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Dally Nebraskan
Friday, October 26,1984
.Sports
Big weekend battle
brews on campus
Bruce vs. Huskers
By Debbie Hooker
Dally Nebraskan Staff Reporter
What does it take to keep hundreds of Big Red fans
away from Memorial Stadium on football Saturdays? If
you ask the people mobbed around the Nebraska Union,
youH hear one answer Bruce Springsteen.
Tickets for the Springsteen concert go on sale Sunday
at 7:30 a.m. in the union. The Springsteen fans say they
will not leave the ticket line unless they have someone to
hold their place not even for the Cornhuskers.
Daryl Swanson, director of the Nebraska Union, said
Thursday that the ticket line Is and will continue to be
managed by members of the University Program Council.
He said the line may have to be split in places Saturday
so that football fans can get through.
"I hope the two groups are compatable ," Swanson
said.
Frank Kuhn, assistant director of operations in the
Nebraska Union, said he did not think the line would
create any major traffic problems on Saturday. The big
gest problem motorists have on football Saturdays is
parking, he said, and the line will not effect that.
The ticket line is not allowed inside the union while
the building is open, Kuhn said, except along one wall in
the entrance. This is to prevent a fire hazard, he
explained. About six people can fit along the wall.
So the Springsteen fans must wait outside through
the rain, cold, wind and Cornhusker game. Is Bruce
worth it? Ask just about anyone in the line. They'll say,
"yes."
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Nebraska linebacker Marc Munford hammers Missouri's George Shorthose in the Huskers'
win two weeks ago. Saturday the Huskers take on Kansas State and Bruce Springsteen to find
out who's The Boss.
Hunting seasons shortened
Analysis by Brent Cobb
Daily Nebraskan Staff Reporter
Nebraska's hunters will have
to deal with changes this year,
including one significant legal
change: shorter seasons for
some game, use of steel shot
rather than lead and a less
than favorable pheasant and
quail forecast. By a unanimous
vote of the Nebraska Game
and Parks Commissioners, the
state passed a resolution re
quiring the use of steel shot
bullets made of steel rather
than lead for all waterfowl
hunting across the state, begin
ning with the 1985 fall duck
and goose seasons.
This season the number of
areas where hunters will be
required to use steel shot has
increased. These areas will be
posted as "Steel Shot Only."
Nebraska is the first state in
the nation to make the move
' to total steel-shot conversion
for waterfowl hunting. Studies
have revealed that an esti
mated 3 million ducks and
geese die annually from lead
poisoning, and in Nebraska
about 3 to 5 percent of the
waterfowl sampled have in
gested lead shot.
The main source is fired lead
shot, which is deposited in
marshes and fields where the
birds gather. Once ingested,
the lead is ground up in the
bird's gizzard and even if the
effect isn't deadly, the bird may
have a lower resistance to dis
ease or suffer rapid weight
loss. Ingestion of a single pellet
is 70 percent to 100 percent
fatal in waterfowl.
The commission recognized
this problem and in 1982 began
to increase the number of steel
shot areas.
Hunters have had some valid
concerns about steel gun
damages, crippling rates and
the cost of shells. When steel
shot first appeared on the mar
ket, the quality of the shells did
not compare with those now
available. The state of the art
in manufacturing steel shells
has progressed and many of
the prior problems have been
eliminated. However, the steel
shot is currently about twice
as expensive as lead and the
steel shot produces a much
tighter pattern so the hunter
has to learn to make some
major technique adjustments.
Apart from the steel shot
controversy, duck hunting
opened in the low plains' late
season zones last weekend and
hunters had a variety of duck
species available to them. The
daily limit will be 100 points
with the possession limit two
legal daily bags. The late zone
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season will continue through
Dec. 18.
For hunters in Eastern Ne
braska, goose season has been
open for several weeks, but for
those anxious hunters west of
U.S. 183, Neb. 2 and U.S. 281
(excluding the Panhandle
area), a goose season officially
opened Sunday with an op
timistic forecast for both
whitefront and Canada geese.
A severe winter followed by
a wet spring kept the pheasant
population down and as a re
sult the commission reduced
the daily bag limit to three and
the possession limit to 9. In
addition, the commission
shortened the pheasant season,
which doesn't begin until Nov.
3 and lasts through Dec. 31.
