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ATHLETICS.
Undoubtedly, nil the old students will in
quire what hns become of the boating crow.
"We regretfully announce that the Burlington
Beach company could not live up to their
contract.
Early in the spring the Beach . men ap
proached the Athletic Association and asked
what wo could do in regard to furnishing n
boating crew. The matter was brought up
at a meeting of the Association, and delegates
were appointed to confer with the company,
with full power to act in the interest of the
University. The result of the conference
was an agreement that the University should
furnish the material for two boating crows,
and that the company should place two
shells on the lake, giving the students the
exclusive control of the shells and the use
of the lake gratis. The company was, how
ever, unable to complete the arrangements
for the purchase of the shells, so no crews
wore formed. In the spring the company
wishes to make now arrangements with the
Athletic Association. If their terms are
more liberal than they were last spring, we
will probably accept them.
The football team has secured the services
of Mr. Crawford, as coach for the season, and
hopes then to improve its former record by
beating any team west of Chicago that may
challenge it.
Heretofore we have always had amateur
coaches, men who had a general theoretic
knowledge of foot ball, but who lacked tact,
discipline and organization. Wo have now
become thoroughly disgusted with the Cheap
John plan, and have hired a man to take
.charge of the team at a cost of five hundred
dollars, who is capable of managing any
team in the country. Mr. Crawford played
for a number of years on the Yale team
where he distinguished himself for his cool
nes3B and pluck. As a coachor, he has been
most successful. Last year, after Baker had
been so badly defeated by Kansas, with a
score of eighteen to nothing, Mr. Crawford
began coaching the Baker team. When Baker
played again, the result was that Kansas
was gloriously defeated. Wo consider our
selves very lucky in securing such a coach,
. but wo must not lose sight of the fact that it
requires good money to get good material,
and five hundred dollars is a sum not easily
raised. If every student will do a little, the
sum can be raised without bringing poverty
upon anyone, and a good foot ball team will
do more to spread the name and fame of the
University than anything else can do.
The following is the list of games that our
team will play this year:
Lincoln vs. Don-no at Lincoln
Baker " '
Denver at Denver
Missouri at Kan. City
Kan. Uni. at Lincoln
Iowa u at Omaha
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WASTE BASKET WAIFS.
During the ensuing year, the Hesperian
moans to bo as strictly local as possible. It
goes on, the principle that a little thing near
homo is of more moment than n grent thing
nbroad. Wo are sorry for the German Emper
or, we are glad that Mr. Wallace has written a
new book, and we are interested in the presi
dent's baby, but for this year they must be
content with the attention of other papers.
We would like to attend to them all, but it
takes too much time and type. We should
enjoy defending the policy of Charles I, if
ho had any, but it is more practicnl to defend
the martyrdom of athletic "flunkers." We
should really like to condemn in some six
pages of pearl the much enduring Universal
Spider, but it is more urgent that wo condemn
certain existing schemes that are nearer to
ns by some few leagues and centuries. Wo
should delight to rise on the wings of song
and chant the burden of Tyro, but it is more
politic and imperative that we chant to clash-4
ing cymbals the BURDEN OF KANSAS.'
If you see a student with a wide brimmed
hat on his head, and a sash about his waist,
and a face glowing with information, shun
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