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Tuesdoy, September 30, 1958 The Doily Nebraskon Poot 3 Canfield, Hitchcock Win Quad Games; Sig Alphs Clip K-Sigs Canfield House got back on the winning trail again in an attempt to defend last year's dorm championship by scor ing three touchdowns in the second half to defeat Gus I by a 19-6 mark. It was fresh man Ronald Benson of Ong, Nebraska, who sparked the rally by scoring 2 touchdowns and passing for the third. He also passed for the only extra point scored to figure in all of Canfield's scoring. Benton Falls Hitchcock started off its 1958 season with a 29-6 victory over .Benton in th Selleck Quad race. A tight defense which inter cepted seven Benton aerials proved the difference. Bruce Hasch led the victors by passing for one touchdown and running for another. Dale Siefkes and Howard Ach each ran back an intercepted pass for the other markers. A safe ty in the first quarter com pleted the scoring. Benton's lone tally came on a pass play in the first period. Bryans Scores Wally Bryans was the big gun again for the Sig Alphs as they turned back the Kap- For New Football Fans (First of a Series) Many students who go to football games at Nebraska are continually wondering what this means and that means, why they call the "T" formation the T" for mation and why they call other formations what they do. This article is for those peo ple who want to know more about football or are trying to learn what people are talking about when they speak football terminology. Before the game it would be a good idea to read newspapers, listen to the radio, or watch television in order to get an idea of what to expect from the team playing Ne braska. You will want to know who their stars are, what formations they use, and their strong and weak points. After you get to the game and are watching the warmup, you should begin looking for some of the better players on the opposing team and also some of your favorite Nebraska players. You can use your program and this little system to spot both your team's players more easily and the opposition more easily. Most ev ery team uses this system when number ing their players. Backfield men wear 10 through 49; centers, 50-59; guards, 60-69; tackles, 70-79, and ends, 80-89. First I will attempt to show you the sin gle wing which Iowa State will use against Nebraska next week. Nebraska also uses the single wing on occasion. The key for the letters: E is end. T is tackle, G is guard, C, is center, H is halfback, F is fullback, Q is quarterback. Here is the single wing formation. E T G C G T E Q H F H The single wing is not as deceptive as other formations, but it is good for power plays because you can easily get blockers in front of the ball carrier on end runs. It is also good for passing plays because you have four receivers, two ends, a halfback, and the quarterback, that can get down field easily. The ends are on the line and the two aforementioned backs are so close to the line. When running other for mations, the backs are not close to the lins and sometimes have trouble getting downficld. None of the linemen are al lowed to catch passes. The halfback standing farthest back is called the tailback when you are running a single wing. Nebraska's tailbacks when they use the single wing are either Pat Fischer, Max Martz, or Dean Flock. The wingback is the halfback, standing just outside the end. He is called the wingback because if you drew a line connecting the backs, you would have a design something like a wing and the wingback would be at the tip of the wing. The single wing can be used with an un balanced line or a balanced line. The first diagram shows a balanced line. It is balanced because there is a guard, tackle, and end on each side of the center. If the line were unbalanced to the right, the left guard would go on the other side of the center. If the line were unbalanced to the left, the right guard would take a position on the left side of the center. This is an unbalanced line to the right. E T C G G T E Q H F H Both illustrations show the backfield in what is called a single-wing to the right. This means that the fullback, quarterback, and wingback are to the right of the tail back. If it were a single wing to the left, then the fullbackT quarterback, and wing back are to the right of the tailback. If it were a single wing to the left, then the fullback, quarterback, and wingback would be to the left of the tailback. Before, I mentioned that the single wing was a good one for power plays. If you have a single wing to the right with an unbalanced line to the right, you can see by the second illustration that you would have all your men to the right and would haev a lot of blockers on a hight end run, thus you have power to the right. You may see other variations of the single wing, but the single wing as I have described it to you will be most commonly used. Follow That Car! After attending the funeral services for a business friend, a man had planned to hurry back to his office, but his car got wedged in behind the hearse. He fol lowed sedately in line toward the ceme tery until he came to an intersection, where he ducked off and away. About a half mile further on he noticed, in the rear-view mirror, that the entire funeral parade was still tagging along be hind him. Seized with an understandable panic, he stepped on the gas, skidded around a turn, parked off the road and pretended he was an utter stranger changing a tire. The procession drove mournfully past and disappeared down the wrong road where, he's never had the nerve to inquire. (Beadcr'i