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By Bob Samuelson
Inflation has hit the Nebraska campus!
The Cornhusker sports scene has been the beneficiary
of what could possibly be the greatest over-all rise in sports
stock in the land during the past five years. This is infla
tion, but at least it's happy inflation.
Tippy Dye
In 1960, Nebraska sports stock was anything but blue
chip. But with the coming of Tippy Dye in December
of 1961, the market began to rise.
Perhaps Dye's greatest stroke of genius was the hiring
of Bob Devaney as Nebraska's head football coach. With
Devaney came Jim Ross, George Kelly and other
assistants, and the Nebraska football scene was suddenly
given an aura of professionalism.
The winning started immediately and just hasn't
stopped; the excitement over winning football games be
gan to generate interest In the other sports in Cornhusk
er land.
Basketball coach Joe Cipriano came next, and al
though his immediate impact was not as dynamic as De
vaney's, the fabulous showing of the roundballers this year
is proof that Cipriano, too, has the winning way.
All-Sports Standing
After being mired for years near the bottom of the
Big Eight All-Sports standings, Nebraska is currently sec
ond with four sports yet remaining.
Actually, the all-sports standings is not the real criteria
of a successful sports year, since the minor sports are
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weighted equally with the major sports. The schools who
traditionally have weak major sports, but strong minor
sports are the advocates of this system of ranking.
If a major sports ranking were made over the last
year, Nebraska would fare quite well. The list would run
like this:
(Points would be awarded on the basis of one for first,
two for second, etc. The low total determines the champion.
Indoor and outdoor track were considered together. The
sum was then divided by two.)
TRACK 4
BASEBALL 2
FOOTBALL 1
BASKETBALL , 2
Nebraska's total is 9.
Missouri and Kansas, the only other schools which
come close to Nebraska in major sports have totals of
thirteen and fourteen respectively.
This points up Nebraska's superiority in major sports
during the past year in a dramatic way.
Nebraska needs to increase its emphasis on the minor
sports such as wrestling, gymnastics and swimming, but
the minor sports scene is far from being beyond help..
In short, Nebraska has become, in five short years,
the sports capital of the Big Eight Conference. How's that
for inflation?
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