Omaha daily bee., 1921-01-09
Crinnell and
Husker Cagers
Play Friday
Nebraska Will Dedicate Audi.
torium at State Fair Grounds
Against Iowans-Bob Rus.
sell Returns to School.

Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 8-(Spccial.)
Next Friday will see the inaugu-
ration of one of the half dozen larg-
est basket ball auditoriums in the
country in Lincoln. Coach Schiss-
ler's basket tossers will play Grin
nell in two games at the state fair
coliseum Friday and Saturday
nights.
4With a basket ball court of maxi
rluin regulation size. and auditor
idm for seating about 5000 specta-
tors, Nebraska will start on career
OF making basket ball the most
profitable and most interesting sport
at the schSol aside from foot ball.
The Cornhusker team returned
from Illinois, where they broke even
with the Illinois quintet and
trounced the Illinois Wesleyan ag-
gregation. Coach Schissler was fully
satisfied with the playing of his
men, although the result the sec
ond game with Illinois Was rather
disheartening. Illinois won Is to
"a.
49, Huskers Win First Game.
The FIRST game was a 30-25 victory
for Nebraska. The Eornhuskers
.s-slearly outplayed their opponents
IN this battle and put up brand Of
basket ball that dazzled the Illinois
spectators. The result of the ILL
nois Wesleyan game at Bloomington
was 30-l7 for the Nebraskans.
Coach Schissler will drill his men
next week to put them in shape for
the Grinnell games. Four players
Joined the squad.
The Nebraska varsity squad that will
be carried all season now contains: Car
tain Russell Bailey, Carleton. guard: Mel
vim, Beki1s Omaha. center; Austin Smith,
Omaha forward; Jesse Patty, Patty omana' a9r nd
center: Wesley fungmeyer. Lincoln. cen
ter; Robert Russell. Omaha. forward;
hichard Newman, Columbus guard: Har-
Did Hartley, Harvard. guard: Glen Mum
ger, Columbus, guard; G. Warren, Cr1-
rersity Place center and forward; Frank
Carman, Minden. forward; Anil Dobesh,
guard and forward: Ernest Haverly. Has
tings.f forward; Mark sommer, Lincoln,
forward.
John Pickett has a squad of.about
50 freshmen working out for places
on the yearlings cage team. The
freshmen will probably battle the
varsity on the new coliseum floor
every day for the next month,
Track Work in Full Swing.
Coach Schultz, although handi-
capped by the lack of indoor track,
is taking advantage of the spring
weather the past few weeks and has
squad of nearly 100 ath-
Jetes working out daily on the board |
oval and straight-avway on the .ath-
letic field. The weather has been
ideal for outdoor work.
The Nebraska squad will be kept
in training all winter if weather con-
ditinns permit.
The Nebraska coach expects to
enter teams in all of the principal
indoor meets this year to give
them chance to get experience be-
fore the important outdoor contests
are held. Last year, the limited
number of meets made it difficult for
athletes to make IN" letters
Athletic Director Luehring an
nounced today that between 80
and.s.40 men had reported for
swimming tryouts. He is in charge
of~coaching the swimming team and
will enter the Nebraska swimmers in
number of meets this winter.
Atipresent Mr.. Luehring is train.
ing the men in the fundamentals OF
swimming races such as the plunge
and the turns. Practices will be held
three or four times a week. The Ne
braska teams will probably be
matched against the Omaha Athletic
club and Lincoln Y. NJ. c. A. teams
and number of Missouri valley
swimming aggregations.
Russell Returns to School.
, The Cornhusker coaches were
greeted with a pleasant surprise last
week when Bob Russell appeared in
camp and stated that he was ready
for work. Russell was forward on
the basket ball team last year and
third baseman on'the base ball aggre-
CATION. He had been in South
America. n
:, Russell announced that he would
start work on the basket ball team
immediately so that he would be in
shape to play as soon as he entered
The. university. which will be in
February. He will be eligible for
base ball and foot ball. Russcll's
ability as punter will make him a
valuable addition to the Nebraska
backfeld.
Latest reports were that Athletic
Director Luehring was still looking
around for a Thanksgiving foot ball
game next fail. He has tried num-
Fer of schools without success but
has several more in line that he can
land if other projects fail.