Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-18
STORM BLOCKS ALL
HUSKER PRACTICE
Foot Ballists Forced to Make
Run to Gym and Diamond
Stars Stay In,
WREsTLERs GOING TO AMEs
By JAMES E. LAWRENCE.


Lincoln, March l7.-(Special.) y
With a thirty-mile-an-ho gale
sweeping down from the northwest,
the Husker spring foot ball squad at
tempted its first practice of the sea-
son yesterday and was finally COM
PEELED to seek warmer quarters in the
university gymnasium.
The contrariness of the weather
man put kink in the plans of the
Nebraska athletic department for the
week and, although base ball, foot
ball and track practice was all sched-
uled to start, the gridiron men alone
assembled. With the first game only
two weeks off, the Husker base ball
situation is in rather discouraging
shape. An entirely new squad has to
be organized, since it is nearly six
years since base ball has been on the
Husker program. Coach Stewart has
no line on his material, but he is con-
fident that it is sufficient to meet all
demands.
Thirty Out at Start.
There were only thirty foot ball
men out for the first spring practice
yesterday, headed by Captain Ed
Shaw. Mum was the only freshman
in the bunch, the others being men,
bers of the varsity or substitutes from
last season. DR.. Stewart did not make
any attempt to get down to work I'M
til more favorable weather conditions
prevailed and the men ran through
few formations, spent some time in
passing the bali and then wound up
with a sprint around the athletic
field.
Assistant Coach Dick Rutherford is
having his hands full just now in
shaping up the Husker wrestling
team for the big middle west meet at
Iowa City next Friday and Saturday.
All of the Big Nine conference
schools will be represented and most
of the Missouri Valley teams.
Coach Rutherford will send the
same team to Iowa he used against
Ames. 1t includes:
Heavyweight, Dale.
Light heavyweight, Otoupalik.
Middleweight, Fuchs.
Lightweight, Anderson.
Welterweight, Brien. d,
Featherweight, Barnes.
The Husker team is fast and ex-
perienced and had little difficulty in
disposing Of the only Big Nine con-
ference team which it met.
In addition the Huskers will send
a gymnastic team to Iowa City,
headed by brewing, who has been on
the team for three years.
Attendance Large.
Although Manager Reed has not
bad an opportunity to compile COM
plete figures, he is confident the at
tendance at the high school basket
ball tournament will reach figure
which will mean a mark to shoot at
for some years to come. All three
halls where the games were played
were crowded during the day and
night in the preliminary rounds,
while the big city auditorium, which
was used for the semi-fnals and
finals, counld not begin to accommo-
date the crowd which wanted to see
the games. On the last night over
5000 people were on hand.
The big crowd has brought it very
forcibly to the attention of the ath-
letic authorities that better facilities
must be provided for the tournament
next year and steps will be taken at
once to make the arrangements
The big attendance practically in
sures that large percentage Of the
expenses of the high school athletes
from out in the state will be paid.
Spring will bring tennis into its
full share of popularity at the univer-
sity. The Husker management hopes
to arrange for a meet with at least |
two Missouri Valley schools, proba-
bly, with Kansas and the Kansas Ag-
gies. All of the veterans have left |
school, so Nebraska will have to de-
pend entirely upon new men for the
tennis team