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Till: DAILY INKHUASKAN, TUESDAY, MAY 10.
Nebraska Congressman
Member of Innocents '
When in School. I
Harry l. Coffee, congressman j
of the Fifth district, is one of the '
many celebrities to graduate from
the University of Nebraska. Con-1
pressman Coffee graduated from
Husker Football History
Provides Colorful Story
'Stiehm Roller, 'Bible Class'
Show Up Best Over
45-Year Period.
worse defeat was the 1PS1 Pitt
game. No teams before or since
has scored 40 points against Ne
braska. It is unfortunate that we can
not recall personalities and inci
dents of earlier conflicts in which
the Scarlet took part, but a large
portion of them Jook place before
our arrival in tnis vale of tears.
We have heard about the 1913 fie-
.fit
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I.iin-,''n .1 u' -i.tl
Congressman Henry B. Coffee.
the University in 1113 with an A.
B. degree. While in the university,
he was very prominent in campus
affairs. He was the business man
ager of the Conihuskei. class pres
ident, member of Alpha Tau Ome
ga, and the Innocents.
For the last 21 years, he ha
been the president of the Coffee
Cattle company, inc., and. he owns
and operates several Nebraska
farms. He is at the present en
gaged in the real estate and in
surance business tn Chadron. Cof
fee is one of the most successful
business men in western Nebraska,
and has won the respect of many
of his business associates.
Coffee was elected to the Sev-ty-fourth
congress and re-elected
to the Seventy-fifth congress
where he served as a member of
the important committee on agri
culture. He is a democrat, but not
of the rubber stamp variety. Cof
fee is known as one of the hardest
working members of congress. He
has worked in the interests of ag
riculture. Students will do well to emulate
his success in campus affairs, busi
ness and politics.
By LaVon Parker Linn.
In our efforts to sift Nebraska's
past football history, 1893-1937 we
have scanned the records of Craw
ford, Thomas, Robinson, Yost.
Branch, Booth, Foster, Cole,
Stichm, Stewart, Kline, Schissler,
Schulte, Dawson, Bearg, Bible and
Jones. We have made every effort
to record the data accurately, and
have used the late George Horace
Lorimer's slogan that "what in
terests us, interests you!
We loarn that Nebraska had 17
Paid football coaches from 1893
thru 1937. From the standoipnt of
percentage, the Stichm roller days
of 1911-1915 are tons. Coach
Stiehm's Nebraska teams played
40 games, won 35, lost two and
tied three, for a percentage ol
,9ti). Next would rank the teams
of Coach "Bunny" Booth, from
1900 thru 1905, which won 52
games out of fit, lost 7, anil tied 2.
for a percentage of .8S1. In third
place we find Major Lawrence.
"Biff Jones, who turned in a .hot
average with 6 won. 1 lost, and
2 tied. Tied for fourth and fifth
at .800 are Thomas, 1895, and
Robinson. 1S9G and 1897. Next is
the record of Pana Bible, whose
teams, in 72 games, over an eight ;
year period, won 50, lost 15, and , braska-Miiuiesota game every au
tied 7. for an average of .769. And ! tumn since, however, and all the
Fred Pawson, and Ernest Bearg, I other games hace come in for their
each serving fou" years, each hail I share of discussion, and our earl-
teams winning 23 games and los
ing 7 games. For a percentage of
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LaVon Parker Linn.
.767. Pavson was at Nebraska
from 1921 to 1924 and Bearg 1924
1928. BIBLE SERVES
FOR EIGHT YEARS.
Bibles eight year term is the
longest, then Booth with six, and
Stiehm with five. Stiehm had the
longest winning streak, Booth s
iest memories are of sitting in a
big chair beside the manorial
health and listening to grand
father expound the good points of
the "Stiehm" roller.
GRANDPA KEEPS
PACE WITH TIMES
He kept us in touch with
things during the Steward. Kline,
Schissler and Schulte regimes, and
by the time Pawson w-as beating
teams won the most games, 52 and i Pittsburgh and Notre Dame, we
Bibles teams tied the most, seven;
and lost the most, 15. The most
disastrous season probably was
under coach Branch in 1899. and
the best one Is a matter of per
sonal opinion. I'll take. I think, the
1915 record, when we won eight
games, altho we probably over
came sterner opposition in 1913.
were seeing for ourselves. (And
arguing with Grandpa.) Our earli
est original thought, anent ath
letics, we believe, was that Vern
Llewellyn was a whale of a kicker.
