Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-19
NEBRASKA STARTS MONDAY
Ready to lnsugurate 1909 Foot Ball
Training Season.
JAMES HARVEY SIGNS CONTRACT
VIII Assist king cole. who Arrives
Today from East, In Coaching
COMMUNICATIVE Field
H. Ready.

with the new Nebraska field in shape for
practice the University Of Nebraska foot
ball squad will %inaugurate the training
season OF 1902 tomorrow afternoon at Lin
coin under Coach king Cole. Fiv OF
six veterans and many new candidates will
be on hand for the opening day. Other
N men, and many other letter aspirants
will report during the week. so that by
the opening of school on Monday. septem.
Der q. there will probably be a squad OF
seventy men at work.
The old men who are sure to be ready for
the initial training work are Captain Belt
ger. Temple, Collins. Bentley, johnson.
Harte and Ewing. Birkner and Frum are
expected to report TO the coach later In
the week.
Coach Cole will reach Lincoln from his
home In the east today and will have a
conference with Manager Eager this even
ing concerning the prospects for building
up a machine to defeat Minnesota and
Kansas.
king" Cole is to have James Harvey.
last fairs captain, to assist him in making
a winning team. Harvey, who is in
Omaha, Yesterday signed up a contract for
the fall work at the Cornhusker school,
For Building Up Line.
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charge Of the line men and will be relied
upon to bring these players into shape to
hold against the fierce attacks Of the
Gopher backs. Harvey received a thorough
training under Coaches Booth. Foster and
Cole, and understands the way the line
men should play their positions In order
to do the most effective work
Captain Buck" Beltzer Is enthusiastic
about the prospects for a great team.
For a while during the summer the Ne
braska captain was very sick and was
confined to his bed for a few days. He
reports that he is feeling fine now. though,
and that he will be in shape to play a good
game. lie weighs 145 pounds and is taxi
ing on weight each day.
Captain Beltzer ia especially bent on
beating Kansas, and thus getting revenge
for last falls defeat.
Il certainly am going to give foot ball
all l have this fall" he says, and II that
Kansas team wins, it will know ii has been
in a fierce game. The truth is that our
fellows just have to beat those Jayhawkers
this fall, and am going to pound that
thought into them until that game is
over"
The captain says he has been practicing
this summer and that he believes he will
be In condition to do some excellent punt
ing for the Cornhuskers.
Jack Temple, who probably will succeed
Ktoger at fullback on the varsity, was in
Omaha this week looking as though he
could mash a foot ball line without half
trying. He weighs about fifteen pounds
more than he did last fall. lie left for
Lincoln yesterday and will be present
for the first n%ractice.
WOIcOtt to BE On Deck.
One of the substitutes of last year, VOL
colt, who. early in the summer said he
would not be able to return to school until
the middle Of October. is to be in Lin
coin next week. Wolcott is a 2OO-pounder
and is likely to be picked to fill one Of the
vacant places i'm the line.
Birkner, who sped off TO Alaska last
spring. may be late in returning. 1t has
been limited that he has gone on up to the
north pole to settle the C~ook-Peary contro-
versy by bringing back both the American
flags that the explorers tackled to the icy
post. Manager Eager denies such a re-
port and declares that the star half will
be in Lincoln sometime this month.
Sidney Collins, center. may not be on
deck for the first practice. but he will
drop into Lincoln within the next week.