THE DAILY NEBRASK AN
tlATMEN PREPARE
FOR AMES MEET
u.en Unievrsities Have En
tered in Western Con
ference Tourney.
INDIVIDUAL MATCHES
TO COME MARCH 14-15
Coach "Doc" Clapp and his staff of
lsSistants have been hard at work
Sing the past few days preparing
Z Busker grapplers for their pair
f championship meets at Ames Fri
j v and Saturday and at Chicago,
Varch 1 nd 15, Nebraska matmen
11 leave for Ames this afternoon to
Inter one of the strongest wrestling
?.... in the Valley compet that has
!Lr represented the Cornhusker
state. The local ratimu pmuuuincu
his proteges in top shape with the
exception of the 135-pound per
former who will be unable to wrestle
0P account of injuries.
Kext week the curtain will be
lowered on the mat season at the Uni
versity when Husker maulers will up
Md the Scarlet and Cream at the
Westers Intercollegiate conference
;Kvidaal championships at Chicago.
This meet is not a team contest and
only the outstanding wrestlers of the
season will be entered. The Missouri
Valley meet is a team meet with the
individual titles being awarded at the
same time in an elimination contest.
Win First Two Matches.
The local artists copped the first
ivei of matches winning from North
western at Evanston 13 to 7 and tak
ing the Kansas Jayhawks down for
a trimming on foreign soil 18 to 5.
In the initial meet of the season,
Highly, heavyweight representative,
iras injured when his opponent ran
kim into the scoring table. Just be
fore the Ames meet, Uhler, welter
weight grappler, was added to the in
jsred list when he dislocated his left
sboalder in daily workouts and was
kept oat of the next two dual meets.
When the University of Iowa met the
Huskers, three regulars were outside
the ropes with injuries. Coach Clapp
announced yesterday that Uhlir
would not be in the Ames compet,
Highly and Robertson have fully re
covered. The Valley titular affair will be
the first contest that Highly has
wrestled in since the first of the sea
son and is expected to cinch his let
ter. Five matmen have already made
their "N" recognition, Captain Kel
logg, Blore, Uhlir, Skinner and Rob
ertson.
Lot Three Straight.
Alter winning the two opening
contests, Nebraska dropped three
straight to Ames, the University of
Iowa and Minnesota. In all three of
these dual meets the Uuskers led at
the end of the lightweight matches.
Ames took a close 17 to 9 win, Iowa
won 19 to 10 only after the Hawkeye
heavyweight performe r pinned
llamsa to the mat with a body chan
cery when the Husker had a time ad'
vantage, and Minnesota upset the
dope container by winning from Ne
braska, 9 to 8, for the first time since
the two schools have met on the mats.
This lone tally margin came in the
final bout when Nebraska led 8 to 4.
Captain Kellogg has not lost a sin
gle match for two seasons in the
125-pound division. Blore, bantam
weight has lost two contests on time
decisions. Uhlir 'entered the Gopher
compet after being out of the game
for three weeks to lose his only sea
son match by a time advantage win
ning from all his other opponents by
falls.
Skinner and Mooberry Even.
Dale Skinner and Mooberry have
been on nearly even terms all season
for the honor of upholding the 145
pound colors and either can be de
pended upon to boost the Cornhusker
totals. Mooberry has trained down
ta the lS5-pound class during the ab
sence of Uhlir.
Thomas and Robertson in the 158
and 1 75-pound classes have developed
into excellent defensive artists.
Nebraska Captures Third in Valley
Basketball; Kansans are Champions
The Missouri Valley conference
pennant race was definitely settled
by the game played last week
braska eased Washington out of third
place by victories over the Pikers and
Iowa state. The titular position was
won again by Kansas University for
the third consecutive year. The Jay
hawkers lost only one game in the
rre season, the first defeat in two
years. URiahoma increased lis noia
on second place by a victory over
Grinncll.
