Haskell at Washburn

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  The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, November 21, 1904, page 1

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  Washburn Defeated by the Braves from Haskell. Most Brilliant Football Game of the Season. SCORE WAS IA TO @. Sons of Ichabod Had All the Bad Luck. Prevented from Scoring Only by an Accident. SCORE WAS IA TO o. was defeated by the Has kell Indians Saturday afternoon by a score of IA to o. This is just about as good a showing as was made by Ne braska university against the invincible redskins, and Washburn regards it as a victory. Hard luck was all that kept Wash burn from scoring two t~ouchdowns. In the first half. Thrailkin gathered in a quarterback kick and carried il from Washburn’s 10 yard line the full length of the field through the Haskell team, had a thrilling footrace with the fleet footed A~rchiQuette, and placed the ball 5quarely the Haskell goal posts. He was called back to the Wash burn % yard line on the ground that he had at that point stepped over the outside line. Again in the second half. washburn by brilliant playing the ball to Haskells 5 yard line, where a pen atty Of 5 yards was inflicted. The PEN atty ruined Washburn, for while Wash burn another 5 yards, il then lost the ball. should have tried a field goal from this point, and its failure to do so probably cost it four points. While Washburn can truly attribute its failure to score to hard luck. it new er had the slightest show to win the game. magnificent team work was too much for the p~aleface warriors. Washbu could stop the line bucks of the Indians with considerable regularity, but the Haskell in reference for end runs was so formula BILE that again and again it could not be broken and the man with the ball was stopped only after long gains. A~rchiquette and Pete Hauser played the star game for Haskell 1t was a brilliant day for football, n the game was as brilliant as the day. By a large majority it was the best game of the season; the most in tense in interest, and merited an audi ence of 5000 people instead of the II or Is hundred who were there. The K. u Washburn game was stubborn and brilliant examples of football attack and defense which characterized throughout the Haskell-Washburn game. College students who had been taught to reel off their yells in a rahrah chorus forgot the combination, and stood up on the seats and screamed with excitement. And there were plenfy of cheers of encouragement for the dashing Irresistible sweep of the In dian Interference as it came Whirling around the Washburn line like a charge of Sitting Bulls warriors at the Little Big Horn. Billy Rice did not play right half for Washburn after all. He was on the field in his suit, but it was decided to use Thrailkill for the position, and avoid all danger of raising a question as to Rice’s eligibility for five years on the Washburn team. 1t was thought that by participating in the one game Saturday, he might thereby forfeit a whole season, as the number of years for which he is eligible to play is linn tied to six, and he used one of the six at k U. Had Rice been in the game, it is practically certain that would have scored, but not likely that 81 could have won, though it might have held the score down to 9 instead of IA. Haskell played a good deal harder game in the second half than in the first. One of the Washburn linemen said: oAS soon as the sacond half oDaDed I’ll knew We were up against a worse game than in the first. The Indians came harder and were harder to stop The effect of this swift play was that Haskell scored it’s first touchdown just BIZ minute after the second half opened, and followed it with a second touchdown IL minutes later. The sec ond touchdown was due directly to an unfortunate tumble of a long punt by ThrailkilI on hbur 20 yard line, after had been keeping the ball in Haskell territory for nearly s minutes. Everybody seemed to be satisfied with the outcome. and there never was a more good natured game played on Washburn field, despite the ferocity of the struggle. There were no penal ties for foul play, and the players were laughing and joking with each other during the whole game Coach Outland said after the game: “Washburn did we’ll; we held the score down better than I thought we would Captain Guyon of Haskell “Washburn gave us a harder game han Ne braska did” Coach Herrnstein of Haskell: ‘It came out just about as I thought it would. 1t was a hard game. Wash burn would have defeated K. U. if the team had played as they did against us” Referee w. C. Connect of St. Louis, formerly a University of Virginia player: “a very hard. clean game, in which the score fairly indicates the relative merits of the teams” Umpire A. f. Casad of Fort Riley, formerly a West Point player: zone of the best games played in the west this season. Haskell had the best OF It on team work” When the comparative work of the teams in carrying the ball is figured up, it shows how vastly superior the Haskell offensive play was to that of WaShburn. Haskell carried the ball a total of 526 yards during the game. while Washburn carried it only 1O2 yards. Washburn was unable to gain except on line bucks and this is al ways slow business. The Indians in reference on end run was the feature of the game. The tackles boxed in the line and the halves boxed out the opposing end and half. and the runner went down the field through a hole big enough to let through a flock of barns. Again and again this “systenn” was played. 1t was only on rare OCCaSlOIlS that the HAL Will IL Ddll followed his interference around the outside. He watched for the hole right through the midst of h Wash burn team, and he usually found it. Caldwell had the best of it in punt ings, after Pete Hauser was knocked out of the game. Caldwell punted five times for 1S4 yards, an average of 81 yards. Haskell punted five times for 1874 yards, an average of 81 yards. Haskell lost the ball on fumblesI four times. and three. Haskell was much superior in running

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Tied 3–⁠3 in six meetings, counting the three since this game.