Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-17
WILL ELECT COACH TONIGHT
Nebraska Athletic Board is Divided
and Lively Session is Expected.
STUDENTS ROOFING FOR BOOTH
Issue with Kansas over basket Ball
Game and Foot Bail Game
Schedule Next Fall win
Come Up.

LINCOLN, Jan. t6.5Special)-A caloric
session OF the Nebraska Athletic board is
in prospect for tomorrow night. when the
mentors meet for their January meeting.
Three matters OF much Importance will be
taken up, and over each OF thess there is
likely to be a division between the student
and faculty members of the board. The
election Of a foot bali coach. the question
OF a basket ball players eligibility and the
ratification Of next fans foot ball schedule
compose the trio OF things that Will cause
heated debate and possibly strife.
Since Friday the movement to place
Bunny" Booth In as foot ball coach has
assumed huge proportions. and the hackers
OF King" Cole, who wish his reelection as
coach, will face a strong opposition in the
attempt to return the Michigan man here
next fall The five student members OF
the board have pledged to stand by their
constituents, the undergraduate body, and
they expect to command enough strength
to at least get the election postponed UNI
less Booth can be chosen.
Pressure was brought to bear on two OF
the faculty members OF the board yester-
day, and It is possible that one OF those
men will switch to the students side and
vote for Booth. In that case the Princeton
man will have six votes, the necessary
number to elect. Three former players
called upon these two faculty members to
urge them to vote for Booth. These Corn
huskers were ex-captains Weller and
Harvey and Fred M. Hunter, the former
guard, who was elected president OF the
Principals' and superintendents' associa-
ton Of Nebraska last Thursday. u
Over the sending of an apology to Kan
sas because Nebraska played an alleged
Ineligible athlete In the recent basket ball
games with the J~ayhawkers, a second di-
vision is likely to arise between the fac
ulty al. student members. with the latter
faction opposing the apology.
The students are not certain in their own
minds that the C%ornhusker is any more in
eligible than some Of the men on the Kan
sas team, and they will make big fight
In the meeting tomorrow night to make the
faculty members ask Kansas to apologize
for some Of its players II Nebraska has to
bare Its pride because OF a mistake made
by one of the Cornhusker professors in per-
hitting an ineligible to compete in basket
ball. 1t Is not decided yet that the Corn
husker in question is an Ineligible, and this
matter will have to be threshed out before
the board tomorrow night.
A fight over the adoption of Manager
Eager's foot ball schedule for next fall
probably will be another bit of the inter
esting proceedings of the board. The Ne
braska manager has drafted a schedule
that is one of the best this school has had
In several seasons, but one Of the neighbor-
ing universities has no place on it. The
fact that this school, which is one that
has placed the ~Cornhuskers for\the last
two years. is not dated for next fall is
likely to cause a protest from some OF the
faculty members Of the board. That school,
though. assumed a sort of dictatorial atti-
tude in the attempts to arrange a game,
and Manager Eager decided to drop It.
Another good Missouri valley school was
taken on in It's place. and because of this
good substitute the Nebraska board may
not raise any loud protest.
By making changes In his schedule Man
ager Eager has definitely booked Ames for
November - and Kansas for November 6.
The Thanksgiving day game will probably
be played away from Lincoln. The name
Of the team hat will be met on that day
will be announced at the meeting tomorrow
night ,e