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benchwarmer
Hal Brown's column in
Wednesday's Lincoln Star
deals with the fact that the
teams that were rated in the
pre-season top ten polls by
the AP and the UPI are
doomed to finish the season
out of the top ten.
This raises the question of
the validity of polls, and the
feasibility of polls. The an
swer constitutes this week's
Benchwarmer award.
The sportswriter's polls base
their validity on the premises
that 1) teams play the same
every Saturday; 2) teams
play the same against all foes
regardless of specific
strengths or weaknesses; 3)
sportswriters have seen a 1 1
the teams play that they rate;
4) sportswriters are impartial
critics and are capable of
judging consistantly.
AH these premises are al
most criminally false.
1) Teams do not play the
same way every Saturday.
Husker coach Bob Devaney
would spend many more
nights in peaceful slumber if
he could be sure of his team
playing consistantly on Sat
urday. Teams get "up" for games;
teams are "down" for games:
and the inflated leather oval
DOES bounce unpredictably.
2) Comparative scores are
the biggest pitfall of all sports
prognosticators, amature or
professional, because 7 oppos
ing teams are strong and
weak in different phases.
A team may have a weak
ness of catastrophic propor
tion that goes unnoticed until
a team that is weaker in oth
er respects suddenly exploits
the hidden weakness of t h e
first team.
All of a sudden, an unde
feated team gets "upset" by
a previously mediocre team,
and the raters scratch their
heads fr e s p e c t i v e 1 y, of
course) in puzzlement.
3) A rater sees only a small
fraction of the nation's college
squads play during a given
season, and by necessity, he
must rate basically on here
say never admissable e v i
dence. 4) Sportswriters are not
impartial critics, and most
have favorites, partisanships,
and prejudices just like peo
ple. To assume that they
judge fairly and consistantly
is a belief contrary to human
nature.
Nebraska is now rated
fourth in the nation bv t h e
UPI, and fifth by the AP. One
naturally assumes by read
ing the list of the top ten that
the Huskers should finish the
regular season undefeated
since none of Nebraska's foes
appears on the list.
Nebraska has yet to play
the bulk of the superior teams
on its schedule. Nebraska will
probably be favored to win
all of its remaining games be
cause ... of the ratings, of
course.
Because of the ratings, each
team on Nebraska's schedule
will be aiming at the Corn
huskers because of the glory
of an upset.
If Missouri beats Nebraska
it could hardly be called an
upset because of Nebraska's
reticense in recent years to
score on Msisouri, let alone
beat them. And how about
Oklahoma, Kansas, and Okla
homa State? Could a Corn
husker defeat by any of these
fine teams be called an up
set? To predict an undefeated
season for Nebraska would be
ridiculous at this point. (Al
most as ridiculous as it would
have been to predict six ;
straight victories before t h e j
season started.) But, in effect, j
that is now what the AP, the i
UPI, and the nation expect ;
of Nebraska. I
(The polls ARE fun to read,
though, aren't they?)
B. S.
Sayers Needs 68 Yards
Gary Lane, the Big Eight Conference's back of the
week from Missouri, will cross a real milestone Saturday
against Nebraska, for he needs but five yards in the
game to run his two-year total offense production to
1,760 lengths, an even mile.
Kansas' Gale Sayers needs just 68 yards against Kan
sas State Saturday to break the Big Eight Conference's
all-time rushing record of 2,562 held by Iowa State's Dave
Hoppmann.
John Berrington, the offensive center and defensive
lineback at Iowa State who traveled the farthest to play
Big Eight Conference football this fall John is from
Honolulu, Hawaii could become the first Iowa Stater
since Polly Wallace to earn all-Conference recognition
two years in a row. Wallace did It in 1920 and 1921. When
Berrington, the biggest center in Cyclone history at 224
pounds, won all-Conference honors last year, he became
the first Iowa State center to do so since 1945.
The 12,000 Nebraska fans who migrated west Satur
day to watch the Nebraska-Colorado game in Boulder
marked the biggest delegation of Cornhuskers ever to in
vade Folsom. Field.
s Kansas' cross country team, led by Bill Silverberg and
John Lawson, has now won 25 straight meets against all
competition and 41 consecutively against Big Eight Con
ference teams. The Jayhawkers hill-and-dalers are off
this week, getting ready for the Conference champion
ships next week at Kansas State.
Nebraska's winning streak of 13 games is the longest
for the Cornhuskers since 1932-33, when D. X. Bible's
teams went 14 in a row without a loss, but were tied once
by Pittsburgh, l)-0. The longest winning streak on record
for Nebraska, not counting ties, started in 1914 and end
19 games later against Kansas, 7-3, in 1916. Actually, the
streak, counting ties, started in 1912 under Jumbo Stiehm
and covered 33 contests, including the 19 straight. Only
a 0-0 tie against South Dakota blemished the record.
