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i Iffleclnesclay, January 8, 1940 DAILY NEBRASKAN Nebraska beats K-State 33-23 Recounting facts and figures concerning the Rose Bowl game, we pause long enough to say that we are proud, very proud, of the Nebraska football team. Even in defeat, the Huskers demonstrated to critics why they were selected to represent the East in the Pasadena classic. FADING" ROSES. Prior to the Nebraska-Stanford clash, many eastern writers wrote about the decline of the glamour and the "bigness" of the Rose Bowl. The "better games" were said to be in the Sugar and Orange Bowls. But with the showing that the Indians and the Cornhuskers gave on New Year's day, the moaning hit a new low and now has been forgotten. The Huskers were said to have lacked color but the Nebraska band and the act of "striking first" in scoring set the California fans to wondering. HUSKERS SCORE FIRST. The way the Scarlet gridders marched thru the Indians to a touchdown eight plays from the kickoff lifted many an eyebrow. The drive looked comparatively easy. And Husker fans went wild with joy. Stanford countered with its first touchdown and Indian fans began to nod "uh, huh," and say Now we're rolling. Thatll stop the Huskers for a while." But that touchdown didn't stop the Huskers. It fired them up even more. The second team went to work and passed to a touch down that set the Californians to worrying again. INDIANS BEGIN WORK. Finally noting that they had a ball game on their hands, the In- dians went to work and passed to "'V a touchdown -ot their own and kicked the extra point to put I themselves into the lead a lead Sliugar Bowl? Wkere'sh (hie) Rosesh Bowl? NEW ORLEANS, La. You've all heard about Roy Riegel who ran the wrong way in a Rose Bowl game and Douglas Corrigan who flew the wrong way and ended up in Great Britain, well, this is a story about a couple of "wrong way" sport addicts. On the first day of January, two slightly inebriated sport fans saun tered into the Sugar Bowl, pre sented tickets and demanded of Police Clerk F. J. Aragon that ihey be seated. Aragon looked at the tickets and to his amazement recognized that the ducats were for the Rose Bowl game in Pasadena. ' The two were at once ushered out and as they walked tipsily away, one muttered: "I told you we caught the wrong train." which was never relinquished. After the half, the Huskers were out to place themselves out in front for a third time but the Stanford defense grew stronger and the Nebraska offense more tired as the game wore on. The Husker's great line drew the plaudits of the crowd when it held the men of Shaughnessy on the one yard line for four downs Then came the punt that broke Nebraska s back. GOING, GOING, GONE. Pete Kmetovic caught the ball near the west sideline and started coasting that way. The entire Ne braska team was drawn over in that direction. Then, Kmetovic changed his speed into high and reversed his field. With wonderful blocking and flying legs, the flashy Stanford back raced down the east sidelines to the winning touchdown. Butch Luther hit Kmetovic on the goal line but it was too late. All in all, the record breaking crowd of 91,500 fans got their money's worth from that game and so did. the ones listening fn via the air waves. That battle was one of the most colorful in the past 10 years of play in Ar royo del Seco. Second half scoring flury nets victory Huskers start Big Six campaign right on top; Fitz, Held lead cagers By Jim Evinger. Getting a jump on all Big Six basketball rivals, Nebraska's cag ers put on a second half flury of scoring to defeat Kansas State 33-23 on the coliseum floor, Tues- American pick. day night. The ers to iyiaIaa yv o vlra1 -'W - - otn.,v I Los Angeles writer full with praise for Ed Schwartzkopf BY DICK HYLAND. (Los Angeles Times.) Vic Lindskog, the Stanford cen ter, again proved he is a better ballplayer than Washington's muchly praised Mucha. Lindskog, Wednesday, was up against one of the t o u g h e st linemen in the - . t country, a Mr. S c hwartzkopf. That Husker is good and since it is the habit of most All- melee marked the start of the conference cage race for 1941. Trailing 13-12 at the intermis sion, the Husk ers shot into the lead at the start of the sec