Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-19
NEBRASKA BIAS GOOD CHANCE
oOrnhuskerS Hops to Win Saturday from
Michigan Team.
WOLVERINES SHOW NO GREAT SUPERIORITY
Comparison of Teams and Methods
Induce n Better Feeling In
Booth Camp and Give
Rise to Hope.

predestned to win. Instead the Nebraska
team is fired with the zeal of victory on its
own account. Booth is not bossting but he
is convinced that the Cornhuskers have at
least outside chance for the honors.
The cohorts of Yost have not been beaten
since the hurry up" man was installed as
coach ut Ann Arbor in 1901, and there is no
good reason for the belief. as viewed from
the Nebraska angle. why Michigan should
expect to go on forever triumphing over
all foes.
Much of the optimism prevalent in Ne
braska circles is due to the reports from
Ann Arbor by Assistant Coach and ez-
Captain Westover. who was a spectator at
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. game of last Sat
urday. II anything the wolverines had 70
offer on Saturday last escaped Westover II
was not his fault. He gives Yost credit for
holding big edge over Vanderbilt, but he
could not locate the logic in the contention
that the wolverines have any cinch in
snatching the victory from the CornhusR-
ers Westover says:
can't see where Michigan has anything
Nebraska's back field is lust as beefy as
Michigan's, and, in my judgment, is Just as
strong. Longman, Yost's star fullbaok, was
that his absence weakened Michigan quite
a bit. Much will depend upon the strength
or eTs pay tSsT s5od lot t5e
Wits E be Ss badly fop sPRR the
and Little fail to do little execution for
Nebraska The dope, of course is against
us but i Michigan wins they will have to
play better foot ball than they showed
against Vanderbilt.
Change In Travel Plans.
The departure of the CornhusKers for
Michigan has been delayed until Thursday
night, and instead of a two days lay over
in Detroit Booths men will go direct to
Ann Arbor. reaching there Friday after
noon. The change in the time of departure
from Wednesday, was previously
planned. was occasioned by the continued
wet weather in Lincoln. which has con-
WINGED Booth that his pupils will need every
bit of scrimmage practice obtainable. A
heavy rain on Monday converted the Me-
braska gridiron into a mire and another
downpour at night satisfied the coach that
the squad could not expect to use the field
for practice during the week. Monday the
squad boarded special street cars, going
out several miles to the university farm
and experiment station, where the practice
was held on the turf. The loss of time on
! the cars was too great to permit Of this
performance being repeated and for the re-
naming days OF practice the Cornhuskers
have been disporting themselves on a mar
row strip of turf on the university campus.
Kickoffs and long runs were forbidden by
| the limited area available for practice, but
Booth has been making the most of his OPP
portunites and has been driving his men at
| the fastest clip possible. The line has been
claiming his chief attention, as he recog-
nizes that the brunt of the battle will fall
upon the forwards and that II the wolver-
ines are to be held the line must do the
! bulk of the work. -s .i
| Twenty players and five others, includ-
! ing Coach Booth, westover Manager Nor
rison, DIR. Lees. chairman of the athletic
board. and the team physician, will include
! Nebraska's party. Pullman sleeping car
has been chartered for the especial use Of
! the party.
Solution of Freshman Rule.
The opinion of the student body at Ne
braska and in athletic circles in the Corn
husker camp is that the freshman rule
question has been solved by the Nebraska
athletic board in the most diplomatic man
ner possible There was considerable OPP
position to the adoption of the rule by
Nebraska on the ground that the evils
aimed at by the conference seldom exist
here and also that Nebraska, while gen
orally stronger athletically than most of
the big Nine" schools. has been persist
emily turned down in its ambition to men,
bership within the conference circles. This,
however, did not swerve the board in de-
Gliding to adopt the rule, with the proviso
that il any freshman had previously es-
tablished his availability and had played
in any of the games this season he would
not be barred. All sports in the future
however, will be governed by the confer
ence rule. DR.. Clapp, secretary OF the
Nebraska board, explains the boards de-
cision in the following:
Nebraska's affirmation of the freshman
rule is identical with the action, of the
adopted by the conference on June OF
this year but the conference voted that il
would not be made retroactive as a result
OF which It was decided that the new legis.
lation should not take effect until October
was held in Chicago and freshman ath,
letes were permitted to take part. The
games, Which were played in n june ne9 af pa
the adoption Of the rule;
last regular monthly meeting in May, anC
therefore had no chance to consider the
question Of revising its eligibility rules
the board do not permit any such change,
except at regular monthly meeting. II
the interim the school year opened anC
foot ball practice was begun, full month
freshmen from the foot ball team SF this SS yes
, would have been retroactive legislation and
therefore. unfair TO the players and L
, ourselves, as the conference could no
rightfully ask or expect US to go furthe
. than itself had done. / notice that Mis-
souri, and Colorado universities still OBJ
pose the rule, and there was a DISPOSE
| ton at Nebraska to take the same posi-
ton, but the board here did not wish to b,
| out OF harmony with the conference rule
) and has therefore adopted them in thei
. ! entirety.
Tomorrow morning a mass meeting o
students will be held in the universit.
chapel to cheer the foot ball team 10 vic
tory In the Saturday game against MIchi
gan. The people OF Lincoln are stirred u
over the coming game more than they hav
been for a long time and IL is expected tina
a respectable crowd of rooters will accom-
pany the team.
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