Staff Views By Del Black Osborne in Strong Pro Football Bid Tom Osborne, always tough in the clutch as an outstanding high school and college athlete, is fighting a whale of a battle to stick with the San Francisco 49ers. A quick telephone call filled me in on the latest developments in Osborne's bid to become a pro football player. In training with the Na- Black tional Football League 49ers at Moraga, Cal., Osborne had nothing but praise for the pro * Osborne . . hustling. Wilt Set For Lincoln Hawks, Warriors Here October 12 The 1959-60 basketball season in Lincoln will be opened on a big league note with two: National Basketball Associa-| Lion title contenders. the St. Louis Hawks a and Philadelphia Warriors. playing a prescason game at Pershing Municipal Auditorium on Oct. 12. The game will see a return of the fabulous Wilt Chamber-| Jain to the Capitol City. Chamberlain has joined Owner Eddie Gottlieb's Philadelphia team after a season with the Harlem Globetrotters and two fantastic years with the Kansas University Jayhawks. St. Louis. coached by "Easy Ed" MacCauley, WOR the Western Division NBA cham-| pionship last year and features such familiar standouts as Bob Pettit. Slater Martin. Cliff Hagen. Charlie Share. All Farrari and another ex-Kan-'when sas great. Clyde Lovellette. Philadelphia's roster will' see Tom Gola. Paul Arizin, Willy Saulsbury, Neal Johnsten, Jack George and Wilt highlighting the roster. Saulsbury, another ex-Trotter. was rookie-of-the-year two seasons | grid game. "I really enjoy it here," said Tom. "'This game is sure different than college ball. It's just like a game of cat and mouse. Everything is so quick and clever. It's all business and a fulltime job.' Osborne, two-time Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star Athlete of the Year while at Hastings College, i is playing offensive left end for the 49ers. He's the only rookie end still with the 49-man squad. The 49ers must cut down to the NFL 35-man player limit by Sept. 27, the day of their first regularly scheduled game. Meanwhile, 6 more exhibition games are on tap. One has already been played. They face Green Bay Sunday. Osborne has been running with the No. 1 offensive unit in full-scale scrimmages. The modest athlete attributes this break to an injury suffered by veteran Clyde Connor. Billy Wilson, one of the NFL's leading pass receivers, has been working at the other end. He and Osborne both weigh 190 | and are the lightest men in the offensive forward wall. A switch in 49er personnel' makes Osborne's job of mak-: ing the club as an end even ' tougher. Hugh McEllehanny.| veteran back. has been moved to the flanker position. forcing R. C. Owens. also a flanker. to an offensive end spot. The other ends besides Osborne. Wilson. Owens and Connor is Fred Du-| gan. a second year man. An ear infection, suffered| enroute to camp. almost halted Osborne before he started. His weight dropped 15 pounds and he became very weak. 441 feel real good now." said Osborne. Osborne outlined the daily camp routine. The 49ers opened practice July 24 at St. Mary's College in Morago. The first 3 weeks were spent working out daily in the morning and the afternoon. A chalk talk took care of the evenings. Now it's just one practice session cach day (afternoon) with two chalk sessions - morning and evening. Each practice and skull session runs about 112 hours. "It's going to be tough making the team." says Tom. "All the remaining players are either veterans or high draft choices." Osborn was the 19th draft choice of the 49ers. Jack Osborne. Tom's • younger brother, was on the West Coast last wreck and watched the 49ers drill. "Tom started al offensive left end I saw the squad practicc." says brother Jack, a al sophomore at Hastings College. "He caught two passes that day IN the 20-minute scrimmage. Y. A. Tiddle and John Brodie were quarterbacking the team." *