Friday, December 211951 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN PAGE 3 The Benchviarmet By RON GIBSON Sports Staff Writer (The end of the year 1951 was drawing near, and Ol' Potsy Clark, Athletic Director at the University of Nebraska, went on a long trip to pay a visit to an old girl friend who had mis treated him, a gal named Lady Luck. When Potsy chatted with Dame Fortune, the following conversation took place:) LADY LUCK: Well Potsy! Here for your annual visit, I see. How ya been? POTSY: Lady, I come to register a complaint. LADY LUCK: A complaint? What about? POTSY: You know darn well what about I'm here to complain about the dirty tricks you played on the Cornhuskers in 1951. You call yourself Lady Luck. Listen, as far as Ne 4. braska is concerned, you're Miss Fortune. LADY LUCK: Why Potsy! Whatever do you mean? What did I do to the Cornhuskers thst makes you so unhappy? POTSY: What do I mean? I mean all the i things you did to .make it tough for Nebraska's athletic teams this last year. us suffer, and you know it. What's the idea of giving the Huskers , so many tough breaks? LADY LUCK: What tough breaks are you talking- about? POTSY: Well, for instance, there's the football team. What you did to Bill Glassford was mean, low-down and uncalled for. As if weren't enough to lose our whole starting offensie line from tackle to tackle by graduation, you had to make things worse. To begin with, you tried to wreck Camp Curtis by giving Bill and the boys just about the lousiest weather imaginable. But that was not enough. Then you had to throw in a few injuries. , LADY LUCK: Well, you've got to expect injuries. POTSY: Sure, but you went to far, Lady. We thought we wen going to be all right, but then wham! You laid up Bobby Reynolds with a bad shoulder Injury. Don Vogt got appendicitis. Even so, we thought we. had a pretty fair chance. ' But no. You had to spoil everything. First there was Nick Adduci. You saw to it that the army got him. Then you crossed us up with that Carodine deal. Finally, you got to Bordogna, cut down his efficiency with a leg injury. And, to cap the dima, you got Bobby ' hurt again, with that eye injury. What kind of a gal are you? LADY LUCK: Gee, Potsy, I'm sorry. POTSY: Football isn't the only sport you hit. What about basket ball? Already you've started in on Harry Good. Look what you did to Joe Good, letting him sprain his ankle! Lay off, will you? Then there's baseball. You had to make things tough for Tony Sharpe. too. What's the idea having it rain so much last Spring? How did you expect the baseball all thA time? You couldn't leave track alone, Jonesand Wendv Cole, not to mention Ron Clark. Then you got to the minor sports. The gym team lost Bob Norton to the Navy just this month." LADY LUCK: Gee. Potsy, I'm I was giving you fellows so much trouble. Can't I make it up to you somehow? POTSY: Sure, by giving us a few good breaks next year. After all, Lady, we want to be friends with you. So please aon't cross us up again like you did in '51. . LADY LUCK: I'll see what I can do for you, Potsy. I'll try to lay off on the injuries and the bad realize what a bad girl I've been tnis year. POTSY: Weil thanks, Lady. And don't forget: Better luck in 1952. Sports World Resolving For An Improved 1952 BY SANTA CLAUS KUSHNER Assistant Sports Editor Resolutions are the order of these few remaining days of 1951 as people all over the world usher in the new year. The sports world will join th annual crusade for im- provement. lAthletics took quite a beating this year. It started during the early months of 1951 when the basketball scandal was un covered. Following this came the era of cheating and over-emphasis. The old basketball heroes of yesterday were in the process of "just fading away" when some were caught in one or the most . disastrous scandals in basketball r history. All-Americans like Sherman White. Ralph Beard, Alex Groza and many other stars were con victed on a bribery charge that probably caused Mr. Naismith to turn over in hU grave. ' The poor cadets at West Point were thrown out in the cold for doing what a good share of the modern Joe Colleges are doing cheating. Included in the mass ex termination from the Mmtary Academy were such notables as Earl Blaik