Tuesday, December 2, 1947
Big Six Teams
dose Regular
Grid Seasons
With the Big Six grid race fin
ished, three loop elevens met in
tersectional competition Saturday
to close out their 1947 campaigns.
Oregon State College traveled
to Lincoln to hand the Cornhusk
ers their fifth straight home de
feat, 27-6. The- loss marked the
first time in 57 years that a Ne
braska football team has failed to
. win a home game. And the victory
was Oregon State's first over the
, Huskers in six tries.
Beavers Passes Score.
Coach Lonnie Stiner's Beavers
completed nine passes in ten at
tempts as they raced past the
Huskers. Three of the four Bea
ver tallies came on pass plays, and
the fourth was set up by an aerial
play which gained 78 yards. Ne
braska's touchdown came on an
11-yard jaunt by Bill Mueller in
the second period. One of the few
highlights of the game, from the
Nebraska standpoint, was a 75
yard punt by Jack Pesek. The
boot was one of the finest ever
seen in Memorial Stadium. .
The University of Oklahoma had
to score twice in the final period
to down a hard-fighting Oklahoma
A&M team, 21-13. Junior Thomas
ran 38 and 59 yards to give Okla
homa its victory margin. The Ag
gies played their best game of the
season, putting up a brilliant de
fense against the favored Sooners.
Bob Meinert scored both touch
downs for A&M. It was the forty
second renewal of their intrastate
football rivalry.
Wildcats, Finish Winless.
The Kansas State Wildcats trav
eled to Gainesville, Fla., Satur
day to absorb a 25-7 loss at the
hands of Florida University. Kan
sas State led. 7-6. at halftime but
was unable to hold the 'Gators
after intermission. Dana Atkins'
passes and touches of razzle-dazzle
play gave the Wildcats their
only tally of the game in the sec
ond stanza.
Kansas State's loss was its
twenty-sixth straight in three
years.
Inter-Squad
Indoor Track
Meet Saturday
The first of a series of inter
squad indoor track and field
meets will be held in the Memorial
Stadium oval Saturday afternoon,
Track Coach Ed Weir has an
nounced. Following the completion of
the two-mile season, Weir has
been working with his indoor
track aspirants in anticipation of
the initial indoor meet with Okla
homa on the Nebraska boards,
Jan. 31.
Weir has scheduled the inter
squad competition as a "feeler"
to pick out potential squad can
didates. Saturday's meet will fol
low the regular indoor order of
events. The first track event is
slated to start at 2:00 p. m. with
the first field event getting un
derway at 1:30.
Weir's track roll has been bol
stered with freshmen candidates.
Since the frosh gridders checked
in their togs, several have in turn
checked out track equipment.
More have indicated intentions of
reporting to Coach Weir.
All freshmen and varsity com
petitors will participate in Satur
day's workout.
UN Student Plays
Service Football
Private First Class F. Glenn
Laymon, Jr., son of Dr. and Mrs.
F. G. Laymon, of 2611 A street,
Lincoln, is currently playing the
football season in Manila, Philip
pines, with the 738th Military Po
lice Battalion "Jailors".
A graduate of Lincoln high
school, Pfc. Laymon was a student
at the University of Nebraska be
fore he entered the army on Sep
tember 27, 1946, at Fort Crook.
Upon his discharge from the
army he plans to continue an en
gineering course at the University
of Nebraska.
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SCARLET HARDWOOD MASTERS Coach Harry Good (left) and
Assistant Tony Sharpe, Husker basketball tutors, have been putting
the Scarlet cagers thru extensive drills in preparation for the sea
son's initial test Monday, Dec. 8 with the Purdue Boilermakers on
the local hardwoods. Good's varsity performers have been scrim
maging regularly to whip into game shape. Sharpe is assisting Good
and will take over the freshmen coaching reins.
UN Cagers Draw Top
Billing; Purdue First Foe
Nebraska sDorts enthusiasts
have shifted their eyes from the
spacious surroundings of Memorial
stadium to the indoor confines
of the coliseum.
While Coach Bernie Masterson's
gridders were checking in their
football equipment, Basketball
Coach Harry Good stepped up
the tempo of his court practices
for the Scarlet cagers.
With the season opener against
the Purdue Boilermakers only a
week away, Good has been whip
ping his charges into shape with
daily scrimmages.
THe Husker squad reported
for regular workouts thru the
Thanksgiving holidays.
Nebraska faces a 21-game sche
dule in addition to the annual
Kansas City tourney, Dec. 18.
