The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-08
NEED MORE FIGHT
Aggressiveness Would Have
Won for IchabOdS Saturday.
Nerve and Pluck Gave Cooper
Team Victory.

The illusions of those who had
hoped to see the Sons of 1chabod snow
conference championship cahber were
rudely shattered Saturday when the
Blue went down in abject defeat be-
fore the frail but fighting Cooper team
from Sterling Weighing hardly more
than a high school team, the sclons OF
the clan of Weede exhibited brand
of nerve, of football of conditioning
and of generalship that clearly out
classed the local men, and won by the
score of 8 to 0.
Washburn has, potentially, much
the better team. The line is heavy
for this year-averaging about 165. In
Saturdays game it held consistently
on defense. But on the offensive 1t
had absolutely no aggressiveness and
fighting spirit. Calihan at right was
the brilliant exception. Due largely to
his efforts the right side of the line
was conspicuously stronger than the
left To use a musical phrase, the line
needs indefinitely more fortissimo,
and a darn sight less pianissimo.
BackfieId Promising.
The work of the backfield was en-
couraging. Chapman at right half
and Harvey at full back show great
ball we'll. Their excellent showing
was partly due. however. to the skill
of Hope in giving interference. The
good work of Hope in carrying the
ball, on the other hand, was largely
frustrated by the Inability of the two
new men to properly protect his plays
Had the entire team fought as gamely
as Hope and Calihan, a good deal of
subsequent wailing and gnashing of
teeth would have been avoided.
Baker at quarter is a fastS and
snappy player. When the team has
had more experience, as it will have,
and when it gets 100 per cent more
of the good old Ichabod kick. as the
fans all pray it will, Baker will have
fair chance to show the stuff of which
he is made.
OF the dandy little Cooper team the
work of Hanlon at right end and of
Gray at the left half was especially
noteworthy. With only thirty men in
the whole school Coach Weede has
turned out a fast, finely conditioned,
and supremacy aggressive team. The
Cooper players had fewer penalties,
they mixed their plays well, their
kicking was better, and they put
| their hearts into the game. A drop
kick from the 15-yard line in the last
quarter, by Gray won the game. Score
Cooper 8, Washburn 0.
The addition of Jim Perry to the
Washburn lineup will add greatly to
the offensive power of the team.
Perry enrolled in school Saturday and
expects to don a suit this week. His
185 pounds of weight with his last
years training under Kennedy will
strengthen the lineup decidedly for
the next battle.
With Perry in the backfield and
with Harvey shifted to stiffen the
right end of the line, the Ichabods will
present a much more formidable front
than in their two previous games.
Judging by the walloping delivered by
the Kansas Aggies to the OklahonH-
Asgies, some one will have to, stifSen
materially, or a day OF reckoning will
be at hand 1-"f
Local followers of the game, how
ever, not only have unbounded conf
dence in the experience and resource
of Coach A r. Kennedy, but they be-
! lieve in the essential goodness of the
material with which he has to work.
The present team is largely composed
of last years freshmen, who made a
great gridiron record on the yearling
| squad. Developed under Kennedy's
eye, it will be sad disappointment if
4 the team fails to live up to Old Icha-
| bod's football traditions of the past.
/ The lineup: