The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-16
NO TURKEY GAME
IchabOds VIII End Their Grid
iron Season Thursday.
This Season Has Been the Ban
ner Tough Luck Year.

The Washburn football season for
1915 will close Thursday with the
game with the College of Emporia
Coach Grip Gray announced Monday
night that negotiations for Thanks
giving game with the K. c. Vets at
Kansas City had been called off and
that no effort would be made to ar
range another game.
And so tonight and tomorrow night
the Ichabods will hold their last prac-
tees on Washburn field, and Thursday
afternoon they will battle their last
time for the blue and white colors.
While the season has not been a
very successful one, it might have been
a great deal worse, and only hard
work and a never give up spirit on the
part of the coaches and players mas
kept it from being more disastrous.
One misfortune after another has fol-
lowed thick and fast all season, and
there has never been time When an
the team was what had been expected
before the season opened
Many Misfortunes.
First several players who were ex-
pected failed to return to school Then,
an operation kept Bearg out of the
the defeats at the hands of Cooper and
Baker can in large measure be at
tributed. Villipigue, the other full
back has been laid up most OF the
season with injuries.
Perhaps the greatest handicap,
however, has been the lack of an eff
cient quarterback. In his effort to
develop an expert team chauffeur,
Coach Gray has used no less than
eight men, and the quarterback posi-
ton today is one of the weakest places
on the team.
Along in midseason it was thought
this handicap would be overcome
when Glen Elbe returned to school
And during the few days E1be was out
in uniform he played the best football
of his career. But just when he was
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team was left without a pilot again.
In addition to these misfortunes,
Captain Beals has nursed an injured
knee almost all season, Sam Stewart
has had a charley horse as constant
companion, McCosh has been out with
a burst blood vessel, Billings has
been injured, Newell has been laid up
with a bad ankle and Kessler has been
out because of eligibility rules.
Only One Victory.
with all of these things to contend
with there is little wonder that the
seasons record is NOT brilliant one.
But in spite of all, the team has al
ways played a plucky brand of ball
game is probably the only one where
they did not put up a creditable fight.
To date WaShburn has lost to Cooper,
Baker, Nebraska, K u, and the Ag-
gfes. She has won from the Missouri
Nornals, tied the Emporia Normals,
and hopes to win from c. of E. Thurs
day. If the team had played it's best
brand of ball against Cooper this game
would have been won; if the officiat-
ing had been up to standard Baker
probably would have been defeated;
and II it had not been for a fluke, the
Aggies never would have won last
week.
Taking all of the games, there is no
question but that Captain Beals has
been the most valuable all around
man. He has starred in every game,
even against the strong Nebraska and
K U. teams, and has proven himself
a fit leader in every sense of the word.
The Little Pink Devil is as certain
of an all-Kansas position as a saint is
of heaven and his playing merits an
all-ValIey berth.
Other Valuable Men.
Next to Beals, Stewart has probably
been of the greatest value to the team;
and next to Stewart. Bearg and Rice
come in for big consideration. Lo-
gan, although new man, has played
CONSTANT football and should make
peny Chamberlain, McCosh and
Bailey. and Billings periodically, have
also played a steady game.
OF the men who will play their last
game for the Ichabods Thursday, the
following are now known: Captain
Beals, Villipigue, Bearg, Billings, and
Linge.
Sam Stewart is slated for Captain
next year and the opinion now is that
he will be elected unanimously.
ErtIe Wins New York Bout.
New York, Nov. 16.-Johnny Ertle |
of st. Paul won all the way in 10 /
round bout with Young Solzberg, a 1
local fighter. in Brooklyn Monday