The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-19
DATES SWITCHED
Ichabods Play Friends Oct. IA
Instead of Oct. 81.
Game To Be Banner One on
Quaker Schedule.

DIR. Kennedy, the new Washburn
football coach, is already getting on
the job and beginning to make things
pop.
One of the first things Coach Ken
nedy turned his attention to after sign
ing his contract was next fails Sched-
ule, and, although it was impossible to
alter any of the contracts that had
been entered into, he saw at once that
a switching of dates would be an ad-
vantage.
Friends university, one of the
strongest teams in the Kansas confer
ence, was scheduled to play Washburn
on October "a, but wanted a date on
October IA, during the Wichita fair.
This is the choice date on the Friends
schedule, and the chance for Wash
burn to get it was grabbed by Ken
nedy.
Rearranged Dates.
However, in order to arrange mat
terS, it was necessary to get the con-
sent of Baker university and the Col
lege of Emporia also to rearrange
their schedules, and when the matter
was put up to them, both readily con-
scented. The revised schedules show
that Baker and Washburn will play on
October 81 instead of October IA; that
Friends and Washburn will play on
Baker and the College of Emporia will
meet on October IA instead of the
21St.
Friends university won the Kansas
conference championship in 1914, and
since that time the proteges of Coach
Banbury have held a position in the
top ranks of the conference. Natur-
ally, as is the case with all other Wich-
tia institutions, the Friends support
ers think that they have it all over
anything Topeka can turn out, and
Kennedy is anxious to show them that
they are as badly off the track as the
Wichita baseball supporters who think
the Wolves better than the Savages.
Quakers Not Weak.
Friends is up and coming all
right" Kennedy said recently while in
Topeka, land they undoubtedly are
destined to become one of our greatest
rivals in football They are going to
make the best teams in the conference
hustle, but 1 think we will be able to
defeat them and hold them down be-
low us, and we will go after them in
earnest this fall. Owing to the fact
that October 4 is one of their best
drawing dates, we consider it a COM
pliment that we have been given it,
and we shall try to return the COM
pliment by giving the Quakers a real
battle
The fair week date was offered to
the Haskell Indians before it was
known that Kennedy would be at
w dSHOuril lu1S SSdSOsf, DQL when II was
found that he was to direct the Icha-
bods and that the Indians could not
play on that date because of a pre-
viouS engagement with Notre Dame,
Washburn was given the next chance,
and it was through the courtesy of the
College of Emporia and Baker coaches
that the arrangements were made
Baker Looks Strong.
In discussing the conference battles
that his men will have to fight next
fall DR.. Kennedy said that he expect
ed Baker university to put up as stiff
opposition as any other team. This
statement is based largely upon the re-
port that Coach Shepherd will lose
only two of his old men, and that he
has announced he is out to give the
Baldwinites an undisputed winner this
year.
The Baker Washburn game, comins
as it does after the middle of October
will give Kennedy and the Ichabods a
chance to show the local fans what
they may expect in the big Missouri
Valley games that are scheduled fol
November.