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schools, and on October 10, they all dressed up and came to Lincoln, feeling both foxy and confident. That the game would end was only to be ex-
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Stiehm's Machine on the Defensive

 

pected after it had once started, but that the score would be what it was, could not have been foreseen, because Tim Corey got his head in the way of Vidal's beautiful drop-kick. He got his nose bent a little, but his head didn't swell a bit, which shows just what kind of a player Tim is. His headwork made the final score read, South Dakota, zero; Nebraska, nothing.

     On October 17, the Kansas Aggs were the victims of a Cornhusker celebration. To anyone unfamiliar with the circumstances, the score of 31 to 0 which marked the close of the game, might indicate that the Aggs had to train at the Y. M. C. A., but such is not the case. Chamberlain and Cub Potter were just getting into form and each favored the fans with an exhibition sprint which helped to give the score its diseased appearance.

      Mr. Julian, the all-American full-back, supported by a powerful company from the Michigan Agricultural College, favored us with a visit on October 24. Away back east they had the reputation of being fearfully rough fellows and Julian scared the rooters half to death the evening before the game by sticking his head and shoulders over the balcony of the Lincoln Hotel, so that everybody could see him. The Aggs played a very nice game, considering how far east they lived, and both Julian and Blake Miller were nearly the equal of some of Nebraska's players. Once Michigan came within three inches of making six or seven points, but the three inches were as good as a mile, and the score stood 24 to 0 for Nebraska when the timer's whistle mercifully put an end to the massacre.

      Cub Potter couldn't be in the game with Ames on the following Saturday, so Caley and Hawkins ran the team. Nebraska played Ames in her usual way, letting them get a 7 to 3 lead until the last quarter when the Scarlet

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Halligan's Army Goes Forth to Battle

  

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