and Al Pollard. The Naval Academy even . adopted a new chant which they used during the Army-Navy slaughter (42-7) laughter this year. "We don't cheat at Navy" echoed melodically around the , house that Ruth built this year. it & t Tt was a good and bad season Yankee starting outfield next for football. Most of the football experts had a pretty good idea of what was going to take place be t fore the season started. Aside from " West Point's demobilized Army team. Texas, California and Ne braska were all big disappoint ments. The Longhorns were ranked kingpins of the Southwest con ference and ended up far down the ladder In the final standings. The Golden Bears of Pappy Waldorf flew through their opening two gams and finished on one wing and no prayers for going back to the Rose Bowl, t The Nebraska story was prob ably the saddest of them ail. Pre dicted to be the team to stop the Ing the conference crown, the Oklahoma Sooncrs from regain Huikers were able to win only one came this year. f r 6 Boxing had its sad moments. Joe Louis had his picture taken In position he had never been la before. Louis was caught sprawled out on the oanvess tak ing a ten-count after Rocky Marclano bounced 16 pounds of leather off his noggin. Sugar Ray Robinson, pride of American boxing, was stunned by Randy Turpin of England in what will probably be ranked one of the great boxing upsets In history. Robinson battorcd the flashy Brit isher in the rematch. The battle for the Davis eup continues as the Americans, sparked by Frankie Sedgtnan, are making a bid to capture the trophy from the Australians. Gumle Moran still created small riots with her latest styles In the panty-parade. The National League pennant race was one for the books. The -4 Giants and the Dodgers, two very friendly teams in the- ssnlor cir cuit, threw everything at each other but Rip Sewcll's' blooper ball. Meanwhile Casey Stengel's New York Yankees had to win , Me American league competi !on and enough to take the orld Series in six games. if 5 Li You really made Clark team to play with the field wet either. You let the army get Hobe sorry about all this. I didn't realize weather and all. I guess I didn't j The ytfar 1s'"rapi(fiy come to a close and football is undergoing one of the most critical periods of its history. The numerous glorifi cations that football has enjoyed during its history are being care fully scrutinized around the coun try and many colleges are propos ing abolishing many of them. it -a tt 1. The Big Seven will amend, their ' ruling for not allowing participating In any post season affairs. The Big Seven la more than likely to find themselves alone on this bowless limb. 2. A successfull football sea son for Coach Bill Glassford so that the ignorant participants of the "Goodbye Baby Face Bill," episode will eat their words. 3. Hoping that the list of ath letic scholarships will not be published for the good of the athletes of this university. 4. An end to the series of basketball scandals and cheating ordeals that haa caused a pun genth odor to sweep across the country and no doubt an Ironi cal smile to come over the face of Chicago university's president Robert Hutchins. . 5. Continued success to a young bunch of Nebraska basketball players who will probably develop into a closely knitted, winning basketball team before the season ends. 6. Looking forward to seeing Bob Cerv in that New York Yankee starting outfield next spring and Nellie Fox atop the list of American league batters. 7. To Bill Glassford and his staff, Harry Good, Tony Sharpe, Jake . Gelre, George "Potsy" Clark, Hollle Lepley, A. Lew andowski, to the faculty, and especially to YOU ... A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE DAILY NEBRASKAN sports staff. Fijis Bowling Title DU Second Phi Gamma Delta rolled to the fraternity bowling championship with a 2343. The Phi Gams were sparked by Sev Harkson and Bill Holmquist who notched 512 and 505 respectively. Led by Jack Randecker's 505, Delta UDsllon was second with a 2208. Beta Sigma Psi headed by Del Toffen's 494, pulled up third, Z139. The All-University champion shin will be bowled after vaca tlon. Phi Gamma Delta will meet Delta Theta Phi, law fraternity. the independent champs. IS Faces VVU Iowa