TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1936
TIIE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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SHERMAN BOOSTS
HUSKERS ON TRIP
TO PACIFIC COAST
Eos Angeles Times Lauds
Nebraska Gridmen in
, Sports Column.
When The Daily Nebraskan was
preparing for its special football
edition a few weeks ago, it m
tended to ask Cy Sherman, sports
writer for the Lincoln Star, to
write a story about Nebraska foot
ball. But Sherman had gone to
California, destination unknown
Yesterday a clipping came from
, the Los Angeles Times with a
sports writcup which found Cy
Sherman giving the dope the Ne
braskan wanted to Bill Henry, Los
Angeles sports writer. Here's the
article:
Huskers Draw Crowds.
"Nebraska not only has a good
football team but. it seems, a
pretty good following and a smart
management. With a stadium that
seats a bit over 30,000 normally
and about 36.000 when the ends
are plugged with temporary seats,
Nebraska had an average attend
ance this year of 30,000 for all
games a full house every time,
"How do they do it?
"That's easy!
"They charge $7 for a season
ticket that takes in the five home
'games, including the Pittsburgh
game this year or the Minnesota
game next year. That's a fair
price. They sold 16,000 of those
seats this season, and they already
have applications for 10,000 for
next year and they haven't really
started to come in. Cy Sherman,
whose sports column has twinkled
in the Lincoln Star for longer than
Cy wants to figure, says his town
is best football town of its size in
the country. Sounds as tho he
might be right.
Players Rate High.
"Cy says the best football play
ers he's seen this year he didn't
see the Minnesota game are Full
back Francis and center Brock of
Nebraska, halfback Huffman of
Indiana, end Daddio of Pittsburgh
and Pitt's tackles. Liked Gray and
Kolberg of Oregon State, too.
Cv claims that Nebraska has a
real amateur football team with
no dragnet experts to rope the
boys in and no soft jobs. Says that
Sam Francis, the All American
fullback, has the best job he knows
and it pays him 10 a week. Sam
works nights in Cy's newspaper of
fice answering the pohne and tak
ing want ads and complaints. Can
you imagine entering a complaint
with a 200 pound All American
fullback who puts the shot 53
feet? Neither can I.
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cis, who is receiving no more ac
claim for his fullbacking that he
deserves, and Lloyd Caidwell, who
wounldnt have been sufficiently
praised and gilded had he been
placed at halt back on every so
called honor lineup in the land.
Instead of one George Henry
Sauer, just three terms after his
last contest there were two backs
who were as billiant at their jobs
as he. And at center during the
waning that brought the Huskers
of 1936 seven victories in nine
games and seven out of a possible
nine Big Six championships there
performed a mild-faced, big-boned,
tireless, speedy sophomore who
seems certain to outdo even the
marvelous Kly. I never have look
ed upon such a first year center
as this Charley Brock of Colum
bus -and neither have you!
Cardie Hit Stride Early.
Some football cholars burst
suddenly into full, brilliant bloom.
Others unfold slowly. Not until
their junior year sometimes not
until there are no more full sea
sons ahead of them do others
show themselves in all their thril
ling brilliance. Quick to develop
was Cardwell, the incomparable
Wild Hoss. He was great as a
sophomore like Brock, greater
than any junior of senior so by
the time he became a senior the
onlookers in both the pay trade
seats and the press hutches had
become accustomed to bis bril
liance. "Cardie," many of them
said, "has not developed."
Not developed! How could nat
ural perfection at running with
the ball and playing the safety
spot life an outfielder develop?
You can't gild the lily, or better
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Attention of the intercollegiate
swimming world will be focused
on Fort Lauderdale, Florida a
little sea-coast community on the
southeast coast of Florida in the
onl sub-tropical part of America
during the ten days of the
Christmas holidays.
From the plains of Nebraska
to the chilly areas of the New
Kngland states, swimmers, divers,
and water polo players and their
coaches will soon be starting the
trek to the land of sunshine,
golden beaches and big swimming
pools.
Last year two hundred coaches
and their pupils assembled for a
ten day forum. Advance reserva
tions indicate twice that many
will be in Fort Lauderdale this
winter. This year the annual
meeting of the College Swimming
Coaches association will be held
in connection with the forum.
Slow motion pictures of the
German Olympics, in aquatic
sports, the Red Cross' underwa
ter pictures taken at Silver
Springs and slow motion pictures
of outstanding performers will be
shown.
The discussion programs are be
ing formulated by the coaches
themselves. Special events will in
clude the annual Kast-West meet
and the tribute to Olympians.
More Olympic swimmers and
divers are expected to be as
sembled at Fort Lauderdale than
have gathered at any place in the
United States since the Olympics.
the great white father's technique
at confecting sawbucks.
A late comer was Sam'l Francis.
In his senior season he became
mighty the peerless fullback of
his term. We marked his astound
ing progress and we were im
pressed, and how!.
Don't misconstrue the allusion
to the natural talents of Brock
and Cardwell. Their mechanical
didoes likely were born with
them, but the Wild Hoss did profit
by experience, and so, too, will
the big Columbus boy. You'd see
a better Brock Next fall, no mat
ter whether he plays center, tackle
or behind the line.
And from among the lads who
understudied the first stringers in
193b there may rise, without warn
ing, like Francis, a player who 11
take the prodigious portsider's
place.
From the recent season a fresh
man class may come another Wild
Hoss, to confound and discourage
his foemen by his marry gallop
ing. The reserves of the appren
tices may provide another sticky
fingered end like the great Mc
Donald. No matter what the outlook is
now, these things may happen.
