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Friday, November 18, 1966 i The Dally Nebraskan Page 8 si I - If ' ) f t' 1 .ft V1 1 Tiglit Race Possible In Big 8 Basketball With the Big Eight football championship safely tucked away once again by Nebraska and only one grid game ramining this season for most conference teams, a tight Big Eight basketball race is starting to come into focus. The first chance conference teams will have to test each other will be the Big Eight Pre-Season Basketball Tournament in Kansas City which begins December 27th. However, the season starts on or around December 1st for all Big Eight teams. Husker Coach Joe Cipriano, in his fourth year at Nebraska sees the Big Eight race this way: "This is the first year since I've been here that I feel there are six teams able to win the conference, and Missouri is an unknown because of so many junior college transfers. Perhaps Oklahoma State is a year away from being a challenger, but they will be improved." "I do think it is going to be tough to tumble the champ out of there." said Cipriano, "Kansas has a lot of good returning players and they are going to surprise some people. Iowa State, Colorado, Oklahoma and Kan sas State are all going to be better." Ten Big Eight basketball games will be televised live this year by T.V. Sports, Inc., Patterson, New Jersey. Nebraska games will be televised January 14, February 18, March 4 and March 11. Fred Casotti, Sports Information Director at Colora do, has expressed the coming basketball season in "An Ominous Ode": Hark, I hear a distant drumming, Canneth be that something's coming, At first, a muffled clump-clump-clumping, Then, a louder thump-thump-thumping. Hark, I heareth the clarion call, The bounce-bounce-bounce of basketball. Football season's soon forgotten, Cram your ears with wads of cotton, Teams leave home and take their lumps, Hail to B-Ball's thump-thump-thumps. NU Varsity Meets Frosh Saturday . With football experiencing an uncommon weekend lull on the University of Nebraska Campus, the sports spotlight will fall on the freshmen-varsity basketball game scheduled, for Saturday night at 7:30 in the Coliseum. Husker coach Joe Cipriano will have four starters on parade Saturday from his 20-5 team last year that copped runner-up honors in the Big Eight conference. They are Nate Branch, Palo Alto, Calif.; Stuart Lantz, Uniontown, Penn.; Tom Baack, Fort Wayne, Ind.; and Willie Campbell, Seattle, Wash. Lack of a tall center and the replacement of gradu ated court general Grant Simmons are two major prob lems that Cipriano faces as he heads toward the home Court season opener against Oregon, December 2nd. The Husker coach indicated he might call on either Ron Simmons, Sumner, or Jim Damm, Bellflower, Calif., to fill Simmon's spot and team with Lantz at the other guard position. If this combination doesn't work out, Cipriano has mentioned the possibility of moving Willie Campbell to a forward position to team with Baack and starting Charlie Stone, Oakland, Calif., at the center spot. This would allow Branch and Lantz to team at the guard positions. This experimenting is expected to be one of the high lights of the varsity's encounter with the freshmen. The Husker frosh, coached by Glenn Potter, have been calle by Cipirano, "possibly the greatest group of freshmen basketball players we have ever assembled at the Uni versity of Nebraska." Cipriano noted speed and overall balance of the freshmen as contributing to their poten tial. The abundance of freshman talent is reflected by the fact that Potter has narrowed his starters "down to nine" for Saturday's scrimmage. Possible starters for the frosh at guard positions are Sam Martin, Pawnee City; Tom Line, Los Angeles, Calif., and Tom Scantlebury, Oak land, Calif. Ken Cauble, Kidland, Tex.; Larry Collings, Englewood, Calif., and Bob Gratopp, Grafton, have been mentioned for the forward spots. Battling it out for the starting center spot are Ken Peden, Aliquippa, Penn., and Ed McPherron, Ten Sleep, Wyo. Jayhawks To Start Four Veterans The annual Kansas State varsity-freshman basketball game will usher in the 1966-67 season Monday. Tip-off in Ahearn Fieldhouse is set for 8 p.m. Coach Tex Winter is expected to start four veterans in the varsity starting lineup, including three seniors. Sophomore Steve Honeycutt, a 6-1 guard, is the only new comer. Roy Smith, a 6-10, 230-pound senior, will open at cen ter and be joined on the frontline by Galen Frick, a 6-4 senior, and Earl Seyfert, a 6-7 forward. Dennis Berkholtz, another senior, and Honeycutt will start at guard. Bill Guthridge's freshman starters will be able to match the varsity in head height. Ray Lavender, a 7-1 St. Louis prep product, will start at center. Lavender appears to be a good ball-handler, with