THREE
HUSKER GRAPPLERS BOW TO LEHIGH
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THE DAILY NEnRASRAliTinfRSDAY, JANltARY' 12, '1939
By
Norman
Harris
Grunt
School
Last night, Nebraska wrestlers
took on one of the best Intercol
legiate wrestling squads in the
country, one whose record over
major opponents during the last
27 years lends evidence to the
fact that the Huskers were per
haps wrestling out of their class.
We cannot apologize for their
defeat, but we can extoll the
merits of Lehigh wrestling teams
and give some of Lehigh's wres
tling history,
high's wrestling history.l
Last year, Lehigh wrestlers
carted off three individual cham
pionships in the Eastern intercol
legiate tournament. The grapplers
from Bethlehem, Pa. have grabbed
at least one championship in that
big tourney every year since the
turn of the decade.
Syracuse university has been
a Lehigh victim 13 times in the
last 13 years, Princeton has tuc
cumed 12 timet in the 16 meets
between the Tigers and Lehigh,
Yale hat gone down ten timet
in 14 dualt, and Lafayette col
lege, a team the Huskers meet
tonight, hat lost 13 matches in
the 13 wrestled between the two
schools.
Among other schools the bunch
from Bethlehem has conquered
more times than lost to are Army.
Brown, Chicago, Columbia. Dart
mouth, Harvard, Illinois, M.I.T.,
Pennsylvania, (18 out of 19 duals I.
V.M.I., and West Virginia.
Of the 27 schools Lehigh has
met on the mat since 1911, only
four hold all time victory percent
ages over Lehigh, these being
Cornell, Navy, Penn State and the
New York Athletic Club.
Since 1911, Lehigh grappling
squads have won 128 matches,
lost 63, and tied 3.
Wrestling is such a popular
sport at Lehigh that the squad
there consists of almost 20 men.
A freshman squad is also formed
each year and schedules half a
dozen matches of its own. The uni
versity sponsors annually a prep
school meet, which is quite popular
thniout the Bethlehem vicinity.
Billy Sheridan, coach of Lehigh
wrestling teams, came to this con
tinent from the British Isles in the
early 1900 s. Winner of 74 differ
ent open tournaments in Kngland
and Scotland when he inhabited
the Isles, he has developed cham
pionship Kastern Intercollegiate
wrestling teams every year since
1929 with the exception of 1930,
1936. and 1937.
Three of Sheridan's wrestlers
have been on United States Olym
pic squads; six have landed Wres
tllng coaching jobs at Kastern col
leges and prep schools.
Altogether, Sheridan has pro
duced 30 Kastern intercollegiate
Individual champions since his
reign at Lehigh began in 1911.
Rosen Explains
Pep Club Aims
Corn Cob President
Addresses Frosh AWS
"The purpose of Com Cobs is
two-fold, said George Rosen,
president of that organization, in
speaking before tne regular meet
ing of freshman AWS yesterday
afternoon in Ellen Smith hall.
Rosen explained that the club is
to promote pep on the campus and
to foster friendship between com
peting universities. He told the
origin of Com Cobs and its devel
opment into a national organiza
tion, and explained that members
are in charge of rallies and are
used aa ushers at various univer
sity functions thruout the year.
Virginia Clemans, sponsor of
freahman AWS, announced that
members are expected to attend
the coffees which the AWS board
is sponsoring for faculty and rtu
denta. Ruth Holland acted as presi
dent of the meeting, and Betty
Jane Benson as secretary. Jean
Carnahan will be the next secre
tary. Tanksterettes Postpone
Tonight's Initiation
Tankstorette initiation sched
uled tonight has been indefinitely
postphoned, it was reported late
Inst night
Bruce Drake, Kid of Hour,
Dresses Sooner Fieldhouse
Boy Scot Coach Uses !
Wife's Sewing Machine
To Make Big-Six Flogs
Ideas that buzz In the brain of
Bruce Drake, kid coach of the Uni
versity of Oklahoma Boy Scat
basketball team have streamlined
the Sooner basketball squad and
packed the fieldhouse in Norman.
Spectators at the Oklahoma-
Kansas opener at Norman gasped
when they walked inside the field
house. The place was all dressed
up as it would be on commence
ment or on the evenings when the
governor comes to town.
Red and white bunting was
stretched clear around the boxes
and the reserved seats, two sets of
large colored flags of all the Big
Six conference schools hung from
the rafters, a flag raising cere
mony preceded the game.
The Sooner band played swing
music from a new platform in the
northwest corner of the building
and a public address system aided
the giant electric scoreboard by
calling out names of players mak
ing the field goals, free throws and
fouls.
In addition to all this Drake's
Sooners came through with a sur
prise victory over the Jayhawks
from Kansas, 43-31.
Ordinary obstacles don't stop
this newest addition to the Okla
homa coaching staff.
Take those 15 foot colored flags
Oklahoma Shows
Track Prospects
Sooners Boast Array
Of Sprinting Talent
Thim Finley, Oklahoma's run-
nerup in the Big Six outdoor meet
440 yard dash last spring, and
who has been out of school the
first semester, is back at Norman
training with the Sooner Indoor
tracksters and will enroll in school
for the spring semester, according
to Sooner Track Coach John Ja
cobs.
