Toe Daily Nebraskae
VOL. XVI. NO; 57.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1916.
PRICE ONE CENTS
DR. E, J. STEWART
RE-ELECTED COACH
ATHLETIC BOARD GIVES ANOTHER
ONE-YEAR CONTRACT
PnarH Takea Important Action Cfl
Summer Batebail Question Re
garding Professionalism
Dr. E. J. Stewart, still in the begin
ning of bis first year as coach and
director of athletics at Nebraska Uni
versity, was re-elected all year coach
for one year by the athletic board last
evening.
Dr. Stewart was also given an in
crease ot salary, but how much was
not given out by the board.
The board re-elected Dr. Stewart In
order that be might know that In
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DR. E. J. STEWART
Re-elected Nebraska's All-Year Coach
spite of the two defeats the team has
suffered this year, and the criticism
that has been beard in some quar
ters about the coach, the board felt
that he was entitled to another chance
at the football team, and they wanted
him to realize that they had confidence
in him.
The coach of course has filled but
three months of bis first all-year con
tract with Nebraska. He started last
night with the basketball team, and he
will be busy with them until the spring
months. Then be will have charge of
the track work and the baseball wort:.
Better Material
Next year Dr. Stewart will have foot
ball material even better to work with
than he bad this year, and especially
will he have more weight for the line
and more speed with the backfield.
Instructions were given Prof. Grove
E. Barber, who will represent this
school at the valley conference at
Manhattan, Kas.. this week-end. that
may result in re-establishing baseball
as an intercollegiate sport, and may
have further results in establishing a
new amateur status for athletes.
Professor Barber goes to Manhattan
with instructions to secure, if possible,
the adoption of a rule that would al
low college men to play baseball in
summer, and would still not bar them
as professionaLprovidlng their partici
pation was not with a team playing
under the rules of organized baseball.
In effect this rule, if adopted, would
let college men play with semi-professional,
barnstorming and summer re
sort teams, accepting money for their
services, and would still permit them
to play intercollegiate baseball.
Varsity Baseball?
If Professor Barber can convince
the conference that the rule is a good
one. Nebrsaka will have a baseball
team next spring, and will schedule
games with other conference schools.
Baseball will be restored as a major
port at the University, instead of ex
isting merely as an Inter-fraternity
and inter -departmental game.
If the conference will not adopt the
rule, then Nebraska will not have a
varsity baseball team, because, as one
member of the board expressed It last
night, the board does not consci
entiously feel that it could have the
game. It Is afraid that some of the
CROWDED CONDITIONS
IN ZOOLOGY DEPT.
MAKES INCOMPLETES
An exceptionally large number of in
completes have been utrned in from
the zoology department due to the
crowded condition ot the laboratories.
There is nearly a double enrollment In
general soplogy so that all sections
are full and only Saturday afternoons
are left in which to make up back
work. Dr. Wolcott states that on sev
eral occasions students have been
turned away and have had no oppor
tunity to finish their back wore.
In an effort to get this condition re
lieved, the laboratories will be open
the first tew days ot Christmas vaca
tion. COMING DEBATE IS
HUSKER OPPORTUNITY
CHANCE TO REVENGE FOOTBALL
DEFEAT BY KANSAS
Submarine Warfare the Question for
the Dispute Argument to Te
Held December 15
Nebraska's first opportunity for bitter-sweet
revenge against Kansas,
who revived in earnest the ancient
rivalry between the two universities
by defeating Nebraska in football, will
be in intercollegiate debate. Kansas
and Nebraska meet in two debates,
held simultaneously at Lincoln and
Lawrence, Wednesday evening, Decem
ber IS.
In the past Nebraska's supremacy in
debate has been as clean cut and de
cisive as in football; only two defeats
having met Nebraska in ten debates.
Rut the Javhawkers are planning a
I clean sweep over Nebraska, and will
put up a veteran team Both at Law
rence and at Lincoln. The Nehrasxa
teams of this year have only two oil
men, and it is upon this fact that Kan
sas is placing much of her hopes for
victory.
A Timely Question
The most timely question before the
American people whether or not sub
marine marfare on commerce is in
compatible with the rights or neairals
and the laws of nations regarding non
combatant enemies, will be argued.
