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I THE HESPERIAN. ducing, we would avoid complications, and showed that the objection to the annexation of Canada applied to the opening up of west ern lands. His argument was strong and strongly delivered. Mr. Whitmore had no difficulty, after he succeded in getting started. He read a letter from a conservative Canadian stating that Canadians were not so anxious for annexation as the citizens of the United States seemed to think. Mr. McNeal followed with one of the strongest arguments of the evening, support ed also by a letter, this time from an un prejudiced party a lady. Mr. Maguire's summary took up the most of the important points and the intervL,of waiting for the judge's decision was filled by a vocal solo by Miss Bessie Turner and a piano solo by Miss Maud Triplett, both delightfully rendered. The fortunate men are Mr. Sherman, Mr. Weaver, and Mr. McNeal, and Mr. Whit more substitute. VENIMUS, VIDIMUS, V1CIMUS. 360 Was there ever anything like it! We have met the corn huskers and they are ours. The Yellow is only thankful that Capt. Dern and his brawny 'leven even let it exist upon a foot ball field. Thanksgiving day of 1894. will long be memorable in the foot ball annals of the U. of N. It was a perfect foot ball day no sun, no wind, and neither too warm nor too cold. Everything was in favor of a splendid crowd and we got it. The lowest estimates place the crowd at 4000. Sandy Griswold of the Bee placed it at twice that number. The scarlet and cream seemed to be the favorite color, but the old gold was by no means without many admirers. It was enough to inspire any team. The bright colors and brighter faces, ihe horns, the yells, and particularly the pretty faces of the fair sex would warm anyone's blood. And as the stalwart Uni. eleven trotted on to the field stripped for the fray; every man seemed to catch the spirit of the moment and proposed to do or die. Iowa's eleven came a moment later, and they did not appear one wit less determined than our own boys. With their yellow sweaters they seemed larg er than they were, and some of our shouters took a big breath before they yelled again. But we had no time to figure chances for promptly at 3 o'clock the game opened. The teams were placed thus: Iowa Positions Nebraska Coldern rt. end Wiggins Collins rt. tackle Dem(Capt) Leighton rt. guard Jones Irinson center Hemming Allen left guard Wilson Williams.; left tackle Oury Littig.. left end Whipple Sawyer(Copt.) .... quarter back Spooncr Herrig. rt. half Yont Converse left half Flippin Kepler full back Fair Iowa substitutes: Hayes, Ingersoll, Frick les, McKinley, Brenner. Nebraska substi tutes: Frank, Sweenly, Bradt, Cameron, Thorpe. Mr. C, H. Wilson, Princeton, acted as referee, the umpire was Lieut Wright of Fort Omaha; Mr. Geo. Purvis acted as ljnes man. Iowa won the toss and took the ball. Kepler kicked off and drove the ball well down on the Neb. side. Yont caught it but was do .vn befora he had made ten yards. And then for twelve minutes Iowa did some very stiff playing. If often looked as if they were going to get a touch down by the rapid ity of their play. But Mr. Iowa had started off at a killing pace. They could not keep it up and in fact never got the ball past our 25 yard line. Still it was uncomfortably close and a sigh of relief went up from every loyal Uni. man when the ball came to us on an off side play. We now began to show the effect of our industrious training and the great ability of our line. First Flip hit the center for six yards and then Wiggins went round the left end for fifteen more. We then began to buck the line steadily, and every time Iowa was forced back, Dern,