The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-09

The end of the third week of Kan
sas conference football sees six teams
tied for first place in the conference,
each haYing won one game and lost
none. They are: Washburn, College
of Emporia. Kansas State normal,
Hays normal. Friends university and
Southwestern college. Four teams
Farm mount, Mcpherson, Kansas Wes-
| leyan and Bethany are in the 500 per
cent class, having won one and lost
Baker university have lost one game
each and Sterling and Ottawa have
| lost two each.
Pittsburg Manual Training normal,
altho it has played two games this
season both have been outside the
conference. One with Haskell In
dams, which it lost, and the other was
win over the st. Benedict's college
eleven, which is only an associate
member of the conference, and does
not count in the standings.
The defeat of st. Mary's college by
the Kansas State Normal by only a
small score, was somewhat of a sur
prise, tho the Normals were playing
in their first game of the season. Two
things stood out in this game, the
smooth. easy playing of the Empor-
ians. especially in the first half, and
the fighting of the Catholic eleven. It
was not especially a good exhibition
CT football, both sides doing consider
able wrangling, and two players, Stew
art, of the Normal, and Mahoney, of
st. Mary's, having been sent from the
field by the referee when they en-
gagged in q scrap. The first half was
easily the NormaPs period, for the
Coach "Bilr' Hargiss crew seemed to
be able to outguess the Catholics all
the way, but those Irishmen came
back and fought like demons in the
last two periods, and held the Teach
ers to a to score. One thing was
evident, however, and that is the Hary
giss crew will be fast before the end
of the season, and will make q great
showing in the conference, we believe.
The support the rooters gave the
Irish was an example of the spirit in
which the fans there enter into the
fall sport. Sometimes support can be
the stunts pulled off by the players
in the Normal game were not con-
ducfve to the best interests of the
game.
Southwestern and Paramount. Bit
ter rivals for years. played to 0 to
tie on the Wichita field, after the
Winfield team had defeated the
Wheatshcckers, 7 to 0. in 1921. This
leaves these two teams in relatively
the same positions in the standings as
tho the game had not been played.
Kansas Wesleyan university re-
versed the score over the Sterling COL
lege eleven, then kicked goal besides,
thus making Kansas Wesleyan's
chances in the conference race look
brighter than was the case last year.
Haskell Indians went to Wichita
and played Friends university defeat
ing it by a 81 to score. This is con-
siderably larger than Il st year, when
the Indians won, IA to Z.
Ottawa university took it's second
defeat of the season when it went to
Hays and the Hays Normal took the
long end of an IS to IS score. The
failure of Hays to kick goal was all
that prevented the score from being
the same as in the Ottawa Washburn
game the week before, at Topeka.
Hays and Washburn do not meet this
year, but if they did it looks like the
the Ottawa score. It makes the west
ern Kansas school look like a pretty
close contender for the conference
championship again this year. Hays
IS playing more games with eastern
schools than it did last year, so if the
! Coach "Rook" Woodward crew sue
ceeds in winning all its games in the
conference duplicating its feat OF last
year. the fans will not have as much
ground for saying that the Hays team
ulu not play the larger eastern Teams.
Ottawa, for instance, always has
been one of Washburns closest op-
ponents for several years. The fast
and shifty playing of the Ottawans
made quite a hit with Topeka fans
in the Ottawa-Washburn game.
| College of Emporia easily took the
Chilocco Indians into camp, 46 to o,
while the Kansas State team trounced
the Washburn eleven in a game at
Manhattan. AZ to 0. The College of
Emporia and Washburn games, not
being with conference schools, has no
effect in the conference standings;
thus these two schools still maintain
their 1000 per cent standing. The
same is true of the st. Benedict's-
Pittsburg Manual Training Normal
game, the former being an associate
| member of the Kansas conference and
IS not considered in the standings. 1t
is quite probable that the Atchison
school will be admitted to full mem
bership in the conference next year.
The Washburn-Aggie game at
| Manhattan convinced Missouri vail
/ ley football followers that the Kan
sas school must be reckoned with in
| the valley. The way the forward pass
and the variation of the Notre Dame
! shift was worked by the Coach
| Charles Bachman crew was wonder
| full. Washington university of ST