The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-11-05
co BACK TO WORK
After Weeks Rest Beargmen
4 Plunge Into Harness.
Blue Is Out of Slump and Team
Is on Toes.
PHOTOS SHOW ICHABOD POWER
Paramount Line Crumbled Be-
fore Fierce Onslaught.
Kansas Normal i'm Homecoming
Game Here Saturday.
PHOTOS SHOW ICHABOD POWER
BY VIM. D. WOLFE.


After its week of rest before the
Paramount football game last Satur-
day the Washburn football team is this
week digging into some real work.
The rest before the Paramount game
proved emfnently successful and the
Blue moleskin wearers went into the
Wheatshocker battle without any
semblance of over training.
The usual mid-season slump of a
team which had been pointed and de-
veloped for a crucial and gruelling
contest developed in the Blue camp
after the Kansas game. Baker was
barely defeated by the Blue in the
game between the two schools and
Coach Bearg ordered the mid-season
rest in order to get the men back on
their toes.
A Charging Line.
Bearg guessed right as the So to 0
score against the Paramount eleven.
The Ichabods outcharged and out
played the Wichita men at every stage
of the game. To the fans perched in
the bleachers it was almost massa-
ere. The WashbLrn forwards charged
to such good effect that great gaping
holes were torn III the Wheatshocker
line into which the heavy Blue backs
hurtled with crushing force.
1t BODIES little good for the. warriors
of the Kansas Normal when they stage
their ome-coming game here Satur-
day. The Normal team is heavy but
its record does not even hint of pow
er. The Washburn record is also
good-and it is charged to the limit
with power both of offense and de-
Tense. The stonewall stands made by
the WaShburn men against the plung-
ing backs of Kansas is warrant enough
of the defensive ability and staunch-
ness of the Bearg eleven. The fast
and powerful offense of this same
team displayed against Fairmount last
Saturday. against Baker the week be-
fore, and against Kansas the week be-
fore that bodies much trouble for the
Normalites.
Pictures of Pown.
Pictures of the game last Saturday
taken by Frank Willard show wildly
the charging power of the Washburn
forwards. The entire Paramount line
was moved back bodily in play after
play. Another Improvement shown by
the Blue since the first three games
of the season is the effectiveness of
the Ichabod tacklers. From a sort of
lack adaisical effort to throw the Iun-
ner. the Blue men have develop ed into
clan of sure and deadly tacklers who
not only dive into their man, but dive
into him so many at a time that he
is fairly smothered under the attack.
At interference running the Blue
needs improvement. Even q against
Paramount the Blue back were almost
strictly on their own when called upon
to Zig the ball. This condition must
be eliminated and that before Satur-
day. Instead of the man carrying the
oval charging his single way thru a
line. he should be preceded and pro-
tected by at least two other of the
backs and on most plays by three.
Bearg is working on this part of the
Washburn offense this weeks Civ
ing his ball toters a sort of shadow
diving practice. 1t is thought that the
Washburn offense will be fully the
equal of the Blue defense before the
first whistle shrills to start the game
with the Teachers here Saturday
afternoon.