Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-11
FOOT BALL SEATS ON SALE
Governor Shallenberger and Mayor
Love Of Lincoln Will Occupy Boxes.
NEBRAsKA's HOPES ARE RISING
showing Made Against KHOx En-
cOuraEes ROOters that Team May
Surprise the GOphers I'm
Omaha saturday.

Earl o. Eager, manager OF the Corn
huskers, brought the reserved seat tickets
for the Observation-Disclosures game to
Omaha yesterday ard they will be put on
sale this morning at the Myers-Dillon store,
Sixteenth and Farnam streets. The de-
mGnd for these seats seems to be UNI
precedented, Judging from the mail orders
which have been coming in since the an
nouLcement was made as TO where the
tickets were to be sold.
An enormous crowd will surely be on
hand long before time is called for the big
Cornhusker-Gopher battle Saturday. To
hs ndle this large number Of people Mr..
Eager has arranged to have fifty Omaha
High school cadets in uniform as ushers
and besides a large number of police. Seats
will be provided for over 5000 people and
the remainder will rave to stand along
the side lines.
Governor S~hallenberger notified Mr..
Eager Sunday that he would be on hand
with a party and asked that seats be
reserved for him. This will be done.
Mayor Love of Lincoln will also be present
in another box with a large party OF Lin
coin officials. Ex-Mayor Brown OF Lin
coin, who is also a strong rooter for the
Cornhuskers, has already secured a box.
Mayor Dahlman of Omaha will also wilt
ness the game and may make the first
kickoff IL he has time to practice up a
little this week.
A block of seats was put on sale Satur-
day afternoon at Lincoln and a long line
OF buyers stood in front Of the chart all
afternoon, indicating a large sale from
tina city. Not only will a couple Of thou
saLd students be on hand. but also large
numbers of citizens of Lincoln.
Cornhusker Camp Brighter.
Nebraska's crushing defeat Of Knox yes
terday has thrown the Cornhusker camp
into a joyful mood and many OF the stu
dents are encouraged to believe their
eleven stands a good chance of holding
Minnesota to a low score in the annual
clash at Omaha next Saturday.
The easy time the Gophers had In de-
feating Ames at Minneapolis yesterday,
though, has again warned King Cole
that Minnesota is a powerful foot ball az
gregatlon this season and that 1t will take
a marvellous machine to prevent an over,
whelming defeat when the Gophers are
met on a dry field.
Coach Cole will not venture to say that
his men will beat the Gophers, but he
announced yesterday that he would begin
training his pupils this afternoon to break
up the Minnesota offensive plays. Work
will probably take place at the state farm
all week. where secret practice will be the
order. 1t is understood the Nebraska
coach has several new plays that he will
uncork and these will be given to the team
on the first day of practice.
Nebraska's only hope of holding the
Gophers to a low score is to stop the won
derful playing Of the backfield, in which
McGovern, Pickering and johnson have
starred in the games against Iowa and
Ames.
King" Cole says these men will rave to
be checked or else the Cornhuskers will be
beaten by a big score. 1t was McGovern
and Johnson who plowed through the Of
Tense Of Ames yesterday and, during the
first half, completely outclassed the men
from Iowa. There was no stopping the two
Gopher backs and had there been no rain
in the second half it is very probable that
Ames would have been crushed as badly
as Iowa was on the previous Saturday.
Cole More Confident.
"When It is remembered" said king
Cole, in talking over the game, that Ames
made its down but twice and then on end
runs, 1t will be seen how powerful the
Gophers are. Ames is heavy, yet 1t could
not penetrate that Minnesota line. And its
own line could not stand up under the
charges Of the Gopher backs.
1T surely is a hard task the Cornhuskers
have before them in getting ready for
Minnesota. We have some good plays
though, and my energies this week will be
devoted to building up a defense that will
stop the charges OF the fast Gopher backs
1 believe Nebraska can hold Minnesota tc
two to~uchdowns.'
All the Cornhuskers came out OF the game
with Knox in fine condition. Not a mar
was injured and the entire eleven will star
with no men on the hospital list.
The success of the forward pass and on,
side kick as used by the Cornhuskers
against Knox elated King" Cole, who be-
lieves these two plays will be good ground
gamers against Minnesota.
Most of the practice this week will b
devoted to perfecting the team in the use
Of these two plays. TO get these play;
down pat is Nebraska's only hope for scor
Ing on the Gophers and the Cornhusker'
intend TO work like real fiends all during
the week in order to have these plays 81
we'll learned that they will be able to exc
cute them with accuracy and precision.
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