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THe Daily Nebraskan
Thursday, January 9, 1964
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By Connie Sharpe I on the campus, such as meet
Three sportsmen look withl!nS the varsity athletes, eat
a doubt for success to the
1965 Nebraska High School
Basketball Tournament which
will be held in two cities in
stead of Lincoln alone.
Inevitably, the 1965 tourna'
ment will produce effects
both in the Lincoln tourna
ment organization and the
University recruiting p r o
gram which are difficult to
realize at the present.
L. F. "Pop" Klein, Coach
Joe Cipriano, and C. C.
Thompson look to the fu
ture tournament with ap
prehension as a result of a
recent motion passed by the
Nebraska High School Activi
ties Association. This motion
allows the Class A basketball
tournament to be held in
Omaha Instead of Lincoln as
in previous years.
Coach Cipriano, head bas
ketball coach at Nebraska,
said, "Financially it will pre
sent a problem to our staff
because we will have to go
to Omaha. We'll keep some
one in Omaha to watch the
games."
"We like to have the boys!
exposed to the college life!
ing at the training table, and
taking part in the various
campus activities at that
time," he continued.
Cipriano, the new Husker
cage coach, has never seen
all the class playoffs in one
town yet thought it would be
an efficient method.
When asked if the Omaha
universities (Creighton and
Omaha) would be aided in
their recruiting program by
the new set-up, he said, "In
most situations they would
but maybe not here in Ne
braska. It will, however, give
the boys an idea of college
life on the Omaha campuses.
Of course, they might not be
after the same player we are
after."
Both Cipriano and Thomp
son, director of NriaAA,
agree that the fact remains
that the Class A tournament
has always been the one
drawing the most crowd interest.
Thompson said, "Attend
ance in Omaha will be very
great because people come
primarily to see the Class A
tournament. Attendance will
be cut down tremendously in
Lincoln. However, the total
of the overall attendance will
be just as great."
"I am sure the majority of
the people are interested in
Class A and not the smaller
classes. I say that because
of the enrollment and the
population centers.
"Percentage-w i s e, the
smaller town support their
teams better. They all come
to the tournament; still there
are not as many people at
tending as in Lincoln," said
Thompson. "The smaller
classes like to be associated
with the larger class schools,
also."
Thompson added, "We will
lose many people from the
tournament who have no peo
ple involved but will not go
to Omaha just to see Class
A alone. They want to see the
overall tournament because it
has been the biggest high
school sport activity in the
state as well as in Lincoln."
The change will mean a de
crease in tournament loca
tions in Lincoln also. Where
it once took four buildings
to play the tournament, it will
now demand only three or
possibly two. The total Lin
coln need for management
will not be decreased nor will
the need for game officials,
according to Thompson.
Possibly the future for Lin
coln is predicted by a look
in the past as seen by "Pop"
Klein, assistant athletic direc
tor, who said, "When I was
coaching high school basket
ball in 1932, they moved the
tournament to Hastings that
year and they couldn't get
back to Lincoln fast enough.
The boys want it here; we
should think of them sometimes."
Tigers Bring Savvy
To Scarlet Saturday
The surprising Missouri Ti
gers are Nebraska's second
conference foe Saturday night
at 8:05 at the Coliseum.
The Tigers, a conference
darkhorse, beat Oklahoma 84
to 74 in their opening Big
Eight game. When star Ray
Bob Carey fouled out with 13
minutes to go, Bob Price and
George Flamank went on to
score career highs of 27 and
21 points respectively.
Although youthful-looking
Bob Vanatta has four of five
of last year's starters back
for this season, his second at
Missouri, Flamank missed
several early games due to
illness. .
A big Missiuri loss this year
is captain Ken Doughty, who
Snyder Tells Of
Dorm Dedication
The dedication and public
nnAn liniiCA far TVinrtH and
I Other starting lettermen are
Cather Resident Halls will be Earl G Garner
neia sunaay aiiernoon, Jan.
19 at 2:30 p.m.
