Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-26
COLE is DRILLING HARD
Tells His Men They Simply Must Wiz
the Kansas Game.
EXPECTS IT TO BE HARD TASK
Drilling Member in squad on Hand
ling Punts and Also I'm Getting
Down Under Them to Pre-
vent Returns.

LINCOLN, oct &-(Special)-"King''
Cole started preparations for the Kansas
game, one week from Saturday by putting
the Cornhuskers through some elementary
work today in catching the ball and getting
rapidly down the field under punts. In
the Minnesota and Iowa games the Ne
braska players on several occasions made
a mess OF receiving the oval, when II was
booted to them and as a consequence the
Cornhuskers suffered severely, allowing
both Minnesota and Iowa to score on
missed punts. The slowness OF the Ne
braska ends and other players in getting
down under the punts in the Iowa game
gave the Hawkeyes excellent chances for
returning the ball long distances. on ex-
changes of punts the Iowa team always
gained several yards, for they never per
mitted a Cornhusker runner to take the
bali back any great distance.
Cole has set his mind on having the Ne
braska men perfected in practically all de-
partments of the game before Kansas is
met and he says he can afford to spend
a little time now teaching them how to
do work, they should have had down pat
weeks ago.
A drill in some OF the new plays took
up part of the practice period and the
Cornhuskers managed to do very satisfac-
tory work. Cole did not plan to train hia
men hard today and after two hours
work he allowed them to return to the
gymnasium.
He had them report at the training
table a little earlier than usual in order
to give them a long blackboard lecture, H.
Illustrating the way the new plays should
be used. From now on until the Jay
hawker game the training table lectures
will be q regular part Of the C~ornhuskers'
daily drill.
All Energies on Kansas.
King Cole is determined his men shall
defeat Kansas and he is going after things
with a vow that every player must pay
strict attention to all details and be at
every practice until the last minute.
w cannot afford to stuff one minute
from now on he told his squad this aft
ernoon. Kansas has one Of the best teams
in the west and has a great amount OF
material. 1t will take every effort we
can put forth to defeat that team and l
want every man to feel It is his personal
duty to get all things ready for the Jay
hawkers.
After the middle of this week our prac-
tice periods will be longer and the drill will
be stricter. 1 intend to make you fellows
beat Kansas If it is in you. We must be in
tip top form for that game, and l believe
we can be at that point"
1t is with the spirit voiced in that talk
that Cole is goiL.e after the scalp of the
~Jayhawkers and it is believed in local
foot BAH circles that he will get that OBJ
ject, but only after a hard fight.
Every Cornhusker came out OF the Iowa
battle without injuries, and all but Ewing
were on the gridiron today. This big fell
low will be on hand tomorrow. Bentley,
who was kept out of the game Saturday,
is getting into condition and was with the
squad today. t
Reserved seats for the Kansas game GO
on sale at Harley's drug store in this city
tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. 1t is be-
lieved the advance sale for the game will
be large and the seats are placed on sale
tarly to give buyers \ chance to get res2Ive.
lions made in good time. Mail orders ad-
dressed to Manager Earl Eager will be
filled. Reserved seats for the game will
sell at $1.5O.