The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-09
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Dwight Ream Announces
Washburn Football Plans.
Many Candidates Expected To
Apply for Suits.
OLD STARS WILL Be BACK
Nearly Every Member of 1918
Team In School Again.
Strict Training Rules Are To
Be Enforced.
OLD STARS WILL Be BACK

Football practice at Washburn col
lege will begin Thursday afternoon
September IL, according to a state
ment made today by Dwight Ream
assistant coach. Suits will be issued
that day and roster OF the candidates
for place On the varsity team will be
made up.
An entirely new system of practice
is to be inaugurated at Washburn
this year. Ambitious Ichabod athletes
are going to have TO do some real
work in practice II they are to be
given the high privilege OF represen-
ing their school on the gridiron. 1t
will be necessary for candidates for
place on the team TO actually put in a
fair portion Of their time at practice
and the dilatory methods Of former
years will be replaced by the strictest
kind OF enforcement of training rules.
Outlook Very Bright.
Last years experience at Washburn
showed very definitely what can be
done in Topeka with a football team.
with the officers OF the S. A. T. c.
giving the football coaches the closest
kind OF cooperation in enforcing
training rules. the Ichabod eleven was
one OF the most formidable in the
state. In fact many critics openly de-
clared that the Washburn team last
year was the real state champion. All
that prevented the awarding the ac-
tual title was the fact that Washburn
and the College of Emporia did not
meet. There is no doubt that wash
burn gave real account of herself
on the gridiron last year-and in spite
OF the 'flu."
In others years of late the Wash
burn teams have been sadly dismem
bered and disorganized by the habits
OF the players. Training rules were
forced. The players did were not en-
forced. Theplayers did with them
selves as they saw fit and in most
cases what the individual considered
fit was anything but fit. Dances and
late hours, smoking and eating Of the
wrong kind Of food are not calculated
to produce fine athletes nor depend
able ones. This has been Washburns
bane in the last few years-the years
when the Ichabod teams have dropped
from first place among the teams Of
the state to the. status of second and
even third rate elevens.
Many Old Men Bnck.
As 10 prospects for a winning team
in 1919. the horizon is bright. Nearly
every member OF last years team will
be back in school. Lindell, all-state
quarter in 1918, will fit and flash in
his usual form in the baclCfield. Nc
Kinley, the sensational halfback de-
veloped last season. is to be back in
the blue jersey again this fall. Solsby,
the other plung!ng back of last year.
has signified intention of wearing the
moleskin at Washburn another year.
Dewey Hutchinson, last years cap
tan. Sharp, Wykoff Hope. Askew,
Palmatier. Parnell, Anderson. c.
Hutchinson, Hanzlick, Ellis. Boies.
Crawford, McGinnis. Stevens and
Oyler are among the old-timers who
Will be hack in school this fall. And
then there will be a large number of
high school stars Just entering school
who will be eligible to play on the
varsity team.
Altogether the 1919 football season
is bright with hope for the Ichabods.