Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
ASSISTANT COACH SITUATION
Nebraska Considers Two Men for
Coles Aid.
PLAYERS TRAINING IN SUMMER
COrnhuskers Using the PiEskin In
Getting Hardened for Kansas
and Minnesotn-Frum co
ne Back Again.

BE Back Again
At Lincoln the Cornhusker foot pail
mentors are bothering themselves just now
with the selection Of an assistant coach
for the eleven this fall. once the whole
affair was settled and Johnny Bender, the
greatest player that ever wore a Nebraska
uniform was to work with King Cole.
Then Johnny received a flattering offer
to take charge Of the Haskell red In
dams and he threw up the Cornhusker
job TO accept the training Of the redskins
at a large salary-much larger than his
Alma Mater could afford to pay.
Now the Nebraska athletic board is con-
sidering two other applicants, both for
mer Nebraska football captains and stars.
one Of them was a member OF the Corn
husker eleven six or seven years ago and
at that time was one OF the best back field
men on the team. The other veteran was
a member OF the more recent teams of the
state school. Both worked under both and
secured the valuable training from the
old Princeton player that would make them
valuable assistants to Cole, who is a
Michigan man and who needs an aid that
can pound work into the line men.
Either of the two applicants would be
satisfactory to the Nebraska undergrad
yates and alumni, for 1t Is thought either
would help in rounding out a winning
! eleven this fall. II is believed either could
work in harmony with king Cole, and
that will be a big factor in Nebraska's
coaching this season-harmony among the
men who have the training Of the play
ers in charge.
Delay In Getting Field.
While in Omaha last week, making ar
rsngements for the Minnesota and Has
keil games that are to be played here,
Manager Eager announced that some delay
had been met with in getting the new
Cornhusker field in shape for the fall
games. Some Of the property owners on
the site condemned for the new play
grounds have blocked the deal by starting
litigation and getting out restraining or
ders against the athletic department OF
the university.
This action will probably keep the state
school from opening the season on its
own grounds and will force It to use An
telope park, the Western league base ball
grounds, for a few games again this year.
Manager Eager is Of the opinion, though,
that the home field will be in shape for a
grand opening on October 81, when Iowa
comes to Lincoln for the annual contest.
Il Inc new Ilslu Will be III shape ~ NhdA
practice can be held there all year and
there will be no need to journey to Ante
lope park for training. The field now, in
fact, is in such shape that it could be used
for practice.
Some of the Cornhusker players are doing
a little preseason training this summer.
Before they left school last spring all the
veterans and the most promising new men
were given foot balls to practice with dur
5 ing their leisure vacation hours.
a Captain Better and Robert Carroll,
3 candidate for half or end, are working to-
gether on a farm in northern Nebraska
a and report that they have been developing
5 themselves In handling the ball and in
) punting. Captain Buck" is to be Ne
/ braska's great punter this year and prob
ably one of the best in the west. He also
/ win bel the chief dependence of the Corn.
t huskers for throwing the oval on the for
= ward pass, and it is to perfect himself in
I these lines that he is working this summer
: Carroll for END Job.
8 Bobby Carroll is going to try for an END
n position and is praeticing to receive th'
t ball on a forward pass when thrown from
e Captain Beltzer. Carroll Is speedy and
d stands an excellent show of getting one Of
y the .e%xtremities Of the eleven.
l. Sidney Collins. the husky center for tn,
( last two years, is putting on weight and
IA strength by working I'm a mine at Lead
S. ID. He is said to be getting as stronl
n as an OK. Collins is trying to get int,
st form to outplay the Terrible Swed,
Carlson OF the Kansas eleven. who did tn
topping act with Sidney in the Kansai
game last fall.
" A brave fire laddie for the summer &
n John Johnson, right end on last year
u team. He is a member OF the Lincoln fir,
department and has been pushing the en-
gines up and down o street Just TO keel
in form this summer. Out back Of tn
Q street engine house he is daily fallini
all over a pigskin, and he thinks now tina
the ball never will get away from him Of
a tumble in a game this coming season.
" For about thirty seconds a few week
&c ago Johnny thought he never was goinI
10 to get a chance to lick Kansas. He so
he into a fire in his own engine house. TIL
angry flames caught his clothing an
were Just burning the life out OF him wher
other brave laddies came to his rescue an
put out the blaze. Johnny was burned
little around the shoulders and had to la
cs off a week. Now he is in fine conditio
50 again and is dreaming of q Jayhawke
victory.
a Temple Before the village.
Jack Temple is showing the village boy
. at Lexington how wonderful a foot ba
~ hero really is. Jack has one OF the oval
and is daily pounding his head against
stone wall to get hardened for the Mir
a nesota game. Last fall Temple was su
Is, fullback. but he was placed in the Gophs