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1 MM k. ,. h:c Sbh r ir apcwJ (1 ' Vi , -" v. Vol. IX. No. 29. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1909. Price f BBH BBBTk. BBB Wl ITBM .4 i a a. BBB . r V - I I B CHIV 5 Cents. h- B NEBRASKA SHOULD WIN FROIHANSAS ELEVEN POWERFUL CORNHUSKER LINE 18 "KING" COLE'8 HOPE. MUST CHECK JAYHAWKER ATTACKS 1909 are Inferior to tho clfiven thnt played Kennedy's men last fall. Two tie scores with rather weak aggrega tions and other performances not up to Cornhusker standard, they assort, point the season to date as a failure. Ask a Nobraska student who Is wearing one of the "Wo Must Beat Kansas" buttons then "Can you really do It?" You sober him down at once. He 1b likely to tell that Kansas Is "a whole lot stronger than last season and that Nobraska 1b weakor and that It looks as though we'ro going to got it in the nock again." Yet ho has faith In the CornhuBker players and coaches and he thinks his team may possibly win, but he would not bet any money on it. Well, is it true that Kansas is Btrongor than it was last fall and that the Cornhuskers are weaker than they wero when they met tho -Jayhawkors at Antelope park last November? An swer It in tho negative. More prob ably the converse is true. The secret of Nebraska's power this gridiron in the last two years. autumn lies In Itn nnwRrfnl lino find Both olevenB have been polntecTHq In thla ,t nnDeara to havo tho edee on this contest and both aro in the best he Jayhawkers. Last fall the failure of til. Cornhusker forwards to with- Kennedy's, Trick Plays Can Be Only 8mall Factor In Garrie If His For wards Are Helpless John son Is Man Feared. BY C. E. ELLIOTT. "Nebraska and Kansas, tho best rivals and probably tho strongest elevensMn the MlBBOurl Valley, meet tomorrow Ina game that will un doubtedly decide the championship of this section and that should bo one of tho most bitterly and stubbornly fought battles played on ahv western SCRIMMAGE WORK OVER FOR SATURDAY CONTEST t COACH COLE WILL GIVE VAR8ITY NO MORE HARD WORK. TEAM IN C00D PHYSICAL CONDITION All of Cornhusker Squad Apparently Ready to Give Jayhawkors a Hard Battle Tomorrow. i ' .gSBBBBBBBBBBBKf .LsbsbsbsbsbsbH i CARLSON Scrimmage work bo far aB the prop aration for the Kansns game is con cerned 1b over. Since Wednesday tho players have indulged in no Tiard work, Coach Colo being fearful of Injuries that, would incapadltato any of tho regulars for the crUcial struggle. Colo, however, has not been lotting his proteges Bluff any, but has boon put ting them, through some hurry-up tactics that would do credit to tho famous Yost, under whom he got Mils Kansas Center, Who Is One of the Men in the "200-lb." Jay hawker Line. of condition for-a gruelling exhibition. Since early in September "King" Colo has directed Ills entire work toward this Blngle game. , Coach Klonnbdv at Lawrence, looking forward o another "all-victorious" eleven, has been get ting his material shaped to start tho ilrst of the Missouri Valley contests with a powerful oleven..In -Jayhawker-vlllo, Nebraska is not somuch-fpared as it was a year ago, and there is much confidence there that leads tho Lawrence students to, -predict .Ken nedy's aggregation will repeat, with Blightly lesB ease, the exhibition' of last November, Kansas has what is thought to bo nearly as strong a team' as the cham pionship aggregation of last fall. Re ports from Lawrence aro to that ef- feet at least, and certainly the Jay r hawker coaches havo 'the material "'for a' great winning team. - . , V At Nebraska no one would hositato tuto toll you tnat tno uornnusitersoi; ) t . i ' - uornr stand thexpnslaughtB of the Jayhawk ors lost Cot&s team the game. At that time tho rJebraska front was supposed to be super-lor to anything in the west, but the strong Lawrence kmen came liero and outplay&Lthe en tiro bunch of forwards. s. This season tho Jayhawkers are without the service of "Tub" Reed and two other players who mado their. line a stonewall. They undoubtedly are Inferior to the bunch that out played the Nebraska lino in Novem ber. Their work so far this fall has proved this statement. Nebraska, however, has what is ad mitted to be one of tho stoutest lines in the west. Minnesota and Iowa were helpless against it und it ought to show up the Jayhawker forwards. If it does, Nebraska should win the bat tle tomorrow, for under the new rules, adopted in 190G, as well as under tho old code the line is of prime impor tance to a winning eleven. Without a strong bunch of forwards a team cannot be successful. When tho new rules were Introduced many coaches at once began sacrificing beef for speed and agility, believing that a fast, shifty team wari tho only ono that could win under tho new system of play. A few of the coaches Btuck to the beefy lino, and Just now tho country is awakening to tho fact that beef is pust as essential to a victori ous eleven today as it was in tho reign of the charging and flying plays. Never was this better demonstrated than in the gome between Minnesota and Chicago last week. The Maroons, had depended upon speed and trick plays to win. St'agg had discounted the weight of tho Gopher line. Ho thought so did his supporters, Bcker sall and the rest that Captain Page and his team-mates would baffle Wil liams' players with a bewildering at tack of onside kicks, end runs and forward passes. Tho line's prepara tion 'was neglected,. When it came to the show-down Minnesota's strong line hold Chlcag6 helpless. Not a play could gain at tho line or off tackle, and tho