Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14
DENVER CANE IS A PUzLLER
Contest at Colorado Capital is Making
Comhuskers Nervous.
LEADING TEAM OF MOUNTAINS
westsra Team Has Reputation for
RunnisG In Professionals Despite
EnEibiIity Rule-MinnesOta
Araia Next Year.

AEaia Next Year.
LINCOLN, Nov. 1S.-CspeciaL)-Foliowers
Of the Nebraska foot ball team are anE-
iousiy awaiting the outcome Of the game
betWesn the Cornhuskers and Denver uni
versity at the Colorado capital next Sat
urdny. when the standards Of Missouri
valley and Rocky mountain foot ball will
be tested.
Zach eleven Is representative Of the
elevens in its division Of the foot ball map
and the contest at Denver will be an in
tersectionai affair which will settle the
supremacy between the Missouri Valley
conference and the Colorado schools.
In its section the Denver aggregation
looms I'D % q second time champion
within two years Of Colorado and the
neighborlng states. Last fan, under the
coaching OF Deacon Koehler, who Is a
former Nebraska player, the Ministers
cleaned up every team Il met, with the
exception Of the Carlisle Indian braves. The
Indians. the eleven that defeated Nebraska
ny more than thirty points, met the Denver
foot ball men a few days after their con-
fict at Lincoln and had the hardest kim
OF q time 20 win the game. Even though
they lest, the Ministers outplayed the
pupils Of Coach Warner in several depart
msnts and kept their goal line clean, the
scoring being 8 to 4 and the Indians secur-
ing their tallies on two goals from field.
Denver. this autumn, has kept up the
pace set last year and has not met defeat
by any Colorado or western eleven. A week
ago II met the powerful team from the
school Of Mines and surprised even It's own
coach by rolling up twenty-five points for
itself and keeping the Miners from scoring.
The School Of Mines has a strong team this
season and the whalIopins II received from
Koehltrs prides IL convincing evidence that
env IL likely to be acclaimed champions
Of Colorado for the second consecutive
year.
Nebraska Representative Team.
Nebraska is not the champion eleven OF
the Missouri valley, but its splendid show
ing in the Kansas game, when the jay
hawkers we're played to a standstill and
almost held TO a tie score, entitle it tC
be ranked second to Kansas in the Bis
Seven standings. Its fierce fight agains
the men from Lawrence proved that 4
lacked q sensational foot ball man lk,
johnson; In other respects It was as strong
or even tronge han It's opponents.
The record Of he Kansas encounter
klNGN Ant COluluShtIN lnG .IkHnh 10 Di
called an eleven that is truly representa-.
tive Of the best the Missouri valley school
can produce, when they 80 to Denve
next saturday they will be fighting 10
the local conference and its standard o
foot ball, trying to put the Big Seven
OF this section on a higher plane thal
the Colorado schools, It will be Colorad
against the Missouri valley and the sec
49, 49, - LII 49, -
the other for the present season.
In this meeting with Denver university
Nebraska students. however, see moro tina
a sectional strife; they look upon it a
a ohanee for the Cornhuskers to rstriev
some Of their honors. lost this season i
the tie games with South Dakota an
Iowa and in the defeat at the hands
the distinguished Jayhawkers. Nsbrask
has played six OF its eight schedule
games and has won but q single cor
test. the one with Notre Dame.
Such a record does not appeal to tn
Nebraska students sense OF what foot ba
matters ought to be at this local schoC
end most OF the under graduates an
alumni are demanding better condition
for the Cornhusker eleven In the futur,
They viii not stand for a losing foot ba
team and the minute the aggregate
begins to lose they begin TO complain.
See Chance for Glory.
But II the Cornhuskers can defeat Denve
a team that every Nebraskan knows II OF
Of the best in the west, part Of the pa
viii be forgotten. Up 70 the present tin
the season OF 1919 lie a failure. Only vi,
tories over Denver and Haskell can kee
II from being the worst fall that a Corr
hhsker eleven has gene through within II
last fifteen years. BY defeating Denve
champion eleven OF the Rocky niountaI
region, Nebraska Nould achieve VIVA I
Colorado eleven has done during the la
two years and would be hailed as one
the best elevens IN the west outside Il
Chicago conference,
Minnesota a year ago suffered defeat
the game with Chicago, was held to a I
by Nebraska and barely escaped from d
feat in games with three other school
All Minneapolis declared the eleven Il
poorest the Gopher school had support
In ten years. Then, in the final game
the fall, Williams got his players togeth
and they took the measure OF the Re
Carlisle bunch. This signal victory at {
end OF the season established Mlnnesoti
place in western foot ball for ESOs, brlr
Ing II up from an inferior rank and Dis
lng II close to Chicago, the western cha.
pion.
Tn conditions a. Nebraska this fan 4
nearly parallel with those that obtain
At Minnesota last fall. The early part
the fan has been a failure and there Is Z
hard game remaining which. II won, '
20 a Ions ways towards putting Nebrau
into q position In keeping with the dign
OF this great state Institution.
Since the grand playing OF the Co
huskers IN the encounter with the u
hawksrs the Nebraska students have
great amount OF confidence In the abn
Of their team to play Denver a hard gar
IN some quarters the students expect
see Coles men win. and they will be Il