Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-02
SEATS FOR TEN THOUSAND
Eager and Rourke Getting Ready for
Minnesota Nebraska Rooters.
APPLICATIONS ARE POURING IN
Crowds VIII Come in from Towns
within Radius of Couple Hum
dred MiIes-ExcursiOn of
Lincoln Students.
PUBLICATIONS. ARE POURING IN

Lincoln Students.
Preparations are now under way for
the erection of the huge banks of seats
which will be necessary to
date all the people who want to see the
annual foot ball game between the teams
of the University of Nebraska and the
University of Minnesota.
College men of Omaha, Council Bluffs
and South Omaha all feel grateful to
Manager Earl o. Eager for arranging to
play the game in Omaha and Indications
are theye will show their appreciation by
turning out in unprecedented numbers.
Omaha has always been noted for clean
sports and 1t kept up that reputation
last year by turning out about 1000
strong to the Ames-Nebraska game. The
news of that crowd and of the fine way
in which the crowd was handled has
gone broadcast over the land, giving
Omaha a vast amount of good advertising.
From a financial standpoint the Corn
husker-Gopher game is sure to be a sue
cess and the crowd will be limited only
by the number of seats Manager Eager
and Pa Rourke are able to build at Vim
ton park. where the game will be played.
Applications for blocks of seats are
already pouring in and the management
is forced to file these until it is found
just how the seating of the stands will
be arranged. Plans are now under way
to accommodate 10000 people and this
may be inadequate.
Omaha has a vast popultion to draw
on for such an event and besides Omaha
has more college bred men than any
other city of its size in the country.
Lincoln Gfmdanfg hy fba tIo,,.,.a. III
be on hand, headed by the cadet band,
and Minnesota will send down a big dele
cation. There is hardly a town within
a radius of a couple of hundred miles
that will not send a delegation to the
game, which is recognized as the big
gest foot ball game in the Missouri val
ley this year.
The inspiring sight Of college youths
banked twenty tiers high on either side
OF the immense gridiron is one never to
be forgotten. The varied colors and the
m~egaphones and the bands and the veil
masters cannot be seen on any other oc-
casion.
Three Regulars Disabled,
Three Of Nebraska's veterans were placed
on the hospital list today and the Corn
huskers will go into the opening game of
the season at Lincoln with South Dakota
today with but three letter men in the
lineup.
Perrin, center; Harte, guard, and Bent
ley quarter, had to quit practice. Perrin
has a disabled shoulder and was ordered to
the hospital for five or six days. Bentley,
who has been depended upon to run the
team at quarter, is i'll in bed with stomach
trouble, and probably will be out of con-
dition for several days. Harte has an in
Jured leg, that will keep him from the
game until next week.
The loss OF these three men is likely
to prove fatal to Nebraska's chances Of
winning the initial game. King Cole, in
deed admitted last evening that the
chances for the Cornhusker victory are
very slim.
The prospects for winning the game
would be anything but brilliant IL the
Cornhusker coach were able to place his
best team in the field. With three stars
out OF the game the chances for winning
favor the visitors.
The Cornhusker rooters last night felt.
for the first time in years, that their eleven
is going to lose to the weakest eleven on
the schedule. The South Dakota team is
composed of eleven veterans, who out
"~@e- $3.50 " 1--WE pOuNllEr dIlu
the local rooters are unable to reconcile
themselves to the belief tina the light Ne
braska eleven can win against a heavier
aggregation. If the Cornhuskers win by
four points the rooters and coaches will
be elated.
King Cole announced the following
lineup last evening; Lofgren, right end;
Johnson, right taokIe; wendstrand, right
guard: Sturmer. center; Shonka, left guard
Temple, left tackle; Chauner, left end;
Frank, quarter; Better, left half; Rath.
bone, tullback; s-turtznegger, right half,
Mayor is shy one hour Of university
credit. In case he gets that made up. III
will be permitted to play right end fol
part OF the game.
The Cornhuskers were given their fina
scrimmage last evening and found tn,
scrubs an exceedingly hard proposition
But one touchdown was scored, and tina
came as a result Of a forward pass from
Frank to Beltzer I'm which the C~ornhuske
captain ran thirty yards 70 the goal.
on the offense the varsity could do moth
ing with the scrub line and was forced Il
resort TO open plays all the time. The sec
ond eleven. on the other hand, found tn
vsrsity's line rather weak and made sewers
good gains.
Coach Whitmore arrived in Lincoln las
evening with his South Dakota Coyote!
He said all his men were in the best q
physical condition and hat they expecte
to defeat the C~ornhuskers.
I'VE outweigh Nebraska, and II the bea