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V nrREE Coaches Hammer Defense in Husker Qrid Camp o BIBLE BARS GATES ON TUESDAY DRILL Mentors Stress Blocking, Tackling in Stiff Workout. Tueaday was a rough day for Coach D. X. Bible's Cornhuskers when they went thru a workout that included a long session on tackling and blocking with stress laid on the defensive play. Visi tors were once more barred from watching the Huskers on the outh practice lot. Wednesday's scrimmage is open to the public. With a group of stout freshmen serving as dummy ball carriers, varsity backs and ends were put thru a strenuous tackling lesson. The yearlings received some stiff jolts from the hard tackling of the experienced varsity men. Group work in tackling and blocking was the feature of the linemen's program. Helmets were securely adjusted as Assistant Coaches Lyman, Schulte and Browne pitted the men of the forward wall against one another in blocking, and tackling was con fined to the tackling dummies. Tackle Berth Uncertain. A lively scrap was in evidence for the empty right tackle berth. Fred Shirey, veteran tackier, looks like a sure starter at left tackle, but whether Jack Ellis or Ted Doyle will open at right tackle is the question before the house. Ellia has won one major letter and Doyle has made his minor letter. Doyle is a mite heftier than Ellis, but Ellis can seemingly move faster than Doyle. , Tackle reserves aren't too plen tiful or over experienced. Rolyne Boschult, Bill Doherty, Jack Hutcherson, and Bob Mills com prise the meager stock of tackle supply, which doesn't appear plen tiful enough to withstand the of fensive onslaught inside and out side tackle that Nebraska's nine grid foes will ultimately offer. Ken MeGinnis is the sole return ing veteran in the guard lineup. Either Bobby Mehring or Lowell English will pah' up with MeGin nis for the opening game. Mehr ing will likely get the call, as Eng lish is on the mend from a recent rib bruise, but should see plenty of action. English holds nearly a 25 pound weight advantage over Mehring. Anxious to see game action in the doubtful left guard berth are Gus Peters and Perry Franks, smaller men but prepared to fill the position quite capably. Three sophomores George Seeman, Paul Baurnann and Ed Sauer are also promising guard candidates. With Les McDonald as game captain for the Ames tilt and playing his regular left end post, either Virg Yeikin or Elmer Dohr mann will start at the opposite wing. Since tall Elmer's recent injury, Yeikin looms as the na tural right end starter. Paul Amen and John Richardson are prepared to step in for McDonald and Lloyd Grimm, Jack Mercier, Ken Shindo and Bernie Smith are additional flank reserves. Center Charley Brock looks like the only sophomore who will start. Bob Ramey and Bob Ray, two more sophomores, are well equipped to substitute for Brock. Ramey has been giving Brock a i run for his position ana snouia see ! considerable game action this fall. 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Guaranteed gainst any mechanical de fects. Pencils to match 2.50 " 3.50 IN CHILLI RAINS Coach 'Biff Jones Pleased With Work of Squad in Early Drills. NORMAN. Sept. 23. Pelted al most every day by cold rain, Maj. Lawrence "Biff" Jones' Oklahoma Sooners are sliding thru the mud in daily scrimmage against a browny eager squad of freshmen and are handling the wet ball pretty well for boys who have just been out nine days. The Sooners open the 1936 sea son against Coach Vic Burt's Tul sa university aggregation at Nor man Sept 26. The "Golden Hur ricane." Missouri Valley confer ence co-champions last year, will shoot a world of forward and lat eral passes in the inaugural of the "Aerial Circus" offense which Coach Hurt learned last year as assistant coach of the Roe Bowl Southern Methodist team. Major Jones is expecting to see the air blue with Tulsa passes and has concentrated on forward pass defense. However most of his time has been spent burnishing the strong running game Oklahoma had last year. In scrimmage against the fresh men this week and the Sooner were clicking despite the mud. With Bill Breeden hitting off guard and tackle on vicious spin ners and Jack Eaer running clev erly off reverses, the first team began Thursday's workout by driv ing "5 yards to a touchdown arir th frosh in 12 lavs. Then on the first ensuing play, Elmo "Bo" Hewes, rangy right wing back, whipped 81 yards thru the muddy Bermuda for a score off a reverse crossing and running beautifully behird the deadly blocking of Al Corrotto , and Con nie Ahrens. Major Jones' first string lineup for this scrimmage included Wal ter Young and Herb Mathers, ends: Jack Reaves and Ralph Erown, tackles: Fred Ball and Ah rens. guards; William "Red" Conk right, center; Corrotto. front back Baer and Hewes, wingbax:k; and Breeden, tailback. The Sooner third string, a much greener aggregation, then took the