Omaha daily bee., 1916-11-06
STEWART HAS BOX
OF TRICKS HIDDEN
Cornhusker Mentor Covers Up
and Hides Every Single
Play of Attack.
SAVING UP FOR THE DANES
By FRED S. HUNTER.


It'll be time for the flowers, boys,
when the Cornhuskers tang1e with
Notre Dame" groaned about 90 per
cent Of the 1000 spectators when hos
tilities between Nebraska and Ames
were concluded Saturday with Me-
braska on the long end Of the close
3-to-0 count.
Those Cornhuskers, who 'for the
last five years have humbled the pride
Of the, mightiest and who have been
regarded by many Nebraska enthus-
asts as invincible, looked woefufiy
and ptifully weak Saturday They
cinched the Missouri Valley cham
pionship, but that was expected. But
they didn't show any foot ball that
would tempt man to predict VIC
tory over Notre Dame.
But here and there in the stands
around Nebraska field sat real stu
dent OF foot ball who looked farther
4 than the surface in watching the
Cor1husker play, who studied the
methods and executions OF Stewards
charges and who sized each play up
for himself after the game. And those
chaps didn't send out any hurry calls
for the undertaken
Watchful Waiting.
DOC Stewart has box OF tricks up
his sleeve, it won't be the same Corn
huskers who will face Notre Dame"
was the verdict of the lads who dclved
beyond the surface. And they're
right.
\ Doc Stewart is a foxy coach. Hc
proved that to us just few weeks
ago. The Cornhuskers played the
same kind Of foot ball against the
Kansas Aggies that they played
against Ames Saturday. The offensive
was puny. A week later against the.
Oregon .Aggies, much stronger
team, the Gornhusker offensive was a
powerful affair. II ripped the Oregon
machine TO pieces the full sixty min
utesjof play. That was Stewards
work.
Last week during practice for the
Ames game Stewart only put his war
riers through one scrimmage and that
scrimmage was practically entirely
devoted to working up defense for
the Ames play. The scrubs carried
the ball, not the varsity. Why was
thati In the first place number Of
( the Huskers were hurt in the Ne
braska-Wesleyan game. And in the
second place Stewart didn't intend to
show anything in the Iowa Aggie
game.
Fools the Scouts.
Assistant Coach Rockne OF Notre
Dame saw the game Saturday. So did
Coach Oleutt of Kansas. So did
Howard Jones Of Iowa. And If they
got any kind of line on the Corn
Y huskers they're wonders.
The Cornhuskers did not open up
once Saturday. They played straight
foot ball except for several unsuccess-
full attempts to forward pass and
every pass was made from straight
formation. No shifts were tried. No
tricks were tried. Only half dozen
end runs were tried. Ted Riddell, an
\ exceptionally fast man who can be
counted upon to skirt the wings for
good gains, was only given the ball
couple of times. Dobson, who has
shown ability to receive forward
passes, was only called upon on one
pass and he captured that one for a
good gain. He 4 also 4 good line
plunger. but wasn't used At ali Stew.
art was holding back in that Ames
game. Perhaps he>d;dn't intend Il 10
be quite as close, but we have bunch
he is satisfied.
And when the Cornhuskers line IN
10 do battle witt, Kansas and low,
our guess is that they will play pretty
much the same kind Of bali, content
10 win by narrow margin without
disclosing any OF the real attack for
the hostile scouts TO see and ereparr