Sunday, November 19, 1939
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inpa at the Deans," which, they in
was made by Dr. Floyd Rogers
and Dr. O. V. Calhoun at Castle,
Roper & Matthews Saturday after
noon. Dr. Miller in a statement fol
lowing the examination said,
"The autopsy revealed no gross
evidence of any traumatic in
' jury. Death was probably due to
I injuries received in the game,
the exact nature of which have
not yet been determined." The
.Lr tuA rvamininn rh vsi-ian will
r continue the autopsy until the
exact cause of the death has
been determined.
Davies' parents, altho heartbro
ken, hold "no resentment for the
game of football. Jerry Wallace,
student and cousin of Doug's, said
! that the youth's father had played
football and Doug had grown up
with the game. The parents in
their grief felt that it is "just one
of those things."
A special initiation ritual will
be held for the youth by members
of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity of
which Davies was a pledge. The
ceremony will take place at 10
a. m. this morning.
Funeral services will be held at
1:30 p. m. Monday in St. Mark's
Cathedral in Hastings. The entire
Alpha Tau Omega chapter will at-
tend. Burial will be at Kearney
Lewandowski grieved.
Lewandowski shaken and
grieved stated, "Doug's death is
the most tragic thing that has
ever happened to me. It was my
; first experience and I hope my
iasi. i ieei, not oniy ior me Doy s
parents, but for other members of
tliP frMhman sminH TVinrr'o tnom.
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mates, who played alongside him."
"We used every precaution pos
sible. There was a team physician
on the field and the players were
outfitted with the best equipment
that can be bought."
"Davies was given immediate
medical attention, both on the
field, and in the dressing room. It
is just one of those things you read
about but hope never to see."
When the knowledge of his
death became known, the game
was stopped in the fourth quarter.
It was the first death ever to oc
cur on a Husker athletic field.
Chick Shcdd, varsity end, in 1896,
died several years after he was
hurt in a game.
The freshman football dressing
room was quiet as the boys filed
in after being told of the accident.
The usual jocularity accompany
ing the close of a game was gone.
Grim faced youths slowly unbur
dened themselves of the heavy
equipment and shuffled to the
showers. Kxcept for the move
ment of the men, the dr0'
room was hushed. The youths
slipped into their street clothes,
and with lowered heads filed slow
ly out.
Major grid scores
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Three years ago .. .
Daily editor decried Pitt's
ways; they said he was wrong
. . .Today he's right
By Norman Harris.
Yesterday Nebraska won its
first football victory over Pitts
burgh's Tanthcrs since 1921. Pre
viously, the best Husker elevens
could do was hold the mighty coal
basket lifters to scoreless ties.
Usually, the games were one-sided,
with Pitt handing Nebraska a
40-0 defeat the year that Hugh
Rhea was to be an All-American
tackle.
All of which reminds us that
during the Pitt game in 1936, a
certain Daily editor, Arnold Le
vine, conducted a "survey" of the
Pittsburgh football system, aided
by two staff members who sat on
the Panther bench during the
game and questioned squad men
during the afternoon.
Threatened by lawsuits.
Editor Levin's provoking edito
rials, stating that Pitt subsidized,
conducted year-round training ta
bles, maintained summer camps
for its football players, and allow
ed its athletes to forget classroom
assignments, drew fruit in the
form of lawsuits by Pitt athletic
officials; and criticism, the kind
that doesn't praise, from several
midwestern sportswriters; and
general comment on every foot
ball minded campus in the coun
try. . His editorials made big news.
One-time editor Levin, like any
college editor, got worried and for
got Pittsburgh ever existed. But
three years later, after much wa
ter has gone from river to river,
facts show that he was correct in
his editorial statements.
The whole thing began with a
feature article, written by Ed
Stecves, sophomore reporter on the
DAILY, who sat on the Pitt bench
during the 1936 game in Lincoln.
