Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-07
NEBRASKA FOOT BALL TEAM
Omaha Nay Get Two Games During the
Coming Season.
DATES FOR THE SCHEDULE ARE FIXED

AMH hAH ANA w /
Laid and Coach Booth and
Captain westOver Are
Ready 60 start.
Omaha will probably get two Of the games
to be played by the University Of Nebraska
foot ball team this fall. This is the latest
Information from Manager Charles Engel.
II has all along been the intention TO bring
the Haskell Indian school game up to the
Gate City, and now a vacant place in the
schedule allows another. II will be with
the team from Creighton university, which
has asked for the November % date, The
Saturday preceding Thanksgiving day.
This date had purposely been left open
by Manager Engel. Northwestern univer-
slty comes to Lincoln for the Thanksgiving
game. and a long period of anbroken
preparation for this big contest was desired.
Knox college is scheduled for November is
at Lincoln. and this. too, promises to be a
stih game. 1t was therefore decided to
leave everything open from then till
Thanksgiving day. To take on a game on
the next Saturday, November %, would be
TO have one Just hve days preceding the af-
fair with Northwestern, and it seemed un-
wise to assume the risk Of Gripping the
team with so short a time for recuperation.
Ever since Coach Elliek contracted to
coach the Creighton boys this year he has
been trying for a game with Nebraska. He
Is good friends with Booth and Engel, know
ing them well through last years foot ball
experience. when he was coaching the Has
kell Indians. At nrst Nebraska refused to
give him a game on the ground Of no open
Edate, but it has finally been decided to let
Creighton have the Saturday preceding
Thanksgiving and to play the game here.
Last year Omaha had one Nebraska game,
that with, Missouri, and turned out grandly
to witness the contest. IL is expected that
the two games will be patronized still. more
strongly. Manager Engel himself is an
Omaha product, and is the, chief factor
among the rulers of foot ball at the uni
I~versity that boosts for Omaha. His inhu-
ence has resulted In the Haskell Indian date
being a practical certainty, and he has been
working up this Creighton matter with
Coach Ellick.
The Nebraska schedule for 1902 is through
and through a matter OF peculiar, pride to
Manager EngeI. 1t contains more home
dates than any schedule the Cornhuskers
ever had. In fact they are all coming to
Nebraska this year. Engel has seven games
at home. a remarkable number for any
school. Nor does this cheat the team out Of
any pleasant trips. There are just three
games away from home and everyone Of
those involves a fine journey. One is to
Minneapolis, where the Gophers will be met.
Another takes the tsam 20 Denver. where
the University Of Colorado team is the OPP
position. The third Is to 81. Joseph, where
the ~Cornhuskers will meet the Tigers from
Columbia, Mo. e RI tA
So Nebraska will not have a single game
in a 'dinky town this year. OF the seven So
, called home games five will be played at
I Lincoln and two in Omaha. Lincoln gets
, Knox. Northwestern, Grinnell, Doane and
Kansas 1t took a lot Of diekering to get
Q some OF these games at home. With Kan
sas 1t was d fiat case Of Nebraska's turn to
go there. But the Cornhuskers now find
themselves able to take a position toward
their rivals in the transmissouri country
I. such as the schools of the Big Nine adopt
toward Nebraska. Kansas simply had to
come to Lincoln or do without a game, and
Kansas is coming. With Missouri it was
a much the same. Return games have here
tofore been played at Columbia, where the
d university is located. 1t was Nebraska's
turn to go down there. the Tigers having
come hero last fall. Manager Engel told
s Manager Hetherfngton that there were tive
good reasons why Nebraska should not come
down to Columbia, because Of the hard triI
and because 1t was a losing affair always
Hetherington admitted the truth Of botl
and offered to see what could be done in st
y Joseph. This is, of course, a corking gooC
town and should get out a great crowd
Hetherington made satisfactory arrange
ments there and the contracts are signed
A big success may mean that hereafter al
Nebraska's games with Missouri away from
le bAt,- I'LL IL ua,,da tT o. -
Meanwhile tomorrow, or Monday, Septem
Der g. practice begins on University field ii
earnest. Coach Booth will arrive on Monda.
or Tuesday and is expected to spend Mon
day In Omaha. In the three weeks tina
have elapsed. since Captain Westover was Il
Omaha he has learned much Of interest con
he cerhing the team, including more informa
lg tion as to material. Westoyer now write
&c as follows: g. St@
l. 81 find myself now with several more me-
a on the string. First, there are two old one
m whom 1 had not expected back. They ar
& Kingsbury, the tackle and fullback, an
IN johnson. the colored end. King says he vii
le not play although he Is to be In school. bu
d 1 know he win get the fever as. soon as tn
y boys get OUT johnson is sure; o.
Then l have three new ones to tout. On
is from omahs, Billy EnglehArdt. captain q
al the Omaha High school team last year.
&c am Informed that he has abandoned hi
40 plans OF going to the University OF Michiga
D. and will come to the University OF, Ne
c. braska. He viii try for the team. Anothe
Is Johnson, a man who weighs $50 pound,
gu He is a tackle and has played three year
+. on the Grand Island (Neb.) Baptist Hig
Us school team in 80 and 90. He has been 1
On Texas during the summer, but writes ths
re he will be in the university this fall TO IT
. for the team. He weighs 175 pounds.
o. Thorpe is a certainty. He and hav