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TI1E DAILY NEBRASKAN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER It, 1937
6F, W. ' Goes Out on Limb
To Predict Bright Years
For Huskers of Future
lucky. Much more so. Injuries
riddled the backfieM. A bad break
cost them the game at Pittsburgh.
But, you ask, didn't luck pro
duce that touchdown for Nebraska
that seemed so sufficient until th
contest was all but ended?
Luck emphatically did not! Thai
reverse-with-a-punt-return was de
liberately planned. So was that
opening play that licked Indiana
With almost no qualification it
can be said that every touchdown
scored by Nebraska was the prod,
uct of careful rehearsal and plan
ning. Football at our state university
is not just state university foot
ball. It is state football Nebraska
football played by Nebraska stu
dents at the University of Ne
braska. And in that fact lies one of the
mightiest of all reasons for iu
high success.
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World -Herald Sports Editor
Muses Over Abacadabra
System of Rating.
BY FREDERIC WARE.
World-Hrrsld KporU Editor.
Sunday's sports sections carried
the 1937 college football rankings
as determined by the Dickinson
system of mathematical hocus
pocus. The Dickinson system placed the
Cornhuskers fifth in the nation.
The cerebral offspring of Dr
Frank Dickinson of the University
of Illinois faculty, it is widely ac
cepted by footballoons as the most
accurate in a field that during the
past decade has been crashed by
many competitors. Maybe this ac
ceptance is based principally on
priority it was the pioneer abra
cadabra but I believe it is some
thing more substantial than that,
though I'd hesitate to regard any
such listing as final.
Other svstems have mnlrM tYi
Huskers in other spots, about the
lowest of which was twelfth. We
have yet to hear from Dr. William
F. Boand, whose product has come
10 rival Dr. Dickinson's in the mid
lands, probably principally becauso
Dr. Boand, like Dr. Dickinson, us
ually has the Huskers among the
top ten.
PRESS HUTCH OBERVATIONS.
Third semester high school alge
bra almost stymied me. I don't
understand the methods of any of
these savants. I get my notions
from first and second hand press
hutch observations. They do not
permit me to engage in arbitrary
pigeon-holing. They only enable
me to generalize.
It's my opinion that the Corn
huskers of 1937 belong somewhere
between fourth and ninth in the
national ratings. Generally speak
ing, this notion was arrived at by
comparisons, not just of records of
games won and lost but also of
the caliber of elevens against
which the victories were achieved
and the defeats suffered.
RANKING FLABBERGASTS.
That the Nebraska kids should
rank so high is, to me, downright
naDDergasung.
Last fall there wasn't a lay nut
among the state's thousands of lav
nuts who wouldn't have been
happy to settle for, say, fifteenth
or eighteenth place.
Nebraska had a new coach. Ne
braska's material provided impos
ing strength at some positions and
little more than an anemic chal
lenge at others. Nebraska's ma
terial, in short, was spotty, and
on the whole tue least likely in
three or four seasons.
WHOILL EVER FORGET?
No one in this incnmnai-aMn
state is going to forget what hap-
ieneu. ine weakest material in
several seasons lost one pm in
nine, and lost that on a break
and tied two others, one of which
was played under the advantages
and handicaps levierl hv ruin
old equalizer.
Nebraska finished somewhere
between fourth and ninth in the
national listings.
Nebraska won its pipMh n; civ
title in ten years.
Nebraska was clearly the un
official midwestern champion, as
Dr. Dickinson showed by figures
Sunday.
All this happened in Major Jones
first year. It happened to a team
of which no one expected a great
deal.
It hapened and this should in
terest Nebraska high school foot
ball bucks to boys who were
coached by a gentleman who
knows how to make practice both
productive and great fun. It hap
pened to boys who seldom were
drilled beyond 5:45 o'clock. It
happened to these boys because
they did what they were told and
had a hell of a swell time doing it.
NO LUCK INVOLVED.
To what extent was luck an
ally? We heard widely varied ex
pressions on this subject. There
are those who maintain that- thp
Huskers didn't accomplish a thing
by their own meritorious conduct.
It should be obvious to anyone
able to distinguish between an end
run and a field goal that such a
view is idiotic. The Huskers ac
tually were more unlucky than
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