field ar.1 altho the freshmen re sisted stubbornly, managed to wheel down the sodden turf to one touchdown with Woodrow Huddle ston. 165 pound Indian triple threat, running and passing well. However the feature of this set-to was the eharp tackling of Buck Simms. a freshman back from Henryetta. Tex. .who once nailed the varsity ball lugger five times in a row from his position as de fensive halfback. Irenzo Dow Receives Appointment to Ohio Geopraphy Department The department of geography has been notified that C. Lorenzo Dow who took his doctor of philo sophy degree at the University in 19&2 has been elected to a profes sorsiip in geography at the Uni versity of Ohio, and bas already entered upon his new duties. Dur ing the past three years. Dr. Dow has been chairman of the depart ment of geography at the Clarion, Pennsylvania State Teacher's college. SAFETY HENT-A-CAQS Sew V-S, Chevrolet, and 4 -Cylinder. Oor Rental Department features safrty Rent-a-car. Rfiaonable price nd good erric. "WeVe been Daily Kebr&aWn advcrtUm for 15 year. 'W k for your busince arid believe you will b plowed. MOTOR OUT COiLPANY, 1120 P St. Always Open. BG619. From all appearances It looks as though the bucket brigade may as well turn out this year and set their vessels under the respective coaches of the country to save this land from a severe inundation of teari. Already the ether is laden with mentor's wails of weak teams, anemic centers, fragile tackles, and what have you. The competi tion this year is seemingly not be tween the grooming elevens, but between the tonsil lustiness of their guardian coaches. Last spring aa the flowers had stopped blooming, tra la, an iden tified roster of the Huskera was published along with the 1936 chedule. The latter included the usual array of the countries finest grid blood, plus an addition of In diana, a fine Big Ten aggregation. The former gave such bright pros pect that an Instantaneous chat ter broke out like rain. Everyone was telling everyone else of the world beaters coming up in the Scarlet camp Twelve lettermen so primed the Huskerminded that already 9,500 season tickets have passed over the counter, not Including the stu dent sale to be instigated this week. Three-fourths of all single admission for the Pittsburgh game have been exhausted. Thi6 alone is a criterion of the confi dence in the Bible boys, for no one has ever een a Nebraska fan with the urging desire to barter for a Hrkr to rame of certain de feat. Few are the crying towels found by the stadium cleanup men after games on tne Mustier sine. With dimmer prospects iasi yem nniv s inn umioti books were sold an KMinn But now. buoyed to a pinnacle higher than the roof to a rumble seat aue io our ioo puuuu hgwii and our 200 oound line, we are suddenly down by the pes simistic pen or coacn wme jiu staff. "The fan have no cause to get an nntimistie of an undefeated rhMinic i." ouoth Bible, 'the boys have a good chance to lose three game. Th tHrt of bad snot were not divulged so we are left to draw our own conclusion, lr ony re 10 be lost, we will name Minnesota, imMirr"h and Indiana. The latter get the nod due to it location on the slate. Thi. u you wu nouce, follow tie Gopher entanglement, which should, unless the cat ravels mother's knitting, produce much exhaustion. The majority of opinion of last Saturday' scrimmage wa smooth play, but Bible' wa, "everybody wa logey; there wa no snp to our plays, and many of the men did not know their assignment." The only injury of the practice last pay day wa a cheat injury to Lowell Engliah, which proved to be of the minor type. The taff further it convic tion with the glum statement that the team is not as far ad vanced as last year. Something wa aid to the effect that the mental processes were not so abundant thi year, at least so far a griddir.r r- Running tonsil to tonsil with our own mentor is Bernie Bierman of the Minnesota Gophers. mis latest wail runs along thusly. "thi is the poorest Minnesota team I have coached yet." He claimed he wa not yet ready for Washington as he stepped to the platform of the train, for Andy TTram .lis best halfback wa limp ing and Earl Svenaon, center; Bob Weld, guard; Bob Keea, ena, ana one other man were under team physician Geo. Hauser' care. All we can ay is u" uur htn.a ar frtill riflinr tne creel after watching the big, powerful Scarlet eleven go tnru in pace ,irir aftr nirht and we sincerely pray that the many cash custom ers do not get canoca 01 me ,n4 t ran thir chanee Durse to a six foot ple or mI JoJm tne Sel" leek to return the down payments. We believe that "mentor mourn ing" is highly contagious and pathogenic, that tfernie cicrman is a potent carrier, and that in brief it don't mean a thing, thi peasimism. CYCLONE LINE MEN TWO INCHES TALLER THAN TEAM'S BACKS AMES. I., Sept. 22. If the Iowa State College football squad can be taken a a typical ex ample, line men are on an