iWednes'day, September I, 1948
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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Buskers Open Grid Season September 25
"We looked good playing against
ourselves. How good we will look
against other teams is a question
no one can answer until we play
Iowa State in the opening game
September 25."
That is the way George "Potsy"
Clark, football coach and athletic
director, views the immediate fu
ture of Nebraska football.
Coach Clark came back to Ne
braska on March 1, 1948, and suc
ceeded in organizing one of the
largest and most successful spring
drills the Cornhuskers have ever
held.
Not "Too Optimistic."
His many trips into the state as
a dinner speaker and to visit with
athletes also will pay future di
vidends. But for the 1948 season,
Potsy hopes Nebraska followers
will not become "too optimistic."
He believes the Cornhuskers
can put over some surprises but
his guard and tackle replacements
fac!e rapidly after the first string.
The Cornhuskers will return to
the single wing this autumn. Potsy
also plans to throw some spread
phiys into the various areas.
Tnere will be 18 lettermen from
1947 and eleven lettermen from
previous years, mostly during the
war, returning in the group which
reports September 1 for two weeks
of the early drills.
Ten Veterans Lost.
Ten of the 1947 veterans were
lost by graduation or a decision
not to continue in school.
Coach Clark will have as his
varsity assistants Jack Johnson,
Dou;ial Russell, Tony Blazine, Ray
Pio-jliaska and Neal Mehring. Rus
sell, Blazine, and Prochaska were
aid os in 1947. Johnson was here in
1945 when Potsy guided one of
Nebraska's war-time teams. Jack
was an All-America tackle at the
University of Utah, later twice
All-National Professional Foot
ball league tackle when he played
for the Detroit Lions which Potsy
was directing. Mehring is a Ne
braska, graduate and played
under D. X. Bible during the sea
sons of 1932-33-34.
Coach Clark is an advocate of
team, rather than individual play.
After 30 years as a coach in both
college and. professional circles, he
is convinced that a football team
moves largely on spirit.
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Seating Doubled
At Indoor Track
Seating capacity at the indoor
track at the University of Ne
braska is being almost doubled,
Business Manager A. J. Lewan
dowski announced.
New bleachers, constructed
from wood left over from the
physical education building, are
now being constructed. It wi'1
provide for about 2,100 spectators,
Lewandowski said.
RETURNS TO IIUSKERLAND After two years of private life
George "Potsy" Clark has returned to the coaching ranks and the
University of Nebraska as head coach and athletic director. Clark's
1945 Cornhuskers won their last four games after losing the first
five. It was the steady improvement of the Scarlet and Cream as
the season went along which impressed Nebraska fans. That 1945
record was the best since pre-war days. '
Eastern Trip Being
Planned for Cagers
An eastern trip next December,
climaxed by an appearance in
Madison Square Garden against
Long Island University, is being
planned for the University of Ne
braska basketball team, Coach
Harry Good has announced.
The Cornhuskers will probably
play Purdue, Temple and LaSalle
enroute. Last year's big trip took
the Scarlet to the west coast.
Potsy May Add
Game to 1949
Football Slate
One more game may be added
to the 1949 University of Ne
braska football schedule, George
(Potsy) Clark, athletic director
and football coach, announced.
"I feel nine games which we
now have sufficient for any one
season," Coach Clark said, "wow
ever, if the right team is found
we may be playing another ten
game schedule as we are this fall."
Since his arrival he has added
Penn State on a home-and-home
The 1949 schedule as it now
stands: ,
Sept. 24 South Dakota University la
Lincoln.
Oct. 1 Minnesota In Lincoln.
Oct. 8 Kansas State at Manhattan.
Oct. 15 Penn State at State College, Pa.
Oct. 22 Oklahoma at Lincoln.
Oct. 29 Missouri at Columbia.
Nov. S Kansas in Lincoln.
Nov. 12 Iowa State at Ames.
Nov. 19 Colorado in Lincoln.
Nov. 26 Open.
To you, the new students of UN,
will fall a big share of the support
the gridiron stalwarts need on
those fall Saturday afternoons.
Ten Game Schedule.
A ten game schedule faces th
Huskers. After the Iowa State
opener they will journey to Min
neapolis to meet Bernie Bierman's
Golden Gophers and then comes
the migration to Boulder for the
first Big Seven meeting with Colo
rado. Notre Dame will invade our
Capital City October 16, for what
promises to be the highlight of
the home season. Lawrence will
be the scene of the fifth tilt, in
vading KU's stronghold.
rvtnhor an brines UCLA to Me
morial stadium and the next week
end Potsy's charges will enter
tain the Kansas State Wildcats.
Oklahoma will be the last con
ference game on the road and
then the Scarlet and Cream will
close the home season and the
Biff Seven schedule against Mis
souri on November 20. Portland,
Oregon will be the scene of the
finale as Oregon State plays host
to the Huskers November n.
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