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	1925 Cross Country INISHING the season with a third place in the annual Missouri Valley run at Lawrence, which followed an unbroken string of victories in dual meets last fall, the Husker cross country squad experienced its most successful season for many years. Taking charge of the team for the first time, Coach Henry F. Schulte built up a well balanced squad of distance men who were able to place in a group in every meet. The first dual meet of the season was run at Missouri over the Tiger course. The course was for only three miles as previously agreed upon by both teams. The Huskers, trained for a longer run, had little difficulty in winning, Lawson of Nebraska crossing the tape well ahead of Steele of Missouri who took second. Zimmermann, Captain Lewis, Hays, Searle and Reller all placed ahead of the next Tiger runner. The same Husker team lined up against Kansas on the Nebraska course, Home-coming day, the whole team placing ahead of the leading Jayhawk harrier. Lawson was again the first Nebraska man. The following week the Huskers met and defeated the crack Oklahoma team on the home course, taking the meet by a one-point margin. Captain Rutherford and Niblick of the Sooner squad easily led the entire field, but a well-balanced Nebraska squad which placed in a bunch, overcame the lead gathered by these two speedsters. Drake was the fourth victim to a superior Nebraska team which won 25 to 30 from the Bulldogs in a race run in a cold, blinding snow storm at Des Moines late in the season. The Husker team entered the Missouri Valley contest at Lawrence as one of the leading contenders for the title. Taking third place with Kansas Aggies and Ames ahead of them speaks well for the Nebraska squad as a whole since Ross, the first Husker to finish, placed twelfth in the race. Seven members of the squad qualified for cross country letters. Five of these men have represented Nebraska for the last time. They are: Captain James Lewis, Paul Zimmerman, Jack Ross, L. L. Lawson, and James Searle. Carl Reller and Captain-elect Frank Hays were other letter men who will return next year. A large squad is expected to report for cross country next fall and Coach Schulte hopes for another' winning season. Page 442

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Golf

NE match, with Drake University at Des Moines, composed the entire Nebraska golf season last year. The match was bitterly contested and ended in a tie for the 36 holes. The match was played over the Hyperion Country Club course through trying weather conditions, rain and hail failing at various times during the play.

     Fred Vette, captain, Harold Palmer, Joe Brown, and George Ready composed the team which was elected by Coach E. E. Bearg by a preliminary match played on the Lincoln Country Club course. A match with Kansas University was also to have been played by the Husker golfers but was called off by the failure of the Jayhawkers to send a team to Lincoln. Lack of funds prohibited the Nebraska team from entering the Missouri Valley meet at Norman, Oklahoma.

     There will be no golf team at the University this year as the result of the Athletic Board's ruling to suspend golf, baseball, and swimming for at least a temporary period, at the institution.

Tennis
ENNIS assumed rather an inauspicious place in the sport calendar at the University last year, the Huskers playing but one match, that with the Kansas Aggie racqueteers at Lincoln. The Nebraska players experienced little difficulty in winning their matches, Rathsack and Shildneck winning handily from their opponents in the singles, and Newton dropping the only match which the Cornhuskers lost, by a 6-4, 6-4 count, to his Aggie opponent. In the doubles, Shildneck and Rathsack easily turned back the Kaggie men.

     This year much interest has been manifested in tennis and it is planned to make more of the sport at Nebraska in future years. Gregg McBride, former All-University champion, is in charge of the 1926 squad.

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