The first three games of the 1924
reason on the home iioor were
Husker victories by such decisive
scores that fans began early to ex
pect a pennant winner. The winning
streak was stopped on the first trip,
which resulted in three defeats.
After that the Huskers took a brace
and won the remaining games on the
schedule with exception of one at the
end of a long trip and the Drake
game tonight.
Win From Tiger.
Missouri was the first Valley op
ponent on the Nebraska schedule. The
Missourians came heralded as the
coming champions of the Valley. At
the end of the second half, Nebraska
held the better end of an 18 to 24
score. In this game the Huskers un
corked a defensive style that has wor
rit d opponents throughout the whole
season. The offensive tactics of the
HasVers were a puzzle for the Mis
souri team.
Oklahoma fell before Nebraska by
a score of 35 to 21. The Huskers
kept up the same brand of basketball
that won the Missouri game. Usher
and Tipton were the main cogs in the
Husker machine.
The Kansas Aggie game a week
later was a repetition of the first two,
Nebraska winning 27 to 14. An air
tight utfense, and an offense good
from any part of the floor marked
Husker play. Nebraska was tied for
first place in the Valley with Kansas
and Washington.
Trip la Disastrous.
The following week the Huskers
Ne. undertook their first trip, an invasion
into Kansas and. Oklahoma which
tur- cd out disastrously with defeats
at th hands of Kansas Aggies, Okla
homa, aad Kansas. The Aggies won
26 to 23 in one of the closest games
ever seen on the Manhattan floor.
Kansas University nosed out the Hus
ker five at Lawrence 19 to 18 with
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a one-point leaa maae in tne last.
minute of play. Oklahoma turned the
tables on Nebraska in the game the
following night, taking the Huskers
into camp by a 32 to 20 score
A return game a week later with
K.'-.sas. Valley champions, was no
better than the first The Jayhawks
again won by a close score of 13
to 10.
With four defeats behind them,
two of them administered by the
same teams which had been decisively
defeated in the initial games of the
season, and with sport writers pre
dieting a defeat by at least ten points
at the hands of Creighton, styled the
"Wonder Basketball Team of the
West," the Cornhusker cagemen
turned the proverbial Nebraska trick
of coming from behind in the face
of overwhelnfing odds, and beat the
far-famed hoopsters of Omaha 25 to
21 in a game which was described by
sport writers of the metropolis as the
best game of basketball ever played
on an Omaha floor. Cozier and
Goodson were Nebraska stars in the
game. The guarding of Tipton was
a factor in the Husker victory.
Huskers Lose to Drake.
Tired out from the Creighton
struggle, the Huskers dropped the
next game to Drake at Des Moines,
19 to 15
1925 BASKETBALL
OUTLOOKjS GOOD
Huskers Will Have Eight Let
ter Men and Large Fresh
men Squad.
LOSE ONLY TWO MEN
THROUGH GRADUATION
also played his last varsity game
Wednesday night These two men
will be hard to replace, but Coach
Kline will have the remaining eight
veterans, and the freshman squad
from which to build up a new team.
The 1924 freshman turnout was
one ol tfe nest in several years.
Some eighty frosh candidates an
swered Coach Frank's initial call for
practice early in December. Of this
number, fifteen stuck through the
season to the last scrimmage night.
All of them are primising material.
Nebraska prospects for the 1925
cage season are the rosiest in many
years. Only two men will be lost by
graduation and eight letter men, four
of whom were first string men on the
squad this year, will be back in the
harness. In addition there is a fresh
man squad of more than ordinary
quality to contest for places on the
team.
In Goodson and Eckstrom, the
Cornhusker team will have a pair of
centers hard to beat. Goodson was
rarely outjumped in Valley games,
and Eckstrom is a tall, lanky man
built jusfright for center.
HaTe Fire Forwards.
There will be a quintet of forwards
to make a scoring machine in 1925
which should again put the Huskers
in first division. Usher, Black
Beerkle, Goodson, Eckstrom, and
Tipton were some of the heaviest
scorers in the Valley this year. With
the exception of Tipton and Usher,
each has two more years of varsity
basketball.
