Omaha daily bee., 1911-11-12
LOOK TO KANSAS STRUGGLE
Cornhuskers Have Odd Game in
Long String Of Battles.
VALLEY CHAMPIONSHIP IN SIGHT
Oefeat Of Kansas VIII Pat EIeveu
in shape 60 CoRtest with Mitch.
iEsn for Mtg HOnors of
NNeat

LINCOLN, Neb.. Nov. H. Especial -
But two moro hard games remain for
Jumbo" Stlehms Cornhuskers before the
close OF the season Of isi1-Kansas and
Michigan alone remaining on thu hardest
schedule Nebraska team has ever been
called upon TO face With the Ames
game over. the long run OF grueling
grldlron battles which faced the Corn
huskers was completed. and next satur-
dsy the Cornhuskers win have a weeks
rest in which 20 prepare for che annual
meeting with their oldtime rivals, the
Jayhawkers. .
True, the Cornhuskers play Dosne next
Saturday, but the Congregational school
has never been TeRarded a. mora than a
practice game and although indications
are that the team from Crete Is stronger
than usual Il IL not expected that the
game will prove more than ronip Tor
the speedy NebruakAns. In fact. Il is
extremely doubtful II stiehm win use tho
regulars more than, a quarter % che game
aud he viii probably be content 20 let the
scrubs fight II out with the ccnSTsGa-
tlonalists. Last sedson Ddans proved a
harder nut 90 crack than wan expected
and the CoruhuSkers had 10 be aoAtsnt
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ovetrworked regulars a .restf1e II alto
gether likely that stiehm viii allow the
regulars to loaf again thlS year, rather
than force them 10 play hard game just
a week before the crucial battle with
the Jayhawkers SO far AZ local interest
In concerned. Nebraska has but two more
grldiron battles in the season of 1911.
Revsves ola Rivalry.
All OF the old time rivalry between Kan
gas and Nebraska has been revived with
the approach OF ths annual game between
these two leading colleges Of the Mis-
sourl valley, Even the reported weak
ness OF the Kansas team this season he's
not served 20 diminish the keen interest
which Ia being taken in the game. and, II
! Indications are Alright. Nebraska will bt
Accompanied by n thousand Cornhusker
students when they invade the Kansas
grounds.
Nebraska has a score 20 wipe out
against Kansas and nothing would delight
the undergraduates OF the scarlet and
cream more than TO zee the Jayhavkeqs
dseisivsiy whipped In the annual game
Three defeats In the last five games
played since the resumption OF athletic
relations between Kansas ana Nobrasks
has not served TO lessen the Cornhuskera
| desire for revenge, and Il seems certain
that when Stiehm sends hts team against
the Jayhawkers they WIN be trained foi
the hardest game OF the season,
Dame Fortune has smiled right sweet,
upon the 1Ayhawkers and It r. fair 4
say that Kansas has scored more thai
one touchdown on pure luck in the las
five games without detIHcting az all from
the prowess OF the JRyhawlSers. Ne
bYoskans will not forget how In 1903
Cornhuslter foot hail team which wa
good enough 10 hold the mighty Gopher
TO nothing 10 nothing score was de
clsively trimmed upon their own Sround
by the JayhawkerE after the Cornhusker
had played three hard games on succeed
ting Saturdays. There IL not tho silghtei
doubt but what Kansas would have ha
the fight OF its life TO defeat the tear
which met Minnesota three weeks pre-
vious 10 the Kansas game but the Corn
huslSeTs were stale and Kansas won In
walk. Nor will they easily forget tha
In the following year after a most bril-
liant gridiron battle Tommy" Jehnso
pulled a game out OF the fire for the jay
hawkers after Nebraska had outplRys
It's opponents throughout the forepart o
the game. OF the seventeen games plays
between the Cornhuskers and the Jay
hawkers Nebraska still has the advantag
with the odd game, the Cornhuskers bean
credited with nine victories, while TN
Jayhawkers have won eight.
COmpaFativ Scores.
Following il the summary Of game
played between the two schools from 49,
TO 1910: