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PART FIVE
SPORT SECTION
PAGES ONE TO FOUR
VOL. XL1E
-NO. 4,
South Dakota's Gridiron Whirlwinds as They Finished the 1912
'STIEHM STAR TRIO
ON VALLEY ELEVEN
Halligan, Pearson and Purdy Are
Given Place Among: the Best
Gridiron' Warriors.
MISSOURI HAS SEVERAL PLAYERS
.Ames Represented by Hunt, "Who
Wan Better Than Any Other
Quarter in Conference nnd
Did Great AVork. '
All-Missouri Valley
Conference
Elevens.
FIRST ELEVEN.
Prlxlee, Missouri Left. End
Barton, Mlseourl Left Tackle
Pearson, Nebraska Left Quart!
Wilson, Missouri Center
Crowell, Drake Right Guartl
Weldllne, Kansas Right Tackle
Brownlee, Kansas Right End
Hurst, Ames Quarterback
Knobel, -Missouri Left Halfback
Purdy, Nebraska Right Halfback
Halligan, Nebraska Fullback
SECOND ELEVEN.
Howard, Nebraska Left End
Swanson, Nebraska I-eft Tackle
Hastings, Missouri Left Guard
McCarthy. Washington ...Center
Pfund. Ames Right Guard
Harmon. Nebraska Right Tackle
Price Kansas Right End
Towle, Nebraska Quarterback
Frank, Nebraska Left Halfback
Crull. Drake Right Halfback
Simons, Drake ....Fullback
By CLYDE B. KLLIOTT.
The foot ball season of 1,912 In the Mis
souri Valley conference was not satis
factory. It produced no champion eleven,
for the reason that Ames and Nebraska
both finished with clean score In the con
ference struggles and did not meet In a
post-season battle. The play by all the
elevens In this conference was not up to
the standard set in the previous season
and each member showed brilliantly in
one or more games and then fell down
n. other contests. Drake began the sea
Bon with brilliant foot ball, and for a
long time looked like the class of the
league. Injuries to their players put the
Bulldogs out of the race, and they lost
to Missouri and Ames before the season
closed. ,
Nebraska Plays Well.
Nebraska won the two games it played
with other conference elevens, but In
each contest was pushed to the utmost,
fahtX In one, the battle with Kansas, wa.j
outplayed for most of the game. It baled
a serious question as to which of the two
contestants was the better. In the Mis
souri game the Cornhuskers won only
after three-quarters of fierce fighting,
Ames was licked decisively by Iowa,
showing that its class ws not high, be
cause the Hawkeyes had gone down to
defeat before the Minnesota Gophers, 60
to 7, and the Gophers took third place In
the Chicago- conference race. The Iowa
Aggies were fortunate in their meeting
with Drake, for their men were all In ex
cellent shape, while the Drake Bulldogs
were crippled so much that only five ret
ulars began the game. The Des Moines
;even, in mid-season, probably was a
better team than Clyde Williams had at
A mes.
Missouri Disappointment
Missouri was the keen dliappolntmert
of the conference. It was an eleven of
great possibilities, possessing the largest
number of high caliber men of any school
;n the conference. It was slow In be
ginning and lost to Ames by a largo
core. It began to show Its power In the
meeting with Nebraska; by the time of
the Drake contest it was going at full
speed, and was a fighting machine that
would have tented the full strength of the
best eleven In the middle west. The Sat'
urday folowlng the Drake game the Tig
ers licked Washington university by such
s, large soore that all followers were -n-rouraged
to expect a victory over Kan-
vis the following week. But the Brewer
machine clipped a cog. and tumbled be
fore the Jayhawker. an eleven that was
not better than Missouri at an time pre-
(Cpp'ljiuM or Psaa
The
HOW THE BOYS FROM VERMILION LOOKED
OMAHA UNI ISWELL PLEASED
Foot Ball Team Makes Good Showing
Although Losing Gaines.
WORK UNDER BIG HANDICAP
At No Time During Season Did More
Than BlRhtccn Men Turn Out
for Practice nnd Only a
Few Veteran.
Though the season Just closed had more
defeats than victories for the foot ball
team representing the University of
iOmaJia the student body and team Itself
Is well pleased with the showing made.
For this the supporters of the Bhetlands
give two reasons. The first one, the
aplendld coaching of 3Un Morganthaler,
the other the fighting' spirit which the
team has shown when It was encounter
ing odds that would have discouraged
many teams.
When the season opened about fourteen
men came out for the squad and of these
not more than four had more than a
year's experience, flome had never played
In a game of foot ball and the only
thing In their favor was the fact that
they were willing to work. Starting out
under these conditions Morganhaler be
gan by teaching his pupils things that
most college players learn In high schools.
