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FOUR THE DAILY NEBRASKAN TUESDAY, DECEHRSR t i92 'ALL' LAURELS COME TO James, Holm, Howell, Sloan And Dannie McMullen Are Honored NEBRASKA RATES TENTH Clair Sloan, Cornhusker halfback, was selected by Knute Rockne, roach at Notre Damp, for a half back berth on the All-Western tleven of 19C8. Sloan and Glasgow of Iowa were selected for the two hall back positions and Homier oi Northwestern for the fullback poei tion At center on the second eleven was placed Ted James, Husker cen Cr. And at guard on the third team was placed Ian McMullen of Ne braska. Randolph of Indiana bea! J:tmes for the center position on Kockne's eleven. Sloan on All-Western Walter Kckersall, football writer of the Chicago Tribune, selected his All Western eleven Sunday and Class A Basketball Slate Is Corrected The schedule for class A bas ketball games printed in The Dally Nebraskan was Incorrect. The incorrect schedule called for games to be played on Mon day and Tuesday. Instead they will be played on Tuesday and Wednesday, dames previously scheduled for .Monday will be played Tuesday, and those scheduled for Tuesday will be played Weduesday. WATER POLO FINALS T PROTEGES OF BLACK E Twenty-Five Candidates Vie For Places on First Varsity Five Peeinning their second week of practice the entire squad of varsity basket tossers worked out under the direction of Coach Mark last night. Approximately twenty -live men were suited up and out for positions on the fust team. Coach Mack beuan his practice Sloan was placed at the qim-ter-1 jas( jKht bv perfecting the basket shriving ability of his proteges and Betas and Lambda Chis Will Fight for Championship ' Wednesday Night Finals in the water polo tourna ment will be played Wednesday night In the "Y" pool, starting at 8 o'clock, with Beta PI and Lambda Chi Alpha righting for the cham pionship. rioth of these teams were final ists last year, and with the Lambda Chis anxious to avenge their defeat, and the Betas eager to repeat their victory, a lively battle Is assured. R. V. Vogeler, who Is in charge of the tournament, says there is po tential varsity trams, and that there will be an exhibition of some good swimnvng. Accommodate 200 Spectator The bleachers In the pool room are capable of accommodating ap proximately two hundred specta tors. An admission charge of twenty-five rents will be made, and the proceeds will be used for the var sity swimming team. The winner of the championship game will receive 45 additional points toward the all-year trophy The runner up will receive 30. In addition to these points, 20 and 10 will be given to the teams finish ing third and fourth. Phi Gamma Delta and PI Kappa Alpha, which were eliminated from the cham pionship race, will play some time In the near future to determine their final placing. NEBRASKA BALL TRIALS ARE SOON Tryouts for the freshman and sophomore Nebraska ball teams will be held Thursday, December 13, at 5 o'clock. All freshman and sophomore girls who have parti cipated In the former Nebraska ball games are urged to attend. W. A. A. will award twenty-five points to every girl trvlng out and material on both V,l ,""" in iiitr iuui iiuiuru: iu lie-it Tuesday, December 18. For each representative member of the team, the sororities will receive five points. Practices are tinder way now for the soccer tournaments next week. The team will be selected at the end of this week from the fresh man and sophomore groups. Clair Sloan. Nebraska's Stellar halfback on the 1928 Cornhusker football eleven, was elected by Knute Rockne as halfback on the All-Western selection for 1928. The backfleld on the all-star eleven con sisted of Sloan, Glasgow of Iowa, Hoyde of Minnesota and Holmer of Northwestern. Ted James landed the center position on the second eleven and Dan McMullen the guard position on the third eleven. Sloan's work during the final part of the football season was the most outstanding in the Big Six , conference and the middle west. He handles all departments of the game and his playing against the Cadet eleven at West Point brought much favorable comment to the Husker eleven. This is Clair's second year with the Scar let eleven and great things are booked for him for the 1929 grid iron season. A football game New Year's day in Dallas, Texas, between an all- star eleven from the Mg Six con feence against a similar group representing