Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25
GREAT DEARTH
OF TRACK MEN
the foot ball men will play on a sridlron
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OF their own. for a new athletic field on
an addition to the present campus will he
fitted up by them. The last legisla-
ture appropriated money to buy a new
field and already the board OF regents has
bought several lots on the proposed site
for the new grounds. Condemnation pro
ceedings have been started against some
of the property owners. who are trying to
block the regents, in order to hasten them
into selling their land at a reasonable
price.
The legislature appropriated only enough
money 10 buy one block north Of the
campus, but the athletic board is trying to
raise a small additional sum for buying
two other lots in a second block. The ac-
QUESTION of these two extra lots is neces-
sary to the carrying out OF the present
plans for a field. The block which the
regents have funds for purchasing is
between T and L streets and east Of
Tenth. including the ground on Eleventh
street. This two additional lots the ath-
letic board seeks are east of Eleventh
street adjoining this first block.
If these two additional lots can be bought
the field will be made to run east and west.
A regulation gridiron will be placed in
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Circling around the %gridiron will be placed
a cinder path track for the spring athletics.
on each end of the grounds this track
will be fifty-two feet from the gridiron.
From one end OF the field to the other the
distance will be 47O feet. A space Of ten
feet will separate the cinder path track
and the g~ridiron on the south and north
sides.
Cement Grandstand.
A permanent cement grandstand will be-
erected north of the gridiron in the center
Of the remaining space. Opposite the
grandstand on the south side of the field
removable bleachers will be erected. In
front of the grandstand and in the north
west corner Of the gridiron the base ball
diamond will be located for use in the
spring. When the field is given over for
a base ball diamond the bleachers will be
taken down and that space on the south
side VIII make part of the outfield for the
base ball men. Tennis courts will be laid
out in the northeast corner Of the grounds
between the east fence and the end of the
grandstand.
Unless the two additional lots in the east
block can be secured there will be barely
room for the regulation gridiron in the
original block and the cinder path would
have to be cut short by many feet. The
failure to secure these lots would also
force the tennis association to do without
courts on the new field. The west block,
which is certain to be purchased, is 900
feet wide; Eleventh street is 40 feet across
and the width of a lot in the east block
I is so feet. With all this land the field
would be 40 feet long. Without tho two
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APO feet. As the latter size is too small for
laying out the right kline OF a field for the
university, a great effort will be made to
raise money to buy the two additional
lots.
The board of regents at a meeting Thurs
day discussed the problem OF securing
these two extra lots, and doubted whether
1t would be able to appropriate the neces-
sary money for buying them. 1t, low
ever, directed its finance committee to
learn as soon as possible just what the
one original block will cost. If the sum
that will have to be paid for this Is not
too great, the regents may have money
enough left to buy the other two lots. Ir
case they do not. though, an attempt viii
be made to raise funds in Lincoln anC
among the alumni of the university TO
getting this extra ground and permitting
the athletic board to carry out its plan
for giving Nebraska an adequate athlete
field by next fall.