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About The Nebraskan. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1892-1899 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1893)
M :8 THE NKBRASKAN atactic. Ncbruskii took tho northeast goal mid thc game began. Unkcr used the gridiron start and made seven yards. Next they played stoi.knI stomcn! stoucn ! through the line and to their surprise only That is the general verdict as to our game made three. They then lost a yard and were with Baker on the 28th. " Baker take 'cr!" noro slirprisol than ever. They tried it these Kansas preachers yell. If they can't arain but gained nothing, and the ball was "take 'or" foy fair means they seem quite ()urs Oury took it ten yards just for a start willing to do so by foul. It is getting to be n( yonl ni!Ue lcn just to keep him eom- thc usual thing for Nebraska to play against pany Whipple and Flippen followed and twelve men ; but even with the umpire's aid yont's next try was a seventeen-yard run. the sky-pilots could do no better than to tie Thcn thc umpjre got in his first good work the score. for na.ei. anl called a foul on Hopcwelb The day was a perfect one for playing, but This gavp the m lo nakcr. They played not very good for drawing a crowd. Old it down lhe foU aboul xriy yixns n sov. Sol deserted us and it was quite chilly. Nev- Q till iinc playSi Tnen Heller, thc man who erthclcss there should have been three times runs witfo fois fret and lets the wind toy with as many people on the grounds as there were. i,js waving hair, got the ball and ambled With a team playing as good football as ours gajiy down the lield for a sixty-yard run. it is scandalous that not one quarter of the FHppen failed to tackle and Baker scored students turn jut to a game. Neither do thc tncj,. f,rsl touch down. Farrar kicked goal people of the town take the interest they afoout sjxtCon minutes after the play began, should in the game. This shows a lack of Nebraska started from the center with the metropolitan spirit. Football is tub fash- Dcland checker-board which Doane used to ionable game in the East and if the Lincoln such g00(i advantage and made eleven yards. elite were " on to their job" they would turn Flippen then made thenty-three. His thumb out in larger numbers. had neen pul oul )r joint early in the game, But to return to our mutton, or rather to bul lhat didn't cut any ice with Flipp. Yont our pig-skin. Bak.-r won the toss as they lhon mnde a vard but losl lhc ban. The have in every game this year, and took thc skv-pilots then made fifty vards on twenty ball. Larrabee acted as referee, and Toomcy, pavs most of lhcm made" by Heller and an innocent, ministerial-looking youth who Mo;tcr the hjlfs. The nmpire made five of it, usually plays fullback for Baker, tried to act hmVevcr, on an imaginary offside play. Our as umpire. Larrabee was fair us usual. hoys then got their mad up and stopped the What Mr. Toomey usually is we don't kn -,v, thing right there. Four downs gave us thc ball, and it was rushed steadily down thc field by Yont, Flippen, Whipple and Oury, but he certainly was not fair this time. The teams lined up thus : I1AKKR. NKBRASKA. Gaines right-end left Johnston Farrar right-tackle-left Oury l:ogle right-guard-left Wilson Pendleton center Hopewell easv goal. 5 lleft-tackle-right Whipple Potter lefl-end-richt Slim. Crawford Flippen Yont making a twenty-yard gain. Flippen carried it over the line almost between the posts. Crawford, for some reason, missed an mien quarter Motter rigbt-half-left. , Heller left-half-right. Thomas Full Toomey umpire cooper Taylor Mucsse ) Substitutes Mcsstnger .Yont . Lowry f Micfarland I Carney . Frank Wiggins I Cameron Baker started with the gridiron again and made nine. Then they didn't make five in four downs and we took the ball. It went steadily down the field and when time was called was on Baker's fifteen yard line. Score of first half, Baker 6, Nebraska 4. When it was time to play again the ball was missing. After a short delay another I n