Some of the questions asked and
answers received by snooper
Steeves were:
How old are most of you fel
lows? . . . about 25.. "See Goldberg
out there? He's really 20, not 18
like all the newspapers say.
How much do you fellows go to
school ? . . . "You don't have much
time to go to school when you play
on the Pittsburgh football team."
The bruiser questioned remarked
that "you practice four hours a
day all season, right weeks in the
spring, and then you go to a three
months training camp after school
is out." More too. "We eat at a
training table all year-round."
Other comments of the 1936
Pitt crew were . . . "Daddio is the
strongest guy on the team . . .
why he can lift five baskets of
coal." . . . "That one guy there has
a wife and two kids" . . . "Hardly
I igers claw
Sooners, 7-6
By Harl Hunt.
Nebraska's bubble of hope for
the Big Six championship burst
yesterday afternoon when Mis
souri's Tigers out-pointed Okla
homa's Sooners, 7-6, in one of the
nation's top grid battles.
Missouri's touchdowns came as
the result of a bad break for
the Sooners. Oklahoma, with the
Tigers pressing them hard, were
forced In mint from eWn in Jhfir
, -1 -- -
own territoiy. Moser came thru
and blocked the Sooner kick be
hind the line of scrimmage, and
Bob Orf, one of the Tiger pass
catching twins, scooped up the
ball and went over for the score.
King converted.
The Missouri fans went wild
with excitement, but the Sooners
Indinna 1, Mirlilean Slut 1.
rnroltir 7, Iwiiimin 1.
Ilarvurd 41), Nrw Hnmimlilrr 0.
dirndl SIS, liirtmnulh A.
Iwa stHt- lit, Kim Slate 0.
Iowa IS. Mlnm-vta 9.
.Not it Dame 1, .Vorthwmtrm 0.
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any of us guys is Americans" . . .
"Most ot us come from the coal
fields."
Pitt players that afternoon in the
fall of '36 couldn't believe that al
most every Cornhusker hailed from
the state of Nebraska. They
couldn't understand why N. U.
players didn't get scholarships,
why they played football for the
fun of it; nor did they believe the
ages printed in the official pro
gram. After, the game, they
evinced a certain admiration for
the Huskers, who bowed 19 to 6
that afternoon, in a remark of one
of them that went, "You've got a
plenty sweet team" if they are all
from Nebraska.
That fateful day.
On Tuesday, Nov. 24, editor
Levin -wrote his editorial, which
made every sport page in the mid
dlewest. He didn't pull his punches
and advised that the "Athletic
Board of Control after the last
football game" . . . should drop
Pittsburgh "from the Nebraska
football schedule as soon as she
can be replaced by a team which
resorts to clean, wholesome, ama
teur practices."
Levin credited Jock Sutherland's
coaching ability, but refused to
recognize as amateur or ethical
the methods jused by Pitt's moguls
m ouiaming jock nis material.
The next morning, Levin's edi
torial column was still sizzling in
its repetition to the Athletic
Board of the recommendation to
drop Pitt from the schedule. He
refused to back down.
Plenty of hot water.
Heckled at first bv fraternity
brothers and alumni, the erstwhile
journalist took the matter lightly
until Ware of the Omaha World
Herald cracked that college edi-
tors were a "necessary evil" and
tin aamimsiraiors threatened
with a law-suit. Later. Levin
apologized, stayed out of court,
quit worrying ... the whole thing
was dropped.
But now after a war cf fnnt
ball mess at Titt, the powerhouse
or the east isn t so powerful Las
year, she "forgot" to pay a few
tuition bills for the freshman foot
ball team. She cot rid of .lock
Sutherland, who is still out of
work. Result: Pittsburgh has lost
io jjuquesne, oreinam and Ne
braska this year and is rated be
low the top 25 teams in the na
tion. Levin evidently was right,
but they said he was just a smart
college punk, who didn't know
what he was talking about. Why,
the idea! Colleges just couldn't do
the things he said Pitt was doing.
