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THE NEBRASKAN-HESPERIAN. ON THE GRIDIRON. (Continued From First Page.) that speaks well for the sagacity of our managing board and the honor of the university. With n proficient coach, wise man agement and harmony among the men as well as a successful team in sight our closing word is to our friends. Wo cannot win without your sup port. We cannot continue without gate receipts. Wo want not only your good wiBhes, but your presence. The present is promising, the fu ture is bright. In order that our friends may share in the honors that must como to the team, we solicit their assistance and support. F. H. BREW. ROSCOE POUND ON FOOTBALL. Interesting Retrospect Progress in Past Years Some Valuable Suggestions. As wo are about to enter upon the Becond decade of football at the uni versity of Nebraska, a brief retrospect from a veteran football crank may not bo out of place. Prior to 1890 football, except the old helter-skelter kicking game, an indefinite number on each side and every man for himself, was unheard of in Nobraska. In '89-'90, McClatchie '91, who had played at Olivet, preached tho gospel of scientific rootball and volunteered to coach. He aroused not a little enthusiasm, though hamp ered by a notion then prevalent that players ought to be elected by ballot, and began our football history with a series of class games, an institution which, with slight interruption, has been handed down to the present day. I was away trom the university at the time, but on my return In the fall of '90, full of the enthusiasm kindled by seeing the Harvard" season of '89, In cluding the games with Yalo and Princton, I was amused and amazed to see some two dozen men, in their shirt sleeves, some in overalls, hut most in their every-day trousers, and all wearing suspenders, endeavoring to learn the elements of football by the light of nature and their recollec tion of what they saw the year before. Some of the men who played that year had not a little natural ability and would have done well In time with proper training. Dr. Frothlngham, who had seen the best of football, did what he could for them, and as oppos ing teams were equally raw, Individual strength and athletic skill took our first 'varsity team triumphantly through Its first season. Another year .saw our first hired coach In Lyman of Orlnnell, who had played at Yale. Ly man was given about ten days to do what ho could with green mon. The score in a game with Iowa that sea son was not pleasant to think of, but Lyman had set us In motion, and we repaid Iowa with Interest later. Then came tho league. No one mourns Its death, but it was a great event In our football history. From tho day It was organized, Nebraska has had good football. There have been off years, but there havo been years of triumph as well, and as one looks back over ten years and calls to mind J. H. Johnston. A. E. Yont, Flip pin, Budd Jones, Dern, Thorpe, Wlg jlns, Georgo Shedd, Melford and Bene Hct, any one of whom could havo played In any company, he cannot but !eel ample satisfaction. Tho progress in management has been no less great. Our first manage ment was as crude ns our first football. It Is said that one of the old-time man agers, finding an unexpected surplus on hand, and being accountable to naught but his conscience therefor, di vided it among tho plnyerd. If so, ho was unique in those days in having surplus. Students arc optimistic, and not the best of financiers, and ecklessness and extravagance ruled for some seasons because there was no system, no responsibility and no con tinuity of management. We have since had to struggle hard with more than ono evil legacy o? those days, but for several seasons, since the creation of the athletic board has given perma nence and continuity to tho manage ment and has introduced responsibil ity and control, the financial depart ment has been conducted as well as could reasonably be desired. The most immediate need Is hearty support. There, too, there is room for Improvement Probably nowhere else Is it respectable, or ven safe, to look pver the canvas, or sit In trees or win dows In plain view, and steal half a dollar's worth of football. Some of tho best men In tho university havo done this in time past, and have done whnt they could to make It respectable. Football Is a democratic game. Ev ery one of us Is a part of it, and has his place and his role to play with his yell or his megaphone. Let us get out and see the games from tho bleach ers and the side-lines, nnd let people hear us yell, not croak. Let us all give to Messrs. Booth, Brew and Tukey tho cordial, enthusiastic support that Ib their due, and tho coming year will rank with tho best In tho football an nals of our Alma Mater. ROSCOE POUND '88. MEMORIAL EXERCISES. (Continued From First Page.) The University School Of Music ppoefte tbe Campus Students contemplating the study of Music, and those who have friends desirous of in formation concerning the advantages offered, are cordially invited to visit the School and and obtain an Illustrated Catalogue. You can enter at any time, WILLARD KIMBALL, Director, would be to tell you of a true, entire friendship between a large number of gay, enthusiastic girls of widely dif fering temperaments and ono years older, who yet could wholly sympa thize with the joys as well as tho sor rows of girlhood. "Tho thing that made Mrs. Sher man most helpful to us all and for wjiicli wo admire her most, was her simplicity and unassuming modesty. Everyone present could probably toll some trivial incident which would Il lustrate this raro and beautiful qual ity. When we asked her to become an honorary member of our fraternity, she seemed much surprised and won dered of what use she could be to us. It was like Mrs. Sherman to think that she had nothing to give us. It was her gontle tact, this sweet modesty, that made every girl lovo her and long" to please her In every way. Wo wanted her at all our meetings and In her quiet way, she seemed to blend with every mood. Wo saw In her a sim ple dignity which we associate with nobility of character. Mrs. Sherman always chose tho simple way of doing things. She conquered quietly. "Though the reality of her presence has vanished, yet the Ideality remains sweet and pure and peaceful. We shall go forward, strengthened by the beautiful light of her life and make It our conBtnnt Inspiration." Chancellor MacLean's manuscript was read by Mrs. Hodgeman. It Is as follows: "It Is the cause of tho deepest grief In tho midst of the deeper sorrow ac companying our sense of loss, that Mrs. MacLean and I arc by an act of Providence prevented from attending