Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-15
JIM BOOSTS FOR CAME
Calls for Citizens to Make Visitors
Think Omaha Right.
GOVERNOR WILL BE ON HAND
All Foot Ball Teams Near Omaha VIII
Lay OFF for Day that They May
See the Big Annual Grid
iron Battle.

Mayor Dahlman has called upon all peo-
pie in Omaha with sporting blood in their
veins to turn out and root for Nebraska
or Minnesota Saturday at Vinton park
when the Cornhuskers and Gophers meet
In their annual gridiron battle. Omaha has
been urging Nebraska for years to play
one or more OF its big games in the
metropolis. The game will be played here
Saturday and it will then be up to the
people OF Omaha to turn out and root
and show their appreciation Of the fact
that the biggest sporting event in college
circles in the west will be played in
Omaha.
Manager Eager was in Omaha Thursday,
completing all arrangements and when he
visited the park he found everything in
~shipshape. Preparations have been made for
handling 10000 people and more II neces-
sary and 1t is a conservative guess that
this number will be surpassed. No such
interest was ever taken in any sort Of a
game in Omaha. College youths, society
danes and business men are all anxious
for the big day when they may journey
to the park and root to their hearts con-
tent.
One fraternity at Lincoln has arranged to
bring twenty men in one party, for whom
seats have been reserved in a body, and
for whom a banquet will be given at the
Henshaw. The Omaha High school and
the Creighton foot ball teams will attend,
neither team having a game scheduled for
that date. The Council Bluffs High school
team will also witness the game. Council
Bluffs will also send over a large delega-
ton Of r~ooters, for whom a large number
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Governor Shallenberger has cancelled all
dates for Saturday and has notified Man
ager Eager that he will be on hand with
a large party of rooters to do what they
can for Nebraska.
On for Spies.
Fearing Minnesota spies, King" Cole
iourneyed to the state farm with the Corn
huskers for secret practice yesterday aft
ernoon. For several days it has been ru-
fnored about the campus that Minnesota
had sent men here to watch the Corn
huskers in practice, and it was asserted by
an old Nebraska foot ball man that he
had seen a former Minnesota foot ball
player in Lincoln. This led the Nebraska
coaches to think there might be some
truth in the rumor, and in order to be pro-
tected in case spies were on hand, king"
Cole took the precaution of holding yes
terday's work at the state farm.
The regulars were not allowed to scrim-
mage, the Nebraska coaches fearing that
some of them might sustain injuries that
would make them unfit for service in the
big game at Omaha.
The practice was made strenuous, how
ever, for the first team men, and they
were forced to run signals for two hours.
All the new plays that have been invented
for Minnesota were employed in the work
today. The varsity ran them off well,
and King Cole expressed himself as we'll
pleased with the way the team worked.
Tub" Ewing, last years ~2OO-pound
guard, appeared in uniform for the first
ume this fall and went through signals
with the second varsity, INDUCING in a
little scrimmage against the scrubs.
No report has been made on the exami-
nation he took, and it probably will not be
known until today whether he will be ell
gible for the game Saturday. 1t is be-
Iieved, though, that he passed his exami-
nations and the coaches are going on the
presumption that he did in preparing for
the annual battle with the Gophers.
II Ewing becomes eligible he probably
will be placed in the line at guard and
Temple Will be pulled to the backfield to
be used at fuIback. This change may not
be made for the Minnesota game. Ewing
may go into the line for this game, but
II will be at left guard, which position is
not now filled by a regular.
In the scrimmage yesterday King Cole
pulled Wolcott out of right guard and
placed Elliott there. Elliott was in the
game against Knox Saturday, and, in case
Ewing does not become eligible, he will
play there against Minnesota. Wolcott is
in poor physical condition and 1t does not
seem likely that he could stand as hard
a game as the Gopher contest will be. He
probably will be allowed to enter the lineup
for a few minutes In the second half.
The Probable Lineup.
King Cole has not announced his
lineup, but the tentative one is as follows:
johnson, left end; Harte, left tackle; Eli
Oft, left guard; Shonka, center; Wend-
strand, right guard Temple, right tackle;
Mayor, right end; Bentley, quarter; Belt
ger. left half; Rathbone, fullback; Frank,
right half.
All these men are in fine physical condi-
ton and only one of them is suffering from
a slight bruise. He is Mayor, who slid
on his face in scrimmage during the fore
part OF the week and rubbed off a good
slice Of skin.
No more scrimmage work will be allowed
this week and the Cornhuskers ought to go
into the game in the best kind of shape.
King Cole says his men ought to play
in midseason form, which means that the
Gophers will have to play the same kind
of ball they did against Iowa in order to
gain a victory by a large sized score.
King Cole declared yesterday that he
would depend almost entirely upon his trick
plays to gain ground against Minnesota,
The attacks on the line, he believes, will
net Nebraska nothing against the powerful
defense that the Minnesota men can put
up and ne has been coaching his players
to use open formations and forward pass
tricks.
Since the Corners are using open plays
this year the game at Omaha ought to be
one Of the best exhibitions OF foot bali thai
has been played under the new rules II
the west. Williams men made most OF
their big gains against Iowa by using the
Cnslde kick and forward pass and they
expect to repeat the stunt against the
Cornhuskers.
Nebraska students, while admitting their
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