The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-16
ON To CRIDIRON
IchabOdS Start Football Prac-
tice This Afternoon.
Many Candidates for Team
Have Been Assigned Suits.

The football season at Washburn
college is getting under way with
great rapfdity. Wednesday afternoon
Athletic Director Gray and Student
Manager Joe Haynes were busy dis
tributing suits to the prospective can
didates for the team, and about
twenty suits We're given out
Elmer Bearg, former full and half
not be eligible for Missouri valley
games but who may play in Kansas
Conference games, was the first man
to get a suit. Bearg is in good condi-
ton, and hopes to get chance to play
in several games.
Actual practice was scheduled to
begin this afternoon and Coach Gray
said he expected thirty or thirtyfive
men to report on the field. The first
few days will be devoted mainly to
instruction and passing the ball.
Field in Shape.
The field has been cleared of it's
summer weed crop and will soon be
in tip-top shape. The first game on
the schedule will be played Saturday,
October 2, with Cooper college, al
be arranged just as soon as the two
teams can be lined up and given a
few days practice.
Coach Gray and Captain Beals both
agree that it is going to take hard
work and brilliant playing to make
the season anything like a success. A
few of the veterans of last season, in
Guiding Bea1s, Don Billings, Sam
Stewart, Carl Linge, Art Champeny.
Gene Villipigue, w. C. Janney and
mainder of the team will be made up
mostly of new material that has never
been initiated to the kind of football
the Ichabods will be called upon to
play before the season is over.
However, there is little fear from
Kansas Conference rivals, and with
the exception of Bill Hargess' Emporia
Normals, the Ichabods should walk
through the conference with ease.
The Teachers will have strong team,
and under Hargess' directions, most
of the critics believe they will center
their ambition on the WaShburn
game and will make a worthy fight
for victory.
The three games with the Missouri
valley teams are the ores that Wash
burn followers are most interested
in, however, and they are the con-
tests that will demand almost super
and white from going down in de-
feat.
Nebraska the Hardest.
The Nebraska game comes later
in the season this year than ever be-
fore, being scheduled for October 16,
and in as much as the HuskerS are
conceded to have a team that should
make a strong bid fer all-Western
ney to Lincoln with the odds greatly
against her.
The easiest OF the three M. V.
games ought to be with the Manhat-
tan Aggies- The Aggies will be
handicapped with light men, and
many new ones, and with a new
coach and q new order of things in
the process of being established, they
ought not to have anything in par
ticular on Grays warriors. The Ag
gle game will be played in Topeka
November IL.
"A. U. Uncertain.
Like the Aggies, K. U. also has
new gridiron director whose mettle
has never been tried in these parts
and the Jayhawkers have many
green men who will have to be sea-
soned into veterans, but the Law
renee line will likely be heavy
enough to offset many of the other
disadvantages. The K. U--Washburn
game will be played at Lawrence No
Vember 6.
Among the new men who are ex-
pected to make a place on the Wash
burn team are Rice, KesSler, Will
moth, Logan, Muirhead, Newell and
possibly Major Harvey
Two promising men who have en-
tered school and who will be on the
freshman squad are Frank Miles, a
195-pound man from Fairview, Kan.
and Parrish, an ex-Missouri unlver-
sity student, from Belleville, Kan.