The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 13

MflMMk 1 THE TLIMCOILN SUMMSf STAR NEBRASKA NEBRASKA i FIELD HOUSE it SECTION. FIELD HOUSE SECTION SUNDAY EDITION LINCOLN SUNDAY, JANUARY SU 1926. TWENTY FOURTH YEAR I physical training classes in the days when men and women alternated in what I. mntnm nr. In tha main audi.

I IS SUITED FDR New Nebraska. Field House To Be Dedicated Next Saturday using the gymnasium. ATHLETIC PUNT Since the erection or me nmi wing of Memorial hall these men served 'as commandants of cadets i rw iihb) aa BBjVaMas) vu lia torium. Boosts Indoor Trsck. The fieldhouse also will be a real boost to Indoor track.

The authorities plan to provide for the Installation of a one eighth of a mile circular board track with a seventy yard straightaway the length of the hulldina This affords better ac BIG GATHERINGS i until the establishment of the rt. T. T. W. Griffith.

1888 to 1891; John J. Pershing, 1891 to J. F. Gullfoyle, 1895 to 1897; J. K.

Fechet, August to October, 1897: OF CQRNHUSKERS BEST IN VALLEY commodations for the athletes than Convention Hall at Kansas City which was the scene of the Valley John M. Stotsenberg, late in xavi until May, 1898. when he became a major in the First Nebraska volunteer infantry and went to the Phil indoor meet for a number of years. ippine Islands. He was later promoted to a colonel of volunteers and killed in battle while at the head of his regiment.

He Is burled The Indoor track equipment wm probably mean Nebraska track fansi will be privileged frequently to witness the Missouri Valley indoor New Field House Ready For Plays, Concerts, Dances As Well As Athletics. Authorities Not Yet Decided Whether 1926 Commencement Will Be There. New University Fieldhouse In Arlington cemetery, D. C.J S. A.

Smoke. 1901 to 1902; Chase Wilson. 1902 to 190R; J. G. worktaer, 1905 to 1909: H.

K. Yates, To Be Dedicated Next Saturday. meet. The university athletic program for the winter months will include one or more indoor dual meets, which will aid the Corn 1909 to 1912: K. N.

nowman, iu iaij. Parker 1914 until huskers in early preparations tor extensive competition on the Will Provide Plenty Of the United' States entered the World war in 1917. There is a full 14 foot basement i i. nil rhnnt now. rrom a underneath the entire building.

Space For All Indoor Athletics. KtilMlnir iibaiI WH. Vfl 111 tn One third of the basement space will be devoted to lockers showers ginning by mm, Memorial Hall be and toilets, where facilities will be nrovldpd for two thousand men. came one used joinny uy women. Ndpv it is to be used exclusively by women.

However, the one feature of university work for .1 1 1 4L. In addition to being an athletic headquarters, the new field house at the University of Nebraska, is peculiarly fitted for use of large musical attraction. Plays that requires plenty of stage room and for social functions of every description, especially those of an all university nature and which will appeal to the entire student body, will appear there. Concerts and entertainments of the highest type may be dated for the building with no fear that there will be insufficient nap. tn accommodate the crowds The new university fieldhouse.

which will be formally dedicated The remain na two iniras ui me basement, which will remain un wr.h It was erected, pnysicai with the Nebraska Kansas basket finished at the nresent time, win De devoted to boxing rooms, wrestling ball frame next Saturday, will give rooms and exercise rooms tor me training, is not passing ana ine universal declaration is that It is fitting for the women to have a building so surrounded by rich tra it he University of Nebraska the titdont hodv. Room will also be most complete athletic plant in the provided for such games as hand Missouri Valley. hall and sauasn tennis Eventually the plans dlctlons. They win not anow mviq to die. it Is asserted, but, Instead, will "carry on" and weave traditions of their own fully as rich a With the stadium taking care of 11 outdoor sports In great shape, to construct a swimming pool in the space beneath the stage.

This room la 60x120 feet with a 20 foot are those they are inheriting. new fieldhouse will handle the rvta tnii wiiann. arahltaeta ceiling. Room will be provided to that will want to attend. With a stage B0 feet deep and 120 feet across 1,000 people can be seated there, and for this purpose raised or specially built bleacher seats will be provided.

This will mean that a mustc attraction of least 700 persons could be on the stage at one time. If it should be a chorus almost the full 1,000 could The exterior of the new field house, which is to be dedicated next Saturday at the Nebraska Kansas ba ketball game, is shown above. The no Mienui ii. i 1 aonta will madv for Use. rt a crowd of one thousand at The act which made possini tn building of the first wing of Memorial Hall was drafted by Judge James S.

