Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-28
BASKET BALL TIE STANDS
Nebraska and Ames Will Not Try to
Settle Superiority.
AGG1Es COULD NOT SPARE TINE
Kansas Five of Thi Year Conceded
60 he i'm n Class by Itself,
and Rivals Had small
Chance.

LINCOLN, Feb. 27.-(Special )-Nebraska
and Ames, the two schools tied for the
basket ball championship Of the northern
section Of the Missouri valley Conference
league, have agreed not to play a post
season series to determine which is the
better five.
Nebraska wished to play off the tie, but
the Aggies felt that they could not go away
from home for these games and requested
the Cornhusker management not to insist
on a championship series. The local team
was not any too anxious to play Ames
again, although II was freely admitted the
Cornhuskers had an excellent chance Of
winning from the Aggies, and even the
Ames players conceded this point,
In the Cornhusker camp 1t was known
that there would be no use in playing Kan
sas, the winner OF the title in the southern
section Of the league, even " Ames should
be defeated for the leading honors in this
half of the conference. According to the
rules OF the Big Seven governing the
basket ball contests. the winners Of the
title in each half Of the league are required
to play a post-season series to determine
the championship of the valley.
Kansas in Glass Alone.
Kansas has such a strong five this winter,
having defeated Ames once and Nebraska
-four times, that II would have an easy
time winning the championship series from
either the Cornhusker five or the Ames
team, and the Nebraska players realized
they would stands no show with the Jay
hawkers. For this reason they were will
ing TO accede to the, request OF the Ames
management and forego playing the post
season series with the Aggies.
The Kansas team is one Of the best that
has represented a. Missouri valley school
In several years, and ITS record for this
year is not liable to be equaled in several
seasons by another Big Seven" Team. 1t
has played eighteen games Of which 1t
has won seventeen and lost one. This
record entities It to the championship of
the Missouri valley, and Nebraska and the
other schools of the conference willingly
place the laurel wreath on the head of the
Lawrence school. . -.I4l
The game with Kansas last night closed
the Cornhusker seasonal season that was
a miserable failure and a disappointment
to the whole school. Early last fall Coach,
Hewitt and Captain Perry predicted that
Nebraska would nave a winning team and
they seemed to have good grounds for these
statements. There apparently was plenty
OF material in school for producing IL win
ming team. This bunch. Of material. Enough,
did not develop, and the CUrnhuskers did
not once during the winter have a strong
five. The men attained to a hign point in
team work, but they never developed into
accurate goal shooters, and several games
were lost simply because the forwards
could not shoot baskets.
Sixteen g~amesAwere played by the Ne
braska five during ohe season, Six of the
number were wonsby) the locals and ten
were lost. Kansas defeated Nebraska four
times and Mlnnesotaj IAhnes and Manhattan
TURNED the trick totS times apiece. Ne
braska ',woni four games from Drake and.
two from Ames. 5r sy'~7 ,#r.l-