Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-16
SCHEDULE TOO STRENUOUS
COrnhusker Players and Coach GIVE
This as Reason for Their Defeat
MEMBERS OF TEAM ARE STALE
No Inclination TO Decry The Ntctory
of Kansas or ~InsinuRte the SUM
nower Men Did Not Out-
play Nebraska. Tf

LINCOLN, Nov. 15.-(Special)-The Corn
huskers. although all their fondest aspira-
tons were rudely dashed away by the jay
hawkers, are not discouraged and are CONS
to begin practice this week with the de-
termination to lick wabash on Thanks
giving and the Carlisle Indians on Decem-
Der 2 The defeat Saturday came as a sur
prise to Nebraska, and was the hardest
blow that has fallen into the Cornhusker
camp in years.
Nebraska's foot ball team this season was
believed to be the strongest that the state
institution has had since 1902, when the
Cornhuskers under Bunny Booth, went
through the season without a defeat. After
Minnesota had been tied and Iowa and
Ames humbled, 1t looked as though Kansas
and the rest of the teams on the schedule
would be easy victims. But the Jayhawk-
ers proved to be the worst kind OF ~tartars.
and now the CornhMskers see what things
proved their undoing.
Nobody in the Nebraska camp claims that
Kansas did not outplay the Cornhuskers.
1t is freely admitted that the visitors were
superior in every department of the game.
and there is no discredlting the victory OF
the men from the Sunflower state.
The Nebraska coach and the players
themselves lay the cause Of their defeat to
a too severe and long schedule. II is
claimed that tn Cornhuskers, nor any other
team, could play four hard games within
five weeks without having reversal of form.
Coach Cole says the men were stale yes
terday and could not play their best game
II they had played as they did at Omaha
against Ames the result probably would
have been different.
rnhuske Are stale.
roAsat -. - H. y.-tt-- -
discussing the game this afternoon. said
that the defeat came as a direct result OF
too hard a schedule.
None of our men played his best game
yesterday and we lost because we were
stale. Kansas outplayed us yesterday, ana
l think they have a great team. But the
trouble with us was that we had played too
many hard games. You must remember
that we have played Minnesota, Haskell,
Iowa, Ames and Kansas all within the
short space of five weeks. Iowa and Ames
used our men up and when it came to yes
terday none Of them could play foot ball.
None of the men laid down, you under
stand. They all played as hard as they
could. Kansas was fresh, however, this
being their first hard game, and they beat
U.S.
The Cornhuskers have one complaint
which they make against Kansas. They
claim that the Jawhawkers knew all OF
their plays and whenever one of them was
called that Kennedy's men were ready
for IL.
Those Jayhawkcrs knew everyone of our
plays" said Quarterback Cooke in discus
sin gthe game this afternoon. Whenever
! called a play they would yell out to each
other to watch certain players. When
would call for Chaloupka TO carry the ball
they immediately would know the signal
and would cry Watch Chaloupka.' or II "A
would give a signal on which was TO
make a quarterback run they would cry.
Look out for that quarterback rum
Looks Suspicious.