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after a punt return,... he did so
with Husker and Jayhawk cheers
alike rinerinrr in his ears. . .He was
really the standout of the day for
the K. U. team. . . .
Now that Miller has been suf
ficiently cared .
.Wednesday, October 15, 1941
for, we can turn
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By Boh Millet 1
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Since there hasn't been much
chance to give some credit to a
defeated but gamely fighting team
from Lawrence, we thought that
this would be a good chance to
tell some of Die things that oc
cured to us... As it appeared the
K. U. team had a good back field
but the line lacked that some
thing that should be present...
In our estimation, the Kansas
player of the day was by all means
Ralph Miller, the slight 170 pound
quarterback who fired the deadly
missies into the Husker defenses
for repeated completions. .. .This
Chanute, Kansas flash was the
big noise in the Jayhawk offense
and defense. . .
During his stay in the game
Miller was In-
s t r u mental in
keeping the Jay f
hawks going. . . f
x 1
He accounted
for the maior- tl ! ?
- i
tty of the 17
completions re-
suuing rrom it
attempts
Miller had his
fust year on
the v a r s i ty
team in 1938
and in the next
Lincoln Journal.
season, he led
the nation's passers with a com
pletion average of .622. . .
In 1940, however, he was forced
out of competition due to an in
jury that he had sustained in the
fifth game of his sophomore year.
He was hampered all the '39 sea
son by the injury but it was the
following season that he had to
have two operations upon the in
jured member
In Saturday's game he won the
admiration of all the fans when
with all the sureness in the world
he stepped back and waited pa
tiently until he saw one of his re
ceivers out in the open and then he
calmly let fly with one of his ac
curate thunderbolts His passes
weren't masterpieces from the
standpoint of a perfect spiral but
his accuracy and speed with which
he threw them accounted for the
high number of completions.
Official figures released by the
K. U. athletic department show
show that Miller completed 13 out
f 21 passes during the afternoon
and his passes amounted to 93
yards for the afternoon's perform
ance. . .Statistics reveal that this
boosted his season average to.542,
a figure that will probably reach
the 1939 proportions. . .His pas
ses thus far have netted the Jay
kawks a neat 254 yards . . . When
be was forced to leave the game in
the third quarter due to good
shaking-up when he was tackled
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u r attentions
toward the Jay
line . . . While
the line as a
whole wasn't
particularly ef
fective, there
were several in
dividuals that
played over
their heads for
the entire after
noon in an ef
8oa luxe
fort to stave
off certain de
Lincoln Journal.
feat.. Bob Flu-
ker was the best man that Kan
sas put on the field in the line. . .
On offensive he shown on down-
field blocking that didn't do much
good and on defense he was on
every play that came his way
If there had been seven Flukers
n the line, the story would have
been very different. . .He filled the
guard position so ably that he got
every sports scribe's vote as the
individual lineman of the day
Monte Merkle came the nearest
to duplicating Fluker's show on
me oiner side of the center in the
opposite guard position ... He was
harder than the other linemen to
block with the one exception and
he gave his best in a losing battle.
Once more in the backfield Ray
Niblo attracted notice as a suc
cessor to Miller, his imitation of
Miller's style of rjassine was not
all that could be expected...
Ray Evans had a share in the
back's spotlight
turning1 in a
good game that
boasted of sev-
eral runs o f
longer than five
yards and he j
was on the cat- f
cnine end or
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most of Miller's
passes . . The ymm,
way it looked ' P-
after the game f ?
was that Kan
sas had a better
than Avprnpe "'""""
backfield play- VV5
i n e behind a . . . .
ljim'om journal.
worse than av
erage line . . .
Individual performers need some
recognition, thoue-h. when thev
that was nearly decided before it
was played. That was our purpose
Indiana Set
Drop Huskcrs
With the major pouring it on
this week to prepare the Huskers
for Saturday s homecoming game
against Indiana, word comes from
the Hoosier camp that "Colonel
Bo's boys will be ready.
According to latest reports, the
Hoosiers, for the first time this
season, will be at full strength. A
pre-seaaon crippled starting back
field, which has not yet had a
chance to prove itself, will be
ready Saturday.
A line in which Bo has juggled
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P' til
Prof. Roscoc Pound Tried
Sports Forecasting in 1900
Prof. Roscoe Foimd, head of the
law school at Harvard University,
viewed Nebraska's progress as a
rising gridiron power with consid
erable optimism in the Sept. 18,
1900 issue of the Hesperian-Ne-braskan,
student newspaper.
Sports scribe Pound, whose sis
ter is Dr. Louise Pound of the
present Cornhuskcr faculty, wrote
for heartier support from the stu
dent body.
"As we are about to enter upon
the second decade of football at
the University of Nebraska, a brief
retrospect from a veteran football
crank may not be out of place.
Football before 1890.
"Prior to 1890 football, except
the old helter-skelter kicking
game with an indefinite number on
each side and every man for him
self, was unheard of in Nebraska.
