Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-19
GETTING READY FOR WALSH
Coach Cole Has His Men Out Timber
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LINCOLN, Nov. 1S.-(Special.)-"King''
Coles husky ~Cornhuskers held their first
practice since the Kansas game this after
noon at Antelcpe park. All of the varsity
regulars and substitutes and a large squad
Of scrubs reported for work; The practice
For an hour and a half the men were
run through signals and were given timber
will be tried out against Wabash Thanks
giving were used for a while by the
varsity. Coach Cole still believes his
"peeksa-boo" offensive plays will work eff
fectively against a team whose line does
not batter down the Cornhusker defense.
and he will drill his men in several OF
Kansas spoiled all of Nebraska's open
work plays because its heavy line men
broke through the Cornhusker defense and
sions a J~ayhawker made his way through
the line and broke up a forward pass by
tackling the man who held the ball behind
the line before the oval could be thrown.
II was this weakness in the Nebraska line
that did more to lose King" Coles men
the game than anything else Saturday.
The Nebraska coach, after watching the
stone-wall Playing Of his line in the Mime
sofa, Iowa and Ames games, thought that
it could hold against any team in the west.
ploughed through guards and center at will
the play of the back field was paralyzed.
could be run off. Against both Wabash
and Carlisle, teams which nave much
lighter lines than kansas, Coach Coles line
will be able TO hold its own and thus allow
the back field men to work we'll on the Of
Tense. 1t is his big line that the Nebraska
coach Will depend on to win the last two
games of the season. There is no doubt
In his mind that the open work plays and
others centered around Cooke can be used
as good ground gamers when employed
against either the Little Giants or the IA
nous Indians.
Much attention this afternoon was paid
to tackling. There was considerable criti-
cism OF the poor tackling OF the Cornhusk-
eTs, In the Kansas game and Coach Cole
in this department of the game before
Thanksgiving. The weakness in the tack
ling Of the Nebraska players against the
JayhawkeTs was due to their catching a
player too high. Instead OF leaving their
feet to stop a man and striking him around
the legs they tried to catch him around the
head and stop his advance in hat way.
This did not work very well, and once a
tor sixty yards, being tackled twice by Ne
braska players, but slipping from them.
At a meeting Of the athletic board last
night 1t was decided that the Minnesota,
viii count as the M contests this season.
Any man on the Cornhusker team who at
the close of the season has played one-half
or more of any one Of these games will be
awarded a sweater with a foot ball IN"
on It.
The athletic board also voted to send
Manager Earl o. Eager TO a meeting OF the
western conference representatives at Chi
cago next week. At this meeting Manager
Eager will try to schedule one of the big
eight, eleyens for z foot ball game to be
played in Lincoln next fall.
At this season of the athletic board the
vacancy among the student member OF
that body caused by the resignation OF Ben
Cherrington, who this year is director of
Clyde e. Elliott being elected TO the posi-
ton.