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VOL. )-'M), XO. 1.
ON THE GRIDIRON.
Outlook for the Year Largo Number
of Candidates for Places Strong
Team Assured Football
Notes.
The football aspect nt the university
of Nebraska is the brightest for years.
The Impression gained at first glance
at this year's outlook is very different
from that of last year. Then, every
one was discouraged and feared for the
success of the team. This year play
ers have appeared almost without
limit and many of the old men are
.back. While it is impossible to tell
the make-up of the team at this early
date, a good team can be picked from
so many candidates. "V. C. Booth,
Nobraska's new coach, hns been on
the ground for the past week. He
played center for three years at
Princeton and has a most enviable rec
ord. He has ordered short practice
every evening, but thinks that it is
too hot to train hard now. If a man
Is overtrained during the first hot days
it takes almost the remainder of the
season to get him In shape again.
W. E. Allan, who coached the sec
ond team last' year, has gone to Spo
kane, Wash., leaving the second team
without a coach. This year, however,
the players will have the advantage
of several graduate coaches. Coach
Booth, speaking of the system of grad
uate coaching, said: "AH the leading
colleges In the east will use no other
system. At Princeton, as many as
twenty coaches have been seen on the
field at one time. Every player has
his coach watching him and urging
him on. This adds Individual strength
to the team."
The prospect for graduate coaches
here 'is excellent. Rev. Manss will
Kive his valuable assistance as he did
last year. He is an old Yalo player and
coaches the ends. Wiggins, an old Ne
braska end, will come down from
Omaha once a week. Melford will
help coach the lino. Others will also
holp.
The following is a list of tho most
prominent players who have so far
signified their intention of turning out
and the positions they aro playing
for:
Confer Koohlor and Welch.
GuardsBrew, Ringer, Bollen. Gil
bert and Plllsbury.
Tackles Wostovor, Gilbert, Fisher
and Plllsbury.
Ends Cortelyou, Drain, Stringer
and Ryan.
Quarterback Tukey, Crandall, Wil
liams. McKIllop. Hooper and Gordon.
Fullback Carver, Kingsbury, Tuek
or, Hollon. Bell and Gordon.
Halfback KingFbury, Follmer, Wil
liams, Bell and Gordon.
Tho excellent punting of Benedict
will be greatly missed, but It Is
thought that Follmer or Bell may de
velops qualities in that line. Bell did
Homo oxcollont kicking last year and
will impiove with this year's prac
tice. Tho list of halfbacks so far
shows no exceptionally fast oiiob. Hun
tor, wlm promised to show great
speed, will not be back. Boll is a
good runiior.
GRIDIRON NOTES.
Conch Branch of last year Is in Chi
cago. Hard practice will begin tho last of
tho weak.
Cortolyou did sonic hard training
this Hummer.
Mvory one should work for the In
tercut of the team aim encourage, every
possible player to como out. There
should bo two strong teams.
A strong list of games 1ms been pre
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pared, although not ready for publi
cation. Tho star game of the season
will be with Minnesota on Thanks
giving on the homo grounds. A game
has also been arranged with Kansas.
Manager Tukey deserves considerable
credit for the dellgent work ho has
done during tho summer.
COACH BOOTH ON FOOTBALL.
There are a good many conditions
necessary to turn out a winning foot
ball team and at this early date In
the season it is impossible to say how
many of them will be present at Ne
braska university this fall. We must
have material, wo must have harmony
and we ought to have a hundred other
things, but a willingness to work cov
ers a multitude of football deficiencies
and this is the point to be emphasized.
There aro just eleven places on tho
team, but we need substitutes, a good
quota from which to draw a second
cloven. The more the merrier. Every
body who has any football ability or
who wants to find out whether ho has
or not Is urgently requested to come
out, and to come out with a determi
nation to stick the season out. There
ar3 eleven places open and none aro
mortgaged. Previous occupancy In It
self will amount to nothing. Changes
aro liable to occur at any time and no
man should give up trying.
There is another thing greatly to be
desired, but whicn is out of my pro
vince to control, though I earnestly
ask for it, and that is the moral sup
port given to the team by the student
body. We ought to have no unfair
criticism and we ought to have good
crowds at practice and irames. Lot
every man do his best -whether it's on
tho field or side lines and the results
will take care of themselves.
