The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-10
Nebraska Is Confident of Win
ming on Saturday.
COrnhuskers Are Prepared for
a Rough Game.
BOXING COURSE ADDED
Coach Booth Says the Indians
Are a Foxy Lot.
HerrnStein Thinks His Braves
Certain OF Victory.

Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 10.-Boxing les
sons as feature of football practice
have been added to Coach Booth S
course of study at Nebraska university.
Booth has in mind the clash of the
Cornhuskers next Saturday at Kansas
City with the Haskell Indians, and he
is determined that his pupils shall be
in full readiness for the fray. Ne
braska has played the Haskell braves
for three successive seasons. the pale
faced warriors being VICTORIOUS on
each occasion. but all of the Nebraska
players admit that they had to work
some to win. besides which they have
very distinct reconections that the In
dams are adept at rough play of a
trick nature. Gouging during a scrim-
mage, when the players are in a pile
and those on the inside cannot be seen,
was one of their mainstays, and unless
there has been a radical change, SO
Booth says, the same tactics can be eX-
pected this year. To offset this policy
the Nebraska coach has been teaching
his men how to box web as to play
football. Booth is an expert boxer and
he devOtes an hour or more each night
to instructing his football pupils in the
art of hit and get away.
An air of confidence is more appar-
ent on Nebraska field this week than
at any time this season. The injury
for a show of depression on Monday,
but this speedily gave way. to one of
elation. Booth frankly states that
every man on the varsity squad is dis
playing better form than he really
could hope for Both on offense and
defense the varsity is showing up al
most brilliantly. Booth has developed
new halfback in the person of We'll
Ter, hitherto a substitute lineman,
whose showing gives assurance that
he will add wonderfully to the effect
iveness of the Cornhuskers scoring
machine. Weller weighs nearly $50
pounds, is speedy as a bullet and Won
derfully strong and aggressive. His
line plunges are proving almost ire
sistible, while on straight bucks by the
fuIlback Weller hooks on to the man
with the ball and plunges through for
gains of five to fifteen yards on every
down. 1t is now a foregone conclu-
sion that Weller will play right half
against the Indians, and Booth makes
no secret of his belief that the new
COrnhuSker will prove one of the SEN
sations of the game. RobertsOn's
showing at right end, where he will
appear in place of Captain Benedict, is
also highly encouraging to Booth, and
the team, as a. whole, is bowling along
at top speed
AS a consequence of the brilliant
form shown by his pupils, Booth has
every confidence in the ability of the
CornhuSkerS to annex the honors in
today:
81 am perfectly willing to be quoted
as saying that Nebraska will give the
Indians a sound thraShing next Satur-
day We have drubbed them for three
straight years, and we will do it again
by a greater margin than ever. 1 will
be disappointed if we fail to run up
fifty points on them, and the size of
the score will depend entirely upon the
length of the halves. The longer they
are the better for us. Just put it
down that we will have the Indians
beaten to a standstill in the first ten
minutes, and after that we intend to
swamp them. The stories from Law
renee that the Indians are confident
are all hot air They know the Corn
huskerS are their masters and that
to be a football game, but only so far
as concerns Nebraska, for the Indians
are not in our class. Just mark the
prediction"