The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-28
BOOTH VICTIM
OF BAD FISH.
Nebraska's Coach Will Be in Bed
for a Week or
More.
New YORK Sun Special Service.

Lincoln, Neb., Sept 2s.-Gloom is not Ne
braskas sole stock In the football trade. Des-
earlier in the week following the announcement
that Coach Booth was i'll and threatened with
typhoid fever, but a sentiment decidedly more
hopeful now prevails as result OF decision decision
by Booths physicians that the coach's ailment
was ptomaine poisoning and not typhoid Inc
symptoms of the two are much the same Dul
careful watch over Booth convinced the doctors
that ptomaines and not typhoid We're responsible
for his Illness. Booth Is still confined IN a
hospital, but he is recovering speedily and his
discharge as an invalid is predicted before the
end Of the week. &5
Booths absence from the football squad even
for a week VIA retard the development Of his
team, but 1t is not necessarily fatal to the
prospects of his pupils Assistant Coach West
over has had charge of the practice. but the
excessive heat has prevented scrimmaging, and
only the more rudimentary and lighter stunts
have been permitted.
Booth is Intent upon making strong showing
against the wolverines. He recognizes the folly
of hoping to beat Yost's men, who are mostly
veterans and outweigh the eornhuskers by wide
margin
Nebraskas next game is against Lincoln high
| school, and Westover and Captain Borg antici-
pate much sitter fight than was put up by
Grand Island college in the opening game last
week Lincoln high was undisputed champion of
Iowa and Nebraska last year, defeating every
team in hollow fashion and permitting only one
| adverse touchdown. Ten of the schoolboys are
veterans, and they are withal beefy and dan
gerous-looking bunch. Westoyer expects VIC
tory for the cornhuskers, but he will be sur
prised If the score is great in Nebraska 8
favor as in the Grand Island game.
| Incidentally Lincoln high aspres to the schol-
astic championship of the middle west having
scheduled game with North Division high,
apparently. the crack team in Chicago this sea
son, to be played in Lincoln Oct 81, the day
| Booths proteges are to be buffeted about by
| Michigan university In Ann Arbor. Lincoln has
| been unbeaten except by Nebraska university
! for three successive seasons, and the coming
| clash with North Division high should give q
good line on the comparative article of football
| in the two sections. -.u. -. = e-e
| The installation Of the training table at Ne.
braska has been delayed by the illness OF
Booth. but the athletic authorities decided that
1t should go into effect without fail before the
end of the week.. Only six are to be given
places at the start but additions are to be made
! from day to day, until it includes twenty men,
Assistant Coach Westover after a consulta.
| ton with Booth, has virtually decided upon q
policy OF switching two of the varsity
! men In the lineup. One of the possible changes
/ Is that of Weller from the backfeld to one
| Of the tackles, where his presence would come
In good steady. Westover is also giving Eager
i the midget halfback, try-out at quarter Eager
| has the experience and also the aggressiveness
| to make strong quarterback, and the question
| Of locating. him there permanently seems tt
I hinge upon his ability to handle the ball as
| quickly and clearly as is required of the mar
In that position. Eager is not needed at half
j back because of the rather large list of substi
| tutes, and the determination to try him a,
| quarter appears to be a happy suggestion