Purdue First Foe.-
Purdue's Big Nine quintet in
vades the coliseum maples for
the Huskers' first test. Then Good
and his basketeers will tackle an
other Big Nine club when they
journey to Minneapolis to clash
with Coach Dave MacMillan's
rangy Minnesotans.
Following the Minnesota test
the Huskers return to their home
court for a pair of titles before
starting on a junket of the West
Coast during the Christmas holi
days. The four-game series in
cludes battles with btanrord, ban
Jose State, Nevada and Colorado
A. & M.
The Huskers will launch con
ference war against Iowa State
at Ames, Jan. 6.
Vets Pace Candidates.
Six major letter winners and
three minor award winners have
been working out with the Ne
braska cage candidates.
Claude Retherford, fifth in the
Big Six scoring chase last sea
snn. Joe Brown, second hieh
Husker scorer, and Rod Cox have
been spearheading the weorasKans
in the regular workouts.
T-pffprmen Dick Schleiger. Bob
Cerv and Paul Shields have also
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been turning in consistent top
performances.
Minor letter winners Anton
Lawry, Dick Srb, and Kenny An
riprinn have ioined newcomers
Neal Mosser, Jim Sandstedt, Bus
Whitehead and Don McArtnur in
pushing the veterans for start
ing assignments.
Lorenz, Wilkins
Play for Blue
In All-Star Tilt
When the Blue-Gray gridders
clash aat Montgomery, Ala., Dec.
27, in the annual battle between
the two all-star aggregations, the
Nebraska Cornhuskers will be
represented on the Blue squad by
a pair of husky guards.
Fred Lorenz and Gene Wilkins,
senior lettermen on the Corn
husker crew, will be the Scarlet
representatives.
Lorenz, a veteran lineman, is a
three year letterman, at Nebraska
and Wilkins has won four Ne
braska monograms.
The pair will leave for Mont
gomery for workouts Dec. 18.
Cooach Bernie Masterson will ac
company them. "
Nebraska NROTC Rifle
Team Drops Postaj Match
The Ohio State university
NROTC Rifle team won its postal
match with the University of Ne
braska Naval ROTC Team 898 to
880.
High scorer for the Cornhusker
Navy was Bob Zwart with 181
points. Other members of the
match team were Gerald Thomas,
Bob Chaney, Don Maunder, and
Max James.
YWCA.
Miss Marie Knapp will speak
at the Advanced Social Service
meeting Tuesday at 5 p. m. in the
southeast room of Ellen Smith
hall.
Four Handball
Teams Reach
IM Semifinals
The team handball tourney
Lsemifinals matching Sigma Chi
and Sigma Alpha Mu and pitting
Phi Gamma Delta against Phi
Delta Theta were played Monday
afternoon. Winners will play for
the championship Thursday, Dec.
4.
Losers of auarterfinal rounds
begin play for fifth place Tues
day afternoon. Beta Theta Pi,
losers to Sigma Chi, is matched
with Phi Kappa Psi which lost
to the SAM team. Alpfca Tau
Omega conquered Dy rni uamma
Delta, is slated to meet Delta Tau
Delta which' was knocked out of
the tournament by Phi Delta
Theta.
Semifinal losers play Thursday
with third rjlace at stake. All
matches are played in the coli
seum basement beginning at 3
p. m.
At least two more teams are
needed in the new, independent
handball league. Six teams have
already filed. Entry deadline has
been extended to Tuesday noon,
Dec. 2. Entries must be filed at
I. M. .Director Lou Mean's office.
A rail has hppn issued fnr mnre
entries for individual handball
competition. The deadline is also
Tuesday noon.' Registration is at
Mean's office.
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Variety Matinees
Start; Feature
Of Talent Bureau
The first in a series of Variety
Matinees, a feature of the recent
ly organized Talent Bureau of the
Union, will be held Friday, Dec.
5, from' 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the
Union Ballroom, Duane Lake,
Union Director, announced Mon
day, There will be no charge for
these dancing and listening ses
sions which will be backgrounded
with Lee Knight's Debonaires, the
Don -Rice Combo and other talent
acts. The Union Activities com
mittee will sponsor the event.
Beginning in January, Variety
Matinee will be featured on the
air as a regular Friday afternoon
program providing enough talent
is available.
On Sunday, December 14, the
regular Union Variety Show will
consist of various talent acts from
the Talent Bureau files.
The show will be the first step
in forming a campus entertain
ment file for the purpose of list
ing all University entertainers,
either amateur or professional,
and will serve as a reference for.
groups desiring to hire acts for
banquets, parties, and dances, to
be booked at whatever charge the
act may require. All performers
interested should sign up at the
Union office.
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