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oxccpt our own has his equal. He is a hard fighter, and a swift,
hard-hitting runner.
Gibson is the best punter in school, and has not been a regu
lar simply because he is too tall to buck the line like Leonard
Purdy hits it. At that the fight between the two has been too
close for comfort all season.
Dick Russell, left half, is the heaviest of the quartette, and
is the mainstay at getting the interference. Dick plays football
like a hero, and it takes two good men to put hjm down.
All of these men will be eligible next year but Gibson, who
is said to be barred for having participated in basketball for two
years previously.
THE CORNHUSKER CAPTAIN
If Captain Sylvester V. Shonka
does not make a position on the
all-western team for 1911, there
is not a rooter at Nebraska will
have any faith in the selection as
made.
The big fellow who has lead
the Nebraska team through its
second consecutive championship
season, is undoubtedly one of the
most powerful offensive and de
fensive players that have boon
developed in iny lino in the west.
Standing well over six feet in his
stockings, fast, strong, broad of
shoulder, eool of head and weigh
ing well over 200 pounds, he has
been for three years the superior
of any tackle against which. he
has been placed.
This year, as captain, he has. contrary to the general rule,
played' tho best game of his life. He is the best type of c611ege
athlotc that Nebraska can produce. Absolutely clean, honest,,
and straightforward on the field, and off; in the game and out, he
is a credit to the game of football.
Tn the team picture printed on the insert he is depicted as
he appeared thrco years ago when first he donned a Cornhusker
uniform a great football player in the rough. We print above
a portrait photograph of his as he is now the greatest of them
all.
rough, a bargain counter rush or something like that. Ho is a
mountain and hits the lino like a bag of sand.
Bock and Hawkins are a pair of speedy halves and start down
the field, for a ten-second record. They would make it too, if
some rude varsity players didn't get in the way. They are clever
and break away from the melee in nice shape. Football knowledge
just "kinda leaks" from them and they both have the makings of
good players for the 1912 varsity.
This man Allan, who holds down the center's job on tho
freshies, is some man and hits the line with a force that the varsity
men call a mule's kick. He is beefy and has the prep school ex
perience that will make a place somewhere sure.
Maston, Delametre and Appel are a trio of good players who
stand high in the estimation of the sideline coaches and they have
every prospect of work on the big team next year. Appel played
a good game"with the Lincoln high school team a year'or so ago
and is keeping it up with the big school.
Coaches Stiehm and Rathbone are well pleased with the out
look for a winning bunch from the freshmen and say that the 1912
team will have a chance for a series of victories and then some.
MANAGER EAGER A HUSTLER
Everybody knows Earl 0. Eager, the Honorable E. 0. Ho has
been either football player or manager of all athletics at Nebraska
since the oldest student can remember, and probably a good deal
longer than that.
For four years, "Dog" was a half back and end on the varsity,
and he gained a reputation as about the scrappiest little bunch of
trouble that ever worth the scarlet and cream at anything liko his
weight.
So deeply did he become imbued with the real Cornhusker
spirit, that following a year of disastrous student management,
which left the athletic association badly in debt, ho volunteered
his services as graduate manager, although he had not yet gradu-1
LOOKING AHEAD
BY E. L. UPDEGRAFF
Nebraska will not lack for good material for the big team
. next year. Tho freshmon team this fall far surpasses nuany minor
college teams. The uniform success of the Cornhuskcrs this year
has been largely due to tho scrimmage-work with the new men.
The freshmon have played good ball throughout the whole of
the season and have scored on the Varsity a number of times.
This has been due to such men as Warren Howard, Ilalligan, the
Faught brothers from Beatrice, Beck, Maston, Allan, Hawkins,
'Delametre and Appel.
Warren Howard is an Omaha boy and he started out for the
Cornhusker team four years ago. He shows the results of his
training during the three years he played on tho Omaha high
school team as one of the best prep school ends and quarterbacks
in t,he state. Ho has been in his old place while on the freshman
squad and fcols so much at home that he hates to quit on account
of darkness every night. Warren is so fast that when he makes
a fiold tackle it looks like a cloud of dust.
HalligarT ""arrived froTvT"N6Tfli TKfEto where TTo-was asfar for
fair. Every time the sand hills won a game tho mayor and all the
rest of the town came down to the station with flowers until TIally
won so many games that to save time the town put up a welcome
arch. As fullback ho is certainly a wonder. He can find so many
holes in the opponents' line that it looks liko i slab of Swiss
cheese. Chasing coyotes is certainly good practice for open field
. runs.
Tho Faught boys play on tho lino and are a whole team in them-
y selves. They are a stone wall and connot be moved with anything
less than a derrick. The little husky, who weighs in at about two
hundred andumpty, complains that he has no$ reached his growth
as yet, and that he would like to play in something that really was
EARL O. EAGER
Graduate Manager of Athletics.
Ued. He assumed 'his duties and several thousand dollars "worth of
debts in 1907.
What he has dpnc since, is now ancient history, but will bear
repeating. lie has payed off njl the debt, and established a credit
running woll into big money. lie has put through the buying and
partial equipment of a brand new athletic field, ne has so arranged
his schedules that Nebraska is all tho time in the lime light, and
last; but not least has gotten himself in so well with tho students
that they elected him to the house of representatives, hence the
"Hon." abover
Ho also rides, around in an automobile all his own, and noone
has over been known to got from him a football, baseball,, sweater,
jersey, shoe, or pass, to which he was not justly entitled,
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