For about two weeks he continued this
work and when tie began to give scrim
mage and signal practice Julius Rachman
and Ralph Ludwlg entered school and
added considerable strength to the team.
Ludwlg's use was not enduring because
In the first quarter of the first game he
received a broken collarbone which kept
him from participating In" any of the
remaining games.
Klarhteen Turn (lut.
The greatest number that repotted for
practice on any night was eighteen and
this only once. The average number out
was fourteen and sixteen and these few
light and Inexperienced. Because of the
lack of weight Morganthaler realized that
would be necessary to depend upon
open play ana rorwara passing, mm,
however, took time and as a result In the
first game of the season Omaha had to
play only to hold their opponents.
The season was opened at university
Place with the strong Nebraska Wea-
leyan team as rivals. The Methodists were
big, fast and experienced: the locals were
lacking In everything but pluck. The game
during the flrBt quarter was decidedly
one-sided, but Omaha braced after jier-
milling that period to end wtlh the score
standing .6 to 0 against them and In the
remaining three-quarters Omaha scored
while the preachers were making 9.
Considering the fact that Wesleyan won
the state championship, tied Mornlngslde
and held the South Dakota team to a.
score of 36 to 0 on the Dakotans field,
no great apology la needed for this game.
Utnnlia Trims Cotner.
The next Intercollegiate game was with
Cotner at Omaha. During this game and
the Wesleyan game the only scrimmage
that Omaha had held was pitting one
side or the line against the other. Cotner
came here full of confidence because It
had tied Bellevue and beaten Kearney,
but Omaha, by playing the pluckiest
kind of a game, held the visitors, who
were much heavier than -the locals, and
by executing wonderful forward passing
came out victorious by the score of 7 to 6,
The next game scheduled was with
Crelghton. The Shetlands surprised their
most enthusiastic supports by making
two touchdowns ami kicking goal after
each one. Omaha university looked upon
this game as a virtual victory because
they had held Crelghton to a low score
and had dona what Marquette was unable
to do-cross Crelgbton's line,
Anotbr-r Victory. ,
The game with Peru resulted In arunher !
victory for Omaha by the score of Orrjaha
6; Peru. '0.
The defeat at the hands of Tarklo jo I
Thankscrlvlni; dv ivh tha hlrcrat HIad
polntment of the season, though the game
was close, the score being only 7 to 0.
The reason that Morgenthaler and hi
men felt badly over tha loss of this rtru
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Omaha Sunday
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Big Nine Representatives Adjourn
Without Discussing Return of
the Wolverines.
SUMMER BASE BALL ISSUE LEFT
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Professors (Jo on Record -with State
ment that Athletes May Kat
Toirrther Without Forinlnar
Training Table.
CHICAGO, Nov. 30 The annual winter
meeting of representatives of the facul
ties of the "Big Nine" conference uni
versities ended today without either of
the points most Interesting to the public
having been touched upon. In spite of a
widespread sentiment In that direction,
the University ef Michigan made no move
toward re-entering the conference and the
subject of summer base ball was not dis
cussed, iilclilun'a official attitude on the ques
tion was not discussed, but it developed
that the special system of athletic con
trol at Ann Arbor, instead of faculty
regulation as demanded by the confer
ence rules, is the barrier to an under
standing. The training table Institution,
according to Prof, T. F. Moran of Purdue,
secretary of (he conference, could be ar
ranged. Incidentally the professors went on rec
ord as denying that the antl-tralning table
principle of the conference had been
evaded by some members of the Big
Nine. It wait said to be the sense of
the 'conference that footjball players have
a right to cat together when It might be
most , convenient, provided they pay for
their food themselves. It was admitted
that this semblance of a training table
sometimes Is unavoidable.
The professors reiterated former state
ments that they would be glad to havn
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OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER J, 1012.
AFTER THE GAME WITH
BRITISH TEAM GETS TITLE
World's Lawn -Tennis Championship
Honors Taken.
AUSTRALIA LOSES DAVIS CUP
Contest Consisted of "Four Ninnies
and One Doubles. Winner of
Three- Taking the
Trophy.
MELBOURNE, rfoV.10.-Kngland .today
won title to the. Davis cup, emblematic
of the world's championship In lawn
tennis, by winning a third match from,
the Australasian defenders.
The contests consisted of -four singles
matches and one doubles match, the team
winning three out of-tho five becoming
holder of the.DwIght F. Davis interna
tional lawn tennis trophy.
Thursday J. C. Parke and Charles P.
Dickson of England defeated Norman
Hrooks and R. W. Heath of Australasia
In the first two singles. Yesterday, In
the doubles matches, Norman E. Brookes
and Ai Vf, Dunlap, "Australasia, beat
John C. Parke and A, K. Beamish,
British, with comparative' ease.
