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Thurs'cfay, MarcE 26, 1942 DAILY NEBRASKAN 3 By Bob M7tr Head coach Glenn Presnell announced that the Huskert would add a game with a service team next fall, late Thursday evening. . . The Air Corp training center is the team that will produce the op position on Nevember 21 at Iowa City, Iowa. . . The gridders will be under the exceedingly able direction of Bernie Bierman, ever-to- be feared coach who constantly turns out national winners. . . This new date will necessitate the shifting of the Iowa U. contest, origi nally scheduled for that date, up to September 26. . . This will open the season for both teams and the game will be played at Iowa City also. This brings up the Hunker grid schedule to nine games for next fall. . . This will be the final schedule since another game could not be added without having December games. . . There will be five con ference tilts plus Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Iowa City and the Air Corp team to make next fall a season that will be remembered for a long time to come. . . Tab that Minnesota contest to be on a par with those Trorpedine' it whether or not Bierman will be on hand or not. . . And r a . then Bierman's new team of Air Corp members will have the benefit of coaching par excellence to offset any lack of individual brilliance According to last calculations, Nebraska is in second place in the race for the Big Six all-sports award. . . The Huskers won the coveted award last year with first place scores in football, indoor and outdoor track and a third place in basketball in the major sport units. . . This year there is a second place tie in football, a fourth in basketball, a first in indoor track. . . The Sooner have a Vz point advantage at this point with four sports remaining. . . Track, baseball, golf and tennis. . . Of this group track is the only major sport on the docket. . . It looks like a plenty close race. Gerald Tucker, the sophomore wonder-boy, again hits the news columns. . . After the basketball season ended. Big Boy Tucker drop ped out of the picture but now that tennis season is approaching, he comes right back into the swing of things. . . He is an A-l tennis star and it was for this sport as much as for basketball that he decided to enroll at Oklahoma, . . Tucker was a former Kansas interscholastic singles champion and can hold his own with the best of them. . . He is also a singer and an honor student. . . What a concentration of ability. Lieut. Walter "Butch" Luther was struck in the heel with a bullet at Fort Robinson. Nebraska several days ago. . . Extent Of the injury was not known. . . A big fight is looming over an inci dent back in Aberdeen, Maryland where the A. A. U. suspended a soldier for playing with his service team against a professional outfit. . . The soldier was ordered to play by a senior officer and afterwards the Amateur Athletic Union suspended the eager for playing in a contest in which some of the participants were paid for playing. . . It smells plenty rotten to us. .' . Some pretty radical changes will result from this little incident, mark our word; Dorm Coeds Have Strangle Hold on Sport , . . Among Other Things Fellows dating at Carrie Belle had best be careful not to chal lenge Miss Dormite to a game of something, because her athletic prowess is tops among the campus coeds. Under the expert coaching of intramural representatives Mickey McPherson and Dorothy Alexan der, the dorm has won three out of the four tournaments sponsored annually by WAA, and played in the finals of the fourth, and are consequently well along towards winning the coveted WAA plaque for intramurals champion. The spcrts that 540 No. 16th have mastered are soccer, base ball, Nebraska ball, and bowling. In the deck tennis tournament, the dorm was just nosed out in the fi nals by the Gamma Phi Betas. Powerful Bill Lyda ... Y Sooner Star Has Versatility o X In Haces on Linder l racn o Huskers Rank Second in Big Six Standings In the closest race in years for the Big Six conference all sports championship, Oklahoma leads Nebraska by only a jump with Iowa State and Kansas State close behind. With baseball, golf, tennis and outdoor track still to be heard from, the present rank ing, low score winning, are Oklahoma 16, Nebraska Wg, Iowa St. 19 and Kansas St. 20. Ok. I, t h" M. ft. fOUtfckli ' t't afcrttMS I'fc 4 Intnor tnwfc . . I I Tmm mil rr.re I 4 S WmMhMc S I I HwtmmlMK .... 