Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-01
ATHLETICS AT THE UNIVERSITY
basket Ball Team Ready to start
on n Western EX-
petition.

Desplle the TURMOIL INTO WHICH the UNI
versity Of Nebraska has been thrown dur
ing the last week with the mid-year ex-
sminations, athletics have in no way been
neglected and the plans for action in all
departments we're brought pretty nearly
to completion. Basket ball is the only
type Of game that has brought any men
into training for some time, but the five
men who are to defend the colors OF the
institution in, this field have been working
over time, getting ready to meet the Jay
hawker in last nights contest and pre-
pairing for the western trip which will be
taken during the coming week. The team
will leave Lincoln on Tuesday and will
play the, Colorado college at Colorado
Springs, the University of Colorado at
Boulder, the High school at Greeley and
the Young Mems Christian association at
Cheyenne, Wyo. The men will not return
before Sunday or Monday.
The team to take the trip will be made
up of the best players who have tried for
places this year. Captain Hewitt will
manage the play and cover the center.
Hewitt is a mammoth fellow and his great
reach will help him pull the leather out
OF the rafters constantly. He is also light
on his feet and is everywhere oD the floor
NJ OnCe. ElllOJJ Will MI the FORWARD pO-
sition formerly held by Cortelyou and II
he keeps up the pace he has been showing
at practice he will equal the alertness of
his agile predecessor. Ferguson is the
other forward and It is his custom 10 drop
the ball through the baskets every time
he gets within seeing distance. Hoar,
Benedict and Hiltner will shift at the
positions OF guard. Billy Hoar is a new
man on the varsity team, but he has made
a good showing and now they couldn't get
along without him.. He is fast on his feet
and accurate. He halls from West Point,
where lives the one-time clever forward,
Eddie" Baumann, who coached Hoar be-
fore he came down to school. Benedict is
tall and slender and goes into a basket
ball game with all the signs of his gridiron
Split and is rapid enough to cover almost
anything the Colorado people can suggest.
Hiltner, the manager, has shown in the
games this season that he can do some
thing else in the sport besides arrange
schedules and he will pull a ball from his
opposing forward with sleight-of-hand
magic. Newton will be taken along as a
substitute and will make good on any cor
ner OF the floor that he happens to locate
in. All In all. the team is considered in
good shape for the trip and the games will
10 NdANutu Win INTEREST Dy NEBRASKA.
The foot ball schedule for next season is
closed. The last date was fixed early this
week by Manager Buckner and Il is now
definitely determined exactly what teams
the famous Cornhuskers will meet in tho
fall and where, There will be eleven games
during the season, Of which eight, one
more than last year, will be played in
Lincoln. The schedule is as follows: Sep
TENDER 10, Lincoln High school, at Lincoln
September 26, Grand Island college. at
Lincoln; October 8, University Of South
Llkota, at Lincoln; October 10, Denver
university, at Denver; October II. Haskell
Indians, at Lincoln; October "a, University
OF Colorado, at Lincoln; October 81. Uni
versity OF Iowa, at Iowa City; November 7,
Knox college, at Lincoln; November IA,
Kansas university, at Lawrence; November
q, Bellevue college. at Lincoln; November
&c Thanksgiving day, University OF I'LL
nois, at Lincoln.
1t will be noted that FIVE heavy games
are on the list In the shape of the Haskell
Indians, Iowa, Knox. Kansas and Illinois.
Three Of these, and the three OF most in
~terest-Haskell, Knox and nlinois-wiu be
played on the Tome grldiron at Lincoln.
Kansas gets the gam in Lawrence because
It is its turn, and Iowa has the first at
Iowa City, with the agreement that a
game will be played in Lincoln during the
season OF 1904. The Thanksgiving game
with the University Of Illinois promises to
excite more interest than any Of the others
and will probably be as we'll watched as
any game Nebraska could have listed for
the day. Illinois is a conference college.
belonging to the big Nine and is an
unknown quantity to the CoTnhuskers. The
team will be more or less feared because
OF its past record and already there is
some speculation in the university on the
probable outcome OF the game.
Next TO Illinois in interest will come the
game against Knox. This Is the college
which gave the Nebraska team its hardest
rub, with the exception Of Minnesota. dur