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The Doily N'ebraskon
Wednesday, December 18, 1957
Bush Said xMan
any Foggs'
Of
expected a letdown after our
terrific effort against Purdue on
Saturday, but I never thought we'd
have this much trouble."
Tbeae vert the words at I'nl
verslty of Nebraska Head Basket
ball roach Gerald Rush after the
game against a mediocre Denver
latversity quintet that Nebraska
had Just edged past,
Nebraska could not get going
wntil early in the second canto
when they finally burst into the
lead with three minutes gone in
that period. Bush could not find
the right combination of men all
night to add the extra luster the
Scarlet needed to pull away from
the Denver club like they were
supposed to do, as the statistics
aid. But after the touch and go
game the Huskers were victorious
to themselves their third win in
six starts.
All through the game the "Ot
fceani Bear, raved, sweated,
cheered, aad groaned U the tune
fthe game. If the score was going
well for Nebraska, Bosh was ia a
fairly fine form bat whea the Scar
let was behind ia the contest, the
roack was ia fighting form.
The 1957-53 season marks the
fburth year for Gerard Bush,
sometimes called the " Coliseum
Bear," as head coach of the Uni
versity of Nebraska basketball
team.
Ia his first year (1954-55), Bush
guided the Huskers to a surprising
third-place finish in the Big Seven,
despite the loss of several top-
Trotters
Come To
Lincoln
flight performers.''
Ia 1K5-56, hampered by squad
Inexperience and the lack of a
good big man,' the Haskers
dropped to sixth place in the Big
Seven with a 7-1S aver-all record.
Last year Bush compiled the fin
est record since his arrival in
Cornhuskerland (11-12) and fin
ished conference play in fourth-
place tie with Colorado.
Bush, 43, was head coach at
the I'niversity of Toledo from 117
anm his appointment here. While
at Toledo his teams won 1!)
games, lost 59, and la 1954 his
aquad won the MidAmerican Con
ference Championship, losing to
Venn. State la the NCAA Cham
pionships. Bush was born in Brooklyn N.Y.,
in 1914, graduating from Erasmus
High School. A Methodist, he at
tended St. John's College, grad
uating with a Bachelor of Science
degree in 1938.
He played three years of varsity
basketball and baseball at St.
John's. He was named AU-Amerf-
can ia 1SS7 aad IS3&, AU-Madison
Square Garden tournament player
in 1936-"37-38 and AIKMetropoliUa
during the same period.
He later played professional bas
ketball with the Kate Smith Cel
tics, 1938: Akron Firestones, 193-'0-'41
; Rochester Royals, 1942;
and the Fort Wayne Zoilners, 194S-'44-"45-4W7.
He won AU-American
Professional team honors five
years and in 1916 was selected as j
one of the 10 best all-time all-pro-
fessional players of that time. j
Bosh, a fairly targe man, at
first gives the Impressing of being
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Awards Presented
Dale Knotek, Husker high
jumper, receives his N" award
from Nebraska Athletic Direc
tor Bill Orwig as Doug Thomas,
senior football player reches
Vt next certificate. The pre
sentation of the more thaa fifty
N awards was made at half
time ceremonies during the Dea
rer laiversity-Nebraska basket
ball game ia the Coliseum Mon
day eight. The presentation of
Kansas, Kansas State Give Evidence
Of Big Eight Conference's Supremacy
The North Carolina Tar Heels, sas
Monday night
of
for their
coasted
rather graft but no one could be ' 00 rompwi uj uieir joui consecu- win w cie st-asou, vuo&mtu j jgo
afraid of the Bear" when they aT P33 were gives the third slot ot tr.e nauon wita a
see the twinkle ia his eyes. i 801,(1 vwe 01 comwence oy ine score oi dk.
Jerry is one coach that exhibiis rourxUaii experts as they placed.; The Cincinnati
energy
i,ict m,i-h if rv-it nw- .nerpr me .c crew at ine neaa x.e
than any of his pkyers. His chair 'national list of basketball teams,
at the head of the player's bench 1 Coach Frank McGuire's Tar
is always under constant strain i Heels garnered 63 of the 116 vote
when he bounces up and down in 1 possible for the first place posi-
TVie Harlem Globetrotters, prids it or sits down rather hard in it. : tioa for a total of 1,081 poe ts.
f entire world in the basketball But over all, the crowd at the , The voting was still surprisingly
universe, will perform in Lincoln Coliseum loves him and wouickit J close, however, as the Big Eight's j
at the Pershing Municipal Aixli-j par win jerry ior anywHng. iou pnoe, zvajus, uaexx-u iukix-ivm
orium Sunday night, January 5th. i can bet that if Nebraska doesnt ' second-place votes for a total of
Abe Saoerstein. the genial Chi- hare a winning season that it , 939 points.
won t De ice ru;; ox neaa loacs Anotner aig t,igm team. nan
Bush, jsas State who ran over Arkan-
w hipped Temple
Bearcats
and also
who
won
eagoan whose 30-year-oM cream
has blossomed into one of history's
greatest sports attractions the
Globetrotters 4hinks that native
ability is the first and foremost
prerequisite for ar.y athlete par
ticularly a basketball player.
