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Tuesday, February 22, 1955
THE NEBRASKAN
Traveling Along-
The Sports Trail
By LEO SHERER JR.
Sports Staff Writer
Up around Lincoln the north wind doth blow and we have been
having snow, but over in the Field House it just has to be spring,
because lots of athletes have yielded to the call of the Husker coaches.
Assistant coach Dick Spady is sending 35 hopeful baseball candi
dates through their early season paces while head mentor Tony
Sharpe is still working with the basketball squad. Nine lettermen, in
cluding veterans Jim Cederdahl, Dirkes Rolston and Fran Hof
maier, are getting ready for their southern tour in early April.
The Tigers from up Missouri way look like the team to upend,
but don't count the Huskers out of the picture. Most of the squad
has not forgotten finishing sixth last season, and some revenge would
be sweet this year. Do you agree, Tony?
The head-bumping Cornhuskers will open spring football February
28. Coach Bill Glassford has 13 lettermen to answer his call. Top
material back from the 1954 team could well be a couple of speedy
sophomores named Don "Stutter" Comstock and Willie Greenlaw plus
a wealth of promising freshman energy. Spring ball will tell the story
of.how the Huskers will stack up next year in the Oklahoma domi
nated Big Seven-
Wrestling OK . . .
One quick word on Nebraska wrestling. We have much more to
say besides "good luck." In our opinion the team has nothing to be
ashamed of with nine straight losses. The squad produced two talented
matmen in Charles Bryant and Arnold Morton, an up and coming
X57 pounder.
Coach Doa Strasheim has the uncanny ability to get the maximum
out of his performers, which is an essence in coaching, and we think
he will be right up in the thick of the battle in a couple of years
The grumblers must realize it is hard to produce a winning team
without grants-in-aids for top prep wrestlers.
Congratulations To . . .
Attention to our Coach Sharpe and members of the American and
National Leagues! This could be the greatest happening since Stan
Musial or Joe DiMaggio.
Murray Backhaus, three year baseball letter winner, is the new
father of an eight pound, four ounce bunch of" boy dynamite named
Robin James Backhaus. Word is that the new addition to the Back
haus family has more hair on his head than his likeable father and
already has memorized two paragraphs of "Casey at Bat."
When we get around to mentioning congratulations, it is hard to
not say some nice words about Will Fagler. The friendly spark of
the 1954-55 Husker cage team indeed has played masterful basketball
this season. Commonly called "Willard" or "Fag" by bis many fol
lowers and teammates, the lanky workhorse is a driver deluxe who
has an art of rebounding that makes him an all around threat Dont
take my word for it just ask Mr. Haldorson of Colorado or Mr. Reiter
of Missouri.
Bits, Borrowed And Bagged . . .
Ken Runes, a guard on the 1954 Orange Bowl squad, is now in
the U.S. Army and is stationed at Camp Chaffee, Ariz- ... Bill Fitz
gerald, former Husker baseballer and now local sports scribe, tells
us his buddy-pal Ray Novak, well remembered in Nebraska sports,
failed to pass his Army physical and may take a shot at pro ball
with the Detroit Lions as a linebacker. . . . Don Margheim of Gering,
sophomore quarterback, who severely bruised a leg against Hawaii,
has left school and rumors say that he will not return. . . . Mighty
Max Kitzelman is completing his service life in Japan while one of
his old sidekicks, George Cifra, a bull-type fullback in 1952, will soon
be released from the service and return to the Capital City for his
final fling at college football
Husker Athletic Department
Announces Grid Price Rise
As the money received from the
Big Red fund drive will not be
available again this year, the De
partment of Intercollegiate Athle
tics has announced a return to
1953 ticket prices for home foot
ball games.
This rise in price will return
Nebraska's prices to a level with
those now in effect at all other
Big Seven Conference schools.
Ticket prices for 1955:
PUBLIC:
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Five Seconds Left As Sooners ice First Conference Win
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ALL
W L Pet.
Missoorl 14 4 .778
Colorado 12 5 .706
Kansas Stats 11 7 .611
Kansas 9 7 .563
NEBRASKA 9 .500
Iowa State 9 10 .474
Oklahoma t 14 .125
RESULTS LAST WEEK
NEBRASKA 66 Kansas 55
Missouri 76 NEBAASKA 73
Kansas 50 Oklahoma A&M 42
Kansas 87 Oklahoma 75
Colorado 61 Kansas State 53
Missouri 78 Iowa State 63
Iowa State 82 Drake 73
By DAN CAMPBELL
Sports Staff Writer
Sharp thinking and equally sharp
shooting by Captain Lester Lane
in the last seconds Monday night
gave Oklahoma a 78-76 upset over
Nebraska at llorman.
Lane, the diminutive leader of
the Sooner quintet, who is hitting
at a 21.6 clip, swished the decid
ing fielder with five seconds re
maining and the score tied at
76-76 to give the Okies their first
conference victory.
The outcome of the battle was
in doubt until the last seconds, as
the lead changed hands 14 times,
the score was tied 15 times, and
the margin was never wider than
five points, except for a very brief
period early in' the game when the
Huskers held a 13-6 edge.
