ADVISE TRACK
FOR GRID MEN
Bearg Urge Football Player
To Take Training: Under
Coach Schulte
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IN THE VALLEY
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"Zim" and "Zim"
WILL DEVELOP SPEED
Grinnell, one of the smallest
'schools in the Valley, yet ope of the
,most respected in athletics for the
past several seasons, will begin track
training at once. This last football
i season the Scarlet and isiaeK team
took the measure of several of the
Coach Bears in a statement yester
day made it clear that football men'
.f rrii.-intir.(r in basket b&U or
. - i . . . . !- tr.irV
wresu.np anou.a "l'""'X ' teams in the Middle West Last
immediately, in iact mr """"i
football and basketball mentor ha
requested that those who wish to
take uj the sport of football next
fall should start work in track under t
spring: with Taylor, of Olympic fame,
as their leader, the Grinnel! track
team was one of the strong; contend'
ers for Valley honors.
PI CARRIED OUT TO
707 DECIMAL PLACES
(Conttnued Prom Tag One)
ment is always in part a history of
individual tregredy," said Judge F.
C, Radle, of Tecumseh in his talk
about Henson Wiseman, in connec
lis, Bernoulli, Euler.
The Greek mathematician worked
out approximations by inscribing
and circumscribing: polygons on cir-
Track work under the capable track
hps of the country has been a
stronff factor in graining-speed for the t cles, and calculating: the lengths of
football player, and Coach Bearg'the sides. The last attempt by this
has issued a plea that all gridiron method was made three hundred
places. For fifty years that siooa
as the record until Zacharius Dase
of Hamburg: carried it out to 305
places.
To establish a record William
Shanks, in 1873, carried the compu
tations out to 707 plnees, and then
stopped, for no reason at all it
seems, except that he had established
the rerd.
Imagine then the superfluous accur
acy of 707 places.
The mathematicians themselves
admit that Pi to such agreat accur
acy is of "no theoretical or practi
cal value" as stated in Cajori's His
tory of Mathematics. The cheif val
ue lies in showing the superiority of
modern over ancient methods.
The figures making up the 707
men respond to the call for spring
track
Coach Henry F. Schulte immediate-, -.
years ago by Christian Huygen who
arrived at a value of nine decimal
places.
The 1925 Husker football squad All of those earlier methods, went
will be the guests of the Omaha 1- by the board with the discovery of (thirty places are used, according to
umr.i of Nebraska, at a banquet to!t;,e Calculus in the second half of Professor Ncwcombe, the cireumfer-
Thouch bad-be held Thursday evening. This has Jf:e seventeenth century, ajid other'ence of the whole visible universe
I . 1 - . . . 1 tJ 1 1 1 A J A f nA n that
ilv hit bv graduation, the Iowa team; come to be an annual anair, m"-; methods or matr.cmauc! analysis, coum uc -"
Kr trhin un this sprinr. ine the deep respect of the citizens Bv mons of infinite series, a far-, the error would De impercepwoie
A number carried out this far is so places, and tneir arrangenwm, :
taggeringly accurate that the human been the subject of some mathema-
mind is incapable of grasping tnetical study, it nas oeen lounu
full meaning of it. It has been esti- no set of digits in the calue repeats
mated that if the number Pi were itself, and it has been proved that
carried out to only ten places it; they never will, no matter how far
would be accurate enough to'nieas-: the number is extended. In line
ure the circurference of the earth to with this fact it has been proved also
within a fraction of an inch. If.
fVvrfc Rirr tvointed out. besidc-s
pairirjr spied, the Husker football
coach po.1ed out that the work
bcljvd to develop and build up the
player phy.-kally for the coming s
son.
Some of the best football men in
the country have been track athletes
as well. At Nebraska, Captain Edi
Laddimar Hubka, one of the
"watch charm" guards of Coach
Dawson's 1924 football team, and
assistant fmtau coach her this
fall, has accepted the positioa as the
f York Colleee. Hubka went
Nclon in the store room under tke j who pvt to 117 places. I-ater
The
ly, and tuce it up seriously.
"Speed is as mu.-h cf an essential
to a j.ood football rlayer as any
other one thin?, and the best way ,
for sr. at helot e to develop speed is)
to take u? track work with the in-1
tentions of making the track team,'" 1 ,
out for an end position, but was la- east stands of the stadium,
jter transferred to a guard position, merals were awarded to
beine one of the smallest guards who qualified in their events.
ever played at Nebraska. His broth- , were carrying twelve or more hours;
er is high school coach at York, and in good standing in the university, j
jhss been gathering for himself a
'good deal of recognition throughout 1 The University of Kansas basket-;
the slate for his teams. ,ball five started its downfall Monday
Weir, who has been named on every y. f, fotv.y have rec--to Washington University 25 to 1SJ
AU-Amerlcan team for the pat two orn:2ej for j-cars bat ?,xj a? well ! Was h:agton has twice been defeated
lot Omaha for the Husker teams, !,' was very soon derived which; with the most powerful microscope.
would give the value to as manyi
Coach Schulte has announced that ,' ptncos jbe mathematician had
the nnmeral winners of the cross ' patience to wcrk cut. The first
country team, an d fall track men ! n,aratohn approximation was done
may get their numerals from Mr;jn by a Frenchman, PeLnpny,
in
" the same century an Austrian named
men who Georg Vega worked it out to 140
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that Pi cannot be a fraction,
simply Pi.
