Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1918 — NEBRASKA MEN JOIN SERVICE [ARTICLE]

NEBRASKA MEN JOIN SERVICE

Three of Star Football Players Signify Intention of Enlisting—Two Are in Navy. Announcement Is made that 19 players at the University of Nebraska will be awarded the official “N” and sweaters for football work this season. They are Captain Shaw, Rhodes, Wilder, Kosltzky, Day, Duteau, Kellogg, Schellenberg, Dobson, Hubka, Cook, McMahon, Otoupallk, Riddell, Munn, Krlemelmeyer, L. Shaw, Young and Teter. Five of the nineteen have played their full three years allowed under the Missouri Valley conference rules. They are Captain Shaw, Kositzky, Cook, Otoupallk and Riddell. Shaw, Young and Day will tender their services to the nation for the war. Captain Shaw, rejected last summer by the medical examiners, will enlist In the balloon corps at the Omaha station. Young will enter the naval radio school at Great Lakes, and Day already has passed the preliminary examinations for admission to the navy.