aver age nearly two inches taller than their teammate ui the backxiaa. The average height of the 30 Cyclone candidates for the for ward wall is Just 8 feet, while the 12 backfield candidate tverare only 5 feet 10 inches. Furthermore, w oi me ov une nnidates are 6-footers, while only five of the 15 back equal the 6-foot mam. lO vscar wald, Sioux Fall, S. D., opho more tackle, goes the honor of the tallest Cyclone, while Russell Coundiff, Gary, lnd.f reteran guard, is the "shorty" of the squad. Baerenwald i feet 4, while Coundriff is Just 5 feet 1-2. VEENKER DEMANDS BURST OF SPEED, BETTER BLOCKING AMES. la-. Sept. 22. "We must develop more speed and better blocking." Coach George F. Veen ker aid after be had vitwed his Iowa State College Cyclone in a Huskers' 15i;el Frosli Athlete It v V v ilf 2 ,- HI R4lV- I "i W v: :$ i I'M I i 1 x , ,1 1 '" i : .-a I ii 4r - l lMlli . I , ED WEIR SHAPES Fl 1HGISTERS! FOR VARSITY TILT I 110 Aspirants Enter Last Rehearsals for Mix With Regulars. Freshman Rudv Becker of Schuyler, standing with Frosh Grid Coach Ed Weir, stands out as the biggest yearling yet to report for workouts in the Cornhusker stadium. Becker is 6 feet 4 and sends the scales up to the 245 pound mark. He's 22 and plays tackle. Track Coach "Pa" Schulte is looki ng him over as a shot put prospect. Bible Reviews Grid Calendar With Enthusiastic Optimism Husker Coach Lauds Players Of Players in Alumnus "As long as the Cornhuskers at tempt this type of a schedule, the thetic friends of our institution may well expect interesting games and sometimes the final results may not be to our liking. How ever, competition with teams ot the caliber Nebraska has been meeting the past few years, I be lieve challenges the bf-st that is in our athletes, followers and coaches. Therefore, it is with a spirit of optimism the varsity sets itself to the task of preparing for the 1936 football campaign." Thus, Coach D. X. Bible ex presses himself to Husker grad uates in an article titled "Earnest Optimism" in the September issue of the Nebraska Alumnus regard ing the representative nine-game football program scheduled for this fall. Lauds Cornhusker Spirit. Lauding the Cornhusker squad for their pre-season enthusiasm. Coach Bible writes: "This splendid spirit of the Nebraska squad was reflected in the excellent response to the first practice call. Forty three boys were invited back of full-time intra-squad scrimmage Saturday afternoon. And the development of thew weaknesses waa begun in earnest as the Cyclone mentor sent his men through long workouts Mon day morning and nigni. heverai of the Cyclones were limping about the field with slight injuries that will keep them out of scrim mages for a day or two. Complete satisfaction with the cyclone passing attack was ex pressed by Coach Veenker. who proclaimed it as better tnan last year's aerial threat. He was es pecially well pleased with the passing of Everett Kischer, Al bert City, sophomore, whose tosses wr hnth accurate and easv to catch. Elwin Snell. Mason City, nnat-trhar.k for me rirsi itam. George Bazik, Gary Ind., second atring signal-caller, and Charles Heilman, Fort Dodge, sophomore end, looked great on the receiving end. With classes at Iowa State be ginning today, practice sesfions will be reduced to one afternoon drill dailv. Since Sent. 10 the Cy clone have toiled through 2-hour drills on the practice field both afternoon and morning to get in perfect physical condition for their opening game -vith Iowa tate Teachers on State Field at Ames . Saturday. TOPPING SHOWS TRAVEL EXHIBITS TO CAMERA CLUB Showir.f 3.000 feet of film re cording travels thru Japan, China, i Egypt, France and England. E. W. Topping, world traveler, featured th year' first meeting of the Lin- coin Camera club, held Tuesday evening in M rrill hall. ', Mr. Topping also displayed a number of colored prints. Twenty prints which the club has exhibited i in other cities were shown. j Plans for another meeting will i be announced at a later dale. I the opening practice, September j 10. Fifteen minutes before the time for the opening session, all but one of these boys were pres ent in the dresir.g room ready for business. This showing I believe was one of the finest in my coach- 1 ir.g experience and I feel the at titude of the boys will be reflected ' in the showing made on the foot ball field this year." I "Please don't misinterpret my oDtirr.ism." continues Coach Bible's 1 article. "I am not predicting an undefeated season. I am not even ' predicting Nebraska will win aa many games as last season. The : uncertainty of football coupled i with the strenuous schedule makes it possible for us to display an improved game this season anr1. yet close with a record which on pa per may hardly be comparable with that made by the 1935 team." Names Players. Coach Bible tells in his article the lettermen lost by graduation, returning lettermen and