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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN NEBRASKA COACHES START TO BUILD 1924 FOOTBALL MACHINE Eleven Letter Men, Many Promising Freshmen and Several of Last Year' Reserves Among Those Who Answer Dawson's Call. FIVE TEAMS REPORT FOR PRACTICE ON FIRST NIGHT Are Determined to Avenge Defeat Handed Them by Illinois Last Season "Red" Grange to Be Seen in Action Here. ' With a heavy and somewhat ex perienced line t work with, but a comparatively green backfleld, Ne braska coaches are now engaged in building the 1924 Cornhusker foot ball machine. The three weeks before the home game with the Illini will be crowded with intensive work. The Oornhusk er, determined to avenge the defeat handed them last year at Urbana, will have to build well to stop the Illinois team, which includes such a star as '"Red" Grange, all-American halfback. Chiefly through the work of this spectacular half the Com buskers were defeated last year. Eleven letter men have reported to Head Coach Fred T. Dawson and with them and a bunch of promising fresh men end last year's reserves the 1924 team will be constructed. j Practice i( Already Started. Practice has been under way now for five days and the work has been unusually stiff for so early in the season. Most of the gridiron men have been working during the sum mer at muscle-building jobs and are in good shape, A great deal of pre liminary work to put the squad in the proper physical trim will not be needed. Last year, due to a somewhat in experienced line, the Nebraskans were slow in starting, and were beat en by Illinois and held to tie scores by Kansas and Missouri before they came into their own. This year the story should be different, for the line should rank well with those of form er years, Nebraska has always been known for a crushing offense and a stone-wall defense. Letter men reporting to Coach Dawson are: j Captain Ed Weir, tackle, Melvin Collins, end. John "'Choppy" Rhodes, end. J R. R. Robertson, end. i Al Eloodgood, backneld. Roland Locke, back, ! Harold Hutchison, center. L. J. Hubka, guard. Warren Ogden, guard. Joe Wostoupal, center. Walter Krimmelmeyer, member of the squad in 1917, has been in sum mer school this summer and is re porting. He is a guard. Poapisfl and Mielenz, reserves last year, should also ahow up well, Hav PromUing FVmVib. A number of promising graduates of the last year freshmen squad are in suit. Some of the backs from this class are: Avard Mandery, Frank Dailey, Joe Weir, Ben Tryba, Paul Kamm and Willard Bronson. Line men from the yearling crew who should show up well are: Joe Swear- "1 " " "- V. . V,': : . . CAPTAIN ED WEIR Of the Cornhusker football team is shown in moleskins. Captain Weir plays tackle, and his work at this po sition last year gained him recogni tion in spite of the usual slighting rf first-year men. Captain Weir is playing his second year of football for Nebraska this year. He is a f os mer Superior high school player. ingen, Paul Ban an4 Charles Dunk er, guards; Clarence Miller, center; Walter Schols, guard or tackle; Ce cil Moliera, tackle, Roy Mandery, end. Five teams reported the first night of practice and they were running signals shortly after the practice be gan. Signals so far have been sim ple; the only purpose being to get the men accustomed to the feeling of being again in the lineup. The weight of the team this year may not be as great as formerly. The men who made up the team that a Pittsburg sport writer said "rocked the stands" are gone, but a collection of football men of the usual Corn husker caliber is on hand to take their places. Arrangements have already been made to take care of the Knothole Club patronage, and boys from 10 bo IS years of age, inclusive, are being registered tor admission to the north and south ends of the Nebraska Me morial Stadium. This, by the way, will be the first year in which the Stadium in its nearly completed form will be used. At most games last year the big concrete bowl was still under construction. HARRIERS SCHEDULE THREE DUAL MEETS Trio of Letter Men, With Nu meral Winners, Makes Good Team Material With three meets already on the schedule, and a strong possibility of two others, the cross-country season is expected by the coach to be one of the best ever. Three letter men will be back this fall to make a strong team, along with some freshmen and numeral winners of last season. Coach J. Lloyd McMaster will have charge of the harriers