The quail population was hit
hard by the bad weather since
they are smaller and more deli
cate birds. Because of this the
commission also reduced the
limits for quail. Hunters are
limited to four birds this year
compared to six last year and
the possession limit drops from
18 to 12. Quail season opens
Nov. 3 and closes Dec. 16.
Big game hunting in Ne
braska is very comparable to
last year with turkey, deer and
antelope population in good
condition. Shotgun turkey
hunters had their first chance
at a bird on Saturday morning
and biologists predict good
numbers in all of the manage
ment units again this year. The
number of permits this year is
up slightly over last year when
53 percent of the 5,274 hunters
killed birds.
Firearm applications for deer
hunters are up 14 percent so
the outlook for deer hunters is
good. The firearm dates are
Nov. 10 to Nov. 18, with archery
dates Sept. 15 to Nov. 9 and
Nov. 19 to Dec. 31.
Annual snvall-game hunting
permits can be bought at 1,100
stores, including sporting
goods and hardware stores,
most county clerks, banks,
game commission headquar
ters, district offices and state
parks.
Wildcats face Huskers
without key performers
By Stu Pospisil
Dally Nebraskan Senior Reporter
As Stan Weber goes, so" go the
Kansas State Wildcats.
Weber is the Wildcats' senior
quarterback who last year engi
neered a 20-point explosion
against Nebraska in his first start.
Weber brought K-State to within
38-25 midway through the fourth
quarter before losing 51-25.
Unfortunately for the 2-5 Wild
cats, Weber won't go onto the
Memorial Stadium artificial turf
Saturday except for the pre
game coin toss.
Weber suffered a partially col
lapsed lung in a 24-7 Homecoming
victory over Kansas two weeks
ago. KSU sports information di
rector Mike Scott said Weber will
suit up against the Huskers, but
will not play.
"When you go from a fifth-year
senior to a freshman at quarter
back," Scott said, "your offense is
going to suffer, be it Nebraska's or
Kansas State's."
Freshman redshirt Randy
Williams apparently will start Sat
urday's game, although Wildcat
coach Jim Dickey has not an
nounced his starter yet.
Williams relieved junior Donnie
Campbell in last Saturday's 61-21
blowout by Missouri He com
pleted 7 of 14 passes for 187
yards and a touchdown.
Williams will operate Kansas
State's new wishbone offense,
which Dickey installed in a 49-17
loss at South Carolina. The switch
was made, Scott said, to use
Weber's running ability.
"He's an option-type quarter
back, and the coaches thought
they could better use his talents,"
Scott said. "Also, we just have the
overall team personnel to run the
wishbone. They can block better,
and we get more out of our run
ning backs." -Dickey
was an assistant coach
at Oklahoma in 1970 when then
Sooner coach Chuck Fairbanks
also switched to the wishbone
offense in mid-season and Okla
homa won five of its last six
games.
Scott said he didn't know if
that influenced Dickey's decision,
but offensive coordinator Jerry
Boyce used the wishbone while
coaching at a Kansas community
college.
"Both were familiar with it,"
Scott said. 'They started thinking
about switching during the sum
mer, then put it into practices
before the Oklahoma game."
Kansas State ran from the I
formation in a 24-1 6 loss at Okla
homa, then switched to the wish
bone. Weber is just one of 19 first- or
second-stringers out with injuries.
Among the casualties out for the
season are fullback Charlie Craw
ford, strong safety Scott Wentzel
and linebacker Stu Peters.
"It's the worst I've ever seen in
my 22 years of coaching," Dickey
said. "Not only are we getting a lot
of injuries, but they are happening
to most of our key players.
"We're not that deep to begin
with, but with all of these injuries
to our key people, it is hurting us
even more."
Scott said the injuries have
been constant since fall workouts
began.
"You compare this year to 1982,
when we went to the Inde
pendence Bowl. We only had one
top-line player injured. This sea
son's just been a nightmare."
He said Wildcat fans are "disap
pointed like everybody else, but
there's no one more disappointed
than Jim Dickey and his staff.
They thought they had a chance
to be pretty good."
Nebraska's own woes with inju
ries improved after Thursday's
practice.
Middle guard John Reinhardt,
offensive tackle Mark Behning,
offensive guard Greg Orton and
I-back Jeff Smith all returned to
practice Thursday after missing
all or part of Wednesday's work
out. Smith and Behning a e the only
question marks for Saturday's
game. The Nebraska coaching staff
will wait until game time to decide
whether to play the two.