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Pcne 6 DAILY NEBRASKAN December CROSS-FIRE 12, 1947 By NORM LEGER It just goes to show you you can't keep a good columnist down. Well, anyway, it just goes to show you you can't keep this colum nist down. If silence is golden, we've glittered long enough. Needless to say, there has been quite enough said about the "coaching situation," as it is so subtly put. Nevertheless, it's no prophesy to say that the storm will continue to howl sports writers will yap-yap-yap and gripe-seeking students will fol low suit until an ax is "brought to fall, perhaps, or until some thing mnrp iuicv aDDears on the vu - " " V campus scene to replace xne cur rent coach talk. The issue involved is not one fnr ns to comment UDon. We're sadly lacking facts as we suspect most of the people aoing me talking are, too. What concerns us is the viciousness of making condemnation on a non-moral bdsis When a man shoots his mother-in-law or swindles a five or six figure amount from the business to which he's attached he may ex pect severe censure. He will also get it for drinking too much beer and plowing his car into the back of a student-loaded hayrack. Thafs the way our moral code works. But when a man's reputation is endangered simply because he has not, in the opinion of those in the position to smear names in news papers, done the job that the publicity-givers think he should, thnnph in all likelihood he has done the job to the best of his ability, it's time we concern ourselves with the importance of the issue. Is victory on the football field so important that an attempt must be made to oust by means of press rebuke and stinging word of mouth the man who is thought (not known, certainly) to be the cause? Is there any moral justification in blackening a man's record with malicious criticism just because there are those who hope that it will bring action which, it can not be assured, may improve the situation? The talkers and writers in volved are reflecting about as much good judgment as they are reflecting adult thinking and dis cernment which may well fit some spacious corner of a needle's eye. To the man at stake, Bernie Masterson, let it be known that there are a few, you'll find them here and there, who think of you first as an individual, an adult man, and then as a coach. These few, while not disputing entirely the criticisms that have been brought against you, are mature enough to realize that there are, really, more important imngs in life than football. For example, a man's reputation and good standing. Futile hope, but wouldn't it be nice if some of us would join the few? We Nebraskans can be so damnably humanitarian! INTRAMURAL SPORTS BOWLING STANDINGS IN'TKHFR ATERNITY LEAGUES League I W Beta Sigma Psi - 13 Theta Xi 9 Beta Theta PI - 11 Phi Delta Thru 10 Zeta Beta Tau. 6 Cornhusker Co-op 1 Farm Houae 3 Sigma Alpha Mu 2 Leagae II W Sigma Alpha Epsilon II Sigma Phi Epsilon... 10 Sigma Nu 10 Delta Upsilon 10 Phi Kappa Psi 10 Pioneer Co-op Kappa Sigma - 6 Alpha Sigma Phi 0 League III W Delta Sigma Pi 15 Delta Tau Delta 13 Phi Gamma Delta 8 Alpha Tau Omega 7 Sigma Chi 7 Alpha Gamma Rho. 5 Tau Kappa Epsilon 5 Brown Palace Co-op. 0 INDEPENDENT LEAGUE W Rockets - 14 Ag Social Club.... 11 Newman Club 13 Lilies -.. 13 YMCA - 10 Campus YMCA - Huskerville and Ag YMCA dropped. Each team has been given 3 wins. INTERDEP ARTMENT LEAGUE W Law Phi Delta Phi....- 9 AS ME Engineers 11 Engineering Indep 10 Architects Law Delta Theta Phi 5 Law Phi Alpha Delta 1 AD2E Engineers. 0 ASAE Engineers 0 "V I I ! a.f I I i vu MiiuKt:u .nuMemeia for years and find they completely Satisfy." rw- . STARRING IN ROBERT RISKIN'S NEW PICTURB "MAGIC TOWN" CLfASED IYRKO RADIO IICTUICI topTXh IW, Uccmr Mtm Toawxo Co - . ' -A A V:B:: :::: : : y :iyV.y& (: SsiS: v v-" ' . vM' I i sj L..lnJ Lc) U L5ULrL llii!IJ;i ' 1 zrxJ4 I T