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OTHER MINOR SPORTS
Gymnastics have been maintained since the early 1900's. Our teams have been among the winners consistently, competing against all the largest colleges of the Western Conference. Wrestling was introduced in 1908 and meets with Ames and Iowa have been held in addition to the Western Conference meet. In 1916, our wrestlers succeeded in carrying off premier honors at the conference meet in Minnesota. There has not been a year in which we have not won at least one of the weights, even though our teams did not always carry off first honors.
PHYSICAL EQUIPMENT
Until 1908, the northwest corner of the old campus always served as an athletic field. It was either as hard as a pavement or was a sea of mud, and it is to be wondered how early football warriors ever survived a season. In 1908 a movement was started by the athletic board, headed by Graduate Manager Earl Eager, to acquire a block and one-half just north of the old campus, bordering on Tenth and T streets. This was acquired but was not ready for use until 1909-10, and in the meantime the Antelope baseball park was used for football and the state fair grounds track for track and field athletics. The present athletic field is as inadequate now as the old one was in 1907.
When Grant Memorial Hall was built in 1887-8 it was one of the best gymnasiums in the Missouri Valley. Though it has outlived its early reputation, some very excellent basketball and gymnastic teams have been trained within its four walls.
THE NAME "CORNHUSKER"
The name "Cornhusker" was first applied to Nebraska athletic teams by Charles S. Sherman, then the sporting editor of The Nebraska State Journal. Before that time our athletes were known as Bug-Eaters, Tree-Planters, or
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