offense of the Maroons was broken up. Wil liams kept his- hacks several yards to the rear of tho forwards, where they wero able to Intercept onsido kicks and forward passes, On thooffenBlve tho Gophers with their heavy line bore through the lighter Maroon forwards and swept them completely off' their feet. The game was hailed as the beBt exhibition of modern football ever Continued on.Pagol) p . IIBHHMsHbtfMHHvftluiiHtflU Belts t' mmwSM BELTZER Nebraska's Captain, on Whose Much of Nebraska's Open Play Depends. Skill training. vv All week tho men have shown a ten dency to be a little slow in getting oK their feet and In getting into action. It is safe to predict, however, that when Cole has put tho final finishing touches on the team this afternoon that all Buch tendencies will, he re moved. Good Physical Conditjon. With the team in Its present condi tion Nobraska "Will have ono of the most perfect fighting machines, physic ally, that ever defended tho Scarlet and Cream. How woll this machine has been trained Is 'another matto'r, and remains to be-seen In Saturday's contest. Owing to -the tendency ofl the Jayhawkers to attempt to get on the inside of Ills' plans this year, as they did. last, Cple has resorted td drastic measures. During tho prac- rtvt $!& H tlco this weok and most of laBt nil Btrangors wero kept without tho gatoB and only the occasional "punk" of tho football told what was going on on tho Insido. , Tho team na It will bo Been in ac tion Saturday will present a slightly different nppparanco than formorly and the playH will alnuiBt cntlroly bo new. Colo Is not taking any chancos on lotting tho Jayhawker spies undo him ngain this year, and has cut loono from almost ovory play UBCd carlior In tho season, and the rehearsal of now plays Iihb kept the CornhuBkor squad grinding away until noarly dark. With theBO plays perfoctod the Cornhusk ers will at least havo something in Btock to entertain tho JayhawkorB which tho onomy has not yot encount ered. Great Attendance Promised. Win or lose, tho CornhuskerB will not bo without an abundanco of homo support, and tho naturo of that sup port was well demonstrated In yeBtor day's mass mooting In Memorial halL Tho advanco salo of Boats is tho beBt in tho history of tho Institution and nearly ovory reservation in tho grand stand, has, been Bold, impelling the Ne braska managomont to tako hasty BtepB to" enlargo tho stand. Ono block of 300 seats has been reserved for tho Lawrenco excursionists, who aro to como to Lincoln 300 strong on a spe cial" train. Tho managomont predicts an nttendanco of over 5,000 spoctators, and this number may bo materially lncroased owing to tho number of teachers who will probably attend. 8ome Switches In Back Field. Nebraska will likely prosent a "how lineup in tho back field, Prank going to quarter, where ho haB already had considerable experience. Magor will take Frank's placo at right half, and C'hauner will go to right end. Thlfl .chnngo would materially incroaso the weight of tho back field, and at the same time leavo tho ends woll taken care of. 7n,cao of Injury then, Bont ley can be put nt quarter and Frank put nt half, Btlll leaving Sturtzonogger, n dependable sub. Colo is not venturing any predictions as to the outcome, other thanto de clare that the Cornhuskora will not bo found lacking in tho fighting' spirit and that if tho Jayhawks win It wlil not bo until after tho florcoBt struggle of tho season on Nebraska flold. Tho luck has been breaking against tho Nebraska team almost from tho In ception of tho season. Tho Jayhawks woro tho horsoshoos last year, al though they put up the bettor exhibi tion of football, and Colo Is of tho no tion that tho luck Is duo' to turn in Nebraska's favor. Tho supporters of tho game at tho Cornhuskor Institu tion aro Impressed with tho boliof that tho Kansas school has a fine team this year and they look for a result much closer than In 1908, when tho Jayhawks lugged off the laurels by a score of 20 to 6. Tho Impression ap pears to bo general in tho Nebraska camp that tho Jayhawks havo tho odgo ns to the end and back flold positions, while tho Cornhuskers havo tho better lino. Shonka Is a whaling good center and Is' fact learning to mako ovory ounce of his 200 pounds count in Ne braska's favor. Ewing and Wolcott havo been thoroughly dependable al hpiigh not Bhowy guards, while Tem ple and Harto, tho two tackles, are as good as tho best In the Missouri val ley. Prom tacklo to tackle, Nebraska has not had a better lino f or v many seasons. Whether;or not the Jayhawks can accomplish. much 'by hitting the line remaln8,for"?Sa'turday to. decide'. Meanwhile, tlie' Nebraska; r'oote'rs.en tertain the notion that .'there will r he very little dolfrg, Mr tho Jayhawks 1ri . Continued dh Page 8 -.A . v RALLY FOR JAYHAWKERS THE BIGGEST IN YEARS MORE ENTHU8IA8M 8HOWN THAN EVER BEFORE KNOWN. TRIED OUT THE NEW UNIVERSITY YELL Rooting Leaders Believe that at Last They Have Something Which Will Drown Out the Famous Kansas "Rock-Chalk." "Tho beat rally In yoars." "More enthusiasm than Nebraska students havo over shown bofotc, with orto oxcoptlon." Theso and similar statements woro hoard on tho campus yostorday aftor tho Cornhuskor studonts loft Momorlal hall to tho strains of Professor Sto vons now Scarlot and Cream Bong. With ropuntcd ahonrs and calls for dlfferont members of tho team, with speochOH from tho chancellor and pro- 4 i f Aflfc.tAJtJwSsWSX BBBBBBBBBbC flBrBSBufti T " 'iBBBBBBr' . !vA :BBBBBBBBB ' . BBBBH' . 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