Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-07
BOOTH MAY COACH NEBRASKA
Movement to Get Services Of Man
Who Made Team Famous.
POPULAR WITH THE STUDENTS
Chances of Getting Him TO Return
Next Year Are said 60 BE
ExceIIent-His Record
II Un~equnlIed.
POPULAR WITH THE STUDENTS

LINCOLN. Dec. 6.-(Special)-I became
known here this afternoon that a move
ment Is on foot TO get BUNNY" Booth
to a k charge Of the Nebraska foot
ball eleven next fa1. Booth is the coach
that made the Cornhuskers famous in foot
ball circles by giving them an eleven in
1902 that defeated Minnesota, 6 to O. He
was head coach during the seasons from
1900 to 1905, Inclusive, and the teams that
he put out never we're defeated by KAN
sas, Nebraska's greatest riycl
The chances Of getting Booth to come
back to Nebraska are said to be excel
lent; in fact, 1t is limited that he has Of
fered to accept the head coaching position
II II is rendered him 1t Is certain now
that he would have taken the Job had It
been offered to him last season.
Since BUNNY" Booth left Nebraska,
after the close Of the season Of 1906, he
has been practlcing ,aw in New York; but
each fall he has gone down to Princeton
to assist his alma mater in getting the
Tigers into trim for their annual battle
with Yale. This fall ne came west to as
sist Coach Roper, a Princeton man, in
shaping Missouri for the Thanksgiving
day game with Kansas. Roper declares
that Booths aid made It possible for Mis-
souri, to win from the J~ayhawkers.
May BE willing to Return.
Booth quit Nebraska In 1905, after rather
a poor season, feeling that he had not
given the Cornhuskers as strong an eleven
as some other coach could have done.
He resigned voluntarily, and against the
wishes Of the athletic board, the mem
bers Of which wanted him to remain.
While Booth was at Missouri, just pre-
vlous to the Thanksgiving day game, he
was asked whether he would accept a
position as coach at Nebraska next fall.
He refused to commit himself. however,
but said he thought he could give the
Cornhuskers another winning gridiron
eleven.
Several member OF the athletic board
nave been interviewed on the subject Of
hiring Booth for next fall and all Of them
are decidedly in favor Of getting him II
he will come. One saiG that the offer
of no other coach would be considered II
Booth would just say that he would take
the position II 1t were endered him.
1t is felt that BUNNY would like to
return to Nebraska to give the Cornhusk-
ers a championship team. and thus show
everybody that he was not at fault when
the C~ornhuskers lost to Minnesota and
Michigan by big scores in 1905.
Booths Fine Record.
Booths record, while at Nebraska, has
never been equaled by any other western
coach, in or out of the big Eight" The
C-ornhuskers during his reign were known
as the big Outsider and had several
things on any OF the teams in the Mis-
souri, valley. Minnesota, during Booths
years, found Nebraska one of the hardest
games on its schedule. illinois was three
lines defeated while he was here.
In western foot ball circles Nebraska
held a position next to Michigan and Min
nesota, with the Gophers once being rele-
gated to an inferior position. The cry now
is, Get Booth for 1910 and Nebraska will
beat Kansas" 1t has been two years
since the Cornhuskersp won from the Jay
hawkers.