the Southwestern con ference Is the plan which officials from the southern metropolis are working out. Coach Ernest 12. Bearg, head football coach at Nebraska, has been asked to coach the All-Star eleven from the Mg Six while Mattison Bell, Texas Christian and Clyde Liltlefleld, Texas university, would pilot the southern eleven. Coach Bearg has accepted the position with reservations. He stated that It would be necessary to get a ruling from the Big Six conference in wtiich the conference would not bar athletes from participating in other shports besides football after their return. Only seniors would be Included In the team. It Is nn amateur proposition, the proceeds going to the Scottish Rtte hospital for children In Dallas. Al Lassman, New York univer sity star, will turn to the profes sional boxing game as soon as he leaves New York university this spring. Lassman is a heavyweight boxer and sport critics are look ing to the giant tackle to put up a good race for Gene Tunney's va cated position in the fistic circles of the country. The basketball season down at Norman finds the University nf Oklahoma missing many of its Blr footers of the court. Instead of the rangy quintet It sent out to win the Missouri Valley last year thi, year's edition of the Sooner' bas keteers will find a fast team com posed of sophomores. Vic Holts place In the center ring Is the ble worry to Coach Hugh McDcrraott the Sooner basketball mentor. Holt "j ir iu uuisianning man In the valley last season and was one of the best centers In the country, but this year a new man will have to be developed to take Holt's piace at center. TKe onlv two regulars returning from last year's five are Captain Bruce Drake and Tommy Churchill. Nebraska opens the court season on December 20 with the Unlver. Ity of South Dakota on the Coll. seum floor. The material working out every night under the direction of Coach Charley Black Is yet of an unknown quality. Captain Ken. nie Othmer, forward on last year's quent, has not returned to school this season and the material around which Coach Black will develoo the 1929 Scarlet basketeert con. slsts of Harve Graoe, forward: Carl Olson, forward; Morris Fisher, sophomore forward; Glenn Munn, center, and Lewandowskl, guard. back position on the flrst eleven with Welch of Purdue ami Bennett of Indiana as the hal'backs. On the second eleven, lkersall placed Dan McMullen for one of the guard positions and Elmer Holm and Blue Howell were placed on the third eleven as guard and fullback, respectively. Tom Churchill of Oklahoma. !-ons of Kansas Aggies, ;.nd Miller Brown of Missouri were the only men from the Big Six conference! io place on L'ckersall's All-Wtstern ' choice. ! Board of Coaches Name Huskers j On the Kockne-Warnci-Jones All-j American choice, Sloan was given the halfback position on the see- followed up this session with prac tice on offensive and defensive l'la. I'sing several combinations of men. Black sent his men through several plas. which he intends to use on Nebraska court adversaries this season. Scrimmage Follows j A ihort scrimmage followed tlv Ions: practice session with Grace, Black. Lewandowskl, Jensen and Parker on one team: and Fisher, McClay. Witte, Holm and Olson on the other aggregation. As it is so early in the season, there are no men on the varsity squad which are playing in the best of form. ' ond eleven and honorable nif ntion i 1 '" w "e Pr Keen ims; ."iii, i nam iiihck stales, wnicn ; will give ypveral new men opnor-1 was given to Blue Howell and Dan McMullen. The board of coaches picked Harpsier. Caglo, Carrol" and Scull for the All-American back fleld. Conch "Biff" Jones, football men tor at West Toint. has rated the football elevens of the country and in his estimation. Nebraska places tomb, in the football world. He cives the foremost position to the University of Southern California and second place to Georgia Tech. The universities of Illinois. Cali fornia and Wisconsin follow in order. For sixth place, he places Stanford next, the Army eleven. Florida, New York university and Nebraska. Concerning Nebraska, 'he Cadet coach says, "Tenth, I would rate Nebraska. This team played one of the hard schedules of the year. On successive Satur days, they played Syracuse, Mis souri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Pitts burgh, and Army. They were tied hv Pittsburgh and lost to the Army. They won their