Jack Morris, junior hurdler who
also stayed out of school to work
at Anadarko the first semester,
also will report Monday and en
roll in school next semester, the
mentor revealed yesterday.
New Sooner Find.
John Shirk, Big Six conference
discus champion, Justin Bowers,
shotput prospect, and Gus Kitch
ens, 220 and 440 prospect, were
football players who were expected
to join the track squad upon the
grid team's return from Miami,
where they bowed to Tennessee,
17 to 0, in the Orange bowl con
test New Year's day.
One of the new finds on the
Sooner track team is Tommy My
ers, varsity football player who
passed up the trip to Miami. My
ers, intramural broad jump cham
pion and sprinter last year, hasn't
missed a day of practice and may
develop into a useful point maker
in track.
The Sooner track squad is well
fixed for sprinters and quarter
milers with Finley returning and
also Eddie Toribio, Big Six indoor
BO yard champion in 1937, Lin
Trueblood, letterman of laat year,
and three fart striding sopho
mores, John T. Williams, Fred
Coogan, and Gus Kitchens.
Nebraska Mermen
Enter AAU Meet
Full Squad to Enter
Saturday Splash Test
A full Husker swiming team will
take part In the Midwest A. A. U.
tourney to be held in Omaha Sat
urday, according to a statement
made by Coach Pete Hagclin.
Hagelin himself will swim the
200 and 500 yard free style events
along with Houghton Furr. Bob
Chatt will enter both sprints, 60
and 100 yards; and Jim Davidson
and Dick Van Horn will swim the
150 yard backstroke.
Fred Rodenbeck and Max Lake
will enter the 200 yard breast
stroke, Ralph Worden and Evelle
Younger will be paired in the div
ing: contests. The 300 yard medley
relay team will consist or David
on, Rodenbeck and Chatt.
of all the Big Six schools, for In
stance. Drake planned to buy new
ones until he learned they would
cost him approximately $100. Not
having that much in his budget,
the kid coach of the Sooners went
on a shopping spree in down town
Norman and came back to the
campus with 18 bucks worth of
muslin in all the different colors
desired, and borrowed the wife's
electric sewing machine, made the
flags during his spart time at
home.
These are just a few of the
things that Drake has started at
Oklahoma.
Invents Free Throw Machine.
He invented a free' throw goal
with a basket net underneath, that
CHtches the bull, rolls it down a
wire mesh chute and bounces it
back into the shooter's hands
without the player having to move
an inch from the foul line, a device
that makes free goal practice a
pleasure rather than a drudgery.
Drake also hit upon the idea of
separating his varsity and fresh
man squad with a canvas fence
during practice to keep each squad
from learning the other's screen
ing plays, for there is an intense
rivalry between the two squads.
Besides this the freshman-Sooner
scrimmages are fought out under
game conditions and each squad
gains more confidence in the
smoother execution of its plays. '
Sooner Wrestling
Team Goes East
Four Lettermen Lost
To Big Six Champions
Trips to Pennsylvania and Ohio
await Coach Paul V. Keen's Uni
versity of Oklahoma wrestlers
who lose four and retain five let
ter men from their last year's Big
Six conference championship out
fit. Lettermen back include Jake
Ridley, 121 pounds; Hoy Stone,
finalist in the 1937 national inter
collegiate tournament, 126; Gene
Ross, 145; Charles Robertson, 155,
and Waddy Young, heavy. Cecil
Cross, another letter 126 pounder.
may report the second semester.
Squad men returning are Harry
James, 121; Kenneth Chenault,
135; Edgar Jones, 126, and Max
Riley, 155.
The Sooner schedule:
Feb. 3 Central College at Nor
man. Feb. 10 Oklahoma Aggiet at
Stillwater.
Feb. 14 Southwestern at Nor
man. Feb. 20 Franklin and Marshall
at Lancaster, Pa.
Feb. 22 Kent College at Kent,
Ohio.
Feb. 24 Kansas State at Man
hattan. March 10-11 Big Six tourna
ment at Manhattan, Kat.
March 17 Oklahoma Aggiet at
Norman.
March 25-26 National Collegi
ate tournament, place undecided.
Arts Sophomore Suffers
Severe Burns in Filling
Stotion Explosion, Fire
Carl Royer, arts sophomore, is
recovering from burns on his
hands and forearms received yes
terday when he beat out a flame
which had ignited his clothing nd
the filling station in which he
works.
An oil burner In the station ex
ploded and ignited his clothing. A
customer, who drove into the rta-
tion just aa Royer beat out the
last vestiges of flame, summoned
help.
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Knight, Clare
Only Scarlet
Stars to Win
Bethlehem Team Takes
Six of Eight Bouts to
Tally 22-10 Score
8pccUI U Th Dally Nrbra.kan.)
