Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28
King Cole is Blamed by Many for the
Poor Showing Made by
the Team.
WHERE DOES THE BLAME Lief
Off Season Thought to Be the Result
Of Lack Of Proper Subs.
FOOT BALL SQUAD IS LARGE
Too Little Attention Paid to the Rudi-
ments of the Great Game.
BENDER T0UTED FOR COACH
Some students DON'T Like His
Strenuous Efforts to Beat Them
vtth His Haskell Indians
on Turkey Day.
WHERE DOES THE BLAME LIE

LINCOLN, Nov. q. - Especially - VIII
King Cole be retained as coach Of the
Cornhusker foot ball team next fall?
Probably there is not a student at the
state school, or a man in Lincoln who
takes an interest in CornhuslSer foot ball.
that has not asked this question several
times during the last two weeks.
will Cole be hired again?" There have
been some heated discussions over that
query, and nobody has been able to an
swer 1t, for there is no one who knows
what the University Athletic board will
do in regard to keeping Cole.
The 1909 foot ball season Is regarded as
a failure, and because of this fact there
is a demand in certain quarters, both
among the students and among the out
side followers Of the eleven. that a sue
cessor be secured for King Cole.
by his work this fall" It is asserted,
Cole has proved a poor coach, and II
Nebraska is to have a winning eleven next
fall II must get a new man to train the
players. This Is Coles third year here,
and he has proved that he is incapable
OF handling Cornhusker foot ball in the
right way"
This Is a fair sample Of the arguments
that the anti-Cole people advance for hav-
ing the Nebraska coach fired" Nebraska
has not had a winning eleven this fau,
and the blame for this is laid at the
hands OF the coach. Coles critics have
not stopped to consider that a coach can
not put out a winning eleven unless he
has the material. 1t is only the surface
conditions that the outsiders see, and II
there is not a winning eleven. Of course,
the coach is at fault.
Nebraska "a NOT thC nnIv school 90 ryhtoh
a coach has been asked to resign when
he has not been favored by a winning
eleven. At Minnesota last fall Coach VIII
Hams, with a miserable amount OF ma
terial, produced a losing eleven. It was
tied by Nebraska, defeated by Chicago
and barely pulled out ahead of Ames and
Lawrence. A glorious victory came in
the final game of the fall with the Car
isle Indians, and this served to appease
the wrath Of Williams critics, who had
openly called for him to step aside. The
demand for his resignation was so great.
indeed, that had the Gophers not won
from Carlisle Williams would have been
forced to quit. He was allowed to stay.
however, and this fall gave Minnesota a
winning eleven.
AT Michigan there was the same feeling
toward Fielding II. Yost. although it was
not so openly expressed. The Wolverines
were losers and IL appeared that the
"hurry-up" coach had served his period of
usefulness. But this fall Yost came back
at his critics with the most deadly OF NIL
arguments-a winning team-and took the
champ ship of the west and placed Michi-
gan next to Harvard In the country's foot
ball ranking. From Madison, Wis, come
mutterings against Coach J. A. Barry, sim
liar to those heard in Lincoln against
eKNnaat rnIa no---H- - -
many games and the rooters are sore.
Bender Wants the Job.
Johnny Bender's eleven defeated the
cornhuskers and his partisRns are declar-
ing he Is a better coach than Cole and lust
the man Nebraska needs next fall. Bender
thinks he is the man who can give the
C~ornhuskers a winning eleven. He has
made a statement that he would like the
position, but he has not applied for II, al
though he has asked to be made coach OF
tho Cornhusker base ball team next spring
Bender weakened his chances Thanksgiv-
ing day, when he incurred the disfavor OF
many Nebraska students The former Corn
husker was so bent on winning that he ran
on the field during the game. instructing
his Indians how to play, He made several
OF the Nebraska players mad, and the stu
dents IN the bleachers booted him.
The Nebraska board never has considered
Bender In a very favorable light as a coach
and his chances OF getting the Job are
thought to be slim. Bender, no doubt,
could give Nebraska a winning team next
fall.
Nebraska seems 10 be deficient in the
rudiments OF foot bali and the Cornhuskers
nave not met a team this year but what
was able to show more skill in taekling n
handling the ball.
Something Is radically wrong with a sys-
tenn which shows up each fall short OF
players. Coach Cole has sixty men in uni
form nearly every night on the Cornhusker
field, and yet when a man Is wanted to
fll some position on the team the coach
has 10 devote time 10 teaching tackling
and carrying the ball, which ought to be
devoted to team work.