Friday, February 13, 1948
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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Olympic Games
Revived After
Twelve Years
This year, 1948, marks the first
revival of the Olympic games
since 1936. when Hitler and his
J MARVIN H
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By Fritz Simpson
Daily Nebraskan Sports Editor
The "long and short of it" was
illustrated in a recent Big Nine
conference cage contest between
Minnesota and Iowa. Jim Meln
tyre, the Gophers' 6'9" center, hit
36 points, while Murray Weir, 5'8"
Iowa speedster, potted 30 points.
Mclntype scored 27 against the
Huskers in their meeting earlier
in the season .... A letter of ex
planation concerning the intra
mural track meet was sent re
cently to the Nebraskan Spots Ed
itor and to the intramural heads
of Alplw Tau Omega and Delta
Upsilon. In this letter Intramural
Director L. E. Means gave a clear
explanation of the error in the
results of the meet. It read, "As
in the past we had to be con
cerned really with two sets of re
sults. The over-all track meet,
which includes independents and
all others, has one set of actual
meet results. The winner of the
track meet then is Alpha Tau
Omega with 44-1314 points, fol
lowed by Delta Upsilon with 43
points. For purposes of the Jack
Best race and for the interfrater
nity competition we find Delta
Upsilon moving up in the 60-yard
idash, with independent points
eliminated. This makes Delta
Upsilon the interfraternity meet
winner with 46 points, followed
Tby Alpha Tau Omega with 44
1314 points, and Delta Upsilon
rightfully winning the trophy ac
cordingly .... Basketball is
played by over 20,000,000 people
throughout the world and is sec
ond in spectator sports, being out
drawn only by softball Many
sports' fans have heard of but
know little about the Helms Ath
letic Foundation. Here's what it
is. It's a philanthropic, non-commercial
and non-profit organiza
tion devoted to the welfare of
American youth by encouraging
interest and participation in all
sports. Established in 1936 by a
Los Angeles baking magnate,
Paul H. Helms, the Foundation
sponsors athletic tournaments,
publishes and distributes free
numerous record books, maintains
halls of fame for several sports
and contributes trophies, medals
and other awards to deserving in
dividuals and organizations. This
year the Foundation, which has
been directed since its inception
by W. R. Schroeder, will move to
Helms Hall, a new $200,000 head
quarters building donated by it?
58-ycar-old founder. With these
facilities the organization plans to
expand its services to sports and
to the nation .... Refereeing a
basketball game is no easy job.
And a referee who is able to
please both players and fans is
certainly an unusual one. We hap
pened to notice the excessive
amount of booing during the
Kansas State basketball contest.
Booing is an old problem that has
been preached many times, so we
won't add another lecture. But,
really, shouting threats and loud
ly voicing one's disapproval does
make a school look bad in the
eyes of outsiders. So if any of you
students are guilty of this, try to
restrain yourselves when the boo
ing urge arises. It will make the
already-difficult job of the ref
erees easier, and it will do much
to gain for the students of the
University of Nebraska a reputa
tion of being top sportsmen . . . .
Ray Magsamcn has developed
into one of Nebraska's most valu
able traok men. If a track team is
to win meets, it must have plenty
of second and third place winners.
In addition to winning the low
hurdles against Oklahoma, Ray
has caputured three seconds and
a third place tie in the opening
two meets. Coach Ed Weir paid
Ray a nice compliment when he
said, "Ray Magsamen is a shining
example of what an athlete can
accomplish if he wants to work at
it. Magsamen came out of the
war weighing 228 pounds. It
meant that he had to grunt con
siderably to lift his tonnage over
a hurdle. So he set about boiling
off the excess. It has taken near
ly a year to accomplish what he
set out to do, and when he topped
the Nebraska team in points
scored against Oklahoma, Ray
weighed in at a streamlined 187.
I knew that Ray would come
through as I watched his earnest
efforts in the early season." So
our hats are off to Ray Magsamen.
