now claim
ing the national, worlds and solar sys-
tenn championship, and unless the
winner of the YaIe-Harvard game con-
sents to meet them there is no reason
why they should not keep on claim
ing it il they want to. Here is the
dope by comparative scores:
Harvard beat Michigan U. to o.;
Michigan U. defeated the Michigan
Aggies to 0. Therefore. Harvard is
10 to better than the Michigan
| Aggies.
But, Nebraska beat the Michigan
Aggies "a to 0.
se, 4 70
better than Harvard and is better than
Yale unless the latter defeats Har-
ward by a bigger score than this
Discussing the suggestion that
Washburn might make application for
membership in the Missouri Valley
conference. the Lincoln Daily News
pays the IchabOds a high compliment
in the following:
Topeka writer's announce that
Washburn college authorities are
planning to apply for admission to the
Missouri Valley conference. Washburn
has a right to expect Nebraska's help.
The Cornhuskers have ascertained to
their full satisfaction that Washburn
has eligibility rules and enforces
them as decently and rigidly as any
conference institution. Because of
studentship deficiencies. one of the
most capable players on the Washburn
ot6Nen was DdTTcQ lTOIu participation
in this years Nebraska-Washbur
game, the faculty decree being handed
down only a few hours prior to the
departure of the Washburn squad
from Topeka, proving that the Wash
burn authorities care more for respec-
liability than the mere winning Of foot
ball games.
..Washburn has a smaller student
body than any of the conference
schools and it might have trouble to
hold it's own with conference Oppon-
ents, although the sons of Ichabod
play the game with superb spirit and
might provoke a lot of grief in val
ley circles. It was long ago demon
strated that Washington university of
St. Louis is SO far outclassed in COM
petitive athletics that its membership
in the conference is merry jest.
Should the conference heads decide
that a larger membership might be
unwieldy, Washburn would deserve to
supersede the st. Louis institution in
the valley circle"
Edward N. Robinson, head coach of
the Brown football eleven, picks Yale
to beat Harvard in their game at New
Haven next Saturday. His team held
the Harvard second string men to
nothing to nothing tie last Saturday
and the week before was beaten by
Yale after a hard fight by a score of
IA to 6.
He sums up a long analysis in the
Boston Globe by saying:
Taking into consideration the two
teams as individuals and as a whole
and the style of play as exemplified
that unless Yale is weakened by in
juries to her backfieh she has a great
opportunity to come out winner next
Saturday.
IF Brickley could lead his team
would hesitate before arriving at this
conclusion, but Yale's passing game
ought to bring two touchdowns and
it is a question whether Harvard can
drive back the Yale line fast enough
and often enough to equal this in six
ty minutes of playing time. Whatever
may be the outcome, the game will be
bright spot in football history and
the victor will respect the van
pushed"
Robinson thinks Yale's backf1e1d is
the stronger of the two, which of
course, is open to question, and in dis
cussing the style of play, he says:
I'm the straight line attack Yale
does not appear very strong and
Brown had little difficulty in stopping
the massed line attack. In the open.
Or lateral passage method it was a
different story and it takes very alert
and shifty defense to meet the tricky
and open style of play used SO sue
cessfully by Yale this fall.
1.-The plays can only be stopped by
covering each man in the backfield
and forcing the play all the time. If
a play works it is good for a first down
and Yale's theory seems to be that 1t
ought to go once out of three times.
I'm the open game as exemplified by
forward passes Iv~---~~1 Sc more fin
-. The pass is better executed and
a harder play iv s.op .Aan the pass
used by Yale against Brown. Yale