Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-29
NEBRASEA"N" MEN ORGANIZE
Winners Of Athletic Honors to Form
a New Society.
LEADER WILL BE PRESIDENT
Man Who wins Greatest umb Of
Firsts Each Year 60 ne Head of
the socIety-wOrkOut OF
Track Candidates.

LINCOLN. March &-tspecial.)-A meet
ing Of all the Nebraska athletes at the
State university who have won letters In
any Of the Cornhusksr sports will be held
tomorrow afternoon tor the purpose OF
organising an association Of II men. The
aim OF The new society will be 20 elevate
the honor and glory that goes with the
wiring OF a ~Cornhusker letter. All men who
secure a umera in representing the uni
verslty in any Of its recognized games will
be eligible to membership in the new So
ciety.
The movement for the new association
was started at a gathering NC captains and
ex-oaptains OF Cornhusker teOms, held at
the university last week. At that time
tentative rules and regulations were laid
down for the society. These plan to make
the president Of the new Organization the
athlete who each year wins the largest
number of letters. For Instance, if one man
achieves first honors IN rack. basket ball
and foot ball, which chances to be the
most ms won by any single student In
a year. he will become the head OF the
society for the following year. Provision
was made for including all alumni M
wearers as members OF the new society.
At the gathering OF he a.letes called for
| NIIIOTTONs - e VI IhlNG wiz ~ =
and a president for next year selected.
One Of the rules to he accepted will dis
courage the conspicuous display of the
M by it's wearers. AZ the present time
the university campus is overrun by stud
ents who carry around q university letter,
| either on a sweater. on a cap or in some
| other place where Il giares forth to free
exhibition. The new society of the letter
men will try to secure a conservative
wearing and display Of the letter on all
occasions by the students Of the university
The custom which IL in vogue Just now
among the IN" men OF allowing the co-eds
to wear the sweaters and jerseys which
the former have won will be abolished.
workout Of Track Candidates.
The campaign Of the track candidates
will start wednesday afternoon. Previous
to the formal opening OF the training sea-
son all of the candidates will assemble IN
Memorial hall on Tuesday to receive pre-
rminary instructions. This meeting will
be addressed by Coach Or. Clapp, Captain
Mcdonald and others. DR.. Clapp will Civ
the men an idea Of what they will have
to do and will assign the practice hours
The date for the preliminary meet for the
selection Of the regular tract team has
been set for May J..
The reduction of the valuation Of the
field goal by the national foot ball rulei
committee as New York yesterday meets
with the high approval of all the Ne
braska athletic mentors. THE C~ornhusker'
nave never profited by the goals kicked
from field. but on the contrary have beer
made to suffer a great deal.
At Iowa City last fall the Hawkeyei
nearly won the game from the Cornhusker'
on field goals kicke by Kirk. They die
not endanger the Nebraska goal line, bu1
made two drop kicks and barely missed
a third. which. IL It had been made. would
have put the iowa eleven one point ahead
LOT the .Cornhuskers. Iowa was clearly out
played i'm every department of the game
with the exception Of the kicking. and had
the contest gone 10 Coach aCtlin's mel
It would have-been undeserved.
II the points counted for The field goal
had been only three, instead OF four
Iowa's score would have been but si'
and two more goals from the field would
have been necessary for taking the con
test from king Coles pupils.