The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-12
OUTLOOK HOPEFUL
FOR NEBRASKANS
FOOTBALL A UTH o RITE S
PLEASED AT THE PROSPECTS.
Hope Entertained that the Team Will
Be Able to Score Against Minnesota,
but Fear Is Entertained that
Gophers Will Use Them Up and
Weaken Them for Iowa.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 12.-The near ap-
proach of the football season finds the
athletic authorities at the University, Of
Nebraska preparing for term of marked
activity. Captain Benedict, Assistant
Coach Westover and Manager Davis have
been holding almost daily conferences
since the first of the month, and if half
of their hopes materialize the most ardent
cornhusker rooter need have no misgiv-
ings or dread as to the ability of the Ne
braska eleven to sustain the reputation
achieved by middle west champions dur
ing the past several years.
Coach Walter G. Booth has devoted
himself to the study of law during the
summer vacation, and when he has round
ed out his fifth and last year as coach at
Nebraska, he will step into a lucrative law
pra ctice as the junior member of a pros
porous New York firm. Booths corn
huskers fought their way thru the entire
season of 1902 without a single point be-
ing scored against them, while eleven
points, a single touchdown and a goal
from the field, represented the combined
efforts Of all opponents in 1908. Such
records are seldom attained in the game
I of the gridiron, but Booth is more con-
fcerned than ever in his desire to make
| his last year with Nebraska the most
successful of all. Recent information from
the bulky ex-Princetonian is to the ef-
| feet that he will come to Lincoln the first
week in September, prepared for. the most
! strenuous campaign that he has ever in
augurated on the Nebraska campus.
Booth Win Stick.
Gossip emanating from Wisconsin uni
versity during the early summer credited
Manager Fitzpatrick with having said that
Booth would not coach at Nebraska this
year, and that he was negotiating with
WISCONSIN, looking toward his engagement
as football mentor at the badger institu-
}tion. Rush letters Of inquiry to Booth
have brought a response from him that
the Wisconsin story was a canard, and
that he never contemplated not fulfilling
his contract to again take charge Of the
cornhuskers, altho it was to be his final
year.
! Meanwhile Captain Benedict and AS
sistant Coach Westover have been bestir-
ring themselves in a hunt for new mate
rial How successful has been their quest
cannot be determined until the men ac-
tually appear CARRIED in the moleskins
but If half the promises materialize Ne
braska will be represented this season bet
4 ter than ever before. The long array OF
4 veterans holds out special encourageme
4 Among the linesmen, Borg, Cotton, Barta
I Robinson, Mason and Wilson are al
i pledged to return. Five Of these were full.
#|hedged regulars in last years team, while
4 the sixth was a substitute. In the bacl
tlfeld will be three veterans, the sensational
3 Bender, Fullback G. Mason and Captain
benedict, who played end last year, bu
q will return to the back field to his ole
7 position at quarter. There is a strons
possibility that Booth will switch Wilson
!. to the back field and make him half
back Wilson proved himself a terror il
Juggling the ball in the only game he wa