Miss Helen Snyder, asso-
scored a total of 884 points in
three years for the Tigers'
sixth best total in history.
Carey, a 67" senior and a
regular since his sophomore
year, led Missouri in scoring
last season with an average of
14.2 points per game and was
second in rebounding with just
under nine per game. This
lean civil engineering student
is co-captain this year with
Price and should lead his
squad out of last season's 10
and 15 doldrums.
Price, a 6'2V junior aver
aged 13.2 points per game
last year but had shooting
percentage of 41.5, best on the
team. Price also played sec
ond base for the conference
champion baseball team in
1962 and 1963.
Flamank, a 6'5" junior and
first-stringer last year, led the
team in rebounds last year but
had the poorest shooting per
centages from the field
(28.5) and from the freethrow
line (53).
ciate dean of student affairs,
said that the dedication will
be held in the dining rooms
between Pound and Gather
Halls. Public tours of the facil
ities will be conducted by stu
dents from 3 to 5 p.m.
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Coach Vanatta has a life
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115 losses. He likes a fast-
break game when he has the
personnel for it and likes a
pressure-type man-to man de
fense with some zone defense.
The author of the book
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ketball, Vanatta has helped
conduct coaching clinics in 16
states and has made three
overseas trips for the State
Department to participate in
clinics.
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A number of complaints have come to
the Daily Nebraskan from intramural
managers referring to Nebraska's intra
mural system and its director, Ed Higgin
botham. The criticisms, ranging from sched
ule complaints to regulation gripes to di
rect comments opposing Higginbotham.
Mr. Higginbotham was told of the com
ments and he had nothing to say.
"I don't want to get in a dispute about
the whole thing," Higginbotham added.
Some of the complaints:
Several participants in the Hitchcock
Beta IM football championship said that
Higginbotham unjustly shortened the con
test to eight plays a quarter because of
a misunderstanding about the game time.
One added that his team was warned by
Higginbotham that "one more 15 yard
penalty and you're out of the game."
Higginbotham: no comment.
The director has been accused of "not
letting the referees officiate the contests"
and, as another put it, "he trys to run
things all the time and too strictly."
Higginbotham: no comment.
Some said Higginbotham makes rules
changes, some at the last minute, without
warning. Even then, he often gives reasons
for the changes they say.
Higginbotham: no comment.
Others claimed Higginbotham thinks
"he's never wrong", and "there's only
one way, and that's Ed Higginbotham's."
They add that when you try to talk to
him," he talks about everything but intra-
murals," and "most of the time he's busy
or not there."
Higginbotham: no comment.
Complaints came from greeks and in
dependents, from winners and losers, from
letters and phones. Nearly three-fourths of
those who have talked with the Nebraskan
feel Higginbotham takes too big of a load
on his shoulders. He also teaches, coaches
and counsels.
This may be true. The job of intramu
rals director encompasses much work. A
multitude of events in nearly every sport
must be scheduled. When playing surfaces
of other events conflict, IM games go
first.
The director must see that regulations
promoting safety and sportsmanship are
followed, plus checking on competent ref
erees. Also the job requires a public relations
instinct. This is where most of the man
agers who griped loud and long actually
feel that Higginbotham is failing.
Obviously, there must be another side
to the story. And there is. In many. in
stances,, that Higginbotham refused to
comment on, managers were at fault. Not
following regulations or not getting their
teams to games on time when they had
been warned several times.
This was illustrated when greek
houses, when given ballots and reminded
several times, turned in only three ballots
of twenty-four for the all-frat team. These
were managers at their responsible best.-
It is certainly a two-sided issue that
needs a solution. A good start could be
achieved in this direction when Higgin
botham calls managers together for a
meeting Thursday night.
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Cipriano
Basketball Coach Joe Cipriano, undismayed by a
dismal Husker road showing, pushes his charges
through Wednesday's practice. Offense was emphasized
yesterday as the Huskers hope to keep in step with Cip
riano' new-style play and the rest of the Big Eight.
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