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By BOB M ARTEL
Nebraska: Sports Reporter
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Yesterday afternoon, m candi
dates for Nebraska's 1956 Big
Seven football team trotted out on
to the practice field to begin spring
drills. Among those gridders were
11 letterman and 78 members of
last year's yearling squad.
Absent at yesterday's session
were lettermen Willie Greenlaw,
Don Erway, Bill. Hawkins and
aquadman Frank Wappi, who have
been excused to participate in
spring sports.
Graduating seniors who will be
sorely missed by coach Pete Elliott
Include linemen Bill Taylor, Jon
Mc Williams, Doran Post and backs
Bex Fischer, John Edwards and
Sylvester Harris.
Coach Elliott ran his squad
through some minor contact work
yesterday. Ha and his staff start
ed the Job to find "the best men
possible to do the Job for us the
way w want K done."
Returning to action after a year's
absence is tackle Jerry Peterson,
while Franklin Reeves, a former
squadman, has returned from the
service. Peterson lettered as a
sophomore in 1954.
Changes made prior to yester
day's drill included: LaVerne Torc
zon, from tackle to guard. Don
Rhoda, from tackle to guard. Don
Kampe, from guard to tackle. Bill
Hawkins, from tackle to end. Jerry
Brown, from guard to fullback.
Lettermen who were counted on
for next year, but who have
dropped out of school include Le-
roy Buthurus, Harry Johnson, and
George Cifra.
Among the outstanding members
of last year's freshmen squad who
were present at the opening ses
sion were Bennie Dillard, Mt. Plea
sant, Texas, Ernest English, New
Orleans, La., Rich King, West Bay
den, Pa., Chuck Tsoukalas, Som
merville, Mass., Dick Klingaman,
Mitchell, &-, Dick McCashland,
Geneva and Claire Boroff, Grand
Island.
The squad will workout through
Thursday of this week and then
will be off for the spring vacation.
After Easter they will continue
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Sending his new Nebraska foot- ed Elliott and his staff. Included in
ball squad throuh their first day this list are 14 lettermen. Elliott is
of spring drills is NU's new head shown here working with the quar
gridiron mentor, Pete Elliott.
One-hundred-ten candidates greet-
with four drills per week, winding
up with their All Sports Day game
with the Alumni on April 28.
Assisting Elliott were varsity
aids Bill Jennings, Don Scarbor
ough and Dee Andros; freshman
coach Gene Stauber, L. F. "Pop"
Klein and student assistants Bill
Taylor and Bob Wagner.
terbacks. The three hour practice
included some light contact work.
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Carrying on the prestige of Iheir
older brothers, the Kansas Uni
versity freshman track team cop
ped first place honors in the Big
Seven postal track meet.
The Nebraska Cornhuskers fin
ished a close second. The Jay
hawks annexed 44 points while the
Husker freshman squad garnered
Vt.
Missouri with ZiVt, Colorado,
26, Kansas State, 17, Okla
homa, 14 and Iowa State with two
followed in that order .
Keith Gardner paced NU with
24 points. He won blue ribbons in
the 60-yard high hurdles, the 440
J ard dash and the broad jump.
The Jamaica sensation won the
hurdles in the time of 0:07.4, the
broad jump with a leap of 22-11
and tied for first in the 50 with
Charles Tidwell of KU. The time
was :06.2.
Bennie Dillard of Nebraska fin
ished third in the 60-yard dash.
Ken Pollard took third place in
the pole vault; Dillard third in the
broad jump; Duane Smith second
in the high jump and Charles
Wollas fourth in the broad jump.
Wilt Chamberlain, the Jayhawks
sensational basketball performer,
took top honors in the high jump
with a soar of 6-5.
The Husker mile relay team
took third place. The four-man
team was composed of Gardner,
Don House, Dan Farrington and
Bob Miller.
Deadline
Intramural ballots mast be in
no later thai Wednesday, March
21. Any team failing to enter a
ballot will not be allowed to have
a member of that team on the all
star line-up.
Ballots should be turned in to
Mat Kreitman Nt the Nebraska
office.
Racquet Squad:
Net Men
Tour South
For Opener
Coach Ed Higginbotham and his
Nebraska tennis team are very
happy that spring is near and the
opening of the 1956 tennis season.
Like other Husker spring atletic
teams, the net squad is this year
opening their season in the southern
part of the United States.
The first match is just one week
away. The netters meet the Uni
versity of Wichita at Wichita. Other
matches on the southern tour in
clude Oklahoma, Sothern Meth
odist, Southeastern State College of
Dunant, Oklahoma and Oklahoma
Baptist University of Shawnee.
In all, the squad is scheduled for
15 matches Including the Big
Seven Conference meet May 18-19
at Manhattan, Kansas.
The first meet in Lincoln will be
against Fairbury Junior College on
April 14. The Huskers entertain
Iowa State College on All-Sports
Day which is April 28. Only three
other matches are scheduled for
the home courts.
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Cotter Wins Diving:
Husker Tankmen Finish Year
Wifh Four Wins; Ten Return
By GEORGE MOVER
Nebraskan Sports Reporter
Nebraska's swimmers doubled
their number of wins this season
over the 1954-55 campaign by fin
ishing with four wins, five losses
and a tie.
The tankmen closed the season
by moving from fourth to third in
the Big Seven swim meet held in
Boulder, Colorado.
Prospects for next year are
bright as only one man of the 11
man varsity graduates.
Returning to competition next
year will be Gene Cotter, Big Sev
en's champion diver, Carl Boden
steiner, sophomore distance man
who took fourth in the mile at Boul
der, Wyman Kenagy, Tom Hou
chen, Paul Schorr, Steve Gaines,
who took fourth in the mile at
Boulder, Wyman Kenagy, Tom
Houchen, Paul Schorr, Steve
Gaines, Fritz Helmesdoerfer, John
Hollman, and Doug Thorpe.
Dick Hill, Hastings is the squad's
lone senior. Hill closed his varsity
career by scoring four points and
swimming his best times in the 50-
yard and 440-yard free styles at the
Big Seven meet last week.
Coach Hollie Lepley calls this
group of freshmen the best' in a
number of years and he says that
Renfer and Farrell are the best
freshmen sprint prospects sine
Marvin Grimm and Ted K ana
mine. The frosh roster: Jerry Brown,
Omaha; Pat Drake, Lincoln; Jerry
Farrell, Hastings; Harvey Fair,
Omaha; Larry McClain, Fremont;
Bill North, Lincoln; Ron Renfer,
Wyandott, Mich.; Bob Robson,
York.
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