The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-26

first time. His first football exper-
fence was in Carnegie Technology In
stitute, but he was in the K. U. school
last year. He looks likely for a line
position.
I'm frank to admit that our line
is weak" said Head Coach "Potsy"
Clark but we're going to make the
best possible out of it,. Pete Jones
is the only veteran in the line. I'm
basing my hopes on him for a stabil-
izer.
The X. u. backfield looks decidedly
more promising, altho no man in any
of the back positions is a veteran.
McAdams, blonde-headed lad
from Inde pendence is a likely posi-
bility His fleetness and hard work
should make him worth while He
half-back berth. Wilson and Black
mare are other hopes. Both of them
are fast heady and reliable. Griffin,
a star of the freshman squad in 1920,
is showing we'll at a half. Well and
Spurgeon, both of last years second
qualify at fullback. Lefty" Farrell
a law junior. is showing well at quar-
ter. In Mafflin, a lean junior, Clark
has at least found reliable punter.
His boots go high and far.
Well, two games are out of the way
in this seasons pennant race.
Coach Madison Bell and his Scalp
ers, administered defeat to Garfield
Weede's Pittsburg Normal fighters to
the score of IA to 0 on Friday after
noon.
Coach Bell should feel an initiation
of the chest over this outcome He
beat a crafty team, cleverly and know
ingly coached by one of the craftiest
coashes in the conference.
Ever since the column was chasing
pigskins and rustling bats for the Col
lege of Emporia, and hearing the
locker room discussions from van
tage point behind Arthur Schabinger's
shoulders, it has had a feeling of awe
when hearing the name 'Weede.''
But altho the Pittsburg men put up
a game fight, a battle worthy of their
coach they lost to a team whom odds
favored. Haskell is the biggest Indian
school in the country and. they should
have the best team. Bell, the coach,
thinks so judging from the schedule
he has compiled for this year.
Captain MacLemore, with his su-
perb generalship, and Artichoker for
his kicking abilities, deserve special
mention. The latter's punts are dis
turbing the peace of mind of the back
who is forced to catch them.
The game was good, even tho the
sun was beaming 90 degrees of heat,
and the teams could nave mad more
practice. But we're not kicking.
Then the other game, which was
played at Baldwin Saturday between
Baker university and Mcpherson.
Dutch" Lonborg firmly established
himself as an efficient coach as well
as a great K. U. back by the showing
of his proteges in that mud-battle.
For the first half Dutch's men
played the Baker veterans to a stand
still. By a series of clever line plays,
which the "Dutchmen" absorbed in
four years of Kansas university play
ing and then passed on, the McPher-
son boys made down after down, stead
lily and slowly, altho never endanger-
ing the Baker goal.
Then the tide changed. Baker has
been playing football for years. Lon
borg's men are playing their first year
in the conference. The colin believes
that heredity counts as much with
football as it does in children. The
Baker men forged ahead. Bollinger.
Bakers dangerous quarterback, ex-
erted himself nobly. and after a series
of end runs, netting an average of
twenty-five yards, Bollinger made a
neat, precisely accurate drop-kick
across the bar from the thirty-five
yard line.
Then J. Pluvius interrupted. It