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THE NEBRASKAN -HESPERIAN
Vol. 8-29, No. 9.
LINCOLN, NOVEMBER 14. 1890.
Five Cents.
VARSITY WINS FROM DRAKE
Play (lie Best Game of the Season and
Get Game on Merits
12-0.
In speaking of the Nebraska-Drake
game Saturday tho Dos Moines Regis
ter speaks as follows:
"The unexpected happened yesterday
In tho foot ball game between Drake
and Nebraska, the latter winning by a
score of 12 to 6.
"The surprise of the day was the
lino work of the Nebraska Indians.
Thev tore big holes In tho Drake line
and made repeated gains through the
big guards, while their tackling was an
eye-opener to the cranks who stood
along the lines. Whenever an Indian
got his arms around one of the Drake
men he went down as if struck with a
club. It was do or die with the team
from Lincoln, and they demonstrated
beyond a doubt their ability to play
the game.
"One of the greatest difficulties
Coach Potter has had to overcome at
Drake this season is fumbling, and that
feature was emphasized with a ven
geance' at the game yesterday. Time
and again Drake succeeded in advanc
ing the ball, only to lose it on fumbles.
The ends for Nebraska were a stone
wall and few Drake runners succeeded
in getting past them. Kicking honors
were easy, with the Indians getting
slightly the better of it. The Indians
fell down on catching and fumbled the
ball badly, while Drake froze every ball
that sailed into its territory from a
punt and carried it back twenty to
thirty yards.
"Drake's backs did not play their
usual good game, and were tackled too
many times behind their own lino for a
loss. McGugin proved the best ground
ga'ner for Drake, while Benedict and
Gordon covered the most chalk lines
for Nebraska. Whiffen of Kansas City,
who officiated, gave the best of satlsfac
t.on and laid down the law to the play
ers repeatedly and effectively. The
game was so fierce that there was
hardly a line smash but some player
was hurt.
"At the call for play to begin the Ne
braskans kicked off to Drake's thirty
yard line.
"The kick-off was returned by Bliss,
and the Nebraska man failing to hold
the ball, little Bacon was on it like a
shot and the hammering began. Joe
Kies brought the first burst of applause
when he made a gain of ten yaTda
around Nebraska's end. The game had
not proceeded ten minutes before
Moorehouso, the big Drake center, was
hurt so badly in his weak shoulder that
he had to leave tho game, Maulsby
going in in his place. Smith was able
to make a gain of ten yards around the
right end, and things began to look
bright for Drake's scoring when a bad
fumble lost them tho ball. It was the
first of many and, in fact, this failing
of Drake to hold the ball helped greatly
towards their loss of the game. An off
side play gave the Indians ten yards,
and they went tearing through the
Drake lino for good gains before they
could be held for downs. Drake no
sooner got possession of the ball than
they lost it again on a fumble, It was
Nebraska's turn now to try a game of
line bucking, and the way those In
dian backs hurdled over that line
struck terror to the wearers of white
and hlue, The ball was steadily ad
vanced lo Drake's forty-yard line, when
Benedict tucked the oval under his arm
and, with fine interference, chased
around Drake's right end for twenty
five yards. The ball -was now on the
Drako five-yard line, and Gordon was
called upon to do the final act, which
resulted in a touchdown, from which
Ringer kicked an easy goal. On the
line-up Drake worked like a fiend to
score and got the ball down the field to
the thirty-yard line, where she tried for
a drop kick, but the ball went wide of
the mark. The tackling of Nebraska
was some of the best seen here this sea
son and was the means of saving more
than one touchdown for Drake. Little
Bacon had been doing some remarkable
tackling and on every long punt he was
down the field and downed the man
that caught the ball in his tracks, and
on two occasions in the first half he got
the punt on Nebraska's fumble. Try
as they might, Drake was unable to
make much headway against the In
dians' line, and when they did some
Drakeite would fumble the ball at a
critical moment. Time was called on
the half with the ball on Nebraska's
forty-yard line. Score: Nebraska, 6;
Drake, 0. It was now an even bet who
would win, and Drake saw a hard prop
osition before them, but when time was
called for the second half Drake went
in to win, but met that same old stub
born resistance. After see-sawing for
some time in the middle of the field
Drake massed for a tandem play
through center, and with Kies carrying
the ball a run of forty yards was made,
Kies planting the ball squarely between
the goal posts. Bliss kicked an easy
goal and the score was a tie.
