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	Coach Henry F. Schulte 0 Coach Henry F. (Indian) Schulte goes the credit for having developed Nebraska track teams to the position of respect they now command in the Missouri Valley. Coming here seven years ago from the University of Missouri where he turned out several Valley championship teams and prominent individual stars, Coach Schulte has a record of having won four consecutive Missouri Valley track and field championships for Nebraska. When he started here there were forty or fifty men out for the cinder sport, and Coach Schulte has been the factor in increasing this number to over four hundred men, He has built up the indoor track under the stadium so that practice may be held all winter, in preparation for the indoor meets and the early spring competition. Coach Schulte today is regarded as one of the leading authorities on track in the United States, and he has turned out many fine athletes during his regime here, among them Roland Locke, credited with having tied the world's record in the 100-yard dash, and holder of the Missouri Valley record in this event and in the 220-yard dash. Gardner, Turner, Crites and Wirsig are also products of his coaching. Coach Schulte has a knack of sizing up a man and making a track man of him whether he has had experience or not. Intensive training under him will bring out track ability not discovered before. Several "N" men in the past few years have been picked out of the student body on the campus and molded into good track performers through the efforts of Schulte. Besides his work as head track coach, Schulte has served in the capacity of football and cross country coach at the University. He is an honorary member of the Innocents society and has done a great deal to instill Cornhusker spirit into the student body during the football season. He. has tremendous force when speaking and is very popular with the students because of the things he stands for. Hats off to Schulte fellows! A real Nebraska man. Page 428

1925 Track Record

EVERETT CRITES
Captain

NEBRASKA-STANFORD

Nebraska--50 1-3.

Stanford--80 2-3.

NEBRASKA-NEW MEXICO

Nebraska--85 13.

New Mexico--36 2-3.

NEBRASKA-GRINNELL

Nebraska--76.

Grinnell---55.

NEBRASKA-COLORADO

Nebraska--107.

Colorado--23.

TRIANGULAR MEET

Nebraska--52 2-3.

Kansas--46.

Kansas Aggies--21 1-3.

MISSOURI VALLEY MEET

Missouri--44 3-4.

Nebraska--40 1-2.

Oklahoma--25 1-4.

Grinnell--24,

Kansas--14 1-2.

Ames--14.

Kansas Aggies--6.

Washington--5.

Drake--1.

Oklahoma Aggies--1.

ROLAND LOCKE
Captain-elect

The Season

UT one thing marred the record of the University of Nebraska track team during the 1925 season and that was the loss of the Missouri Valley conference title to Missouri in the annual meet at Norman, Oklahoma, in May. The Huskers, winners of the title for four straight years, pushed the Tigers hard but lacked by a small margin the winning points.
      Nebraska won the Missouri Valley indoor meet, was victorious in dual meets with Grinnell, Colorado and New Mexico, and won the triangular meet with Kansas and the Kansas Aggies. The Huskers lost their first dual meet of the season to Stanford University at Palto Alto. The Huskers made a very credible showing against the Pacific Coast school in the track events but were weak in the field.

      It was a great year for Roland Locke, Husker dash star, and for Ed Weir, Husker hurdler. Both men featured the work of the Nebraska team in practically every meet in which Nebraska was entered. Locke did not lose an event in the sprints during the season, set a new record in the K. C. A. C. indoor meet for the 50-yard dash, of 5 1-5 seconds; tied the world's record for the century in the Kansas Relay games and the Missouri Valley meet; tied dash records in both the Drake and Illinois Relay carnivals and was a member of the Husker mile and quarter mile relay teams. Weir won points at practically every meet in his favorite event, the high hurdles.

     The 1925 team was especially strong in track events but was weak in the field. "Choppy" Rhodes, football star, won second in the all-around championships at the Illinois relay and also placed well in the broad jump and pole vault at various meets. Wirsig and Gleason were leading contenders in the pole vault in the Valley. Captain Everett Crites and Scherich were strong men in the quarter, and were members of the relay teams. Beckord, Hein, Dailey, and Lewis were excellent relay men and

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