Lincoln Journal Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 5

FOUR TITE LIN'COLX state JOTRNAL. MOVDAV. NOVEMBER 29. MEET AT HASTINGS High School Mythical Some Real Action in That Nebraska-Washington Game. i Post-Season Clash Friday on Hastings Grid to Pick Shadow Champ.

They do things when they doo them down at Crete and out at Gothenberg. They have wrapped up for Friday delivery on the Hastings college grid, a football game which, if the state conference would recognize champions, might produce Just that thing. Coach Browne of Lincoln high received word from Coach Klein of Crete that school authorities of Crete and of (iothenberg had approved the proposed game. He, Coach Klein, had communicated with Coach Fred Thomsen who giggled a few and declared that It's a great life. That they do things In Crete and in Gothenberg with some show of npeed ia indicated from the fact that before the coaches of the two schools hung up their receivers, the Friday officials were tentatively nailed.

Earl Johnson will refereo, Coach Browne of Lincoln, will umpire and Don Elliott will bead-line the game on the field. While the governing body of state high school football is ing out of the cUanipioushlp stuff this yeaa'- -a good sneeze In view of the fact that Nebraska is a big state with a lot of high-stepping prep teams that seldom see earh other, smart football men here and there will tell you that the winner of the Gothenberg-Creie tilt will produce the greatest undeteated, high team of the year. But don't overlook the There are 70,000 or more people In Greater Lincoln who Insist that Lincoln high had the greatest aggregation in the state, the middle west and maybe In the whole world. Grand Island toppled tbe and Black after that great Toledo victory and then the Islanders fell. In any and all events, however, the game of Friday should be a bear cat and If such a thing as a newspaper decision or a mythical title, let It go to the winner.

Both Crete and Gothenberg have played graud football. Both have met real teams In their respective terrftorlea. impressive 25 to 0 win over the undeieated Havelock team was proof enougn of the class of "Pop" Klein aggregation. Gothenberg, possioly with the heavier schedule, has scampered over such teams as Leilngton, Kearney, McCook, Curtis Aggies and North Platte. Browne who must realize that his Red and Black warriors carried plenty of punch, probably would grin up one sleeve and down the other at a chance to play any team.

He agrees, however, that there is nothing for Lincoln to claim and like the good sport he Is, Xuakes this statement; "I believe the winner of the Gothenberg-Crete tilt is entitled to all honors as newspaper or mythical state champion. Surely they are just about the two Strongest undefeated teams." So that while TRIS SPEAKER QUITS. CLEVELAND. Nov. (U.

Spacker, manager of the Cleveland Indian baeeball club, reeigned today. Speaker made the anneunce- ment here himeelf, following his return from Chicago today The gray haired veteran of the diamond declared he waa leaving the game for good. "I will go into bualnees hare In Cleveland," Speaker tald, confirming a report made public last week by the United Preee, which predicted hie reaignation. STRONG TEAMS OH LIST GRAKli ISLAND SLIPS ON THE FINAL ROUND. Talk of Post Season Games for Mythical Title as High Schools Close Great Gridiron Season.

By Paul Zirnmprman. Once a great Gullath went down before a meek and unknown shepherd lad. Great nations have bowed In defeat before weak larmies of foes, and on the gridiron the task of bringing down the undefeated to the dusty wayside of common teams hak been left In the hands of the teams commonly termed the With the supplement that the "underdogs" have turned out In many lo be teams of power, the story of the high school gridiron seasoii Is told. Out of the mass of teams which spoke unsparingly of great mate rial at hand and rosy prospects at the start of the year, a scattered i few stand out still shrouded in the i pure white of an undefeated season. Only a few have withstood the hammering of one of the greatest gridiron campaigns the high schools of the Cornhu.sker state has ever known.

Some went down I early and rose to glory later. Others kept heads unbowed until after the final gun of the Thanksgiving struggles which closed the official books. Grand Island with a grand record marked by the high peak of the triumph over Lincoln took the tumble just as it reached the finish line and before the York aggrega tlon which started slowly but which gathered strength and power as the season advanced. The 6 to 3 set back was the outstanding reversal as the curtain dropped. On the other hand importantly the state confer- strong teams marched on thru the ia not reeognlalng a champion, to a flying finish.