up-and-coming tophomores. and how po sitions stack up for the Huskers. No indication of which men will start for Nebraska in the Iowa State game was given by Coach Bible, but McDonald at end, Shirey &t tackle. MeGinnis at pj&rd. Brock at center and How ell, Cardwell and Francis at the backfield posts are cinches to start. In conclusion Coach Bible states: "This is my eighth year at the University of Nebraska. The vears have been filled with friend ships which have made easy and pleasant the tasks performed. I know no state that can match Ne braska in loyalty and whole hearted support accorded the Corn huskers and those connected with the coaching of the varsity teams." Faced with the difficult and al most impossible job oi picking the linemen, out of the squad oi 110 candidates who will be most likely to stand up untier the attack of the varsity Saturday, Sept. 26, in the annual freshman-varsity game, Coach Ed Weir ha almost decided to turn the job over to someone else and start work immediately on a book called "Why Freshman Coaches Go Nuts." With onlv three more drills on schedule before the varsity game ; and with everything and every po sition still wide open to those i capable of filling them, Weir an- ticipates plentv of changes and a i good deal of shapeup during the j next two or three days of prac tice, and is hoping to be able to , give every one of the 110 es- pirants an equal chance of being on the starting lineup Saturday. Names Possible Starters. j In the session held last right ' Weir used the following line- j nn onite freauentlv and seemed I pleased with the showing it made. ; This team included tsoo ivanier, j Grand Island, and Bert Cramer Superior at ends: Warren Alison, i Wisner, and Rudy Decker, Schuy- j ler, at tackles; Adna Dobson, Lin coln, and Leland Yant. Wauneta, t at guards; and Robert Burruss, Omaha, and Bob Moody, Omaha, alternating at the center position. In the backfield Otto Huebner. Glenwood, Iowa, was directing the plays at quarterback; Rusty Brad ford, Mitchell, and Jim Mather. Arannhoe. were at the halfback positions; and Marvin Kollel, a newcomer wno nas neen ouismnu ing in the opening drills, was per forming at the fullback post. Standouts among these boys are Bradford an all-state back from Mitchell, who has been going at full speed since the first session: Decker, a 6 foot 4 inch 245 pound tackle from Schuyler who seems to be headed for a big season: and Dobson, the 190 pound guard from Lincoln, who is almost certain of a starting berth Saturday. No Hard Scrimmages. Several teams were used dur ing the practice and all the pos sible combinations were tried. However, no hard strimmage has been held as yet and until there has been it will be impossible to uncover the best eleven, states Weir. One of the outstanding things about this year's team is that there are a great many likely boys who have never had hold of a foot ball until they checked out a suit as a Cornhusker this fall. This means that it will take a lot of drilling on fundamentals and basic plays before these gtiddeis will be seasoned enough to be able to qualify for a position on a regular team. When asked of the possii. : starting lineup of Saturday's a: Weir said that every position v.-si.. still wide open and that he wo i ..j not know definitely until .iu; game had started. He also st.i. I that he would probably use io. ; or five complete teams duiv.g tl: ; battle in order to give ewiyoii a little experience. FKOSH ENGINLEKS ASKED TO ATTEND OCTOBER MEETING All freshmen taking chemical engineering are invited to the first meeting of the Chemical Engineer ing society which will be held about the first week in October, the exact date will be announced later. Purpose of the organization is to get the chemistry students interested in tne practical side of chemical engineering. The society's niei-tings are usual ly held about once a month in the lecture room of chemical hall, of ficers pointen out. At the meet ings a speaker is usually invited from some industry in which chem ical engineering plays an import ant part. Occasionally members of the chemistry department faculty give the address. In the spring the society has charge of the ciumistry depart ment's display on Engineer's Night. Membership fees aie $1.00 per semester. Officers are elected at the close of every semester. At the election last spring, William Reichardt was elected president. Donn Grone vice president, Harold Hafner. secre : tary and treasurer, and Millei Sid ! well publicity manager. ELY'S GRIDSTERS GET INITIAL TEST IN KEARNEY FRAY Coach Lawrence Ely's "B" gnd sters will get their first taste of competition at Kearney Friday when thev meet Pop Klein s Kear ney Teachers. The squad leaves Friday noon by bus and will re turn that night, thus enabling some of the performers to take rart in the Freshman-Varsity game Saturday. 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