' We doot lack for a clown" says
Saperstane, we hint ponemially
fine players, bring them along
slowly, teach some of them to
clown, others just to play really
fine basketball." 'Most young
players think they have to clown
to play wi& es and they'd lie to
because the clown gets the head
line and the higher salaries. We
bavt to discourage it. You can
imagine what would happen if we
put five clowns on the court, all'
competing against each other, at
fiie same time."
And on toe subject of Univer
sity of Kansas' A3-American, WHt
The Stilt) Chamberlain, who was
reported a prima candidate for
the Globetrotters team last spring,
Saperstan has this to say: "Yes.
we talked to him. rather, be talked
to vs. In fact, he is one of ths
few good basketball players who
ever contacted us -voluntarily. Us
vaUy. we have scouts out, but I
think he was seriously considering
leaving school and playing with
lis at one time, but we didnt en
courage it as he only has two
semesjers left of school.
Tl Globetrotters sure-fire com
edy is always well-timed aad just
as certain at each performance.
The Harlem Globetrotters will
meet the Philadelphia Sphas here
Is Lincoln, January 5, in a game
that promises to present both com
edy and serious basketball. Stu
dent admission is 90c
Yesniug
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Cotrrtesr ltncohi Journal
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Ohio State
Nebraska w meet Ohio State
University ia the Coiiseant to
morrow aight. Game time is
scheduled for 8 p.m.
The Bacfceyes will be the third
Big Tea team Nebraska kas
faced this year, following Par
doe aad Michigan State. Nebras
ka has yet to win against Big
Tea coatpetitioa while Ohio State
has lost to Texas AAM aad Kea-tacky.
By DOUG YORK
Special Writer
A two-year-old doing calisthen
icshard to believe, but true
Eleanor Roosevelt, in her address
to a University convocation on
December 3, said that she had
witnessed very young children
going through physical drills, al
most without direction, on several
occasions. This is an example of
the extreme emphasis placed upon
physical training in the Soviet
Union.
Industrial workers begin their
day with a period of exercise de
signed to loosen up and tone their
bodies for a hard day at the plant.
School children and University stu
dents also are accustomed to pre
class conditioning. (Ugh imagine
doing pushups before going to that
Pou-Sci class at 8:00 in the morn
ing!) Miners, before making their
descent into the dark bowels of
the earth, wave their arms to
and fro like a vast field of human
wheat, all in time to a Bolshevik,
hymn. Any Russian radio station
carries a program of calisthenics-
jto-music in the early morning
I hours. The government has ap
parently convinced its people that
the "healthful way is the only
way.
From the time that he is old
enough to understand orders, the
Russian youth is cajolkd into do
ing physical drills. In school, he
does gymnastics, fencing, track
and field sports. By the time he
reaches manhood and joins the
glorious Soviet labor force, exer
cise is as much a part of his life
as is eating.
i Soviet leaders are well aware
of what they are doing. Thev
j The Mississippi State Maroons: want the worlds best athletes,
who hadn't even been mentioned . The best way to discover who is
in last week's poll gained enough !rnost tkelT to destined for
votes to slip into contention after K181 mms m luiie"cs "
they dusted off Memphis State ;n,ake. everTone realise their cap-
and then won the Birmingham mues- -"P. J
Classic tournament. wt) m like to be aa
USSR Youngsters
Get Calisthenics
the awards is aa annual event
daring the basketball seasoa. The
N award entitles the receiver
to membership ia the X-CIiib
which holds aa initiation for new
members each spring.
fifth j barely made the top 20 a week .
artist, is apt to end up on a field
; trying to beat Olifs record in the
On the other hand. Bradley, St.
r-w. ,n t.A fKii: ,, hammer throw. Thus, it may prove
i first defeat of the early season. ;
Bradley dropped to the 11th slot I
in the ratings while the other two;
fell completely out of the top 20
contention.
a misfortune to show some prom
ise in sports.
It is difficult for Americans to
; envision a nation in which virtually
everyone does calisthentics every
Four of the top ten teams are
slated to appear in the Kentucky
Invitational Tournament Friday
and Saturday North Carolina.
Kentucky, West Virginia and Min-
their own invitational tournament, nesota. Seventh-ranked San Fran
found themselves voted into fourth : Cisco and Seattle, No. 12 will be in
place in the second weekly As- , the Blue Grass Festival at Louis
sociated Press poll after having viSe, Ky.
; day. We are far too prone to do
nothing that involves any physical
exercise. Walking to town is only
the last resort in this age of auto
mobility. Even having to walk two
blocks from where one parks his
car is enough to evoke oaths from
most people.
