Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-30
HUSKER SUCCESS
HINGES ON TODAY
Season Will Be Successful One
if Stewards Men Can Tri.
umph Over Notre Dam
VISITORS ARE rAvoR1TEs
By F. S. HUNTER.

Y
Upon the result OF the clash on Ne.
braska field in Lincoln today depends
the success Of the 1910 Nebraska foot
ball season.
Ii the clan OF the Cornhuskers de.
feats Notre Dame this afternoon, Ne.
braska supporters will be able to for
give and forget the defeat al the hands
Of the Jayhawkers. But If the Hoos-
iers triumph over Stewards men, 1910
will be an unsuccessful season. Ii
will not be disastrous season, for the
Cornhuskers have won three OF their
big games, those with the Oregon Ag-
gies, Ames and Iowa, but, because
the foot ball enthusiasts OF this state
have seen three Huskcrs elevens
sweep through three seasons I'M
marked by defeat, II Is only natural
the loss Of two games would make
them regard the year as an unsuc-,
cessful one.
Notre Dame will 60 into the game
this afternoon favoritc. But the
Hoosiers will be rather scant fsvor-
ties, not the top-heavy fayoritcs they
were two weeks ago. For they won't
play the same team that Represented
Nebraska two weeks ago, There's a
new life. new spirit, new courage
in the Cornhusker eleven. It was
manufactured week ago when Dick
Rutherford, Vic Halligan and Owen
Frank, star Of a former day. donncd
the moleskin and gave the new
Cornhuskers touch Of thatsfght that
the old Cornhuskers always had, and
II was FIRST exhibited before the public
eye on Iowa field last Saturday when
the Hawkeyes, more powerful
eleven than any Nebraska had en-
countercd before. became an appar-
emily impotcnt and weakling organ.
ization with which the rejuvenated
warriors Of the scarlet and cream
toyed at will.
That Little "If."
II the Cornhuskers have the same
fight this afternoon and play the same
kind on bali they did against Iowa and |
get an even break in the luck, they
will win II they have the same lack
oil fight and play the same Indifferent
ball they die against Kansas, they'll
be hattened out like "a tension roller
would aatten out a shredded wheat
biscuit,
There isn't any reason, so far as we J
can see, why Nebraska shouldn't win
this afternoon. Il is, OF course, posi-
bic that Notre Dame completely out
classes Nebraska, and there are those
gridiron fans who hold to this belief. !
Blu. we fail to see where the Notrc |
Dame record is as formidable as some
make out.
The Hoosiers lost to the Army, they
lost By, twenty points and they were /
iorward-passed 10 death BY Oliphant
and Vidal, two men against whom
they had played before. and Omaha
never had particularly high regard
Tor Vidal. Creighton stopped him
very effectively last year Harper's
men only beat the Michigan Aggies,
woe y weak this year, IA TO 0, and
they didn't do so much against South
Dakota, team Creighton has good
chance TO lick. And Cofall, the star
OF the team. Is said to be still hindered
BY injuries received two weeks ago.
Both Will Fight.
4 is true, OF course. that Notre
Dame probably will fight harder to
beat Nebraska than against any other
team, for the Indians want revenge
for last years defeat at the hands OF
the mighty Chamberlain. But Ne.
braska is going to fight harder. too.
{ The Cornhuskers know what they
arc up against. They haven't any
Chamber ain to save their skins this
year as they did last, They haven't
any Chamberlain to reel off long
gains. They haven't any Chamber,
lam % stop every hostile rush on
The 'cft side OF the line. But they've
soi eleven strong and sturdy youths
wto are going to try to do those
things and that's all we can ask.
Notre Dame may win this after
noon, Nebraska may win. the game
may be a tie, but no matter what the
result. its going to be grand foot
ball game, game full OF the excite
ment and thrills that make foot bali
one Of the greatest OF American
sports, and the score is going TO be
close. The teams will lineup as fol-
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