The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-25
Results Conference Games.
Baker, @; Mcpherson, z.
o; Bethany, 10.

Only four college teams are affected
by the standings in the Kansas confer
ence as result of games played Fri
day and Saturday. Two western
schools, Bethany and Mcpherson,
which by a large number of fans were
considered the weakest of the four
schools playing, came to the front in
the early reckoning. and won from
Baker university and Paramount col
lege OF Wichita,
Fairmount-Bethany game was pro-
badly the greatest surprise of the two
games played. Paramount won over
Bethany last year, 10 to 0, and the
score was the same only turned
around, Saturday. The Wheatshock-
ers have heavy team, but are a little
slow.
Baker and Paramount will be
stronger in the next game as a result
of their defeat. Coaches always are
able to see the mistakes made by their
men after the first game. 1t will be
the same in this case. Coach Lamar
Hoover, of Paramount, will have a
much better team which meets Nc
Pherson at Wichita next Saturday
than the one-which went up against
the Swedes Saturday. Coach E. 8.
Liston will have a week in which to
whip his men into shape for the game
with William Jewell, at Baldwin, Fri
day.
This column believes Washburn col
lege is scheduled for successful foot
ball season this fall. We believe three
conditions can be named which will,
in a large part, make the season sue
cessful.
First. there is plenty of good ma
terial from which to pick a strong
team; second, there seems to be lack
of team dissension which was appar-
emit among the squad last year; and
third, the team is to have support
from the student body that it has not
had in other years.
More good material is now on the
field trying out for the Ichabods than
there has been for several years.
Coaches declare the prospects for
winning team are brighter than in re-
cent years, and the reason is that
there is a larger bunch of good men
from which to choose team than
was the case in some of the other
years.
There was lot of good material
last year, but the new material this
year is better than last. Last year
there was some little dissension among
the players themselves. That appar-
emily is lacking this season. The whole
squad seems to be working for the
kgood of the college, and are out to
give of their best for the team, and
for the school This is as it should
be. A football team that does not
have unity OF purpose and work to-
gether toward the goal of success will
not get any further than a business
where there is no unity. 1t would be
the same as an army going out to OPP
pose an enemy and all trying for a
different offensive. Only by concen-
tration of purpose and then working
toward that end can any college sue
cessfully win.
Student support-Probab1y no other
thing means SO much toward the sue
cess of the team than the knowledge
that it has the support of the student
body. Men on the field are inspired
by the fact that a good organized yell
, machine of students is for them, the
same as the band is taken on a field
of battle to inspire the men to greater
efforts.
Any student who CANDLES that his
team will lose a game is disloyal, to
say the least. Betting should be dis
couraged, but above all, good sport,