For guard positions there will be
Volz, Tipton and Wyant All three
made names for themselves by their
defensive work this year. Tipton and
Volz were the main factors in the low
scores made against Nebraska by Val
ley teams. Tipton was adept at
blocking shots for the basket Volz
played a fast defensive game in
Nebraska lead in the first j which he wore down the opposing for-
FIFTEEN TRACKSTERS
COMPETENT KANSAS
Tigers and Jayhawkers Are
Strongest Teams in In
door Meet.
half but was unable to keep up the
pace when the Bulldogs staged a
comeback in the second period.
A rest over Sunday at Des Moines
put the squad into shape for the Grin
noil game on Monday night The Pio
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wards.
Lose Two Men.
Nebraska loses only two . men by
graduation. Cozier, one of the best
forwards in the Valley, played his
last game for Nebraska against Drake
Wednesday night DeWitz, guard,
Coach Henry F. Schulte announced
Wednesday afternoon that Nebraska
would be. represented at the Missouri
Valley indoor meet at Kansas City
Saturday by the following fifteen
track artists: Roland Locke, Al
Bloodgood, "Red" Layton, Carl
Whipperman, Everett Crites, Dean
Higgins, Jimmy Lewis, Ted Slem
mons, Ed Weir, Wilmer Beerkle,
Hobb Turner, Ced Hartman, Hobart
Davis, Louis Trexler, and "Duke"
Gleason. The team will leave Friday
afternoon at 1 :30 on the Rock Island
for Kansas City. .
Missouri and Kansas University are
doped to fight it out for first place
in the indoor meet Missouri, by vir
tue of her victory over Kansas last
week in a dual meet is the favorite.
Nebraska, winner of second honors
last year, is relatively wek this year.
The Cornhusker tarn has been handi
capped by the loss of Captain Gard
ner, Valley champion in the half-mile,
Zimmerman, and Hein, all on the in
jured list and by unfavorable training
conditions.
Locke and Bloodgood are the Ne
braska entries in the SOlyard dash.
This pair of flashes have been doing
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COACH W. C KLINE.
Coach W. G. "Bill" Kline finished
hi first season as basketball mentor
at Xebra&ka with the Drake game
yesterday. Kline came to Nebraska
from Florida University. Before
tkt he was coach at Nebraska Wes
kran. He is the inventor of the
five-man defense which has been
adopted by almost every team in
the country.
Coach Kline has made an enviable
record with the Husker five, bring
ing Nebraska up from second divi
sion standing of last year to third
Place in the Valley this year.
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CARL C KRUCER.
C. Krueger is tudent man
fer cf the basketball team, a posi
that he has held for the past two
rt-Ws. "Uanr", fcs fc Is knowa t-J
3Uid, attends to the physical
e-Jre cf the players on trips and
W. At side-line, be keeps
"k -f the score during the game.
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Aniioty, idlthD He U a sophomore
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WILLARD USHER.
Willard Orin Usher is captain of
the 1924 basketball team. Usher
plays a forward position on the Hus
ker five, and ranked among the high
twenty forwards inxthe Valley con-
fprence this season. This is Usher's,
second year on the team, and he will
be back next year. Usher's home is
in Omaha where he attended Central
high school. Usher is a junior in the
College of Business Administration, a
member of the N club, and Alpha
Kappa Psi. He belongs to Alpha
Sigma Phi fraternity.
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WILMER BEERKLE. ,
This is Wilmer Eeerkle's first year
on the varsity wjuad. He holds down
a forward position, and has played
consistently good basketbalL Before
cowiiig to the University, Beerkle
was a star athlete at Central high
school, Omaha, where he played on
the basketball and footbaU teams and
was one of the best fcigh school track
men. Beerkle is a sophomore in the
College of Business Adminb ition,
and has two more years of varsity
Masketball ahead of him. He is a
member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
KENNETH COZIER.
