1910-1912 Seasons

     In 1910 the Presbies had their first victorious football season, winning five, losing three and tying one. On November 12 of that year the team set what was then a state, as well as a school, scoring record by walloping Pittsburg Normal, 107 to 0, with "Schabie" scoring seven touchdowns. In that year touchdowns counted only five points.
    During the Thanksgiving Day game against the Normal that year, the C. of E. team introduced a formation called the "hike," where the entire line shifted from a crouch behind center to one side of the line or the other. According to the Gazette story on the game, the play was "the prettiest of the season and the Normal never knew where the ball was coming, and was afraid to shift to meet it."

    The 1911 team posted a 5-2-0 record, and at the end of the season Schabinger was chosen captain of the All-Kansas football team — the highest honor in Kansas football.

In 1912 the club compiled a 7-1-0 record, losing only to Kansas State when the Aggies scored three times in the last quarter for a 28-7 victory. Some of the scores of games that year included a 90-0 victory over Campbell College (Holton), 71 to 0 over Pittsburg, and 30 to 3 over the Normal.
     The game that Schabinger and Hargiss remember most vividly of that season, however, was the last one of the year when the Presbies eked out a 21 to 17 victory over a great Haskell team. The Indians that year had rolled over everything in sight, and included among their victims such teams as Minnesota and Nebraska. [see article College Drubbed Indians]