Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-23
COLE FEARS HASKELL INDIANS
with Three Among the best Men out,
C~Ornhuskers I'm Bad shape.

LINCOLN, oct. 2-CSpecial) 90 With
Minor. Kroger and Better SO badly in
TO be in the game Saturday, and with other
members OF the Cornhusker team suffer
the Minnesota game, Coach King Cole
fears that Nebraska will meet a Tartar
in the Haskell Indians.
Il am more worried about this game with
the Haskells Saturday. said the coach
today, than about any game on the
schedule 30 far this season. kroger, whose
knee has been hurt, has not been out for
practice this week. Better we must save
up for Iowa and can not run any chance
OF having him hurt his shoulder any more.
Minor is still limping around with a bad
ankle and does not seem to improve very
much. l am afraid these three men Will
have to stay out OF the game Saturday and
this b viii break up our Paekfisld. Ten,
the halfbacks or fullback. has been home
this week and has missed two days prac-
tice. He will not be I'm any too good con-
dition to go into the game. The linemen
are all right, but we will need more than
a strong line to win against the Haskells
the Haskell Indians are doing. but from
what information I have been able To
gather they appear to be exceedingly
strong. Last Saturday they held the
Kansas last season in a IL to 4 score.
l talked with a man yesterday VINO saw
that game and he says the Indians played
one OF the best games he ever witnessed.
After they got started in the first half
they ripped big holes in the heavy Wash
burn line. He says they have a remark
able drop kicker in Island, who dropped
the ball over the crossbars for a goal from
the thirty-five-yard line in the first half
Island was taken out in the second half.
owing to an injury. Had he remained IN
the game the Haskells would probably
have made at least two more drop KICKS
for they were several times within KICKING
distance Of the washburn goal.
1--WE are not going to be surprised, as
Iowa was by Missouri last saturday We
know the Haskells are not going to be an
easy team to play Under the best condl-
tions Nebraska would have a hard game
with them, but Saturday when three OF our
best men will be absent from the Corn
huskers' lineup the outlook is very gloomy.
This is no bear story l am giving out, Tor
you know I am not inclined to fill report
dangerous foe and Nebraska will have to
play the hardest kind of q game to win.
As I said before, the game is giving, me
more worry than any other on the sched-
ule so far this fall has occasioned.'
Practice has been held each afternoon
since Monday at Antelope park. but several
OF the veterans have failed to report. Tues
day afternoon the only regulars out We're
Captain Harvey, Frum, Johnson, Cooke
and Better. This afternoon all were on
the grounds, but Beltzer, KrOger and Minor
kept out of practice.
Despite the absence Of the regulars from
the lineup the varsity today was able to
play rings around the scrubs. The forward
pass was used with good effect on several
occasions and Melted the varsity two touch
downs. The scrubs MADE SeVelal long gains
against the regulars and once took the ball
down to the twenty-five-yard line, but
there they were forced to kick and failed
to score.
Kroger's absence from the C~ornhusker
lineup Saturday will leave them without a
man to place or drop kick, and in case the
Indians are strong enough to keep Ne
braska from crossing their goal they may
be able to surprise the sanRuine Of the Ne
braska rooters. Birkner will probably do
the bunting for Nebraska in the absence
of Beltzer, but unless his kicking Is a great
Improvement. over that of the Minnesota
game Nebraska will be kept busy most of
the game defending its goal line near the
fifteen and twenty-yard lines.