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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1897)
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A Deep Sea Pool, 50x142 feet. Drs. Everett, Managing- Physicians. Shaving1 Hairdressing". The Gridiron. The unusual advance which was made in University A tbeletics ty the success of the base ball team duricg the spring will give additiocal impetus to foot ''ball the coming year. The retention of the campus aa a baBe ball and atheistic field was considered at the first season a good deal of an ex periment. Many opposed the movement. on the ground that the interfere with the class work of the street park as heretofore. Steps for the students, but on the contrary, the re- preparation of the ground are already uIIb have been most satisfactory, both being taken, and those expecting to at- in respect to the high' standard of the games and evente, and as to Moaners. The records made easily place the Uni versity of Nebraska in the same class with Minn sota, Wisconsin and Michi gan. The base ball team was the best the University ever produced, and it is the first season it ever finished without a considerable deficit. Also in Track Atbeletics, this was the first season ever will ba played either in this city or at Belt. closed with any money ahead. Omaha. Moreover, he takes pride in the team and in the west, which he likes. AN Considering then these fBcts, we Eee If all we hear is to believed, the game ready he has rafused several offers in how naturally the determination has wiih'Ktnsas promises to be an unuRual- New England, considerably more ad bren made to use the same place for the Jy interesting one. That University has vantageous to himself, in anticipation of games this fall. And provision can secured Wjlie Woodruff of Pennsylvania handling the university team again, easily be made for those attending by as coach. He has been prominent in With such a feeling we can congratulate" running 'bleecbers' around the field, and U. of P. athletics during h's four years ourselves that the idea of money merely without doubt the season will be ac- attendance at that school, not alone in does not enter into his work. This is immediate companied with greater success than if foot ball but in track work and rowing, too true with many of the eastern Universities comprise a large number of o'd players, men who have had two or three years experience upon high school tend games this fall, may be sure of teams. It was by his own example ami comfortable accomodations and the best strict requirements that he brought of regulations. Quite a number of about the results which were obtained. games have already been arranged, He earned the respect and likicg of all which will take place in this city, chief the players and students of the Uni of which are those with the University versity, not only by his work upon the of Missouri. Oct., SO and with the Uni- gridrion, but by requiring gentlemanly versity of Kansas, Nov., 13. 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He has spent the summer in 'We will be able to show our superiority consulting with well known Yale, Har- over any team in the world, not by a vard and Prnaceton players and coaches, slight margin hut by a good big score." regarding the methods and ideas which Missouri talked tne same way when they ate to'be developed this fall, and from the bad the famous Bliss o Yale, however past showing, we may be sere there Nebraska managed to defeat them with will not be lacking an abuodiuce of out much difficulty. them. . Whereas Missouri was well provided Speaking of Missouri recalls the de- financially but lacking in push and plorable condition in which she found energy during the past ejr; Iowa found herself at the end of last season. Her hra-lf ina nimilarnrpdV-iment with the case shows plainly that money is very conditions reversed. In the school itself little in the success of foot ball. She there was an infinite amount of push had money in abundance with which to and enthueia.m and the team made :i I train, secure a coach and to carry on her eood reCord, nevertheless she ended the scarcely a game, season with a remarkably Iarne debt guckstaff BS" Wi. Makers J work. Yet she woo umer teams witn none of these advan Btaring her in the face. Bull, of the tages made enviable records. She seemed university of Pennsylvania, who coached to lack the grit or the something which is the team and who was promised a required to develope a euccessful team- thousand dollars for his work, returned The school itself seems to take plenty o home empty banded. In addition to interest in the eporr, but there is some t:a ft,-,. in innumerable number of ""! -w ... -- cause under lying it which is very dif ficult to define. It seems to fall farther every year from the class of Kansas Iowa and Nebraska. It may be the' peculiar laziness which characters the south. They are almost 'down south' there. Nebraska will again be coached by Robinson who has been reengaged for the autumn. His excellent work of last fall and his record with tho base ball team in the spring shows what can be doce by a master hand. The material with which he had to work last season would have discouraged a less energetic and persistent nan, for of the old play- ers there were but three or four, and the "Well, wo beat you," said one of the new material required constant and un- victorious party to the defeated cindi- ceasing enort on bis part. Many did date. other debts. This is a very serious condition of affairs, for if such a state is not 60on remedied the school will he unable to obtain a coach, for a knowledge of these things is not Blow in spreading among school men, and it will leave among eastern universities a ver la odoro? Iowa's wajs of doing busicew However, it is to be hoped that meaures have already been taken to provide a course which will remedy this. Otbr wise the faculty of the Iowa university who look with somewhat doubtful eje upon the game, will refuse to licercs its continuance in the school. not know thefirat principles of the nme. and weeks were required to teach them the rudiments of foot ball. This meats much when the teams of other "Yes," was the reply. "I K1 ,,Ke Lazarus, who lay at the Dives." "How BO?" "Licked by tLe dos."