Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-21

John R. Bender has been elected captain
OF the Nebraska university team. He should
make an unusually good leader. Bender is
a junior and has played one Of the halves
for two seasons, being always star OF the
team.
The new captain OF Chicago has been CEN
ter on the team for two seasons, being n
strong line player and also one of the most
reliable kickers in the west. He entered
the university in 1899, but did not return
in 1900 When he re-entered the univer-
sity in 1901 he was able to win his present
position.
Allen c. Abbott, who has just been
elected captain of Wisconsin for 1903, has
been In the university for three years. He
has held the position of left end for two
seasons and was the only Wisconsin man
to be unanimously chosen for the ALI
Western eleven.
Minnesotas new captain, Edward Rogers,
| has played an end on that team for two
years. He is a half breed Indian and has
played on the Carlisle Indian team.
Claude Rothgeb has been elected to lead
the Illinois aggregation through the 1908
season. He has put in two years with the
university. playing guard, tackle and end.
other men elected for 1908 captaincies
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Indiana, Fleager for Northwestern and
| Coulthard for Iowa.
| Seiberts, the star of the Iowa team, has
| been declared ineligible by the athletic
board he having played on the team Of
| Wesleyan before coming to the university
| and being put out by the eour-year rule.
| The students have asked that he be given
the athletic management for next season.
| There Is an agitation for the suppression
! of the Thanksgiving day foot ball game
among some persons who believe that the
! day should be kept as of old, by family
reunions, church services and the like OBJ
| servances. The junior college council of
Chicago university has brought the matter
| to the consideration OF the faculty of that
institution and requested that the game be
! discontinued. There is little likelihood that
| such action will be taken, as the Thanks
giving day game has come to be considered
| a permanent institution. The facaty did
take a similar action in regard to games
formerly played on Marshall field on Me-
mortal day and no athletic events now take
place at that time. Those who favor this
| action point to the discontnuance OF the
Yale Princeton Thanksgiving day game as
showing the sentiment in regard to the
|
that this contest was discontinued COR the
reason that, being played in New York, 1t
was the cause Of protracted celebration in
the metropolis by a large body of students,
by which both the work and the reputation
OF the universities suffered.
Much satisfaction is reported among the
students of Northwestern university over
the engagement of Walter f. Mccormack
formerly coach at Dartmouth, for a period
Of three years. Mccormack will go to
Evanston this week to meet the men who
compose the foot ball squad and talk over
the 1903 season. The great difficulty In
securing a irst-class team for Evanston
is the fact that notwithstanding the large
attendance of the university, only about 45C
male students were registered last fall. II
is not exactly known what remuneration
the new coach will receive, but it is be-
lieved that he will get about $4,000 pei
annum.