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Tuesday, December 16, 1958 The Daily Nebroskan Page 3 Husker Machine Grinds Out 54-46 Win Over Texas Tech Texan's Man-to-Man Defense Proves Troublesome Cornshucks Just returned from the Land of Sky Blue Waters where I had the opportunity to watch the Minnesota-Nebraska bas ketball game. In my opinion, contrary to the opinions of several people I have talked to since returning, the Busk ers did not get trounced as badly as the score indicated. The Gophers were big (three starters 6-7 or over) and they were pretty hot (40 per cent from the field). I personally believe that the officials blew their whistles a bit hastily on several occa sions. Three times they called Hersehel Turner for traveling when he was going through his usual faking routines. Hersch finally got disgusted and refrained from all such attempts. In essence, the boys in black and white hog tied the Huskers' main offen sive threat. The Gophers were big and good, but under different cir cumstances, Nebraska could probably grind them into the maple. Gopher Troubles Minnesota is having a big hassle over athletics. The varsity 'M" club voted their disapproval of football men tor Wes Fesler, basketball Coach Ozzie Cowles, and ath letic director Ike Armstrong. When Coach Cowles was in troduced at the' game the other night, he was loudly EVERYTHING IN .HI-FI .STEREO . SOUND Speakers, Amplifiers, Kits, Cabinets, Changers SEE OUR NEW STROMBERG-CARLSON LINE Come in and Browse Around Look Over Our Studios and Equipment You'll Find Eosy Terms & Payments PROGRAM SERVICE CO. Next to Cornhusker Hotel 1213 "M" Street 2-1692 Out Space travelers be on the alert! Make sure there's a cargo of Coke tucked away in the rocket! You may not be able to buy your favorite sparkling drink on the moon ... but that's just about the only place you can't. So when you're ready for the big lift, be sure the cheerful lift of Coca-Cola goes along! booed by the some 5,000 fans who were gathered in the mammoth Williams Arena. Several students I talked to said that the same disgrun tled feeling has been shown for Fesler, who has been charged with favoritism and incompetence. All in all it appeared that the administration is pointing toward a deemphasls of ath letics at the huge Western Conference school. The admin istration indicated their confi dence in Fesler, Cowles and Armstrong, but due to alum ni and student pressures were forced to appoint what they termed a "common sense" committee to investigate the situation regarding the ath letic program. From what I gathered from the Minneapolis Tribune and from heresay about the cam pus, the Minnesota president hopes to "go Ivy," i.e., he things that a school can get along without athletics much as the Ivy League schools have done. I don't think he'll succeed in his attempts. All that will happen is that the whole pro gram up there will go to the dogs and take the University with it. - A few interesting things I noticed about the University of Minnesota made me glad I'm going to Nebraska. Ev erything is big. There are MAf" it a M'tTfw Mttf MIN. O C o O v2lE o of this world! SIGN Bottled under (authority of The Coca-Cola Company by Coca-Cola Bottling Company of by larry novicki some 25,000 students enrolled in the school. Only about sev en pej cent of the students are members of sororities or fra ternities. The main reason for this is that a great portion of the student body resides in the Minneapolis St. Paul metropolitan area. The whole Greek system is weak. Lost Students Things are so big up there that many students do not know where various parts of the campus are. We asked several people the location of a couple fraternities and they did not know the information. We also asked for the loca ation of the ROTC and Bio chem buildings, and we couldn't get the dope. The campus itself was big and bulky. Buildings were old and ugly and tightly crammed together. Williams Arena, where the game was played, is supposedly the larg est indoor arena in the world. It has seating capacity of 21,000 for basketball, and that only includes about two thirds of the building. An ice arena takes care of the rest of the ponderous structure. The football stadium is a 3-quarter bowl and must seat around 60,000. The Field House is about twice as large as ours is. Student Support The question is: What are they going to do with all these giant athletic facilities if they deemphasize sports? Of the 5,000 fans on hand at the