NU Cagers
Win; Track
Team Bows
The week end saw Nebraska's
basketball team keep its Big Seven
first division hopes alive by trounc
ing aKnsas, 66-55, while Oklahoma
rapped the track team, 76-28, in
one of the most decisive defeats
ever inflicted upon the NU indoor
squad.
The scoring punch and excel
lent rebounding of Will Fagler and
Rex Ekwall coupled with the de
fensive work of Coufal boosted the
cagers into third place in the con
ference standings with 3 games yet
to play. It was the Husker's first
league victory away from home.
Ray Kelley, with a high jump
of 6 feet A inch, was Coach Jerry
Lee's only winner in the finale of
the worst indoor track season in
Cornhusker history. Oklahoma's
Robert Derrick, who scored against
Nebraska in football last Novem
ber, was outstanding in winning
the sprint and slamming the hur
dles. He knocked two-tenths of a
second off the meet mark with a
fast :06.8 in the 60-yard lows.
That the game was to be a time with 2V4 minutes to go in the
thriller was evident from the start
The Oklahoma fans, sensing an
upset, were at the edges of their
seats as the Sooners overcame the
early Nebras-
ka lead, knot
ting the score
at 25-25 with
nine minutes
remaining i n
the first half.
From then on
it was a see
s a w contest.
S p e arheaded
by the terrific
play of Leroy
Bacher, the
Oklahomans stayed with the Husk
ers, moving ahead for the first
Lane
half as Lane hit his first field
goal to make the score 38-87.
With a minute and twenty-five
seconds left in the half, the Husker
attack was seriously hurt by the
loss of Gus Renzelman on fouls.
Up to that time Renzelman had
scored 11 points and had greatly
aided the NU cause with his re
bounding. Willard Fagler's sharp shooting
was the Husker's only finger in
the dike as the Sooner flood, not
to.be denied, surged on. Lane and
Bacher combined to push the Ok
lahoma score from 54 to 76, while
Fagler and Norm Coufal managed
to knot it up at two point inter
vals all the way. .
When Fagler dumped in his last
two points to bring the score to
76-76, Lane decided on strategy
that, if successful would win the
game, but is unsuccessful would
send the contest into overtime.
With 1:15 left in the game Lane
held on to the ball. He dribbled
around the backcourt deliberately,
stalling away the seconds. With
just five seconds remaining, Lane
moved into the key, jumped and
swished through the winning field
er. The Huskers did a very credit
able job against the Sooners de
spite their loss. Will Fagler was
high scorer with 26 counters. Rex
Ekwall and Chuck Smith did a fine
job of clearing the boards, and
Norm Coufal continued his terrific
defensive play, keeping Lane
shackled for well over half the
game.
The Oklahoma Sooners proved
that they are a much finer team
than their record indicates. The re
cent addition of Leroy Bacher, who
netted 30 points, has increased the
Sooner potential tremendously.
Oklahoma has been improving
with each game and was finally
able to come through with a Big
Seven victory.
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Phi Delta Theta . 8 1
Alpha Tan Omega 7 S
Beta Theta Pi 6 3
Delta Tan Delta 5 4
Sigma Chi 3 7
Phi Gamma Delta 1 S
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Sis-ma Phi Epsiloa 7 2
Farm House .5 3
Phi Kappa Pd 6 4
Alpha Gamma Rho 2 6
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Theta Xi ......8 0
Pi Kappa Phi' .5 3
Beta Siarma Psi 5 4
Zeta Beta Tan 4 4
Alpha Gamma Sigma ........... .3 6
Broun Palace Co-op ............ .3 6
Sigma Alpha iln .............. ..1 7
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Cornhusker Co-op ............... .9 0
Pioneer Co-op 6 2
Theta Chi 6 3
Tan Kappa Epsiloa ..............4 5
Acacia ........... .3 5
Norris House .............. .....3 6
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Alpha Taa Omega .............. .8 0
Phi Gamma Delta 6 2
Delta Tau Delta 4 4
Sigma Chi .3 5
Phi Delta Theta . 3 S
Sigma Alpha EpsDoa .............0 S
LEAGUE C-B
Beta Theta Pi 10 0
Phi Kappa Psi 7 2
Sigma Phi Epsfloa .............. 6 3
LEAGUE 7-B
Phi Kappa Phi 7 0
Farm House .7 2
Alpha Gamma Sigma 6 4
Theta Xi .5 4
Cornhusker Co-oo ........3 6
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Delta TJpsiloa 5 3
Sigma Nn .5 4
Phi Delta Theta 5 4
Alpha Taa Omega S 4
Sigma Chi .4 5
Farm House ...3 6
Phi Gamma Delta .......1
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Canfield 7
JtSanatt ....... -6
Avery .5
Besser ..................3
Gusuvsoa II .........2
Seaton I ........1
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Hitchcock A 8
Seaton II 5
Boucher ........................3
Andrews ................. .2
Fairfield 1
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Burnett .......2
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Rustlers 2
Ag Men B 1
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Lutheran S.A. 6
Inter-Varsity 5
Methodist 3
Presby House . . . 0
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Beta Upsilon Mu 6
Delta Theta Phi 5
Delta Alpha Pi 3
A. I. A 3
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