Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-08
JAYHAWEERS NEXT ON LIST
Cornhuskers Will Strive to Do Up
Their Ancient Enemy.
K. U. HAS GOOD TEAM WAITING
Kansas Spies Have Been Seeking "a
Find Cat some Of the Nebraska
FOrmations-Other Hard
Games.

LINCOLN, Nov, E.-Cspecial)-Now that
Ames, the most feared and greatest rival
Of Nebraska has been met, the Cornhusk-
ers are s~nxiousiy awaiting the game with
Kansas at Lincoln, next Saturday, This
contest with the Jayhawkers will be the
most important game on the Nebraska
schedule from the viewpoint OF the students
at the state school, The James with Wa
bash and the Carlisle indiana will probably
be just as hard fought as the enc a week
from today, but there 10 a traditionl cling
ing to the annual meeting with Kansas
that make the game the most interesting
for the students, o.
For many years preceding the rise Of
Ames into prominence, Nebraska and
Kansas were the leading football teams In
the Missouri valley, and every year the
championship Of that region was fought
out between the football teams of these
two schools, Both elevens looked forward
to the annual meeting and pointed for II
as the greatest game of the gridlron season.
Fortune varied between the two teams and
neither Of them had a cinch on the title
for any great number OF years,
Since the IewA Aggies took a high rank
in ths Missouri valley foot ball circles three
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Of Nebraska, Kansas has been pushed out
Of it's former position relative 10 the Corn
huskers, II 10 no longer the chief con-
tender with Nebraska for first honors in
the valley. but its annual struggle with the
Cornhuskers has lost mono of the interest
for tina students which formerly obtained.
Kansas Record.
During the last three seasons Kansas has
not been as strong as Nebraska and Ames.
In 1906 Kansas defeated Nebraska, but
critics conceded the Cornhuskers had the
better team. That year Ames also defeated
Nebraska, and the showing Of the Aggies
against the Cornhuskers was so much bet
Der than that made by the men from the
sunflower state that the husky Iowa
players were given a clear claim to the
Missouri valley title.
Last year Kansas was put out OF the
running In the middle of the season by
washburn, and the fight for the champion
ship rested between Nebraska and Ames.
All fall the scheduled game between these
W teams overshadowed all other Missouri
velley games. When the two teams met
In Lincoln in November the most fiercely
fought game witnessed in the west was
played and the Cornhuskers won out by
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themselves the leaders In the valley.
This fall the position Of the Jayhawkers
has been peculiar. For the first few weeks
of the season little attention was paid TO
them, for it was expected that they would
be extremely weak. But as the season ad-
vsnced and the eleven won game after
game Il was seen that Coaches Kennedy
ana Mosse were developing a real foot ball
machine, and that Kansas by the time Me-
braska was met would be in shape to make
q strong bid for the game.
DEVELOPMENTS during the last two weeks
have caused the Nebraska coaches TO come
10 fear the game with the Jayhawkers.
Against washington university OF st
Louia, q team rated as one OF the best IN
Missouri. Coach Kennedy's mon made a
remarkable showing, using modern foot
bail plays with great success, and In a
way outeiassing their opponents. They
diapiayed a keen knowledge Of the new
game, using the forward pass and onsidc
kick with good effect. In this game the
~Iayhawker line also proved TO be a stone
wall for Wa ellington, The showing In this
game caused Kansas stock 70 take a sud
dea rise, and led the supporters OF the
team 70 hops for a return to championship
form.
Kennedy nike Hope.
Coach KeEnedy himself is again taking
hope and now believes his men will DO in
form to give the cCrnhuskers a great bat
tie and probably defeat them. He saw
tina iowa-Nebraska game and was free In
admitting that his team could give either
the Cornhuskers or Hawkeyes a hard run.
His remarks were taken to indicate that
he thought Nebraska would have TO play
better ball against Kansas than II did
against Iowa in order to win on Novem.
Der II.
For two weeks Coach Kennedy has been
pointing his team for the coming struggle
with the cornhuskers. All the information
that could be secured regarding the Ne
braska plays has been used to good adj
vantage OF Kennedy and his assistants in
getting the Jayhawkers ready. Last week
or two or three occasions the Haskell In
dams. who met Nebraska three weeks
ago. were lined up against the Kansas
team and employed Nebraska plays on both
the defense ard offense. Reports from
the scene OF the Kansas practice say tbs