Wednesday, March 15, 1944
THE NEBRASKAN
Ex-UN Star
Rohrig Heads
Service Nine
,,At Keesler Field
First Lt. Herman Rohrig, for
mer Husker football standout, has
amed head baseball coach at
Keesler Field, Mississippi, AAF
Training Command station.
Rohrig, stellar
halfback on
Biff Jones-;
coached Scarlet
elevens in '38,
39, and '40,
has also been
appointed re
corder of the
Keesler Field
Athletic council.
WMf at UN.
Rohrig played MERM ROHRIG
on one oi
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From Lincoln Journal.
vocr Husker
teams of all time, the Rose Bowl
crew of 1940. "German Herman''
alternated with Harry Hopp as
first-string tailback and was Ne
braska's most dangerous passer.
It was his long toss to Allen Zik
mund which accounted for the
second Husker touchdown against
Stanford in the Rose Bowl.
After his graduation from the
university, Rohrig played profes
sional football with the Green Bay
Packers. He also served as Kees
ler field's playing-assistant foot
ball coach last fall.
M isso u riAccep ts In vite
To WesternNCAAMeet
The ITniversitv of Missouri will
replace the University of Iowa in
the Western basketball playoffs of
the National Collegiate Athletic
association at Kansas City March
24-25, according to Prof. Sam B.
Shirkey, chairman of the Missouri
university committee on intercol
legiate athletics. Other Big Six
schools, Shirkey said, have ap
proved Missouri is participation in
the tourney.
The invitation to participate was
extended to Missouri late Monday
when Iowa U., one of the four
teams orieinallv chosen for the
Western playoffs, was forced to
withdraw from the meet.
Ives, Danner Lost.
The Havvkeyes, according to
Athletic Director E. G. Schroeder,
were forced to drop from the tour
ney li'-"iise six squad members
would have been unable to parti
cipate. Among the Fix are both
Dick Ives and Dave Danner. the
Hawks' leading scorers.
Missouri joins Iowa State, con
ference champions, in the Western
playoffs. The Cyclones first re
fused a bid to participate, then re
considered and accepted the invi
tation. Other teams participating
will be Arkansas and Pepperdine
college of Los Angeles.
Winners Travel East.
Winner of the Western playoffs
will travel to New York, there to
meet the Kastern champs in the
East-West finals.
In the eastern playoffs. Dart
mouth will meet Catholic univer
sity in Madison Square oarcien
March 24 in the opening ciasn.
Dartmouth, Eastern Intercollegiate
league champions, and Catholic
were paired in the Monday draw
ings, which also threw Ohio State,
Big Ten champion, against Tem
ple in the second tilt of the open
ing night double-header.
Winners of first night "mes
will meet March 25. with the vic
tors in this final clash meeting
the Western champions in Madi
son Square Garden March 28.
with,
Harold W. Andersen
Tho cfotf ViiVVi school cae-e tournev last week end
ranked with the best tourneys of the past in the quality
. . . . . t-i u, f4u c;lf.
of play and the closeness oi tne games, rvesuua ui mc mmi
in the four classes serve as a good example of the close
scores which predominated throughout the meet. In class A,
South nudged coiumous Dy a sum uuee pnw.
nnmivd Wavnp in class B bv seven noints, 25-1S, but it
was not until the last minute of play that the York team
pulled away from their vvayne nvais. ciass uudis iuuwu
Wakefield one point victors over Culbertson. 23-22. while
in class D Hildreth won over Trumbull by a slender two
point edge, 36-34. Rarely have tournament finals brought
such close games.
Sidelights on the tourney: The half-time "entertain
ment" during the tourney consisted of certain of the spec
tators' throwing pennies and paper on the floor, then sit
ting back to watch the ever-present crowd of young boys
fr. ih inc The p-rmvnun vounssters in the
aciaiiiuic: a v 1 wiv. v. v . . . . o 1 - , .
A in pniov the general confusion created by
their actions much more than did the youngsters who were
scrambling for the pennies.
As we have stated in this column before, such actions
brine nothing but discredit to the University and the spec
tator's who attend athletic events at the coliseum. Espe
cially regrettable is the fact that a minority of spectators,
with definitely infantile conceptions of entertainment, can
and do give a black eye to those fans the great majority
who look upon penny-tossing and paper-throwing as
exhibitions of extremely poor taste.
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Omaha South ascended the class A state basketball throne Satur
day night by edging out Columbus, 13-10, for the crown. Top row,
from left to right: I. Svageta, student manager; Bob All, Don
Berg. Kenneth Mills. Ed Dore, and Jack Collin,. Bottom row left
to right: Donny Georgeff, Joe Dworak, Hermie Myers, Bob Shober
and Al Carrillo. Not in picture, Coach Corn.e Collin.
From Lincoln Journal.
Johnson Triumphs
In A S Ping Pong
Aviation students found thcii
ping-prftg champion st long last
in Class 14 Johnson, who now
awaits the selection of the AST
champion for the grand playoffs
in the all-military ping-pong tour
nament. Johnson knocked off AS
Wormer from Class 1 in a three
set final to take the 34&th detach
ment crown.
Other class champK-JiS were
Gleim, representing Class 16, and
Ziemba, battling for Class 15.
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