The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-03
NEWS & NOTES OF THE FORT HAYS NORMAL SCHOOL
by Special Correspondent

The big talk at the Normal school
outside of war and 7. M. c. A, has
been the football prospects. The daily
Speers' men, The Sunday Topeka
Capital ran picture of the squad.
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Mondays Topeka Capital carried
the following comment in its sport
column:
AS the season wears on and con-
tender after contender for honors of
the Kansas conference are tossed in
to the discard, the possibility of IN
disputed football supremacy looks
dubious. Hays Normal continued its
march toward an all-victorious record
by tramping st. Marys into the mud
in their mud fight at st. Marys last
week. Hays has won three confer
ence games and has three more con-
ference contests on her schedule, but
all should be easy victories. While
Emporia Normals have only played
and won two conference games, they
made such a strong showing against
Haskell and K. u, that it seems wise
to predict they will win the four re-
naming games on their conference
schedule. Post season games to set
tie conference disputes are about
as scarce as hens teeth, and should
both elevens complete the season with
six games won and none lost, which
seem highly probable, the 1917 grid
iron season will close with both the
Normal schools claiming supremacy.
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The Kansas City Star of Tuesday,
as its leading sport story ran the
article below under the head "Two
After Kansas Title" Of course, one
| of the two was our own school here
and the other the Emporia Normal.
We print below this significant article
from The Star:
The Kansas Conference football
i situation has settled down to a race
between the Hays Normal School and
| the Emporia Normal School, with the
technical advantage favoring Hays.
| The conference rule says that the
team winning five conference games
shall be declared champion of Kansas
! College Conference.
The statistics seem to favor EN-
Iporia Normal, because the team de-
| feated Southwestern Saturday 35 to
FL, while Hays defeated Southwest
ern only p to 20. Hays seems Ger
tain Of defeating Wesleyan and Coop.
er, after having romped st. Marys, s
to 0, on the latter's gridiron Thurs
day.
Coach Hargiss has hard plunging
ahead with Baker November Is, Fair
mount November 10, and the ancient
rivals of K. S. N. the College of EN-
poria Thanksgiving Day.
C. of E. proved to Coach McCrory
that the team is still in the running
| by defeating Paramount Friday, 81
to 0, on a heavy field. A tangled mas:
of evidence will be offered to the
judges of the championship teams il
| K. S. N, falls before G. o. E. turkey
day. .- Ill.,, !,
Coach McCrory, "we will have equa
claim to the state. title with Hays
We will have defeated K. S. N, the
team that trounced Southwestern
And Bates team is the only one tina
will have defeated US"
Three interesting conference
games are scheduled for Novembel
%, the most interesting to champion
ship contender being between the TIVE
Emporia schools and between Hay
and Cooper at Hays. Paramount ant
Friends already are preparing for tn
final tilt in Wichita.
Prospective candidates for all
Kansas mythical eleven are begin
ming to appear on the football hori
zon. Captain Dalbom, quarterback
and his teammate Grimsley, at RICH
end are strong contenders iron
Southwestern. Welch of K. S. N
will run close to the Southwestern
pivot man, although he is not so goo,
at forward passing. Both are goo
generals and splendid open field run
ners.