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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Tuesday, December 3, 1940
Cage team begins competition in 3 days
Baskctballers
start season
come Friday
Sodaks open 18-game
schedule; three ace
veterans returning
By Bill Flory.
With a fancy 18-game schedule
before them, the Nebraska basket
ball team has little time for "bowl
fever" aid as a result they are
bisily engaged in preparation for
the opener at
Vermillion, S.
D., Dej. 6.
Under direc
tion of Charles
Armstrong and
Coach Brown
t h e Huskers
are buliding
around veter
ans Don Fitz,
forward, Al
Randall, cen
t e r , Hartman
Goetze, f o r -ward,
and Sid
ney Held, last
year's outstand
ing sophomore guard. Replace
ments must be found for Harry
Pitcaithley, Frank Tallman, Irvin
Yaffee and Bob Therein, all of
whom were lost by graduation. Re
turning letter winners who are
gunning for places on the start
ing five are, Johnny Hay, Lyle
King, Chuch Vacanti, Les Living
stone and Max Hudbert, a squad
man of two years ago.
Promising sophomores
Outstanding sophomores who
have been practicing daily include
John Fitzgibbon, John Thompson,
Wayne Kellogg, Warren Marquis,
Bob Bramson, Ted Greene, Stan
Huffman, and
Max Young.
The squad
will leave for
the Pacific
coast and a
game with the
University of
California on
Dec. 26. The
next evening
they will be
hosts of the
University of
Stanford at
Palo Alto.
There the team
will be endeav
oring to set the
pace for the football team who
has a date with the Stanford foot-
DON FITZ
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After the affair with Sanford
the team heads northwrad where
they will meet the Oregon Sate
college team at Corvallis. Then
back to Lincoln and a tussle with
the University of Wisconsin the
fourth of January. This winds up
the non-conference slate and the
regular round robin with the Big
Six teams starts Jan 7, with Kan
sas State college.
Schedule:
Dec. 6 S. D. U. at Vermillion.
14 Marquette U. at lincoln.
18 Uni. of Kentucky at Lincoln.
21 Uni. of Minnesota at Lincoln.
26 Uni. of Calif, at Berkeley.
27 Stanford U. at Palo Alto.
30 Oregon S. Col. at Corvallis.
Jan. 4 Uni. of Wis. at Lincoln.
7 Kansas State Col. at Lincoln.
13 Uni. of Oklahoma at Lincoln.
Kansas State Col. at Manhattan.
20 Uni. of Missouri at Lincoln.
25 Iowa State College at Ames.
Feb. 1 Iowa State Cil. at Lincoln.
10 Uni. of Kansas at Lawrence.
15 Uni. of Missouri at Columbia.
22 Uni. of Oklahoma at Norman.
March 1 Uni. of Kas. at Lincoln.
Schmidt speaks to
Public Officials Forum
Prof. E. B. Schmidt of the bizad
college will speak on the Public
Officials Forum at the meeting of
the Nebraska Federation of Tax
payers in the Cornhusker ballroom
today at 3:00.
CONGRATULATIONS!
TO COACH JONES, HIS STAFF, AND THE FIGHTING CORN
HUSEERS ON OBTAINING THE ROSE BOWL BID WHICH
YOU ALL SO RICHLY DESERVE.
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GONGRA
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HUSKERS!
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A Tribute to Nebraska's Greatest Football Squad
from loyal followers
for over 38 years . . .
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