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Nebraskans. Mr. Sherman's suggestion met with a great deal of favor on the campus and Albert Watkins, Jr., then prominent in college journalism, took up the idea and firmly established the name.
JACK BEST
No history of Nebraska athletics would be half complete without some tribute to the service of our beloved trainer, Jack Best. For almost forty years, he has been rubbing the sore spots out of stiff muscles, giving solace to discouraged candidates for athletic honors, and putting fight and the spirit of fair play into our athletes. His pleasant smile, whole-hearted sympathy, and unswerving loyalty have been the inspiration of the wearers of the Scarlet and the Cream. Jack will live in our hearts as long as there is life within us. The following couplets which are often sung on the campus nowadays will be sung by our great grandchildren.
Old Jack Best from England came Best in heart, Best in name. Always there with a hearty laugh "Don't forget to turn off the bath."
Inter-collegiate athletics have justified themselves at Nebraska. The critics say that competitive athletics develop only the few, while a proper system should develop the many. Around the Cornhusker athletes has grown that academic patriotism known as "college spirit" without which no large university can have an attractive college life. Isn't it true that a Cornhusker becomes the hero of every Nebraska boy as soon as begins to read the sporting page, and that he becomes zealous to develop his physique in order to emulate the deeds of his hero?
GUY E. REED.
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