State heads north Friday to take on a pair of Wisconsin wrestling foes. Successful in Its first start (a 24-28 win over Grlnnel, the Cy clone team hopes o avenge one of its 1951 losses and to itart a new series with a victory. On Friday the team Will meet Wisconsin at Madison. Last year the Badgers handed out i 25-8 lacing to the Cyclones. Coached by George Martin, for mer national champion at Iowa State, Wisconsin is led by another Iowan. Capt. Don Ryan. Other Badger veterans are John Falter, 177-pounds. and Art Prchlik, heavyweight Iowa State leads In the Wiscon- sine series, 9-4. Bernie Masterson ; may be the next Chicago- Cardinal football coach. - It was learned Wednesday that Masterson, former player and head mentor at Nebraska, is receiving serious consideration for the job vacated by Curly Lambeau three weeks ago. Masterson said he has not yet made an official application for tne position. I have not yet made a move toward the Job," Masterson said. "All I know is that a group in Chicago has brought up my name Currently head football coach at Lewis college, Rockport, 111., Masterson's team finished the season with an 8-1 record. His squad was picked to play in the Corn Bowl. A Cardinal official said that "Bernie's Chicago friends have been conducting a strong cam paign in his behalf." It Is believed that Masterson's support is coming from friends he acquired while quarterbacking the Chicago Bears. He has long been a favorite of George Halas. owner oi me Bears. Masterson was a three-year letter winner in football and Iowa State Starts Practice For Drake Tilt Final exams not withstanding, the Iowa State basketball team is getting in some mighty-hard practice licks this week as jt pre pares for its second game of the year with Drake. The two teams clash again at Des Moines Saturday night. Coach Chfck Sutherland some times has to check a master roster to know who is practicing but the Cyclones haven't missed a day. Even when exams keep some of the players out of the scheduled drills, they have turned up later for shooting practice. Starting on Tuesday night, however, Suther land has been able to have the entire squad together for practice. Even a stranger could sense a tough game coming up as he watches the Cyclones drill. From Sutherland right through every man of the squad there is a sen ousness about the return contest that lets all observers know the Cyclones expect a busy evening Saturday. By the same token it is apparent the scrappy comeback kids from Iowa State figure that Drake will have some touch prob lems to handle, too. The game will be the final con test for the Cyclones before the Big Seven tournament at Kansas City, Dec. 2S-2. Grid Figures "There is no place like Ne braska!" Footballwlie, this is certainly true. It Is borne out by the at tendance figure on home games during 1950 and 1951,.....,. . In 1950, the Cornhuskers did not lose a game on the home sod. And there were 178,381 specta tors on hand to watch these vic tories. But in 1951, the Cornhuskers did not win a game at home. Yet 179,444 spectators loyally stood by in one of Nebraska's worst seasons, both from a standpoint of losses and weather. In other words, there were 563 more patrons on hand In 1951 than in 1950. More than 90 per cent of the season book holders in 1951 have reordered their tickets for 1952. A breakdown of the attendance in 1951 follows: Texas Christian Uni.... 37,287 Penn State College 89,770 University of Kansas. . . 35,083 University of Colorado. . 33,606 University of Okla 38,698 Total 179,444 The Penn State game, which was Band Day, set a new indivi dual game record at Nebraska with 39,770 spectators. It broke the mark set by the Indiana-Nebraska game in 1937 when 39,360 watched the Huskers nip the Hooslers, 7-0, when Jack Dodd broke away on a reverse on the first play after the klckoff. Coca Cola 1 C V 4y jk Courtesy Lincoln Stir. CARD COACH?.. Bernie Masterson, former Nebraska football coach, Is a strong can didate for the pro Chicago Cardinal vacancy. Phi Gam Leader I . Ik ' ' SEV HARKSON . . . Led his Phi Gamma Delta mates to victory In the fraternity bowling tournament. Knee Operations May Hamper Oklahoma Wrestling Success Four . knee, operations hold the key to Oklahoma's wrestling hopes m 1952. Coach Port Robertson's de fending National Collegiate champions of last year are pull ing hard for complete recoveries for Frank Marks, Big Seven champion at 167 pounds, ana also for Don Reece, slated to succeed graduated Jack BIu baugh at 130 pounds, and for Ronald Scott, 147-pounder who may move to 157, and Harold Reece. 