Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-15
HUSKER WIN UPSET
BUT NOT SURPRISE
Overwhelming Victory Over Jay
hawk Not Anticipated, but it
Caused No Astonishment.
EXPECTED KANSAS TO SCORE
ny FRED $. HUNTER.

ny FRED :. HUNTER.
While followers of Nebraska foot ball
confidently anticipated victory over
Kansas Saturday the result was really
an upset I'm the dope. 1t could hardly
be called surprise because upsetting
the we'll ilnown dope has become a Gus
tom at Nebraska, but those who pre-
dicted a cataclysm such as occurred
Saturday were few and far between.
Anybody who thought the Jayhawkers
would not score against the Cornhuskers
could have made millionaire out of
himself. Lawrence was rocking in coin
the morning of tine game and everybody
seemed willing to wager that kansas
would score or that Nebraska would not
make more than twice as many points
as Olcott's eleven. But that money still
remains in Lawrence for the Nebraskans
on the ground were unwilling to gamble
such risks so successful was Stiehms
bear dope factory in dampenlng the ardor
OF the Huskers before the game.
Never Had a Chance.
Nebraska went into the game a two
to one favorite, but the dope all pointed
to a close game and a close score. A
glance at the score and the statistics
to the punk. For Kansas never had
chance. Really the Jayhawkers never
even had a chance to score. They were
within ten yards of the goal line once,
but the Nebraska defense was impregal-
BILE and no Jayhawk play could have
been successful against it. On the other
hand no Jayhawk defense could have
stopped the rush of Chamberlain, Ruth
erford. Cook. Gardiner, Otoupolik, Rees
ct al. and It was Nebraska's game from
start to finish.
When the last ROCK CHALK
J-A-Y-H-A-W-K" yell rolled over Nc
Cook field and the last faint echo re-
turned and the X. U. supporters went
out to decorate Lawrence with crepe,
some 10000 or 1900 persons departed
from the scene firmly convinced that the
Cornhuskers are supreme for the fifth
consecutive time in the Missouri valley.
And, while it may be that Cornell or
Pittsburgh or some other of the great
teams of the country may be able to lick
Nebraska on the gridiron. no amount of
argument could make those 10000 or 100
persons believe It.
Jayhawk Fights Hard.
They had seen the strongest team Kan
sas had seen in years crushed by the foe.
Nebraska was outweighed about four
pounds to the man and it was up against
a team tina, fought from whistle to whis-
tle.. 1t was hardly conceivable that a
team whipped as Kansas was could still
fight on every play as those Jayhawk-
ers did. And yet they were defeated
as IL they made up a secondary college
team instead of that of a great univer-
sity. And that is why Kansas will join
with Nebraska in declaring the Corn
huskers are good as they make
them, and stand firm in the opinion
that the cream of the Missouri valley
is as good II not better than the cream
OF the east, the big nine or the far west
Nebraska was a far different team
Saturday than 1t was when Notre Dame
was defeated. II Nebraska had battled
the Indiana crew as 1t did Kansas the
difference In the score would have been
at least twenty points
AS usual Guy Chamberlain was the
main attraction. The big Cornhusker
added another 1000 to the list of those
who declare him the greatest end in
the west and as good as there is in tire
country. Rutherford further proved that
ne is an All-Western man and Abbott
and Corey firmly established their claim
to All-Valley honors.
But the man who most gratified Ne
braskans was John Cook. 1t was Cook s
first appearance in a big game and the
little quarter made an instant hit. His
running back of punts was nothing short
of wonderful and he ran in the team in
capital style. getting off the plays in
quick time and calling for the right play
at the right time. Cook will be some quar-
terback in 1916 is the prediction of all
who saw him play.
The big score over Kansas makes the
Huskers prohibitive favorites over Iowa.
The crushing defeat administered the
Hawkeyes by Ames. who was licked
easily by Nebraska, indicates that
Stiehm's men will have an easy time
next Saturday at Lincoln.
Next to the Kansas-Cornhusker game
the Yale-Princeton battle occupied the
calcium In Nebraska. That Tom Shev-
lin has worked wonders and that Prince
ton was originally overestimated is the
POPULAR verdict In this part of the coun-
try. Despite the pickup at Yale Harvard
remains the ranking favorite for the
same next Saturday. Harvard had nc
trouble with Brown. who beat Yale. and
while a fairly close game is expected
there is little doubt but what Haugh-
toms men will repeat this year in the
annual fray with the Blue.
Husker Slate IL Clear.
In the Pig Nine Illinois and Mime
sofa remain dead-loeked for supremacy