Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-31
KANSAS MEN THIS WEEK
Coach Kennsdy's Men Will Test Corn
husker Strength.
MEANS HONORs FOR THE SEASON
Coles Men Were Playing or During
Doane Game and COnservinE
strength for supreme
Fight Of Year.

| up AZ the machine which will have to be
| toppled over before the proteges OF Coach
King Cole can assert claim to the title
FOR 1910
Nebraska still has Kansas and Ames to
play, but the Aggies were defeated by
Morningside, the small sioux city college
team and cannot hope to have any claim
on the championship honors this autumn.
Even though the Aggies should come back
INTO form and defeat the Cornhuskers at
Lincoln a week from next SATURDAY, they
| would nave no position OF prominence in
| lhe FOOT ball OF this section OF the country
for this year.
AS conditions now stand Nebraska and
Kansas are the only undefeated elevens of
the Big Seven" organization. They are
the teams that must fight il out for the
reading honors, and the game between them
al Lawrence next SATURDAY viii be the de-
Gliding battle, for It will eliminate one
eieVen from the race, leaving the winner
TO be regarded as the championship or
ganization Of the valley.
Nebraska Lying Low.
since this game will practically settle
lne championship question, more interest
attaches to it than to any other struggle
Of the season. Both teams are treJnad
Tor playing in this game. King" Cole
refused to use mis- best men in the game
against Doane yesterday because he did
not want to run the risk Of having them
crippled and laid out before the great Kan
sas engagement He even permitted the
DoAhe collegtans to hold his players even
III the first half and then let his men make
only single touchdown in the second
division
conserving his mems strength and speed
was Just what he was doing He was think
ing about Kansas the one eleven in all
the west that he really has been seeking
70 ueIeat, Kansas the team that came to
hlhcoln two years ago. when Nebraska
apparently had the championship in its
pocket and Inundated the Cornhuskers
lhat Is the eleven that Cole is after" He
tried to lick 1t last fall, and but for the
redoubtable Johnnie johnson and his lon,
run, would have come close to turning the
trick
To all followers Of the game it is
certainty that Cole played 'possum in
meeting Doane so the showing of that
game does not startle anybody. Every
BODY thinks he is laying for the jay
hawkers, and they are willing to trust in
MS ability to turn out a team that will
whip the Lawrence aggregation to
FRAGILE
In the contest Saturday the Cornhuskers
used nothing but straight football. Those
shlit plays which ran well against the
Denver climbers were kept under cover.
During the week Cole had added many
new plays to his repertory and these were
not even given a trial. When the Corn
huskers go against Kansas, therefore.
they should have large variety Of plays
winch will be entirely new to the oppos-
ing team.
Test for Kennedy
Coach Bert Kennedy of Kansas, OF
course, has been pointing his men for this
engagement with the Cornhuskers Just as |
Cole has been preparing for the game. !
he has long realized that his team will !
be up against one OF the best elevens in |
the west. He also knows that his own
team is not strong as the aggregation
which defeated the Nebraska men by the
bare margin Of a single touchdown last
fall. He must play the best ball of the !
fall and then perhaps, will not be able |
to win. The Cornhuskers have a powerful
line and Kennedy must beat that line II (
he gets q victory.
So far this fall Kansas has not showed
any brand OF football that should push
fear into the Cornhuskers II was an ex- /
tremely weak exhibition that the team |
put up against Drake. In the games be- !
fore that 1t had & hard time getting away
with clean bill. In the contest with
Washburn Saturday it rolled up a fair |
sized score, but the opposing aggregation
was extremely weak having previously
gone down to defeat before minor normal !
schools.
The kansGs-Nebraska game will be |
stubbornly fought No matter what the |
teams have done in the other perform |
ances Of the fall, they can be depended
upon to come into this annual clash with |
strong defense. The side that wins win /
have 10 play a brilliant game
Close Game Expected. \
margin OF a few points will be the |
best that either side can get II Kansas |
should win-and there Is only a remote /
possibility OF such being the case-it will /
have TO do so by the means OF forward |
passes and end runs. Kennedy never has
shown a skilled hand in the development |
Of the pass and he probably will not
have any startling line Of these plays to |
show on Saturday. Nebraska went against
some well developed passes in the Min |
nesOta clash and will be prepared. by |
reason Of this previous experience to
thwart most of Kennedys favorite fllps. !
The Jayhawkers made good with some OF |
the passes i'm the Drake game but the /
Des Molnes school had weak defense I
ana could not do anything with this kind 4
Of plays Nebraska is strong on the de- |
tenslve, and II would not be surprising to
see Coles men intercept and break up |
many passes.
II the Kansas defense is strOng made SO I
for this one game-the score may be kept
low. But with it's husky line Nebraska ,
should be able 10 burst through the oppos-
ing front and tear along for many gains |
II the Conhuskers strike weak point in
the Lawrence teams Offense early In the /
game the score will be large.
The result Of the Nmes- MominEsIde I
game brought into prominence another foot
ball coach Jack HOLSTER, Of the winning
team. For three years the Morningside
man has been trodding along. unrecog-
nized, and doing a great deal to develop !
winning teams at his school. His foot bail
machine this fan held Iowa to twelve
points and should have made way with d
tie game II defeated Creighton. and then
Saturday added to It's list Ames the eleven
that defeated Missouri. The Tigers OF CO.
lumbia had previously defeated Iowa. so
the whole result places Morningside ia
high position for the falls work
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