This left the contest a fairly open one,
as It was ' thought the Australasians
might retrieve their fortunes and their
last two singles matches and carry off
tho trophy. The hopes, however, woro
disappointed, as Parke again won his
match, this lime beating Heath, Aus
tralasia. The' second 'match between
Brookes and Dixon went to tho Aus
tralasian, leaving the final score:
Kncland, three matches; Australasia,
two.
The match between Brookes and Dixon
was the first one to be decided today.
The Australasian champion's volleying
was too , good for -Dixon, although the
latter made splendid rallies In the second
, (
and third seta. " .
With the rubber standing at "two air
the excitement among the 7,000 spectator
was Intense.
Heath wasfpalpably nervous when ho
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Stars of 0. H. S.
GREtGIITON THANKSGIVING AFTERNOON.
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GAME Fg CADETS
Two Goals from Placement Give
Victory to Annapolis
Boys.
CONTEST CLEANLY PLAYED
All, HeorlnK Is Done In the
Quarter nnd Only Once
the Goal Line In
DaiiRnr,
Last
Is
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. So. In one of
the most ntrlklng foot ball ' games ever
played by tho 'two arms of tha national
service, tha Nit.vy thin afternoon on
Franklin field defeated the Army by the
score of 6 tb 0.
Tho midshipmen did not need "Jack"
Dulton, who won the 1911 and 1010 games
for the Navy by field goals for tho Ann
nrolt team had another sure kicker In
J, H. Brown, a toll guard, who bootc-d
the Navy to victory by two splendid goals
from placement. Both goals camo In tho
last period of play from the 23 and 47
yard linos after It began to look as If the
fierce struggle would result In u. scoreless
tin.
It was a wonderful triumph for tho
boys from the banks of tho Severn river.
With a lecord for the season that did
not compare n favorably aa that of the
Army's and with the prevailing feeling
that the Army, on Its showing made dur
ing the year, had the advantage, the mid
shipmen battled valiantly even during the
moments when the tide of the rtruggle
was going against them. They held off
tho Army ' through g'tlt and generalship
and when the opportunity came to score
theyyhad the "punch" to land the victory.
Army Makes Rood FIkIU.
While all. credit Is due the Navy for Its
Hplendld success, the Army was not dls-
grnred tn Its defeat. At times the cadets
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SINGLE
OMAHA HIGHJtEADS STATE
Local Foot Ball Team Closes Bril
liant and Successful Season.
GARDINER IS A STAR FLAYER
Sturdy Left Halfback: Ilns Uood
Chance of Making Pliice, on All
Nebraska Team by' Virtue of
Ills Kliklniv Ability. ,
One of the raol brilliant and successful
soasoiu In the history of , Omaha. Hlsti
scnooi root ball has Just,' closed. There'
aro many things, connected : with , the
year's record that the pupils nnd high
school supporteis sliould be nrnud. One'
a tho spirit of sportsmanship wiilch lias
been shown by. the puolls and tho team.
The visiting teasns hao ,11 been treated
royally, bolug entertained by .vurlous or-
sanitations nf tie high school, prlncl-'
pally the Booters' club, No member of
a visiting team has nv.n- inft nmiln
without having been shown a good time.
Although the members tit' the Omaha
team fought hard and battled for every
point, they played a clean ana fair game
from the start to the finish.
Wins Championship, ,
For tho first time In three yeais the
Omaha foot ball team has gained the
title of state champions. The lost time
the laurels were In the hands of the
Purple and White was In -1510, This Is"
partly due to the fact that 'the high
school was able to secure the services of
a good and experienced- coach, who.
drilled team work 'Into tlic team, rather
than Individual starring as has marked
tho teams of past years. Coach Mills ,1s
satisfied with tho team's work unrt hope.
to make n vlmllar organization next year
which can outdo the splendid work of
this year's eleven.
Coach Mills states that the boys with
whom he worked this year were of the
beet 'that he has ever had under hVs'
coaching, that they aie a manly and
straightforward bunch, who have had
the right spirit from beginning to end,'
The outcome of this year's work was a
decided surprise. At the beginning of
the year the largest part pf the material
with "which ho had .to work wan green
land not experienced.
Tiro flood Klckrrs,
One of the characteristics of the 1912
team was the success of the d-opkckert.
(latdlner and McFnrlane. Their work
was almost phenomena), n.nce out of .six
trya fur drqpklcks $, were successful,
four kicked by uaruiner and two by
McKarlanc.
The 'second suuud I In a way partly
fesponslblo for the development of the
first. In the early part of the season
the seconds put up a- gritty resistance
against the firsts, which' developed them
wonderfully and rauldly. Without a rood
I second team to practice- against the frat
i would have had a desire to stuff, but
'the fact that there was a second team
man waiting to fill his-place would spur
the first team man op, "On accbunt of
the Injuries received on both teams dur
ing practice, these dally scrimmages Verp
abolished about the second month of
practice.