Billy Sheridan's Lehigh grapp
lers stole the show with a score
of 22 to 10 as they met the Husk
ers here in this smoky city of
Bethlehem, Pa., tonight. With
one of the strongest teams in the
country, Lehigh won six of the
eight bouts before a crowd of
3,000.
Jim Knight and Leland Clare
were the only boys from Husker
land who were able to master their
opponents in the Lehigh opener.
Knight threw Joe Oless with a
wrist lock and a half Nelson after
4 minutes and 10 seconds. Clare,
in the 136 pound class took Le
high's Jim Walker to the mat with
a half Nelson and single wrist lock
in 2 minutes and 50-seven seconds.
The summary:
121 pound class: Frank Burnett,
(L) - won decision over Milton
Kuska (N).
126 pound class: Jim Knight (N)
threw Joe Oless, (L) with half
Nelson and wrist lock, 4.10.
136 pound class: Leland Clare
(N) threw Jim Walker (L) with
half Nelson and tingle wrist lock,
Z.57.
145 pound class: Harry Mase,
(L) won decision over William
Luke (N).
155 pound class: Capt. Gut
Hagerman (L) threw Herbert
Rosenthal (N)'-with Bar Nelson
and reverse Chaocery, 3.10.
165 pound class: Bill Lehr ('.)
won decision over Paul Fldler (N).
175 pound clatt: Ben Schrader
(L) won decision over Shelly Con
don (N).
Heavyweight: Frank Rabold (L)
threw George Seeman (N) with
half Nelton, 2.48.
Barb Basketball
Gets Under Way
Four Leagues Begin
Tourney for Awards
Barb basketball eot into full
swing this week with ten games
being played Monday night and
12 last night.
Four leapiies have hpn nrpnn-
ized with six teams in each league.
each team playing a minimum
schedule of seven games. Play will
be completed by Feb. 8, with the
league leaders men meeting lor
the Barb championship.
Leaders in games played to
date are Mac's Ramblers and
Heming House in league 1, the
A.C. B. C. "A" team and Riot
Squad in league two, A. C. B. C.
in learue 3. and Midnieht club
and Johnson hall in league .
Medals will be given to the
members of the first and second
place teams.
Bill Collihon Gains
Grand Island Honors
Wild Bill Callihan, Husker foot
baller and favorite to capture
Grand Island Golden Glove heavy
weight honors, came through
Tuesday night with a third round
KnocKoui over Kussel Knnzcr of
Hastings in the finals of the third
city meet.
Callihan will represent G. I. al
the Omaha Golden Gloves meet in
February.
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Cagers Prep
Fov Jayhawks
Annual Kansas Fracas
At Coliseum Saturday
Nebraska's basketball five will
swing into their Big Six conference
game Saturday evening at the coli
seum against an "always good"
Kansas Jayhawk five. The game Is
expected to draw a capacity crowd
as it has in years past.
Coach Phog Allen brings his
team to Lincoln with a record of
one loss and a win in the confer
ence. So far the Jayhawks hive
been spotty and the team is as yet
of unknown quantity altho the po
tential ability of the squad is more
than enough to win the confer
ence as they did last year.
Oklahoma surprised the Jay
hawks by handing them a stag
gering 45 to 31 di'feat. However,
Kansas came back last night to
win from Kansas State 33 to 29 in
a hotly contested game.
Nebraska can only boast a .500
average at home but their trip to
the Pacific slope gives them the
edge on the Jayhawks in expe
rience altho they won only two
and lost three. The Huskers av.
eraged over 40 points a game
against some of the best competi
tion the country has to offer.
Coach Browne is certain to start
his five leading scorers Saturday
in an effort to establish an early
lead. Alton Werner tops the sharp
shooters with 80 points in nine
games. Werner and Don Fits will
start at guards, Al Randall will
start at center with Grant Thomas
and Bill Kovanda at forwards.
Fltz, Randall and Kovanda are
tied for second in team scoring
with 50 points each.
WAA Bowlers End
First Round Play
Tri Delts, Gamma Phi,
AOPi, SDT Win Games
First round in the intramural
bowling tournament was com
pleted yesterday except for a few
girls, who will bowl today. This
first round is in the round robin
tournament that is being held in
each of the eight leagues.
League V.
Tri Delts first team defeated
the Alpha Phi's by a score of 4(9
to 491.
League VII.
Gamma Phi Beta defeated the
Raymond Hall team by 544 to 4!0.
League VIII.
Phi Mu fell under the A O Pi s
by a score of 497 to 365. At the
same time the Sigma Delta Tau
downed the Delta Gamma's fee-,
ond team, 504 to 376.
Games scheduled for today are:
at 4 o'clock, Howard vs. Kappa
Kappa Gamma 1, Alpha Xi Delta
vs. Alpha Phi, Delta Gamma 1 vs.
Alpha Chi 1, and Kappa Alpha
Theta 2 vs. Independents 2. ami at
5 o'clock, Kappa Delta 2 vs. Kap
pa Ksppa Gamma 3, Alpha Chi 2
vs. Chi O 1. Sigma Kappa vs. Pi
Phi. and Tri Delt 2 vs. Alpha
Chi 3.
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