Wednesdoy, February 7, 1940
Tlie DAILY NEBRASKAN
MIT!
by June Bierbower.
Dan Ferris comes through with
his all-America and all-college
teams, and of note, other than the
fact that Husker Bob Simmons
made the all-school team at the
440 yard hurdles position, is that
most of the men selected on both
teams appeared and won titles at
the A. A. U. meet here last sum
mer.
A man who was named on the
all-America team, but who isn't
getting much publicity is Otto
Kotraba. Mr. Kotraba is named as
1500 meter and 3000 meter walk
champion, and he along with two
other solitary figures demon
strated their wares in that heel
toe event at Lincoln. It's one of
those things which, if you see a
little of it, is funny, but when you
see 3,000 meters of writhing,
squirming and waddling done by
men supposedly sober .and in their
right minds, it starts you to won
dering about just what sport it is
B team
to meet
Dana cagers
Nebraska's "B" team travels to
Blair tonight where Chili Arm
strong's squad will take on Dana
college, which dropped an early
season game to the Husker reserves.
Probably ten men will make the
trip along with Armstrong, who
will start Don Schulz, Beloit, Kan
sas and Cliff Hurley, Ohiowa,
forwards; Don Pollock, Fremont,
center; Leonard Van Buskirk,
Worland, Wyo., and Robert Garey,
Jackson High of Lincoln at guards.
Leave at 4.
The team will leave at four
o'clock this afternoon, and will be
making its first start since the
"B's" suffered a drubbing at the
hands of Tarkio college two weeks
ago.
Leading the attack for Coach
Rufus Olson's Blair team will be
Robert Jensen, little guard, who
paced them against the "B's" when
the teams played at the Nebraska
coliseum.
Grapplers begin 3-mcet trip today
Ferris picks him
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Northwestern university received
more than $9,000,000 in gifts dur
ing 1939.
Almost totally blind since the
age of 10, a Keuka college student
has written a new psychology book
in Braille.
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Journal & Star.
BOB SIMMONS, Husker 440 star,
was named on Dan Ferris' all-col
lege track and field team as tops
in the 440 yard hurdle event, which
was recntly selected by the secre
tary of the A. A. U.
Simmons, record holder in the
Big Six indoor and outdoor quar
ter-mile events, won the 440 yard
hurdles at the Drake Relays last
spring, and the 400 meter hurdles
in the junior A. A. U. meet.
Roy Cochran, Indiana, who
nipped the Husker in the senior
AAU 400 meter hurdle event, was
named to Ferris all-America team.
Elmer Hackney, Kansas State shot
putter, was named to the all
America team, as well as the all
college team.
Mrs. Ida Benfey Judd of New
York City is working to have some
U. S. university establish a Mark
Twain award for the advancement
of humor.
Wrestlers
fake five
days east
Eight- mat men match
with Michigan, Mini,
Chicago this weekend
Eight "rassle" men. comprising:
Jerry Adam's varsity wrestling
team, are eastward bound today,
headed for five days of grappling
and facing three formidable
schools.
Tomorrow the Michigan State
team at East Lansing plays host
to the Huskern. Chicago university
at Chicago comes Friday and Illi
nois at Urbana Saturday.
Captaining the team for the
first test is Heavyweight Gridman
George Sceman, and Ray Tomes,
who enters at 155 pounds, will
captain the team against Chicago.
Milt Kuska takes the lead against
Illinois.
Last one the toughest.
The last meet will probably be
the toughest, according to the
wrestlers. Illinois finished fourth
in the national collegiate tests last
year.
The Huskers lost to the men of
Urbana last year, 23 to 6, and did
not meet Michigan or Chicago.
Tomes dropped down from the
165 pound class to fill the 155
pound vacancy. Dale Ruser will
take his place in the heavier di
vision.
Other wrestlers making the trip
are Gteorge Cockle, 136; Ed Mc-
Connell, 138; Newt Copple, 145;
Al Mulliken, 175. They'll return
Sunday.
Williams advises
extension works
Aubrey Williams, National
Youth administrator, in an official
bulletin issued to NYA supervisors
throughout the country recom
mends for NYA use the extension
courses prepared by the university,
Williams points out that the life
enrichment courses developed here
Gymnastics team opens
vith invasion of Minnesota
Coach Charley Miller is working
his gymnastics team in prepara
tion for the start of the season,
when the Huskers will go into four
stiff meets in the course of three
days.
The Huskers travel to Minne
sota, and Feb. 22 meet Illinois at
Minneapolis. The same night they
compete in the Northwest national
championships there. The next
night they meet Carlcton college
at Northficld, and Feb. 24 they go
against Minnesota at Minneapolis.
There will be no home meets
unless the match set tentatively
March 15 against Southern Illinois
State Normal of Carbondale, is
arranged.
The Huskers will defend their
Rocky Mountain A. A. U. cham
pionship at Denver March 2, after
having faced the Greeley Teachers
at Greeley, Colorado, the previous
day. and Colorado at Boulder on
February 29.
Slated for sure, though, is the
high school meet in March, at
which Husker varsity gymnasts
will be judges. Sixteen schools
have entered thus far, and five
events will be run off.
Miller, who has coached the
Huskers every season but one
since the sport was started here in
1935 has picked a varsity squad of
8 from 20 candidates.
One vet gone
Don Seidel of Columbus was the
only letterman lost by graduation,
while returning are Roy Proffitt.
Hastings, the team's star last
year; Stan Southwick, Friend,
Jake Geicr, Lincoln; Gaius Cad
well, Broken Bow, all lettermen.
Ray Griffin, Hershey, who was
with the squad last year, has been
bothered with injuries.
Guy Johnson, Hemingford, Har
old Buxton, Wahoo, and Abe
Grossman, Lincoln, are this year's
newcomers, and Miller Is counting
on Johnson, who won last year's
university all around champion
ship, to gather in lots of points for
the Huskers.
Nebraska, the only team In the
Big Six has won the Rocky Moun
tain AAU three times and tied for
it once. Up until this year no
Nebraska high school had spon
sored the sport, and hardly any
had had equipment, although this
spring's prep tourney has aroused
interest in the Bport to a high
degree.
Don't miss the double page picture preview
of prospective .
University of Nebraska Beauty Queens
In the
Sunday Vcrld Herald Rotogravure Section, Feb. 1 1
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Elwyn Dees,
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Journal a Star.
ELWYN DEES, Nebraska's new
head trainer, is expected to arrive
in Lincoln early next week to take
over his duties with the Husker
athletic department.
Dees, former Kansas U. shot
putting star, was head trainer at
Pittsburgh U last fall, but wanted
to establish himself permanently
in the middlewest, and was se
lected for the Husker post.
He acquired his skill under Dr.
Forrest C. Allen, KU's basketball
coach, who himself is a grad
uate osteopath. Three former Al
len pupils are head trainers at
Texas, Harvard and West Point.
Dees, during his collegiate ca
reer, was the Big Six's best shot
putter, and once held the national
interscholastic record, which he es
tablished at high school in Re
serve, Kansas.
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