again. Captain Paul Zimmerman, James Lewis Jack Ross, Jacob Cohen and Jacob Sennits of last year's team will be back to contest with the new men for places on the team. It is doubt ful whether Dickson, a letter man from last year and one of the best men, will return this fall. The only other member f last year's team, Captain Hyde is lost by graduation. Some good men will come up from the freshman squad of last year, as well as some numeral winners. Houderscheldt and McCartney made a good showing last year, Rogers and Howard, who dropped out after the first meet a year go on account of injuries, will be back in school. Scherich, middle distance runner of the track team will be making a strong bid for a position on the team. Meets with Oklahoma at Norman, FRESHMAN FOOTBALL KEN REPORT MONDAY Many High School and College Stars Expeted to Answer First Call. The first call for candidates for the freshman football team will be issued Monday, according to the Ath letic office. Equipment will be issued to pros pective candidates at the stadium store rooms under the south end of the east stands. It will include all parts of the uniform. Lockers may also be obtained by signing at the stadium. Early indications point toward a large freshman squad. Several well known high school and state college players will answer the call Monday. Among these men ere Stephens of Hastings college, Armour of Wayne Normal, Stribling and Lawson of Omaha Central, Welch, Holmes and Karr of Gothenburg, Malm of Nor folk, Stiner of Hastings, end Fisher of Burlington, Colo. An innovation in the frrehman coaching system will be mad this year. Instead of a regular freshman coach, varsity mentors will alternate with the yearlings, thus giving them the benefit of varsity coaching throughout the season. Farley Young, coach of last year's fresh men, is no longer a member of the coaching staff. KANSAS AGGIES HAVE HARD SCHEDULE AHEAD Freshmen and Sophomores of the military department may draw their uniforms from the quartermaster's department in the basement of Ne braska Hall any time before Sep tember 27 by depositing their guar antee fee of ten dollars. and Kansas at Lawrence have already been scheduled on the same dates that the schools meet in football. There wsll probably be one other meet away from home, and the Miss ouri Valley meet at Ames to finish the season. There is one prospective meet at home so far, with Missouri, November L Besides framing a schedule, Coach McMaster has been busy mapping out a new course for the fall train ing, on account of the new paving on the Belmont course. The proposed route will bring the runners in on the S. Y. A, road and finish in the stadium as they have in past years. Last year with serious handicaps the team placed in the M. V. conference meet and this fall Coach McMaster hopes to develop a team that will do even better. Men are working out daily now in preparation for the first meet, October 1 1. Nebraska Rated Among Val ley School's Most For midahle Opponents. MANHATTAN, Kan., Sept 18. Perhaps Dame Fortune smiled on the Kansas Aggies when she was hand ing out football schedules for the 1924 season in the Missouri Valley. Perhaps she only grinned. The sea son's scores will telU But whether she smiled or just grinned, the Ag gies have the best schedule in said Valley as far as home games are concerned. Of the eight schools in the confer ence, beside the Aggies, the Wilde .ts take on six, Grinnell and Washing ton being the only schools not on the local schedule. Incidentally, the Pikers and Pioneers are as a general rule the two weakest football aggre gations in the conference, which shows that the Wildcats have a pref erence for taking on the Bigw b ys, under the rule that The bigger they are the harder they fall." If the Aggie schedule is to be con strued as a smile on the face of the man to develop a team that will at gods it is up to Coach C W. ach least hold its own against all comers. Ames, Kansas, Drake, and Nebras ka are the Valley squads that will ap pear on the stadium field here next fall. The last three have all been claimants for the Valley crown dur ing the past two years, while Ames is always a hard team to beat. Kansas and Nebraska will be, the feature attractions i of the home schedule, Kansas because of the tra ditional rivalry between the two big schools of the state, Nebraska be cause of its nation-wide fame as a producer of good football teams. Both games, and in fact the entire home schedule, are