Lost One (iainr.
The Omaha High school played nine
scheduled games, six " Nebraska schools,
two Iowa schools and ono'school from
Chicago, The locals .were a'dmlnlstre,d
one defeat. Tlje'Wgeit and best schedule
In many years wan played to a good con
clusion, '
One great characteristic which marked
the Purple, and White lads was their
ability to -come back and wjn after ap-
I parently defeated. Out of nine garner
played four were won by their splendid
rallying In tho last quarter. Especially
so In the Beatrice game was this shown,
when a large number of tn rooters, and
fans had left their places and the field
to advertise the loss of the championship
game to Beatrice, when their next news
of the game gave Omaha one of the best
victories In the high achool'a history.'
This characteristic was also ahown In
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sports
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COPY FIVE CENTS.
DR. GLAPP'S HEADVr .
.SEVERED BY fiftARP
'i fr.
University Physical Direcier, iT
Longer' to Rcpreserftefeik
in Conference Keen
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RESULT OF. OMAHA AJuUXKI-KCfX
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Kll No Longer VrJH'XVepX 96
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tnry of Cornhnsker Ath'-
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Unl for ntbert Fields,';"'
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LINCOLN, Nov. iO.nJS' Wiled an-
olmlnatlon. of Prof. Rt . arc'irW must
controlling Inriurr..;c.Mn i the '.Unje th
of Nebraska at,(etlcs .was f&feshttould
this weekJn the ijcton of : tij-iftij tn
board Jn mending Itaionstltution. Clapp
removal, from the sphere of athletics m
Nebraska follow directly on hea 4
of tho action of tho alumpl at dmaha I
condemning the actions of the seqretar:
Members of tle athletic board yefe n ;
prepared to state Juat wtiat changes' h i
been, made In the constitution,, but
niltted that the revision Iboked fonyara J
mo icinuvsi ui me secretary' oi'ine, bu
from a position where ho had pefln, largel.
Instrumental in shaping, tho atljfetlijra-'
of the CornhunUer school. i ,
Ons thing Is certain. CIadd.IwIII no
represent the university again' at'the con
ference meeting?, some otber'representa,-
uvi) r mo hoard-being -ohosen. rhlskao
tlbn was precipitated l.y Capp;Ba(tlude-,
upon several matters of legislation, In th
Missouri Valley conference, whereUt wt
ft, .for tho best interests ofth'eIVi8Utu ,
tlon. It was necessary for NebraAia to
take 'a determined stand.
At Odds with Policy,
Nebraska has long been opposed to
Om'o so-called reform mVasurefl' paed
,by the Missouri Valley -coriferencs, .(
nevinc that the Interests of athletics Wet1
, being,, damaged. The representative, Dr.
Clapp, by virtue ot Ms position, as secre
tary of the board, was, sent to the cth
ference meetings with eVj)lclt Instruc
tions us to how to vote on Ijibs fencing
legislation, It Is not charged thatF-tv
.dljipp did not carry out his instructs
To the contrary, the record will ph.
that Prof. Clapp always voted juta t,
athletic board -directed him to, ,
But what was more powerful was - tl!
.fact that while Dr. Clapp .followed his Jn-
btnicnonK, it is asserted ortigood author-,
lly that, he exerted alt of. hls;lnnueac in
the ijteei'hR ti defeating, th lhtruclln
which the Cornhusker manogemeat had'
given him.
.Thus, while It would apdeax, that Ne
braska, was opposed toiorfie of - tha
rules which had greatly crippled, Mis
sourl valley schools, its representativ.
waa working to enact those very sieas
ures. To prevent any further; chance ' of
repetition of these circumstances,, t'
athletic board at Its ineetlng.-thts" we'
ahqpped off Dr. Clapp's h'eI, Ml.
speak. When the board sends 'rprii
Hyps to conference mectlnn, H . ta
assured fact that It will- not' be .the'
retary of the athletic board." Tljs is
are famljlar with CJapp'a ojrftImni
athletics say that he will not awii
contlnue hla rflalpns at' epraka.,'Jey
In reality. tie action, of the beaiat
week will mqan that ClapiJw41j , nee
hla connections with the.Ojilsw tho
school.. Should such prove th-a "eaipas
It will mean . that next ysarJ-.-M;,
a new man In. charge of 'jwK ,
education department at ttUVafwtjght
varsity. f-x to
Tha wqrk o fjhe board ls naf?earth
by any means, as still furtkar' rWor
are planned. During .this oAia Vt
the athletic board will peleV'c
Itself as opposed to many pi tk-ef rLti
ot the conference, which itxhaaXu
htartedly been opaoaad to in' tho 'niar
Basket ball praotics Win li'
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