The Coming Season

IEWING Nebraska's gridiron prospects with the eye of an unreasoning optomist, a most successful season is in store for us next fall. Captain Rutherford, Chamberlain, Doyle, Cameron, Abbott, Corey, Balls, Shields, Porter, Seizer and Caley, all "N" men, are eligible, and most of them will probably be back in harness with the beginning of the training season next September. In addition to these there are several promising reserves whose work last fall warrants the belief that they will make some of the regulars show their best if they hold their place on Stiehm's juggernaut. In this connection the names of Norris, Dale, Halberslaben, and several others will be recalled. It will be seen, then, that Nebraska would be well represented on the gridiron next year, even if she didn't have the last year's Freshmen to draw from.

      Coach Dewey Harmon, who trains the Freshman team each year, declares that his team last fall was the best first-year team ever developed at Nebraska. With Cook, Gardiner, Otoupolik, Kelly and Maloney in the backfield, and Moser, Shaw, Donnigan, Riddell, Proctor, Gray and the two Kositzkys on the line, it is certain that any hole which may develop in the Cornhusker machine can be filled without any trouble. Every one of these Freshmen is a star in his position and the regular who hangs onto his job will have to hump himself from the tap of the gong till the season closes.

      Shutting our optimistic eye for a moment and looking only with the jaundiced eye of the professional pessimist: Probably three or four of the regulars won't return to the fold. Probably several of the Freshmen will find their studies too arduous or, listening to the song of the unprincipled siren that periodically lures a few of our most promising men to pasture's green (with greenbacks), will desert the Scarlet and Cream. We hope that mercenary considerations will not influence any of our Freshmen, or the older men either, for that matter, but we are certain that the temptation will be placed in the way of some of them.

      Spring practice was inaugurated at Nebraska in the spring of 1913, and its success was proved by the team the following fall. As this book goes to press the call for spring practice has just been responded to by about thirty men, a large percentage of whom are Freshmen.

      It is safe to say, then, that Nebraska is in a fair way to gather in her sixth consecutive Missouri Valley Championship, and that it is quite possible that she may go through her next season with her wonderful record for victories intact and enlarged.

     The Nebraska schedule for 1915 is as follows:

Nebraska vs. Drake, at Lincoln, October 4
Nebraska vs. Washburn at Lincoln, October 11
Nebraska vs. Kansas Aggies at Lincoln, October 18
Nebraska vs. Notre Dame at Lincoln, October 25
Nebraska vs. Ames at Ames, November 1
Nebraska vs. Nebraska Wesleyan at Lincoln,
November 8 Nebraska vs. Kansas at Lawrence, November 15.
Nebraska vs. Iowa at Lincoln, November 22