University of Nebraska Lincoln - Cornhusker Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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7 .» : ' - ' ' -i ' i Bo v [Bid ' ' pteA o Vv lfl.« .o .t Cv lermans Blast, re Londoa HCE-TIME While the team donned ear-muffs and sweat shirts to scrim- mage in the snow, the rest of the world was even more in the throes of war— a great battle was raging in Africa and the English were still being warned of the danger of invasion, while here in the USA, Nebraska was warning Stanford that besides the team, the band, and Nebraska Sweetheart Beth Howley, hundreds of loyal rooters were on their way to Pasadena. The 21-13 defeat didn ' t seem to squelch UNs pride of the team for there was a tremendous rally and bonfire when the team retumed. The Rose Bowl fever subsided and once again UN students tumed to something else for entertainment. In January the world premier of Cheers for Miss Bishop was held in Lincoln. While this movie was being showered with praises, 10,000 bombs were rained on Plymouth, England. And at the end of January we ended our first semester struggling through exams and listening to Roosevelt being sworn in for his third term as president. We began the second semester scurrying to classes in snow- suits and slacks. We learned how it felt to brace oneself against the wind while walking from Sosh to Andrews. It was still cold at the end of March when England ' s famous comedian Gracie Fields appeared at the Coliseum. When she sang There ' ll Always Be An England ' very few of us realized how close England had come to not being a free country and that very night death was being rained dowri in hundreds of tons of bombs. Germans Blockade Iceland— read the headlines March 26. That was the night when two of us, yes, two men, managed to see Coed Follies, strictly feminine skits and curtain acts. ni A -i.

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But the war didn ' t worry Nebraska students — even the peace time draft registration on October 16 failed to arouse much inter- est — a few boys registered, but the war stayed away from the University of Nebraska. October brought Homecoming to UN and while we bombarded the Mizzou Tiger into submission, Lon- don was still being plastered by hundreds of tons of Nazi bombs. The close of October brought the Cornhuskers into the sports spotlight — Missouri and Indiana had been beaten — and Minnesota had won by so narrow a margin. The sports writers began to whispser Those boys had something! When Roosevelt won his third term, with Nebraska one of nine dissenting states, Comhusker football players had won three big games. National and state politics held the public spotlight, but for us, the UN election talk was the subject of heated debate — Barbs and Liberals Split As Class Officer Filings Open — was the headline in the Rag. The campus spotlight soon swung away from politics and back to the gridiron, where Nebraska had won the remainder of the games on the football slate. There had been one more game to play when rumors of a bowl bid became numerous. It was December 2, a cold, wintry day when the suspense was broken-ROSE BOWL BID ACCEPTED-read the headlines of the Lincoln papers, even the war news took second place. For twenty-four hours Lincoln was in a turmoil, classes were dismissed, students did the famous snake dance up O Street and invaded the theaters shouting, Rally! Rally! Enthusiasm had reached its peak, it was Nebraska ' s first bowl bid in the history of the school. Kos iCP . C u ( f : ' v.o »

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vf Gt P V pc .V) vC BIFF JONES TO LEAVE UN FOR ARMY 0 Class of ' 44 Sees Ivy Day; Dream of Future Years BOMBS AND BLOSSOMS jr, FOR ENGLISHMEN S Lt THIS SPRING l P. fii««o Confident 0 Of Italian Victory Against Greeks 10. 000 s, omb ' P v April— that meant the first signs of spring. We went to our first Triad party, picnicked at Penn Woods and Phi Psi gulch; yes, it was spring all over the world and in Europe the Axis was on the march. Germany had sped through the Balkans and was then beating Greece into submission. As the corrupt Nazi minds planned new thrusts of military conquests, five-hundred Nebraska students were recognized as outstanding students in a democratic institution of free learning. One couldn ' t help but feel proud that we were able to continue our education. One more Nebraska tradition was still a mystery to the class of 1944, but on May 1 we saw Ivy Day. We heard the songs, saw the Ivy and Daisy chains, the planting of the ivy and the crowning of May Queen Jean Simmons surrounded by her court, which included Lois Christie and Jean Cowden. We saw the Mortar Boards masked and the Innocents tapped, and maybe some of us wondered if we could ever be one of the ' mighty. ' After having seen Ivy Day we became quite confident, now we knew about all Nebraska ' s traditions and the Cornhusker spirit, and we could come back in the fall to tell other freshmen about the mysteries of college life. We had learned more than a year ' s knowledge in a short nine months, all of which passed almost too fast for us to appreciate. But we were sophomores by then!! Hull .... World ( ' .ooperation Means Security