Friday, May II, 1945
is is
By
The year is nearly ended now,
but as I look back over the two
semesters, things come back: The
three home football games; the
basketball games preceding the
Wines tussles, watching the fabul
ous Goose Tatum perform; the
state basketball tourney; and
finally the fairly successful track
season.
The sports picture for the year
at Nebraska started on a warm,
sunny day, September 1, to be
exact, when head football Coach
A. J. Lewandowski called his first
football practice, and fifty eager
youths repored. The only letter
men on this third wartime team
were Frank Hazard, senior guard;
Lyle Kops, sophomore tackle, and
big Buzz Hollins, sophomore half
back. The team suffered three
hard defeats, and then made the
whole campus happy as .they
spanked the Mizzou Tigers, hard
to win the annual homecoming
game by the score of 24-20.
After the defeat at Iowa, the
Huskers came back to Lincoln to
play the Cyclones. I still remem
ber how, with a clear field ahead
of him, Lamberty stumbled and
fell with only 50 yards to go. The
week after that was the never to
be forgotten game with Kansas
State in the snow, sleet, rain, and
what have you. I still don't see
how the here-to-fore puny Husk
ers amassed those thirty-five
points. Next week I found out,
for, after being soundly whipped
the first half, the Corr.huskers
came back to score two touch
downs against the best the Soon
ers had to offer. The record for
the season shows a worse folly
than the team actually had. They
ran against hard luck all season.
The basketball season was next,
and in the first game the Huskers
threw a scare into the highly
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touted Iowa Hawkeyes but lost
by the score of 61-45. After that
it was a series of losses until the
games with Kansas when the
roughies from Nebraska plastered
Phog Aliens poor little boys all
over the court (according to Al
len) and brought out Phog's never
to be forgotten squawk on the
Huskers roughness. Lewandowski
said rightly that Allen's charges
were just sour grapes.
After almost every Nebraska
home game the famous Wings
from the Lincoln Army Air Field
would play another service team.
The highlight of the whole sea
son is I see it, was the thrilling
game with the Air Tecs from
Wright Field when the Wings
made up a twenty point deficit to
win in the last few minutes. The
highly colorful Reece "Goose"
Tatum nd all his antics will
never be forgotten by any who
saw him perform.
After that was the State basket
ball tourney where the students
of the Universitiy saw some of
their future athletes perform.
The indoor track season, with
and after the basketball season
saw the Huskers nosed out of the
inidoor title by six points in a
narrow squeak that saw the Cy
clones of Iowa State come out on
top. After the indoor meet the
Huskers placed four men in one
of the biggest track meets of the
year, the Drake Relays Kratz,
star middle distance man, and
holder of two legs of the Bill Lyda
Trophy, placed second in the 440.
Barker, Big Six champion hurdler,
came in fourth in the high hurdles.
Morrison placed fifth in the two
mile run, and Piderit came in fifth
in the discus.
The only remaining events of
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THE NEBRASKAN
Minnesota Uni
To Expand Its
Athletic Dept.
MINNEAPOLIS. Dr. Lou Kell
er, acting director of physical
education and athletics at the
University of Minnesota, proposes
and visualizes postwar develop
ments within his department that
will find physical training on a
vastly broader scale than ever be
fore. '
Dr. Keller is particularly in
terested in the competitive phase
of this program. In his own
words, "I believe intercollegiate
competition for the greatest pos
sible number of students Is de
sirable because of its incompar
able values in physical develop
ment and training, and am heart
ily in favor of large expansion
of all forms of sports with this
end in mind."
Minnesota's acting director ex
pects veterans' organizations such
as the American Legion will put
on a campaign for a more com
prehensive physical education
the season for the University of
Nebraska is the State meet this
week end and the Big Six out
door meet on the 19th of May.
The Huskers chances of winning
this event are fair to middlin', as
the Husker performers have been
picking up.
It looks like this will be the last
edition of AS I SEE IT for quite
some while. The semester ends,
and after not too great a while
yours truly will be wearing some
clothes that aren't quite his prop
erty. So until after the war this
is just about all from the dark
corner of the Nebraskan's office.
Good luck to every one, I'll need
it!
All athletic equipment should
be out of cafes in Field House
by Wednesday.
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"We are definitely pUnnlnr in
this direction," says Dr. Keller.
"We know we will need more
outdoor facilities, and new Indoor
facilities on a considerable scale.
We are working right now to
ward a larre winter sports arena
which will enable us to carry
on simultaneously Intercollegiate,
intramural, and Individual student
and faculty activities. We hope
to see speed skating, figure skat
ing, and curling developed on an
exhibition and intercollegiate
competitive scale.
"The thinking all around the
conference," continues Dr. Keller,
"is in terms of more than one
team in each sport. For instance,
in football we might see varsity,
middle-weight, and light-weight
teams playing a full schedule in
competition with other univer
sities. The reason for this trend is
the acknowledged superiority of
competitive sports to organized
mass drill in ultimate benefits to
the individual.
"We recognise the Impending
need for expanded orthopedic
gymnasium activities which we re
fer to in our curriculum as 'in
dividual activities,' with emphasis
on play, for the physically handi
capped. There is a definite psy
chological value to this type of
physical rehabilitation."
Dr. Keller foresees great expan
sion and development In the field
of industrial recreation which has
become "definitely of age" under
the current war-time stress on
man-power. Says he, "Hundreds
of the largest Industrialists In the
nation have found an Industrial
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Future to Graduates
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recreation program within their
organization highly worthwhile in
improving efficiency and foster
ing favorable labor relations. We
people in our work take cognii
ance of this trend.
"In expanding our teacher
training program after the war,
as we must certainly do, we will
aim to fill the needs for super
visors in industrial recreation, as
well for a greatly increased num
ber of physical education in
structors for high schools and
communities. Despite the short
age of qualified supervision, high
schools thruout the nation are
placing more emphasis on physical
education than ever before," he
concluded.
Former Faculty
Man Collaborates
On New Textbook
Professor B. F. Raber, for many
years on the University of Ne
braska faculty, and F. W. Hutch
inson, both of whom are new on
the University of California Me
chanical Engineering Faculty,
have written a text book for me
chanical engineering student, en
titled "Refrigeration and Air Con
ditioning Engineering."
At the present time Professor
Raber is chairman of the division
of mechanical engineering in the
University of California, Berkeley.
The book is being used in the
University of California engineer
ing clases in air conditioning.
Orders are being received from
various university libraries.
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