Kansas at Washburn

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  The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, November 1, 1909, page 2

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  Review of Saturdays II. u Washburn Game by Expert. SlOWnesS Of Kansas Team Stood Out Prominently. BLUEFOUGHT GAMELY Mistakes of HeadwOrk Resulted in Scores. Lines of Both Teams Were Pune tured Readily. BLUEFOUGHT GAMELY Although the Washburn- kansas score was about as predicted by the more conservative, so low prediction as one touchdown would not have been disappointment. Two touch downs came to the red and blue by individual mistakes ON the Washburn team and by players who throughout the game did the very best of heady work against great odds. The Wash burn enthusiasts were very well sat isfied with the outcome. In fact they were often elated over the play of the Blue and only wished them little more experience, confident that with such they could easily turn the tide Of the battle But it was as Coach Weede said after the game although he was smiling as if his team had done better than to be hoped. They profited by our mistakes. That is football. The first touchdown came by K. u. getting the ball after an on-side kick which a Washburn player should have fallen on near the goal line instead of trying to pick it up. The second one came by another player fun milling after holding K. L. on the ten yard line for downs. The ball should have been pUrted out of danger by all means The first play referred to by the coach was in the first ten minutes of play when Johnson for X. L. made an onside kick to the five yard line. Nc AdITOil ana ISODD III ITNlnS 10 DICK II up allowed Johnson to recover it to send Dahlene over on the next play. The second instance was after Wash burn had held X. Z. for downs near the goal line. Instead of kicking out Df danger Smiley called for play by Burkhart who fumbled the ball, Dahlene getting it and carrying it over for a touchdown. Had the ball been punted as has been coached since the first day Weede got to Topeka that score might have been spared. *. U. Team Is Slow. There was much disappointment for the X. U. loyalists in the city for they are the least versatile bunch seen this season. Their line is heavy and their backs are heavy. In fact it is a great big slow team with two plays carried along by the force of weight. Those back plunge in which Lovett and Dahlene alternated for steady gains of from two to six yards. Tommy Johnson is the rest of the team. Occasionally he ran away for fair gains though he could not skirt the ends with anything like consistency. Two weeks ago at Manhattan where the big guard and fullback could not gain because the opposing line was just rs heavy. Johnson became the whole team and he only could gain. That the h. u. team is slow aggregation of the old style players was no better Illustrated than in the Aggie game where everything they had was GER tainly unbottled and still consisted of guard. a fulIback, and Tom Johnson. Not that the Kansas team romped at will through the Washburn line for they did not in spite of their superior weight of thirteen pounds to the man. Washburn held them for downs five times during the game when K. U. refrained from kicking underestimate Ing the SfTPnOfh nf ha oil Three times the Washburn line held within ten yards of the goal line. A touchback made by Washburn four seconds from the end of the first half might at first thought be considered streak of luck but the fact is that it was the K. L. line being thrown back which caused the tumble McCarroll recovered. Washburn Backfeld Did Well. McCarrol, Smiley and Burkhart in the back field played good football when their task is taken into consideration It was when Smiley had to be taken out chances to score went glimmering That necessitated McCarrolls going to quarter player. who Guild not fill the bill. Robb and I.arimer at ends effectually stopped of Johnson. And the line although pierced off the tackle positions by the fierce attacks. was never thrown back more than few yards, under the excess of weight. johnson at guard. put in at the last minute before the game without much warning. staid the whole game through and Showed signs Of becoming the line man to which his stature entitles him. But neither was the x. U. line i’m pregnable. Titus on his tackle swing went through repeatedly for good gains and once or twice Benton did as we’ll Whitconlb from fullback position almost always found his way blocked before he got to the line. On end runs Burkhar 1T and McCarroll made long gains freauent- ~. Washburn used the onside kick fire. quently, but had the misfortune to see ii roll out of bounds almost every time and at no time did they recover it On the other hand, those tried by Kansas were recovered twice for good gains. Owing tc the high wind. the forward pass, a strong point of the Sons of Ichabod, could moi be used safely. Only once was it used That once NippS tagged the ball and Lar. inner fell on it, but the play was illega and the ball went to X. L. In the punting department McCarrol gets the honors over Johnson his punts during the last stages of the game aver. aging So yards. The sentiment after the game was thai Washburn had done well under the cir. cumstances, while Kansas, although MOI to be denied that she has a good team was predicted a defeat either at Ne.

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  Omaha daily bee, Nebraska, October 31, 1909, page 1

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  Kansas Walks T.. Over WaShburn and Wins Easily Coach Kennedy Uses Straight Foot Ball and Refuses to Uncover His Trick Plays. TOPEKA, Kan, Oct. 30.-CSpecial Telegram .)-Kansas defeated Washburn col lege here today by a score Of II to- Three t~ouchdowns, two in the first half and one in the second, with two goal kicks, made the total. Fighting against heavy odds in weight, the Washburn lads put up a ter rifle struggle, but to no avail. They were never close enough to the Kansas goal in possession of the ball to even try for a field goal. However, twice in the game they gave the Jayhawker aggregation severe scares by taking the ball for fifteen and twenty-yard gains on trick plays. Coach weede’s men had a bunch of their plays, but could not make them work enough times in succession to get the cherished score. 1t was a fierce conflict through two thirty minute halves, with washburn fighting on the defense In its own terri tory most OF the time. Fumbles were fire. quent, particularly by the locals. Time had to be taken out many times on account OF the excessive heat and frequent slight in juries. The forward pass was tried only once in the game, Washburn making an attempt, but losing the bail. Kennedy’s men played almost exclusively straight foot ball, hitting the line and rushing the ends. No critic could have said today that the Kansas team was not fast, for the plays were worked off all through the game in speedy fashion. There were no long runs for ~touchdowns, but several times Lovett. Dahlene. Magill, Pleasant and Johnson broke away for gains of fifteen. twenty and twenty-five yards. Lovett and Pleasant each carried the ball once for a distance Of thirty-five yards. Washburn was expecting to be compelled to fight the outside pick hard, but to the surprise OF everyone who wanted to see this favorite play OF Kennedy’s, II was pulled off but twice and then so quickly that Washburn did not know what had happened. Coach Cole OF Nebraska was known to be in the bleachers and the Jayhawker quarterbacks had evidently been given instructions to pull off no fancy plays. All three t~ouehdowns were made by slow pegging down the field with occasional short spurts. Only once and that on the first touchdown, did Kansas maxi a steady march across the field. Tommy” John son piloted the squad from his own twenty yard line straight across the field on short gains to a touchdown. Smiley was the one star OF the Washburn team, but Whit comb and McCarroll, also did great work. These men took the ball for good gains a half dozen times, but could not gain consecutively. Coach Wesds expressed his appreciation Of the fight his men had made against a superior team and praised Ken nedy’s eleven highly. The uneup was as follows.

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Kansas leads 23–⁠3–⁠4 in 30 meetings, counting the 21 since this game.