Maybe that's true, but Pittsburgh
was the exception in 1936 to that
rule!
were not to be denied for long.
Flashing their vaunted power that
had kept them previously unde
feated, the Oklahomans took a
Tiger kick on their 29 yard line.
Fired by halfback Jack Jacobs,
their own Jim Thorpe, and J. S.
Munsey, the Sooners took to the
air and mnrched straight down
the field 71 yards for a touch
down hardly before the echoes
over the Tiger's score had died.
Munsey caught Jacobs 18 yard
pass in the end zone for the score.
Dick Favor was rushed into the
game to convert the extra point
'ind tie up the ball game, but a
slippery ball glanced off his toe
and was wide.
After Nebraska's Cornhusk
ers beat Pittsburgh, the least
students can do to show their
enthusiasm and praise for a
mighty victory is to meet the
team at the Burlington station
tomorrow morning at 8:50.
Classes are not officially dis
missed, but all who do not have
classes at 9 are urged fervently
to meet the team. Remember,
8:50 tomorrow morning.
Huskers knock
victory over Pitts Panthers
(Continued From rage 1.)
45 yards before Bob DcFiuiter
caught him from behind on the
Nctyaska 15. Kracum picked up ten
yards on two attempts to carry the
sphere to the four. Nebraska
staged a great defense but Kracum
lid off end and over the goal line
on the fourth down. Pettinger
kicked the extra point.
A crowd of 37,000, about half
of the 70,000 fans who saw -the
1937 conflivt, watched the downfall
of the Panthers.
Kicking duel.
The first quarter was mainly a
kicking duel between the two
teams. Hopp and Rohrig did a
great job of kicking throughout
tthe contest, which was largely re
sponsible for the victory. Late in
the first quarter the Cornhuskers
seriously threatened,' but were
stopped four yards short of the
goal when Rettingcr broke through
and spilled Rohrig on an attempted
reverse.
' The Huskers threatened again
in the closing minutes of the game
after being penalized five yards
for an offside on the kickoff. Put
ting the ball in play on the 20,
Rohn irade a yard at center. On
a fake kick formation, DeFruiter
raced 33 yards around Pitt's right
end to the Panther 45 yard stripe.
Rohrig broke thru the Pittsburgh
line for nine yards on two plays
and Coach Bowser rushed in his
shock troops. Rohn smashed cen
ter for three more but, tempo
rarily stunned by a stiff tackle,
was carried off the field and re
placed by Francis. Luther tossed
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a lateral to Pctsch for an eight
yard gain, and Francis drove thru
center for four yards and a first
down on Pitt's 25. Francis was
still hammering at the Panther
line when the final gun went off.
Coffin corner boot.
Time and again Pitt was set
back by quick kicks and long
punts, putting them deep in their
own territory at cnicial moments.
Karly in the second period Rohrig
got off a perfect kick into the
coffin corner, the ball going out
of bounds on Pittsburgh's 2 yard
marker.
The Cornhuskers made ten kicks
for an average of 37 4-5 yards, and
the Panthers got off nine for an.
average of 37 1-9 yards.
Rohn and Francis were the shin
ing lights of the backfield, while
Meier, Herndon and Alfson stood
out in the line. Francis and Rohn
were both inning hard, and Meier
backed up the line in fine shape.
Nebraska was giving its own
backs good blocking and was hit
ting hard on tackles. The Husker
ends came thru time and again to
spill Titt interference and allow
the backs to hold the Panthers to
ehort gains.
Dick Cassiano, Pittsburgh's
much heralded halfback, playing
only the last six minutes of the
ball game didn't carry the pigskin
once. Gradisek Hawkins and Klein
staged a fine defensive show in
the line. Sekela, Narick and Thur
bon were the big-wigs of the Pan
ther backfield. The entire Pitt
team looked very tired at the end,
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