Evening star., 1926-02-01

solute inactivity, due TO mid-year ex-
aminatious, Maryland may not be in
me best shape possible, and conse-
quently may give some advantage to
Stevens in that respect. Thursday
night Virginia faces North Carolina
and the Tarheels have a good nucleus
OF the squad with which It had for
the last two years won the Southern
championship. While Virginia has a
great basket ball team. 1t will be put
TO It's utmost resources by the Tar
heels
If Virginia and Maryland meet Sat
urday night at Charlottesville, both
andefeated, in all probability the big
gest crowd that has ever watched a
court contest in that town will turn
out. Certainly the game should offer
everything that tends to develop in
terest and enthusiasm in any sports
competition.
Two other schools In the Southern
Conference have been playing excep-
lonally good basket ball, North Caro-
lima and Mississippi. Mississippi lost
It's opening game by a small score,
but has not since been defeated, while
North Carolina also has been whipped
only once, then by Wake Forest by a
margin Of one point on the latters
floor.
Incidentally, it might be mentioned
mat Wake Forest seems 10 be kind
OF Nemesis TO North Carolina. Last
all 1t was the only foot ball team to
beat the Tarheels, and that score was
7 to G.
While not much has been said In
tEls section, nor much note taken, Of
Inc breaking of athletic relationships
between University of Nebraska and
- III ~ l.
has been caused in other sections, es-
pecially in the Middle West. The
Nebraska Alumnus devotes three
pages of its recent issue 10 the matter.
aud, while defending the Nebraska
side, takes d fair-minded view of the
situation. 1t gives a gist of tho criti-
ISM made by South Bend papers. and
hen gives refutations in each case.
The first cause for the break seems
20 have been a line in d poem which
appeared in a Lincoln newspaper to
which South Bend people took objec-
lion ana regarded as Il personal af-
trUnt. The second was a stunt be-
tween halves of the game in which
Nebraska students caricatured the
IamouS -Four Horsemen." The third
vas the claim that so much went on
at the hotel the night before the game
that Notrs Dame players could not get
The attitude of the people of Lincoln
and Nebraska students was decidedly
hostile.
To the first OF these the Nebraska
Alumnus answers that the poem re-
ferred to was a part Of the regular
contribution of q ColumniSt on that
newspaper, and that since that col
umnist had disclaimed any intent TO
have the line taken seriously, and
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poem should not have been. To the
second, the answer is that the action
# the student pep committee between
halves was nothing more or less than
the prank of a student organization,
and that it is duplicated everywhere
between halves of foot ball games, and
hat 1t might have been regarded as
an insult was absurd.
The third count is branded
ridiculous inasmuch as it was i'm
possible for the university authorities
% demand that the hotel close its
nallroom and cease his social aCtivi-
.oS.
In regard to the fourth it IS stated
nat the student body. In mass,
marched to the hotel to give the
Eotre Dame team cheers, and that
zach Rockne made a speech in
which he declared that Notre Dame
always was glad to return to Lincoln,
because nowhere else do we get such
3 welcome"
Following the game a committee Of
eltizens presented Rockne with bou-
quet OF flowers. AS for other Incl
dents the Nebraska Alumnus points
ont that they We're similar in char
rter 70 things that happened when
ne Nebraska team was at Notre
Dame the year before, but that the
athletics authorities at Notre Dame
eould not be held responsible for
them, nor could the athletic authori-
lies of Nebraska be held responsible
for any incidents Of that kind that
happened at Lincoln.
The three year contract between
Nebraska and Notre Dame had one
more year to run. The Nebraska
Alumnus states that while it does
rot approve Of Notre Danes break
ng a valid written contract. 1t has
10 malice. and believes that the break
was caused by interferences from
outside sources. The paper goes