We have since passed out the palm
leaves to Noble. Presnell. Locke,
Rhoades, and scores of other in
football, basketball, baseball and
1921 U2S and 1937. Our biggest track. All mentally of course.
.score was the 119 points scored There have been many enjoyable
against Haskell in 1910. and the moments. And swell guys. Our
Seventeen Football Coaches
Have Made Nebraska
Grid History.
bet to them all, wherever they
are, friend and foe alike.
As Mclntyre used to say,
"Thoughts while strolling." An or
chid to Harve Grace, for perform
ing so nobly at forward for a crack
Scarlet basketball outfit, his
trunks always hanging at half
mast.
Also to John Henry Keriakedes
for his persistence in earning his
"N" and to Charles Vogt, jr., who
remained out for football during
his four years in college, altho the
only time he ever got off the
bench was when the half ended.
THINGS WE'LL
NEVER FORGET.
And to Oren Stoner of Kansas
State who was the key in an of
fense which completely baffled the
Scarlet during the second half of
that 1931 nightmare.
Among other souvenirs in our
memory's storehouse we recall the
great passing of Harold "Skinny"
haysinger, deceased, the captain
of the 1928 Syracuse Orange;
Huffman, the 193(1 Hoosier Hot
Fhot; Marvil and Riley, the 1931
Northwestern tackles, who made it
such a long afternoon for Nebras
ka (19 to 7: Brinnte, "ho wore
the violet of New York U., Tryon,
the Colgate flash; and so on and
so on.
REMINISCENES.
We cannot forget Uansa and
Tarkinson of Titt; nor Heller and
Reider; nor La Rue and Goldberg;
nor Hirshberg, Donchess, Fox,
MacMurdo, Skladany, Hogan,
Daugherty, Welch, nor any of the
rest of that Panther horde.
We sit in the lecture room and
gaze out the window at spring
practice, and think of what would
have happened if we'd beaten the
army in '28; wondering if there
ever was a better half mile relay
team than Locke, Hein, Davenport
and Dailey, or a better mile team
than Lee, England, Rogers and
Ostergard. Missouri's Kosky, Hurs
ley, Ulffers and Dills was a dandy
too. Remember the line that took
the field for Nebraska in that first
scoreless tie with Pitt? Munn,
Elmer Holm, Ted James, Ray
Richards, and Dan McMullen. K. U.
still talks about it. Remember the
goal line stand against the on
slaughts of Jim Bausch in the '29
Kansas game?
Omahan Received Masters
Degree From Nebraska;
Term Ends in 1943.
One of the outstanding men of
Omaha is Dr. Arthur C. Stokes,
who is one of the regents of the
University of Nebraska. His term
will expire Jan. 1, 1943. Stokes has
always been an Indefatigable
worker for the university. It is
through his influence that many
of the young people of this state
have attended Nebraska univer
sity. This regent Is a member of the
executive committee as well as in
dustrial education and medical ed
ucation. Arthur Charles Stokes
was born in Bury, Compton
county, Quebec, Canada, on Dec.
24, 1869. He received his early e.l
ucation in the elementary schools
of Canada, and was graduated
from Rock Rapids high school in
1889. He received his B. Sc. from
Ames, la., in 1892, and his M. 11.
from the University of Nebraska,
in 1899. He was a member of Phi
Beta Phi, Alpha Omega Alpha,
Phi Rho Sigma, and Delta Tau
Delta. Upon the completion of his
university studies in the United
States, he took post graduate woi k
in the Universities of Halle, Kiel,
and Berlin, in Germany.
Since admission to practice in
Nebraska June 1, 1899, Dr. Stokes
has been actively engaged. H.
served in France during the World
war.
widespread expectation, the uni
versity" has advanced at an un-
government in a board of regents;
to be appointed in the first in-
usual pace. The attendance at the B(Uer who WM ex.offici'0 chalr.
opening of the university. Sept. 7. nian. The state superintendent of
INSTITUTION 1UIKF.S
iuphi ri:x;t;KS
SIM'.r. I'Ol'M)lr. 171. was about 70 when the en- ; public instruction and the chanccl-
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April 7. lSiVi. and tuat the capital
was mnvfil to Lincoln 110:11 lima
ha Doc. 3. 1SHS. and that he feels
at home here
NATIONAL GRANT
ESTABLISHES INSTITUTION
tire population of Nebraska wa. ior nf the university were also
d..se to 133.0O0. The -ar a 1SS1 : membeis of the board. Under this
saw an increase to 375 students constitution the government
with a state population of half a js vested, as is well known, in a
million, which showed a definite Viai-d of six regents, whose terms
inciease. The present enrollment ot 0ffjC( S1X years, two new
is 5.108 in Lincoln and about 1.000 nes being elected every two years
winding sidewalks crossed the
grounds. The old iron fence which
adorned and enclosed the campus
has long since been removed which
causes many of the old students
to make ludicrous remarks per
taining to the early days when the
boys and girls used the fence to
lean upon while telling their tales
of woe and love stories.
