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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1967 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN PAGE 11 1 1 A jjjl IIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIM Ice-ometrics By Ed Icenogle Sports Editor Deciding what to write in stimulating experience. You should be said. One logical starting point is a ter's Daily Nebraskan shorts page. The sports assistant is Terry Grasmick. The writers are Mike Babcock, Ron Paveika and Doug Anderson. This is a larger sports staff than normal on the Daily Nebras kan. but the intention is to give better coverage of NU sports while keeping up the staff's grades. Another point on sports page policy: Anv letters sub mitted that are pertitent and printable will be published, either in whole or in essence in this column. Dominance of Athletics The story on Jon Durchill in today's paper includes an interesting look at American college sports as seen from the eyes of a foreign student. Jon points out the complete difference in the emphasis on athletics that exists. Outside of the United States sports are minimally accented in the schools. "Sports," 'in this case, means what Jon calls the "big-time" athletics, the varsity competition. Jon declined to comment on which approach heavy or light to athletics in the schools he thinks best. But in "this his own case is somewhat of a paradox. He is now participating in swimming at Nebraska, and, although he is a part of the athletics that approach domi nance in American schools, he doesn't place athletics as dominating in his life. For instance, when he said that he was planning to try for the Oxford water polo team, he pointed out that this was to be an informal, almost relaxing suupplement to his education. Jon didn't even know whether or not he would make all the meets if he did make the team. He is an outstanding swimmer with the attitude of the Europeans and Canadians. This attitude seems best sum med up as this: Athletics are the same in both the extremes, it is just that they have little, if any dominance in the matter of high er education outside our country. Sugar Not Always Sweet Although most of the football season's injuries are healed, there is one misplaced Alabaman who has a sore neck from looking back over his shoulder. And besides sighted. The Daily Nebraskan sports desk received a photo copy of newspaper clippings that appeared shortly after Alabama's 34-7 Sugar Bowl win over Nebraska. The pap er was signed "from Alabama" but was postmarked Kan sas City, Mo. Although this Kansas City version of a Crimson Tide fan was not unlike the many jubilant 'Bama rooters, he seems to dwell in the past, gloating over the victory a month late. The clippings, presumably from a Kansas City paper, were all selected and collected to create an impression. Excerpts and this writer's comments run like this: ". . . it may well have been the most humiliating ex perience the Huskers and their followers have ever en dured." It is hard to imagine this being the most humiliating experience for the Huskers. Nebraska played to a 9-2 sea son; a decade ago and even now, there is little humiliat ing about that. What's more, the Cornhuskers lost to a team that might have been able to whip Notre Dame or Michigan State with its speed and spirit. If that's humilitation, it will be nice if the Huskers can be humiliated into a few more Big Eight titles. "The Huskers went out of their way to get this game (the Sugar Bowl). They had lost decisively to Alabama in the Orange Bowl the previous year and for some reason they just couldn't believe what had happened to them. They wanted a rematch ..." That's bad? "As it developed, the Huskers had about as much busi ness demanding a rematch with Alabama as Cleveland Williams did with Cassius Clay." Yeah, but what if Williams had beaten Clay in the re match? "The score might have been doubled if Bryant hadn't played second and third stringers." Possible. But "it's not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game." A few more words on the Sugar Bowl and no more. Alabama was better than Nebraska. The Huskers know it, the Tide knows it. It may reasonably be assumed that Nebraska was not the better team in 1966-67. But this writer remembers when a game with Okla homa, was a chance for an upset win, not an upset loss. And no matter how exciting it was to be the underdog, it's great to be on the sports' map. a first column is not the most sit and wonder what could or preview of this semes- that, he seems to be somewhat near- Try Some Pizza Hut Pizza Soon 46th & "0" 489-4601 iHurdlers Folloiv Harvey With the world's "fastest human" leading the way, the Big Eight Conference is well represented as it heads toward the peak of this year's indoor track season. This is undoubtedly the season Midwest track fans have been waiting for. It is the year of the first Big Eight varsity competition for Kansas' Jim Ryun, the world's premier middle distance runner and holder of the world record for the 880 and the mile. I lis initial appearance as the head of the Big Eight field comes right on t h e heels of a season which contributed to the Confer ence a national indoor team champion (Kansas) and seven individual U.S. cham pions, plus a national relay team title (Oklahoma State). This dual-meet season has just started. The Con ference indoor champion ships are coming up on March 3-4 in Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium. How ever, the momentum of last winter and spring has carried over, with Ryun, Nebraska's Charlie Greene, Kansas