4 S 1 I1 1'-, 4 1 I t"t " I TU IS 1V1 t IT Lehigh's (Bethlehem. Pa.) regis tration" for 1942 is 1,942. Cyclones Enter NCAA Meet At Cambridge AMES, la., March 24. Iowa State college started its four man entry eastward this morning for the National Collegiate swimming championship at Harvard univer sity, Cambridge, Mass., March 27 and 28. . Coach Jack McGuire. who coached the Cyclones to a Big iix title in his first effort, has en tered the team in the 300-yard medley relay, the 440-ysrd free style, the 50-yard free style, the diving, and the 200-yard breast stroke. Capt, Ward Sear, the only Cy clone not entered in an individual event will lead the strongest Iowa State threat the medley relay team. Sear will swim backstroke, with John Slater, Big Six cham pion, taking the breast stroke and Thornton Wilson the freestyle. The trio hit 3:10 against Minne sota during the dual meet season but will have to cut at least 5 sec onds from that time to place Fri day. Slhter is also entered in his specialty, the 200 yard breast stroke. Wilson will compete in the 50 yard free style. o NORMAN, Okla., March 25 Is i Bill Lyda, Oklahoma's powerfully- engined senior running phenom, the most versatile foot-racer ever developed in the Big Six confer ence ? Lyda's feats certainly sug gest this. He can run any race from 60 yards through three miles without alter ing his gear shift or chang ing the oil in his hair. He ran sec ond to Orville Mathews in the 60 yard dash in the recent Okla homa-Nebraska Lincoln Journal jn(joor dual. Clips Off Century. He regularly stepped 100 yards in 9.9 seconds in 1940 while train- A ft ft O w IGLH3I Tle t,r Vie SfH SPRING OPENING Saturday, March 20 r.isi F "I Marvin V mmJ las mmom 1 Mumi" IMrrt-t from ' jr 1 PHh.f Moatfc v Inn, Ik. l I 4,r4rn, t b NIWM4 ( Ileal th Ckn-k. -J Adm. In-fore t:S0 c . I " r Jon't run short of shorts! B Mire you've gut enrh abort to ln1 ?v a ti-M . . . ad Iff iure lln-jVf i.lim tht ran lt a Jen,- tira. Specifim!! Arrow f-lioru. Arrow SWu will never shrink farlarJ (fabric iiritikiise Iff tim 1). TWy rn ktttns ilif y lmwrm any! lndry- fTf .1). The, doBn 0 P'r , V ika yon Mjoirx- (tl;,f-'l:l . I;-'1, tbey liM-f ! rlifmg 1 ihe frolrh ft Com Jh and gml seme frdayi A OW ... Has Proved It ing with the Sooner spring relay teams on whose Texas and Kansas Relays championships quartets he ran speedy 110-yard and 220-yard legs. He won the 200 yard dash around a curve in the Oklahoma A. A. U. meet in his third race of the night at Shawnee last June, licking a fresh field of sprinters after he had first won the 440 and 880 yard dashes. Look at This. He ran 440 yards in 47.6 seconds in the Sooner-Oklahoma Aggie dual meet last year although strid ing the distance without competi tion. He was clocked in 1 -.51.8 at 800 meters, practically half a mile, in the National A. A. U. senior meet last July. Although he has never run the mile in competition, he once legged it in 4:27 in a practice gallop as a sophomore here in the fall of 1939. Clemson college's physical plant has risen in value from $250,000 to $6,000,000. Semi-Finalists Meet in LM Table Tennis ZBT, Beta, Kappa Sig, and DU table tennis teams will meet to night to decide who will enter the finals of the intramural table ten nis tourney. The ZBTs will represent league 1, which they cinched Tuesday night when they won over the Farm House 4-1. rurnisning me opposition for the ZETs will be the Betas, winner in league 2 com petition. The Us advanced to the play offs by shutting out the SAEs 5-0 in the deciding game in league 4. The Kappa Sigs earned the right to play the DUa by winning the championship In league a. PrvbMt IJwap. f.tlT HKTA THCTA PI No. 1 Bud) Of.Mntler Keith Howard No. 2 Norman Kino Lon Iavto No. 3 Theo Corn- fXirp Cix-Hk- No. 4 Hu MuxKli. Grn Tllmn No. 6 4orrt Kirnhenbaoai John Cockle ,U KAPPA W(,M No. 1. 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