conference championship." tunitv to letter. Former basketball captain "Mutt" Yolz was on hand last night to as sist jn the coaching department Of the seven lettermen returning 1 to form the 1928-1929 varsity team. ! all are suited up and attending! practice except Munn who is ex pee'ed to turn out this week. GE7 SPECIAL RATES Y.M.C.A. Offers Daily Use of Pool for Five Dollars For Season. KANSAS AGGIES LOSE 3 BASKETBALL STARS Coach Corsaut Faces Task Of Building Team Out of Mew Material Men wishing to try out for the varsity sw:imlng squad mav ee- : ruie Y. M. R. A. memberships for. five dollars, entitling them to daily use of the "Y" pool, according to' an announcement by R. F. Vogeler, i coach of the swimming 'earn. ! The squad lias been training reg- I ularly in preparation for the first numeral meet to be held Thursday, December 20. '."The results of this meet will help to determine the squad to be used in the first dual meet to be held shortly after Christmas vacation," said Mr. Vogeler. He also mentioned the fact that several ineligibilities have cut the personnel of the squad consider- ably, and that more candidates will be needed in order to put tfie now j varsity sport across in the proper ! fasnion. MANHATTAN. Kan., Dec. R. Confronted with the loss of three star players, A. Ti. "Monk" F.d wards, Fort Scott; Elmer Mertel, and Richard Youngman of Kansas , Lf"l(jU STl DEISTS my, rwas., inru graduation, and the failure of two others, S. H. Brock way, Topeka, and Waller Johps, Kansas City. Kas.. to return to school. Coach Charlie Corsaut is trying to weld together a court pquad from lettermen from last WEND I P IN JAIL Bethlehem, Pa.- (IP) Sixteen Lehigh university students were arrested by Bethlehem police fol lowing a parade when the students rear and a likely looking group of ' ttP ,hplr in, sophomores. I a thter. College authorities Capt. K. J. Skradski. City, Kas. ' mi hit-i. i noi many ui iiiuoc a. I iry nr-ir- iillU '"III f I ally I'd J 1 1 IJ 1.1 I . . . , r : 1 i . ' I r-,rT, i,. i r. i- lle nui, aim sioou nrmiy Deninn Brooks. Hutchinson, are the letier men who returned this year. Other experienced men are: C. D. I the students. The Brown and White, college newspaper, editor ially took exception to the attitude i of the police, and sugegsted an In vestigation of the affair. Caldwell, and K. .T. Silverwood, I varsity men of last year. Prominent Sophomores. Prominent among the sopho mores who are making a bid for a place on Corsaut's team are H. ft. Weller. Olathe; Alex Nigro, Kan- t-s-j Cilv Mn T? It tjucjcll Vo.,- sas City. Mo; W. A. For'sbere I tf,am rf"cntly. This was Mndbbore. and R. C. Vogel. Siutt- Pfv, f ros,s;''0,un'r ,,0 gart. Although not pointing tor any championship team. Coach Corsaut believes he will have an aggrega tion that will win its share of the games played. Practice, interrupted by a sev eral days' session with the frosh, i is to be resumed Monday. The j first conference game of the sea- son is witil Iowa State at Ames, I Jan. 11. Fortune Will Captain Kansas Crocs Country Edward Fortune, of Lawrence, Mass., was elected captain of the University of Kansas cross-countrv his first ompetition, but he won his letter in track laBt season. He did his high school work at Attleboro, Mass. The Optrttcd By the University FOR YOU r Temple Cafeteria Ootrited Bv tha Unlvcralt i PROWLER TRAILS I.IKI. MllllKYISi Painesvllle. Ohio (IP) A stranger who has prowled the Lake Erie college campus here for a. yn., is ueuiK iraiieu Dy ponce, i vuucKc ttuiiiuriutfs bay. Lake Krle girl students say that every night for a week the prowler has been seen on the campus. The man has terrified the girls by. Jumping Into their paths from be hind trees and on one occasion was reported to have stepped into a dormitory room when the occu pant arrived. He had concealed himself In the clothes closet, the students said. National Surveyor Begins Reports on Two Counties P. A. Hayes of the United States bureau of soils will spend the win ter in the office of the University of Nebraska conservation and sur vey division preparing reports on York and Thayer counties. Ray Roberts, who worked on lit soil survey of Cedar county this year, will spend the winter in the of fke of the United States bureau of soils, Washington, D. C. Christmas Cards Your name neatly printed or engraved at reasonable prices. 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