The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-18

81
The Southwestern league baseball
season is over. Three more weeks will
see the end of the National and Amer
lean leagues. With the ending of the
baseball season thoughts of sports
men turn naturally toward football.
Already football talk is heard in
and around Topeka, and in all towns
In the Kansas and Missouri valleys
conference. The air fairly radiates
football already. Only a few more
81 days remain now until the opening OF
the Kansas conference.
Coaches have begun the difficult
task of whipping into shape the men
who will lead their schools to victory
Captains of teams are admonishing
their teammates to give of their best
energies toward making the teams
winners. College cheer leaders already
are 1nstilling into the students at the
various schools, a school spirit which
is bound to play large part in the
winning or losing of the games for
their respective schools.
The students themselves are talking
about what their, schools will be able
to do in the conference. Officials are
busy getting games to officiate.
So the football season is not COM
ing; it is here.
1t shall be one of the purposes of
this column to keep closely in touch
with the teams of the Kansas and
Missouri conferences, and to comment
on the prospects of the various teams
merits.
One of the greatest steps made in
the Kansas conference this year is the
change at Washburn college. Wash
burn has employed new coach to
handle the team, thus giving Dwight
T. Ream. coach last year, a chance to
devote more time to the business end
of athletics. Glen D. Vosburg has
been employed as the coach.
c L %n
have both an athletic manager and a
full time coach. This is a mighty
good move on the part of Washburn,
and it.. thus places it foremost among
the Kansas conference schools.
Washburn's prospects in the con-
ference this season are brighter than
for some time With ten letter men
back, and an unusually large amount
of new material from which to choose, 4
the Ichabods should have a good sea-
son. =
Ted Blevins, a last year letter man,
is pilot of the eleven and he gives in
dications of being a good captain He
is a hard worker, a good trainer,
abides by training rules laid down by
the coaches, and urges the other men
on the team to hew to the line.
The shifting of Stevens, letter man
and quarterback last year. to end this
season, will undoubtedly strengthen
the Ream eleven. Stevens has played
enc. before and promises to be one of
the BEST in the conference this season,
II advance notices are any criterion of
4 ibis ability. His place al quarter has
snot~yet been filled, but there are two
Sot three men working for the posi-
4 tion.
a Among them are Grassy Bruce, |
''Topeka high school captain and pivot
man last year. Grassy was the
8 Backbone of the high school eleven
Blast year under Coach Z. r. Barnes,
ssand his early work at Washburn puts
him in line for place on the college
eleven. He, however, will not be eligi-
5Sbte to play in the Kansas university
game, because of not yet having a
seyear's resident playing with the team.
g s"Sandy'' Crawford, last year man,
3 played substitute quarter for the Icha-
.9beds last year. He is to be reckoned
with in the making up of the varsity
s.fllis year. He plays a fast game, is
good at passing, and has plenty of
endurance. He also plays end. Fans
viii be watching him perform some
where in the lineup this fall.
Z art Brewster, former Topeka high
.ssohool star and letter man at Wash
siburn, probably(will work at a half
stfits year, according to advance indi-
scations. He played fullback last year,
a nd was the idol of the fans. Some
syear felt confident when he was in the
flireup, and it was mighty few times
thGt he was not.
"a Washburn meets ottawa here Sep
stemper 80 for the season opener. OF
.atawa. it is reported, is pretty heavily
sloaded up this year. Washburn de-
xfeated the Baptists at Ottawa last
year. The second game of the season
Edor the Ream aggregation will be at
e[Manhattan, october Z. Washburn did
Snot defeat the Aggies last year, and
the fans are anticipating a close con-
stest. Twelve veterans of last years
,scleven are among the fifty candidates
from which Coach Charley Bachman
will have to choose this year. In adj
dition to these, eight second string
rmen from last year, and nearly twenty
Graduates from e. C. Curtis 1921
tending for varsity places. This gives
the Aggies plenty of material from
which to select a team.
y Washburn freshmen will meet the
varsity eleven October IA. and on Oc-
Etober 81 the Ichabods will go to Law
frence to meet the George ''Potsy''
Clark aggregation. This is always
considered the biggest game of the
year at Washburn, because it is a
larger school, and to win from this
school would be a great feather in
the cap of any Kansas conference
team.
q Washburn field has been changed a
lot this year. For the first time in
the history of the college the team
will play on a sod field. The gridiron
was sodded this summer, and the play
ers are staying off of it for the pres
Tent, thus promising a grassed filed for
the games.
The fencing has been changed so
that not more than twelve cars can be
parked around the field. The south
stands have been rebuilt, and enlarged,
and hereafter student enterprise
tickets will not be honored in the north
gbleachers. This is done to keep the
sWashburn rooters together as near as
possible. The auto parking space
proved unsatisfactory in other years,
Aceording to Ream, because it was i'm
-l,nssihIa To keen tha narsnr,s It .,dir,r-