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STAFF EDITORIAL
Wrestling fJeeJs Change
For More Crowd Appeal
By GEORGE PAYNICH
Sports Staff Writer
The most successful wrestling team in Nebraska's history bows
out In the season's finale at Norman this weekend, but by the
amount of following given the sport, one might never know a
wrestling team ever existed.
It Is a sad fact that college wrestling, as is true with other in
dividual performance sports tagged as "minor" have not enjoyed
greater support. This Is especially true at NU.
It Is surprising however, that in a few universities, notably
Oklahoma and Cornell College, la., the sport has drawn almost
fanatical followers. The necessary formula consistently winning
dubs.
If we go by the old adage that a winning team draws, whtt
then, is the apparent lack (of interest in wrestling at NU, especiaiy
after this year's line season showing.
The biggest complaint against the college mat game Is the
noticeable lack of drive and excitement seen in the major sports,
football and basketball. It seems that with a few rule changes to
speed up the action, and permit more elbow room for the wrestlers,
this situation could be remedied. We're not advocates of the pro
grunt and groan version, but a little more action would add much
to the sport. Until college wrestling gets more aggressive and
therein develops more outstanding individual wrestlers, we believe
fan reaction will remain unchanged.
Coach Al Partin of the Cornhuskers believes his squads are
getting more aggressive right along. He states that wrestling at
Nebraska is on a definite upgrade and predicts greater things from
his future squads. He is especially optimistic about the heavier
weight divisions.
As the Huskers get ready for their final competition of the
year at the Big Seven final at Norman, we thought it might prove
interesting to look into the archives of NU wrestling and find out
how NU teams have fared in the sport.
So, with the aid of Coach Partin and a few statistics, we found
out that since the sport was made a regular part of the intercollegi
ate athletic program in 1927, the Huskers have won 44 meets, lost
111 and haVe tied six times not much to shout about.
The really disastrous period for wrestling here followed the
r-rA .vTvripnnH hv other Koorts at NU. During the pre-war and
immediate post-war periods, the Huskers won only five while
dropping 38. The Huskers were absent from the mats from 1941-45.
Wrestling at Nebraska took an upturn in 1947 under Buell
"Pat" Patterson, climaxed by Nebraska's first and only conference
championship in 1949.
Partin, almost straight from the Cornell campus, came to NU
in 1850 wnen roiterson was appoimea neau tuoui ai. uuw.
overall record is 12 wins 17 losses and 2 ties, his best and
v-cn ' hst record of 8-2 comine this season.
It is interesting to note now neavny wresumg nas urawn uu
football for material. In the past five seasons, Mike DiBiase, Herb
Reese Don Boll and now Ed Husmann have cornered the heavy
weight market, as well as starring on the gridiron. At one time
this season, Partin carried seven gridders on his squad. Only Law
rence Goll and Husmann however, are at Norman this weekend.
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No doubt the biggest surprise of this mat season has been the
sensational showing of the Ogallala strong boy Ed Husmann. Ed,
co-captain end most valuable grldder this season, has won nine
matches while dropping only one. The big strong lad put on a
sizzling finish in taking his last four wins by falls. ,,,
Ed's only setback came at the hands of Iowa State's Mel wal
den Ahead on points at the time, "Huss" became the pinning vic
tim of t' experienced Walden. This setback left Ed dazed to say
the least, out since then the big guy has come a long way. Ed told
us that he is eagerly looking forward to the opportunity of avenging
this defeat, and, in the process, dethroning Walden, last year s Big
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Pro wrestling, which has claimed one NU grad in Mike DiBiase,
is eyeing Husmann. Ed is toying with the idea of giving the pro
wrestling game, as well as the pro football game, a whirl after he
has finished his two year military stint. Could be he is trying tcJ
follow the path of Leo Nomellini, former Minnesota All-American
gridder and heavyweight grappler who now makes a comfortable
living playing football for the San Francisco 49ers as well as earn-
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By BILL MUNDELL
Intramural Sports Columnist
The undefeated and powerful
Ramblers left no doubt as to who
is the top Independent basketball
team in University intramural cir
cles Wednesday afternoon as they
crushed the Rockets, 95-42 to win
the 1953 Independent I-M cage
for the Rockets with 16 points
with Marv Lawton helping a lost
cause with 13 more.