In '8S)-'90 McClatchie, '91, who had
played at Olivet, preached the gos
pel of scientific football and vol
unteered to coach. He aroused not
a little enthusiasm, though ham
pered by a notion then prevalent
that players ought to be elected by
ballot, and began our football his
tory with a series of class games,
an institution which, with slight
interruption, has been handed
down to the present day.
"I was away fiom the Univer
sity at the time, but on my return
in the fall of '90, full of the en
thusiasm kindled by seeing the
Harvard season of '89, including
the games with Yale and Prince
ton, I was amused and amazed to
see some two dozen men, in their
shirt sleeves, some in overalls, but
most in their every-day trousers,
and all wearing suspenders, en
deavoring to learn the elements of
football by the light of nature and
their recollection of what they saw
the year before.
"Some of the men who played
mat year had not a little natural
sophomores and veterans, veterans
and sophomores, will probably find
two sophomores starting with five
veterans. Present lineups indicate
that there will also be two sophs
in the backfield.
Outstanding in the backfield is
Soph Billie Hillenbrand, whose
work in the left halfback slot has
placed him in the hallowed group
pre-seasonally picked as "backs of
the year." Another sophomore,
Lou Saben, will most likely hold
down the blocking back assign
ment, while two juniors, Dale Swi
hart at right half, and Earl Dolo
way at full, will complete the
quartet.
Sophomores who have proved
themselves worthy of first Btring
places in the Indiana line are Tac
kle Freddie Huff and Center John
Tavener; from all reports, these
. . . Results Shown Here
ability and would have done well
in time with proper training. Dr.
Frothingham, who had seen the
best of tootball, did what he could
for them, and as opposing teams
were equally raw, individual
strength and athletic skill took
our first varsity team trium
phantly through its first season.
Another year saw our first hired
coach in Lyman of Grinnell, who
had played at Yale. Lyman was
given about ten days to do what he
could with green men.
"The score in a game with Iowa
that season was not pleasant to
think of, but Lyman had set us
in motion, and we repaid Iowa
with interest later.
Advent of League.
"Then came the leaeue. No one
mourns its death, but it was a
great event in our football history.
From the dav it was organized.
Nebraska has had good football.
Jnere have been off years, but
there have been years of triumph
as well, and as one looks back
over ten years and calls to mind
J. H. Johnston. A. E. Yont. Flin-
pin, Budd Jones, Dern, Thorpe,
Wiggins, ueorge Shedd, Melford
and Benedict any of whom could
have played in any company he
cannot but feel ample satisfaction.
Need of hearty support.
"The most immediate need is
hearty support. There, too, there
is room for improvement. Prob
ably nowhere else is it respectable,
or even safe, to look over the
canvas, or sit in trees or windows
in plain view, and steal half a dol
lar's worth of football. Some of
the best men in the University
have clone this in time past, and
have done what they could to
make it respectable. Football is
a democratic game."
Ed. note This article was taken
from an article appearing in the
Nebraska Alumnus.
two will brine- the varsity sonh
total to four.
In the Husker camp, linemen
were warned that unless "a bang
up job of rushiner" is carried out.
Brilliant Billie Hillenbrand may
pass me flusters Oizzy."
Whether or not the word from
Bloomington is a word of fair
warning, whether or not the Hoo
siers have selected their fourth
game to come up to pre-season
predictions, whether or not either
of these things is true, it's a gen
erally known fact that the colonel
and the major will make Satur
day afternoon an interesting one
Cagerg Meet Tonight
Ad Lewandowski broadcast a
calf for all varsity men to re
port to the coliseum basement
at 7:30 tonight for physical ex
aminations. All men must be
there.
Practice for the varsity
squad wilt be in the coliseum
Monday, Thursday and Friday
afternoons st 3:30 and Tues
day and Wednesday evenings
at 7:15.
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Art If Nhaw and t!U
Crmt it'! i'irce Orch
SfiOAt
By Susan Shaw
Don't forget the Rkling Club
picnic today at six. If you contact
any of the officers pay your 25
cents at the WAA office. Meet at
Grant Memorial Hall.
Joyce Junge, Pi Beta Phi. and
Lila Howell, Kappa Alpha Theta,
will attend their first WAA coun
cil meeting today as newly elected
secretary and assistant conces
sion manager, respectively.
President of the Bowling Club,
Georgia Swallow, announced that
all students, fellows included, are
to bnng their indentification cards
to the next meeting. It will be
held at the Lincoln bowling alley
Thursday from 4 to 6 p. m. Special
rate for club members is 25 cents
for two lines.
Fimcral-
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heart, who represented Nebraska
at last year's Rose Bowl game.
Affiliated with Sigma Nu fra
ternity, Reichstadt was known to
his friends as "Dutch," and maj
ored in pre-medicine on this cam
pus. He was a parachute and tech
nical supply officer at the Albu
querque base, having graduated
from Kelly field and having
served at Randolph snd March
fields.
Sigma Nu fraternity members
will attend the funer.al in a group.
Men and women freshmen at
Macales college enjoyed week
;nd camp outings before the school
year opened.
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