137-pound alternate. Oklahoma must have Marks, blond divinity student, who m jured his knee while winning the Big Seven 167-pound true last March from Howard Snider of Iowa State and was unable to go with Robertson's Sooners to the national meet which Oklahoma was hard-pressed to win without him by one point. As a sophomore last year, Marks lost his opener 4-3 to Mike Fucci of Oklahome A & M, then rallied to win ten straight and will take that unbroken string into 1952 competition if he is able to wrestle. His 21-second fall over Al Johnson of Nebraska in the Bl Seven semi-finals here was the fastest fall ever scored In the Sooner Fieldhouse. Coach Robertson says: "We won't have as good a team as last year. However, we can till have a pretty fair team If the From Eliza Cook Hunger is titter . . . but the of WW fell Is tkirst. Jletaim Yet, thirst asks nothing more than Coca-Cola. If you're sauntering along or racing your motor, start off refreshed . . . have Coke. . lOmiO UNDER AUTHORITY Of "Cob" I, rtalntrtj tnd-mark. Bottling Company of Lincoln, Nebraska n .0 n n swimming at Lincoln high school and was an all-state halfback. Although he played in the shadow of All-Amerlcan fullback Getrge Sauer at the University, Masterson won a berth on the all-conference team. Under Halas, he became the first of the great Bear T-forma-tion Quarterbacks, followed by Sid Luckman and Johnny Lujack. Masterson began his coaching career at Stanford. He is given a great deal of credit for de veloping quarterback Frankie Albert, whose team defeated Nebraska in the 1941 Rose Bowl, 21-13. Later he coached at UCLA and was head mentor of St. Mary'; pre-flight team during the war. In 194Q he took over as coach at Nebraska and installed the T. Leaving Nebraska at the end Of the 1947 season, Masterson accepted a position with the New York Yankees, pro grid team, and then he went to the University of Iowa as backfleld coach. This was his first year at Lewis college. The Cardinal coach probably will not be selected until Jan. 18, boys are willin gto pay the training price.. I haven't at all been satisfied with our progress in early workouts." The Sooners lost half their team from last year and drew few freshman and sophomore replace ments. Gone are Phil Smith. NCAA and Big Seven champ at 157 pounds, Jack Blubaugh, Big Seven champion at 130, George Jackson, Big Seven champ at 147 and both heavyweights, Bill Kale and Larry Cotton. The lf52 schedule: Jan. 11 (Fri.) Colorado Aggies here, Jan. 18 (Fri.) at Oklahoma Ag gies, Feb. 1 (Fri.) at Iowa State, Feb. 2 (Sat.) at Iowa Teachers, Feb. 4 (Mon.) at Ar kansas Teachers, Feb. 8 (Fri.) Colorado here. Feb. 15 (Fri.) Oklahoma Aggies here, Feb. 19 (Tues.) Nebraska here, Feb. 29 (Fri.) Kansas State here, March 7. 8, Big Seven tournament at Ames, Iowa, March 28, 29, NCAA tournament at Fort Col lins, Colo. Williamson Tabs OUllth Oklahoma was the only Big Seven football team which ranked in the top 15 positions in the final Paul Williamson ratings for the 1951 football season. . The Sooners were picked as the I 11th best grid team in the United States. Nebraska ranked 77th. A most accurse scorpioru THI COCA-COW COMPANY IV 151, THI COCA-COIA COMPANY Tutor, i I i I'M Courtesy Lincoln Star. By GLENN NELSON Sports Staff Writer Track ccach Ed Weir will be counting on plenty of strength and deDth from his freshmen and sophomore squad members dur ing the indoor season. His Big seven inaoor cham pionship team last year packed plenty of depth as well as a few standout performers. But sev eral of his squad members were lost through graduation or the service. Big Seven competition this year should be just as stiff as last sea son, If not tougher from the stand. point 0 f the Cornhuskers. Oklahoma should turn out a team which displays both quality and depth. It won last year's freshman meet easily and will have several good new men to add to its fine varsity team. Kansas has been