The Ramblers thus join Alpha
Gamma Rho "B" as the first two
I-M champions of 1953. The Ag
gies disposed of Sigma Chi "B"
Tuesday night to capture the Fra
ternity "B" title.
As the only unbeaten team len
the Ramblers
.homninncVlin
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into one more contest, ineir vie
PARTIN'S POINTMAKERS . . . Coach Al Partin's wrestlers have finished a successful season com
piling an 8 won and two loss record. The grappler are at Norman, Oklahoma thja week-end
competing for the Big Seven championship crown. Before Partin and his team left for the Sooner
campus, the coach stated that his team will be trying for the runner-up position. He predicted
that Oklahoma will win the championship. '
Class 'A' Competition Opens;
Cowboys, Links Win Openers
By BILL MUNDELL
Sports Staff Writer
Classes A and D inaugurated
their action in the 1953 high
school basketball tournaments
Thursday afternoon. The highlight
of the afternoon's tussles was the
ushering out of defending class A
champion Scottsbluff by a hus
tling Boys Town crew and the
complete mastery of Grand Island
by a smooth-operating Lincoln
High outfit.
Scottsbluff Falls
Boys Town defeated Scottsbluff
for the third time this season
Thursday by slapping down the
defending champs, 51-42. It took
the Cowboys exactly two and a
half periods to settle the issue as
torrid third-quarter splurge
ousted the Bluffs from further
competition.
Finding themselves behind 0-5
after three minutes, the Cowboys
began to click and overtook the
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Roe broke the ice for the Island
ers with a gratis shot with less
than three minutes remaining in
the opening frame.
Still failing to find the range,
the losers dropped further behind
and trailed 21-2 before George
Dunham hit the first fielder for
the Islanders. Dunham duplicated
his feat a minute later to give the
losers the boost they needed, but
by then the game was to far gone
With Don Erway leading the
the way with seven field goals,
equaling the total Grand Island
output, the Links moved into a
31-15 half and 45-30 third quar
ter. The Islanders kept the game
from becoming a complete rout by
hitting 30 free throws, exactly
half their chances, as 37 Lincoln
fouls forced the major portion of
the game to be played at the free
throw circle.
Erway led all scorers with 16
Talmage had only the 20-point
effort of Henry Gadeken to show
to the winners. Allan Due with
16 and Gary Parsons with 11
topped Chester.
The losers made their best
showing at the start of the second
half. Trailing 13-21, Talmage
narrowed the gap to three points
and a 19-22 score before the win
ners started to roll again.
FG FT PP TP
Gadeken, Henry 7
Folken, Harvey 0
Fritz, Jim
Corking, Jim
Hauborg. Dick 0
Onhorn. Robb
Bohlkon, Bob 0
Ppternon, Byron
Meyer, Gene ............ 2
Bluffs two minutes later as Dick' oints while teammate John
Phillips hit from under the basket; Beicjeck helped the winning cause
with another 11. Dunham was ine
only Islander able to get more
than one basket and wound up
with eight points. Roe topped the
loser's scoring with 11 counters,
nine nn frfvo-tnsses.
LINCOLN FG FT PF TP
to make the tally read 8-7.
It wa nip and tuck the rest
of the way in the first half as
the winners managed to stretch
their margin to 28-23. Any hopes
Scottsbluff entertained of a second-straight
title soon evaporated.
With Dick Weidel leading the
way, the winners zoomed to a 12
point lead in the next lour min
utes and the rest of the way was
easy,
6-7
2-3
0- 0
1- 1
1-3
Totalt 9 10-14 11 28
FG FT PF TP
Cook. Larry 1 1-2 0 S
Due. Allan 8 0-8 3 16
Fraley, Dick 0 0-0 0 0
Fraley, Don 3 1-5 2 7
Fraley. Jerry 0 0-0 0 0
Hartley, Doyal 0 0-0 0 0
Hayes, Cecil .0 1-2 1 1
Houchin, Larry 2 2-2 0 6
Parsons, Gary 5 1-2 1 11
Ray Kenneth 0 0-0 1 0
44
Buthcrus, Leroy 2 4-1 i
Lee. Bob 2 2-b
Barnett. Bob 3 2-2
Lewis. Allen ? J-J
Holllbaunh. Bud 1 1-1
Graves, Allan J 0--
Kint. Ted 1 3
Johnson, Bonnie 0-0
Boys Town scoring was well K". jcn ''.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.' 3 5-s
distributed as wiedei ana Jim
Cook each garnered 12 points and
Charles "Deacon" Jones and Phil
lips each totaled 11. Doug Chap
pell's 11 was tops for the losers.