ORIGINAL UNIT
WELL EQUIPPED
The university of 1S71 was well
supplied with valuable apparatus
for illustrating most of the impor
tant principles of chemistry and
physics. The desired apparatus as
we well know, is very expensive
and years are required to provide
a complete set of apparatus for
illustrating all the departments of
sciehce. In the chemical labora
tory there were ample provisions
made for illustrative experiments,
and for instruction in practical
and analytical chemistry. The
chemicals were furnished to the
student at cost.
We may now consider the step
which this state took in undertak
ing the establishment of a univer
architect had made such changes
and amendments in the plans of
the building as the agents had in
dicated. These changes greatly in
creased the cost of the building.
The contract for completing the sity under the administration of
university was finally given to D. I Governor David Butler. When th
It was no
doubt the intention of "tiM-nta enrolled in the medi-: hy the poonle. Pr(.vio9 to this -
cal anil nurses colleges at Omahi.
1 m akin? a total of over 6.000 bi
' annually. The population in the
state today is about 1.377.120.
i The territorial legislature of
'165 and ltii prepared a state
constitution which was submitted
to the people June 2. ISfiG. It was
those persons accepting the vari
ous grants of land made by the
United States, to make the univer
sity the crowning work of the
educational system of the stale -
that it should sustain a close and
vital relation to the high schools
and eomnwrn schools, and to all
other institutions of learning,
which have hy law been estab
l'shed. With wise forecast, it
aims to aeenre to all the members
of the common wealth, who may
avail tin wnlwtt a its r 'nerous
provisions, m pfwrlunity for a ' nd Internal improvement pur
broad a4 Mfceral education. The Pw '"
departmenta f VemUire. aciences t"" constitution was declared car
and art a eafxciaUy. are offering '. rie''
June 14. 1SC7 in the act for lo
eating- the seat of government, the
state agricultural college and the
University of Nebraska
united.
J. Silver & Son in pursuance of
advertisements, for $128,480,
which, with the cost of the excava
tion and basement, made the en
tire cost $152,000.
The contractors for the univer
sity pushed the work with remark
able energy. At this late day it is
difficult to realize the disadvan
tages under which they worked.
were ' The lumber was shipped in from
Chicago to East Nebraska City.
By an act of Feb. 15. 1809. the
governor, secretary of state, and
auditor were appointed to sell the
1 four miles east of the Missouri in
prece .e nv a sonic ni nuier u,- , . , b, . . owm. by
russion. Among the argument t( erect
urged for its adoption was the ! g ,lniversi ,v bui,,lmg. Of the aum
fact that the sooner it was accom-1 wMzed , tnis jioo.000 was
ph.she 1 the finer the lands that ! appi.onrUteil for tma piirr(se. On
could be obtained for educational V
exception 4rnlages for liberal
culture, ,
The University of NeVaska. !
when first begun, was in a sense,
far in advance of the European
universities liecause jt admitt-i
tioth see into the same class
room. This was an American
movement and it became success
f'll wlieree.'i tried. With this lib
eral provision for the educational
needs f it citizens, and et ;!
ini a cmdul t!M.itatity t ' ''!
deids fioiil nili-r .-dates, th, uni
versity eilteii I lip ,ll the woi 1; f l
vhleh it ws rem !-,!. nr.! !'.:
th.' (n.-.t lii- i r.j ivd ,!. : :
an I in re i -. i r pi o--;..-i :t y T'.
ii i-nlri I tit, I liv ti i!'V th ii .:
v...iM I-" a f id ii- !, r: ' .
V. l . s y 'in ; 'ill 1 . y
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V IVCRMTV KLCPS STEP
V.TH ADVAr;CING SfATC
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
SAVES FEDERAL GRANT
the following first of June. th
plans and specifications prepared
by M. J. McBird, then of Logana
port, Ind.. were accepted by the
capital commissioners for the uni
versity building. These plans were
submitted to the board of regents
wne n. uit pn., J.e rn- , J(11) 3 g,, Ruhjwt
nullum ' l llM, imi.i.- ,n n . .
agricidtuie college and university
must be accepted within three
years, and colleges ttpened within
five years sftervvmd. Tlie trust
wan accepted by the slate, and it
receive! from the government the
pmnnsed yift
It wi- n icstionalile :l the t?me
u!-th. r tli.' lands for the int. -mil
1 1 1 : 1 f
to any modifications which they
miht suggest. The contract for
the building was given to D. J.
