The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-24
CALLED To C0L0RS
WaShburn Students Ordered to
Spring Football Practice.
Bright Prospects for Next Year
Arouse Much Enthusiasm.

That Washburn college is going in
for football as she never has before
was made evident Tuesday afternoon
when Athletic Director Glen c. Gray
/ announced that spring football train
! ing would begin Thursday and that in
addition to the regular candidates for
| the team, all members of every gym
nasium class will be required to turn
out every practice afternoon until
school closes.
week, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and
Friday, AMI every member of last falls
team will act as a coach and will help
whip the men into shape.
Especial attention will be paid to
the line men and, in order to give
those men a chance who have never
before played football, every phase of
the game will be taken up and in
each man. Also, lend interest to this
practice, it is probable that interclaSs
games will be played during COM
mencement week as a special feature
of the program
There is probably more good ma
terial at Washburn for the making of
championship team than ever before
IN the history of the SchOOl-and there
is more interest in football. A num-
Der of students who are physically fit
to make good players but who have
never tried to make a team have ex-
pressed a desire to learn the details of
the game, and the hope that some of
these might be developed into stars led
Coach Gray to institute spring train
ing.
Bob Whitcomb Back.
Another thing that has aroused in
terest and frightened the teams pros
poets is the announcement that Robert
Whitcomb, a star of last seasons team.
will be back in school next year and
will play. Whitcomb's return will
mean that practically the whole line
will be composed of veterans unless
some of the new men prove better
players. One side of the line will be
the same as it was last season with
Janney, Stewart and Billings working
on it, and on the other there will be
Wolfe and Whitcomb with a large
number of candidates for the end
position.
The old men who will be back in
school next year are: Stewart. Cap
tain Beals, Robert Whitcomb. Wolfe.
Janney, Billings, Champeny, McCosh
and Linge. All of these men, as well
as Trobert, Bearg, Barrett, Wolfe,
Myers, Villipigue and Ream, the men
who graduate, will appear on the field
each afternoon and will give especial
attention to the men who are trying
for the positions they have played on
the team.
Good New Material.
Among the freshmen and new men
who are considered the most promis-
ing candidates for positions are: Grit
fin, Byers, Logan, Muirhead, Petty
john, Clark. Markham, Geo. Barrett,
Burnett, Swan, Bailey, Rice, Marti,
Page, Kessler, Bill Whitcomb (broth-
of Bob and Dick, Kline, Drake and
Harvey, all linemen; Growth, end or
half; Newell, end; McCosh, Bob Gray,
Cot He'll, Heller, Morris (from T. H.
s., Wilmoth and Quinlan in the back
field; Foster. end; and Burnett, end.
Some of these men have played in
varsity games, and practically all of
them demonstrated that they have the
making of good football players in
them last fall when they were men,
bers of the freshman squad.
Morris, at half, is considered one of
the best backfield men the local high
school ever turned out. Rice is al
most certain to be among the chosen
eleven; and, in fact, practically every
man mentioned above should be able
to play a creditable game against any
team the Ichabods will meet next fall.
And the slogan of every Ichabod next
fall is going to be, make 1t Clean
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