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Hallowed ground . . . and probably the best investment the University ever made. Participants in the
ground breaking ceremonies for Memorial Stadium picked a wide, open space to provide plenty of
parking for the horse and buggy and early roadsters. Wouldn't they turn over in their graves if they
attended a football game some Saturday . . . provided they could find a seat ... or a parking place.
Century progress most evident
in complete sports program
bp Mark Gordon
Sports Editor
When the University began its
athletic program before the turn of
the century, teams such as the Omaha
and Lincoln YMCA's dotted the foot
ball schedule. The basketball team
faced the Sioux City YMCA and
Cheyenne Business College.
Now as the University enters its
second 100 years of existence, teams
like Southern California, Army and
Texas A & M face NU teams. The
caliber of teams has improved and
so has the University's athletic future
in all sports, according to Athletic
Director and head football coach Bob
Devaney.
"WE'RE HOLDING our own in all
sports," he said, adding that, football
had a winning percentage the past
seven years and basketball has pro
duced winning records since coach
Joe Cipriano arrived in 1963.
He said track has progressed
steadily and swimming and wrestling
are starting to advance. He added
that gymnastics, which slipped after
winning the 1964 Big Eight Meet, is
on the rebound.
Although the program is sound
financially, the biggest weakness is
facilities in general, needing a new
fieldhouse and track in particular, he
said. He added that both the Coliseum
(built in the 1920s) and the outmoded
East Stadium track must be replac
ed. "We've got the money set aside for
the track, but we need a place to
put it," he said. "You don't need
much in the way of plans for a track."
track "
DEVANEY 'EXPLAINED that the
athletic department is studying places
close to campus for the eventual
track, which is hoped to be located
near the new fieldhouse.
; "We're studying other colleges
which have fieldhouse Complexes and
we're trying to determine which one
Is best for us," he said.
Devaney said two underlying
thoughts can be applied when con
structing fieldhouses. One thought
stresses a building entirely for cam
pus activities, while the other
philosophy builds the athletic complex
with the entire community in mind,
he said.
"Right now, we don't know which
one is best for us," he said. "But
regardless of which we choose, a
facility for all sports will be built."
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WHILE THE completion date for
both the track and fieldhouse facility
remains indefinite, Devaney said that
if the basketball program continues
progressing, the eventual 14,000 to
15,000 seat facility would be full.
"Right now many people don't come
to the Coliseum because they don't
want to fight for seats in poor loca
tions,' 'he said. "There's no doubt
about it we need a new fieldhouse
and track."
Praising University students and the
entire state for their interest and
financial support for Nebraska
athletics. Devaney credited Husker
fans as being the biggest strength of
the athletic program.
"Nebraska to date has shown a good
healthy outlook on athletics," he said,
"the state hasn't gone overboard
where athletics are stressed more
than academics. Things are placed
in a good perspective here and
students have given us fine sup
port." ALTHOUGH DEVANEY was unable
to predict if interest in the so-called
minor sports would ever surpass the
major activities, he added that there
may be some years when interest in
a minor-sport is at a high peak.
"Of course, we'd like to bring all
our sports up to the point where they
are equal with football and basketball
in support," he said, explaining that
football and basketball are the only
income-producing sports.
He said wrestling and swimming
and the other sports depend largely
on the ability of high school coaches
and the money the University spends
for its success. He added that wrest
ling powers such as Oklahoma,
Oklahoma State or Iowa State have
mostly home-grown products on their
squads
"I look for all these sports to make
advancements in the future," he said,
"but it really is impossible to say
if they will receive the interest of
football, basketball or track "
THE NATION'S winningest college
coach said that although football has
replaced baseball in terms of average
game attendance, he does not foresee
any additional seats being added to
Lincoln's 65,000 seat Memorial
Stadium within the next 10 years.
"There's always the possibility of
reaching the saturation point with
television having so many games on,"
he said, "but this is more of a pro-
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blem with the. pros than with the col
lege games."
Despite the numerous problems that
Devaney and his athletic staff will
face, the athletic boss is optimistic
towards the future.
"We've made great strides and I
hope we can continue to provide
Nebraska with a well-rounded sports
program," he added.
MPs Sculpture
Garden to be
unique in Big 8
by John Nollcndorfs
Nebraskan Staff Writer
The University sculpture garden
will compare favorably with the very
large and impressive one located at
UCLA according to Norman Geske,
director of Sheldon Art Gallery.
"Ours isn't as big, but in terms
of layout and the works in it, it should
be equal if not better than the UCLA
sculpture garden," Geske said.
"There is no comparable idea such
as this in the Big Eight," he added.
THE IDEA FOR the sculpture
garden was developed along with the
planning of the art gallery itself.