HI wlBitiii rr mi ru r r rr ir
year between these two leagve XI
teams and the champions put on
an awesome display of power to
as they more than doubled their
first two margins of victory com
bined. While shattering the hopes of
the highly-regarded Rockets, the
Ramblers set one new mark for
the year and nearly equaled an
all-time intramural record.
Ralph Weddle of the champions
could do no wrong as he scorched
the nets for a blazing 35-point
production and a new individual
playoff scoring mark for this
year. Big Ralph dunked 14 field
ers on every kind of shot conceiv
able and added seven free throws
for good measure.
The previous high for the sea
son was 32 held by Weddle's scor
ing mate, Bill Thayer, in a first
round engagement with the KOD'
bers.
The Ramblers as a team came
within one point of equaling the
all-time I-M playoff scoring mark
also owned by themselves. They
pushed through 96 points in their
opening playoff contest with the
Robbers.
The marks were recorded after
their name right next to their
109-point alltime scoring record
set last vear.
It was the second straight
championship for the Ramblers,
or at least for the men who com
pose the team. The same aggrega
tion, minus orie or two, copped the
1952 title while playing as the
M-Street Boys.
It was a case of just "too much
everyone" Wednesday afternoon
as far as the Rockets were con
cerned. All seven of the Ramblers
seemed to be able whenever they
felt like it, and most of them felt
like it all 32 minutes,
The Rockets made a contest of
it during the inital three minutes
only. After trailing 0-6, the losers
narrowed the gap to one point on
goals by Hal Andrews and Ron
Powers and the latter's free
throw. But their rally was short
lived as the champions took off
for the races and had the tally
tory Wednesday earned them the
right to meet the fraternity "A"
champion next Monday lor ine
All-University championship.
Their opponent will be decided
Saturday as Alpha Tau Omega
and Sigma Phi Epsilon tangle for
the "A" crown on the Coliseum
maples as a preliminary event be
fore the state high school class D
and A finals.
RAMBLERS (95)
FG FT
Jim Kvans 6
Bill Ttiayer 8
Ralph Weddl 14
Dan Frown 2
Dirk Rolston 6
Ken Rclncrs 3
0- 1
1- 3
7-10
1-5
3-5
1-4
PF
2
2
3
5
1
1
TP
12
19
85
5
13
7
Totals 40 13-28 14 85
ROCKETS (42)
FG FT PF TP
Ron Powers 6 6-8 S 16
Bob Brum 0 1-2 3 1
Gene Yelkln 0 1-2 O 1
Daryl Wood 1 0-0 4 2
Marv Lawton 6 1-2 B 13
Glen Smith 10-10 2
Del Gould O 0-0 a O
Hal Andrews 2 3-4 1 7
Tools
Score by Quarters:
Ramblers 18
Rockets 6
15 12-19 21
42
23 IS 3995
11 11 1442
Totals 19 6-19 8
Walthill Fades
Melbeta spotted Walthill an
eight-point advantage in the ini
tial quarter in the class D after
noon wind-up and then fought :reading 18-6 five minutes later.
iThapptll. Douf 4
Vrnmilnrk. Don 3
Delnes. Allen . .
Hartwit, Don
Kautz. Larry
Knaub. Dick
Nicholas, Norman
Traut. Don
Weaelin, Bob . .
Westervelt. Ted .,
3-11
1-2
1-2
1- 2
0-0
2- 3
0- 0
1- 3
0- 0
1- 3
Totals 16
BOVH TOWN (51) KG
rBadlllo, Richard 0
Conk in. Bill u
Conk. James 4
Grill. BUI "
Hunt. James 0
Jones. Charles 4
Medlock, John ....... 1
Phillips. Dick
Render, Tom 0
Wiedei. Pick 5
10-26 17 42
FT rF Tl
0-0
0-0
4- 8
0-0
0-0
3-4
3-6
5- 8
0-0
2-2
8
0
3
0
5
0
3 16
3 11
back to capture a 46-39 decision' wpHHIp had nino points in this
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Singer Wins
IM Handball
Singles Title
' The Intramural department has
announced another championship
winner.
