Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21
NIXUP OVER TIE ANES DATE
Trouble Supposed to Have Been Set
tied Breaks Out Again.
TWO SCHOOLS MAY NOT MEET
Nebraska Has Only One other Date
October Thirty, at Omaha, and
mi Has Been offered to
the Iowa school.

: LINCOLN, Neb., Mareht 20-fSpecial.)-
New complications nave just arisen in the
athletic relations between Nebraska and
Ames, which may keep the two schools
from meeting on the gridiron next fall.
Ames brought on the trouble this time by
refusing TO play the Cornhuskers on No
vember 10, after once agreeing to that
date. Manager Eager of Nebraska received
word yesterday from Prof. Byerts of the
Aggie school stating that he could not com
plete arrangements for holding the contest
on November 10
To say that action on the part of Ames
has made the Nebraska management mad
is to put it mildly. for the change OF the
date for the Ames game win necessltate a
shifting OF all the games on the Cornhusker
schedule. Manager Eager has offered 10
play the AggieS on October 20 in Omaha
and unless they agree to taht date they
viii be left off the State universities scheu-
ule for 1909. The Nebraska manager is
much put out with the way the Iowa
state college athletic mentors have been
acting and he is not going to have any
more quibbling with them. He said this
morning that he had telegraphed Prof.
Byerts, offering to play in Omaha on the
last Saturday I'm October. Unless that date
and place is agreed to by the Aggie man
ager the two schools will not meet this
coming season.
The trouble over settling upon a date
for their annual game dates back two
months, when Nebraska and Ames first
began negotiating for a meeting next fall.
At that time Manager Eager thought the
Aggies wanted to play on November IL
and he held that day open for them and
scheduled the other contests that are 10
fill out the C~ornhuskers' list Of major
games. November was given to Kansas
for a game in Lincoln. About three weeks
ago, after Ames had completed all OF its
schedule with the exception Of booking
the annual game with Nebraska. Prof.
Byerts wrote Manager Eager, saying that
the Aggies woul meet the Cornhuskers in
Ames on November 6. Havink Kansas
booked for that day Nebraska could not
accept the date proposed by rPof. Byerts.
Iowa Gig Back.
Ames was set on keeping that day, though,
and but for the Intervention of Iowa. the
two schools probably would have decided
at that time not TO play next fall. The
University of Iowa had a game scheduled
with Ames for November 10 and offered
to switch It to a week earlier, November l6
in order to allow Nebraska and the AggieS
to get together on that date. This satisfied
the managers at Ames and Nebraska and
November 10 was settled upon
But since that time, Iowa, which had a
tentative agreement to play Drake on No
vember G. did some baeksiiding and told
the Aggie school that the original date for
its game would be kept. This then forced
Ames to play Iowa on November I3 OF
cancel the game. Prof. Byerts decided thai
instead Of making any trouble for the Uni
verify OF Iowa that he would give Nebrasha
the worst end of the deal ana try TO make
Manager Eager accept November 6. The
~Cornhusker manager, however, will not ask
Kansas 20 change It's date from November
6, for he knows the Jayhawkers could moi
do so even If they desired.
II Ames will play Nebraska on October
80 in Omaha. the schedule Of big games for
the Cornhuskers will be completed. lows
will be played in Lincoln October . and
Minnesota will be met a week later. ethel
In Omaha OF Minneapolis October q viii
be an open date. Then the Ames game will
come 20 Omaha on October 30 and on No
vember 6 Kansas will come 10 Lincoln
Denver university will be played In Denver
on November -. the Saturday before thai
being kept open in o-der 10 give the Corn
huskers . rest - n