W. C. BOOTH.
WHAT CAPTAIN BREW HAS TO
SAY.
The football season Is here, and with
it come tho hopes and fears that per
tain to the outcome of a season's
work; tho selection of a team, the abil
ity of tho coach and the patronage of
our friends. In Mmes past, tho gleam
of the red lantern from university hall
and the sound of a victorious bell told
of tho return of our successful eleven.
Then memories of ignominious defeats
by Inferiors stare us In tho face; io
mcmbrancpH of feud.i and "double
dealing;" the emptiness of the treas-uro-box,
all these, group themselves in
menacing readiness to defeat the pres
ent management in their efforts to put
out a winning team.
These facts are not "ephemeral fan
cIjb" or the product of a deranged
bniln; they are the "heirlooms of the
past," revealing the foes of the pres
ent, and tho enemy of the future.
It will not do for tho U. of N. to
say "Wo do not care," for we do care,
and we must care!
' Football Is one of the greatest of
college sports. It combines more of
the "humane" element than some are
wont to give It credit for
Its demands upon an athlete are, a
quick eye, tact, Judgment, temper,
courage and strength.
Tho outlook for a successful season
was never more flattering. There Is
an abundance of old men In sight, who
aro either hero or are coming. The
now mon are very promising.
Our coach more than equals our
anticipation. Ho has a commanding,
yet a winning way about him that
Immediately secures tho confidoncr of
tho playerH. His cleanness of Hplrlt,
stumps him as a gentleman. His abil
ity to Instruct In the art of football
Is already making ItHelf felt; notably
tin Interest tho men are taking to
muster eveiy detail and to win a
place upon the team.
Manager Tuckey has thus far proven
himself to bo most diplomatic in ar
ranging all difficulties among officials
and adjacent universities, and of giv
ing a tone to the power of his position
(Continued on .Second l'ugy.)
MEMORIAL EXERCISES
Beautiful and Simple Tributes to Mrs.
L. A. Sherman.
Memorial services In honor of Mrs.
L. A. Sherman wore held In chapel
last Sunday afternoon. A large num
ber of friends from both the students
and faculty gathered to do honor to
one whoso life among us has been an
inspiration to all. Chancellor An
drews opened the services. Among
other things he said: "It sometimes
seems the saddest aspect of our lives
that when friends die and wo have
laid them away In tho grave, we can
no longer speak or communicate
to them. Could wo speak to them
It would bo to tell them how
earnest we shall be to do as they
would wish us to do. If there be those
who believe that by some telepathy
they can communicate with those who
have gone before, they cannot, how
ever, but feel a keen sense of their
loss.
"Tho best we can do is to gather to
gether and speaking from heart to
heart, tell what we would say, could
we speak to thorn. Wj would say,
each one of us, a great many things,
but when wo have said the utmost we
have not said half that we could say.
We shall all respond In our hearts to
what Is said here today."
Chancellor MacLean intended to be
here, but we have this from him:
"It is a grief to mc to announce that
I shall bo unable to be with you Sun
day. Mrs. MacLean's father lies at
the point of death and I have promised
to hold myself in readiness to take
the train at a moment's notice."
Mrs. Wilson read the following tri
bute from the Woman's Faculty club:
"We meet today In memory of a
friend, companion and leader. Since
the organization of the Women's Fac
ulty club Mrs. Sherman has been an
Interested and inspiring leader and
helper In all the work and alms of
tho organization. There are many cir
cles of friends where she will be sore
ly missed, but none will miss her
more than this organization of uni
versity women. It was here that many
of us learned to know and love her
best. Her thoughtfulness, her gentle
counsel, lmr never-falling wisdom and
sympathy, and her Inspiring leader
ship endeared her to us all and we of
fer this memorial service as a slight
tribute to one of God's noble women
whom He has seen fit to call unto him
self. "Death Is not all sorrow, for death
has its triumphant note that we may
hear If we will, sounding above the
minor chords of grief and sorrow. It
is the triumphant note of a life nobly
lived, of a death nobly met with cour
age and fortitude, with Christian faith
and Christian hope. It is such a life
and such a death that we commemor
ate today.
