WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1967
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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last year, too.
A fourth national cham
pion running again this
year is Oklahoma's Bill
Calhoun, who shared the
NCAA indoor 440 title last
year. Calhoun is the third
fastest quartermiler in Big
Eight history.
Like the others, Calhoun
doesn't have it easy this
year. Competition will be
plentiful.
For him, the stiffest test
could come from Iowa
State's Steve Carson, the
Federation 440 champion of
two years ago who last year
ran a 1:09.3 in the 600-yard
dash, a mark just .3 off the
world record.
Also back are a pair of
seven-foot high jumpers,
Missouri's Steve Herndon,
owner of the all-time Big
Eight best of 7-1, and Ok
lahoma's Ron Tull, a Kan
sas Citian, who was the
first from the Conference to
clear the magic height.
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.
On his plans for future
swimming, Burchill noted
that the heavy competition
in European athletics is
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he'll be playing basket
ball through March 11.
In which events will Ry
un run during the indoor
season?
It is not known now, but
during open and dual-meet
competition, he'll probably
combine the mile with the
880, 1,000, or two mile. For
the Big Eight indoor, he
might go in either the 880
or the 1,000 runs Big
Eight rules prohibit h i m
from running both and
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schools.
Although he will not join
a club he expressed interest
in the water polo team at
Oxford.
There are two reasons.
The first is month-long tours
that the team makes
through Europe.
The second is his am
bition to make the Olym
pics. Jon plans to try out
for the Canadian Olympic
water polo team.
At Nebraska the Cana
dian seems to carry his
school interest over into
athletics. A student in eco
nomics Jon admits econo
mizing on his "psyching"
for swimming meets.
Indicating that the Corn
husker swimming squad is
aiming for the Big Eight
meet, rather than peaking
for dual encounters, Bur
chill related how he "psy
ches" for the annual con
ference contest.
"I'll shave my arms and
legs," he said, making him
one of many swimmers who
go through the ritual for
the "big one." Some tank
men believe it cuts down
their times.
"I don't think it helps
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At any rate, his primary
objective from now on will
be to win points for the
Jayhawks.
If it is the 880 or the two
mile, Ryun will be challeng
ing a tough pair from Ok
lahoma State, Jim Metcalf
and Chris McCubbins, both
of whom are Conference
champions. Metcalf won the
McCubbins was setting a
new league mark in the
three mile outdoors before
winning this year's cross
country individual title.
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tian said, "but mentally it
helps."
The H u s k e r swimming
squad is rebuilding under
coach John Reta this sea
son. Burchill estimates that
the Huskers, although he
and Reta both agree that
the team is shallow this
season, will be battling for
a spot in the top three in
the Big Eight champion
ships. Jon will attend Oxford
for three years of tutoring
and paper-writing in econo
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returning are Lee Calhoun,
brother of Bill, who won
the 600 title in 19CIi for Ok
lahoma, and Gary Ard, who
was a double winner out
doors for Kansas last
spring, taking both t h e
broad and triple jumps.
These are the athletes
who have made things hap
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But before Burchill gets
there next fall he has a
heavy schedule. Next Tues
day, for instance, Jon is
taking a plane to Vancouver
to appear on a, television
show on the future of Cana
da with the other Canadian
Rhodes Scholars.
Feb. 18 Jon will talk with
the Regents and Governor
Tiemann on scholarships
and aids.
And, oh yes, this summer
he will live in southern
France and Italy before
heading to England.
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