The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-12
GIVEN w LETTERS
The Washburn Football Ban
quet Was Big Success.
New Policy in Awarding Hon.
ors Announced by Kennedy.

The spirit with which Washburn
football players always fight doggedly
and desperately no matter what the
ODDS against them has been consider
able of a mystery to many OF the
outside Ichabod followers. But at
| least a corner of the curtain covering
the mystery was raised THURSDAY
night at the Y. w. G. A when more
than $50 students and faculty repre-
+ senta tives gathered to do honor to the
| heroes OF 1915 for the last time Men
who are backed and supported IN sueh
| a manner have to fight They would
not be men if they did not.
| The occasion was the last get to-
gether'' of the 1916 squad and at the
| conclusion of the banquet DR.. A. X
/ Kennedy announced the members OF
/ the team to whom letters had been
awarded. Those receiving the letters
were: Benton, Calihan, Champeny,
| Colvin, Heller, Hope, Logan, McCosh,
/ Perry, Sargent and Captain Stewart
! Blue sweaters with white 'Ws" will
| be ordered by the athletic association
and will be presented to each man
who was awarded a letter
Kennedy Makes Awards.
In making hsi award, DIR. Kennedy
announced that henceforth a new
policy will be in effect and that the
! generous hands with which this, the
/ highest honor player can receive, is
| handed out, will be less generous in
the future. He intimated that next
season a man will have to be more
than a good player and faithful work
er to get W. and said that he be-
heved withholding this coveted honor
from all but the real heroes will have
d tendency to make all the men work
harder. However he expressed re-
gret that more of the 1915 players
could not get awards, and told those
who did not that they were the
martyrs to the cause this year.
The banquet and program were ar
ranged by Miss Audrie Myers and
Kenneth Kearns, and the menu Sc
lected by Miss Myers demonstrated
that she is a genius at such things
Rabbit was the main meat dish, and
it was so palatable that many thought
it chicken.
DR.. S. G. Hefelbower acted as toast
master and the first speaker of the
evening was DR.. Edmund Kulp, of the
First M E. church, who had to hurry
away to prayer meeting without eat
ing his dessert, but his loss was tn,
gain of the rest of the asemblage a.
he denied himself the cream of tn.
dinner to make a plea for clean athle
tics and to say a good word for tht
game of the gridiron.
Doctor Kulp Makes Hit
You hear a lot of old wheezer
/ talking about the dangers of foot
pdii, III IAuIp yet, L care Sdy
that there are fewer injuries and few
er fatalities in football in proportion
to the number of men engaged in
than in any other line of physical &C
tivities''
| DR.. kulp expressed the opinion tina
football does those participating in i
as much good as some of their othe
college work and asserted that h
knew some ministers who would un
doubtedly have been greater successe
. in their calling if they had taken an,
given a few more bumps on the grid
iron.
DR.. Kulp was followed by Miss Flor
Harrington who made a plea for NOR
Washburn publicity and who state
that the football team had been in tn
past the greatest advertiser the col
lege possessed. Miss Helen Griffi
told of the girls'views on football, An
gelus Burch talked on the game an
Chickens from a rooter's standpoint
and Tiny Sam Stewart took up a.
the time allotted to him by the toast
master by telling some of his pc
jokes.
Music for the occasion was furnish
ed by the college orchestra consistin
of the following: Asa Crawford, plan
list; J. Heilman, first violin; Duan
Van Horn, violin; Harrison Becker
cornetist; Harry Champeny, clarinet
list; Harold Smyth, trombone, and ia:
| Lindsay, traps.