' While we may smirk at the Rus
sian worker's being so square that
he would tire himself out with cal
isthentics before a day's work has
even begun, we might consider
doing a bit of conditioning our
selves. Perhaps a knee-bend or
two at the start of a day wouldn't
do too much good, but it would be
a start in the right direction. .
And so, as we see Russian peas
ants doing "duck-walks" as a pic
ture of Stalin smiles benignly down
upon them, let's admit that they
are perhaps misled, and a bit too
gung-ho, but let's also try to tem
per our inactivity with a bit of
exercise. Who knows, it may b
a good idea.
Bob Shantz
Gets Earned
Run Honors
Bob Shantx, the little hardluck
man in baseball, was certified as
the American League's earned run
champion Tuesday for his mark of
2.i5. the best be has ever posted
during his emirs major leagua
career.
According to the official figures
rleased by the Howe News Bureau,
the 32-year-old player yielded only
47 earned runs in 173 innings
pitched. Shanti' mark for the year
with the Yankees was 11-5.
Another Yankee pitcher, right
handed Tom Sturdivant, finished
runnerup to Shantz with an earned
run mark of 2.54. Sturdivant wqn
16 games and lost only six to tie
Dick Donovan of the White Sox for
the best won-lost percentage.
Shantx gained fame in the West
ern League when he pitched tor
the Lincoln Chiefs. He earned the
title of being the toughest little
man in the league not ia fighting,
but he gained the honor by his
earned run averages.
HOLLYWOOD BOWL
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24 Laaeo Aataaaabic PSa-SeUers .
920 No. 48th
Phone 6-1911
MERRY CHRISTMAS
AND HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM
MAGEE'S MEN'S COLLEGE BOARD!
The past University of TJebras-
Tta's football season was one of ;
the worst in NTT's grid history but !
according to the Nebraska athletic
department it should never be thar
way again. j
Last Monday Chancellor Hardin,
Bill Jennings and BUI Orwig met,
to begin with the laying of plans
for the strengthenmg of the aflh-;
letic department. !
The freshman program is our'
bread-and-butter,' Orwig said.1
'We've g ot to do everything pos
sible to strengthen it.
Orwig declined to part with any
Ideas that might have already
been formed toy the three but he
did say, "Well have some ideas
to present to the Regents."
Orwig also stated that the im
provement of the freshmen pro
gram would be given high priority.
Chancellor Hardin related to the
Begents that Coach Bill Jennings
and most of his staff would be
back next year. Ho one has re-
Husker Guard
Lyle Nanaea, Busker senior
has been a regular for caaca
Jerry Bess f w " tw years.
"Chans;'' as Toe if called by tean
nutlet aad friends, usee a dead
eye nt band set shot as his
favorite weapon during games.
Courtney Quips
by DEL RASMUSSES
Bad start ... I The search was useless but the
I had the pleasure to cover the ending was far from being noor
r our ames iaax nay 1
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first baskettoaH game for the Husk
ers tius year, ana arterwaras
write the story and get a
entrance to the pad. Even more
generous, for I am undoubtedly a
dedicated man, I wrote the head
line to appear with the story,
"Husker Cagers Snare Win In Rag
ged Opening Debut. Those were
the words that I had chosen from
my depleted -vocabulary. Then 1
raced to the printers to get my
story in on time and headed
home;
The
the
see
was sum
moned to the phone to be re-
, , 1 proached for belittling the Corn
taie , , . , . . .
( nusters. Ai lae ena 01 Lite uay 1
'. had visions of finding myself in a
clump of weeds beside a lonely
' road with a lump on my head and
my precious 35.0. 13 book stolen
by some enraged matriculant.
I But as time wore on tilings be
'. gan to get better. People on the
way to class stopped growling at
me and slowly the looks turned
. into harmless little sneers. Even
my co-workers Halted tnetr nKtii-
in on time and
my soul at rest.
next morning as I glanced C10US stares and sinxnly ostracized
me but that was even a begin
ning.
out, 1 encountered. The adaee that time heals everv-
B a y j "Nebraska Clowns Way To First ;thing proVed fairly true. Now I
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my norma;
it seems, 1
ffoandicapped in recent years by of Aock, I mobiled onto the cam- regain some friend &at was lost
the. practice of vsvng the freshmen pus greens to .find my secret to the crusade against my person,
coach as a scout which puts him friend who had ambushed me by! Maybe some day TU win back
on the road aln" every week writing that head and leaving my all of my friends and we can re
cna. iname under it. ,form our quartet.
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Jennings and lis staff are eur-;Birougn trie paper w ima
wntlv encased in their nost-season ' Bi!r7 "m tilBt 1 might
tm,mw nH wriiitimr mities. T5 '. how it came out, 1 encountered, j
Husker coach snoke at
finrinES fathering Monday night. S t-age victory . , am almost back to
The Husker yearlings have been ; After recovering from my state prime and everyday
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