Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-14
ATHLETIC BODY
At HUSKER> U NJ.
HAS COMPLAINTS
Number Of Alumni, Under.
grads and Fans Get Cold
Feet and Want to Return
to Valley Conference.

University of Nebraska athletic All
thorities are being besieged by nu.
merous "cold-footed" alumni, under
grads and followers. with advice
pro and con, pertaining TO its posi-
ton as a so-called "belligerent" ex
members of the Missouri Vale,
Conference association.
The avalanche of queries, major
ity seeming in favor of quiet anc
early return to the conference fold
followed the recent definite, actiot
on the part OF the Valley association
at Kansas City, which officially de
clared boycott" against the Husk
er institution.
In the words of President A. Ros.
Hill of the University of Missouri
who is recognized as "a power thai
isl in the Valley circle. After FIVE
or six years securing around for
games. l believe the University OF
Nebraska will be down on its knee.
begging to be taken back into the
conference.
Many Nebraskans, differ, how
ever.
Entire Case Reviewed.
The entire case, markedly stated, is
as follows:
/. Nebraska early last fall re-
quested the conference to permit
the playing OF one foot ball game at
Omaha, the seat of the university
medical college.
2. The conference formally re-
fused.
3. Nebraska's athletic director,
Dr.. James T. Lees, simultaneously
formally Withdrew as member Of
the association and the Oklahoma
Nebraska game was staged at Oma-
ha as scheduled.
4. At the formal conference ses-
sion, though Valley schools were
given permission to play games with
Nebraska already scheduled for
1870, the association officially
sanctioned boycott against the
Huskers.
Now comes the lament. 1t is
pointed out that Nebraska has no
business deliberately passing up
such time honored meetings as have
been held with Kansas, Ames and
Missouri. The record of Michigan
which held out of the Big Ten"
western conference for 10 years, but
was forced to return to get games
is also pointed to as warning.
"Out in Cold.
You'll be out in the cold" some
say.
But, for the most part, this gossip
is regarded chiefly as gossip" and
pure tommy rot.
The Husker school stands a
chance, first, to enter the Big Ten,
western conference, though so far
no application for membership has
teen made; second, as a free lance"
the school is in the same shoes as
Notre Dame and can play the
strongest schools of every section
OF the country; and third, the proba-
bilities of national conference.
with Nebraska member are quite
favorable.
Defeats over such teams as Notre
Dame. Michigan, Minnesota, Syra-
cuse and comparative standings, as
result, with such eastern leaders
as the army, Cornell, Pittsburg, Col
gate, Yale, Harvard, Princeton,
Pennsylvania and Georgia Tech
make it both possible and expedient
that the Huskers continue for year
or two as free lance
Indications point to the schcdul-l
ing of a Nebraska Navy game at
Annapolis next fall The naval
academy authorities have wired the
Husker coach accepting a request
for a game. Notre Dame for years
has played one of the most inter-
esting <of intersectional matches
with the Army at West Point. And
Just as surely the NotFe Dame Ne
braska game will be an annual af-.
fair for years to come.
Is Nebraska the class?
Just glance over the record. 1t is
true that the Husker 1919 season
was an erratic one. But defeats by
Notre Dame and Iowa in the first
and third games of the season are
more than Offset with the tie with
Minnesota and the victories over
Missouri, Kansas and Syracuse.
Only two schools in the entire coun-
try escaped the unrest" of the after
war period.