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The University of Nebraska will
have spring football practice this
year, if plans now being laid by
head Coach A. J. Lewandowski are
realized.
Lew announced early this week
that he plans to issue a call for
candidates very soon and that he
has hopes for "a sizable turn
out." Prospects Same as '43..
"We certainly can't be in any
worse shape than we were last
spring-," said Lew as he issued the
call. "We must depend on men de
ferred from the service, plus the
crop of freshmen awaiting calls to
the army or navy," continued the
coach. "I look for the regular
bunch of young athletes who de
sire to play football with the Corn
huskers while conditioning them
selves for service calls."
The Huskers will thus be fac
ing the 1944 season with much
the same prospects as prevailed
last year. The 1943 Huskers, large
ly 4-F's and youths awaiting serv
ice summons, won two games
(Kansas and Kansas State) and
made a creditable showing against
such trainee-packed teams as Iowa
State conference-champion and
Oklahoma
Definite Word Soon.
Bert Gissler and Frank Hazard,
two of the trio of veterans with
which Lewandowski started last
year's campaign, are still
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Word that Coach Ad Lewandowski plans to hold spring
football practice this year is extremely welcome to followers
of the Huskers. Many UN fans felt that spring practice
would be dropped this year as a prelude to complete dis
continuance of football at Nebraska till victory is won.
Lewandowski's decision to issue a call for candidates
for spring drills proves that the gridiron sport is still very
much alive at the University of Nebraska and will con
tinue so as long as there are optimistic, hard working
coaches like Lew and Nebraska boys who are proud to
come to UN and carry Scarlet and Cream colors on the
football field.
The argument is often advanced that Nebraska should
drop football for the duration because the inexperienced
teams which UN must field during these war years tend to
destroy the nationwide respect which Husker grid teams
have always commanded. We can't go along with those who
argue in this vein.
As we see it, the Huskers would lose much more re
spect if they were to drop football for the. duration. Ne
braska teams have never quit because the odds were
against them, and we see no reason for them to quit now.
Granted that the odds they face are greater than ever
before, this fact should only make the Huskers more de
termined to carry on the splendid gridiron traditions of
the University of Nebraska. In the past. Scarlet teams
have always fought hardest when the going was toughest.
Why should they stop now?
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school and ready for spring prac-l
tice.
Randall Salisbury, third member
of the trio, will be graduated this
spring.
Lvle Kops and Jim Abdnor of
last year's squad, Joe Kessler.
Doug Nelson, Gordie Ehlers, and
Al Kirlin are other candidates on
whom Lewandowski is counting
heavily in the plans for spring
practice. Kessler, ineligible last
fall, should bolster the Huskers at
the quarterback spot.
More definite word on spring
practice plans will be released
in soon, according to Lewandowski.
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