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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Prospects of the 1914 Team
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By E. O. Stlehm, Coach
At the close of every football season, no mutter liow suc
cessful it may huve been, the loyal enthusiast can not help but
commence n speculation upon the prospects for the following
season. We are just closing what has been one of the most
brilliant records ever made by a Nebraska team upon the grid
iron and this has come in spite of the fact that when the Hchool
year closed last spring the lack of veteran material gave the
football dopsters very little hope for even a Missouri Valley
championship. ,
For this reason alone it may be readily seen that "dope'' no
matter how hot it is at the close of one football season, has a
tendency to grow cold before another twelve months has rolled
by. We may figure now that 1014 will even surpass the wonder
ful work of the present aggregation and by the time for the
opening practice find that our plans and hopes have been upset
by unforseen circumstances, such as sickness of players, failure
of stars to return to school or just common everyday hard luck,
such as has pursued the Cornhuskers in times past.
However, no matter how things will actually shape them
selves by next fall, at the present time Nebraska has never had
rosier outlooks for a winning eleven than she now has for the
15)14 team. Nine members of our
all-victorious 1913 machine are
eligible according to the rules
of the Missouri Valley to com
pete another year, and of these
seven are almost certain to re
turn. The other two have given
out statements which at least
lead us to hope that they intend
to do their best to be in the old
red and white uniform in next
fall's battle with the Gophers at
Minneapolis.
Besides this formidable nu
cleus we have probably the
greatest array of freshmen stars
for many years, who will be in
a position to represent the var
sity next year. They give prom
ise to form a combination as
powerful as any of the old-time
aggregations that have carried
the Scarlet and ('ream to all
victorious seasons. Several of
the first year men are showing
speed ana strength enough in
the daily scrimmages with the varsity to assure them of places
upon the team of 1914.
Two of these are undoubtedly as great a pair of football
players as has ever donned the moleskins at any western insti
tution, not excluding Minnesota, Chicago, Wisconsin, or Mich
igan. Of the present regular team Purdy and Ross are the only
players that we will lose by the three-year rule, while Towle
and Beck, the little quarterback and speedy end, are eligible
for another year of competition, but can graduate at the end
of the present school year if they so desire. The loss of Captain
Purdy will mean that the Cornhuskers lose a two and possibly
three-year all Missouri Valley player, who is a hard line
smasher, a fleet end dasher, and a demon defensive tackier.
Clinton Ross, while not a flashy performer, is a pillar of
strength in the line and but for the wealth of material which
we may expect to report next fall, his absence would probably
; become a blow from which the team would not recover.
"JliMliO" HTIFIIM.
"Jumbo" Mich in, the wonder-worker of the Missouri
Valley, the one man towards irhom ill instinctirely turn
when football in mentioned in the midwest, has completed
his third year as football coach at Nebruskfi. For three
years the wearers of the Scarlet and Cream hare brouyht
Valley honors to Nebraska under his tutcluyc, and in the
third year they hare sent Minnesota back to the north, de
feated. Who is this Merlin of football and from whence does
he come? From the obscurity of a tiny colleye in Wiscon
sin, after four years on the yridiron of Wisconsin V. and
four years on the basket-ball floor, he stepped almost un
heralded into the shoes of "Kiny" (1ole. In the three short
years at Nebraska he has come to be recoynized as the biy
yest man in western football circles. And football is not
his only hobby. As an all-year coach lie has twice brouyht
the M. V. basket-ball championship to Nebraska's trophy
case.
Now he predicts, this man who says so little and does
so much, not only another year of ylory in the Missouri
Valley, but a second successive defeat for the (iopJiers on
their own field. All hail to "Jumbo" titichm, the Prophet.
With Howard and Rutherford remaining for backfield po
sitions, Mast in at onu end, Halligan, Thompson, Abbott and
Cameron in the line ihid possibly Towle at quarter, and Meek
at end, the present freshmen will be called upon to fill but four
positions, at the most, upon the 15)14 squad.
This they are abundantly able to do. Chamberlain the 192
pound halfback is a wonderful player, with a combination of
speed, weight and aggressiveness which equals that of the
mighty llrickley of Harvard, according to experts who have
seen them both perform, lie can plunge through an almost im
movable line, skirt the best of ends, or stop the most terrific
runners while on (he defense. He has a quick head and is shifty
enough to take advantage of every opportunity. lie will make
a gmit running mate for Rutherford.
II. II. Corrcy, the 209 pound freshman tackle, has been ji
bug-bear to the varsity men all season and has broken up more
plays unassisted than any regular collegian which Nebraska
has met upon the gridiron. He will be respected by all of tin
Cornhuskers' opponents as soon as he becomes a member ol
the team and can class with Westover, Shonka or other of Ne
braska's famous line men.
Kasmussen and Norris are
brilliant first year performers
who have shown varsity ability
from the first, practice of the
year. Norris is from Halligan's
home town and out there in
North Platte they claim that he
is the equal of the "Thunder
bolt." Porter, if Towle fails to
return, should develop into a
second Johnny Render at the
general's position. He has
shown a remarkable amount of
speed and "pep" during the long
grind of practice.
If everything breaks in our
favor, and there is no reason
why everything should not, Ne
braska for the first time in the
history of the school should
humble the mighty Minnesota
team two years in succession as
well as annex the fifth straight
Missouri Valley championship.
Girls' Cornhusker Party
The girls of the University will celebrate en masse on the
evening of the Cornhusker banquet, since they are not invited to
help in the general celebration for the team. This was decided
at a meeting of the Girls' club, held last night in the Y. W. C.
A. rooms, and the executive body of the club is perfecting plans
for the largest meeting of co-eds ever held.
Miss Gittings, Miss Conklhi, and Miss Hrbek, the advisory
board of the Girl's club, are assisting in the plans.
It will be an all-University girls' party, and while there
will be a general Cornhusker air to it, the girls will celebrate by
"costuming," rather than by dining and "speechifying." It will
be a costume party, held in the girls' gymnasium, and the date
is December 5th.