Kenneth Cozier, stellar forward on
he Husker quintet played his first
basketball in Montana on the Kalis
pell high school team. "Kenny"
played a great game cn the team last
year, specializing in accurate basket
shooting and fast floor work. 1ms
year he did even better, and chalked
up enough goals to place him well
within the first fifteen forwards in
the Valley. Cozier is one of the two
men on the squad who graduate, and
his place will be hard to fill. He is
a Bizad, an Innocent Alpha Kappa
Psi, member of Scabbard and Blade,
and belongs to Detal Tan Delta fra
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LEO BLACK.
Leo Black first came to notice in
basketball circles when he was all
state center on the Grand Island bas
ketball team of which he was cap
tain ia ID22. Black played conspic
uous ball on th freshman quad last
year, and bs continued the same
form this year on the varsity. He is
a sophomore in the College of Arts
and Science, which gives him two
years more to play on the Husker
quintet He belongs to Kappa Sigma
fraternity, and is president of Iron
Sphinx, and sophomore member of
the student publication board.
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ORR GOODSON.
Orr Goodson is high-point man of
the Husker team. This was Good
son's second year on the varsity five,
and there was never a game in the
whole season that he did not break
heavily into the score column. Orr
was the main point-maker on the
Husker squad, and placed near tenth
place in Valley basket shooting rec
oids for the season. In his work at
center, Goodson was outjumped very
few .times, and Nebraska generally
had the ball from the tipoff. Orr is
a junior in the College of Business
Administration. He belongs to Beta
Theta Pi fraternity. His home is in
Lincoln.
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FRED EKSTROM.
Fred Tkstrom was the reserve cen
ter on the varsity this year. Eesides
taking care of tfie center position,
Ekstrom was a forward, accounting
for a number of field grai in the
gram he played. FlcJ hai lt?o more
rears of varsity basketball before
nun, and will ve a valuable asset to
the Husker cage machine. Ekstrom
played bigh school basketball at New
man Grove, and was mentioned on
the all-state high school teams of that
year. He is a sophomore in the Col
1ge of Business Administration, and
a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity.
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M1LO TIPTON.
John Milo Tipton came to Ne
braska University from Tabor, Iowa,
where he attended high school and
played on the basketball team. This
is Tipton's second year on the var
sity squad. He won his letter in the
cage sport last year, playing a bril
liant game up to the time he was in
jured and forced to retire for the
season. This year Tipton has con
tinued his brilliant style of play and
has done air-tight guarding all sea
son. Milo is a junior in the College
of Arts and Sciences. He is a mem
ber of Alpha Sigma Phi, and X club.
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RUFUS DEWITZ.
Rufus DeWitz made two letters in
football before trying his prowess on
the Husker care floor. This was his
MATH IAS VOLZ.
Mathias George Volz, more com
monly known as "Mutt", played his
second year of varsity basketball
this season. Volz is usually sta
tioned at guard. When he is in the
game there is always action ahead
for the opposing players. He scores
invariably. Volz played on the South
Omaha basketball five. in prep days,
and will be a big unit in the team
next year. He is a junior in the
College cf Business Administration
and a member of the N club. He
belongs to Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
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HARLAN WYANT.
Harlan "Swede" Wyant guard, is
another player from Newman Grove.
first year on the varsity live ana re .lUtate man on the New-
figured in almost every game played j
man nlgn scriooi team vnree years
ago. This is Harlan's second year on
the varsity squad, and he has one
year left to make another letter.
Wyant is a fast defensive player.
adept at breaking up passes. He is a
Junior in the College of Business Ad
ministration, and belongs to Kappa
thv year. He played a guard posi
tion on the team, and was a good
basket shooter. DeWiU would make
an invaluable addition to next year's
squad if he could play another year
on the varsity. Rufe came to Ne
braska from Stanton high school
where be made a name for himself
in high school athletics. He is a
Bizad, and member of Sigma Alpha
Epsilon fraternity. .
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