We know that, because they have
happened. But we can't foresee
just when they'll happen. When
needed most they often do not.
What is the present prospect?
Briefly, it seems to me that the
campaign of 1937 will be waged
by a line superior to the one which
immediately preceded it, and a
hackfield not quite so formidable.
Particularly, it will not be so
formidable on pass defense. Also
it will lack some of the speed that
Cardwell provided. It may not
produce a fullback who can spin
so devastatingly as Sam'l did,
from the excises with Iowa State
to the grand route of Old Husker
Lon Stoner's hapless Beavers.
But this better line may make
less developed backs look power
fully good. It may hoist the next
Cornhusker rating almost as high
as the current one. It may, I Bay.
That is principally up to the kids
on whom the job will fall.
Dana Bible and his associates
can put onto the field against
Iowa State the first Saturday in
next October a paasel of forwards
experienced at every position. Like
this:
Ends Elmer Dohrmann and
Paul Amen. Behind them Lloyd
Grimm and John Richardson and
Ken Shindo.
Tackles Fred Shirley and Ted
Doyle. Behind them Sam Schwarz
kopf and Bob Mills.
Guards Lowell Rnglish and
Gus Peters. Behind them Bill Her
mann and George Seemann.
Center Charley BrwV. Behind
him Bob Ramey and Bob Ray.
All these veterans, both those
assigned in purely theoretical
manner to starting spots and those
similarly put in understudies'
roles, may find themselves behind
sopomores who simply won't stay
on the bench.
For example, on the freshman
squad last fall, Kahler of Grand
Island and Cramer of Superior
looked like mighty ends; Rudy
Becker, the six-foot-six, 245
pounder from Schuyler displayed
a natural bent for playing tackle;
Bill Pfeiff and Adna Dobson of
Lincoln were the toughest guards
the varsity played against and
Bob Burruss of Omaha gave
Charley Brock and his fellow cen
ters some of their most difficult
afternoons. To mention these is
to slight a good many other ap
prentices whose unpolished but
promising conduct delighted Ed
Weir.
All of which properly indicates
that Roy Lyman and Harold
Browne are going to work with a
bumper crop, come September.
What'll there be behind this al-niost-certain-to-be-improved
pri
mary battalion? There can be a
darned sight better group of backs
than most people probably realize.
Johnny Howell at quarterback
will be an invaluable nucleus to
any combination that Dana Bible
may select. He was the equal of
any field general in the midlands
during his junior year. He was
an open field tackier of rare abil
ity he missed three in two sea
sons. And late In the recent cam
paign he burst into prominence
as a touchdown maker.
Jack Dodd is bound to see a lot
of service at halfback. He spent
his off-varsity autumn with the
frosh and B teams, and this added
to the high talent he shdwed as
a sophomore power and speed
runner in 1935. Little Man An
drews will bid for another start
ing post at halfback. Marvin
Plock and Art Ball will be a
whale of a lot better at the right
or left sides, too.
Tall, 190-odd pound Bill Calla
han and Bill Andreson will start
their junior year warring for the
fullback position. Bill must de
velop his punting, and master the
business of hasty starting. An
dreson must accelerate. Sam Fran
cis had to do the same thing be
tween his junior and final terms.
Thurston Phelps is a grand
passer, who needs to speed up his
get-along. Ernie White has the
fire and spirit and good judgment
to make a fine quarterback, but
Ernie, too, must increase his
speed.
The veteran backs are going to
have plenty of competition from
the lads who'll be sophomores in
September. The current yearlings
seem to have considerable speed.
HIGH SCHOOL GRID
STARS WILL HEAR
FORMER HUSKERS
Coaches Farley, Adams to
Speak at State-Wide
Football Rally.
Wesleyan's Head Coach George
Farley and Assistant Coach Jerry
Adams, billed aa featured speakers
at the All-State Football Rally,
are both graduates of Nebraska
University.
Farley, who piloted Wesleyan's
strong football eleven through a
successful season this fall, grad
uated from the Bizud college in
1930 while Adams received his de
gree from Teachers' college in
1932.
Coach Farley was captain of
the 1920 football team and his as
sistant, Jerry Adams, played on
the Cornhusker eleven in 1931
and 1932. Adams was also on the
wrestling team for three yars and
was considered the best grappler
in the 165 pound class.
Farley came to Wesleyan four
years ago as head coach of basket
ball and track, and assistant to
has made an imposing record, his
boys having won the football con
ference championship in 1934 and
tying for first place last year in
tlie basketball conference.
Adams is in his third year of
coaching at Wesleyan and has
also coached the Cornhusker
wrestling squad for the last two
vears.
and heft is not lacking. But one Roberts in football. Since then he
looks in vain among them for the
heighth that was so invaluable to
Cardie. Promising, indeed, though,
are Herman Rohrig of Lincoln,
Roy Petsch of Scottsbluff, Eldon
McElravey of Tecumseh, Jim
Mather of Arapahoe. All of them
will get plenty of chance to show
what they can do as sophomores.
Some of them may do so much
that they'll break into the kick
off lineups. That, of course, is up
to them and to the more expe
rienced juniors and seniors whom
they'd have to displace.
It's going to be a torrid battle
for first string jobs next autumn,
and this is gratifying. It is the
keen intra-squad competitionu
that does a lot to make teams
mighty in intercollegiate battling.
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