The intensive preparation being made
by the two teams is expected to bring
a large out-of-town attendance of citi
sens who mill take this opportunity to
hear the gist ot the argument on both
sides of the question.
The Judges for the debate at Lincoln
are both from Iowa; those for the
Lawrence debate will be from Mis
souri Those who will sit in Judg
ment at Lincoln are Prof. Frank E.
Horback, college of law. University ot
Iowa; and Professor Peck, department
of history, Grinnell college.
The Lincoln debate mill be held in
the Temple theatre, as in previous
years. Tickets are now on sale at
Porter's and the College Book Store.
Lower floor seats and seats 1 nthe first
two rows of the balcony sell at fifty
cents: the rest of the balcony at thirty
five cents. Organizations and those
from out of town wbo wish to reserve
blocks of seats should do so at once,
before the field is narrowed by scat
tering sales.
SILVER SERPENTS TO
ENTERTAIN JUNIORS
The members of Silver Serpent will
be hosts to all Junior girls at tae
Armorv Saturday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock. All loyal Juniors should not
fail to be present as this is a good
opportunity to get acquainted.
"professionalism" would creep in. and
the board prefers io mtc -'"
atft.iAf.s- t hnronrhlv honest.
The Nebraska representatives at the
conference mere also lnsiruciea -
cure. If possible, permission to
stLedule twenty Instead of eighteen
basketball games.
Seventeen letters were awarded to
football men, and the election of foot
ball captain held.
WAR PRISONERS'
FUND GROWING
NEARLY $1,000 SUBSCRIBED FOR
. EUROPEAN SUFFERERS
Students, in Realisation of Christmas,
Respond to Call From Across
the Sea
Subscriptions $592.25
Cash received 247.60
Football game receipts S7.0S
Total to date $896.90
The student subscriptions to the
European prisoners relief fund have
come so close to the thousand dollar
mark, that much more than this sum
is expected to be reported in by this
evening.
The total amount of subscriptions,
according to the report by W. C.
Blunk. the treasurer, last night, was
$592.25. In addition to this, cash
amounting to $247.60 has been paid in.
The amount received at the Notre
Dame game Thanksgiving was $57.05.
This is considered very good, in view
of the fact that no organization for
collecting from all of the crowd was
possible, and, as a matter of fact, only
those sitting in the grandstand had a
chance to contribute.
Football Collection
New and inexperienced ushers, and
the failure of a number of men to
help who had promised to be on hand,
were some of the causes for the foot
ball collection not being more general
and reaching more people.
The approaching Christmas season,
with its happy anticipations for the
students, has brought home the terri
ble condition of the men in Europe.
As a result, the subscriptions have
been increased. Students wbo have
not yet subscribed may stni do so.
Subscriptions may be made at The
Daily Nebraskan office, or in the office
of student activiteis.
T. J. HAR6RAVE, '12,
FORMER DEBATER,
VISITS UNIVERSITY
T. Jean Hargrave. '12. Harvard law
'15, attorney at Rochester, N. Y
visited friends in Lincoln last wee.
Mr. Hargrave. mho entered college
from Wymore, represented the Uni
versity in the ship-subsidy debate with
Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1911. his
colleagues being Harold A. Prince, '13.
law 15, of Grand Island, and Clifford
L. Rein, 13, law '15, now an attorney
in Lincoln. At Harvard Mr. Hargrave
took his rank as scholar, minning a
$150 scholarship.
He won Phi Beta Kappa honors at
Nebraska, He was associate and man
aging editor of The Daily Nebraskan.
He mas member of Delta Sigma Rho.
Edgar Howard Has
Long In
Edgar Homard, one of the best
known Journalists of the state, is a
native of Ioma. He attended the law
EDGAR HOWARD
Editor The Columbus Telegram
Lieutenant-Governor Elect
department of Drake university and
was admitted to the bar la Nebraska
in 1885. His newspaper work started
V" n J'
EDGAR HOWARD TO
TALK THIS EVENING
EDITOR OF COLUMBUS TELEGRAM
TO ADDRESS JOURNALISTS
Opens LeUmx by Practical News
paper Men to be Given to Prof.