Money had been provided for
landscape setting for sculpture in the
wills of A. B. Sheldon and his sister,
Francis.
The garden was not constructed
along with the gallery because of
pending plans for the music building
and recital hall, and because a
specific plan had not been decided
upon.
"The garden represents a very im
portant expansion of the gallery's
function in the display of con
temporary art," Geske said.
A better job of showing sculpture
may be accomplished, he said, when
it can be put outdoors. Pieces being
procurred for the garden are of bronze
and steel which would not be affected
by exposure to the weather.
GESKE NOTED that the garden is
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War II who wanted to enroll at the
University .The German student came
here without any records of any kind,
so Hoover helped him to take place
ment tests and the student enrolled
as a freshman in business ad
ministration. Several weeks before the German
student was to graduate, he came to
Hoover with a document in German.
It was translated by a professor in
the German department. Hoover said.
The document was a Ph.D. degree
from the University of Heidelberg.
Today students are far more
earnest, Hoover said. "I would have
been a dropout it l were going to
school now. "Since about 1960
students have shown an intense in
terest in the whole cock-eyed world.
In 1930 students weren't interested in
politics, now students are concerned
about these things because they relate
more to students.
"ITS HEALTHY that students can
express themselves; I don't favor rock
throwing but I think the fact that
students do dissent is a healthy sign,"
he continued.
Hoover thinks he is going to dislike
retirement. "Students are so darn nice
and I like their enthusiasm and depth
of perception."
Emeritus Professor of Journalism
Robert P. Cranford has expanded
many of the ideas he formed at the
University into three books. "Think
for Yourself," "The Techniques of
Creative Thinking" and "Direct
Creativity."
THE FACULTY and" textbooks are
always looking backwards to
knowledge of the past, he said. Cran
ford is looking forward expanding
the creativity ideas he formed as a
journalism instructor.
"In journalism you work with ideas
and I asked if we couldn't apply this
process to other fields," he said. He
has done this through his books.
A Japanese businessman once told
Cranford that he made more money
and had more fun since he retired.
"I have tried to heed that,' 'he said.
CRANFORD, a native of Council
Bluffs, Iowa, graduated from the
University of Nebraska in 1917 and
later received his masters degree
from Columbia. "I can't even
remember my major," he said. "I
sampled all sorts of things, one of
which was journalism."
He thinks that much of education
has to do with the different people
you meet, as witnessed by his many
travels and acquaintances.
"As a student I think I went to
school one semester without any tui
tion at all except for special fees in
chemistry," he said. "Education was
generally free."
Before the panic in 1929. many
students were very rich. Cranford
said. When a student couldn't get into
a fraternity, he started his own, he
continued.
"IN THE 30?s many students had
a tough time financially, " he said.
He remembers that students used to
wait until late in the afternoon to
buy a meal for 35 cents, so that they
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would only have to eat once a day.
When teachers saw a student eating
peanuts, they would give him a meal,
he continued.
Between 1928-38 Cranford served as
assistant to Chancellor Burnett. He
helped solicit money for the Universi
ty Foundation that led to the building
of Mueller Tower and the Temple
Building.
The journalism professor also" left
the University several times to work
for the Nebraska Farmer and the War
Department.
ELDA WALKER came to the
University in 1904 from Pacific
University in Oregon. "I wanted to
study under Dr. Bessey because he
was one of the best botanists in the
country," the Associate Professor of
Botany, Emeritus said.
"I came here planning to stay only
one or two years," Miss Walker said.
She was afraid she wouldn't like the
weather and she didn't want to be
so far from home.
"When I got my masters degree,
Dr. Bessey wanted me to stay," she
added. In 1907, her sister, also an
emeritus associate professor o f
botany, came to the University.
She thinks that students "are the
same as they ever were. "I don't
have any stock in the notion that
students today are any different than
they were before." Miss AValker said.
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"I DO GET irritated about student
disturbances though," she said. "Somij
students always have to be seeking
notoriety." Miss Walker feels that con.
ditions are never So bad a tt
University that students need to stif
up a commotion.
Some of her students from 40 years
of teaching continue to visit 'her
"There are some of my students who
I don't think would come to Lincoln
and not stop in to see me and then
some would never think of stopping
to see me," she said.
"I went to football games for a
while, but then I got so disgusted
that I said I'd never go to another
football game and I haven't," .Miss
Walker said. , .
SHE BECAME disgusted when the
hero of a previously undefeated team
"got up on the rally platform and
bellowed lile a baby."
The rest of the team acted like they
were at a funeral, she added. "I think
they should have remembered that
one side or the other has to . be
beaten."
Of all the different aspects of the
University, Miss Walker said she miss
es most being with young people since
her retirement. "I do like young peo
pie. I'm not old, I'm only 91."
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