Wednesday, Feb. 12, 1961
The Nebraskan
Page 3
! NU Gymnasts Keep Winning
By Hal Brown
While Nebraska's major sports teams struggle to reach
the .500 mark each season, the Husker gymnasts continue
to win meet after meet.
This year's gym team is no exception to the winning
pattern that has been established by coach Jake Geier as
the Huskers have completed an unbeaten season in dual and
triangular meets.
Nebraska hasn't had a losing season In gymnastics in
the 12 seasons that Geier has been at the helm and only
once have they lost more than two meets in a season. This
i happened in Geier's first year when the Huskers won six
and lost four.
The Huskers have had six seasons with only one loss
and four seasons in which they suffered only two setbacks.
Geier refuses to take any credit for this season's un
beaten mark. "There have been some seasons when I felt
that I deserved a little credit, but that isn't the case this
year," Geier said. "All the credit for the undefeated season
goes to the boys."
Stars of the Week
For completing an undefeated season the eight mem
bers of the gym team will receive the Daily Nebraskan Star
of the Week award.
The eight gymnasts and their home towns are Dennis
Anstine, Hastings; Bill Brass, Sargent; Lou Burkel, Bea
trice; Herbert Hanich, Lincoln; Gene, Hart, Lincoln; Dick
McCoy, Lincoln; Doug Moore, Omaha and 'Charles Wil
liams, Ainsworth. ,
Anstine, Brass, Hanich and Moore are seniors. Wil
liams is a junior, and Burkel, Hart and McCoy are sopho
mores. Moore is captain of the squad.
When informed of the Dally Nebraskan award, Geier
said, They sure deserve it and I know they will appreciate
it: These boys have done more than I ever thought they
could . -
"I told them at the beginning of the season that we
would lose meets, but that I expected them to do their
best. They started working real hard and as the season
continued they got more hard-nosed with every meet."
Geier illustrated what he meant by hard-nosed by
citing the final triangular against Kansas State and Man
kato State last Saturday.
Burkel Injured
"Burkel injured a leg in the opening event of the meet
and since he is an all around performer this meant that
t we would be weakened in several events, but the rest of
the boys beared down and made up for the points we lost
with the loss of Burkel. And as you know we won the
meet," Geier explained.
The gym mentor explains that he didn't think the team
had a chance to defeat either Colorado State College or
Mankato State this season, but he says, "The boys worked
real hard and wouldn't give up so we were able to win
both meets."-
This year's wins included three triangulars and nine
duals. The Huskers will meet the freshmen Saturday and
then compete in the all-college tourney March 3-4 for their
next outing.
Geier figures that the Air Force Academy will win the
meet with Nebraska, Colorado State and Mankato State
battling for second place.
'That's the way I have it figured," he says, "but the
team doesn't think that way. The boys think they can win
the meet."
Six AAU Crowns
The Husker coach, who has directed Nebraska to three
all-college crowns and six Midwest AAU championships,
also credits his two assistants with much of the work that
hat been done this season.
Don Langdon and Charles Ellis have worked with the
freshmen and varsity respectively. "Both of them have
done terrific jobs this year," Geier said.
Geier, himself, is only a coach on the side. He is an
assistant professor in Teachers College and teaches a full
load of subjects.
"Coaching is just a sideline" and gives me a way to
spend my time between 4 and 6 p.m. each day," he says.
The Husker gym team receives only $1,200 a year for
scholarship aid. This is less than the cost of a football
player and must be divided among the entire team. Until
two years ago, the gymnasts received no aid.
Geier uses the following axiom in coaching gymnas
tics: "The measure of all routines is that he have routine
with a start, a "body and a finish with perfect form."
He operates on the idea that if you can't do it well you
shouldn't do it.
"We have won a lot of meets against stronger opponents
where they try more difficult stunts, but have a break in
the routine and we get the most points in the end," he
explains.
Background music is used at all home gym meets be
cause Geier feels that it is good for both the spectator and
the participant. "The music helps one to relaxe and adds
more dignity to the meet," the Husker coach explains.
With no large grants-in-aid available for recruiting help
one might wonder about the troubles involved in getting
a good gym team.
"When I first came here we got little help from high
schools because all the good boys were going to places like
Iowa, Florida State and Colorado schools,". Geier said.
High Schools Change
"This is changing but we still lose some good high
school gymnasts. We have been getting the rest of the boys,
however, and they come here and work real hard to be
come top gymnasts.
After he gets the boys out for gymnastics he has little
trouble keeping them. Only one varsity gymnast has been
scholastically ineligible in the 12 seasons Geier has been
at Nebraska.
Some outstanding freshmen are also on hand to bolster
the outlook for coming years. Leading the frosh gymnasts
is Dennis Albers, who was state champion in every thing
but selling tickets at the state gymnastics meet last year.
"The thing that worries me. about Albers is that people
will expect too much from him the first year," Geier said.
The Husker coach also picks out five other freshmen
as being just as outstanding in their events as Albers is
in all events.
They are Tom Nystrom, Gerald Harvey and Tom Sitz
man, all of Lincoln, Larry Hojer of Crete and Steve Swihart
of Grand Island.
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EIGHT GYMNASTS GIVE NEBRASKA UNDEFEATED TEAM
Nebraska's eight-man gymnastics team under the
tutelage of Jake Geier completed an undefeated season
hi dual and triangular meets. Huskers above the bars are
(from left) Doug Moore, Dennie Anstine, Herbert Hanich,
Dick McCoy and Gene Hart. Below the bars are (from
. left) Charles Williams, Bill Brass and Lou Burkel. (Photo
by Dave HiTIman).
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Swimmers
Set Busy
Sports Pace
Nebraska's athletic team
will face a busy weekend of
activity this week with th
swimmers setting the pace.
Coach Dick Haas's mermen
will see action Friday, Satur
day and Sunday. They will
meet Kansas State of Pitts
burg at 7:30 p.m. Friday,
Kansas State and Grinnell at
3 p.m. Saturday and will par
ticipate in an AAU meet Sun
day. Preliminaries in the AAU
meet will begin at 10 a.m.
with the finals starting at 3
p.m. All three swimming
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The undefeated Husker
track team will entertain Ok
lahoma at 2 p.m. Saturday in
the final tune up before the
conference meet.
Nebraska's cagers will fac
Kansas Saturday at Lawrence.
A freshman-varsity gymnas
tics meet is slated for th
Physical Education Building
at 2 p.m. Saturday.
Coach Mickey Sparano's
grapplers are idle until March
4 When they meet Missouri in
the season finale at the Coliseum.
Phi Delts Edge
Theta Xi Cagers
Phi Delta Theta and Phi
Kappa Psi jumped to a lead
in the Class C intramural
championships in Monday
night's two games.
Bob Peterson of Phi Delta
Theta scored 11 points to lead
the Phi Delts to a 25-22 vic
tory over Theta Xi.
Wayne Howlett was the
high scorer for the losers
with 9 points.
Phi Kappa Psi scored 33
points to Alpha Tau Omega's
21 to advance into the third
round of C competition.
Stan Schrag and Jerry
Overgaard each scored 12
points to lead the Phi Psi'i
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