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Friday, Nov. 3, 1961 The Daily Nebraskan Page 5 Sport Shots Wohlfarth By Bullet The tension is mounting in the Nebraska football picture. The Huskers have won only two games so far and could wind up with a 2-7-1 record unless they snao out of it. y The Huskers should be 4-2 right 1 now, with losses orJV to Swacuse and Missouri. The ma terial is there but in the last three weeks Nebraska hasn't shown it. There seems to bo internal problems among the team as well as poor coach-player relationships. Something is missing somewhere when a team continues to lose'. This could have been the year that Nebraska beat Kansas. The Jayhawks sputtered at the first of the season but started clicking after the Colorado game. Last week Kansas trounced Oklahoma State, a team which beat Nebraska. The Huskers are due for heir annual big surprise and home coming would be the perfect occasion but it's my guess that the Huskers would rather be after pheasants then Jayhawks this week end. Let's call it KANSAS 27 NE BRASKA 7 and hope we're wrong. Big Eight Games COLORADO 21, MISSOURI 19 - The Buffs, behind Gale Weidner's throwing arm, should be able to pene trate the. rugged Mizzou defense in this crucial Big Eight game. - . OKLAHOMA 21 KANSAS STATE 0 - Sooners are hungry for a win and the Wildcats are still looking for an offense. OKALHOMA STATE 13 WICHITA 0 - Cowboys re bound from 42-8 loss to Kansas. IOWA STATE 17 BOSTON COLLEGE 8 Cyclones are tough on non-conference foes. Other Games Big Ten PURDUE 19 Illinois 0, NORTHWESTERN 23 Indiana 0, OHIO STATE 14 Iowa 13, MICHIGAN STATE 20 Minnesota 35, MICHIGAN 14 Duke 0. Midwest - NOTRE DAME 24 Navy 14. South MIAMI 16 Georgia 0, ALABAMA 19 Missis sippi State 0, AUBURN 21 Wake Forest 7, CLEMSON 22, Tulane 0, WEST VIRGINIA 14 George Washington 0, GEORGIA TECH 28 Florida 8, KENTUCKY 20 Florida State 7, MISSISSIPPI 7 LSU 0, NORTH CAROLINA STATE 23 Mississippi Southern 0, VIRGINIA TECH 14 Virginia 13, WILLIAM & MARY 14 Davidson 0, VMI 16 Citadel 0. East PENN STATE 20 Maryland 7, ARMY 30 Detroit 0, PRINCETON 33 Brown 0, COLUMBIA 19 Cor nell 7, HOLY CROSS 25 Dayton 7, RUTGERS 28 Lafayette 0 COLGATE 7 Lehigh 0, BOSTON U. 20 Massachusetts 7 HARVARD 2D Pennsylvania 0, SYRACUSE 30 Pitts burgh 14, DARTMOUTH 16 Yale 13, VILLANOVA 22 Mon tsnd Stdtc 0 Southwest - ARKANSAS 21 Texas A&M 14, TCU 20 Baylor 15, TEXAS 30 SMU 0, RICE 27 Texas Tech 14. West AIR FORCE 20 Colorado St. U. 7, WYOM ING 20 Arizona 18, UTAH STATE 14 Brigham Young 0, UTAH 13 New Mexico 12. OREGON STATE 21 Washing ton State 7. ARIZONA STATE 19 San Jose State 0, STANFORD 28 Oregon 14, UCLA 14 California 12, SOUTH ERN CAL 20 Washington 8. . Last week's upsets dropped Bullet's prediction per centage to a season low of .588 with only 26 out of 44 picks "correct. The season's percentage now stands at an even two out of three mark (.667) with 166 right, 83 - -f! 4nM' if Just 38 years ago in 1923, Nebraska held Kensas to a 0-0 finish in the dedication game of Memorial Stadium. Saturday the Huskers will host the invading Jayhawks in the stadium. 38-Year Old Stadium Holds Many Memories wrong. Main Feature Clock I 3 Siuart: "Bridse to the Sun," 1:15, 3:25, 5:35, 7:45, 9:55. Nebraska: "Question 7," 2:00, ' 8:00. State; 'Grevfriars Bobby," 1:13, 3:22. 5:28. 7:34. 9:40. i Varsity: "Splendor in the Grcsi." 1:41, 4:14, 6:47, 9:20. in. ,? tf -. j4 iff r T-t No oae oBder IS will le litiiWttwitisit' compaaisd kr as iM. iw---itvw mots tMvn Ct!j ':::. ::ny tec- co.o h' i U " -J 1 1 BROS Nebraskan Sports & Fairfield Wins Horseshoe Title i Fairfield Hcuse copped the 1961 fall intramural horseshoe trophy. Andrew Estner, throw ing on the championship ' learn, look individual honors. ! The victors edged the Corn j busker Co-op 80-73 in the final I s'andings. Farm House, Kap--3a Sigma, and Phi Gamma i Deta followed in that order. Six fiight winners picked up certificates. They were Est ner; DeWayne Glenn, Phi Gamma Delta; David Mc Clatchy, Farm