"Soon after the line-up Drake was
forced to punt and Benedict caught it
In the middle of the field and ran
thirty-five yards, fighting his way
through the entire Drake team. He
was finally downed on Drake's fifteen
yard line, and after a most desperate
struggle Benedict was finally puphed
over for a second touchdown and Ring
er kicked his second goal. This proved
to be the last score making and time
was called with the ball in the middle
of the field. The line-up Avas as follows:
Drake. Nebraska.
Smith r. e Cortelyou
McGugin r. t Westover
Johnson r. g Brew
Moorehouso c Koehler
Maulsby.
Wright 1. g Ringer
Kies (capt.) 1. t...Pearse (capt.)
McFerrin 1. e Drain
Sellards q. b Crandall
Bliss-Snyder . . . .r. h Benedict
Bacon 1. h Bell
Pell f. b Gordon
"Umpire, Whiffen; referee, Schooler;
touchdowns, Benedict 2, Kies 1; goals,
Ringer 2, Bliss 1; length of halves,
thirty-five minutes."
MASS MEETING IN CHAPEL.
A convocation of the students was
held In chapel Friday immediately
after the special musical program of
tho morning for the purpose of arous
ing enthusiasm for the Kansas game
and to sell five hundred tickets for the
same. The meeting was in charge of
Dr. John White, president of the ath
letic board, and was opened by a few
remarks by Chancellor Bessey. The
purpose of tho meeting was outlined to
the students. Rev. W. II. Mauss and
Rev. Luther P. Ludden as representa
tives from the city and Dr. Roscoe
Pound made remarks upon the situa
tion and illustrated to the students the
necessity of united action. While the
remarks were being made students ap
pointed by tho president passed
through the audience and secured per
sons who pledged the sale of tickets.
Five hundred were disposed of in this
way. Tho meeting waB a success and
accomplished its purpose.
ANOTHER ALUMNI CLUB.
Organization of Nebraska Students is
Effected in Paris ltcccntlj
The Members.
Tho following letter was received
from Ernest R. Holmes, '90. Little ex
planation is necessary. It Is another
example of tho fellowship that is
created among the students of this in
stitution during their college days. It
reads as follows:
"Pursuant to a mutual understand
ing, the alumnus and alumnae of the
university now more or less resident In
Paris met In the Pantheon at 1:15 p.
m. October 15. (Strict Sabbath ob
servers will please not look up the date
in the calendar.) The roll being sup
posed to be called, there were found
present three ladies and one lone, lorn
man, besides, to add to the overwhelm
ing feminine majority, a lady graduate
of Illinois university, lately from
Sauerkrautischerreich.
"De gang proceeded to station itself
exactly beneath the center of the dome
and the solitary "ed" (masc. for co-ed),
waving a long roll which looked like a
diploma, and wasn't, got off some re
marks supposed to be an excuse for the
gathering. The chief alleged reason
was that steps should be taken to pro
tect the young darlings of Mrs. A.
Mater next year when they venture
into the giddy whirl of Parisian life
with exposition features added. The
meeting was duly called to order, all
members standing. The Pantheon
being especially for dead people, the
.government (A has Loubet) has not
seen fit to provide chairs.
"On motion of Ernest Raymond
Holmes, '90, Miss Julia Marie Kors
meyer, '93, was nominated for presi
dent. Her protests being unanimously
ruled out of order, the nomination was
seconded and voted without a slip.
"Calls for a speech were coolly ig
nored and the motion to adjourn to the
top of a Pantheon-Courcelles omnibus
was acted on without a vote, not, how
ever, before the member of '90 had by
insistent request carried off the secre
taryship. He propos'ed to have some
means of counteracting the feminine
majority.
