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eight conference games and losing five, the 1925
Cornhusker baseball team finished the season with a
percentage of .615. Individuals made favorable batting
and fielding averages as compared with other Valley
teams. The work of Beryl Lang and "Choppy" Rhodes,
Husker moundmen, was the outstanding feature of the
season. Their pitching was generally conceded to be
the class of the Valley. Domeier and Edwards were able
reserve pitchers and saw considerable service during
the season. Coach W. G. Kline, coach of basketball and
baseball at the Husker institution last year,
developed a fast team out of the material with which
he had to work. Starting the season with nine letter
men, the Cornhuskers experienced difficulty in
rounding into shape because of unfavorable weather
conditions. During the annual spring vacation the team
journeyed to St. Marys, Karim, losing to St. Mary's in
a practice game 5 to 4.
In the first
conference game of the season Beryl Lang on the mound
for the Huskers blanked the Missouri Tigers 7 to 0 and
was credited with a no-hit, no-run game. The following
day with several costly errors behind him, "Choppy"
Rhodes and the Huskers, lost to the Tiger pill
swatters 4 to 3. Continuing their trip through the
Show-Me state, the Huskers went down to a 17 to 3
defeat administered by the crack nine of St. Louis
University. Ten runs in the sixth inning on six hits
and two costly errors put the St. Louis team well in
the lead and took most of the punch out of the
Huskers. A 3 to 1 victory and a 7 to 3 defeat in a
two-game series with Washington University at St.
Louis finished the trip. The pitching of Lang and the
heavy hitting of Volz and Andresen was largely
responsible for the Husker victory.
In a two-game series
played at Manhattan, the Cornhusker nine added to its
percentage column, turning back the Kansas Farmers 4
to 3 and 10 to 7. The Aggies were unable to touch
Lang's offer-
1926
Season
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eight conference games and losing five, the 1925
Cornhusker baseball team finished the season with a
percentage of .615. Individuals made favorable batting
and fielding averages as compared with other Valley
teams. The work of Beryl Lang and "Choppy" Rhodes,
Husker moundmen, was the outstanding feature of the
season. Their pitching was generally conceded to be
the class of the Valley. Domeier and Edwards were able
reserve pitchers and saw considerable service during
the season. Coach W. G. Kline, coach of basketball and
baseball at the Husker institution last year,
developed a fast team out of the material with which
he had to work. Starting the season with nine letter
men, the Cornhuskers experienced difficulty in
rounding into shape because of unfavorable weather
conditions. During the annual spring vacation the team
journeyed to St. Marys, Karim, losing to St. Mary's in
a practice game 5 to 4.