Silvers & Son of Ixganspoit, Ind.,
Aug. IS. 109.
CONSTRUCTION WORK
HAMPERED BY MATERIAL
About the middle of July, the
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'It were wis.-ly pvjnt I
i" it.-ly. however. tin
t 111' !! I I'.'. Ill, lit of I '.
"i!t ore roll. an.i uni
n u:i coiiiiin il ivi'lv in
i u is.' piovi..,.in
I r ' - l h. in fiohi ti.-u.g
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B Jll DlNC. FirjA I.I V
CrClN t ATC IN 18CJ
T' ' , . I- i -I i.ii.. It.
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Iowa, opposite the present Ne
braska City. It was hauled to Lin
coln in wagons over very poor
roads, a distance of 65 miles. The
contractors paid $10 a cord for
wood with which to burn brick,
and which was hauled 20 to 25
miles. On April 7. 1870. the brick
work was commenced, and tho
there was an interruption of three
weeks for want of bricks, the
walls were completed and the roof
on by the middle of the following
August. In 82 days 1.500,000
bricks were made and put in the
first walls of the university. The
board of regents determined to
open the building the year follow
ing its completion. By their per
mission the chapel was used for
various literary entertainments, up
to the time of its foi mal opening.
! WHEN U. HALL
WAS IN ITS PRIME
c inu.n totx commenced woik, a.id ' The fust university building,
the walls w. -re completed by Sept. i University hall, was originally of
2'. so that I lie col nersiunp could j handsome bli-k structure. with
be laid, whi-h was d ne with Ma- sandstone finish, four, at ones high, i
s um' c-remonies. under the man- including the nnn.jaid roof, and j
i l; : r h :it of the gi in, I lo.lg of the I the bas-iin'iil which was nini-i
.-t.iie The coiiiinittee of citizens pally above ground The original
foundation was of .sandstone, but
that was s-wut found to he .n i.ie
quite ti .sustain such a Mill, tin
It was n movi I and limestone w..s
Mih-titiitcd ;:fler the r-.st of t'i
li.nl.iiii;; u as coinph ted.
The ( impus at that tune in
clu.; I four lilocU.i. in whi h glow
n la' go variety of foie.-t and ever- !
;ie,-u tre.-s. Votitio but vei y
t'.l.llV. (.1 Uriel 1 1; IVc.'.'.-lVS ail
bill establishing a university be
came a law on Feb. 15. 18t9, which
was introduced in the legi8latur
by Ebenezer E. Cunningham or
Richardson county, the population
was barely 100.000. Even the few
high schools that existed could
hardly prepare students for the
freshman class, and very few stu
dents anywhere were in s-jch a
stage ot preparation. The state,
too, was mainly settled by persons
of comparatively small means,
seeking homes for themselves and
families.
YW DEDICATES VESPERS
TO GRADUATING SENIORS
Mary Bullock Reada Diary
Of Average Coed Today
In Ellen Smith.
To honor graduating women th
Y. W. C. A. is dedicating today's
Vespers as a senior recognition at
5 p. m. in Ellen Smith hall. All
senior women on the campus ara
invited.
Retrospective of the highlights
in the life of an average coed Maiy
Bullock will read "From the Diai'
of an Underclassman." Tex l
z-He Rounds will accompany oa
the piano.
Mary Ruth Rhodes is assisting
in arrangements ior mm mm....
final Vesp.-r of the .semester. M i
ine IV.teile will direct the Vc- . r
choir in a special number.
who had that-,' of the c-rein onies
i "is I a il.s-rin'.ion among thein
. lv. and hired a h unt from
H" i!n for "7."i and ..-iis, s.
Tli h. n I ti ,iv. !- I In le all tin
way from On;-.!; i in rai I i.igcs. A
f i , f lipfju-t for all 111- citizens
fi, iii nut of town was als i givi-n
l.y tli- p o;.-. The l,.,v,-.,), ;,t w.is
""ii! le.l.ilil in- tile fust Week 111
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r 0RPHEUM
wth
NEWS SHOTS
N. U. IVY DAY
ENGINCER3 NIC.MT
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