COLLEGE DRUBBED INDIANS
Emporia Gazette, 12Nov1912

    That fast College football team wound up its great winning season yesterday afternoon by driving back the scalp-hunters from the Haskell Institute. The count was 21 to 17 and as indicated by those figures it was some considerable of a combat. The Redskins apparently had the battle won six minutes before the close of the game, and were just about to rush on the log house with their war whoops of victory, when the tide changed. Schabinger faked an end run, and then slipped a long pass to Edmonds behind the goal line. The ball plopped into his waiting arms—and that fixed things.
     The College had a slight advantage in weight over their opponents, but both teams relied on the same style of open play, and it was a case of fighting fire with fire. The home team opened the scoring box nine minutes after the beginning of the first quarter, when Schabinger slipped over the goal line on a fake. The Emporians could not hold that advantage long. In the second quarter, after Schabinger apparently had blocked a forward pass, Nzhickteno, trained for such an emergency, seized the pass as it fell and rambled forty yards, before he was downed. That put the redskins in scoring position and Fontanella went over. The score was tied at seven all. In about three minutes, the Haskells forged ahead when Artichoker place-kicked from the 20-yard line. That made it 10 to 7. The Palefaces came back so hard that Wetdrich was able to smash over for a touchdown just as the whistle blew closing the half, and the score was 14 to 10.
     During the third quarter, the Indians ran wild.  Fontanella scored mother touchdown for his team, and the visitors narrowly missed another when the forward pass receiver took the ball behind his goal line, but outside of the white lines. That was the turning point of the battle. The Collegians set the ball into scrimmage from a touchback and marched up the field. It was not until the middle of the last quarter that Edmonds made his decisive touchdown. The Indians scrapped bard during the final minutes. but the College held, and the last game for 1912 bad been won.
     It was as evenly fought a match as ever has been seen in Emporia football. Both squads were well coached, and displayed a high knowledge of the game. The men of Hargiss were trickier and showed a finer assortment of plays the Indians excelled in open field running and in tackling. Their tackling was the deadliest seen In Emporia this year. The play was fierce and rough, but there were no evidences of rough work, and the Indians showed a monster crowd that they fight fair and are good sports.
     Leslie Edmonds played a beautiful game for the College. His defensive work was splendid, and he carried the ball well. The Indians laid for Schabinger, and held him close, but this enabled other stars of the back field to get away. Big Fred Hartwig was at his best, and it was his long gains on terrific tackle smashes that put the Collegians where they could score each time. Captain Frazer was another prominent part of the Hargiss machinery. For the Indians, the long-haired Rocque was a magnificent open field runner, while Artichoker put up the best brand of punting shown in Emporia this year. The Haskells were well coached, and showed this in their team play, and fierce defense against any Emporia warrior who took a stellar role in the play. The College far outplayed the Aborigines, rolling up a yardage of ground gained, 506 to 251.
     The victory was tinctured with bitterness, for Wayne Granger, playing his last quarter of College football, sustained a broken left arm. The injury consists of the smashing of the cap of one of the small forearm bones at the elbow. Aside from present discomfort, it may interfere with this star's basketball work.
     A raving, howling, whooping mob of fanatics witnessed the battle, and spent its emotions in sound. The Indians had many sympathizers, and the rooting was tremendous. Some of the fans forgot their pretense to being good sports, and there were several regrettable incidents.
     The College has won seven games out of eight, and is insisting upon second place in the Kansas conference. The team has scored a grand total of 279 points to its opponents 48, and has played only one losing quarter—the fourth against the Kansas Aggies. That was sufficient to lose the state championship, however.

On right: C of E football, 1912

Haskell           Position        Emporia
Stover................c..........Wiedower
Arkeketah. Timothy...rg..........McClennelian
Deer.................Ig..........Polk
Artichoker...........rt..........Hartwig
Williams (capt.).... It..........Wiedrich
Mzhickteno ..........re..........Edmonds
Degralf, McGillis....le......... Russell, Williams
Flood.................q..........Schabinger
Rocque...............rh..........Frazer (capt.)
Fontanelle, Drapeau...b..........Granger, Oliver, Russell
Richards..............f..........Williams
Touchdown — Schabinger, Weldrich, Edmonds, Fontanelle 2.
Goals from touchdowns — Schabinger 3, Artichoker 2.
Place kick — Artichoker.
Referee — Fords, of Kansas.
Umpire — Pete Heil, of Kansas.
Head linesman — Campbell