Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-29
NEBRASKA UNIVERSITY TEAM
Points Regarding the Men Who Will
Meet Iown University Eleven in a
Omaha Next Saturday.

Meet Iowa University Eleven in a
Omaha Next Saturday.
| When the foot ball season opened up this
| year in the University OF Nebraska there
were many and various conjectures as to
just what kind of a team Nebraska would
line UP. For the past two years the cham
| pionshp pennant has been held by Nebraska
| and from all indications at the close OF the
successful season last year it locked
though the trophy would be retained by
| the champions. But at the time OF the
opening up of the season this fall many of
| the old players, who had promised to be
back in their places again, were absent, and
with not very promising green" material
to choose from the outlook for a winning
team was not of the brightest.
| On top of such a troubled situation came
the resignation of Manager Pearse. 1t was
also rumored that Captain Williams would
| not return on account OF poor health. The
athletic board found on its hands a crippled
remnant of foot ball eleven and then
| came the problem OF how to put new blood
| into the athletic life of the university. Aus
tin j. Collett was elected to succeed Pearse,
| as manager OF the eleven, and he at once
industriously set about to arouse interest by
having few snappy practice games Coach
Branch arrived soon after and after looking
over the ground set to work to get every
| available man out on the field and to en-
courage interest in the sport.
With the foot ball coach on the field a
greater inspiration given to candidates
to come out and see what they could do and
as result goodly number of husky Ne
braskans, in most fantastical foot ball garb
were soon out on the grdiron, kicking
the ball and getting on to the way the
game is played under the direction of the
new coach. g..
A great deal OF credit should be given
Coach Branch for the admirable way in
which he grasped the difficulties of the sit
uation and brought order out Of chaos. Sew
eral old men, who had expected to be alb
sent. came back and the coming was hailed
with much Joy in the ranks of the fans and
rooters. Captain Williams, who was just
recovering from a severe operation on his
head, returned and went into training, as
did also Benedict and Stringer. Later
Pearse, who had resigned the management,
added his $50 pounds to help hold the team
in place.
Among the new material some very prom
Using men showed up in the practice games,
among whom were: Wringer, who formerly
played on the Lincoln High school team;
Koehler, who was developing into a prom
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the York High school; Tyson. who was the
center on tho Lincoln High school last year,
and Carver, the beefy Wesleyan full
back Of two years ago. With plenty OF ma
terial on the field a second eleven or scrub"
was formed and under the coaching OF As
sistant Instructor Allen soon developed into
team which the varsity found good prac-
tice in bucking. Frequent practice games
between the varsity and the scrubs were
invaluable in bringing out the weaknesses
of individual players and OF the line in gem
eral. In the game with the Lincoln High
school on September 20 the scrubs and the
varsity were consolidated and two picked
teams, consisting of players from both, each
played a half, thus giving every man OF the
foot ball squad chance to show what he
could do.
The first game of the present seasons
schedule was played against the Iowa Agri-
cultural college at Ames on October 3 and
resulted in Ames defeating Nebraska by
score OF 33 to 0. The game as whole was
not without its benefits, as it served in
helping the coach and captain to determine
the faults of the team work in general and
those OF the individual players in par
ticular and to set about to remedy them
The week previous TO the game with the |
Kansas City NEEDLES was spent In hard Of |
fensive work against the scrubs, The line |
up was changed so as to strengthen the |
weak places and team work was improved |
upon. In the game played October IA very |
creditable work was put up on both sides.
Nebraska held the heavy Medics down TO
points, scoring the same against them in |
a most interesting contest. One week later, |
October 21, in a contest with the heavy Mis- |
souri, Tigers, Nebraska was defeated by |
score OF II TO 0. In this game Thurman, |
the big Missouri halfback, was so severely |
injured that II was not until after the game |
that he recovered consciousness. Westoyer,
left tackle on the Nebraska eleven, was
so badly hurt that he had to retire, his !
place being filled by Wallace. The game
was fairly and squarely won by the Mis-
sourians, who had the advantage OF weight.
The only sensational feature was the end |
run OF Benedict down the side line for
gain OF thrtyive yards and his magnif-
cent punting
The men who played in the Missouri game
will, in all probability, constitute the lineup |
OF the team for the balance OF the season
and are as follows:
Captain Williams, age, 25 weight, 1852;
began his career by playing ler halfback
on the Ashland High school team previous to |
his Missouri career. This year makes his
third year on the varsity, he having played
left tackle in the team the whole time. He
did not play in the Missouri game on ac-
count OF wrenched knee.
Pearse, right tackle, age, 20; weight 1So;
has played six years, three as center in the
Beatrice High school team one as left tackle
and two as right tackle on the varsity, the
position he now holds. He stands over six
feet, is fast and nervy player.
Carver, age, %; weight, 1888; played In the
Wesleyan team before enterinp ha |
sity He plays a good fullback, which
might be improved upon by the injection of
little speed
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