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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
SunHay, OcfoKer SS.
Sccin' Double
By Don and Al Amsden.
The downtown quarterbacks
liave been seeking some answer
for the disappointments of the
present football season. So has
everyone else with a genuine in
terest in Nebraska. But at this
week's meeting, the "O street
fans surprisingly said maybe
there was not enough of that "Old
Nebraska school spirit."
Now we aren't qualified to dis
cuss the football record, liut we
do think we are qualified to de
fend the student boy's spirit. And
we say "Don't hand us that old
chestnut." No one has been able
to complain about the attendance
at rallies supposedly an mdica
tion of school spirit. At the games
we think it has been well demon
stratcd that the student body will
respond promptly and gratefully
to any opportunity to show en
thusiasm.
We hope no one expects the
student body to cheer indiscrimi
nately while an opponent scores
Rut when there has been reason,
there has been spirit. Certainly,
no one in the east stands at the
opening of the second half of the
Minnesota game would deny this.
When Tom Novak made that
first bone-crushing tackle, it set
off a spontaneous and sustained
roar. Nebraska trailed by 14
points. Minnesota had technically
been stopped on just one play.
The students didn't stop to think
of that technicality but viewed it
as the first ray of light and
hopped aboard the band wagon
hopefully. Throughout the rest of
the half, they showed their spirit
whenever they got a chance, and
at the game's end they were still
trying to "talk it up.
If this spirit exists (as we main
tain) and isn't making itself felt
(as some people claim), then per
haps it isn't being directed and
organized. We think the Yell
squad, the Corn Cobs, and the
Tassels are trying to carry out
their job of fostering spirit.
There's a tremendous amount of
unsung work involved in prepar
ing card sections and rallies,
alone.
Perhaps some opportunities to
guide this spirit have been over
looked. For instance, some of
these unknown and, apparently,
unpopular yells might be side
tracked occasionally in favor of
some of the ancient and universal
standbyes. Too often, the Yell
squad is forced to take up a yell
of "Hold that line" or "We want
a touchdown" as started by the
student body instead of starting
the yell themselves.
We think too that Phil Sprague
and Al Donovan (the cheer-leading
tumblers who have caused
such favorable comment) could
be given more opportunity to add
a little dash and color. It's just
plain old razzle-dazzle and show
manship, but isn't that what every
manufacturer uses to work up in
terest in his product?
With just a little more effort
and thought (and help from the
"O street" group), perhaps we
could even climb up on a par
with Omaha high schools. Their
coaches, team captains and school
yells are aired weekly, by an
Omaha station. Surely, one of the
Lincoln stations could be con
vinced that the university is as
deserving as these high schools.
All of these are only sugges
tions to lead the school spirit. We
may be wrong on these sugges
tions, but don't hand us that old
chestnuts about the lack of school
spirit. We aren't buying it this
year.
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in all classes of competition, which
is consistent with the high plac
ings of former Nebraska teams.
Last year the senior team won
second place both at the Kansas'
City meet and at the International
Livestock Exposition in Chicago.
Dillard Huffaker was high indi
vidual in wool judging. Wahl
strom was second in all classes of
wool competition, Raun was fifth
and Huffaker sixth.
Results in the meats judging
contest ranked the Nebraska team
sixth of the ten teams ten teams
entered. The team won first in
judging Iamb carcass, third in
beef and sixth in pork. Huffaker
was fifth high individual and Don
Jensen was ranked twelveth.
Members of the Nebraska team
were: Dillard Huffaker, Don Jen
gen, Rudy Tomek. Ned Raun, and
Richard Wahlstrom. Harold Cleal
was alternate.
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