Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-01-03
HUSKER QUINTET AMBITIOUS
Nebraska Basket Ballers Starting
Out for Missouri Valley Honors.
NO GAME WITH THE IOWA TEAM
HRwkeye Men Are Not Scheduled
This Yenr-Notre Dame is Pop
ular with students and VIII
BE q Drawing Card.
by JAMES E. LAWRENCE.

ny JAMES LA w RENEE
LINCOLN, Jan. 2.)-(Special. Basket
ball comes next in Cornhusker athletics
and Stiehms proteges will try to land a
fourth Missouri valley championship In
this branch OF sport The Husker squad
this season is composed almost entirely
of new men. and It will play the first
conference games on January IS and 10,
opening with the Ames Aggies in Lincoln
The first trip away takes the Huskers
to Manhattan. Kan, January 81 and %,
and to Lawrence. Kan, the following
two days, when the Jayhawkers will be
played.
on the eastern trip the Cornhuskers
will play with the crack Fort Dodge
Qa.) team, Ames for two championship
games. and Minnesota. The Huskers play
Drake two games the following week,
which winds up the northern division
series.
Arrnnges Early Season Games.
Stiehm has not arranged for the early
season games. but will probably practice
against Cotner and Wesleyan. Although
the basket ball squad has been working
for nearly three weeks, Stiehm has not
picked his first team men With the re-
sumption of practice this week. the first
team men will be chosen and instruction
given in team work.
Athletic Manager Reed is receiving
/ many favorable replies from high schools
to the recent announcement of the plans
! for the big hign school basket ball tourn-
ament.
The only complaint heretofore has been
/ from smaller schools that they have no
chance in the present system of alloting
contestants In the preliminary rounds.
BY the systematic grouping proposed, all
of this is done away with.
Coach Stiehm is expected back from
Chicago the first OF the week, where he
attended the meeting of the western col
legiate rules committee. Upon Stiehm's
return 1t is expected that he will have
more definite announcement concerning
the foot ball schedule for 1915.
NOtre Dame Game Popular.
The scheduling Of the game with Notre
Dame will prove a popular move at Ne
braska, since the undergraduate body has
been wanting to break away from Iowa.
The game with Notre Dame probably
means that Iowa will not be seen on the
Nebraska schedule. While Iowa draws
big crowds at Lincoln. the receipts from
the Hawkeye game at Iowa City were
disappointing TO the Nebraska manage
ment this year Manager Reed then re-
fused TO give Iowa a fifty-fifty division
OF the gate receipts when the games were
played in Lincoln, but offered a flat
guarantee. This the Iowa management
could not see. so negotiations ended alb
ruptly.
The one remaining game which Corn
husker students are anxious to see SEIZED
uled Is with an eastern team. II is known
, that Stiehm has been working for ar
iHtersectional contest. but the Corn
husker mentor has been handicapped IN
many ways. While the Notre Dame
game will give Nebraska a big boost IL
, western foot ball and also afford com
pariseh with eastern elevens, since Notr.
Dame plays a majority of it's games mex
season with eastern schools. the Corn
, huskers have rather set their hearts OF
, seeing Nebraska take on an eastern op
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