ond half on a firs t-minute fielder by Sid Held and re mained In front for the remain der of the game . v a it if r L When the game ends.,. pause ana Mr VMS.. VA v Two words dtcrlb ice-cold Coca-Cola ...Mcoui and ro tr thing. Delicious, because It Is always a ploasuro to taito. Refreshing, because It leaves a delightful cftor-sonso of re froshmont. So when you pauso throughout tho day, mako it Ifce pause thai rer7ee with Ice-cold Coca-Cola. C K sir fx l . ' v S(n X- ill V -' K l f ) I Don Trt Lincoln Journal. As hot as he was cold the first 20 minutes, Don Fitz suddenly came to scoring life and sifted 10 points thru the meshes the last half to be individual point leader for the night with a dozen mark ers. Aggies lead first. Sluggish and "cold" the first half, the Wildcats took advantage of the Huskers and took the lead soon after the initial toss-up and kept it thruout the first canto. At one time, the K-Staters hela an 11-7 advantage with ll1 min utes gone but the Huskers nar rowed the count to a one point edge at halftime. Fitz racked in five points 8 minutes after the second half started to push his mates in front 21-14 from where he collaborated to score five more counters with John Thorro son, Al Randall, Held, Les Liv ingston, and John Fitzgib- b o n that Sid Hid brought about Lincoln Journal, enough points for the victory. Beaumont leads K-State. Fitz with 12 points and Held with 9 led the Huskers' scoring while John Thompson came up with some good guarding as well as the other sophomore starter Johnny Fitzgibbon. Kansas State found its sharp shooter Jack Hoyicek in check by Fitz and turned Larry Beaumont on the loose. The latter sifted thru 9 counters on long range firing from his guard station. Center Tom Guy was next in line with 7 points. Box: up. their minds long before the season starts, then force the season's play to agree with them, may I submit the ed schwartzkopf name Of next Lincoln Journal. year's Nebraska senior, Eddie Schwartzkopf, as a 1941 All American choice from the Big Six country; there's gotta be one from that section and Schwartzkopf might as well be it. He probably earned it this year but the pub licity went to 1940's senior, Alf son. The latter certainly did not stand out over his teammate, or Stanford's Taylor and Palmer, last Wednesday. Two champions. That's left-handed build-up. If Schwartzkopf is as good as I think he is, then Vic Lindskog, the Santa Ana cyclone, is pretty good, too. They battled it out on the Arroyo Seco field, the speedy Husker and the bigger Indian, giv- V JMUvt Xu. St. Horacfk ( Howe I Ouy e Hraumont K Kolxtrom L'gvartlt t llnrnxby f IJII c Crnlmra f U'denhal g fK ft f! Nebraaka t ft 1 0 2Klt7.Kllxn f 1 2 1 0 01 Thompson f 2 0 3 1 4I!nnrtallc 1 1 4 1 HMtZK i 1 0 1 21 Held K 4 1 1 0 4 I.lvlnKRlon t 0 1 0 0 IKioctzoc 0 0 0 0 UlYounKK 0 0 O 0 01 ooo Total 12 9 1 Kunsua SUte 13, Ne YOU TASTE ITS QUALITY Bocdad aadaf Mtbocitr of TV Coca-Cola Cwnpaar bf LI NCOLN COCA-COLA UOl'lUINC COMPANY Totali 10 3 H Bcora at half braaka 12. Mlaned free tlimwi: Hornrrk, Howe 4, Ouy, Keaumunt, Cirnham, llolalroin, Kan dall. Uli 4, Held 4. Official: K. C QulKlcy. St. Mnryl, referee; 1'arka Carroll, Karwaa City uni versity, umpire. ing and asking no quarter. The way Schwartzkopf charged into Lindskog so soon as the latter passed the ball to Albert, and the way the Indian tried to keep the battling Husker out of the play, provided one of the sweetest per sonal duels ever seen on a football field. He's a champion, that Lind skog, because only a. champion could stand up against another champion the way he did. Albert stars. The audacity of little Frankie Albert was never better shown than it was when Stanford needed its first score. Within sniffing dis tance of the goal line, yards were precious things. Too, the biggest lad on the field was King Kong Kahler, a 220-pound Husker tackle. He did not get that nick name from picking poises on the Nebraska plains. So who does Al bert send Galarneau at when the score was needed? Yes, sir, right at and over and thru Kahler, and the big Husker didn't get even close to the flying Indian. Another Nebraskan who caught my eye by his playing was Clar ence Herndon, a 190 pound tackle. 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