Friday, FeKruary 16, 1945
THE NEBRASKAN
I AS I SEE IT
By
AS I SEE IT the people who
live in glass houses shouldn't
throw rocks. I am referring to
Phog Allen, the big wind that
periodically blows down from his
seat atop Mount Oread.
Last Saturday nite Phog's boys
took quite a beating from the
Cornhuskers, who had previously
been kicked all over the league by
nearly every . one. Since Phog
wasn't too pleased with the show
ing his boys put up against Lew's
proteges he tried to take the
sporting world's attention off the
sting and also to cover up for his
own misdemeanors. Here is a por
tion of the A. P. dispatch that
came out of Lawrence Wednes
day: The Nebraskans used tactics
"more suitable to a football field
than basketball court."
"Three of my principal play
ers, Charlie Moffctt, Gordon
Reynolds and Kirk Scott came out
of the contest with injuries that
almost laid them low for weeks,"
he declared.
Allen said that Reynolds was
knocked into goal supports, badly
wrenching his right shoulder and
suffering a charlie horse. He re
ported that Moffctt had all the
ribs on one side so badly bruised
that he could hardly get around.
The Kansas coach quoted both
men, both football stars, as say
ing that they never took as much
physical punishment on the foot
bail field as they absorbed during
the Nebraska game.
He attributed the reported Ne
braska roughness to the adoption
by the officials of the game of the:
Eastern customs which, he said. '
permits anything short of armed
combat." j
To this Coach Ad Lcwandowskj j
replied that Phog's charges wcrej
just "sour grapes." The Nebraska I
mentor issued a counter charge!
that Allen violated conference i
rules '"even before the start of the;
game," when he brought 11 men
to Lincoln and went even farther
when he played all of them. Big
Six regulations limit the number
of men traveling on the squad to
ten, Lewandowski explained.
Lew also denied that the Ne
braskans played rough in their
last game or any game. The play
ers Allen listed as "most severely
injured," took a very active part
in the drubbing Kansas handed
Oklahoma U. Thursday nite.
"They couldn't have been too
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badly hurt," he commented.
"I regret this whole affair," Lew
said, "And I deny that I walked
out on the team and that an Army
captain assisted at practice ses
sions shortly before the Kansas
game."
It seems to me that people who
intentionally violate rules should
not be the ones to raise a riot call,
and that Phog Allen's charges
were leveled just to cover up for
one of the worst beatings the Jay
hawkers have taken all year. It
all seems put up, especially when
the three fellows that Phog listed
as "so badly laid up that they
could hardly get around for days,"
played a very good game, and that
the scoring was lead by Gorcion
Reynolds with 17 points, which is
good for a man in the top of con
dition. The game incidentally was
played just three days after the
Nebraska "beating."
Hmmm, sometimes I wonder ?
Tonite in the Coliseum the
LAAF Wings play the Second AF
Superbombers in the second of
the best two out of three series.
The Wings must win this game or
be eliminated from the tourney.
Capt. Hall is expected to start
his usual quintet of Ray Lumpp
and Vic Krafft, forwards; Goose
Tatum, center; and Eddie Ehlers
and Jake Ahearn, guards.
The Superbomber starting five
will probably include big Bob
Hendren, 6-8, who wrecked the
Wings in their other meeting, at
center; Max Briggs, former Pur
due frosh, and Fred Marsh, ex
Wisconsin flipper at the forwards;
Tom Kleppe, N. Dakota State vet
eran, and player coach Joe Regan
at guards.
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