game the other ni g h t, there must have been only a few hundred students. S t u dcnts did not all sit in one body and cheer for the team like they do down here. They did have cheerleaders but the fans did not make a wholehearted effort to assist them in the four cheers they attempted. Weather It's pretty nice down here. and it's warm. Up there the temperature never got above three degrees, during the whole weekend. Saturday morning the mercury dipped to minus 15 degrees. I'm supposed to be writing intramurals, but when I got back and read a few of the papers around here, it was apparent to me that there not many reporters from Ne braska in attendance at the game. So I decided to throw in my two-bit scoop. tW e Ml OF GOOD TASTE Lincoln By Randall Lambert Nebraska, triggered by the shootine of Albert Maxey and the nost Dlav of Hersehel Turner, swept past Texas Tech 54-46. After leading 35-23 at the half, the Huskers shot to a 44-27 lead before the frigid Texans hit a field goal with 10:04 gone in the second stan za. Rally From there the Red Raid ers began a rally that picked ud momentum and lastea up to the final gun. with the Husker- leading 50-35 with a little less than four minutes left. Texas Tech began a climb behind a free throw by Leon Hill, a long set shot by Sid Seligmann, and a lay up by Gerald Myers after he had stolen the ball as the Huskers brought if from out of bonds. Wavne Hester duelled the Raider' outburst with two lay uds. the latter stemming trom a beautiful bit of ball handl ing and passing by Hersh Turner on the post. Comeback Agan However, the boys from down Rio Grande way weren't finished. With 1:09 left and heine down 54-40. Charlie Keys, a fine defensive guard hit a long jump shot. There was one second leu when Texas Tech scored an unbelievable four points. First, Keys made both of his free throws on a 1-1 free throw situation. With the clock stopped Nebraska took the ball out-of-bounds. A long pass downcourt failed to touch anyone and the ball went out. Since someone in- bounds has to touch the ball before the clock starts, there was still a second left. The ball was awarded to Texas Tech under the Ne braska goal where it had been originally passed in. The ball was flipped to Leon Hill, 6-6 forward, who missed a jump shot from the corner, but was fouled. Amid several hundred jeering spectators standing around the keyhole,,, he swished the two charity tosses. Maxey High Albert Maxey was again the high scorer among the Huskers with 16 points, 11 coming in the first half. Leon Hill, high scorer last season for the Red Raiders, led the Texans with 11 mark ers. Genial Texas Tech Coach, Polk Robison, had high praise for the Huskers. "Nebraska The intramural track meet gets underway this week. It looks like the Phi Delts will be able to successfully defend their team title. The '57 champs won the fall meet rather handily, and their point-getters from last year have returned. Nels Kjeldsen, who gained individual honors in last year s meet will also be back to defend this title. Handball gets into swing this week too. Here again the defending champs are favored to retain their crown. Delta Upsilon, led by rangy George Fisk, should romp to another victory. Fisk has won the sin gles title for three consecu tive years. His doubles part ner from last year has grad uated, but he has an ade quate v replacement in My ron Papadakis, who at times shows the excellence of the smooth Fisk. Enough is enough. I've got to hurry off to watch my first intramural hockey game. I understand that some of these hockey teams have pos sibilities of shaping up into pretty good clubs when they gain a little experience and finesse. Without further ado, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year fans. Grad Christmas Party The Graduate Club will hold a Christmas party Tues day at 8 p.m. in the Union fac ulty lounge. The party will feature en tertainment and refresh ments. 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He went on to say that Nebraska also had some fine individuals, especially Her sehel Turner who worked well off the post. When asked whether Turner's passing an tics bothered Tech, he re plied, "I wouldn't exactly call the antics so troublesome, but it was the fact that he Is a fine all-round player who we had to defense tightly. He re bounds well, passes well, and we knew he shot well. He was exceptional against the height he was defensed by." 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