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DAILY NEBRASKAN
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Jim Hringe.r
DAILY Office
Lincoln, Nebr.
Sept. 16, 1940
Readers (both of you)
University of Nebraska
Dear Sirs (God Mens you):
Well, this little letter is Koine:
St. Sf?
tXto be a so-called letter of intro
duction. . . That is, we are going
to introduce ourselves to you. . .
It so happens that we are going
to be in charge of the sports page
of the DAILY for the coming
year. . . Therefore, it will be the
duty of this corner to bring to you
the news from the sport fronts on
this campus and from the whole
Bporting world in general. . .
Yours truly is following in the
footsteps of a gal who really knew
her sports. . . Last year, June Bier
bower operated this "colyum" and
did a man's sized job. . . June
niade her hobby her business when
she became sports editor. . . Those
tf you in school last year can bear
out this statement. . .
It's a funny thing, but one
notices column titles every day
and then when one tries to make
up one of his own he immediately
becomes stumped. . . I've tried to
dig up an original and "catchy"
heading but the score was naught.
. . . The above was the result and
I (and you) am stuck with it until
the real or better thing comes
along. . .
Let it be said in this the
inaugural column piece of writing
that it is the hope of us, as it is
yours, that Nebraska ranks su
preme in all phases of athletics
for the year 1940-41. . .
Prospects are said to be very
good, but we'll keep our fingers
crossed and just sit back and
watch and see if the predictions
come true. . .
Right now, football is the key
word on the sports pages along
wit the closing of the baseball
season and approaching world
series. . . Later, basketball and
then the spring sports will hold
way. . .
In closing it's our hope that
sports this year in the midlands
will be spelled N-E-B-R-A-S-K-A.
And this is thirty for now until
all good sports get together for
the next isaue of the DAILY. . .
Yours truly,
Jim Evinger
Rporu Koitor
ltidiard White leave
for North Dakota pot
Richard L. White left Lincoln
Sept. 6, to assume the duties as
Instructor in economics at North
Dakota agricultural college. White
received his A.B. here at the uni
versity in 1939. He belonged to
the Beta Gamma Sigma, honorary
business fraternity, played with
the Lincoln symphony orchestra,
Acacia, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.
f hjiu was an nonorary memoer oi
PfGnmmik Lambda.
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braska." That's the spirit that has runij
out over the prairies and fertile
valleys of the central West plains
since football began for Ne
braska. But for the past two years, the
supremacy of the Cornhuskers in
the Big Six conference has been
broken by the great Oklahoma
team of 1938 and the fine Mis
souri eleven of 1939.
And now 1940 championship of
the league, as predicted by the ex
perts, is forecasted to be handed to
Nebraska. However, a couple of
teams by the names of Mizaou and
Oklahoma have other ideas than
the pronosticators.
Big Six always strong.
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remaining trio of the Big Six, ars
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the name on their Saturday slate.
Pointing for Nebraska is the
favorite pastime for conference
grid opponents. No matter how
strong or how weak the Cornhusk
ers are, they are marked men
when league opposition sets forth
to do battle.
This year will be no different
from all the others. Reports from
the grid camps thruout the con
ference reveal that all teams are
on the upgrade and a letdown by
one of the league bigwigs could re
sult in an upset and disaster for
championship aspirants.
The Huskers are declared the
gridders to "put the bee on" this
year, mainly because of the wealth
of lettermen returning.
Missouri will have a tough
schedule and will also be marked
as it will be out to defend the Big
Six title. Not only that but grad
uation took away 14 men and four
of those were ends who were on
the receiving end of many a touch
down pass thrown by All-Ameri-can
Paul Christman.
Oklahoma, so the reports say, is
looking farther into the future
than 1940. The year 1941 is sup
posed to be THE year for the
Sooners. Sophomores will be
sprinkled thruout the Stidham
team. The catch is that after half
the season is gone the Sooners will
begin to really get tough on their
opponents due to their increasing
experience.
Kansas State has a new coach
and has inspired new spirit into its
(See BIG SIX, on page 20.)
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Huskers open
51sl year of
grid activity
With 50 years of football be
hind, the Cornhuskers enter their
51st year with a winning percent
age of .758. Out of 416 games, the
Huskers have won 291, lost 93 and
tied 32. The following are com
plete figures:
Games played, 414.
Games won, 291.
Games tied, 32.
Games lost, 93.
Percent, .758.
Points scored, 7,624.
Average points per game, 18.3.
Opponents' points, 2,562.
Average points per game, 6.1.
Schools played, 68.
Championships, 21.
Best season, 1902, unbeaten, un
tied, unscored upon in ten games.
Worst season, 1899, won two,
lost seven, tied one.
(See 51ST YEAR, on page 20)
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