Omaha daily bee., 1916-11-26
Judgments


DR.. Stewards system, new to the Mis-
souri, valley, that caused the criti-
cisms. That is only natural, though.
Stewards system had never before
Been seen in the valley and the SIM
pie deduction of the lay mind would
be that it Is a failure because it didn't
beat the Jayhawk. But the foot ball
student is not criticising Stewart, or
his system. Foot ball experts all over
the country. almost agree that Glenn
Warner of Pittsburgh is the great
est coach in the country, even su-
perior to Percy Haughton, Stagg,
Yost, Folwell and others of the great.
1t was Warner who made the Car
Isle Indians such great players.
When he left the Indian school the
redskins quit playing foot ball. A
year ago Warner went to Pittsburgh
and turned out the best eleven in
the east, and he had to make a team
to do it, as his material wasn't overly
promising. This year Pittsburgh re-
peated its 1915 success; it hasn't lost
a game and is believed by many to
be the best eleven in the country.
And Warner is a coach who, like
Stewart, uses no quarterback. He
uses a system, while different in a
few details, that is fundamentally the
same as employed by the Cornhusker
coach. So the system must be all
right; If it wasn't Warner wouldn't
use It. 1t wasn't the Stewart system
that won for Kansas. The fault was
with the Nebraska team. The Corn
husker backfeld is weak; II hasn't any
driving power, it hasn't any quick
thinkers, it hasn't any performers de-
pendable in a pinch; in other words
it hasn't any Chamberlain, any Ruth
crford, any Halligan, any Frank, any
Potter, any Towle. Those were the
boys who made Stiehm's teams great.
Do you suppose those fellows would
have failed to beat Kansas with the
Stewart system or any other system?
That's the answer.
Percy Haughton may not be the
greatest coach in the world, but he
certainly is the king of the alibiers.
A week before the game with Brown
Percy broke into scare-head type
with an announcement that he in
tended to take his entire first eleven
to visit the Yale-Princeton game, leav-
ing a string of scrubs and subs to
battle the Brunonians. And Percy did
just that thing. And Brown wal
loped Harvard, Il to O. Which would
lead one to suspect that Percy had a
hunch Brown would take even his
varsity warriors to a trimming, so he
prepared the neat and nifty advance
alibi. Which is very keen piece of
work from Harvard standpoint, but
it does look a little bit like bush
leagne stuff to the unprejudiced. E
There are probably a lot Of base
bail niagnates who haven't been
earning the regulation & per cent the
last few years, but Phil Ball and
Charley Weeghmann, ex-Feds, are
probably the two leading mourners
in the big show. Ball and Weegh-
mann have both sunk well over half
million dollars in base bail, and so
far as can be learned haven't drawn
much out yet Base ball is more than
a pastime and business; it's gam
bling venture, too, and man has to
watch his step and be pretty lucky
to earn dividends. And if conditions
continue in their present state they'll
have to watch their steps closer and
be still 1uckier as the years come.
We have heard lot Of predictions
that Notre Dame will walk all ovei
Nebraska. We may be wrong, but
our guess is that Harper's men are
going to run UP against some stub
born opposition. The Nebraska line
is a good one. 1t can be counted upor
to hold its own with the forward.
Of the Hoosiers. Notre Dame ma,
beat Nebraska, but it will be only be
cause of the superiority in its back
field, and with that Cornhusker line
fighting for every inch we don't ex
pect to see Notre Dame run up any
overwhelming score.
Not content to arouse Mr.. Fult.
to the boiling point the big league
magnates evidently want to see Davy
60 into a fit. They are talking o
introducing the twelve-month con
tract, thus binding the players serv
ices for the entire year. Davy woult
only have about seventeen hemor
rhages simultaneously if the put tn,
plan over, and we can see where Mr.
Adamson will be called upon to saw,
the world from another strike.
There is little likelihood that tn,
majors will consent to the minors
request for new scheme of contro
in base bali Under the present sys
tenn the rnajorA are the works" The,
have their own court of final appeal
and they are not likely to grant tn
little fellows any power if it is posi-
Bile. So, for guess, the minors cal
keep on making resolutions unit
both Paris and Berlin fall, and abou
all they'll get is the utmost consid
Grafton"
We are pleased to see that til
Western league has paid $4OO t
Jimmy Kane. The Kane case was
peculiar bit Of work and Jimmy,
seems, was a victim. He was ken
out Of a job, and work like tina
doesn't sit well with the average far
The Western league made friend
hv 0;vinp Jimmy what he had ro,,