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Friday, MarcK 2, 1956 THE NEBRA: skAn e 3 At Missouri Monday: Sodits Don Ho By BOB MARTEL Nebraskan Sports Reporter OKtUOMA NEBRASKA MISSOURI F 4be, ' Chuck Smith, f Refer EeDiff lee Kinc f RJI Ekwall I Bill Ron UKey Bacher c Don Smidt e Cheek Denny l Jjnej g jin, Knbackl r Norm Stewart Max Claiborn m Dueane Boel c Lionel Smith I Oklahoma. The Nebraska home basketball season will come to an end Satur day night when the Cornhuskers entertain the Oklahoma Sooners. Tip-off time is set for 8 p.m. The Huskers will be battling to stay out of the Big Seven cellar which is currently occupied by Nebraska defeated the Sooners in an overtime contest at Norman earlier this season. Although hold ing a ten point margin at half time, it took nine straight free throws by the Huskers to bring home the victory. Leroy Bacher, 6'5V Oklahoma center, is leading the Sooners with an 18 point average through 21 games. Joe King, 6'6V4" sophomore, is next with a 15 point average. Rounding out the Sooner lineup will be Ed Abbey, 64" forward, Joe Jones, 6'1V4" guard and Max Claiborne 6'0" guard. Saturday night's contest will mark the last home appearance of co-captains Chuck Smith and .Duane "Whitey" Buel.-Norm Cou fal and Bill Roy. 4' I . ii - i i f k IF '. aw.- -'4; . , ";-x ut.St Courtear Lincoln Journal ?' ii - v laVe4aaaW A CouiIctt LtacoJn Journal CourtT LincoU JoamaJ Three seniors playing their last home basketball Confal and Chock Smith, A fourth senior, BUI Roy, Runic tomorrow nigm 1 1 a ii 1 1 toe uiuanoma is no piciurea. Sooners are from left to right. Dnane Buel, Norm Sad Sam's Sports Scmfshin's dear coach By SAM JENSEN A few weeks ago I mentioned that Glassford's replacement, Pete Elliott, was interested in the Cornhuskcr tradition. This sort of spirit a one of the things that is contributing to Elliott's popularity with the people of the state and the students and faculty of the University. For our new Coach's information, you are the twenty-third Uni versity iootbaii coacn and the last of a line that started in 1893 with frank Crawford. The first Husker coach won 10 games and lost 4 in two "sea sons. The Golden Age of Husker football was 1321 1928. During this period, Coach Elliott, the Uni versity of Nebraska defeated undefeatable teams. They downed the invincible Four Horsemen and stopped the Galloping Ghost of Illinois. . ' The Cornhusker spirit that became Cornhusker tradition was seen on the field that afternoon in 1925 when four Nebraska tacklers stopped Red Grange every time he came near the ball. The Scarlet gave the football immortal the worst beating of his collegiate career, 14-0. He wept after the final gun, a great competitor had faced that Cornhusker spirit that you talk of Coach Elliott. '7 a long line . Dana X. Bible took over the coaching reigns in 1929 and stayed in the driver's seat until 1936. His teams won 50, lost 15 and tied 7 in 76 games. Biff Jones, Bible's successor, took the Huskers to the Rose Bowl. They lost, but fought a game that will be remembered. That was 15 years ago, Coach Elliott, when you were about 15 and beginning your high school athletic career. Your immediate predecessors are Bernie Masterson, Potsy Clark and Bill Glassford. Masterson and Glassford both experienced periods of great success and periods of great despair. When Bernie Masterson resigned many coaches have resigned but not always just to assume a better job The Nebraskan said, "Ne braska is now the proud possessor of the most fouled up athletic depart ment in the United States." The O street gang was mentioned as a pressure group that caused Masterson to resign. This was 1948. The details of our last football coach's resignation are recent and have become a rather distasteful part of Cornhusker legend. Yes, Coach, here is your Cornhusker tradition its periods of great ness and those of darkness. Here is the story of Husker football in brief. You are beginning the 23rd chapter of a great tradition, and it seems very likely that you just might perpetuate that tradition in its greatness. KU Favored: nus.cer I ninciaus Trek To Big 7 Mee The Cornhusker track quad is in Kansas City to compete in the Big Seven Indoor Championships today and tomorrow. Coach Frank Sevigne has en tered twenty trackmen in the var ious events. Nebraska Las never finished last in this annual classic, but it will require an all out team effort to avoid a last place this season. The last Husker triumph in this meet was in 1951. Favorites in the Kansas City meet are tbe Kansas Jayhawks, Oklahoma Sooners and the Mis- .,,r- i, 1 x y tl , 1 CourUaT Lincoln Journal Bernie Randolph ... looks to pole-vault. souri Tigers. Missouri has dom inated both tbe high and low hur dles this year. Kansas University has won Big Seven honors the past three years. Big Seven trackmen to atcb are roiler Al Frane of Kansas, low hurdler Bob Derrick and pole vaulter Hendrik Kruger of Okla homa. Derrick won last year's 60 yard low hurdles in 6.7 seconds, tying a world record. Kruger sailed 14' 4" against the Huskers this jear. Tbe Jayhawks also have a top contender in tbe shot put. Bill Classified Ads yurntirhad' A Trl mrit to ntiara vMYi Vala Ktutteut. Pbone -M7 befora M a.m. A' ANTED Four a.iwmati tor new Lin coln intra re net eumfany. Pert lima five e-vmHTM per week. Mr. Mans field 2-bOM. Camera fwr ete, 3!t7im Balflrlnlee f 3 6 lena, finch, til'). Lee Marauerlt 221 U vt Inquire Bt, Hit. or KC Burnett. iff OUMIT$ RtWDtZVOUi Yoa aery you'r Not Sotisfiod. You woat Moro lor jom Mony. The a Dido ctt Horrors. Dinnr from E5c tip. Saodwicb, Salad Bowls, aaa ariaua 1 cert item cltractirclr priced. Sunday A'ite it University Aite at Harvey" s L t 13th Niedcr, the current Big 7 shotput champion, has thrown rer 58 feet this year. Tbe only man that seems to be able to stop tbe KU weight man is Bob Van Dee. In ten tosses this year, the Sooner ace has thrown over 53 feet ten times and has been over 54 feet three times. Nebras ka's Leonard Rosen has hit 50 feet this year on one occasion. Husker hopefuls look to high jumpers Merle Brestle and Larry Gausman, pc4e-vaulter Bernie Randolph and shot-putter Rosen. Gausman, Knotek and Brestel have done 6'3" while Reiners and Rosen have been over 50 feet with tbe shot. The Huskers left Lincoln early this morning by bus and will be quartered at the Hotel President. 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Nebraska's winter sports teams engage in contests this week. end with the outlook for two favorable and the third, rather doubtful. Jake Geier's gymnasts journey to Boulder, Colorado to participate in the All-College Invitational on Saturday. Geier will probably pin his hopes on senior Bruce Riley, the versa tile Omahan, who has led the team to seven victories and a second place in the Northwest Gymnastic Championships last week at the University of Minnesota. The Huskers hope to better the second- place standing they brought home after the 1955 -meet. In the swimming department, the Big Red will attempt to pull an other reverse decision as it did last week against the Kansas Jay hawks. The Cornhuskers entertain the K-State Wildcats at the Coliseum pool at 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon. The two tank crews met at Man hattan earlier in the year and splashed to 42-42 tie. Last week the tankers trounced the Jayhawks after suffering a drowning at the hands of the Mt. Oread squad in January. 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