better-than-aver-age movement and adequate scoring potential. Three forwards are in the running for starting nods. Kent Litton (6-4) is slated to open at one spot, with either. Doug Dodge (6-4) or Dennis Weinhold (6-7) to start op posite Litton. Jeff Webb, a quick backcourt player who also can operate at forward, will team with Greg Dickerson at guard. Guthridge said Wheeler Hughes, an outstanding guard prospect, will see some action. "Wheeler has fine potential," said Guthridge, "and as soon as his shoulder comes around from an early September operation, he will move into the starting lineup." Y - a - ON TAP AT THE GASLIGHT 9:00-12:00 FRI & SAT. ALSO ENJOY QUALITY PIZZA HUT PIZZA NOW BEING SERVED DOWNTOWN IN THE GASLIGHT 322 SOUTH 9th STREET 432-6364 onfl with: Go." IiBtraii&urals Basketball Results Wednesday, Nov. 16 Gunners 38, Dirty Old Men 35 Aggies 33, A.I.A. 26 Bachelors 43, Syndicates 32 Phi Delts, Glenn Win IM Trophies Two intramural football champions were crowned Wednesday in the IM foot ball tournament. Phi Delta Theta and Tri angle batled for the frater nity A-team championship with the Phi Delts emerg ing victorious, 18-6. Glenn was the other win n e r, beating Kiesselbach 14-2 for the University dorm championship. Glenn will take on the Mousers tonight at east campus to decide the Uni versity independent title. The winner will battle Phi Delta Theta Monday to de termine the All-University champion. Hidden Grid Statistics Change Offense Table Coaches maintain that the tions, is now third with a hidden statistics of football 201 mark, are too often overlooked, Defensively, using the pointing specifically to lost same method for ranking, fumbles and passes inter- the alertness of the stopping cepted. Big Eight coaches unit provides just as great a are vocal in this respect, juggling act. Nebraska is too. still the total-defense leader, Figuring that these errors but even more pronounced, cost a team at least 40 yards showing a sterling 87-yard the distance of an average allowance, punt this year a new to- This figure comes because tal-off ense table for the Big the C o r n h u s k e r s have Eight Conference; while it pounced on 12 loose fumbles doesn't change Nebraska as and pilfered 18 passes, clip- the leader, both offensively ping a whopping 1,200 yards and defensively does shake off their allowance, up the standings. , f?0, "ntehs r Tlaytr and School No. At. Best example, offensively, Pad"reOT '""V,- a .s . , . , i I . ' ' Tom Sbdluun (Oklahoma) .... 40 42.5 might be Oklahoma State, Dick Anderson (Colorado) 14 42.4 loser of the fewest yards & gSZrS&S$ .:." S &l under the revised computa- IMnToa. sui,)':: S tion. The Cowpokes have leading pint returners v j Li 4 Player and School No. Yda. Av. had fumbles stop eight Larry wacnnoitz weto .. 29 299 10.3 Hrivps and nass intprrpn. Eddie Hinton (Oklahoma) . 8 233 29.1 . . .7. . UHCItep Don Shanklin (Kansas) .. 16 211 13.2 tlOnS kill SIX more a lOSS Roger Wehrli (Missouri) .. 19 194 10.2 r . ran i Charles Gree (Colorado) .. 12 13 11.3 Of Only 560 tOtal yards, a Danny Lawson (Okla. St.) IB 123 7.7 figiue which moves them Larry CarweU (lowa su 12 109 9 1 from eighth to fifth with a 139 per-game average. Tickets Available Nebraska, fourth in "yards clipped off," still has the For Home Games best average, 218 a game, followed by Colorado's 207 Nebraska Ticket Manager the Buffs have been pen- Jim P i 1 1 e n g e r has an- alized 1,000 yards, though, nounced that basketball Iowa State, penalized only season tickets for at home 640 yards for two fumble games are now available to losses and 14 pass intercep- University students. trWWVVWJWWfWVWVVWUWtfWVW : DaimiIa I. MAD Want ads! Don't You Have Something You'd Like Them To Read About? Place Classified Ad S SEND THIS Name: Address: .... Days to Run: Ad: Mf. PI. -. f tujij riv corns a worn lor ocn mieniun. minimum 01 50e ptr day. Enclose check, payable to the Dally Nebraskan. I THE DAILY NEBRASKAN I THE NEBRASKA UNION 5 477-8711 Extension 2588 Ohoctaws 71, Bandits 48 Gunners 38, Dirty Old Men 35 Misfits 53, Scholars 27 Boozers 41, Bunnies 35 Burners 45, Exeeution- eers 23 Raiders 51, Red Lions 32 Sigma Phi Epsilon B 40, Beta Theta Pi B 38 Sigma Ohi B 45, Alpha Tau Omega B 35 Phi Kappa Psi B 52, Phi Gamma Delta B 28 FarmHouse B 58, Sigma Alpha Epsilon B 30 Delta Tau Delta B 41, Delta Tau Delta B 41, Beta Sigma Psi B 11 Sigma Nu B 55, Alpha Gamma Rho B 27 Triangle B 25, Ag Men B 16 Delta Sigma Pi B 1, Delta Sigma Phi B 0 (forfeit) Cornhuskers B 25, Alpha Gamma Sigma B 20 Pi Kappa Alpha B 23, Pio neer B 18 Sigma Phi Epsilon C 23, Beta Theta Pi C 19 COUPON ' . I. I . f In Devaney mT l i leDraska winless At snaKe rn By Ed Icenogle Sports Assistant Nebraska's Bob Devaney has never coached his Husk ers to a win over Oklahoma in Norman's Snake