Dick Dilsaver
With the lid on conference grid
play now pushed down tight we
can go ahead and say what we
please about teams and players
without having them come up the
next Saturday and turning in a
direct opposite of our predicted
performance or appraisal.
Oklahoma took the title hands
down with but one team, Missouri,
even so much as tying them. The
Tigers were having a field day
when they met the Sooners while
the Okies weren't rilly quite the
pigskin powerhouse they were
against other conference and non
coneference teams.
Coach Dewey Luster should be
praised for the fine team he put
on the Sooner grid iron this year
however, if Uncle Sam hadn't
donated the use of several V-12
Navy trainees the Oklahoma team
might have been in bad shape.
Two other school in the con
ference should be t,lad also of a
bluejacket boost namely, Kansas
and Iowa State. The Cyclones ran
second best to Oklahoma in the
bunting fight while the Jayhawks
tied their sister state team, Kan
sas State, for the cellar berth
What would the Jayhawkers have
done without the Navy help?
Coaches Lewandowski, Stark
and Adams have been receiving;
many a pat on the back on the
way they shaped up Nebraska's
civilian championship team. Lew
and his helper had little to start
with at the first of the year if
anything, and succeeded in turn
ing out a well-oiled grid machine
at the end of the year. The
coaches alone aren't felting all the
praise but a great deal is coming:
to the husky striplings who com
posed the Nebraska squad.
Keith Doyle, UN star center was
voted the pivot spot on Okla
homa's all opponent squad while
teammate Joe Kessler, husky half
back, held down a backfield berth.
Doyle was probably the most
valuable member of the Husker
squad, at least he would receive
our vote, with his always alert
and hard-pounding defense. To
think that the flashy snapper is
but a freshman makes us dream
of how the '48 Nebraska squad
will look.
With the experience gained al
ready their freshman year and
the kind thought that Uncle would
not take them from our midst,
these young Huskers give any
loyal Cornhusker a warm feeling.
Oklahomans
Tackle Heavy
Cage Slate
NORMAN, Okl., Dec. 7. With
eight games scheduled at Norman
and Oklahoma City in December,
the University of Oklahoma bas
ketball squad, co-champions of
the Bix Six conference last year,
will undertake a formidable 26
game schedule with what is loom
ing as a small, nearly all-civilian
squad.
One Starter; Two Subs.
Coach Bruce Drake's most ex
perienced boys, Jack Landon of
Oklahoma City, lone returning
starter from last year's team, and
two of last year's subs, Don Bue-
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Now all that's lacking: is Biff
Jones.
Football wasn't the only place
where a wound was left by the
war here at Nebraska. Basketball
seems to be suffering just as
much. Frosh are about all that
are available and what few let
termen there are returning, seem
to be incompetent to hold up the
Husker load.
Many things might happen be
to be too big a pay for play grid
program come post-war days.
Somebody will probably lose a
little moola in financing the hope
ful loops.
One of the great figures in our
nations national game lives no
more. We're speaking of Roger
Bresnahan listed as one of the
all time greats as backstop for the
New York Giants. Bresnahan was
also owner of the Toledo Mudhens
of the American Association.
In conclusion, we might men
tion that the recently concluded
pigskin parade of 1944 has prob
ably been as wild and unpre
dictable as any in the history of
the game. Maybe the war adds
color to football but we'll take
the good old rock 'em, sock 'em
days of yesterday for ours,
fore the UN opener that would
give the Nebraska quintet a
brighter outlook.
Army, or. th football field as
well as on ine battle front, took
the national mythical title with
their first undefeated season in
a good many years. The cadets
finished their season by trounc
ing their traditional rivals, the
middies of Navy.
Many Husker fans will remem
ber the great freshman team here
in 1941 that had all the chance
in the world to go to the Rose
Bowl when they reached their
prime. Likewise, they will remem
ber Big Tom Hayes, standout end
with the promising frosh here.
Big Tom has been playing con
sistently with the Mules through
out the season. Another memory
oi tne afore-mentioned squad is
the pitiful way that all disap
peared to the Army and other
branches of the service.
One other member of the '41
frosh squad now discharged from
the air corps will most likely be
on hand in '45. He's Jim Myers
wno played with York in his high
school days.
Many Dro leagues are in th
making now in wnat might prove
low and Ed Lindenberg, all aver
age less than six feet.
"How are we going to get the
ball even with goaltending out?"
Drake wonders.
The Sooners gain Harold
"Scooter" Hines of Oklahoma
City, the dwarf of their 1942
freshman squad who played some
last year at Southwestern univer
sity of Georgetown, Texas and
has since been discharged from
the navy, and Bill Whaley, a
transfer from Pepperdine college
of California. But Hines stands
only 5 feet 6 inches tall and Wha
ley 5-11.