Dan Devine, head man at Missouri, is the only ac
tive Big Eight Conference coach with a win over Bob De
vaney of Nebraska, 16-7 in 1962. Incidentally, when Mis
souri defeated Air Force two weeks ago, Devine and the
Tigers became the first coach and team to beat the Fal
cons three straight times.
Kansas still has that first year jinx on Oklahoma
coaches after its thrilling come-from-behind 15-14 win over
Gomer Jones' Sooners. Neither the lafe Jim Tatum nor
Bud Wilkinson could get the job done the first time against
the Jayhawkers. Wilkinson fared the best with a 13-13 tie.
The last Oklahoma coach to win in his first try against
Kansas was Dewey Luster, back in 1941.
Don Stalwick, assistant football coach at Colorado, calls
Bobby Hohn of Nebraska, one of the Big Eight Confer
ence's "unsung heroes," the "best blocking halfback in
college football."
When asked to evaluate Gale Sayers, Kansas' all
America halfback, Coach Phil Cutchin of Oklahoma State
quipped: "That would be like me saying I thought Mickey
Mantle was a good baseball player."
Nebraska's football team may be bigger from end to
end than Missouri's, but there is no doubt that one of
Missouri's regular play-by-play men is a shade taller
than one of the voices of the Conrhuskers. Broadcasting
for KSD in St. Louis is "Easy" Ed Macauley, who stands
a little over 6-8. Calling the shots for KOLN in Lincoln
is Bob Zenner, who stands a "little" under 5-8.
When the U.S. Olympic basketball team ran up a 116
50 win over Korea on its way to the Games champion
ship, it marked the first time a team coached by Okla
home State's Henry Iba ever scored over 100 points. There
was a reason for the big win had the race ended in a
tie, the standings would have been determined by point
spread.
Kansas State's basketball team played before 274,
550 people last year to finish second in the season's top
attendance race, won by Illinois, which was watched by
over 285,000. Colorado was 24th in the nation in miles
traveled last year with 9,500.
Attndosnc Records Likely To Foil
New Big Eight Conference
season and per-game average
attendance records are prac
tically assured this year as
five institutions have a chance
to break their all-t i m e and
per-game average records
during a hot championship
race tha picks up steam this
weekend for the stretch
drive.
With 23 of 42 games played,
Big Eight teams have attract
ed 833,625 home fans, an av
erage of 36,245 per game, com
pared to the record of 32,770
set last year when the Con
ference shattered its all-time
attendance marks for the
third time in the last four
years. With 19 games left, the
season mark of 1,284,878 set in
1960 also seems sure to be
surpassed.
Remaining on the schedule
are such headline features as
Missouri at Nebraska, Ne
braska at Oklahoma, Nebras
ka at Kansas, Oklahoma at
Oklahoma State, Oklahoma at
Colordo, and Kansas at Kan
sas State. Traditionally, these
games draw full houses, or
near capacity crowds.
Leading the attendance pa
rade thus far is Oklahoma
which this year counts the
Texas clash in Dallas' Cotton
Bowl as a home encounter
with 183,804 in three of six
home games, an average of
61,268. The top average for the
Sooners came in 1962. 58,803,
when they drew a record 352,
817. Yet to be played in the
friendly confines of Owen
Field, which has a capacity of
61,826, are Iowa State, Mis
souri, and Nebraska,
Iowa State, which has com
pleted its home schedule, beat
its four-game attendance rec
ord by drawing an unofficial
84.000 to its games against
Drake, Nebraska, Kansas and
Colorado. When the final ac
counting is completed, t h e
figure, based on tickets sold
(the "pay-off" total) may
even better the current Cy
clone mark for five games,
85,000.
Kansas and Missouri, which
last year rewrote their at
endance standards, also have
good chances of repeating
again this yer. Kansas needs
to draw just over 60,000 in
its two remaining home
games Nebraska (already
sold out at 45,000) and Colo
radoto slip by the 180,413
mark of last year. Missouri,
with home games against
Colorado and Kansas left,
needs about 45,000 in each
game to eclipse the current
223,600 standard.
Nebraska, playing in its
newly expanded Memorial
Stadium 47,366 capacity now,
compared with 37,500 last year
has only an outside chance
of breaking its season record
of 223,119 set last year in six
games, but is a sure bet to
beat the per-game average in
its five games this year. Cur
rently, the Cornhuskers are
averaging 43,000 and have
games left against Missouri
and Oklahoma State. A capa
city gathering at both of these
games would give Nebraska
the season record, too.
Even though not challenging
records, attendance at Okla
homa State, Colorado and
Kansas State is running ahead
of last year's pace.
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