Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-17
MISSOURI VALLEY
READY FOR BATTLE
Three Schools, Kansas Aggies,
Nebraska and Drake, Intro
duce New Coaches.
HOPE RUNS HIGH IN KANSAS

Kansas City, Sept. l6.-Foot ball
practice, already started at some OF
the universities of the Missouri Val
ley conference, will get under way in
earnest next week and, in few days,
followers OF the sport will have OBJ
tanned a line on the green" material
and the numerous new coaches whose
work promises to make the coming
season the most interesting the seven
institutions of the conference have
gone through in years.
For surely the fall of 1916 will long
be remembered in the Missouri Val
ley conference as, the season on new
coaches. New men will be at the
head Of the training at three schools
and University of Nebraska, the
Kansas State Agricultural college,
and Drake university-and at a
fourth, Kansas university, new back
field coach will be on hand to aid
Chauncey Olcott in rounding out the
JayhaWker machine.
As result of these changes, en-
thusiasts of the game are asking
whether the Cornhuskers will con-
tinue to hold the valley championship
title, as they have for several years
and as to the ability Of the new men
tors to put the Aggies and the Drake
Bulldogs high up in the chase for the
honors.
Huskers Lose Stars.
Coach E. o. Steihm, the former Ne
braska tutor, has gone to the Indiana
university, and DR.. E. ]. Stewart, with
a brilliant record of victories for his
teams, has come to Lincoln from the
Oregon Agricultural college to head
the Nebraskans. DR.. Stewart is con-
fronted not only with the problem of
wearing Stiehm's shoes, but he faces
also the loss of many of last years
stars, chief among whom are Ruther-
ford and Chamberlain, half back and
end. As a result, teams that Ne
braska has been defeating for years,
hope that they have a chance now to
turn the tide.
The new Aggie coaches are z. G.
Clevenger, head coach last year at the
University Of Tennessee, and Adolph
Germany" Schultz, star from Michi-
gan, all-American center in 1907 and
line coach of several years expert
ence. They will have a squad brist-
ling with veterans, reports from Man
haitian indicate. brakes team will be
under the tutelage Of Ralph Galze,
Dartmouth, and Lieutenant Wier from
West Point. At this Iowa school, it
is said. the prospects are rosy" and
the university students lobk for a
good season
-Four Are Confident.
As to the other four schools, Mis-
souri,, Ames and Washington are
f.ankly confident. Coaches Brewer
tnd Schultz already are sending out
reports from Columbia that eleven
letter men will be back for opening
practice Monday and that only two OF
last years Tiger veterans will fail to
return. Ames had a great team last
year and Coach Mayser, according
to the belief of the Ames rooters, will
have another machine of last years
calibre. Washington, under Coach
Edmunds again, was more srccessful
last season than it has been for years.
Although Lewis. the fullback, around
whom the team conferred then, will
not return. it is believed in St. Louis
that Edmunds may duplicate last
years feat of trouncing Missouri, IS
to 0.
The Kansas strength is undeter-
mined. Ten of the sixeen letter men
last year are patroling the Mexican
border as National Guardsmen and it
has not been determined whether the
War department will release them.
However, Olcott will have the aid this
year OF George "Potsy" Clark of the
University Of Illinois with his back
field men and, undoubtedly. will keep
his team in the race for the cham
pionship.
None of the schedules of the con-
ference teams call for important
games until in October.
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