Len Singer copped the all-university
singles intramural hand
all title after winning seven
straight matches. Singer beat Jack
Skull of Phi Gamma Delta, 2-5,
19-21 and 21-12.
This was Len's second try for
the championship. Last year he
finished in second place behind
Jack Andrews. Andrews beat him,
21-7 and 21-13.
Singer looked back on his
matches this year and singled out
Beta Theta Pi's Tom Harrington
as his toughest competitor. Len
finally beat Harrington, 21-12,
4-21, and 21-15.
This is not the first time that
Totals
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Behind the accurate firing ofi It was more 0 the same during jLen has won a handball title. He
Bob Benter, Walthill shot to early the second stanza as Weddle field-
leaos or iu-z ana iz-i Derore xne ten and the rest of the Ram-
winners began their climb. A'bers contributed 13 and the!
Rasmusscn. Dick
Plnkston, Darreli 4-0
Dunham, Georie 2 4-1 u
Schuyler. Bob J J-J
Manelson. Dick 1 1-4
Clanton. Orville J g-Jl
Roe. Don J J-J
Muehler, Henry 1 J-g
Hatfield, Dean 0 2-S
Noel, Ronnie .., " 1-
mighty second-quarter splurge put
Melbeta into the lead for good as
ia ia.il vi 57 une winners aroppea in it pumis
kg ft pf tp while limiting the losers to a mere
5
1 4
2 8
1 3
2 8
3 7
4 11
2 5
3 2
3 1
six. From their 23-18 halftime ad-
champs owned a 41-17 bulge with
the game half over.
The fourth stanza really' pro
duced the scoring. A total of 50
points were rung up In that per
vantage, they upped it to 36-25 to jod the winners getting 36, as the
open the final frame and coasted ' Rockets knew the end was at hand
7 30-60 26 44
the rest of the way
WAI.THIIL (89) FG
Benter, Boh, ( 6
Garwood. BUI. f 1
Muhe, Dick, f 1
Piper. Curtis, c 0
Rlggs. Clarence, g 1
Sailors, Roier, 1
Sailors. Ron. C 4
Tola
Totals
Chester Wins, 44-28
Tnn.cpoHprl Chester opened the
Class D action with a handy 44-,
9.R victory over Talmage. The conkiin, Ronald. I 3
victors piled up their margin of
victory in the first and fourth
stanzas while matching their op
ponents' efforts in the two middle
periods.
v.,,f oill imioVit until the final
FT PF TP " 1"" - -
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4 Following weddle in trie point
n parade was Thayer with 19, Dirk
OjRolston with 15 and Jim Evans
has teamed with other boys to
take two doubles championships.
Two years ago he won the Mert's
Mid-west Junior doubles title and
last year garnered the Omaha
Youth Center doubles trophy.
Singer is a sophomore in Busi
ness Administration and has par
ticipated in football and baseball
at the university. He represented
Zeta Beta Tau in the tournament.
2-2
2-10
0-0
4-7
0-2
0-6
Corr. Jack. (
Krieling, Daryl. c .
Meter, Don, t
Parmenter, Doyle, g
Sum, Gordon, g
Totals
14 11-36 17 39
FG FT PF TP
2-3 5 1
4-U 2
0- 0 1
2- 2 4
3- 5 5
1- 2 2
2- 2 2
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TOURNAMENT HOSTS . . . Nebrasks basketball Coach Harry
Ord (left) and head baseball Cowli Tony Sharpe are this year's
STt! to the 47th annual hh school bketbal championships.
The tournament rolls Into Its third day of competition. Finals in
the aA and D division, will be played Saturday nlfht In the
Coliseom. '.
Totais " 17-28
. Links Romp
Lincoln Hieh won the right to
meet the Cowboys in the second
round by easily whipping orana
Island, 57-44. In a game marked
with frequent fouling, the Links
soared to a 12-0 lead before Don
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Record Crowd Expected
To Watch hat 'H' finals
Br BILL MUNDELL
i.tr.miirsl fiDorU Columnist
Probably the largest crowd in intramural history will witness
the Maternity "A" championship basketball game this Saturday.
By sSaT Permission, the University I-M Department will stage
fv? in, ihe fraternity "A" cage teams on the Coliseum
Varsity 'court J7 event before the Class D and A high
school basketball finals ffJL of fans who journey
to fiiwcih Tnf-Vtta UTdSS ?Z
finest contests these thousands will see during the four days li pan
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