"To many of us it still seems that
our friend has gone on a Journey and
must surely return to us; and so she
has gone on that last long Journy from,
which none over return, hut then
comes to us from down the ages that
cry of a human soul, breuthlng hope
and Immortality. When David was
told that his son was dead ho coascd
fasting and weeping and said, 'Now
that he Is dead wherefore should I
fast? Can I bring him back again?
I shall go to him, but he shall not re
turn to me.' And so our friend, who
left us yesterday full of Joy and hope,
will not return to us, but wo may go
to her.
"I do not lllto to think of death as
grlm-vlsagod, frightful and forbid
ding, but as a noble, sorrowing angel
such as French the sculptor has con
ceived in his noble statute of Death
arresting tho hand of tho artist. This
sorrowing angol has stayed tho hand,
and stilled the voice of our friend and
wo are left In silence and lu sorrow.
FIVE CEXTS.
The seeming tragedy of such a death
is in the apparent incompleteness of
tho life work. But who shall say when
a life is complete? God alono can soa
tho beginning and end of all things,
and this friend, this wife and mothor
whose life work was to minister, to
inspire, to mould character, to nur
ture human souls, who shall say her
life was incomplete? We know her in
fluence will never cease, her love Is
eternal, flowing out from the divine
lovo of the eternnl father. Her life
work, her Influence will go on forever
and forever and you and I will feel
that beautiful, bcncficicnt influence
making all life fuller and richer for
her having lived.
"We mourn today tho loss of a
friend, associate and companion: one
who taught us the beauty, tho sacred
ness of friendship; one who rovoalod
to us what loyalty, devotion and ten
derness there may bo In tho heart of
a friend, and though that heart is
stilled forever, yet tho beauty and
fragrance of such a friendship gave to
all life a nobler meaning, to death an
added glory.
"Our friend was endowed with in
tellectual gifts and attainments that
fitted her by nature and training for
the best and highest In life and her
sympathetic.klndly nature created and
cemented friendships that will lo
treasured while life lasts. It Is a law
of our nature that we grow and de
velop In proportion as we give of our
selves. Judged by this standard our.
friend's life was full and well rounded
for the largeness of her mind and na
ture delighted In overflowing bone
flcience to others. In all tho relations
of life It was this never falling bounty,
this ever-ready sympathy, this bound
less generosity that characterized all
she did and all sho was. In this club
of university women her one thought
as leader, as president, as counsellor
and friend was always, 'How can wc
best help others.' Sympathetic altru
sion was the compelling motive In her
relations to tho world.
"There was always surrounding our
friend a sweet dignity, a serenity and
repose that gave confidence to tho
timid and Inspired tho noblost and
best to higher things. The key-note
to Mrs. Sherman's character was that
ever-ready, overflowing sympathy that
attracted to her alike tho hearts of
happy, Joyous young girls and the sor
rowing heart-broken ones of earth. But
along with this never-falling sympathy
there was always practical beneficence.
It has been my privilege, during my
association with the young women of
our university, to know bettor than
many others how far-reaching this
benevolence was. As friend and asso
ciate we have always turned Instinc
tively to her for sympathy, couusol
and advice and ws wore ever reward
ed by that gentle counsel, that fine,
heartfelt courtesy, that far-seolng wis
dom that was never failing and truo.
"Today we mourn a friend whoso de
votion, loyalty and truth was novor
questioned, whoso noble life and baaii
tlful character shall bo to us all a never-failing
Inspiration, a blessing and
a benediction, enriching, uplifting, en
nobling." A tribute on behalf of the DeUa
Gamma sorority, of which Mrs. Sher
man was an honorary member, was
read by Miss Clara Mulliken,
"For every girl who know Mrs.
Sherman, hor life has a most beautiful
meaning. It Is by no means common
to find such a blending of a strong
mind, a gracious manner and a warm
heart as wo romer. bcr in her. When
sho became associated with us, wo
loved hor as ono of us. Wo folt that
In her we were given a beautiful typo
of womanhood. Sho was a most lov
ing and helpful friend to each girl, a
wlso counsellor and one upon whom it
was safe to depend at all times. Sho
took tho deepest personal Interest In
each member, of tho fraternity.
"To toll you what sho was to ub
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