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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
1926 Big Year
In Comhusker
Sport History
Husker Team Were Not Pen
nant Winners bnt Accom
plished Great Things
MAJOR SPORT TEAMS
RANKED AMONG BEST
XXVI
(Editor'. Note)
Thf U the twenty-iixth chapter
of an historical reiume 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
In these 26 chapters the reader
has briefly seen the sport history
of the University of Nebraska from
1883 until the present time. Al
though it was not done intensively,
the high lights of Cornhusker sport
do have been covered for the read
ers of the Daily Nebraskan. This
concluding chapter of the series will
cover football, basketball, track, and
the minor sports for the past year
of 1926-27.
With Co&ch Ernest E. Bearg as
the director of the destinies of Hus
ker football, the season of 1926
opened with the Drake Bulldogs on
Memorial Stadium field. The Corn
husker aggregation was determined
to bring the Missouri Valley cham
pionship back to its rightful place,
and took the- Drake game 21 to 0.
Glen Presnell and "Jug" Brown
were the two Husker backs respon
sible for a great amount of the Ne
braska gains.
The second game ended in a fluke
defeat for the Scarlet and Cream
warriors, the Mizou Tigers taking the
count 14 to 7. This was the third
time Missouri had beaten a Nebraska
football team since 1899. The Corn
husker eleven opened the game with
its usual smashing drive, Blue How
ell going across the Tiger goal for
the opening touchdown, and "Jug"
Brown place-kicking the extra point.
An intercepted Husker pass on tha
Nebraska five-yard line accounted for
the defeat.
Defeat Bears Easily
The third Missouri Valley game
was at St. Louis with the Washington
Bears, the Nebraska eleven- easily
winning the game, 20 to 6. The next
conference game was at the home of
the Jayhawkers. With a crippled line,
iCoach Bearg sent in his warriors to
keep up the tradition of beating
Kansas. In the opening stanza it
looked us if Nebraska would have to
be satisfied with one touchdown, but
in the second half, Glen Presnell,
Husker star, supplied the Nebraska
eleven with a powerful drive and
the game ended 30 to 3 for the Hus
kermen. Iowa State was easily subdued by
Bearg's eleven to the tune of 31 to 0
for the fourth conference victory. In
a sea of mud the Kansas Aggies
bowed before the mighty Cornhusker
eleven and took the short end of the
homecoming game, 3 . to 0. In the
last game on Memorial Stadium field,
the much touted New York Univer
sity eleven went down to defeat be
fore the Nebraska eleven, losing 15
to 7. The Thanksgiving day game
; s played at Seattle with the Wash
ington University team, Nebraska
losing 10 to 6.
Although Nebraska failed to bring
the championship of the Missouri
Valley to the Cornhusker stronghold,
the football team maintained its rep
utation as one of the most formid
able elevens in the country. Captain
Alonzo Stiner led the team, playing
the position 'of tackle. He was a bul
wark in the line and played his best
game in the Nebraska-Kansas Aggie
game.
Brown Elected Captain
"Jug." Brown, Husker back, was
elected to pilot the team for the 1927
season. The team members were as
follows: Glen Presnell, Evard Lee,
Joe Weir, "Blue" Howell, Frank
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The Cornhusker basketball team
for the season of 1927 finished in
fourth place in the Missouri Valley
cage, race with a total of 7 victories
and 5 defeats. Coach Charles Black
instructed Husker basketballers for
his first year, and turned out a suc
cessful team. The Husker cagemen
ranked with the best in the confer
ence. Captain Clark Smaha, Husker for
ward, was one of the outstanding
forwards in the Valley all season and
ranked third in high scorers. He was
selected for several All-Valley teams
and was one of the best floor men
Nebraska has turned out for some
time. Ted Page, who held down the
pivot position on the Scarlet and
Cream quintet was the tallest center
in the Valley, and -was able to get
the tip-off from every opposing cen
ter. Members of the team were: Cap
tain Clark Smaha and "Jug" Brown, j
forwards; Phil Gerelick and Roy An
dresen, guards; Ted Page, center;
Tom Elliott, Kenneth Othmer, Mer
ritt Klepser, and Elmer Holm.
Coach Henry F. Schulte, known
throughout the country f on his coach
ing ability, and the man who put
Cornhusker track at the head of the
Missouri Valley for four consecutive
years, turned out another Missouri
Valley championship team for the
season of 1926. Roland "Gip" Locke,
one of the greatest sprinters in the
world was one of the products turned
out by the Husker track mentor.
Locke was one of the greatest sprint
ers that ever sped over the Nebraska
track. He broke the world's record in
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the 220-yard dash and tied the
world'3 record in the century. He
led the Husker trackmen for the
year of 1926 to a championship of
the Valley. The Husker track team
won both the indoor and outdoor
meets.
Nebraska's team possessed great
stars in field events and on the cin
der track in Roland Locke, Bobbie
Stephens, Paul Zimmerman, Jimmy
Lewis, Frank Wirsig, Frank Dailey,
Ed Weir, "Choppy" Rhodes, and
Frank Pospisil,
The Husker wrestling team fin
ished a successful season in 1927,
winning four out of the seven match
es. John Kellogg, former Cornhuskel
grappler, coached the mat squad. The
first meet of the season was held in
the Coliseum with the Kansas Aggies,
and resulted in a defeat, 21 to 13,
for the Husker team. Missouri was
beaten by Nebraska, and the Kansas
Aggies were met in a return match,
the Huskers winning 16 to 14.
For the second time in seven years
Nebraskl failed to win the Missouri
Valley track championship in 1927.
The Missouri Valley meet was held
at Lincoln on May 20 and 21. Kan
sas won first place and Oklahoma
barely nosed Nebraska out of sec
ond. The outstanding feat of the
meet was the pole vault event. Frank
Wirsig, Husker pole vaulter, broke
his own Missouri Valley record, go
ing over the bar at 13 feet 4 inches.
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