House; Dave Wetherall, Theta Xi; Virgil McClatchey, Farm House; and Ron Amack, Alpha Tau Omega. By Jan Sack Strong and not so strong Nebraska football teams have played on the Memorial Stadium gridiron before "crowds of cheering and de jected Husker fans. But how old is the Stadium? Where did the football team play before that? Memorial Stadium, as the students and fans know it to bay, has existed only since 1923. Actual construction of the massive structure seating 40.000 began in the spring of 1921, according to A. J. Lew andowski, NU athletic busi ness manager. Financial backing of George Holmes, then president of the First Trust Company, made the Stadium possible. Con tractors at that time would not work unless an influen tial person with some money backed the project. Bonds were floated and later retrieved from sales of football and basketball tick ets, Lewandowski said. An other source of revenue came from contributions from per sons throughout the state, Holmes said. 'No Tax Money" "No tax money whatever was used to pay the original cost of $502,900. The stadium, made of poured concrete, would now cost $1,250,000 to build," said Lewandowski. There is more to the Sta dium than just the football field. Below the stands in the East Stadium is an indoor track, formulated and in stalled by Henry Schulte, then Nebraska's track coach. The ova!, finished in 1924 and first used the following year, was 'also used for indoor football i practice before the Field: : tr - i :i c : ! i nousc a uuiii. ocaimg ca pacity in the East Stadium is 1,400. Some years later in 1940 the Field House was made possible by receipts of the 1941 Rose Bowl game. That year the Huskers traveled to Pasadena to meet the Stan ford Indians. Steel Problem "In 1942 we had the steel to go ahead with the Field House, but we turned it back to the war cause," Lewan dowski said. "It was 1947 be fore we got enough steel to complete the structure. In 1949 the final payment of $70,000 was made on the Field House." , After the completion of the Field House, shrubs, trees and the cyclone fence to the north of t h e Stadium was erected and the old wooden fence to the south of the sta dium was replaced with the present one. But where did the Nebraska team play before Memorial Stadium was built? To wle Recalls Field According to Cax T o w 1 e, former Husker football player in 1912-13, the field he played on ran east and west and was located just south of the pres ent field. "The shaky grandstand, lo cated on the north side of the field, was only filled with 7,000 fans even when we beat Minnesota 7-0 m 1913." - Only half of this field was sod and the other half was just plain dirt, Towle said. Before that, the f o o t b a 1 1 field was located on 10th street and ran north and south. Ail-Americans What about the All-Ameri-cans who fought and earned glory on the fields? Most loyal football fans re call the names of Guy Cham berlain, Sam Francis, Tom Novak, Bobby Reynolds, twice Ail-American tackle Ed Weir and others. Such immortals as Red Grange from Illinois and the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame also played in the Stadium, but as Husker foes. In fact in three meetings between 1923-25, the Scarlet; and Cream whipped the Fight- j ing Irish and the Horsemen twice: 14-7 and 17-0. Memor ies of those games are still fresh in the mind of John Bentley, director of athletic news who was formerly a sports writer for the Lincoln Journal. '' ' ' . ' And what fan would forget the 1959 game against Okla homa when the Huskers upset the mightly Sooners 25-21 for a perfect NU Homecoming? mi- PI m if m m m for v ks A n ft PERMITS & STAMPS SHOTGUN SHELLS Prfc GUNS Lincoln" : Largest Selection CLOTHING everything jou need f i I 2 ? A M r r u U ii H 11 M r i i f ATTEND CHURCH r BAPTIST STUDENT FELLOWSHIP rc L Jwm 1 H. Mrll hmB, Diractw f ttuitnt Work 9:30 a.m. Bible Study 10:45 a.m. Morning Worship 6:00 p.m. Fellowship Hour 7:00 Evening Worship 8:00 After-Church Fellowship Groups