Monday, November 2, 1959
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The Daily Nebraskan
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Editorial Comment:
What Can
What can you say when a team draws
and draws and draws oh guts and heart
and spirit and upsets a team with a name
that fairly rings of magic-Oklahoma?
Great game, guys?
Congratulations?
Hardly.
But in the stands you can yell your heads
off. You can watch the entire game on
your feetnever noticing once that some
body keeps stepping on you, or that the
foreign student behind you gets so excited
he hit? you over the head. You can stie
rallies at every possible moment like
Saturday at the Governor's, like Sunday
at Jennings and on to the Governor's Man
sion again.
You can ride all over town with horns
blaring forth with the howl of victory.
But somehow, even with special parties
scheduled Sunday with the Italian Village
rocking with the sound of Congo lines
with all the breakfast table talk at the
Cornhusker about the. Husker victory
even this doesn't tell the whole story of
the energy that this one victory unleased.
It doesn't really explain the feeling that
prompted someone who'd been around for
a long, long time to say in a sort of a
dazed way, "I've never been so proud to
be from the University of Nebraska."
People don't often say that. We're noted
for our apologetic air. It's hard for us to
really believe, and believe for a long tim
that we have all the ingredients of win-
No Rag Tomorroiv
There will be no Daily Nebraskan Tues
day. Like the rest of the campus, the staff of
the Daily Nebraskan will vacation Mon
day. The staff worked long hours Sunday
afternoon gathering the material to re
cord the victory so that when we're all
alums ourselves, we can drag out our bat- .
tered issue to show our kids how we cele
brated back in the good old days when
Nebraska broke the 74-game no-conference
games lost streak piled up by Okla
homa. 1
The Nebraskan will resume publication
with Wednesday's publication.
The editors and staff would like to add
their voices to the throngs cheering the
team that made such a splendid showing
Saturday.
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ning not just on the football field, but in
the whole big stadium of living.
It takes something tremendous to un
lock the enthusiasm that we keep bridled
lest we be criticized for being juvenile or
rash or wantonly optimistic.
Maybe what it takes is a victory that
makes the headlines of every sports page
in the country. Maybe it takes something
. this symbolic the defeat of mighty Okla
homato make us yell out loud among
ourselves what we don't mind saying
among strangers that we are proud of
Nebraska and proud to atteild this school.
Heads are high in Lincoln today.
Heads are high all over the state.
Several students from out-of-state called
their alum parents Saturday after the vic
tory to hear the shrieks of disbelief fol
lowed by demands to hear a play-by-play.
As students asked the Chancellor for
the day off which he had already prom
isedsomeone entering the Administra
tion Building hollered, "ask for the sec
retaries too."
It's hard to tell enough of what hap
pened to the campus and to the state dur
ing and after the game. It's hard to re
port all reactions all the excitement.
The most you can say is that Nebraska
won. To the Husker team on the field Sat
urday went the opportunity to snap one of
the most fabulous win streaks in the his
tory of sports. Somebody asked if we were
going to write an epitaph of a dynasty. No.
The joy that grabbed the campus and
lifted it to the top of the Carillion tower
Saturday, Sunday and today is joy at our
victory, not at Oklahoma's defeat. They
are still a fine team perhaps not the
team of two or three years back, but nev
ertheless a great team.
Bill Jennings made the classic com
ment Sunday to a group of some 200 who
assembled to once again roar their ap
proval. He thanked the students for stay
ing with the team in their defeats, and
asked that they continue to do so.
One game doesn't make a season.
One game does, though, shpw the depths
of heart which a team can display. It
shows the emotional involvement of a
student body for the team that bears its
name.
It shows that Nebraska Is Indeed a winner.
From the editor's desk:
On Campuses 'n Things
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By Diana Maxwell
One man was giving Bill Jennings real
competition for the title of most happy
man on campus Saturday afternoon.
He's the steely grey-haired gentleman
who directs this whole show from an of
fice on third floor of the
Administration building.
After Saturday's game
a small delegation of stu
dents stood near Chancel
lor Clifford Hardin's white
car for 15 or 20 minutes
waiting to confirm the
promise made two years
ago that classes would be
called off the day we beat
Oklahoma. Diana
Mrs. Hardin and the
Hardin children arrived. She confirmed
the word that classes were off, but the
delegation had to hear it from the man
himself. She said he had gone down to the
dressing rooms to congratulate the team
and the coaches.
Then, nearly three-quarters' of an hour
after the final gun of the game, the Chan
cellor arrived. His step was jaunty to put
it mildly. If pride can ooze, it was from
his face.