Dales, recording secretary of the university. Indoor athletic prograjn in a similar fashion. When the fieldhouse is completed next summer, the building will pro field house will not re compieiea, qui me swimming meets. deared to the student body over a Memorial hall. Here rose to the of regular army officers named by period or years as was he.

Women Take Over Historic pinnacle of fame some of the greatest the middlewest and the nation the war department as suitaDie ior specific duties aside from their vide facilities for six basketball When Jack Best died his body Before the women can use ine entire building a few alterations will be necessary. They will be of lay in in the building where have ever known. In their number courts. There is room for four teaching of military science. he served for so many years, and are included such men as gorier These men came' to tne univer a little Importance, however, ana funeral services were held there full sized courts on the auditorium floor.

The stage is large enough Memorial Hall As Men Move To Their New Fieldhouse for him will not change the exterior appearance. field and others of the famous "flying wedge" days of the gridtrt. when the games were played on sity with the understanding tnat they must teach some subject if the school authorities desired. Many of them did teach. General John J.

From this buildlnr also have rone for a basketball court and prepa rations will be made for a basket many persons who have spread the what was then the street base. Should an orchestra pit be needed this also has been provided for. Under ordinary conditions the pit will not be in evidence. It is ao arranged that wben not wanted a false floor covers it and the auditorium is available clear up to the stage walls. When orchestras are used the floor i removed and the pit Is ready.

rn. ior.i anetnl functions of the fame or the school for its music. ball park. lAter came Shoe, Ring ball court in the basement beneath all women's recreational efforts in Har has rtraldad lm. Carrtn Tt.

Memorial hall will be the haunts er, the Shedds, Whipple, Havward. tha univaraitv and their taking Raymond, year after year teaching the stage. of man no more. University Nob Bender, the Benedicts, uern, now governor of Utah; and lastly Ed over the building marks the begin Pershing, being among the numoer. He taught preparatory mathematics.

Many of these men also took post graduate courses. Instructors were scarce. The arviimanl that aTOOd instructors choral and symphony until her Gone are the days when Memorial During Intra mural and Nebraska Wlr nf tha nrpiwnt flaV. following hall at the University of Nebraska ning of a new era for women in tne school. name with that of the university is written on history's pages as one of interscholastlc tournaments the au closely on the reputations made by wilt resound to the shouts or men and boys at gymnasium work, or in ditorium floor will be used for the the foremost contributors to the Mamnrlal ITall WBS built SS a Noble, Chamberlain and wesiover.

The third issue of the "Blue could be had without cost through Some of these men also rose to dis four basketball courts with the a memorial to tne veterans me the building of the armory waa me Print," engineering college maga i i war and was to be used as an tinction on the battle field as well one that prevailed. training for competitions on courts, baseball diamond, or gridiron. Gone also are the days when the sharp command of military drill will be as on the gridiron. nranfr Mamnrlal hall served wen rrowds located in the balconies. These courts will be laid out east an1 waat.

xine, for the school year 1925 28, waa diatrthutad last week. Of es culture of the state. Down through the years also has come a record for the structure as a place where othr musicians have been developed. From the earliest days of its history band instruction armory where military science was to be taught in conjunction with until after the Spanish American Not all of the fame which has at physical training. heard within these wails.

Man naa pecial Interest was an article en university are the things which will be fitted to the auditorium. Particularly is this true of dancea that mav be held. The dancing floor will be 11 by 210 feet and will hold 1.500 comfortably. That number will be able to dance with no great fear of being crowded. A raised platform large enough to hold a great orchestra will be provided and the players will be In the middle of the Tha ere At est distance a war, when Increased auenaance For varsity games the court will hit laid north and smith with tem waa raannnnihle Tor US ormg tached to Nebraska athletes can be credited to Grant Memorial hall.

There was one man who had much titled "Glimpses of Venezuela, by Early Opposition to Drill. The suggestion that military has been carried on there and must nnnttntiallV. This brought relinquished his claim to the building, one of the oldest on the campus, and in his place has come wo mrinr hlMnhcn helnar Inatallarf nn clenas have spread from the dif Earl E. Sorenson, C. E.

"25, now a tn An with their rise. He was a the auditorium floor to supplement ft a a a 1. tliil MM ft. the suggestion that a memorial oe hunt to tha veterans of the war practicing engineer in Venezuela, man who" became so closely Identi ferent bands into all parts of the land. And everywhere they have man.

ine DRicony seating acuities, i nis will wKvm. a aaatlnor Mnarltv nf I. training was to be taught in the university was a new one and considerable difficulty was experienced in inducing the state legiature of fied with athletics at the university with Spain and the west wing was vt Saturday night the new South America. spread the reputation of the university and of Memorial hall. athletic field house will be dedicat the result.

