The Minneapolis journal., 1905-08-05
LIVELY HUSTLING
BY CORNHUSKERS
Captain Borg Has Rounded Up a
Lot Of New Football
Talent.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 5.-The approach of the
football season at Nebraska university finds Cap
tain Borg and Assistant Coach Westover bestir-
ring themselves with unusual vigor III mapping
out the program Of practice. Before the close
of the last school year the Nebraska athletic
board voted the necessary funds for a prelin,i-
nary training camp, feature omitted from the
football curriculum of the cornhuskers since 1901
and Borg and Westover are to be in charge, as
Booth will not come from New York until the
middle Of September.
The camp is to be pitched on the banks Of the
Platte river. The chosen candidates are expect
ed to assemble in Lincoln on the first four days
Of September after which the party will move
to the camp for two weeks Of prepara ton. AS
sistant Coach Westover announces that but very
little attention will be devoted to football, the
instead devotinng their time to stunts
that should put them in physical trim for the
active football practice that will be ushered
In on the university campus when Booth, the
head coach, appears upon the scene. -
No more than twenty-five men will be taken to
the camp, the appropriat tion provided by the ath-
letic board not warranting any more than that
number. The veterans from last year are to
head the list, while the best Of the substitute
squad Of year ago and the most promising Of
the candidates will complete the party. The
squad will return from camp only four days be-
fore the first game Of the season, but the
initial contest will be against a light team
Booth anticipates that two or three days at sig
nal practice will suffice to prepare his pupils
Tor the customary opening victory.
Berg Is Pleased.
Borg is in high spirits over the outlook for
new material. He has been in steady CORE
spondence during the summer with at least a
half hundred desirable men, most of them play
ers of experience in the smaller institutions He
figures that at least third Of this array should
materialize, and If his hopes realized the
graduation of so many of Booths veterans from
last years team should not prevent him from
turning out his usual strong aggregation. Borg
is maintaining discreet silence to the 1den-
tity of the prospective candidates.
Meanwhile Borg is bit fearful that two of
| the veterans upon whom he was counting will
! not be eligible for football next year, altho
| they will be in school. Last spring the athletic
board at Nebraska passed a stringent rule for
| bidding summer baseball unless permission was
| first granted in writing by the secretary Of the
| board. Even then to play upon team where
any of its players received compensation, direct
| ly otherwise, would operate as bar against
| the university mans further participating in
| Nebraska athletics. The board has determined
| upon a rigid enforcement Of this rule. Borg
| has been advised that two veterans under
| suspicion for violation Of the summer ball
rule. He fears that the evidence against them
will prove convincing and he has practically
| abandoned all hope of their playing upon the
1905 football team result of the disclosures
| Other questions to eligibility, such as schol
! arshp and residence, will come before the board
and Borg will not be called upon to deal witt
| ttem.
A glance at Borg's roster shows that more
| than half of his men will be veterans. The
list includes himself at center, Cotton at tackle
| Benedict and Johnson ends Weller, Wilson ant
Eager backs The place Of Bender will be hare
to fill, but the return of Wilson, the line smash
er Of the 1908 team, should go far to compen
safe for the departure Of Bender. Wilson'S lin
plunging in 1908 was the greatest ever wit
messed on Nebraska field, and Borg is conf
dent that Wilson will be better than ever thi
year. Wilson has been in constant training o.
his fathers Iowa ranch all summer and b.
promises to Join the training camp squad in su
perb condition. He has grown In avoirdupol
until he tips the beam at over POO, and at full
back, where Booth probably will decide to us
him, h" should prove veritable terror to op
posing teams go