Fogg's Classes
Edgar Howard, editor ot the Colum
bus Telegram and lieutenant-governor-elect,
mill address University students
and Lincoln newspaper men and
women this evening at 8:15 o'clock lit
the Music hall, the Temple. He will
speak under the auspices of Prof. M.
M. Fogg's newswriting course on the
editor and his service.
Mr. Howard's address is the opening
one of the series of a dozen, announced
in September by Professor Fogg, to
be given during the year by Nebraska
editors. ..
Other speakers will be Editor Victor
Rose water and Managing Editor T. C.
McCullough, The Bee; Managing Edi
tor W. P. Watson, the World-Herald:
Managing Editor Will Owen Jones and
Dr. A. L. Bixby, the State Jou-nal;
Editor Harry Dobbins, the Evening
News; Editor John Cutright and City
Editor J. E. Lawrence, the Daily Star;
Editor Ross Hammond, the Fremont
Tribune; Editor Richard L. Metcalfe,
the Omaha Nebraskan; Editor Norris
Huse, the Norfolk News; Editor E. P.
Purcell. The Chief, Broken Bow.
HINMAN LOSES
CHESS TITLE
Omaha Youth Takes Honors Engberg
Wins Rapid Fire
Crown
Prof. E. L. Hinman, state chess
champion of last year, was defeated
in the'annual state tournament in Lin
coln during Thanksgiving vacation by
Horn ard Ohman, 17 years old, a student
in Central high school of Omaha.
Ohman, mho is considered a chess
prodigy, m-on all but one of the ten
games. J. H. Mockett held a similar
record, but had lost to Ohman in the
firtt game. Professor Hinman finished
third.
Dean Carl C. Engberg, executive
dean of the University, won the rapid
fire tournament from a large field of
competitors. This is a test In quick
thinking and calls upon the player
for an .intricate working knowledge of
jthe game. Moves are required every
j ten seconds.
(the honorary intercollegiate debaters'
fraternity; of Phi Alpha Tan. the Plat
form club, and Alpha Theta Chi.
' He spoke to the members of the
debating tears Tuesday afternoon.
Been
Newspaper Work
on the Glenwood, la. Opinion, mhen
he mas a boy. He mas printer, then
reporter and city editor. He was
also city editor of the Dayton. Ohio,
Daily Herald.
As publisher he began at Papillion
as part owner of the Times. Subse
quently at Benkelman be established
the first democratic newspaper be
tween McCook and Denver. He re
turned to Papil'.ion as owner of the
Times which he published until 1900
when he purchased the Columbus
Telegram.
Mr. Howard was elected member of
the legislature in 1S99 but resigned to
become probate Judge ot Sarpy county
which position he held from 1895 to
1900.
As political writer the next lieutenant-
governor has attracted attention.
and the column of philosophising bead
ed "Edgar Howardlams" Is widely
known.
TRACK MEN TO
MEET IN ARMORY
THIS MORNING
A meeting of all men interested 'n
track mill be held in S. 102, Armory,
this morning at 11 o'clock, when ar
rangements for minter practice and
an outline ot the spring campaign m ill
be discussed. Guy Reed and Dr.
Stem-art will talk.
The postponed tryouts, scheduled
for the week before the Thanksgiving
recess, will positively be run off on
Wednesday and Thursday afternoon
at 4 o'clock, according o Captain
Overman.
FRANK HAYES FIRST
IN FEDERAL EXAM
Other Nebraskans Ranked High In
Soil Survey
Tests
Frank A. Hayes has accepted an
appointment in the field service of the
United States bureau or soils. Mr.
Hayes stood first out of nearly a hun
dred who took the examination last
spring. He mill begin mork about
December 15 in Arkansas and from
there goes to Washington, D. C to
his headquarters. For the past tmo
years he has been on the state soil
survey, having charge of the work in
Box Butte county this last year.
Mr. Hayes is the third Nebraska
man to rank in the first two places In
the last three years. With him were
L. T. Skinner, now ot the University
of Nebraska extension service and Wil
liam Rockie now in the bureau doing
soil survey work in the national forests
with his headquarters at Ogden, Utah.