expected to draw football f ansfrom ell over Kansas and the four adjoining states. Kansas University, which usu ally furnishes the thrills for the football hungry from Kansas City, has a home schedule woefully barren of big games, leaving the Aggie grid iron the nearest to the "Trig town" where football teams recognized as of major caliber may be seen in ac tion. With any sort of reasonable weather motorists from the mouth of the Kaw are expected to keep the road to Manhattan hot during the .week-ends of October and Novem- Kansas football machine is hand capped this year because of the ab sence of Reynor who is out of the game because of a broken ankle. HEAVY SCHEDULE FACES GRIQSTERS Huskers Will Meet Represen tative Teams From All Sec - ions of the Country MEET NOTRE DAME AT SOUTH BEND THIS YEAR Nebraska's football schedule for 1924 is one of the heaviest that the Cornhuskers have ever tackled and should the Scarlet and Cream go through the season without a defeat il should be able to make a serious bid for the mythical football cham pionship of the country. Representative teams from every section of the country with the ex ception of the south, which hi nev er ranked hijth in the pigski t sport will be played. The football classic of the middle west Nebraska vs, Notre Dame wM be played this year at South Bend on the home ground of the Fighting Irish, Three years ago the Cornhuskers journeyed to the Indi ana town and came out on the small end. The Irish won after a desper ately fought battle, 7 to 0, For the last two years the teams of Knute Rockne have played in Lincoln, so the game at South Bend is well de served. . Will Sm Coltat Colgate, which last year inflicted upon Syracuse the only defeat sus tained by the big Orange team, will play at the Stadium. The Illiai, rulers in 1923 of Big Ten gridiron circles, will come to Lincoln for the opening game of the season, October 4 The boys from Illinois, led by a Nebraska boy, Ro husek of Omaha, and well equipped to take care of themselves, should furnish Nebraskans a football treat. The opportunity of seeing Red" Grange in action will be worth con siderable trouble. Oregon State college, one of the faster teams of the Pacific coast, will be in Lincoln for the Thanksgiving game. The Oregon huskies have al ways been the leaders on the coast and can be counted upon to wake the sixty minutes of play very busy ones for the Cornhuskers. Meet Best of Valley Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and the Kansas Aggies, all Missouri Val ley conference teams, will meet the Cornhuskers at various (times throughout the season. These rep resent the class of the Missouri VaV ley conference. Kansas and Mis souri last year held the Huskers to tie scores and as all Missouri Valley teams wish for a triumph over Ne braska until they almost split their personalities, the games should be close. " There is not an easy game on the schedule and the big problem of coaches will be to keep the team, with one hard game after another, from going stale. Cornhusker foot ball followers believe this year's line up to be the stiff est ever scheduled. Here is the schedule: October 4, Illinois at Lincoln. October 11. Oklahoma at Norman. October 18,. Colgate at Lincoln. October 25, Kansas at Lawrence. November 1, Missouri at Lincoln. November IS, Notre Dame at South Bend. November SS, Kansas Aggies at Manhattan. November 27 (Thanksgiving), Oregon State at Lincoln. FRED T. DAWSON Former Princeton star, guides the destinies of the Cornhusker football men. In the three years that Dawson has coached at Nebraska his teams have been uniformly successful. No team has gone through the season with a perfect record, but since the coming of Dawson, Nebraska has ranked even higher among the leading teams in the country. Most Nebraskans judge a Corn husker team by the result of the Notre Dame frame. Dawson's team has lost once to Notre Dame and the Irish have been defeated twice. The defeat was at South Bend three years ago, before Dawson had an op portunity to size up his men and get the lineup straightened out as be wanted it. Nebraska has defeated the Indiana team the last two years, each year bv one touchdown to two. The games have been thrillers, but the fighting spirit of the Nebraskans kept oil scores at times when they seemed im minent. Last year Dawson signed another three-year contract with Nebraska and his services will be assured for that time at least. 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