Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-30

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est confidence for another successful
season.
Seven Of thoss sixteen men who have
won letters under the regime OF Jumbo
stlehm can boast OF the benefit OF two
years OF guidance under stiehm.
AS the result OF his survey. Reed de-
clares there is every reason to expect
Nebraska to continue It's unbroken string
Of successes on the gridiron
stdcliEhtH ON New Coach.
Some now sidelights ON Or. stewards
skill and standing as a coach are given
IN letters to the Nebraska authorities,
portions OF which are given below.
J. Fred Boiler, director of athletics OF
tho Washington state college. which has
produced some wonderful foot ball teams,
ana coach OF basket ball. track and
wrestling there. contributes the following;
noticed In the papers that Ne
! braska had secured DR.. Stewart Of
the oregon Aggies as their athletic
director and coach. Having been con-
nected with Nebraska, ! am naturs
ally interested In What they do, and
especially so In athletics. / have
warm spot in my heart for athletics
with tho rest OF the fans for Ne
| braska victories. Mr.. Stiehm Gers
tainly has done wonders with ath-
the institution and no doubt deserves
n lot OF credit for the showing Ne
braska has made IN the last five
EsSrss moTsvsr VIII ,, pT s ,SSt s,S.
lctics VIII suffer. Or. Stewart has
been responsible for tho showing the
Oregon Athletic. college has been max;
branches OF athletics lie has done
much 20 raise the standard OF foot
ball hero In the northwest. lie not
i only raised the standard OF Hthictic
4 sports In themselves but raised the
standard OF sportsmanship az well, so
that now visiting team at Oregon
| Agricultural college "a shown more
courtesy than at any other school in
the conference. He has a system or
his own which In hard TO beat Others
@ h rs. eat tse been i cq sster oo T
the last few years. am sure you
made no mistake In securing him 20
succeed MIR stiSR i @ 9sta,b i IN s sH
standing In athletics.
Hoost from sport Writer.
Roscoe Fawcett. sporting editor Of the
Portland Oregonian, sends this:
Just n few words to congratulate
you on securing my friend, DIR. y. J.
tho oronsh sportsmar S one Of the wis
est heads IN the conference and q
very able coach. Within the last
/ three years IOON Dali ut INV oANNoH
college has improved 20 per cent. How
much OF this is due TO DIR. Stewart
aadshow much to now men, cnnhot
say, but the fact remains the orsgon
tho standpoint OF college athletics,
regard DIR. stewart the ideal coach.
lie Is smooth AMI polished and edu-
vidious. but / would stack him against
such aTinbeatnbie" coaches as ailmour
b. Dohle. and others OF his stripe
Dean A. y. Cordley, chairman OF the
Oregon Aggie athletic board Of control
said;
Allow mo 20 extend TO the univer-
sitv ~ Nebraska the most hearty
congratulations. over having ontainsd
the services Of DR.. stewart as
rector Of athletics and heal c,aSn,
From our standpoint. tho unfortunate
feature 81 this transac't"H ~ thRt
what Il your gain IL our loss. ! have
had something to do with a,hi7ucs
wav most of the time during the last
twenty years. and l am glad 20 give
testimony TO the fact that In nv es-
tlmaiion DR. Stewart measures up 70
NV ideal of n physical director and
coach better THAN any other man we
have had IN that time. Clean NOR,
s ssfic,ent s'n proaessionsllS. with hish
ideals OF workmanship. he ls a man
that II will be very. very difncun 10
Perhaps n little incident which or-
CURED recently will serve 70 illus.
trate his fine sense Of the ethics OF
good sport One of the hest men ON
our foot hall squad Is a tunior by the
name OF Harle~ blackwell who, how
sver was ineligihie TO represent this
institution I'm Northwest Conference
circles nv reason that before coming
to this institution he had PLAYED sew
erai years on the Willamette uni
versitv team Before our team went
east 10 play the Michigan ARRies
pr. Stewart INQUIRED ne go whether
in NV obininn be would he tustified
in PLAYING blackwell sgainF' Mi"h'-
gan am an aiumnus nf Michigan
| Agricultural college ard, knowing
sonethine 90 the conditions there.
advised him they were 70 play one or
more men who had played on the
university ~ Michigan team. end
while n was Acknowledged that
blackwell was not eligible for our
rarnes. saw No rec son vhy he
should not use him against Michigan.
II was rot until 7 saw BLACKWELL
participating IN one Of the class
9annas here that 4 discovered Ilr
- haN ffuallrr da~tdad a. would