The New York herald., 1922-11-02
NEBRASKA TO GET
TEST AT SYRACUSE
Defense and Caliber Of Corn
huskers Will Be DETER
mined Saturday.
THOMAS LOOMS AS STAR
Chicago Battering Ram Called
sv Best Yet'-Lafayette
Heads Here.
BY DANIEL.

BY DANIEL.
While a good deal Of the praise
which has been heaped on the Ne
brasl<a football team has had a strong
Gascon flavor. there is no question
that any eleven which Is powerful
enough to trounce Missouri by 4s to o
and Oklahoma by 80 to z is a truly
formidable organization in any COM
pany. Fred Dawson, the Princeton
man who is coaching the Cornhuskers,
is no "shoestringer.' He has sound
as well as advanced theories and ap-
pears to have developed well rounded,
versatile machine.
That Nebraska has a lot OF scoring
plays and a world of power there Is
no doubt. Whether it possesses a
virile, effective defense viii be demon
strated on Saturday. when 1t tackles
7 Syracuse in the Archbold Stadium.
Syracuse scouts who saw Nebraska
swamp Oklahoma and practically win
tho Missouri Valley title for the thir-
teenth time were treated to an impress
on attack. Two of the Nebraska touch
downs were scored through straight
football which stressed a strong slant
off tackle. Three Of the Cornhuskers'
trips over the Sooners' goal line were
made possible by forward passes. and
one touchdown came on S6 yard run
Ohlahomas touchdown was scored
through forward pas.--and Oklahoma
held the lead. to 6. until we'll into the
second period. Then Nebraska let
loose.
q. BIG Improvement Since 1920.
When Nebraska came to the Polo
Grounds two years ago and defeated a
weak Rutgers eleven by 23 to tho gen.
eral style or the Cornhuskers was not
impressive. They were slow and slug
gish. They went from here to their
meeting with Penn State and were easy
for the Nitanny LiAps. 20 to 0. Since
then Nebraska has come under the in
fluence of Dawson. who has injected
revamped its style When Nebraska
played here 1t showed a forward pass
of the "shoestring'' order. II seemed to
be at sea between the radical and the
conservative. But under Dawson II has
systematized its game along Eastern
lines
or course. statements from the West
that Nebraska could clean UP Hartard.
Centre and Yale on successive after
Moons are all poppycock. II seems to
us that we have heard something like
that before from out there In the great
open spaces. Extravagant praise of that
sort hurts a team more than It helps
it-and Dawson is mighty sore that It
ever got into print He feels that he
has a great team but he ie not making
any Glands for II outside OF It's own Sec
tion. Nebraska was coming North to
show us foiks-and now Dawson thinks
that we look for too much from his
team. However. II Nebraska can beat
Syracuse by any margin at all-that
will suffice.
they believe that IN Preston, the Neb
raska field general, they have the great
est quarterback in the country. Pres
ton, who Is a war vocational student,
earries two German bullets in his body
but they do not seem to hamper him
any in his mental or physical iabors.
Dawson's team 10 practically the .ame
outfit which defeated Pittsburgh by 10
10 last season and piled up asa
points against ~. But that great
team found fts superior when II
EtruCk NOLr8 DAluNs WHICH WUu " q
to o. However. IN losing 70 Hotrs
Dame the Cornhuslesrs had proud and
powerful company.
Says Western writer or John
Thomas. the Chicago battsring ram who
played SO brilliantly against Princeton
HE 10 the greatest line smasher the
game yet has seen" That may be. We
have not seen Thomas. But II the CHI
lcago back is even six removed from the
greatest we have had In the old art OF
crashing through a line he is doing very
well indeed.
We wonder-does the Western critic
remember Willie Heston. Michigan's
nomination as the creates OF all tme'
Heston does not date so far back. He
was All America In 1903 and 1904,
contemporary OF Hogan. Rafferty,. AMI
sheviin Of Yale. the first De Witt,
Kafer and Cooney OF Princeton. Ecke-.
sail Of Chicago, Smith OF Columbia,
and Hurley and Knowiton OF Harvard
he was quite line smasher. that mLn
Weston.
Coming down into the more modern
era--what was the matter with Percy
Wendell OF Harvard. now coach AZ
williams. or Ted Coy OF Yale. or Jim
Thorpe, the Indian? or course, there
always Is a strong tendency 20 refer
to the good old days and hand the
old timers a bit more than they deserve,
hut limo smashing was a bright spec.
asity In the old days and we are In.
clfned to hand something TO the old