Pit. But the third time could be the charm. And the most charming part of this third time is that it could earn the Cornhuskers their second undefeated season in suc cession. With this year's Big Eight title stashed away al ready, Nebraska's squad would like to give the N o r man crowd a better show than the 1962 and 1964 pre sentations. The Sooners walked away in '62 at a 34-6 pace and then won again in '64, 17-7. Does all this worry Bob? "Not any more than any other game," said Devaney. In '62 Oklahoma was sim ply a better team and in '64 they played like a better team, the coach reasons. If the Huskers can play the Thanksgiving Day con test just like "any other game" this season, the 5-3 Sooners, with a 3-2 confer ence mark should be no great trouble. That the Sooners are upset-minded is no big secret and injuries may yet take their toll on the Huskers. Tom Smith, a reserve end behind Dennis Richnafsky and Tom Penney, will be out of the season's finale. Richnafsky, who is fourth in NU pass receiving with 121 yards on 12 receptions, is not as far along as De vaney would like. That goes for halfback Ron Kirkland, too, who saw limited action with Richnafsky against Ok lahoma State last week. "Kirkland is not running well yet," noted Devaney. He also included Richnafsky in the same category. The NU coach had hoped to take some of the duty off injured Richnafsky with the help of Smith. "With Smith hurt," De vaney said, "we're probab ly going to be forced to use him (Richnafsky)." Smith's injury came in this week's practice when a fall dislo cated his shoulder. Starting left end Dennis Morrison is the front-running catcher, catching 21 aerials .for 262 yards and two touchdowns. Penney is second in the statistics with 244 yards gained on 20 passes. Most of those passes are coming from quarterback Bob Churchich, who has completed 89 of 159 for a .560 mark, 1,060 yards and four touchdowns. 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Jim McCord has 17 un aided and 26 aided tackles for the third spot. Langston Coleman has 21 unassisted takedowns and 26 with help, plus two fum ble recoveries. Jerry Pat ton has 21-19 on the tackles, one recovered fumble and seven passes broken up. Lynn Senkbeil has 34-42 tackles at linebacker. He also has a recovered fum ble, a pass interception and three passes broken up to Oklahoma Linebacker Earns Position Through Student Manager's Mistake Because of a student manager's misake, Harry Daniel Hettmannsperger Jr will start the Nebraska game here Thanksgiving. When the Sooners changed coaching staffs last winter, Swede Lee, one of the new assistants, was studying movies of last year's Nebraska game. He noticed that No. 56, a Soon er linebacker, was cutting down Cornhuskers all over the field. Lee hunted up a roster and discovered that No. 56 was an obscure sophomore named Hettmannsperger. "I thought I'd found me a gem," Lee chuckles to day. "I didn't know that a manager had forgotten to EXCLUSIVE BOOKSTORE Selling "CANDY" and tfi only slort or any kind in Lincoln selling "CANDY" AYN RAND BOOKSTORE. (Nott ntw nam still Lincoln's newest book stor) 236 No. Uth (South of Vanico) George RUDOLF NUREYEV COLOR k . tn his credit. Marv Mueller has 34 un assisted tackles and 21 as sisted to lead the backs in Husker right end Tom pack Carl McAdams' jer sey and that McAdams was wearing Hettmannsperger's number." When spring practice be gan, Lee started Hettmann sperger at linebacker. "He did terrible," Lee remem bers. "After two days, I switched him to nose guard. Later, I found out about the manager's mis take and everything dropped into focus." This fall, when the Soon ers lost starting lineback ers Thurman Pitchlynn and Richard Goodwin with knee injuries, Lee was des perate. Then he remem b e r e d Hettmannsperger and the jersey mixup. WITH i V - z '-. ilillllll iiiiliWIMiMHi "irllil-T"' ir. fl mm mm 4Pn $ I KU 0 E A SALOME JENS-WILL GEER STARTING TODAY (6 DAYS ONLY) DOORS OPEN 12:45 NOW ri 11 fJzi SHOWING ALEC cciitnoss U)Sfarr(n(( I f'yty praduudvidoWtdk peTer GLenuiae nj jean aauoe carriere tmmmn toPanavision-.no MeTrooiLOR 1 TfcX? statistics. He has broken up seven passes, intercepted one and recovered a fum ble. Smith ... out for season. "We moved him back and tried him at McAdams' old job. Although it was new to him, he worked hard and began to a p p 1 y 'himself mentally. It's hard to be a linebacker and ours has the extra burden of callirig our defensive signals. But he's improving. He's just a sophomore. He just needs to play more." Hettmannsperger may yet become a gem. As Ok lahoma meets Nebraska, he's leading the Sooners in unassisted tackles with 33. in assisted tackles with 50 and in pass interceptions with 3. He has deflected three enemy passes. 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