Goth- Crete or Gothenberg may is an outstanding example claim what it claims after Friday and no ono in these parts will dispute it HASTINGS. Nov. chamber of commerce, high achool and Hastings college today Invited the undefeated of this. Lt-xington was only a stepping stone for eleven. Crete Is another prominent team with an all-vitorloua record.

Wilber took the count at the hands of combination. Now there Is talk of a post season arguraeni between these teams to test the Gothenberg and Crete high school title claims, football teams to play a post sea- tiPdoubfedly one of on game on Hanson field here for 'which has stood head and i he state championship. The use above the rest of the Of the field with its s'tadlunr and brushed by Blair 13 to 0 bleachers are offered aud It is also iLs rights for considera- proposed to broacast the game play Wakefield bid.s for by play fronj Westlnghouse sta-! strong tlon KFKX. Hastings midway hhowing at the lop our piuneiug Huskie line. between the two towns, whose teams have not lost a single game.

Fans generally regard the state lovU 1 I top South There beaten howeil. No. 3ti, downed alter one ol those pile-driving bone crushing Hue smacks thru the Bobby No. 68. who stop until three Huskie tacklers stopped with him.

Stlner James and Oehlrieh are otner Huakers shown in this picture shown doing their stuff. james ana The bottom picture show's Bobby Stephens off for another gain around the Washington right end. tween these two teams. Sioux City tribe 12 to 7. we have four teams, and all with impressive records for the sea.son.

And these. high school fitie Kreatest, do not, Loup City, stili unbeaten, nad Its lecord marred when Ord helu the aggregation to a 6 to 6 count. I'hat i spoils an otherwise remarkable record While all of these teams have CHADRON NORIJAL RETAINS HONORS HITS AUTOMOBILE leturninj Nebraska Men Have Accident in Occupant Probably Fatally Hurt. COLUMBUS, Nov. (By a staff ipecial train bearing the Univer- alty of Nebraska football team and party home from Seattle, struck and probably fatally Injured Henry Wilt, middle-aged rancher, on a crossing one mile from here early this afternoon.

Dr. Oliver Everett, team physician, gave emergency treatment but If Witt could live. His skull was crushed. dog, his only companion In the closed coupe In which he was riding, had to be shot. The accident happened almost have come thru unbeaten, strong' Defeat of Nebraska Wesleyan by Eleven Big Football conflicts.

i Lincoln Swamps Chicago. count. Against Grand Island the Parminter eleven came out with the short end of an 8 to 7 reckoning. York college slipped in with its win of the season, setting I Omaha university back on Its CAPTURE STATE CONFERENCE heels. 12 to u.

Omaha is also minus a single mark In the win column, having experir-iiced an off Kearney Normal closed its OOMMISSION K. OPPONENTS TITLE SECOND YEAR. PUTS FOOT DOWN ON AND DORVAL BOUTS. Reversal of the 1926 Grid Season. Lincoln, by literally swamping' a great team from Chicago cannot' be passed unnoticed.

team has gone thru one of the By Paul Zimmerman. A wary Coyote pack from Wes- books a week early w'ith Peru, trimming them In the final tilt. Wayne traveled into Iowa losing to the Western Union eleven at Le I Mars. With the 1926 grid season closed i and the prospects of a rousing basketball coming on, the mentors of the Nebraska colleges have already turned their eyes to the New Yorkers Figure New Pride Too Much Fruit for Rood December 8. hardest schedules of the state and candidates of the indoor sport, carried flying colors two paring for another series of com- stern intersectional conflicts.

Lane Chadron bats. The final standings: Tech admitted that the 38 to 7 zealously guarded state con- trinimlng was the it Sun against the attack of Path Vrtrma 1 taken in years. Falls City Vurned warriors, and Coach Roy back Hiawatha, 7 to 6 in Iaggregation retained the Normal Weileyan X-hraskH Outrai an Interstate Ult of minor impor- conference football fance. title. Two powerful teams fought iti partial story of 1 Midlatid t'oileKO the Normal 6f 0 5 I 4 1 5 1 5 2 4 3 4 3 i 3 kc-Miuo lUUgul 11 N'orninl i out when North Platte stepped by among the vork 4 the Curtis 13 to 6 In colleges of the state of Nebraska.

