The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-22

Football fans in and around To-
peka are talking of the possibilities of
motion pictures for the use of the
football men in training them for the
various positions on the team. 1t is
understood no arrangements have
been made to take moving pictures Of
the workouts at-Washburn.
Missouri university. at Columbia.
has started using moving pictures. 1t
is meeting with considerable success,
reports show. After the movies are
taken the pictures are run thru slow
~, so players can see every move that
is made by players.
When Washburn college goes to
Manhattan october T. to meet the
AgRies, in what will be the opening
game of the season for the Aggie
team. the Washburnites will see the
Agricultural college freshmen wearing
purple and green colored skull caps
Mike Ahearn, director of athletics, has
ordered 700 OF the little skull COW
ers, to prevent profiteer.ng in head
gear, he explains.
Charley Bachman. coach of the
Kansas agg.es, is putting his men thru
a daily grind with the idea of having
a formidable machine to oppose the
Washburn Ichabods there october T.
Coach Bachman has hue three of his
regulars back, but the following let
ter men are out for places on the
team: CAPTAIN Hahn, Swartz. Sebring,
Burton, and Starke. other men who
were on last -year's squad are: Stab
Franz Mueller, Weber, Grandley,
Yandell Clements. Sears and Council
number of men who played on last
years freshmen eleven are back
working for positions on the Bachmar
aggregation. They are; Mum, Doc
Ian, Marker, Ewing. Ballard, Ward,
Cox, Brown, and Rucke.
Harold Grant, all-state selection and
speed artist of the College of Emporia,
OF Emporia, is playing his last year
with the Presbyterians. He always
has been considered one of the most
consistent ground gamers in the Kan
sas conference.
Coach "Rook" woodward, of the
Hays NORMAL school, has but four of
his experienced men back on the field
around which to build new team this
year. He has fifty candidates out for
workouts Hays was champion of the
Kansas conf arence last year, having
won all of its games. Many of the
fans over the conference would have
been pleased to see the western school
meet some of the larger eastern COL
Ieke teams. Emporia Normal lost but
one game during the year. thus being
second choApe in the conference. Some
Idlk OI a post StdSOIl game DGlHCSI
Hays and the Hargiss crew was talked
of, but the custom in the conference
always has been "let the Thanksgivz
iRg game end the conference season"
So the tallsed-oe Hays Emporia Nor
NAL game, did not materialize.
Washhurn college was the only
team in the conference which took the
.Hargiss Teachers down to defeat last
year. 1t was the surprise game of the
entire conference, as Emporia' was
picked by most sport writer's and au-
thorities as the winner of the contest.
The score was 10 to Z.
A1tho Washburn did not have a
championship team last year. it was
successful in being able to defeat the
conference leaders in several in
stances.
81 Topeka football fans are to have a
chance to see a real exhibition of foot
ball this year when Coach Garfield
Weede, of the Pittsburg Manual
Training Normal, comes to Topeka to
meet the Washburn Ichabods The
Weede aggregation defeated the Blue
and White last year. FL to Z, but the
Washburn team promises to be
stronger this year than it was last. A
wealth of new material is on the
Washburn field, and with the employ.
inent of Coach Glen d. Vosburg tc
handle the varsity eleven, Athletic Di-
rector Dwight T. Ream will have more
time for the training of the freshmen
In this combination one of the best
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