Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-24

MAY BREAK WITH BIC SEVEN
Table Rule Gives Nebraska Graceful
Way to Withdraw.
BOARDS ACTION CAUSES GOSSIP
II Cornhuskers stick 60 Position Conc
terence VIII Have 20 Reverse
Itself or Lose One
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the foot ball training table and vrnnneU
base ball question this week has caused
more omm on the campus and in sth-
letfc circles of Lincoln than any athletic
occurrence at the state school since the
upheaval last spring which resulted when
the reform forces secured tho dismissal of
two prominent faculty members from
service on the athletic board.
Nebraska's demand that the t~ralnina
table be retained in foot ball Ia so positively
defined that the followers Of the university
sports are predicting that unless the Mis-
souri, valley conference agrees with the
~Cornhuskers there will be one less school
IN the present big Seven" They have
good reasons for believing this will be
true. for at the present time the sent-
ment OF several Of the members OF thu
board Is that Nebraska never should have
entered the conference. In opposing aboli-
ton OF the training table It is believed
these men see a loophole through which
Nebraska can now gracefully withdraw
from the Big Seven"
See LOophoIe for Escape.
The loophole through which II will he
possible for the Cornhuskers to leave the
conference is in one of the rules OF that
body dealing with legislation. This rule
says that any school of the conference shall
reserve the right 20 reject any specific
measure adopted by the conference within
sixty days after the report of such measure
has been mailed out to all the big Seven
schools. Any measure SO rejected by any
school shall be reconsidered by the confer
ence at its next session. II the measure
passes by a two-thirds vote Of the confer
ence the school rejecting the measure a
second time shall be suspended from the
conference"
Prominent athletic authorities Of Lincoln
who are close friends Of members of the
athletic board say that should the confer
ence pass the rule for abolishing the train
ing table over the protests OF the Ne
braska representatives the Cornhuskcr
board of control would reject the measure
and thereby suspend itself from the con
ference. The friends of the athletic board
members declare that the outcome OF the
training table now is very likely TO come
to such an end. They say that the Corn
huskers will not stand for the doing away
with the table, and that the only solution
! to the problem which will satisfy the Ne
braska board will be to keep the table in
foot ball. They say that too many OF the
other schools favor abolishing the special
foot ball food, and that the vote is bound
to be against the wishes OF the Corn
huskers.
May swing other schools.
Some OF the more conservative followers
of the Cornhusker athletics, however. be-
lieve that Nebraska's stand for the train
ing table will result in swinging enough
votes over to the side of the Cornhuskers
to defeat the final measure for doing away
with the special foot ball feed. Kansas
was the only school that voted to keep the
training table at the Kansas City meeting
when the ballots stood six to one, Ne
brasks's representative, DR.. Clapp, voting
against the table.
Now that Nebraska has changed its vote
and sided with Kansas, certain Of the Ne
braska rooters look for these two schools,
with their great amount of influence, to
swing some other school to their ranks and
thus prevent a two-thirds vote being
secured in favor of a measure to abolish
the training table. If this can be done the
matter will be settled for the present time
and may be kept under cover for two or
three years yet. Iowa. Missouri and Wash
ington universities will make a big fight
to get the table out Of foot ball by next
fall though. and there probably will be
some interesting proceedings in the con-
ference meetings before June.
Summer Base Ball Problem Up.
A meeting Of the conference represen-
tatives will be held in Des Moines tomor-
row, but it is not likely that the training
table question will be taken up then, for
the delegates will likely favor giving all
schools sixty days in which to consider
their final move. The summer base ball
problem will probably be discussed at Des
Moines this time, though.
The sentiment of the Nebraska board at
its meeting on Friday was that any uni
versity athlete should be allowed to play
base ball during the summer as long as he
does not receive money for his services.
The Cornhusker representative to the Des
Moines meeting was instructed 20 secure
lenient rules to govern the summer base
ball question. and Nebraska accordingly
tomorrow will try to get the conference to
give college athletes a fsirer show in play
ing base ball during the summer vacation.
Ames brought up the base ball question at
Kansas City for consideration and the
sentiment of the majority OF the schools at
that time was that no more restrictions
should be placed on the college athletes.
II this sentiment still obtains at Des
Moines Nebraska will have no trouble in
getting more liberal allowances for tina
students who want to keep in training by
playing amateur base ball during the sum-
mer.
Goal ThrOwerH Ready for Kansas.
The Cornhusker basket ball tossers Will
try to revenge themselves in two games
with Kansas university at the armory next
week for the recent defeats suffered at the
hands OF the Jayhawkers in Lawrence.
The contests will be played on Friday and
Saturday evenings. Just now the pros
poets for turning the tables on the men
from the Sunflower state appear very
r~oseate from the viewpoint Of the Ne
brssks students.
Since the recent tour Of the Cornhusker
quintet into Kansas the players have been
in constant training and have, according
TO the calculations Of Dr. Clapp. improved
their work by fully % per cent. SO well
are the Nebraska men shooting baskets
and guarding now that their coach believes
they Will, with an even break Of luck, de-
feat their great rivals from Lawrence.
In the preparation for Drake this week.
DR.. Clapp incidentally drilled his pupils
in special plays invented to avoid the
speedy guards Of the Kansas five for next
weeks games. The close guarding Of the
Jayhawkers at Lawrence was the main
reason for the downfall OF the Corn
huskers. Neither OF the NsbrAaAA for
wards In those two EA1aa 49, able to sue