Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-18
NEBRASKA PREPARES FIELD
New Home for Cornhuskers Ready by
Next Fall.
OMAHA MAY GET SECOND GAME
If City Gives Minnesota Contest Right
Kind of Support Haskell In
dams VIII he Played Here
ThanksRivtnK.


With the thermometer nipping at the
legs Of the century mark and the country
yelling itself mad over the pennant races
in the professional game, the college man
may be charged with usurping public at
tention II he makes so bold as to bring
forth a little foot ball gossip for the delsc-
tation Of the admirers of the gridiron
snort. But since 1t is the habit Of base
ball fans to start their dopefest four
months before the actual rag races are
begun it ought to be no unjust offense to
sound a few notes of a game whose sea-
sons beginning is distant less h two
months.
At Lincoln, the abode of the Western
league tailenders and the home of one Of
the best known foot ball Institutions in
the west, interest already is wasting in
the farcical race of the erstwhlle Green
hackers, and there is evident a longing for
the tread Of the Cornhusker gridiron war
rior.
To keep alive the Lincoln college mans
anticipation of the fail sport there Is un-
usual activity this summer In connection
with the preparation of a new athletic field
for the State university.
Lack Of Field Hurt Sport.
Left without a field on the campus last
year, the C~ornhuskers were forced to suffer
greatly from reduced attendance at games
and a lack of interest in the sport occa-
stoned by the removal of all the contests
to a lot several blocks from the university.
Now, as a result of a generous gift from
the recent Legislature and the beneficent
act of two Of Lincoln's public-spirited ciu-
zens the C~ornhuskers are assured or one
of the best athletic fields in the west, and
IL John d. Rockefeller comes through with
that $50, 900, then the grounds will be among
the best in the country and can be referred
to as lone of those $1,OoO,ooo plants" OF
which they talk so much in the east when
a new ball park is dedicated.
For the new field the regents have pur-
chased a block of land north of the campus
and Messrs. Mcdonald and Miller Of Lin
colin have bought several lots in a second
block to the east of the one secured by the
regents and have decided to hold these un-
til the university is able to buy Them, In
the meantime giving the athletic depart
ment their use for the new athletic grounds
The one block, bought by the regents
lies between T and u on the north and
Tenth and Eleventh streets running eas'
and west. The additional lots, secured by
two public spirited citizens, are In th'
block between Eleventh and Twelfth
streets.
By securing the use of the land In the
second block the athletic department Will
be able 20 use Eleventh street and to close
II between Tenth and Twelfth, thus making
It possible to fix up one of the best ath'
letic fields in the west with a full-sizec
eridiron, large base ball grounds and tennis
courts.
Fixing Up Grounds Now.
Work Of grading and leveling off thu
land is now being carried on and the field
will be in shape for the opening OF the ZOO
bali season in September. 1t has been tn
MAN to build a stone wall and equip thu
grounds with a cement grandstand' pu
unless the oil king or some other phll
anthroplc gentleman comes farth VIII
about $50. 900 this idea will have to be Btvel
up for this year.
There has been some talk Of formal!
opening the new field with the Minnesota
game by transferring that contest fron
omaha to Lincoln, but Manage Eagel
states that Nebraska will not consider an!
proposal to take the game away from thi
city and that the Gophers will be playe'
here on Saturday, October 1s.
Not only will the Minnesota contest D.
held here, but IL the Omaha people shoV
the Cornhuskers the right kind of supper
the Haskell Indian game on Thankss1Vin'
day will be brought here from Lincoln
giving Omaha two of the best games o.
the Nebraska schedule for next fall.
Since the Ames-Nebraska game here las
wear Omaha has been put down as a goo
foot ball town and will receive considera
ton by the Nebraska management here
aftsr IN the ARRANGEMENT of the Cornhuske
gridlron schedule.
The Observation-Disclosures game next IA
will be the CRUCIAL contest for both schools
, for upon it's outcome will depend the ranA
ing of the two teams in western foot ba
circles for the season Of 1903.
I other Good Games to Play.
3 After this game both Minnesota and M
E braska will meet the best teams in the
E respective conferences. TIL Gophers wi
( still have to go against Chicago ana Micf
= igsn: Nebraska will have Kansas, low
and Denver universities to play,
should Nebraska succeed in beating II
, runils Of Coach Williams II Will place II
, IJncoln school as a leader and will mar
Minnesota as one OF the weak teams of II
west. the only way for the Gophers to a
: tain a high position being through the d
! feat OF both chicago and Michigan.
By beating Minnesota NeOIAShA Nou
at once attain a supremacy in westeI
foot bali that even defeats at the hands
n Kansas and Denver could not wre
from It.
O But next fall Minnesota Is going to
even stronger than last November when Il
annual struggle between Coles men al
the northern team was a tie.
johnson, the fast and wonderful quartz
It hack. who really saved Minnesota from
" defeat last year. will be the leader OF d
% Gophers and will have a fine bunch
m nearly thirty men from which to pick I
5, other ten players.
Nebraska will not begin the season wi
ST as good prospects as it had a year as
but. will nevertheless start out with
SQUAD of rood material, and with sever
veterans in the bunch.
d Captain BeItEer = Fast Back.
10 AS captain. the Cornhuskers will ha
Buck Better, who was a halfback ls
n season. He was one Of the best plays
In the west In handling the ball In I
forward pass, having a throw that "
accurate and that sent the ball ma
yards. One OF King" Coles chief al
next fan will be to develop Buck" into
Ar sensational forward pass artist. This c
he done easily and, with two good en-
to receive the passes made by the capita