The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-22
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Pretty Woshburn GirlLoses
All Faith In Her Ouiiia Board
Told Her Ihabods Would Defeat K. UThey "a
Saturday.

Satul
A clair little girl who lives at ]
is melancholy today. To her the
tain; and the past is not what it
This little girI--maybe Miss Meek,
Eachron or Mrs. A. R. Kennedy can
cast, she is, Eth Bien! disguised. Here
Friday night, when the nocturnal
little girl sat with a circle of friends
prediction on the outcome of the WI
prognosticator was most accommodate
and manipulated it. The answer cam
would triumph over their old eneml
boxes. of candy had been bet, the IchaI
shouldn't the little girl be as disguised
But maybe the ouija board should
not be blamed entirely because II the
I.Ichabods had played the kind of foot
ball they did -four years ago they
would have won-and easily.
From the standpoint of the critic
who knows football, Saturdays game
at Lawrence was anything but the
kind of game schools like K. U. ana
Washburn should put on exhibition
1t was ragged, fuzzy and freaklsh, ana
neither side showed superiority iln
brains or Drawn, altho the Jayhawkers
had a predominance of beef that
should have been offset by the brains
| of the Old Fox, DR.. Kennedy.
Really, there were just four real
football players in the game, judging
from the way the two teams per
Perry were the two representing
Washburn, and Captain Nielsen and
| Pringle represented the JayhaWkcf
| eleven. Hope, for Washburn, showed
remarkable pluck and endurance, and
NettIeS and Foster were in the game
| for K. U.,-but the four men mentioned
above were the only ones who showed
anything like stellar work. And 1t is
| a cinch that if both teams do not get
| a hustle on and play better and more
consistent ball than they did Saturday
| they will be badly dealt with when
they meet some of their later season
| opponents.
No Stage Fright.
The Ichabods were not victims of
stage fright, because they played their
| best football in the first quarter when
| they held the heavier K. U. men to
| single touchdown. But DIR. Kennedy's
men certainly did not play brainy foot
ball-no light team does when it faces
| a heavier line and relies almost solely
upon line bucks to gain ground. Perry
| was the only Washburn man who was
able to go thru the line for gains that
| meant anything, and he was soon well
| covered every time he had the ball.
| Captain Logan, playing the best game
| of his career on the defensive, got thru
| and stopped many advances. but
| Pringle, who did most of the charging
| for the Olcott men, soon found better
| openings than the one offered thru
| Logan's tackle
| In the first quarter after Baker had
| fumbled a punt the K. L. team got the
ball in their own territory and ad-
vanced to within the lO-yard llne
when they We're held by the, Ichabodsl
and on the fourth down tried for
ward pass over the goal line that
failed Washburn took the ball on
the 2O-yard line and after Perry had
made II yards Hope was forced to
punt Foster received the punt in
midfield and returned it II yards
Then the Jayhawkers marched
straight to a touchdown, Nielsen go
ing over and Notwithstanding a per-
feet goal
| Second Touchdown.
An exchange of punts gave K. L.
the ball again; the Jayhawkers had it
in the danger zone at the end of the
| quarter. On the first play of the
second period Prfngle went over for
| the second touchdown and Nettles
| again kicged goal Following this
| Meyer recovered a tumble for Wash
burn and after Perry had gained
| yards, Logan attempted a field goal
from the 30-yard line, his kick falling
| far in front of the cross bar. K. T.
| took the ball on her 20-yard line and
on a ! d pass by her center the ball
went over the goal line and Sam Hell
| the IchabOds made during the game.
The remainder of the quarter was
largely a punting duel.
In the third quarter X. L. added
| two more touchdowns, Pringle going
over for the first and Frost falling on
the ball behind the line for the sec
| ond on a blocked kick.
| In the final period Olcott sent in
most of his second string. men and al
] lowed them to experiment with open
play work and whatever else their
4 fancy directed. The only score made
came after pretty 20 yard pass from
Pringle to Foster and was made by
Prfngle on a wide skirt around right
end.
X. L. Showed Little.
The easy victory the Jayhawkers
had is shown by the statistics. They
made Il first downs to Washburn's 2
and were penalized so yards while
the Icha bods went thru without
penalty 1t might have been that K.
U. men We're not trying to even prac-
tice their best. but if this is not so
they certainly will have to improve a
great deal to make a showing against
lsuch teams as the Aggies, Nebraska
and Missouri. rPring1e and their beef
were the only advantages they showed
| over the Ichabods, despite the one
sided score. The lineup and sum
| mary:
! Kansas POSITION Washington.
Laslett ........-.-L l. E. --.--.--..... Heller
Nettels ----.-.'-.- l. J. -.----.---. Logan
Jones ....-....L g. -.-.-.....-.- Pettis
Hull .............. C--.-........... Askew
Woody Il. G. .--....... .Stenger
Frost ...........-R- 7. Hutchinson
LOnberg .--.-.-- - L. T. --.....-.. .CaHhan
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