State's Conrad Nightingale, Colorado's Chuck Rogers, and Okla homa's Bill Calhoun gett ing off to fast starts in the early going. Nebraska's Charlie Greene has risen to inter national prominence as the new "Mr. Speed" in the three years since lie forced Bob Hayes to establish the 60 world mark of :05.9. About a year after h i s freshman head-to-head meeting with Hayes, Greene earned a piece of that world record and as a var sity performer has never been beaten in the finals of a 63 or 100 yard dash. G 'eene has taken on, and beaten, all others who also claim a portion of the :05.9 mark. Three times this win ter, Greene has fled to :08.0 timings, bettering his contemporaries, including Tommie Smith, the world record holder for the 200, and James Hines, the lat est to add his name to the 60 record list. It has been a quick start, too, for Nightingale, who intends to make sure that Ryun won't be running many miles alone this year. Nightingale is the defend ing NCAA indoor mile champion, who has been near four minutes the last two years. He won the Big Eight outdoor last year with a record 4:00.9. And. just a week ago, he moved into the runner-up spot on the Big Eight list for the 1,000 yard run, with a 2:10 clocking. Only Rob in Lingle, the former Mis souri champion, has run the event faster. Also hot eany has been Rogers, the pole vaulter from Colorado, who bounced up from a bad fall at Big Eight outdoor time iiilliii!i'''i!i;iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiii!iii;iii;iiiiiiiini!! Muscle Pull 1 Keeps Greene j Oul Of Meet Nebraska's Charlie Greene, co-holder of the world's record in the 60 yard dash will not compete in the Cornhusker's initial indoor track meet this Saturday with Kansas State. Greene, who along with Bob Hayes has been of ficially timed at :05.9 in the 60, suffered a pulled muscle in the Los Angeles Invita tional. Greene won the 60 yard event with a :06.1 time. Earlier in the season Greene won the same event in the American Games in San Francisco, and the Athens Invitational in Oak land, California. Greene's best time this year has been six seconds flat. PIZZA HUT Eat In or Carry Out Ryun, Greene this year to capture the NCAA title with a 16-foot leap. In his first outing this winter, he rode his fiber glass whip to a 16-3 height to remain supreme in the Conference, even though pressured by a trio of fine sophomore vaulters Kan sas' Bob Steinhoff, author of a 16-0'2 go this year and one of two to hit the 16 le vel as a high schooler, Ok lahoma's Larry Smith, and Oklahoma State's Larry Curts. Twice Nebraska's Ray Harvey has equalled the ex isting world record of :06.7 in the 60-yard low hurdles. Harvey won both indoor Conference hurdle cham pionships last year, but might be hard pressed to hold off teammate Dave Kudron, winner of both hur die races outdoors, and Kansas' George B y e r s, who swept to a world-record equalling :0(i,7 in the 60 lows Butterfly By Ed Icenogle Sports Editor Nebraska swimmer Jon Burchill, one of the top 200-yard butterfly perform ers in the Big Eight, will be playing only water polo next season at Oxford University in England. Burchill, who sports a 3.8 average as well as a 2:05 200-yard time, is one of eleven native Canadians to win Rhodes scholarships this year. Jon, from Halifax, Nova Scotia, is a transfer to the University of Nebr'rka from Indiana University, which sports a powerful swimming squad. A scholar ship and more chance to compete are the reasons he gives for the switch to NU. "The swimmers who fin ished first and third in the Olympics in the butterfly are at Indiana," he ex plained. "And over short distance, they are the two best in the world." "I wanted to compete for a team," Jon added, "and help them." At Nebraska he has ap parently done just that. Wrestlers To Meet The University of Nebras ka wrestling team will meet the University of Colorado team at 2:00 Wednesday afternoon in the Coliseum. Coach Orval Borgialli's wrestlers currently sport a 2-7 record in dual meets, but according to Coach Borgialli, "Some of the kids are young and inex perienced. They are im proving and I think they will continue to improve." Nebraska football star Wayne Meylan is expected to wrestle in the meet against Colorado Univer sity. Last Saturday the Ne braska team defeated the Colorado School of Mines 22-11. A pin by Ben Barends and decisions by Ron Thon, Jerry Langdon, Duane Dob son and Bob Erickson sparked the Huskers to the victory. 'ALFIE' BUBBLES WITH IMPUDENT HUMOR AND RIPE MODERN WIT!" Boiler Crowthtr. N. Y. 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A third lcaper at the le vel, Oklahoma's Jim John to Water As a sophomore, the but terflier churned in a record-breaking 2:05 in the 200 at the Big Eight meet. But although it was faster than ever before, he lost the con ference title to Mike Nic hols. As a junior, Burchill out distanced Nichols with a 2:05 clocking again, but fell to third place in the event. This season, his last for the Huskers, Jon plans to be battling for another high placing. His three years of swim ming for NU have given Jon a measure of authority in comparing the emphasis on athletics in the United States and in colleges out side of the country. "It's diametrically op posed," Burchill said. "On the one end not much (em phasis), on the other (ath letics) seem almost domi nant here sometimes." Jon paralled Canadian schools with European col leges. He pointed out the lack of athletic scholar ships and the informality of the sports programs out side the United States. 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