Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-21
Class A organization should be main

Glass A organization should be main
tanned.
The keynote 20 the whole college ath-
ietic situation was sounded by the writer
who suggested that too small a percentage
OF students are able TO take part in college
sports as they are now played In American
colleges. In a university Of 1900 students
about fifty play foot ball, another small
squad rows, another trains for the field
day events and another tries for the base
ball team. many being members Of two or
more squads. Only those who have a
speciality in some line are thus able to
get the exercise which the right kind
Of sports would give. Some scheme should
be evolved by which a larger percentage
Of the students could take part in the
out-of-door healthful exercises. game
should be originated In which fifty could
play foot ball on a side and thus accom-
modate many more students in the free
and open air. President Schurman of
Cornell university has said that athletics
keep up the discipline of the schools and
make courts and trials and policemen I'M
necessary. II this Is the case with only
the limited few taking part, how much
stronger would be the influence for good
II all the students were exercising all the
time? Some go on the principle that
boy has so much animal spirits which he
must work of in some way and that 1t is
far better for him to do 1t by athletic
exercise than by mischief or rowdyism.
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other universities are settling the coach
question and Nebraska will soon be in
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Princeton combination which worked so
successfully last season for the University
OF Wisconsin. will again be found doing
team work for that institution. An effort
will be made to lower the colors OF Yost,
Stage and Dr. Williams, surely a hard
combination for. team to go against in
one short season. These coaches were
eager to stay and finish the work which
they began so well, but they wished to
flirt little on the salary question and this
they did with good results. Although II is
not officially announced, 1t is understood
that each will have a substantial raise
in salary, King to receive 5000 and Hollis
figure not given. The team lost by four
points to Chicago last fall after having
outplayed the Maroons, and lost to Michi-
gan by one straight touchdown and a
fuke. They realize that they will have to
practically build an entirely new team.
but still they have great hopes from the
material on hand.
The question of a coach for the University
of Nebraska is still in the air and the ap-
plicants are still presenting their claims for
recognition at the hands of the athletic
board. A coach at a university such as the
great University of Nebraska has a much
easier time than did the coaches ten years
ago, when foot ball in the west was in It's
infancy. Then the coaches not only had TO
develop foot ball players from entirely
green men. but they also had to look after
management of all kinds, as well as the
physical training of the team. Not only all
that but they had to play and captain the
| team as well. Such was the condition when
| Frank Crawford, the Omaha attorney, was
coach Of the Nebraska team. Crawford had
| been coach of the University of Michigan
| team and coach at Baker university, Kan.
! sas, when he was elected coach of the Ne
| braska team Since that time all is changed
A faculty advisory board looks after the
financial end, a trainer tends to the injuries
| OF the players and looks after their physica
| welfare, plenty of material is on the field
| from which to choose a team and there Is
plenty OF money with which to buy sweater.
and uniforms, something which was lacking
in the olden times. Herrnstein seems to be
the favorite for the position among the
students. but the press reports say thai
each fraternity has candidate which the
] members OF that frat" are working for
Time was when the eastern schools wer,
run in that fashion, but 1t is stamped out II
nearly all the larger colleges and a mar
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Omaha is to have the honor OF holding tn,
Transmississippi Golf tournament next sum
mer as the executive committee of the clul
has decided to accept the invitation of tn,
Omaha Field club, and the tournament viii
be held during the latter part OF June. TIL,
| old course will not be In readiness for tht
| tournament, but the great event of the ives
| will be held on the old links. The goati
have browsed OF all the roughness from
the new course, but the greens. although
graded. would not be in condition for tn,
tournament Secretary Hayward @. Leavit
will take pride in the Omaha meet and viii
begin work right away to make it one o
the big successes Of the year. Omaha ha
many golfers who can hold their own witt
most of the players of the country, beini
completely outclassed by but few. This wa
demonstrated last season in the events II
the middle west in which Omaha was rep
resented. Sprague Abbott was looked upoi
as a winner for a time, but he fell down a
the finish. Z. II. Sprague, Stockton Heth
Ed Boyer. the winner OF the state cham
pionship last year; Guy Thomas. Dick Kim
ball and the other local cracks may be re
lied upon TO uphold Omaha's end in tn
tournament in good shape. They will hav
the slight advantage OF being used to tn
links. although many OF the best players o
this city are members Of the Country clu
alone, still the interchange Of games whic
was inaugurated last season has given tn
players a chance to play on both courses
Under the ruling OF President Eliot o
Harvard, unless spring games are playe
this year to demonstrate the wisdom @
changes which may be made in the rules
, Harvard will have no foot ball team in tn
field this fall. The board OF overseers a
Harvard were not satisfied with havin
Harvard's representative put on the rule
committee by the reform board but insist
that the old board OF governors which wa
self-constituted. but which had itself &C
credited by the various colleges have moth
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