DUaat) pa Sigs 20-12. Bryans threw to three different men for the touchdowns. He hit Don Beach for one, Don Thompson for one, and Bill Bowers for the other. Bryans also pitched for both of the Sig Alphs extra points. Both one-pointers were caught by Bill Bowers. While Bryans stood out for the Sig Alphs, the Kappa Sigs also had their star in the per son of Dave Anstine. Anstine threw both scoring passes. One was to Clayton Wenquist, while the other was to Dave Paulson. The Kappa Sigs failed on both of their extra point trys. Football Big Eight Purdue 28 .... Nebraska 0 Oklahoma 47 . W. Virginia 14 Colorado 13 K-State 3 Missouri 14 Idaho 10 Okla. St. 21 . . N. Tex. St. 14 Iowa State 14 Arizona 0 Oregon State 12 .. Kansas 0 Big Ten NW 29 Wash. St. 28 MSU 32 California 12 Notre Dame 18 .. Indiana 0 Mich. 20 USC 19 O-State 23 SMU 20 Iowa 17 TCU 0 UCLA 18 Illinois 14 Washington 14 Minn. 21 Huskers Want Revenge Remember 13-0 Loss Suffered Last Year Forgetting Purdue and pre paring for Iowa State, the Ne braska Cornhuskers will prob ably be mindful of the 13-0 loss they suffered at the hands of Cyclones. Nebraska followers will pos sibly be treated to one of the most hotly contested football games of the season when the Huskers and the Cyclones square off in Memorial Sta dium next Saturday. Iowa State will be fresh from two straight wins over two non-conference foes. They soundly trounced a weak Drake team 33-0 in their first game, and lat week they managed to hip Arizona 14-0. Arizona wasn't figured to give the Cyclones much more of a battle than they did, how ever, the Wildcats did com plete 15 of 24 passes for 114 yards and held the Stater - - - r f I , - v Sty, ff A - . V - , I J t '; : j i ' y" ' J I - A i i - I i I - , ? m- Leroy Zentic, junior guard, played a strong defensive game against Purdue although being outweighed by big Boilermaker linesman. Zentic was a former Illinois all state fullback at Rock Island high school. Big Eight Roundup Kansas State Wildcats Inexperienced Kansas State, like Nebras ka, is fielding an inexperi enced squad that is filled with many sophomores and few let termen. Wildcat coach Bus Mertes, who is beginning his fourth season sums up his squad with these comments. "We are green as grass. I'm cer tain no other club in the league has so many sopho mores and so few veterans. Our big hope is that the soph omores can come through to surprise a few opponents they are the best set of new comers we have had In four seasons. It's a cinch we won't overpower anybody. However, we have good size, fair speed, and a little more depth counting sophomores than we had last year. Maybe most important, we appear to have inherited the tremendous ap petite for hard hustling foot ball from the 1957 club." Surprise So far Kansas State, along with Nebraska, has been one of the surprises of the confer ence. The Wildcats defeated a solid Wyoming club 17-14 in their first game. Last Satur day they journeyed to Boul der, Colorado where they were four or five touchdown tmderdogs against a potential Big Eight championship Col orado eleven. The Staters fell befc- Colorado 13-3, but they held 4he rWhly-touted Buffa lo team to i64 yards rushing and 68 yards passing. The Wildcats managed 242 yards on the ground and 84 yards through the air. Even after the "productive afternoons against Wyoming and Colorado, the Wildcats still seem doomed for a sec ond division finish in the con ference. Too much has to be expect ed from sophomores 28 are included on the squad. In sharp contrast, only nine sen iors are on hand, foretelling a woeful lack of experience. Team size may be slightly increased. Speed may be bet ter in the line. Passing of fense looks better, but the run ning attack can hardly match 1957 when the Wildcats banged out 2,262 yards for their second best rushing to tal in history. Nine Starters Gone Nine starters who finished the season for K-State last year will not be included among the spare group of 16 lettermen on hand. Among those missing men are three all-Big Eight linemen left end Don Zadnik, left tackle Jack Keelan, and center El lis Rainsberger plus the en tire first-unit backfield; and right tackle Wally Carlson, voted 1957's "Most Inspira tional Player." Those nine spots are big ones to fill, and regardless of how Coach Bus Mertes spreads the talent there Isn't enough to cover them all well. Also gone are the top four rushers of '57; the top passer (Dick Corbin) and top scorer (Ralph Pflefer). However, even with all these losses the Wildcats have not been plagued with a siow start that has been their bugaboo in re cent seasons. ' Taking over left end chores is big Joe Vader, 6-3, 211 pound junior. John Stolte, 8-3, 235 pound junior, is at the left tackle spot, while Ralph Lambing who lettered as a sophomore is running from the other tackle. Lambing stands 6-2 and weighs 210. One of the two returning reg ulars and a converted full back are running at the gtt'rd positions. The regular is 6-1, 210 pound Gene Meier, while the converted fullback is Don Martin, who is light at 192 pounds. Center goes to Dean Skaer, senior letterman, who stands 6-1 and weighs 192 pounds. Regular End Jim Luzinski, the other re turning regular, is manning the right end post. Luzinski, a two-lettered senior, weighs 210 and stands 6-3. Two senior lettermen and a junior letterman are moving into the first unit backfield. The seniors are quarterback Les Krull and halfback Ben Grosse. Krull brings passing finesse which figures strong in the Wildcats offensive plans. Grosse is fast cutting open field runner who is the Wild three points against Colorado last week. He