7 2 4 of the feature of the of de- omaha I 6 week. Beatrice swamped Hasiings Wesleyan the first con- 41 to 0 with iTahm aaaln ir. reverse of the season, 13 to 7 0 whl.o the crowd gather from her Pet. 1090 .760 I .714 .571 .671 .400 .400 833 833 .000 I At 13, Peru Kornial 0, 0 not knowing that rjie victim was her husband. Arnold Oelhrlch told her In German what had happened.

There were no obstructions preventing Witt from noting the approach of tho train line uncrossed downing Midland, to 0, to retain collected VERSATILE COMEDIANS. Nick Altrock and Al Schacht, famous baseball comedians, have a aide splitting comedy tennis match which they put on between exhibitions of Suzanne Lenglen's indoor tennis circus. taken llbertle.s with during the season. Edgar and Fairbury rung up lone aggregatioa has touchdow ns over Nelson and been beaten in the conference Hebron in games which belong In the first division. Columbus ajjd defeat slipped team Wauneta CaptureS Fremont staged a rousing conillct Coyotes out of the with Columbus, making a single b'lf shoved M'esleyan into goal from field look better thaa a position as Peru Bob- saiety.

cats second after hold- Scottsbluff downed Morrid, 6 to Doane to a tie count with and claiming the northwes.ern team scoring. Nebraska Central Mtd- I By Jack Dinneen. NEW YORK, Nov. Munn returned to town the other day just in lime to learn that the famout fathers of fidfiana, our commissioners, had saved him the trouble of two prospective opponent.s. They did the trick by simply frowning on proposed matches with Homer Smith and Jack Doival.

One of meal-tickets ever managed to survive the frown. Hence the Nebraska alumnus will next be seen In tion against A1 Uopd in the Newark armory on December 8. Some indication of quite as hard as Munn. All things I being equal handlers are still at a as to what attributes a prospective opponent for their I man must possess. Cancellation of the Smith match in the Garden for December 2 as SMITH I taken with good grace by the Hickey board of strategy.

They felt that poor paw' might rttquire the extra rest. i is still favoring this member as was evidenced last Tuesoay hen he resumed training. He did no heavy work whatioever. Entering gym at precisely 2 p. he a 10 minute drill on the light bag.

Then 10 minutes of rope sklpplig followed by shadow boxing and limbering up exercises and at 2:30 was on his way to the showers. He Included two fast rounds of boxing in this schedule. His ring mate was Tut Jackson Because of Indisposition to exert himself friend Tut was not called upon to take more than one excusable slip to the canvas Five Towns Build Own Basket Loop of Notre Dame by Carnegie Tech should further Impress Nebraska grid fans with the fact that Meehan brought a real football team to Huskerland when he trotted out bis New York Violets. Before coming west. New York, among other achievements, had defeated Carnegie Tech to 0.

There was a tendency here underrate the easternera. We now must reallae that any team that can does beat Notre Dame is I quite deservlug of respect. It may be worth while for Ne. braska to commence early In this little matter of respect for Violets. They are coming back next year with the same team- older, more experienced and more horsemanlike.

They are brlngins the same who next year 111 be juniors with the one I n. left tackle, passes from the picture by graduation. Captain Brtanto is the only one lo pass out of the plcure at tbe end of next season. Watch N. Y.

U. next year and the year after Huskers will be home early Tuesday afternoon. They deserve a great welcome. The New York World indicates in the following how ihe Violet warriors were received when ihey returned from the Nebraska game: BUSKER OPPONENTS ALMOST SELEOTED drake or IOWA STATE WILL PROBABLY BE OUT. Indications Call for Missouri, Grinnell, Kansas Syracuse.

Kansas. N. Y. U. and Another.

I By John Bentley. sportt EdUnr) EN ROUTE HOME WITH CORN- HUSKER Not. Ulk aboard this train now deal.e with next schedule. Missouri Valley officials gather this week end in Moines to arrange slates for next fall. There are three dates on schedule which have been definltelv fixed.