Nebraska should have more ath
letes like him .... It was easy
to see why Erwin Bedard was Na
tional A.A.U. tumbling champion
in 1945 and runner-up last year.
The little Illinois tumbler s execu
tion of a running full double twist
was one of the most difficult and
spectacular feats ever seen at Ne
braska. At first the spectators
were awed by the feat. Then they
broke into a tremendous ovation.
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Weir's top point men in the two indoor track meets this season. The
big Albion athlete has taken a first, three seconds and a third against
Oklahoma and Iowa Stale. Ray is also a top prospect for next year's
gridiron team.
! Nazis were hosts to the world's
athletes in Berlin. At those
games Hitler, under the impres
sion that his Nazi supermen
would win all the top honors,
was going to personally embrace
j each victor. But when it be
j came apparent that American
I Negroes were going to win a
I good many places, he refused
j to publicly embrace the victors
and took the few Nazi winners
under the stands to bestow the
victory kiss upon them.
The modern Olympics were
founded by Pierre de Fredi, Baron
de Coubertin, with the thought
that they might contribute to
world peace. The exact opposite
has been the case. Every compe-
tition in modern times has pro
duced friction and quarrels be
tween competitors, some of which
even caused talks between gov
ernments. Illustrative of these
difficulties was the case of the
Italian marathoner, Dorando. As
he entered the stadium for the
final lap of his race in 1908, he
collapsed and with the American,
Johnny Hayes, coming into view,
British officials of the meet car
ried the Italian over the line and
declared him the winner. U. S.
protests were of no avail until
someone pointed out that motion
pictures had been taken of the
finish. Hayes was then declared
the winner.
The first of the modern Olym
pics was held in Athens in 1896.
The first winner of those games
was James B. Connolly of Har
vard who captured the hop-step-and
jump. Robert S. Garrett of
Princeton won the discus without
ever having seen an official dis
cus. At the 1904 games. in St.
Louis, a Kaffir who was in one
of the concessions at the world's
fair, decided to try his hand at
the marathon. Without any train
ing he placed ninth, even after
a big farm dog had chased him
a mile off the course.
The Los Angeles games in 1932
inaugurated a series of tragedies
for the U. S. team. George Cal
nan, who took the Olympic oath
for the U. S. team, was killed in
the destruction of the dirigible
Akron. Bill Carr, the 440-yard
champion, broke both legs in a
car accident and never raced J
again, and George Saling, the
110-meter hurdles champion, was
killed in an automobile crash. All
these accidents happened shortly
after the games.
With the running of the Olym
pic games this winter and with
their continuation through the
summer, the hopes of the world
are that they will serve the pur
pose for which they were origin
ally intended. If clean, sporting
athletic events are allowed to do
so, they can be a great contribu
tion to world peace.
a?HE LEXINGTON
FRESHMAN WON THE
200 YD. LOW HURDLES,
440, AND BROAD JUMP
IN THE 194S CLASS A
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Must Be Big
How would you like to have a I
shopping list containing 40 pies,
150 pounds of peaches, 20 loaves
of bread, 52 dozen tea rolls, 150
pounds of meat, 1,000 pounds of
potatoes and ten gallons of ice
cream?
Mrs. Lester Krogh, Food Direc
tor for the "Campusline," the
student cafteria, has such a list
almost daily, it was learned dur
ing an interview Monday.
Between 750 and 800 students
are fed daily with a varied choice
of food. Mrs. Krogh said that
most students are economically
minded and prefer hamburgers to
steak.
The big job of ordering food is
done mostly at local stores in
Lincoln. Orders for perishable
foods are placed in the morning
and are filled promptly during
the day.
The Campusline management is
run smoothly and seldom do anyV
problems occur, although occa
sionally kitchen machines such as
a slicer may break down, stated
Mrs. Krogh. Change of menus
are then used to avoid using a
faulty machine.