this memorial service. "The good dean has Intimated that he did not dcslro any more than tho dear Mrs. Sherman would havo de sired, ouIogieB upon this occasion. t We come then, not with eulogies, mu'o'h as they aro deserved, but with an attempt at a just tribute due to the memory of our beautiful sister. "Her queenllness was not only that of bearing, but that of character. There is not time to touch tho chlefest points of her Christian choracter. One cannot forbear a tribute to her modest unselfishness. Tho world will never know how unselfish she was in the unostcntatlousneBs of her services. Two incidents may Illustrate. In the midst of a commencement rush, when everyone was being denied tickets. Mrs. Sherman, after having distributed tickets that were hers, called my at tention to a poor old woman who had always attended commencements, and who had been omitted in that years' distribution of tickets. A noteworthy Illustration of her giving her life for others, was tho nursing in her own home through a protracted fover of ono of the boys, a student far from homo. Doubtless she saved his life. When one remembers her own fam ily, and its many cares, one sees in this caBe tho height of her unselfish ness. She made it a. primary principle to account the student body the parish to which she should minister. This, I take It, is tho spirit for which the Faculty Woman's club stands. I pray that her example may inspire tho club to contlnuo to render services beyond pecuniary estimation to tho university, it Is ono of tho greatest Joys of Mra. MacLean's and my llfo In tho Uni versity of Nobraska that wo all. pro fessors and their families, thus lived to minister to tho wants of body and soul of tho students. "Tho club doubtless wns unconscious of tho hours of thought and counsel that Mrs. Sherman bohlnd tho scones gnvo to tho work of tho club. Woro It fitting, tho ox-chancellor and wife could testify to scores of little atten tions given to them In bearing tho bunions for tho university. Many as woro tho porsons rendering help, none oxcellcd Mrs. Sherman In tho quietness and offectnoss of tho holp rendered. "Amidst tho many great Bounding words concerning woman's mission In tho nineteenth and twentieth centur ies, It Is well to remember tho deeds of such a woman as Mrs. Sherman. Womanless, consecrated as well as cultured, will still In such porsons as sho rightfully domlnato homo and church; school and state. Were this tho time and piaco, affection would dlctato heartfflt tributes to Mrs. Sher man as a wlfo, mother and friond. The sacredness of theso relations forbids that wo do moro than Bay that in all these relations she was an ideal. "Let us comfort ono another not only with the words of this memorial service, but above all with the words of tho Master sho loved, 'I am tho resurrection and tho life: ho that be Hoveth In mo, though ho wore dead, yet shall he live.' "GEORGE E. MACLEAN. "September 15, 1900." Rev. Fletcher L. Wharton spoke as follows: "Human life is the greatest thing in the world. Nothing is so great as peo ple. They have consciousness and In telligence and will and love. Wo havo no words to tell about such greatness. Because people aro so great their tak ing off Is tho commnndlng sorrow of all tho ages. When anybody dies tho world becomes still. When ono who is especially beautiful vanishes, then the sorrow becomes a rare possession we would not part with. Mrs. Sher man, whose loss we mourn today, was especially beautiful, beautiful In face, beautiful In mind, beautiful In spirit. Sorrow for such as sho is visible re demption; we shall be tho better for our weeping. When wo recall her llfo and Its beauty, our memories arc not stained by any fact connected with her personal history. There Is re freshment In such memories as this. "It will make us long to bo nobler for tho sake of our children, when wo remember that something of Mrs. Sherman's beauty of womanhood camo of a refined and gentle ancestry. Her father was General Horace Willlston of Athens, Pa. General Willlston wns not only a Christian, but he was that rarer thing, a Christian gentleman. Ho was a typo of man now happily multiplying who lived to bless society without forever being conscious of It. Ho was a man so strong that ho could be kind and helpful without an effort. "During tho days of tho civil war, when tho black man wns so bitterly despised by many, three of this un happy race were disposed to come to tho church of which General Willls ton was a member. They woro ap propriately consigned to the, back Boat in the church. Ever after that tho goneral quietly occupied a part of It with them. Ho did not hold his placo in society by so slight a tenure that he had to guard it. "Some years ago a family poorly provided with this world's goods was stricken with the dread Bcnrlet fovor; neighbors in fright deserted them; a nurso could not bo secured; Mrs. Sher man came to the rescue, staying with the family almost night and day, do ing the work, not only of a nurso, but of a house servant, until the family was recovered. "Bu among the students of the uni versity her work outside of tho homo was mostly dono. Her ministries woro untiring; whenever a boy was nick, or a girl afflicted, there sho might havo boon found, at any time, day or night; and many Ib tho boy nnd many Is tho girl, out vover the land, who in memory through tho years and years to como, will feel again tho touch of her hand on their foreheads, as thoy recall the days of tho fover In soma lonely room, away at school in Lin coln. A largo "company of people will mlBS Mrs. Sherman In to church and about tho university. Tho women of tho Faculty club will miss hor sorely In their coming together and In tholr homes and In hor former homo which thoy will not abandon, now that sho hns gone from It. -A company of beau tiful girls over whoso fraternity sho so lovingly cast her caro will mlBS hor; mlfis her when thoy sing from tho tally-ho or welcome tholr guests Into their dainty dwelling, and miss hor thoughtful receptions to thepi In hor own beautiful homo. Tho poor will miss hor, hor neighbors whom she did not forgot when thoy woro In trouble, will miss hor. "Thoro nro those who will miss hor moro than any or all of theso, nnd with thorn, though wo stand outside, wo weep today; but this sorrow does not kill; it makes alive, it ennobles. Wo shnll always keep It. keep it because it keeps alive tho momory of ono noblo woman." Miss Holmos very feelingly sang "Ono Sweetly Solemn Thoug-t," which was a favorite Bong with Mra. Sher man, Rov. Wharton pronounced tho bene diction. The sorvlces throughout were deeply impressive and will long bo re membered by all,