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CANFORD'S
PASTE
Ill
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of Coich Sthulte's
as might is one of the great essen-'in the valley this season and things
rers, is one
star hardlers. Eiodei. who played "cf a fj,plba:j rlaver. The lock bad for. the Jayhawks, undis-
fnllback in such a easing stle fcrL. rfrl. f 1jt in v.fnl. trt- Ir-uied champions of the valley for the
i dav has made speed a necessity. ;i past three years.
the Haskers the past season, is one
of the best pole ra niters in the Val
ley besides beirg a hiA jumper and
broad jumper. Rhwles plared sec-1
ttnd in the all-arc-unj charapionship
last sprig at the Elinois relays.
Locke, the fastest football player in
the cocr.trr, ar.d also a clever brok
en field rarner, owes much nt his
gridiron ability to Lis track work.
Locke is one of the greatest sprinters
in America today. Presnell, anoth
er halfback of the squad last fall, is a
sprinter from the 1?25 freshman
track so Hid.
In the past years of Husker foot
ball fame the best players have been
track men. Xoble, star halfback
SEND STOCK TO pa siddy jodrhalism
DENVER CONTEST
50 Schools Estahli
Employ 200
bed Since 1905;
Instructors
The ftudy of journalism in uni
versities and collepes since the estab
lishment of the first course by the
Animal Husbandry Department Ships
Cattle to National Western
Livestock Show
i University of Wisconsin in lj'tfo has
Three carloads of stock from the j increased until now 200 instructors
animal tssbaniry department f the are teaching 5.000 students iaSO
University of Xebraska was shipped j schools, according Jo a survey just
to Tenver, Colorado, yesterday af-made by L. W. Murphy, of the Uni
ternoon where thev will compete intensity of Elirois, a l.l graduate
against Xotre Dame two years ago, Xaticnal Western Livestock Show cf Wisconsin.
was a sprinter, while Floyd Wright ,; : ,,t : Mr. Mumhv's estimele by courses
Included in the twenrr show steers f " fol3ows: wporfine, 3,009
was College Kenyon, a yearling Ab-erdeen-Ar.gus
steer who won first
in his class both at the Denver show
and at the Xtbraska State Fair in
a few yers farther back, was one
of the best hurdlers in the middle
west.
Jim Thorpe, considered as the
greatest football player, if not the
. , A , . 12 a. There wts also twentT-eighl
the wmner of the pentathlon of the!, . . , ,
barrows ana breeding cogs m the
Olvrnpic games years ago. The
football system used by Coarh B-e.arg
at Nebraska depends upon speed for
its success, and his call asks that ev
ery man take up track and work
hard at it.
GREEKS OPEN RIFLE
TODRNAMENT TODAY
shipment.
The crile and togs will be judged
on Monday. January 3 5, and the fat
animals will be sold in an auction
sale on Wednesday. Buyers from
3 j-irt: cf Wert cm TJsiteJ Sister
will be there t buy the prize ani-miils.
ductory ctiurses, J,50; advertising,
2,T0; copy reading, l.oOu; history.,
of journalism, 7'M; ethics of jour
nalism, 6ofl; cxiuntry journalism.'
4o0; law of the press, 450.
In addition t these courses, stu
dents aie enrolled in courses in eU
toriiJ writing, critical writing, ari
vultural journalism, the teaching of
journalism, puliiitity, and public
opinion-
IvJore than 50 prolessaonal rourses
z.d schools of jciurnalisa are operat-
Will Hold Contest Simnltanc
With Noafraternity Men T
Decide Champion
iy
I jug t oday, savs Mr. Munhy. as ecm-
j The University of Xebrasia gen- i pared with approximately 5 schools
erally wins her share of the ribbons !lC,f medicine and ISO schools of law.
in this show. In the last five ye.&rs j
four champion ribbons on carcasses i The men's glee club of the Unj
besides several prizes on live animals : versitv of California has made tours
Greek marksmen
arainst each other this week and
ext in the annual interfraternity
ride tournament; -w-hiih berins tcday.
Five men on a team, .ach pcore to
count, ai-e the rules announced yes
terday by Captain Eggers. Win
chester rifles as issued in the gallery
with 22 short ammunition will be
Sited. Firing will be on the register
ed targets, and irmst not take op
more time than one shot a minute.
Three fighting shots will be allowed
each man. Two f.kins will be award
ed by the Commandant, Lieut. Col.
Jewett.
A nonfraternrtT tournament wiH
be run off timultaBeously with the
Grt-k tthoot, and the winning teamf
cf the tourneys may be jb-ed for a
final xuutth to deride the pcbool
cham;ion. The nonfratemrty teams
wiH also consist of fire members or
gaxiized by student ieadera.
Little practice has been had by the
fratemitjes so far this year, and
i) woe will be allowed to fire before
the official shooting, bo that every
fTocp wiH stand cs Just alou the
same level which right' sow is poor.
Last year Mb Sigma by organizing
early in the year won firfit plaee by
a handy margin. Lammli, their rifle
representative cm the UnirersHy
team, is issuing bear 4ope this week.,
and predicting defeat, however, the
M Sirs wiH bear watching.
A few tf the fraternities have
hive gone to Xtbraska.
The carcass contest usually ex
cites much interest, because it is here
that the steer has been turned down
compete jjj xf ten wins the honors
in dressed beef competition. There
will be several Xebraska entries in
this competition.
of Alasiik and Europe aswell as the
United States.
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