The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-22

The 1921 Kansas college football
season will be ushered in this week
with two games. The Haskell Indians
from Lawrence play the, State Manual
Training Normal at Pittsburg Friday
and Mcpherson college meets Baker
University at Baldwin Saturday.
Unusual interest is conferred on the
Baldwin fray because it marks the en-
trance of Mcpherson college into con-
ference football. Fifteen colleges will
play football in the Kansas conference
this season.
With Dutch Lonborg. former Uni
versity of Kansas captain and star
quarter back, as coach, the Mcpherson
eleven is expected to give a good &C
count of itself in it's initial appear
ances. Dutch" had his proteges prac-
ticing two or three weeks before school
opened and word coming from Nc
Pherson indicates his newly con-
structed machine will be well oiled
when it meets the Methodists.
Emil Liston, Baker coach, has been
developing a team@largely from new
material this fall. But five letter men
returned. After humbling college of
Emporia, 1918 and 1919 champions.
early last season, the Bakeries had a
slump from which they recovered
just at the end of the season.
Altho not a member of the Kansas
conference, Haskell Institute will play
Pittsburg Normal and Kansas Wesley
an before taking on Nebraska univer-
Sity, Notre Dame and other strong
teams in scattered parts of the coun-
try. Madison Bell, football coach of
the new Carlisle, came to Haskell as
athletic director last fall. it will be
remembered. from Center college,
famous wonder Team" that run up
total of 469 points against twenty
seven of the strongest teams in the
country, thus establishing a claim to
the football championship of America.
Bell played four years of inter-colleg-
late football, one year as quarterback,
one at center and one at end.
Coach Garfield Weede of the Pitts
burg Normalites is optimistic of his
prospects for winning team this year.
He has several veterans back as well
as promising new material. Jack
season under Weedes tutorship. The
veterans of the line include Matthews
! and Hill, tackles. and VehIoW and
Opie, guards. The backfie1d is vir-
at quarter, Alyea at half and Smith at
full.
Haskell and Pittsburg battled to
14-14 tie last year and football follow
ers predict a close score again this
year.
Eastern football practice has begun
IN earnest.
Coach Gilmour Dobie of Cornell
closed his first week of football prac-
Jice, and still seventy men remain on
the field, after the preliminary weed
ing out process had been done. The
squad is practicing twice a day, and
will continue to do so until the univer-
sity opens late this month
Ten letter men, several of them
regulars are back in the Red and
White uniform. Wilson Dodge, right
| tackle. captains the team.
Princeton, too, has opened pre-sea-
son practice, under the direction of
Head Coach Bill Roper. Don Lourie,
all-American quarterback last year;
| Jack Cleaves and Hank Clarity, last
| years halfbacks, and Ralph Gilroy,
another halfback, have reported for
practice.
Among the crew of assistants help
| ing Roper, is Jim Mccormack, captain
of the 1907 team, and known as the
greatest backfield man ever claimed
by Princeton.
| The first game Of the Princeton
| men comes on the first of October
with Swarthmore. About seventy-five
men are out for the squad.
The University of Pennsylvania
team held it's first scrimmage Tues
| day, altho Trainer Robertson has had
the men out for practice in the pre-
liminary workings for the last week.
/ Coach E. S. Liston, of Baker uni
versity, is busily engaged in rounding
out a team from the fifty candidates
! that can successfully cope with Nc
Pherson on Saturday.
| Listens only drawback is in the
| line. Four of the best linemen Baker
ever had, Dellinger, all-state guard;
johnson, all-state center; Cloukey and
Russell, graduated from the Methodist
school last year. Newell Mag, who
is not in school this year, played a
! wonderful right end.
Thornley,, a huge blonde-headed lad
is showing exceptional ability in the
end position. His speed and height
| should make him valuable there
| Friend at center. Schlaegel at tackle
i Stanton guard and Littrel at end are
/ showing earmarks Of former training
| The Haskell Indians, at Lawrence,
altho not members of either the Kan
sas Conference or the Missouri Valley,
have shown their Willingness to take
on most anything in the way of foot
ball teams. They play two Kansas
/ Conference schools, then begin on a
series of wildcat" games. Coach
Madison Bell is ambitious.
/ Their schedule is:
u Sept. 23-Pittsburg Normals at Pitts
: burg.