"Arrived on the upper deck, the as
sociation resolved itself into a talking
bee with a mixture of new winter hats,
peculiarities of the French language and
Paris antiquities as the principal topics
and study of the aforementioned roll,
a map of the exposition grounds for
variety. This lasted for half an hour,
with no attempt on the part of the pres
ident to call to order, or get down
to business. As the 'bus traversed the
St. Sulpice region, the president was
heard to remark with a superior air
that she dwelt in a holier place than
the rest of the crowd, and she pointed
with pride to the windows full of four
foot candles, rosaries, saints' images
and altar ornaments. The denizens of
the learned but hardly pious Latin
quarter could only acknowledge the
corn. The president's exalted state of
holiness was perhaps due to her hav
ing, together with certain other mem
bers, attended masses in six different
churches that morning, including a
Pyrlac service.
"Descending at one corner of the
Place de la Concorde, under the slim
shadows of the tall iron towers that
will guard the grand entrance of the
exposition, the alumni association pro
ceeded to nose along the high-board
fence to find a hole through which to
get into the art palace enclosure. Said
hole was found In the old Palace of In
dustry. The guardian would have ex
cluded the whole alumnre crowd, say
ing that the pass presented was good
for only one person, If tho secretary
had not magnanimously stood up for
the members of the opposing sex. He
pointed out that the pass read for him
self "et plusleurs personnes," quite neg
lecting to add that he had made It out
himself Instead of having It done by
tne French administration. He also
muttered something about being jani
tor or something of the sort for the
American commission.
"The majority of the association re
fused a proffered opportunity to mount
up on the lofty scaffolding of the art
palace dome, there to give the univer
sity yell, and thus thwarted the always
vaulting ambition of the secretary,
who never misses a bird's-eye view. The
alleged learned body stalked past the
partly finished frescoes representing
art in different ages, and not one classic
student offered to read the gilt Greek
inscriptions, to say nothing of the
Egyptian hieroglyphics.
"Crossing the street, the association
showed its western spirit by cjlmbing
up a ladder to get on the Alexander IIJL
bridge Instead of going around by the
steps. Arriving at the far end the sec
retary, aided only feebly by the presi
dent, succeeding in rounding up the co
eds, so that at least one office apiece
could be passed around.
"On motion of the secretary, sec
onded by the president, Miss Marlel
Clapham Gere, '95, was duly elected
treasurer amidst a general outcry
against any dues being levied." Mrs.
Kittle Shackelton Holmes, '97 &, was
made vice president. Miss Church,
University of Illinois, was then elected
honorary member, but denied an office.
"The secretary, in memory of the
days when he used to rustle cqpy for
the Hesperian of snakes and green corn
peculiarities, moved that the Ne-braskan-Hesperian
be adopted as the
official organ of the Paris Alumni as
sociation. "Adjournment was then taken to a
farther point along the projected
route. No policeman being in sight to
pull off the Invalides coupon, the asso
ciation, to the envy of more timid
promenaders, just walked through a
gap In the fence right into a building.
It was promptly ordered out from
under the workmen, but only veered off
into the avenue between the lines of
buildings.
"Emerging at the other end of the
esplanade, a visit was paid to the tomb
of a gentleman who, according to some
of the party, was called Napoleon, and
according to others something which,
put into chaste and classic English,
would be Osseous Formation. The sec
retary having always heard the former
name applied to a round, yellow metal
article, which at long Intervals he man
ages to get hold of, and deeming the
second decidedly Improbable as a fam
ily name, offers the supposed Informa
tion of the co-eds for what it is worth.
He looked carefully for a label on the
coffin, and as there wasn't any he is
not going to make a break by any wild
guess. The coffin is seemingly made out
of a large size, .red stone bath tub. It
may be all a josh about there being
anybody inside of it, for the conces
sionaires, to speak in exposition terms,
have taken the precaution to clap on an
awfully heavy lid and then look up the
whole place, bo nobody can get at it.
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