Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-24
GAMES ON THE CRIDIRON
Nebraska and Iowa to Try Conclusions at
Council Bluffs Today.
EVERYTHING IN READINESS FOR PLAY
Red Hot Contest Expected on Account
of Rivalry Betwecn the Teams
Games in other Parts of
the Country.

gridiron struggles OF greater or less i'm
portance will take place over the entire
country today to appropriately close the
season. a few post season games will still
be played here and there, but when night
falls on Thanksgiving day the toozled topped
warriors are usually ready to lay aside their
implements OF warfare and take part in the
Joys Of that not infrequently hilarious time
when they break training"
The closing game in this section Of the
country will be the annual struggle between
the elevens of the state universities OF Iowa
and Nebraska. This game Is to take prace
at the Council Bluffs Driving park, which ID
situated something more than half way be-
tween this city and the Bluffs, with the ad-
vantage in distance in favor o. the Bluffites.
This location is by NO means sat-
isfactory to Omaha footballists and
will result in a much smaller Omaha at
tendance than IL the game had been played
in this city. However, the park Is a better
location than that selected last year. The
athletic council -. Nebraska university,
which was given the power to pick the To-
cation for the game, selected 1t in prefer
ence to Omaha for some reasons not clearly
known except to themselves Council Bluffs
cars are to be run directly to the grounds,
however. and there promises to be none OF
the inconvenience of last year, attendant
to the long distance and not too good car
service.
The ga ne will be a red hot contest on ac-
count of the rivalry between the teams.
They have played eight games since 1891,
two being played in 1896. Two Of these
affrays resulted in tie and of the other six
Nebraska has won four. Iowa will conse-
olfo off ~ IN
Nebraska from further increasing it's string
OF victories. There has been but little OPP
portunity to compare the teams this year,
owing to the fact that they have had different
sets of opponents during the season. Ne
braska will go into the game with a
cleaner record. as 1t has met with but one
defeat this year, while Iowa has been
downed two three times. The Hawkeyes,
howeN.., noye played a harder lot of op-
ponents. The game will settle the inter-
collegiate championship Of the Missouri VAL
ley, as Nebraska has established it's su-
premacy over both Kansas and Missouri,
while Iowa has met neither.
Tie game will bc a pitting Of Pennsyl-
vania tactics against the system that is
usually dubbed the Princeton game. Ne
braska has for couple Of years and even
longer followed the method first employed
by Princeton in calling tackles very promi-
nently into offensive play. On the other
hand, Iowa will, like Pennsylvania, call upon
its guards for the famous guards back for
nation. 1t used this system in it's Chicago
university game some weeks ago and it was
at that time that the Windy City eXponents
of the game first inaugurated their method
of stopping this form of attack that was so
successful in the Pennsylvania game some
weeks later The team is heavy enough to
use this play and overtops Nebraska con-
siderable in the matter of poundage.
The game will be called at 8 o'clock. The
umpire and referee will be Cornell of Lin
coin and Dick Stewart of Council Bluffs.
The lineup will be as follows
Nebraska. Positions. Iowa
Strnger. end. Pence
Pillsbury ....... Left tackle. le..........;;.. .Eby
Hansen. .........Left guard. .......... .Burrier
Melford (CaptD. Center. ............. Baker
Turner Right guard. ...... .Brockway
Kingsbury. Right tackle,....F. Williams
Elliott........ Quarterback Griffith
| Williams. .... Left halfback: s. c. Williams
BENEDICT. Right halfback. k......... Morton
| Erwin Fullback Hobbs
Substitutes-Nebr Drain, Brew
Lehman, Reasoner. Iowa: +. Norris, Bur-
| dick, Nixon
There is but one big game In the east.
and will take place at Philadelphia This
will be a struggle for blood, for Co-nell be-
lieves that it has an opportunity of n ffe-
! time to down the Quakers and thus secure
an undisputed right to be classed with the
| eevens of Penn, Princeton, Yale and IIar-
ward. The Ithacans will greatly miss the
| crack quarter and field general of last year,
| Charlie Young, but his absence is the only
thing that prevents this years team from
| being classed a notch better than that OF
last year While not playing ne has been
coaching the team all year and this loss
may therefore be partially made up. In
view of the fact, therefore, that ono of the
| best teams that the Quakers ever had sue
ceeded last year in downing the Ithacans
! only by small score, the Comedians have
| an excellent chance of skinnng the defeated
| Penn team Of the present season. The
eleven will be rather weak In one position,
| half back. for Captain Whiting may not
be able to last the game, and in such event
| it will be hard to get suitable substitute
! Morrison, who has been playing up to Whit
! ing's standard, according to recent dis
patches will not be able to take the place
! Pennsylvania has been working steadily in
preparation for this game and should be in
fine physical shape. 1t is repol ted that II
will spring a couple of new formations upon
tho Ithacans in lieu of the guards back
which was so badly battered out OF shape
I by Harvard and would probably meet the
same fate at the hands of Cornell.
The Kansas City Medical college against
! Tarkio game, that was scheduled to take
place at the Ames avenue park in this city
| has been declared off.
Kansas and Missouri will meet in Kan
| sas City with nothing to decide except the
! question of supremacy betweeA themselves
! inasmuch as Nebraska has captured the
/ championship OF the Western Intercollegiate
| association by beating both.
Two good games will take place in Chi
cago, one between the Chicago university
and Michigan and the other between the
! Carlisle Indians and Wisconsin.
PENNsY AND CORNELL MEET TO-DAY
Chances for Fumbling Game Are Good
| ana the Field Is Mushy.
| PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 23.-The red and
blue and the carneian and white will meet
! I'm their annual contest on Franklin field to-
| morrow afternoon. but tonight II is hard
! 20 say which of the two teams will be offer
| ing thanks when the debris Is cleared away
They are equally confident of victory. WhiL
| 'Pennsy' is making no claims as to the
| SuDerlOr uualitV of lis strict plrtiSans