THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
1925 Football
Coaching Staff
Very Successful
Directors Headed by Ernest
Bearg, Assisted by Frank,
Scherer, Weller and Day
TEAM CONSIDERED ONE
OF MOST POWERFUL
XXIV
(Editr'. Note)
ThU is the twenty-fourth chapter
of an historical resume of Nebraska
athletics which has been compiled by
a member of The Daily Nebraskan
sports staff. A chapter of this ac
count will appear in each issue of
The Daily Nebraskan for the re
mainder of the school year.
By Jack Elliott
The football coaching staff for the
year 1925 was the best that the Uni
versity of Nebraska ever had. The
staff of football directors was headed
by football coach Ernest Bearg, as
sisted by Owen Frank, Leo Scherer,
Raymond Weller, and Bill Day.
Coach Bearg was coaching Cornhus
ker football for his first year at Ne
braska and turned out an eleven that
was considered one of the strongest
in the country.
Ed Weir, All-American tackle, led
the Husker football team for his sec
ond year. Although Nebraska did not
win the championship of the Missouri
Valley, it defeated such teams as
Notre Dame, Illinois and held the
strong University of Washington
eleven to a 6 to 6 tie. Nebraska fin
ished in fifth place in the Missouri
Valley conference, one of the lowest
places that a Cornhusker team has
held for a long time. The season's
record consisted of 4 games won.
two lost and two tied, for a total
number of 69 points to the 29 scored
by the opponents.
Weir Outstanding
Edwin Weir, Nebraska's All-American
tackle captained the Husker ma
chine again this year and was the
outstanding player of the season on
the gridiron. The first game of the
year was with Illinois on the Illini
gridiron. Defeated by the Illini team
in 1923 and 1924, the Husker ma
chine was out for revenge and to
stop "Red" Grange. The Cornhusker
team beat Illinois and stopped "Red"
Grange in one of the classic gridiron
games of the season. When the game
was over the score board read Ne
braska 14 and Illinois 0. Captain Ed
Weir's deadly tackling and charging
was greatly responsible for the Hus
ker victory.
Returning from Illinois the Husker
team entrained for the camp of the
Mizzou Tiger to suffer the first de
feat of the season, going down be
fore the Missouri eleven 9 to 6. This
was the ftrst time a Missouri football
team had defeated Nebraska since
1899. The third game of the 1925
schedule ,was with the University of
Washington eleven which resulted in
a 6 to 6 tie. The Washington-Nebraska
game was one" of the most
thrilling football games ever seen on
a Nebraska gridiron, consisting of
spectacular forward passes, line
plunges and wide end runs. The most
brilliant run of the game was when
Roland Locke, Cornhusker speed de
mon caught a fifty-yard kick from a
Washington back and ran forty-siy
yards through a broken field of Hus
ky defense men.
Kansas Falls
Kansas was the next team to fall
before the Cornhusker machine, los
ing a desperate battle 14 to 0. This
was Nebraska's twenty-first victory
over the Jayhawkers on the gridiron.
"Choppy" Rhodes, stellar Husker
back was the outstanding star of the
Kansas encounter, carrying the ball
down the field for numerous gains.
The Oklahoma Sooners came to Lin
coln to repeat their victory of 1924
but Nebraska was out for revenge
and the Sooners went home with the
short end of the 12 to 0 score. The
work of Captain Ed Weir and Hutch
inson featured the game, and the
terrific line plunging of the Nebraska
fackfield was responsible for the vic
tory. The second Valley defeat of the
season was at Des Moines when the
Nebraska eleven was defeated by
Drake 14 to 0. In a blinding snow
storm, a game filled with fumbles
and handling an icy ball, the Bull
dogs dedicated their Memorial Sta
dium by beating the Huskermen and
winning second place in the Valley
race.
Weather Is Jinx
The weather jinx seemed to be on
the trail of the Cornhusker machine
and when the Nebraska eleven met
the Kansas Aggies at Manhattan on
a wet, sloppy field, straight football
was impossible and the best Nebras
ka could do was hold the Kansas far
mers to a scoreless tie. The Aggies
were on the defense most of the
game Lut in the last half opened up
with a series of line plays and kept
the Huskers on the defense. The
game ended with a punting duel be
tween Captain Ed Weir and Coch
rane, Aggie quarterback.
The final game of the season was
a fitting climax to the season. The
Huskers had been pointing all sea
son to the Thanksgiving day game
with the powerful Notre Dame elev
en. Before a crowd of 50,000 eager
football fans, the Cornhusker team
beat the Notre Dame team 17 to 0
for the greatest victory of the season.
The game evened the victories won
by the two teams in their eleven
years of gridiron games, and also
took away Notre Dame's claim to a
Western championship.
Great Classic
It was one of the greatest football
classics ever seen on a Nebraska
gridiron and the Husker warriers
outplayed the "Irish" eleven from
the opening whistle until the final
gun. "Choppy" Rhodes, Btellar Corn'
husker back took the pigskin over
the Notre Dame goal line four min
utes after the game started. The
stands were still in a roaring frenzy
when Avard Mandary snatched a pass
out of the air from the hands of
"Jug" Brown and ran thirty-two
yards throuhg a broken field of
"Irish" players for the second touch
down of the game.
Rockne had been using his reserve
line up and after the Huskermen Jrad
scored two touchdowrs he sent in
his first string but the fighting Ne
braska eleven was out for victory
and no team in the country could
have stopped it that day. Six Corn
husker gridiron players ended their
careers at Nebraska in the Notre
Dame-Nebraska game that day.
Team Personnel
The team was as follows: Captain
Edwin Weir, Captain-Elect Alonzo
Stiner, P o s p i si 1, Raish, Scholz,
Sprague, Hutchinson, J. Weir, Locke,
Dailey, Rhodes, Mandary, Presnell,
Stephens, Brown, Lawson, Randells,
Wostoupol, Shaner, Mielenz, Dover,
Lee.
Tho 1925-26 basketball season was
far from being a successful season
and after the good showing of last
year it was rather a disappointment
The Scarlet and -Cream quintet got
away to a good start but then went
into a slump and lost five games in a
row. Clark Smaha, flashy Husker
forward was the most consistent
player and hit the- basket with regu
larity all season.
Bearg Coaches Basketeers
Coach Bearg had charge of the
Husker basketeers this season and
was assisted by "Mut" Volz, former
Nebraska court star. Charles Black,
former Kansas University player, was
secured to coach the Nebraska bus
ketballers for the next season. .
Out of the 18 games played during
the 1926 season Nebraska won 8 and
lost 10, scoring 316 points to the 314
by its opponents.
The end.
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