Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-22

men were outweiehed twenty-five pounds
TO the man and yet they defeated hddle
Cochem's famous Mound City players, who
later in the season walked over the Corn
huskers by the score OF "a TO O. In the
wabash-st Louis game last season what
was lacking to the little Giants in beef and
Drawn they made up for in speed nerve
and fighting spirit.
The score In the st. Louis game was II to
0 in favor Of the Mound city warriors at
the close Of the first half. Wabash was
not discouraged az this. though. and in
the second half went after Coachems
bunch and scored two touchdowns while
keeping the st. Louis team from adding
any more points 20 its list. The final score
was 10 20 0 In favor of wabash.
This year the Little Giants met st. Louis
again. and with the famous quarterback,
Acker. playing against them, prevented
Coachem's warriors from making a touch
down. They lost the game by -four points,
though. st. Louis getting a drop kick in
the latter part OF tho second half.
So far this fall Wabash has played six
games, and in these contests only three
touchdowns have been registered against
the team. None of these, however, was
mad by straight foot ball. One was made
as the result Of a blocked punt; another
came from a run on a fake punt forma-
ton, and the third was made from a de-
layed forward pass on which a substitute
end was boxed.
On more than one occasion, however,
this season the wabash goal line has been
endangered by its opponents. Last week
in the game with Notre Dame for the
championship OF Indiana the Catholics car
ried the ball to the Wabash vineyard line,
where the Little Giants in a wonderful
defense held, and prevented a touchdown
being scored. Notre Dame outweighed the
Charlottesville players. but the latter
fought gamely and outplsyed their op.
ponents.
wabash Tackles Well.
A feature of the playing of Wabash this
season has been its tackling. Walter T..
Eckersall says the Little Giants are the
best tacklers in the west. He saw the
Notre Dame-wabash game and was sur
prised by the wonderful playing of Wa
bash. The Crawfordsville men tackle low
and hard and seldom let a mar get away
after he has once been caught.
The man on the Wabash team whom Ne
braska fears more than any other player
is Jack Hargrave. quarterback. He weighs
ohiy 10y pOuuuSs pub Is SPECIFY anu Is COH-
sidered to be one Of the craftiest field
generals in the west. He executes his
plays in f~aultless style and is a sort of
wizard in passing the ball on the forward
pass. Last season he was selected for the
All-Indiana eleven.
DR.. Clapp, physical director at the state
university, has just completed compiling
statistics on the physical conditions OF the
Cornhuskers. His figures on the weight
of the regular varsity players show the
average weight of the team to be 173 S-ll
pounds. The total is 1914 pounds. The
weight of the first team squad of nineteen
men brings the average weight down to 1851
pounds. The total weight of the line is
1,454 pounds. The average weight of the
line is 1888 pounds. The total weight OF
the back field is 644 pounds and the aver
age weight of the back field is 1856 pounds
The weights of the individual players
including the varsity substitutes, are as
follows: Captain Harvey, right end, 1884
Chaloupka, right tackle. 1874; Frum. lefr
tackle, 1S9; Collins, center, IT'S; Harte, right
guard, 1872; Ewing, left guard. 1s4; Johnson
left end, 1864; Cooke, quarterback, 1891
Birkner, right half, 170%; Kroger fullback
170A; Beltzer, left half, 1853; Sturteznegger
fullback, 155; Bentley, quarterback, 142
Minor, half back. 1901; Temple, fullback
175h; Curt Collins, guard, 100; Bowers
center, 17SH; Elliott, guard, 1904; Slaugh.
ter, half back, 1854.