These are Syracuse at Lincoln. October 29; Pittsburgh at ritfsburgh. November 12 and New York University at Lincoln Thanksgiving. Taking these three tilts and by a process of elimination and application of the Einstein theory ihl.s card can he evolved: lArfober or lonii OrloboT nt 4 October nt New York university under- body, or at least as much i tnroin vaulted corridors of Grand Central Terminal, jelled Its collective head nt off to welcome home from its trip to Nebraska the best football team that has ever worn the Violet "A victory in that last game of the season, with the tag which it would have entailed, could hardly have warranted a more enthusiastic reception than that which met the twetny-seven frost-bitten and frost-beaten members of the N. Y.

U. expedition. "Tn vain the swirling rtiob oi students mauled thru the group that alighted from the Violet special, searching for Chick Meehan. the cosch, arid his staff of a.sslstants. The coaching group had left the train when it stopped-at Syracuse on the return trip." Working backward from the Pitt game which is one of the three certainties, November 5, the preceding date seems best flttevi for Homecoming.

Kansas has played the Homeconb. ing game for many seasons and the' Jayhawkers HusKer.s have the longest tradition in Nebraska's list. Kansas has always plajed Nebraska lately around 25 and this date he the one se leoted again. The state teachers convention will be held in Lincoln on November which adds more weight to the Homecoming theory. Grinnell to be Added.

HUSKERS TO TARE HEW ASSOCIATES? HINT THAT TWO CONFERENCES may be UP. One Thougrht If That Nebraska Be Turned Loose to Roam With Gophers, Badgers and Hawkeyes. By John Bentley. Journal Sporta Editor. B7NR0UTE HOME WITH CORN- HUSKERS SPECIAL, Nov.

How much longer are the big ten and Missouri Valley conferences going to last? Probably a question that few have thought of. H. D. Gish, acting director of Is predicting reorganization of both conferences and the is not so far distant, he thinks. Both conferences are top heavy and unwieldy from a football standpoint It is Impossible to declare a champion when it ia impossible for a team to play all the other teams In Its conference.

Therefore (Jish believes a five or stir team conference is the Ideal arrangement. He proposes that a possible re alignment might be made with these teams joining hands: Drake, Ames, Kansas, Kansas Aggies, Missouri and Nebraska. Another proposal and one hich would make one of the best tie-ups in the countT which Gish suggests would include Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Northwestern and Nebraska. This latter Is no pipe dream either. Minnesota has been getting the short end of it in the Big Ton and doubtless would lend encouragement to the plan.

With Nebraska and Mlnnesou loading the parade the others would undoubtedly fall Into Une. If nothing else this is certainly a thought for the day. The new alignments would not cause any traditional games of any of the schools to be dropped. The members of a slz-team conference could play all the other members and still have three open dates. In the live team conference there would be four dates open for non- conference members.

The Husker special stopped Sunday in Billings, Mont. Denver is the port of call on program and then home at 1:45 Tuesday. Coming back another week finds Syracuse at Lincoln Octobci 29. that means some game on foreign soil for October 22 and it just as well be the Kansas Aggies. Word that Grinnell would bo added to the Husker list makes the Pioneers a strong possibility for the October 15 date at Lincoln and will probably be played again as the second tilt of the season.

These figures are b-ised on the "One home and one awaj" arrangement That takes care of everybody except Iowa State. The Cyclones have a three year contract calling for games in but the Anu team Is said to be short on homo games and might seek release from the Lincoln game in order to get another tilt on its home gridiron. This makes possible another opening game with Ossie Solem's Drake Bulldogs. H. I).

Gish was given a chance to read these lines. He commented as follows: may be a good guesser and maybe not. There are three games correctly dated but ihe dates you have figured for other Valley elevens may prove horses from another riding academy. admit that the card outlined would be Ideal from our standpoint but few Ideal slates have ever gone thru." GRID FANS GIVEN CHANGE TO HOWL PICKING NATIONAL CHAMP IS NOTHING SOFT. WESLEYAH HAKES UP GRID SCHEDULE Boys Who Do the Champion Identification Stuff, If Smart, Will Hike on Long Journeys.

0. At At Chadron: Chadron Normal 7. land 0. At WMtorn 0. may be gleaned from ihe At Omahi; York collega 12.

Omaha COnimi.Soipn’s edict. His illustrious 0 stable mate Paul Berlenbach faced a similar pronouncement wnen he ran up a too ambitious string of T7 1 11 outs during the eariy daj's rencnnia.n a.ll6y of career, it took a decisive NORTH LOUP. Nov. 29. of the schools of a Several Games Booked at North group of nearby towns met at St.