Oklahoma lost the heart of its
fine young team last year that
unexpectedly won the Oklahoma
City All-College tournament and
decisively flogged Iowa State
44-30 at Ames, la., in the final
conference game to gain a tie for
the Big Six flag.
THE NEBRASKAN
KU Quintet
Lacks Wise
Court Vets
LAWRENCE. Kas., Dec. 7.
With football togs being tucked
away for the season Dr. F. C.
Allen is starting basketball prac
tice at full swing at Mt. Oread
Charles Moffett, the only reg
ular back from last year's Kansas
quintet which finished third in
the Big Six conference will check
out a uniform in the next few
days. Moffett was the regular
tail back on the Crimson and
Blue football team and tt will
take some little time for him to
get accustomed to the court again.
Gone from last year's starting
five is big Don Barrington, Homer
Sherwood, Bill Lindquist, Harold
McSpadden and Bob Turner.
Moffett is the only one back from
last year's starting quintet.
Back from last year's squad are
Dean Corder, Don Diehl, and Lou
Goehring! All of these men are
in the V-12 unit but are all Kan
sas boys. Another player, who
was out awhile last year, report
ing again this season is Kirk
Scott of Newton High School. All
of these players are small.
The leading candidate for the
center post at the present time is
Everett Hill, who was the star
center on the Liberty Memorial
High School squad for the past
two seasons. Hill has been ill the
past few days but Allen reports
the former Lion ace is coming
along in good style.
Allen announced today that an
other game had been added to the
Jaybawker schedule. The extra
contest will be with Rockhurst
College in Lawrence December
19. The Washburn Ichabods will
come to Lawrence Friday eve
ning, December 8 for a return
engagement.
After the game with Washburn
the Mt. Oread quintet will journey
to Kansas City for a game with
Rockhurst College. On December
22 and 23 the Jayhawkers will
take part in a twin bill two night
affair in the Municipal Audi
torium in Kansas City, Mo.
The Jayhawkers play the Kan
sas Aggie five the first night
while Colorado will play Missouri.
The Colorado quintet is coached
by "Frosty" Cox, a former star
football and basketball player at
K. U.
The second evening of the twin
bill event will find the Jayhawk
ers pitted against the Missouri
Tigers and Kansas State will play
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Cyclones Get Win
In Season Opener
Iowa State's Cyclones opened
their basketball season Monday by
nipping Minnesota, 42 to' 41,
The Cyclones started with the
lead and held it throughout the
game. Minnesota was never far
behind and in the closing min
utes pulled within one point of
tying the count.
Orlvn Feurback led the victors
by dropping in six field goals.
Minnesota
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Half time score: Minnesota 18, Iowa
State 20.
Free throws missed: Minnesota. Muske,
Christenseo. Iowa State, Block 3, Bailey,
Keurbach.
Nebraska. Nebraska is playing
Minnesota in Lincoln, DieorasKa
the night before.
Fritz Knerr is the new coach in
the conference and Allen reports
he Aggies will be plenty tough
in the Big Six. Tne Aggies mis
cncnn have several of the Dlavers
from the strong Kansas State
ASTP quintet of last season.
Missouri has five regulars back
from last vear and it appears
that the Jayhawkers will be the
underdogs in most of the games
they play this season but 'the
VtM-an Allen rerjorts he will put
a small scrappy team on the court
that will furnish entertainment
for the fans.
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in the entire civilized world."
"The Louisiana coastal marshes
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North America of wild geese and
ducks."
by Patterson Greene
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Seven Vets
Returning To
ISC Tankers
AMES, Iowa, Dec. 7 The Iowa
State college swimming squad.
bolstered by seven veterans, is
working out four nights a week
under the direction of Coach Rus
Dickinson.
Recently cut from 42 to 25, the
team is beginning to take shape.
For team balance, strength is
needed in the breast-stroke ana
diving departments.
Seven Vets.
Mermen back from the 1944
squad are: Myron Anderson,
Omaha. Neb., backstroke and free
style; Carl Brandner, Ames, -dis
tance; Don Clapsaddle, bt. Gene
vieve, Mo., free style; Arnold Gal
braith, Suffern, N. Y., backstroke;
Dennis Gibson, Perry, distance
and diving; John GuggedahL Des
Moines, breaststroke and back
stroke, and Ray Michel, Red Oak,
free style.
Ralnh Reese. Glendale. Calif..
breaststrokeer, was on the 1943
Cyclone squad, and Larry Koppin,
Ynsilanti. Mich., who swam on
the freshman team at Michigan
last year, will add more expe
rience in their positions. Most
nromisine newcomers are Akira
Nishioka, River, Ariz., and Craig
Sandahl, Des Moines, Dotn iree
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