Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-10
NO pep" LEFT IN
HUSKER OUTFIT
after IOWA CAME
Coach Schultz Is Driving Team
Hard, But Cannot Arouse
Fighting Spirit; Scrubs
Show Defense Is Weak.
By KARL LEE.

Lincoln, NED, OCt. S.-(SpeCial.j
big, husky but powerless," q
Sleeping monster" "a place to &c
but not dressed up are only few
of the trite terms applied to the
beefy Huskers this week by under,
| grads, alumni and spectators who
have watched the early week scrim'
images.
Stung by the defeat at Iowa City
by Coach Jones' future western con
ference champions, the giant Husk
ers. have apparently refused to play
foot ball. Coach Schultz is hammer
ing at them, pounding and driving
doing everything but cuss them, but
still the team sleeps on.
In the scrimmage "Wednesday
against the freshmen with substi
tute backfeld. Newman at quarter
Cypreanson at fullback and Beckort
and Howartf, halfbacks, the line
showed little spirit and the var.
sity got away with three touchdowns
Iin less than IS minutes.
Husker Defense Weak.
On tine defensive Monday after.
uoon, however, the scrubs made sew.
eral toucEdowns and first downs or
innumerable occasions.
The team is badly crippled. Schel.
lenberg, stellar halfback, is out prob
ably for many weeks, with strained
shoulder and badly battered legs
| Howarth, veteran quarter, is con-
siderably battered up and may have
| to remain on the sidelines. The
big scare, however, is the threat OIL
Hubka, star tackle, to leave the
| school definitely. 1t is said tina,
Hubka's father, a wealthy Beatrice
farmer, has offered his son a nice
vacation and a job as overseer on
some choice Nebraska land if he
will leave school.
His loss would mean disaster.
Head Coach Schultz is working
hard with his men. Everything in
his power is invoked to stir up a
spirit of fight among them. To him
they confessed after the Iowa game
that the principal cause of the
Hawkeye defeat was the fact that
they lacked the right kind Of fight
The old-time Cornhusker spirit is
lacking.
Can Beat Gophers.
Assistant Coach Schissler, who
secuted the Minnesota team, ha:
stated there is a possibility of Ne,
braska winning the game with the
Gophers. Minnesota, according to
Schissler, ranks with Illinois and
Iowa as runners-up for the western
conference championship. 1.-THE de.
feat at Iowa." the assistant coach
said, was the best thing that could
have happened to Nebraska"
Following the game at Mime
apolis comes the first home game
at Lincoln with the University OF
Notre Dame, conceded this year as
being one of the strongest teams in
the west. Here is the schedule:
Minnesota at Minneapolis, October H.
Notre Dame at Lincoln, October 49,
Oklahoma at Omaha. october 25
Bender's Sooners from the south
are heralded as one of the strong
est teams in the country. The
southerner has a team drilled in
open field play as the best in the
country. The teams score against
a minor team of the south ran past
the 100 mark.
Bender is out in the open.
Fight EN- Hard.
Facing conditions such as these,
not mentioning the great intersec-
tional game with Syracuse univer-
sity on Thanksgiving day, Novem-
Der II, Head Coach Schultz is in
considerable mess. It's too late to
blame the persons responsible for
the arrangement of the Nebraska
schedule-lacing the big games
first and the small ones last-but
those that did this are coming in
for some mighty hot criticism.
Fight 'em hard"-that's the s1o-
gan.
The university is backing the
team to the limit. A special train
of students is planning to make the
trip in company with the cadet band
which travelled to Iowa City. Old
alumni-famous foot ball stars, in
Guiding Sam Waugh, Roy Cameron
and Dave Kozitzky-have been out
at Nebraska field daily working
with the men.
Victory at Minnesota or even a
tie score-and such is possible
would put the proper fight into the
team. There are those who believe
that can Schultz fill his wing posi-
tons with ordinarily creditable men
and develop a bit of team work he
will have fair chance to achieve a
part of the spoils at Minneapolis.
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