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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 26, 1908)
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Football and 0 ther College Sports By J. C. Knode FYirttlinll Wlthmit nnv nnnntlnn holds the first place among all col logo sports. It can be looked upon 'sWalUm. It enter the elements of team work, which Includes head work, skill, ex perience, nerve,' nggresslvonoss and ability to construct, aB woll as strength. Get all theso dements mixed up In one game, to bo settled In a slnglo contest on ono Hold within sight of overy onlooker, nnd you havo something to mako spirit IntonBO when two rival schools meet to settle the question of tholr superiority In that way. Hut reflcxly, football gets a wholo Carlson, Kansas Center as a sport In a place all by Itself, not oven approached by the other branch es. Without doubt, too, It fulTy do serves this rank, but not for the reason Bimply that it yields a little more excitement to the spectator, leaving aside the question of whether or not ho has something substantial staked on the outcome for there seems to bo those with such defective sporting circulation that It takes some such Individual and personal stimu lant to sot their sporting pulses stir ring above a normal rate nor is foot ball to bo accorded first place Bimply because It Is a test of strength, a test whether this university or that uni versity can produce the more power ful bunch of beef. These points enter into the supremacy of tho gamo, but along in connection with the fact that yjj . . Jf irifinil ' rf SM :-2SsUC&3JMbL , f -. -.M. -. u,t --, xa-Mv q&lllllllllllllllllllllllllllV'' Minor, Nebraska Halfback when the fact was, Nebraska had more nearly Buffered that tate. n. does not matter whether that spirit bo manifested by a mass meeting or a But thlB spirit, though oxproBsod best and most complotoly during tho football soaBon ought to oxtond along Into tho wlntor and Bprlng In suport of tho sportB, which then como off, for those sports also stand for tho unlvorBlty. Porhaps, they do not In cludo all tho foaturos of tho blggor contest, yet tho Bamo prlnclplo Is back of them and that should not fall of recognition as It Iiiih bo lamentably failed In tho past hlalory. At many other InstltutonB baBkot-ball and foot- - i ii Frum, Nebraska Tackle lot of greatness from this spirit which it arouseB. That Is tho best part of It. In tno KanBaB-Nebraska gamo this season there was the best exhibition of real spirit shown by Nebraska sup porters since tho fall of 1904, when the team came back defeated from Minnesota, but were mot, neverthe less, at tho station with a big "band wagon" with a block of ropo on tho tongue, and that ropo lined with men as thick as they could stand; when there was a monster mass meeting in Blrkner, Nebraska Halfback Wma P&MMM Hubbard, Ames Halfback Memorial hall into which the players were carried on the shoulders of their supporters and placed upon tho plat form flanked with cornstalks; when speeches were demanded from tho players and from old Jack Best, who football, rathor because of Its naturo, got up and waved his cap and every is a most sharply decisive contest In body yelled as If Minnesota had been favor of ono or tho other sldo. Into run off the northern hemisphere SsliiiH AsKa H ognizo that all branchos of nthlotlcs stand for tho samo Idea, nnd not only will ovory baflkot-bnll gamo, evory 1 'riyt ,ntji $ ' m& t(l BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBy Temple, Nebraska Fullback ball and truck work are supported as If It wore felt that tho Institution were really being represented by these teams; tho managers aro not troubled about gotting out u crowd sufllciont to pay tho expenses, as is too often tho case at Nebraska. Just why this lack of interest should exist hero is hard to explain unless tho ground bo taken that the real spirit, tho real spirit that ought to pervado football Caldwell, Kansas Tackle baseball gamo, and ovory track meot receive its full Bharo of attohtlon, but football also will bocoino much greater than It Is even now, and Ne braska will produce teams such as It has never produced boforo. MANAGER EARL O. EAGER. snake dance and a Biren yell, it is what makes football really great, bo cause it goes along with tootball. -HiBaaaaaaMfaaik. ' ProBidont Edmund J. Jamos, of tho University of Illinois, in an address to tho students declared that hazing will not bo toloratod, and that any studont found guilty of it will bo dis missed from tho inivorsity. "Hnzing Is a violation of good manners and of tho right of Individual llborty," ho said. It Is provocative of public dls order. In its milder formB it is a iionsenslcal and almost idiotic form of amusement, unworthy of tho sup port or favor of any senslblo unlvor slty student. In Its coarser forms haz ing is a vulgar, brutal, always do- Beltzer, Nebraska Halfback Bentley, Nebraska Quarterback and which certainly did pervado it on tho, two ocasipns mentioned above, Is not a deop-rooted thing here, but shal low arid intermittent. Beginning with that Kansas game a couple of weeks ago there should, bo a growth of genuine Nebraska f spirit which will prove that conclusion to bo absolutely false, which will rec- tKroger, Nebraska Fullback moralizing and sometimes dangerous form' of sport, which the university cannot countenance or tolerate." ; -y$ 1 f tTjt.j5w-ycw-'agi-ptfaMfeaeigSi gSjgJSgJgglgfo'g! jyyi "m'mS-