CORNHUSKER BANQUET
TICKETS ON SALE ON THE
CAMPUS WEDNESDAY
Tickets for the Cornhusker banquet,
when the men ot the University do
honor to tho football team, will be
old on the campus by student ticket
sellers Wednesday. The banquet Is
scheduled for Friday evening in the
IJneoln hotel.
Arrangements for the banquet call
for one of the best in years. It Is ex
pected that there will be more men at
the banquet this year tnan ever be
fore. Old Cornhuskers and old grads
will be on hend as usual to make the
event one of the memorable ones ot
undergraduate life.
NOVEMBER BLUE
PRIIiTPUBUSHED
Engineering Society Magazine Has
Many Interesting
Articles
The November issue or the Nebraska
Blue Print, containing a number of in
teresting articles, has Just been issued
and placed on distribution in the base
ment of Mechanic Arts hall and the
Mechanical Engineering building.
The creed of an engineer "An En
gineer's Specification of a Man,"
found among the papers of Thomas J.
Van Alstyne, a man who achieved
prominence along engineeri"5 I'nes,
is an ltneresting sidelight into the
convictions of a conscientious and
successful engineer.
Among the longer articles are:
"Government Construction of Stor
age Reservoirs " by C E. Crownover,
97.
"Public Testing of Farm Tractors,"
by M. E. Constelloe, '06.
"Marketing Engineering Ability,"
by C. Francis Harding.
"Performance Test of Divided foie
Rotary Converter." by G. A. Walker.
'14, and L. 9. Phaxes, '14.
EDSON SHAW
HUSKER CAPTAIN
TEAM ELECTS FIGHTING TACKLE
TO LEAD IN 1917
Athletic Beard Grants Ssvtr.ttcr. Let
ters for Work in Season Just
Closed
Edson Shaw, of Tecumseh, Neb., a
Junior in the arts and sciences col
lege, mas elected captain ot the 1917
Cornhuskers by seventeen letter men
last night, after the athletic board had
officially awarded the letters.
For the second successive time the
captaincy ot the team goes to a line
man and to a tackle, and for the third
time in the last four years, a tackle
has been given the place. Corey this
EDSON SHAW
Captain 1917 Cornhuskers
vear, and Halligan in 1914 mere
tackles who led the Cornhuskers on
the gridiron.
Shaw has been known throughout
the valley this year as the hardest
man, on the Nebraska line. In the
game every moment of the time, mork-
ing all of the time, be has been placed
on all of the all-Missouri valley selec
tions, and had be piayed with a team
that had been undefeated, would prob
ably have been given even greater
honors on the mythical "all" elevens.
Shaw's election was made unani
mous after the first ballot.
The athletic board amarded seven
teen letters to the men who played
this year, and the election was made
Just after the letters were awarded.
The Letter Men
The seventeen men honored for
their work with the team this year
were:
Harold Corey, captain, Lincoln.
Lorin Caley, halfback. Sterling.
Roy Cameron, center, Lin com.
John Cook, halfback. Beatrice.
Ben Dale, guard, Hartlngton.
Paul Dobson. fullback, Ulysses.
Ray Doyle, fullback. Lincoln.
James Gardiner, end and halfback.
Omaha.
Edwin Kositzky, tackle. York.
Ellsworth Moser, center, Omaha
Pat Norris, tackle. North Platte.
Hugo Otoupalik, fullback, David
City.
Noel Rhodes, guard, Creighton.
Ted Riddell, end. Beatrice.
Milton Selzer, halfback. Seottsbluff.
Edson Shaw, tackle, Tecumseh.
Harold Wilder, guard. Central City.
A misplaced Cornhusker foot In the
Iowa-Nebraska football game Novem
ber 25, was the cause ot a serious, but
not dangerous injury to Captain M. C.
Mumma. commandant of cadet at the
University ot Iowa. Captain Mumma,
mho was sitting on the side lines, was
strack in the head by the heel ot a
Cornhusker tackle, thrown through the
air by the runner who swerved near
the side lines. A flesh wound was
Inflicted, but later it was found that
a blood -clot in the nasal passages had
formed. Operation was necessary.
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