also kicked the winning field goal against Ne braska two years ago in Lin cat place kicking specialist. Grosse made K-State's only coin. George Whitney is the jun ior letterman running at the other half. He is a little (170) speed merchant who aver aged 5.2 yards per carry last year. The fullback is a senior who has yet to win a letter. Terry Lee was injured most of last year, but the little fullback (184) is well and expected to carry much of the Staters' at tack. Sophomores In the crop of sophomores are 11 who figure in the first three Wildcat units. Most prominent are Ron Praglow ski, 5-11, 208 pound center who is pushing for a starting spot; Ced Price, 6-6, 210 pound end who was the brightest star on" the 1 a s t year's frosh; Ron Blaylock, little 170 pound quarterback with a wicked pitching arm; and Bill Gallgher, hard-running 190 pound right half. Varsity and Frosh Physicals Physical examinations will be given to all men interested in intercollegiate sports (fall, winter, spring) on Wednes day, October 8, at 7:00 p.m. at the Student Health Center. This includes men interested in either freshman or varsity athletics. IM Football Canfield 19 Gus I 6 Hitchcock 29 ... Benton 6 Sig Alpha Ep 20 K 'pa Sig 12 Patronize The Nebraskan Advertisers scoreless the second half. Conservative Offense The Cyclones will probably play conservative, proven per centage football which is a trademark of their coach, Clay Stapleton. In fact, the Cyclone rooters have tagged the name of "Stable Staple ton' to the new head coach. Leading the Iowa State at tack will be Dwight Nichols, their tailback who is expected to contest for an All-American honors this fall. Last year the former Tennessee prep star climbed to fame by gain ing 668 yards on the ground and passing for 751 more yards. Nichols also scored four touchdowns himself and passed for seven more. The Iowa State gun doesn't pos sess great speed, but what he lacks in speed and finesse, he makes up for in desire. The Iowa State single wing attack resembles a slugger in boxing. They generally use a 13-play attack to grind oat yardage. However the Cy clones will not be without a quick thrust threat. Speedy backs Pete Goeser, Don Webb and Tom Watkins can go all the way as Watkins did once against Drake on a 52-yard pass play from Goeser. Nebraska will probably be working on an offense to go with the strong defense the Huskers have shown. In two games, the Scarlet and Cream has managed only 198 yards on the ground and 75 yards passing. Corashucks by larry novicki By Larryy Novicki Although the intramural football season is a bit young and tender, I don't think it would be taking too much of a chance if I were to make a couple of predictions. The 'A' league looks pretty much like the same old story the Phi Psi's and the Sig Ep's. Last year the latter team took the plum with the Phi Psi's grab bing second place; the year before the S Street gang was the winner. In two games so far both teams have won handily. This week, however, may decide the fate of these two powers when they face off against some pretty stiff op position. The Sig Ep's take on Sigma Chi tomorrow, and the game could go either way. SX lost its only start to Sigma Nu 21-14, but they showed enough punch to stand up against the best. The Phi Psi's won't find Beta Theta Pi quite as easy as the ATO's were come Thursday afternoon. Beta is also unbeaten in a couple of games. If these two teams can get by this week, I'll bet on them to reach the finals. Star of the Week This week the Rag is going to start a 'Star of the Week' series for intramural sports. Sometimes we'll do the choos ing, but most of the time we'd like to have a little help from the fans. You fans who have a particular choice for IM Star of the Week, just scrawl his name on a slip of paper along with a few of his quali fications and send it along to us for our consideration And speaking of stars, man, we'll have a few of them to choose from on our first se lection. It seems as if every team has a triple threater or a glue-fingered end of some sort. Such names as Dick Place, an all-state choice from Nebraska City and Beta Theat Pi; Cork Rowley, Sig Ep sharpshooter; Chuck Sta cey, the field general of the high-flying Phi Pais; Don Wenzl of Sigma Nu; and Fred Howlett of Theta Xi should all be in the r u n n i n g f or the award. Tennis A guy cant fool around too much if he expects to win un IM championship. For in stance, in the tennis tourna ment that is just getting un der way I noticed a couple of names on the entry sheets that would probably scare off the average garden party netsman. Dick Becher, who was on doubles team that won the state title for Hastings in 1957, and Albert Arrigunaga, a cool performer that made the varsity team last year but couldnt play because of schedule difficulties, are both vieing for the title . Officiating Say, anyone interested in a couple of extra bucks now and then should run down to "the PE building and sign up for a refereeing job. Pay is one dol lar per game, and from what I have seen of the officiating in some of the games, you won't need to know much about the job. Remember to send in your IM Star of The Week choices. So long! Got to go referee a game out on Ag see, even I can do it. Main Feature Gock West O: "Cartoon," 7:15. "Stakeout On Dope Street," 7:25, 10:30. "Chase A Crooked Shadow," 9:00. Lincoln: "Mark Of The Hawk," 1:00, 2:40, 4:25, 6:00, 7:52, 9:30. Nebraska: "Bus Stop," 1:00, 4:25, 7:51. "Anastasia," 2:37, 6:01, 9:27. Stuart: "Harry Black And The Tiger," 1:05, 3:10, 5:15, 7:20, 8:25. 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