00 for varsity games and 6,000 that he was a part of It. He was athletic, many have said. Jack Tha Cnd i at Athletics. ed and henceforth Memorial hall 1887 to pass an act authorizing an "The Common Rocks." a labor torv manual dealing with the more wnen an courts are in operation. Tho aiirlttrtritim will a I an Ha a Best was his name.

will cease to exist In so far as the Hall Has Known Famous Men. Memorial hall has held within Its appropriation of $15,000 for the From the day the first section of tha htitldlnir was finished It was r.lUnl for mtatrrr varnitv wrant man ara cnncprnM. aii meir ac common rocks, by Dr. E. H.

Bar building. It was many approved. When Jack Best Lay in State. Ttst hefore his death a few portals many famous people be used for military and athletic pur tivities will be transferred to the however, with the understanding ling programs and promises to go nn.ok an a thr ho me or tne arcai field house. sides athletes, soldiers, and musicians.

Roscoe Pound of Harvard vaara asm had been with the nhvsi a long way towara popularising tne fntleariata mat mnnrt. Tha ovten that the structure, was to ne raueu Grant Memorial hall. An additional with tha women coming" into con est athletes in the history tf the school have been trained. In this cal training department of the uni dancer will be from the music at any time will be 100 feet, and that would be in one of the far corners. Concourse Will Be Popular.

Around the dance floor is a con courae 12 feet wide. Arches between the pillars supporting the balcony open from the concourse onto the dance floor making entrance and exit possible from any part of the main floor. university: T'hlllln Russell, one of tmi of tha anttra htiildlna ends the bour of the department or geology, Is now available. It is designed a a companion volume to a book recently Issued by Dr. Barbour on minerals, and will be followed shortly by a book dealing with invertebrate fossils.

versity for so many years mere are ive south balcony will insure a mtutA view of tha malph.a tn all the leading attorneys of New York ntitiriinar also, many who are now hnidinv htrh. rank In the United regime of man and the beginning of a reign which in the beginning. but few who know the number, in personal charge of the training of football I a vers, he knew more of waa not contemDlated. The work States army, were given their first in milHarv instruction. Some srpeotators, while the large floor pace will make It possible to use a stage ring if desired.

Gymnastic classes, cramped In tha nraaanl armnrv anartan will $5,000 was furnished by the university. The building was completed during the following biennlum. Opponents of the legislative act declared it was hardly proper for university students to specialize in soldiering. At the time the bill was pending, the financial condition of the uni City; and others well known or the present day, are but a few. All received physical training there.

Not only have men been famous In literature, law, army and athletics atraced the building, but so tn ha carried on in the future, how them Intimately perhaps than any ever, will be the same as in tne are colonels, and others hold lesser grades, but all have served with diattnettnn to themselves and to nast save that the military wiu no have plenty of room on the larre Inne ar ha there. also have women become famous other man ever connected with tne institution. They were his children. Their succesnes were his successes, their failure his failures. It is said of Jack Rest that there their alma mater.

In peace times as in tha hparinninr tne structure No convocation was held Thursday morning of last week because of the changes necessitated by final examinations for the first semester. The musical programs will be continued during the second semester, beginning this week. This concourse win prove nn the most popular places in the building, regardless of whether the auditorium is being used for dancing, a large social gathering or "(Continued" on I'age Four.) tags. A large steel asbestos aeraen curtain will lanarala tti after having passed through its doors. Dorothy Canfield.

one of the well as during tne panisn Amen mrtA World wnra was erected as a physical training versity was none too good, and an argument used in favor of military training was that the school wss unit, and as such it will continue foremost writers of the age is but stage from the auditorium proper nermittlnar tha cvmnaatln wnrlr tn never was a man connected with University of Nebrsaka athletics unHar tha control of the women one. She attended the women's bloomed In Grant the university who became so en Henceforth it will be the center of continue unmolested regardless of New Unive at 7:30 p. m. b. 6 Missouri Washing Kansas Creighton Feb.

19 Feb. 20 Mch. 1 Feb. 1 3 Kansas Aggie Feb. 16 Reserved Seat Tickets for All Games On Sale Now AT Latsch Brothers msost.

To reach the University Auditorium go North on 14th to the corner of 14th and Vine. Temporary walks, have heen erected from 14th and Vine to the Auditorium. Band Concert The University Cadet Band will give a half hour concert in the Auditorium hefore each game. EACH The UNIVERSITY of NEBRASKA.