He had already given the word. No
school Monday.
At the half, -with the Huskers trailing
12-14, the Chancellor said he had felt that
this just might be the day. He had alerted
the police then to expect a jubilant crowd
perhaps a parade downtown.
Innocents president Dave Godbey
nodded. The chancellor had said during
the half-time ceremonies on the field to
the group of mystics assembled that it
looked like this was to be the day which
would fulfill his promise made after the
basketball victory over' Kansas two years
ago. He had been so confident that the
Husker team on the field wouldn't let down
that he had checked with the Board of
Regents to make sure that dismissing
classes would meet with their approval.
Nothing was coming through coherently
after the first two minutes of the game.
The crowd was hysterical even in those
first few minutes when the Sooners plowed
down for the first touchdown.
NEVER has a Husker team wanted to
win so badly.
NEVER has a stadium ifeld a crowd that
lived every second of a game as intensely
as the 34,000 packed inU Memorial Sta
lium Saturday.
NEVER a more excitingly tense game.
And amid the talk of the player stars,
two real stars showed themselves to be
gentlemen cf the highest rank. One was
the fabulous Bud Wilkinson, defeated in
his first conference game of 75 starts. The
other was a one-time assistant coach of
Bud's.
In the midst of the mob that gushed on
to the field to uproot goalposts and shriek
triumph for the team, Wilkinson crossed
the field half-way to congratulate Jen
nings. And Jennings came the other half.
It takes a big man to accept a defeat the
way Wilk'nson did. And it takes a fine
man to accept his triumph in the re
strained way Jennings the man who has
had to accept so many defeats did, with
tightly contained pride.
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And We Were There to See It
By Sondra Whalen
What is a victory?
Thirty-four thousand Ne
braska fans could tell you.
It's the electric hush that
falls over the field when
. Quarterback Tolly calls for
silence in the closing min
utes of the game.
A Swarm of Mud
It's a swarm of mud
smeared gallant Cornhus
kers surging over an 18-year-old
Ron Meade as he
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QUEEN OVER ALL Homecoming Queen Skip Harris is .
escorted by Brent Chambers, yell king, in her presenta
tion at the game Saturday. She reigns In a fantabulous
year a year when her selection was made in a manner '
seemingly pleasing to all, displeasing to none, a year
when the Huskers did the impossible and defeated Okla
homa and a year when no amount of cold drizzle could
keep the Homecoming displays from going up on time and
staying in operation for the big show.
calmly kicks his second
field goal.
It's a crowd that gives a
team a standing ovation
when the try for a two
point conversion fails.
It's an exhausted 'Pat
Fischer who fights those
yards towards the goal with
two Sooners on his back.
' It's a group of students,
grappling with goal posts,
monuments to the fall of
a dynasty.
It's a coach, calm al
ways and still calm as his
team squashed the longest
conference win record in
history.
And it's a chancellor, as
overjoyed fes his students,
who temembers a promise
made two years ago.
Cletched Hands
All these things and more
will mark Nebraska's over
whelming upset over Okla
homa. The ctenched hands,
as fans prayed for the
clock to move nearer the
final gun, the closed eyes,
when an Oklahoma player
tried for a long run, the
back-slapping as Nebraska
movedi nearer victory with
another touchdown.
But it's wonder too, as
the massive crowd remains
long after the final gun has
sounded.
People look at each other,
at the scoreboard and back
again, with the frequent cry
of "We did it!"
The- turf turns brown
under the trample of thou
sands of feet, and the band
echoes the feeling of the
crowd -with "Hail to t h e
Team." A
Still They. Stay
And still the peopte stay,
savoring the score, the ex
citment and the exaltation
of a great in the halls of
football victories.
And finally they begin to
leave, to relive the time
Nebraska beat Oklahoma 25
to 21.
Regents
Exams Are
Wednesday
More than 4,700 seniors in
approximately 450 high
schools are expected to take
state-wide University Regents
examinations Wednesday-
This is a record number,
according to Mrs. Jane Wen
dorff, who is in charge of
scholarships awards at the
University.
The Regents exam will be
given for the first time to the
upper third instead of the
upper fourth of the senior
class. Last year approximate
ly 3,100 seniors took" the test.
Three-hundred and twenty
five Regents , scholarships,
valued at $100 each and
awarded to the top ranking
students in 300 schools, will
be granted on the results of
these exams. -
Alternates are awarded
scholarships by descending
scores on a statewide basis
when Regent winners do not
use the scholarships.
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