Gridiron Honors MIXES PEARS AND PARS. H. Chandler Egan, who won the amateur golf title in 1904-5 and was runner-up In 1909. fa now owner of big pear farm near Medford, but still finds tiJriH to ekaae the pili about. championship, but Sidney is jlIso unbeaten in that section of the state aud Incidentally trimmed Chappell 14 to 0.

Broken Bow scored its first triumph of the jear against an equally weak 4 ley combination, while Aurora stopped St Paul 10 to 0. With the possible exception of post season games looming up, the 1926 gridiron books are closed, ionly to be opened as history. remained iu fourth position with the season clo.sed several days before. Cotner Without Victory. Grant! Island, a second division number, handed Cotner the ninth defeat of the conierence season.

The Bulldogs have fought some hart! battles tiuriug the season, but the fates of the game always tunietl the WAUNET.A, Nor defeated Imperial 27 to 0, Wauneta high school won the Frenchman Valley conference title for the season. The game between the two rivals was playdd in a snow' storm. Both team.s used a passing attack W'ith Waune.a the best scoring ability. In the conference lia.s rolled up 101 points to not a score for the opponents. McCook fiiyitlng and Cambridge were ilie eleven without the long i teams to down Wauneta.

a defeat at the hands of Jack Delaney to convince the fathers that Paul was not as formidable as they onsiaered him. It to be hoped the memory of that bitter pill will reatrai.i their mutual mentor. Dan Hickey, from over-matching Wanted Dorval Match, Munn and Hickev both wanted me Dorval match, and from an point of view looked like a good one tvore men sura matched phy.sivally arm and in point of experience. I From all accouutd Dorval can hit in response to an invitation from Skinner of the St. schools, and completed the organization of a district basketball league, to Include the towns of Loup CItj', Ord.

North Loup, Scotia and St. Paul. Superintendent Skinner was chosen secre- tarj'-treasurer and each school Is entitled to one representative as a local committee. The dates agreed on for the various games of the season are: Loup at City Korth Leup. Loup at St.

Paul. 29 North Loup at Ord. Kob. Paul at l.oup. Fab.

at North Loup. Feb. 17 -Ord at North Loup. Mar. 2 I.oup at City.

The league to be governed strictly by the rules and regulations of the Nebraska Athletic as- and a trophj cup will be awarded, to the ants. Central Conference Meetings in in Loop. QHICAGO, Nov. greater share oi the Nebraska Wesleyajj grid card for the 1927 season was completed here in the North Central conference by Coach Dow in the meeting of the North Central conJerence. Hastings college of the Nebraska state conference was admitted Into the Izatioa.

The games booked include: 15 tu Pen. (Mcteber et I.lnooüi. OotAhor mt Moax City. muio ot I.tnroln. Novowhor mt Hastings was admitted into the along with St Thomas By Clcu-k D.

Kelsey. CHICAGO, Nov. Football the country over today present a peculiar problem as far as picking a national champion is concerned. After the 21-21 tie with the Army and Carnegie 19 0 defeat of Notre Dame Saturday, the national championship as far as the winning and losing of games Is concerned, seems to be either Stanford or Alabama. Perhaps a few dissenting votes will go to Lafayette.

But neither one of these teams ha.s played a schedule that could give It an unlisputed championship. True one of them will finish the season undeieated unless they should happen to tie in their tournament of roses game. The one team that could have been given an undisputed natlonai championship was Notre Dame. T'n fortunately for the dopesfers, how ever, Carnegie Tech declined to do something Saturday that nobody thought It could do. That something was Its 19-0 plastyring of Knute Hockue's team.

Followers of the Irish in tliis part of the country and there are plenty of believe that Dame is the best in the country. They point out that had Knute gone east with his team and been there to direct its dee- Unles, there probably would have been a different to teU- Be as It may, Notre Dame was defeated and a defeated team rank aa national chmpion. A fumble which allowed an Army man to swoop down, pick up the ball after his own team had punted, and race for a touchdown, prevented the Navy from entering a c.alm for the championship, a claim by a team that had played a of St. Paul, Minn. Doane col-1 schedule of the kind seems lege was Up for consideration but be more justifiable than either evldentlj not included tn the the kind that is certain to be by Alabama or Stanford..