The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-11-19


the Kansas-Nebraska game last Satur-
day was that king" Coles job de-
pended on the outcome of the battle
with the Jayhawkers. Nebraska lost
that game, and now the discontinued
murmurs are sounding loud through
out the Nebraska camp. The Corn.
husker followers have their eye on
Johnny Bender, the former Nebraska
star and yet an idol among the Lin
colnites. Bender is coaching the Has
kell Indians, who meet the Cornhusk-
ers on Nebraska field Thanksgiving
day. and If the Braves beat the Ne
braskans probably there will be a
stampede for j. Bender to coach Ne
braska. Here is what the Lincoln
Daily Star has to say of the discon-
tent that is surging big waves through
the Nebraska camp:
an the Nebraska football rooters'
camp there seems to be Bender bee
a-stinging. About the city the alumni
are talking Bender ana more Bender.
The alumni remember the times of
'Twister' and 'Bennie,' and they are
anxious to have the old school hold
the place of respect in the football
world that it did in those glorious
days. In the Missouri valley the Corn
husker school then had few real ri
walls, and from 1899 until 1906, the
Jayhawker school was joke. The
last two years it has been a night
mare.
The Man Of the Hour.
"Tf the Haskell Indians should hum
BILE the Cornhuskers this year, which
they are as likely as not to do, Ben
der will be the man of the hour. The
alumni of the Nebraska school feel
that there is something wrong with
the football team, and whether it lies
! in the coaching or not, they are prone
| to condemn it as the reason for the
poor showing made by the team.
! South Dakota, with less than zone
fourth the number of male students
that Nebraska has, humbled the Corn
huskers by tieing the score, and Iowa,
which has never been considered a
strong opponent, did the same. Then
Minnesota came, and Nebraska did as
we'll as might be expected, but again
in the Kansas game the rooters were
disheartened."
The athletic management also seems
to be gin bad" with the alumni and
the Nebraska supporters who are not
former students in the university. The
scheduling of games for financial rea
sons is charged. The Lincoln Daily
Star says:
"The alumni of the school, as well
as the supporters of the college team
who are not former students, feel the
need of a complete reorganization OF
the athletic control. The present man
agement of university athletics has
been severely criticised, and it seems
Justly so. Three years ago the uni
versity team was taken to st. Louis
to play a professional school merely
for financial purposes, last year Car
Isle was taken on with the same ain
in view, and this year our team viii
be sent to Denver, where the chances
are ten to one that it will be torn tt
pieces by a team of professionals
Denver has nearly the same team tina
it had last year. and then even Car
Isle revolted at playing there. Den
yer paper finances the team and hires
who it pleases to play.
Why Lincolnites Are HoWling.
"It is felt by those who have thu
interests of the school at heart tina
games could be scheduled whicl
would bring large enough returns t.
pay out and yet would promote NOR
keen rivalry than would the game
with schools which make money get
ting their chief raison d'etre. TIL
promiscuous distribution of free foot
ball tickets and passes to hundreds
Lincoln people who could well pa
their way into the games, the hiring o
an Omaha gridiron at double the pric
that should have been paid and tn
seeming reckless use of money sc
cured from the university football
games seems to have put the univel
sity in a hole where professional team
with big rewards to offer have to b
taken on to pay the bloated expens
account"