The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-21
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FoetbdIl@mmNt and Gossip
BY |
y, " s. W.L.F1ussns Jr:
W.L.HuSSins eJr.

There were many close, hard-fought
games of football in the country Sat
urday, but we doubt if a more excit-
ing one was played than the Home
coming game at Manhattan by the
Aggies and Oklahoma.
And the Kansas team came from
the field with a victory. A to Z.
It was a great exhibition of football.
Safe to state that the Aggies out
played their opponents in every de-
partment of the game. SWartz. Aggie
quarter. effectually outgeneraled the
Oklahomans, and on the whole the
Kansans outolassed their opponents.
For the first half the Oklahomans
tried to plug the Aggie line, but with
out material success. Their gains in
the center of the gridiron We're no
ticeable. but the fighting lads from
the Cow College held in the critical
moments in dangerous territory
Twice in the first half were the
Oklahomans repulsed within the Ag-
gle ten yard line.
The first Aggie counter arrived in
the f st quarter. after Burton. Aggie
halfback. and Swartz, quarter, had
advanced the ball steadily down the
field by skirting ends and short
passes. Stark made the touchdown
on an off-tackle swing.
The Oklahoma score was Spectacu-
lar in the extreme. The counter came
for the Sooners in the beginning of
the third quarter. Two passes did the
trick. The play was a forward pass,
Hill to Hendricks, from the eighteen
grabbed the ball on the goal. line from
the midst of many players, and fell
over the goal.
But tn Aggies were far from thru
With the score tiedS the Kansans
began an even more ferocious fight.
Cheered on by thousands of specta-.
tors, the Aggies made another counter
within three minutes after the whistle
from the kickoff
'fShip" Winter, Swartz. and Sebring
snagged forward passes for a total of
sixty-five yards and a line buck plant
ed the ball on the Sooner three yard
line. Another smash by Swartz put
the ball on within three inches of the
goal, and on the next play Quarter
back Swartz caught the Sooners on
the shift and nosed around left guard
for the counter. Sebring kicked both
the AEgie goals.
With the starch taken from their
sails, the Sooners were playing list
lessly when the game ended with the
ball in the Aggie possession on the
Sooners 40 yard line.
The colin has seen no better games
this season The stars were too nu-
merous to mention. But attention
should be brought to the unparalleled
performance of ding" Burton, Aggie
halfback. ..-ss1- ..
Burton played a spectacular, scin-
tillating, and brilliant game. He was
easily the outstanding star of the
game. We can't praise his perform
ance too much. Shifty, fast, heady,
Burton is bolt of lightning. His pass
snagging was beautiful, but more won
derful was the manner in which he
hit the line. A fast start, a turning
twisting jump, and Burton had made
five or ten yards. He was good for
gains whenever called upon.
Solicitors of all-valIey men should
remember Ding" Burton.
Hahn, left guard. was a power in
the Aggie line. "Shifty'' Cleland. cap
tain and center. played hard-fight-
ing, consistent game at center.
st. Marys college did the totally
unexpected by defeating Washburn
college, Il to 3 Saturday, in a game
that has been described as more or