Meeting at fin Baptnt Cfcarck, 14t I K ttntt itn4 Mttit Cfcmh, 2Btk A S StrMtt CATHOLIC STUDENT CENTER St. ThMioi AiM Ckurcti Htfc t Q St. ChariM I. Hwiw Chtlm'm okMt t. SkMkr CklM J. Rawtoy Mym Ckaloia MASSES: 8:00-9.30-11:00 St 12:15 . LUTHERAN STUDENT CHAPEL (NotioMl LvtHcran CmhkiI) til H: 14 Atom M. fttanta, ywtof; (m Jacoktcn, miuttomt Bible Study, 9:30 a.m. Worship, 10:45 a.m. Lutheran Student Association, 5:30 p.m. TIFERETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE J21f ihtiitm Rafcfci Maurka A. Pamcrantx Services: Fri., 8:00 p.m.; Sat, 9:00 a.m. Hillel Meetings Monthly UNITED CAMPUS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP (mkytarim, Uartaa Ckortk f Ckrist, I. U. Dbcipkn Ckritt) Hi Na. 14 Rav. AkM J. 'ickanRf, tar. Ralph Hay, Rav. Daaai W. attcrtaa Sunday .Corporate Worship 10:45 am. Crossroads Seminar 9:00 un. Fellowship Forum 5:30 p.m. Forum Discussion 6:30 p.m. UNIVERSITY EPISCOPAL CHAPEL Utk aa4 R Us. 6. M. Arastrofff. Ckaalaia Holy Coiwn union 830 a.m. Morning Prayers 10:30 a.m. Evening Prayer . 5:00 pjn. Canterbury 5:30 p.m. UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL (Tha Urtkaraa Chwck Miamri Syaad) 111 0 K I. NarM, Mot Worship 8:45 a.m. Bible Study 9:45 a.m. Worship 10:45 a.m. jGamma Delta 5:30 p.m. WESLEY FOUNDATION (METHODIST) WifHom t. SmU, Owaaa Hatchiniaa, Pattara Taaxaarary OHicai (IS HaMraaa 8.00 i.m. Holy Communion (at Lutheran Student Chapel, 535 No. 16) 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship (at 535 No. 16) 10:30 ajn. Coffee Hour and Discussion 6:00 pjn. Forum (Room 332, Student Union ATOs Edge Gus I 14-12 By Mel Hester Alpha Tau Omega topped Gus I 14-12 Wednesday to earn themselves a spot in the All-University finale against Dental College tonight. With Gus I leading 6-0, and only one play left in the half, Elmer Walin, ATO quarter back, sprinted half the field and tossed a short pass into the end zone for a score. The ATu's completed their extra point to make the half time score 7-6. Alpha Tau Omega, with their slim one point lead, took position of the ball in the sec ond half. After a few short running gains, leaving them on the 50 yard line, the ATO'i sprinted the right end once more making it to the 10-yard line before being stopped by the Gus I defensive safety man. Two more runs and the ATO's stretched the lead to eight points. Don .Whit of Gus I com pleted a long pass to the ATO 10-yard line in the last quar ter. Whit, fading back once for a short touchdown pass. Once more the extra point at tempt failed. DAILY NEBRASKAN CLASSIFIEDS APARTMENTS Furnished 3 room apartment on 1st i noor, liia q, couple or men. Private bath and utilities furnished, S60. FOR RENT Trailer, clean, I bedroom, adults. Nica location. Call evenings IN 64941. FREE rent for student couple or coed in exchange for caring for children in motherless home. N. W. Brown, Apply Box S1A, Daily Nebraskan. FOR SALE 'SO Olds, radio, heater, automatic trans mission. 56,000 actual miles. Plus snow-tires. One owner, $100, Call HE 2-4759. Sad-eyed Sam, Cheer up. I will be yours for one carmeled apple and a slightly sticky kiss at the Union thuckwaggon, Priday night, south entrance 6-30-10:30 Bow-Legged Beth. Standard English bicycles, one boy's one girl'g. New in Sept. All equipment included. 423-2626, evenings. St. Paul's Methodist Church 12 & M Dr. Frank Court Sermon This Sunday WALLS vs. BRIDGES Services at 9:30 & 11:00 Music Director Richard Grace University of Nebraska School of Music m in i:t Seasoned fireplace wood for sale. Rea sonable. IV 9-2081. PERSONAL See Mort Sahl, Nov. S. Late hours avail able with pink slip from housemother. Would the person who took my jock-type sweat-shirt please return it:!! Call Thunder Merwick. Sad-eyed Sam, Cheer up. I will be yours for one carmeled apple and a slightly sticky kiss at the Union Chuckwaggon, Friday night, south entrance 6:30-10:30 Bow-Legged Beth. Found: $3000 in old show on vacant lot. 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