picked by many coaches as one . of the stronger teams in the confer ence. The Jays especially pow erful In the distance events. Missouri's Tigers, runners-up last year to the Husker cinder men, will , be back boasting an outfit which counts on squad depth. "Our freshman crop appears to be stronger than average," Weir said, "and we will count heavily on them for squad strength." The Cornhuskers are in good physical condition, following fall workouts. The team had good weather for most of its fall work outs. Many of Weir's men will be running in an indoor track meet for the first time and will lack ex perience in that department. (several oi last year's stand outs will be missed. The Ne braska team lost the usual amount of men through gradua tion, but several others have been taken by Uncle Sam. Don Cooper and Leonard Kehl, the two top pole vaulters in the conference last year, were gradu ated last spring. Ken Jacobs, a top-flight miler on the club last year, and Wendell Cole, second-place low hurdler in the conference indoor meet last year, also were lost through grad uation. Hobe Jones, all-around mid dle distance and distance run ner, scored heavily in the in door meet last year. He was taken by the Air Guard unit hist spring. Jones set the all-time Nebraska record in the half mile event in the 1951 indoor meet. He won the 680-yard race in 1:56.4. Lee Alex ander returns in the sprints. Dick Meissner, ace high jumper on last year's thinclad squad, cap tured second place in last year's meet. He is another top point- getter lost through graduation. Weir announced that am nein, 440 runner back from last year's squad, has recently received word Varsity: "The Mob," 1:45, 8:42, 39 7:36 9:35 State: "Christmas Carol," 2:10, :35, 7:00, 9:25. Esquire: "Odette." 7:Z4, p:ib. ajflrtiaIa I he llolltejr rictura of Alt 1 Charles Dickeni' Joy out Clatfic! "A CHRISTMAS CAROL" Starring th Ineomparabal Alactalr Sim as "Scrooge Plu$ Carnival Cartoon NOW IT CAN BE TOLD , . ThA Tnie, Tmimi. "aipmwful Htory of th MiMt Bunted Wtmsm In Hlitorjr! Anna Neagle Trevor Howard "Odette" ADPKD "rtuto'i SnrprUs rackace" Today Sklo4 WMorfraat Urn Srm ColllWi 'THE MOD? Starring Irzizrhk t?M!K73 "The mob that defltd the Ke fauver committee! The coldest ycrew since The Killers"! TRACK STALWARTS . . . Coach Ed Weir (1) well be depending1 on Dan Tolman, a hurdler, (r) to help the Nebraska cinder team defend Its Indoor conference crown. v Underclassmen Aid Husker Track Team Pupil m Courtesy Uncoln Star. from the R.O.T.C. department that he will receive active duty shortly and will not be able to compete with the squad this year. Lee Moore, miler from Grand Island, looms as a bright spot on the Husker picture. Moore, who was unable to compete last season, turned In times under 4:20 two years ago as a sopho more. He should give the Ne braska team a great boost la the distance events, and help relieve the loss of Jones and Jacobs. Moore and Cooper will compete at the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. The t winter classic will offer plenty of competition for the men. Thirty-Third Husker Plays For Charity Frank Simon University end. will be the thirty-third Cornhus- ker to compete in Shrine charity games when he plays for the West at San Francisco, Saturday. Dec 29. Harold Hutchison, now a resi dent of San Francisco, was the first Comhusker . tapped for this contest. That was in 1825 and Hutchison, oddly enough, com peted with the East eleven. A later geographic division used the Mississippi river as the divid ing line and since then all Corn huskers have played with the West. Don Strasheim was the first Cornhusker to clay in the North- South Shrine game at Miami. He competed a year ago. The Cornhusker cagers dropped a 58-57 decision to Texas Christian in an over time period Thursday night The score was tied, 55-55, at the end of regulation play. Next on the Nebraska schedule is Miami university. Lincoln: "Elopement," 1:15, 3:20, 5:25, 7:30, 9:40. Stuart: "The Lady Pays Off," 1:44, 3:42, 540, 7:41, 9:42. Capitol: "Man from Planet X.M 2:37, 5:35, 8:33; "Iron Man," 1:00, 3:58, 6:56, 951. Nebraska: "Buck Private," 1:17, 4:37, 7:57; "At War With the Army," 2:56, 6:16, 9:36. 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