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NEBRASKA'S ALL-YEAR COACH
When Ewald 0. Stiehm, quondam All-Western center, and al
ways star player was selected early in the spring of 1911 as All
Tear Coach for Nebraska athletics, from those who had known him
previously, came a flood of congratulations to the athletic board,
on the wisdom of the choice.
Standing several inches over six feet in his stockings, big voiced,
and whole hearted Stiehm made his appearance on the campus a
few weeks later, and then the board began congratulating itself.
Never since the first has there been any tendency to regret these self
administered congratulations.
'Jumbo" has made good"" beyond a shadow of doubt. He has
put a rather light team through the hardest season in Nebraska foot-
EWALD O. 8TIEHM
Who developed the Champions.
in which ho and four small boys woro matchod against the local
high school team, and to quoto the newspaper story of what fol
lowed: "Stiehm won 32 to 22. Ho mado 32 points for his team."
Ewald 0. Stiehm is 26 years of ago and a bachelor. He is a
member of the Wisconsin chapter of Alpha Tan Omega.
He is tho tallest man on tho Hold.
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ball 'records, with but one 'defeat, and has developed a scoring ma
chine that is not equalled in total number of points registered by
any team now playing football.
Ewalcl 0. Stiehm is a product of tho University of Wisconsin
and the coaching of Charles McCarthy. He was the unanimous
choice of tho Big Eight writers for All-Western center in 1908, on
account of his remarkable ability at passing on the offense, and at
breaking up forward passes on the "defense. His knowledge of this
. brjmchjjf the new game has helped him materially in perfecting Ne
braska 's system of defense against the long passes, and this play
has never been worked consistently against his team during tho
season.
After leaving Wisconsin, Stiehm first coached Fort Atkinson
high school, and Rippon college with success, and it was his record
at these places that gave him preference with the Nebraska athletio
board aver a half dozen other applicants.
He is particularly fitted for his position as All-Year coach, he
was even a greater basket ball man, having a rtcord- that is alto
gether" unique During tho winter of 1908 while enjoying the Christ
mas vacation, he organized a game at a small town in Wisconsin,
Former students and Alumni of Nebraska and Michigan, frionds
of either school, and tho Cornhusker undergraduates will mingle
with tho Wolverine and Cornhusker teams tonight at tho Lincoln
Auditorium in tho biggest collegiato banquet ever held in tho history
of Nebraska the annual Cornhusker Banquet.
Tho "Cornhusker" is tho big post-season food given aunually
by Nebraska undorgraduates in honor of tho football team, and tho
date this year was set for tonight, especially to accommodate tho
large number of alumni and former students who were expected to
return for the big gamto.
The banquet has in previous years been strictly stag and con
fined to Nebraska alumni and students only, but when it was
.learned that several hundred alumni of tho Wolverine institution
were planning to attend tho game, and making arrangements for a
small banquet of their own, Manager Van Dusen of tho Nobraska
Iced conceived tho idea of inviting them to join with tho Scarlet
and Cream enthusiasts, to make the feed this year, the largest
and best of its kind.
Tho proposition was put to the committee in charge of the
plans for Michigan, and met with instant and hearty approval,-the
invitation being accepted as cordially as it was extended, .and a
joint committee at once began work on the larger affair.
At Auditorium.
The banquet will be held in the Auditorium at Thirteenth and
M streets, and arrangements are being made to caro for 1,500
hungry football enthusiasts. The service will be furnished by the
Lindell hotel, which handled tho enormous Bryan banquet early in
tho fall. Manager Van Dusen is authority for the statement that
there will beno delay in service whatever, as all of the food will
be placed on the tables promptly at 7 o'clock, and tho waiters will
bo useful only in replenishing the plates of tho banqueters.
The tables at which tho Michigan and Nebraska warriors, and
tho members of the Toast list with their wives are to be seated, will"
bo placed on the stage, in full view from, any part of the hall, and
such are tho accoustic properties of the auditorium, that their voices
will be heard easily in all parts of tho great room.
Co-Eds Invited.
In view of the. decision to include the co-eds and tho visiting
ladies in the banquet this year, special arrangements have also been ;
mode for their accommodation and entertainment. It is said on"
good authority that the girls' rooting squad will be in attendance,
and the enviable record made at the games this year by this famous
Cornhusker contingent, leaves no room for doubt hut that they will
have some novelty to offer to the life of the evening.
In equal honor to the two universities, tho great banquet room
is draped in the mingled colors, Maize and Blue for Michigan and
the Scarlet and Cream of Nebraska. At each plate are souvenir
menus bearing a picture of Captain Sylvester Shonka, and each
guest will be presented with a souvenir pennant of his alma mater.
The toast list has been selected equally from Michigan and No
braska supporter's and includes the following: ,
Toastmaster, Hon John L. Kennedy, of Omaha.
"East Meota West" : Judge Cosgrave (Michigan)
"Michigan" .Dean Cooloy (Michigan)
"West Meets East" Governor C. H. Aldrich (Nebraska)
t College Men" Prof. Knowlton (Michigan)
"Season of 1911' . T. n. Matters (Nebraska)
"The Team" Captain Shonka (Nebraska)
"Nebraska". . .' Chancellor Samuel Avorv
Coaches Stiehm and Yost of the two teams will respond in im
promntu. talks . U
Beside the notables on the list of speakers. Ex-Senator E. J.
Burkett, Mayor Armstrong, of Lincoln; Mayor James C. Dahlmon:
,of Omaho, and many other men of prominence both locally and
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Bryan is unavoidably unable to come' this year, having previously
accepted-an invitation for a-winter cruise on the Amazon river,
which required him to leave for New Yorlc early in tho week. v
Music will bo furnished by the Fourth Regiment band of 'Fort
Crook, Omaha, and by .the Nebraska Cadet band, which has made
such a name for itself throughout the entire western collegiato world
jtho past season.
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