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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN IN THE VALLEY . .by . . , "Zim" and "Zim" Knnsiis has done it nprain. For the fifth consecutive yenr the Jny hawk bnskotball tenm hns won the Missouri Valley championship. The Kansas team made certain of this year's title by winning over the Kan sas Aggies ut Lnwronco Monday night by a score of 31 to 29. Nebraska strengthened her hold on fourth place Monday night by defeat ing Drake on the Lincoln floor- The Huskers have won seven games and lost five and still have two more to play. The two remaining pames on the Nebraska schedule will bo played nway from home. The end of the week will find Coach Benrgr and his men playing Missouri at Columbia and Washington at St. Louis. Smnha, Nebraska's loading scorer, has ascended into the elite class of those that have scored more than one hundred points this season. By ma king ten points in the Drake game he now has a total of 107 points. He has made 47 field goals and 13 free throws. Smnha- has played in twelve games this year and has scored on an aver age of 8.9 points per game. Only one of the five leading high scorers in the conference has a beter aver age than his. Four men have scored more points than Smnha, but they have played in more games. thnt the University of Nebraska should abolish it and yet continue many minor sports which have no great following among the students is regrettublo. Missouri, through the Columbia Missourlan sport column, have indi cated their diigust for certain ofi cials in the Valley basketball this season. One, Mr. Quigley, by name, was spokon of specifically. This is not the first time Quigley has been discussed with disfavor. And there are other officials who are be ing paid well for some terrible exhi bitions of supposed referee work, re membering the Drake-Nebraska con test Monday evening. College Press Now that the basketball season is over what form of sport will the University of Nebraska turn to? There wil be spring football, which will be enjoyed by a few, yes very few. Track will have its many fol lowers and it rightly should. But what about that great national past time, baseball. The athletic board of the Univer sity has deemed fit to discontinue baseball from the athletic calendar and for what reason. Some reports say that the sport was losing money and others say it was because of the lack of a training season. Perhaps baseball, as a college sport does lose money, but how about the track? Does it pay for itself? Do wrestling teams make their own expenses? If athletics are to be eliminated because they fail to make money then Nebraska should drop everything but football, as to date it has been the only sport at the university that has been able to keep its head above water. One Kun.sas follower of tho court gamo has made the remark that the onlv fair amount of good that sonic of tho officials of tho Valley games do, is to assist the defense when the team in possession of tho ball breaks past and attempts to sift through before the opposition is set for tho attack. Though this remark might bo termed radical it hns its foundation, and it has truth, speak ing again of the Valley contests the writer has seen. But the referee is not wholly to blame. Some of them do make only a half-hearted effort to supervise a contest. Many of them attempt to "call them as they see them," on the other hand. It isn't the referee, alone, or the coach alone, or even the players alone, who are responsi ble if a tenm should lose or win a game. The crowd that is the fol lowers of the game may prepare to take their razzing now. The idea of too short a training and playing season is a hugh joke. With the new field house in use the squads could be working out indoors from the first of March. April us ually presents fine baseball weather and the opening games of the season could be played away from home with the southern teams in the Val ley as opponents. If weather conditions are such that the game cannot be played to an ad vantage during the month of April, why then, does the Western League) always open its schedule sometime during the middle of the month? Another big argument advanced against baseball was the lack of the playing facilities. True the univer sity has no ball park of its own, but there are several parks in the city of Lincoln and at least one of them should be available to a Nebraska baseball team- The Rock ' Island park is still in playing condition, and it in very likely that Charley Moon, secretary of the Lincoln Western League ball club, would grant use of his park when the Lincoln team is on the road. Baseball should not be discontin ued at Nebraska for any of these petty reasons and the return of the sport cannot be realized until the stu dent body takes it upon themselves to see that it does come back. This sport is the great American game and They want to see their team win so badly that sportsmanship ideals are eclipsed. The players feel the pressure as they go into the fray, having no alternative offered them. They must win, for the crowd cares only for a winner. There is nothing lower than a loser in the opinion of the crowd. Likewise the coaches are pressed with the burden of demand, continuous in itself. The referee cannot but know the requirement thrust upon him as a re sult. Each team, and the followers of each team are after victory, and not the privilege and enjoyment the contests should hold in istore for them. They are driven to their task as slaves! The referee is driven to his task with the fire of criticism creeping in upon him from the op posing factors. lie mis-calls a move and the crowds cry "Rotten." Or he is a dear friend of a certain coach. His prejudices are with that coach knowing that his present job depends on victory. He can no longer be an impartial observer, gov erning the contest accordingly. This thing called "Victory" is get ting to be a life and death matter with followers of contests, for no reason whatever. Kansas had one of the greatest football seasons in her history of playing hard, determined football is the basis of comparison, as it should be. Yet the Jayhawkers lost all of their games. From the direct ratio a game won is a game lost for some other team, and just where anyone gets any place by de termined insisting that the home team should always be victor, is be yond even the imgaination of the ath letes themselves. 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