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(EDITOR'S NOTE: This
is the third of a four-p art
series on this weekend's Big
Eight indoor track and
field championships March
3 and 4 in Kansas City.)
None in the history of the
Big Eight Conference rank
higher than Missouri's
Steve Herndon in the high
jump and Colorado's Chuck
Rogers in the pole vault.
These two lead a contin
g e n t of field specialists
which promises to give this
year's Big Eight indoor
championships (this week
end) some of the closest individual-event
battles in the
39-year history of the meet.
Balance in all four events is
the keynote.
Herndon, who already had
the all-time outdoor best in
the high jump with his 7-1,
has now added the indoor
best after reaching 6-11 in
a dual meet against Okla
homa State.
.. This gave him the lead
over Oklahoma's Ron Tull,
a fellow seven-footer, who
claimed the previous all
time indoor high by going
6-10 at last year's indoor
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Weeds of Wisdom
A bomb went off in the University of Nebraska Coli
seum last Saturday night with six minutes gone in the
second half. There were no injuries outside of the one
casualty the Kansas State basketball team.
This is not the first time such an explosion has oc
curred. In fact, bombs have been detonated in each of
the Huskers last five home games. sometimes once in
each half.
Offensive Explosion
This bomb is the Nebraska offensive explosion and
it occurs in the form of a chain reaction, lasting long
enough to put the Cornhuskers comfortably 8 to 15 points
in the lead. Besides this scoring effect, the power of the
explosion thoroughly subdues the enemy (Nebraska's op
ponent) and the Huskers emerge to dominate the re
maining time with apparent ease.
How do the fireworks start? Usually the fuse is ig
nited by a stolen pass. Then a burst of Husker hustle
hurries the fuse to its end and then the explosion.
Outstanding Play
There is always at least one outstanding play as the
fuse burns, such as Stuart Lantz going about thirty feet
in the air for a rebound. Saturday night against K-State
Nate Branch performed the significant action. Nate
seemed to have a hunch that someone was passing me
ball over his head as he ran downcourt to his defensive
position. Branch threw up his hands and you guessed
it deflected the pass, by chance to Tom Baack.
Once Nebraska's explosion offense is underway it is
built around a tenaciously aggressive full court press and
consists of ball stealing, blocked shots, fast break sand
accurate shooting. It also has the almost comical ele
ment of Huskers suddenly being wide open under the
basket for easy shots.
Victory Explosion
When Nebraska explodes to dominating victories, as
it has in conference games with Missouri, Oklahoma,
Colorado, Iowa State and Kansas State, it is a tremen
dously exciting kind of basketball to watch. For the fans,
the effect is often of a goose pimple nature.
But unfortunately, Nebraska only explodes in the Col
iseum. This is not a condemnation, but merely the point
ing out of a characteristic of the game.
Ability and fun support on foreign floors just doesn't
seem to prevail in basketball as in football. And it prob
ably never will. It is too bad the fans will not flick to
Boulder's maples as well as their gridiron, but that is
the way of away-game support.
Basketball Trouble
And here is where the Nebraska basketball team
will have trouble. They may explode and beat the Kan
sas Jayhawks this Saturday, but Colorado at Boulder the
following week is something else.
It is doubtful that the Huskers can do it. It is a chal
lenge to them to remember the dominating explosion of
fense they are capable of, forget who the fans are for,
and explode from start to finish, for this is what it will
take. Remember last year?
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meet. Tull, however, won
both the indoor and outdoor
titles from Herndon last
year, hitting his 7-iy2 per
sonal best just before the
outdoor.
Straightened Form
Herndon straightened out
his form last spring after
taking a look at a movie of
him in action and broke the
7 barrier. He has continued
his push this year, staying
close to the 7-foot mark all
winter, about a two-inch
improvement over last
year.
Tull isn't following the
pattern of h i s start last
year. He's been slowed thus
far by a bad leg and h a s
been experimenting trying
to find another new form of
his own which will put him
back over the 7-foot break
ing point. Just beginning to
come around now, he shows
a 6-10y2 for his indoor best
to date.
NU's Krebs
Last year, these two were
the class of the event. This
year, however, Kansas' Ken
Gaines and Nebraska's
Steve Krebs have suddenly
assistant unnrtt oriltnr hi
become serious contenders.
Gaines claimed the second
best mark ever for a fresh
m a n last year when he
scored a 6-10'2 in the high
jump at the national decath
lon meet last summer.
Perhaps the most exciting
nf the group, however, is
Krebs, a real pint-sized
leaper. Standing only 5-9,
he has soared a foot over
his height once this year
and has been quite consis
tent at 6-7 and 6-8.
Other challengers are
Kansas' John Turck, Iowa
State's John Dvorak, and
Oklahoma State's Larry
Curts. All three have gone
6-6.
Pole Vault
Like Herndon, Rogers
holds both the all-t i m e
indoor and outdoor bests in
the pole vault, going 16-5
outdoors last year and
16-2V4 indoors this winter.
He won the Big Eight in
door last year, missed at the
Conference outdoor, but
then came back to take the
NCAA title with a 16-f o o t
leap.
However, Rogers took a
ride on his fiber-glass cata
pult recently that he didn't
like and found himself in for
a big letdown when his pole
failed to snap back, leaving
him rather supportless at a
second-story height. The
result was a bad fall from
14 feet and a broken pole.
He has now turned to a
stiffer pole a 190-pound
test stick and is working
his way back up again to
ward his goal of 17 feet.
Rogers is not alone in the
16-foot club this year, how
ever. Already there with
him is Kansas' Bob Stein
hoff, who is expected to be
ready for the indoor meet
after being sidelined with
an I "jury.
Two other sophomores,
Oklahoma State's Larry
Curts and Oklahoma's
Larry Smith were over 16
last year and are closing in
on the magic height this
year. Both are in the 15-6
range now 15-4 won for
Rogers last year.
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Soccer
By Ed Icenogle
Sports Editor
With plans for a five
match swing into Utah and
the possibility of an inter
state league, the Universi
ty Soccer Club has called
its first meeting of the
year for 7 p.m. Friday in
the Union.
The Soccer Club will
take the Southwest tour,
playing three college and
two city teams, over
champion for the i n d o o r
broad jump this year, but
Kansas' Gary Ard is t h e
favorite he won the o u t
door long jump as well as
the triple jump.
However, the field for
this event is shaping up to
be the most well balanced
of all. For the first time in
league history, four jump
ers are over the 24 m a r k
indoors.
Ard has the lead with
his 24-54, but the artist,
both on the board and off
the board, can't afford to
step back and put his work
in perspective.
At 24-5 is teammate
Gaines. Then come an Okla
homa sophomore, Mike
Gregory, and Missouri's
Gary Rainwater, both of
whom are over 24-3.
Of this challenging group,
however, Rainwater is the
most consistent, logging
three efforts past the 24
marker and another at
23-11. For Gaines and Greg
ory, their bests are t h e i r
only trips beyond 24 feet.
Another three, Colorado's
Bill Adams, Iowa State's
John Wagner, and Kansas
State's Don Riedl, have
been dropping in between
23 and 24, giving the field
added depth. The finals for
this event come up on Fri
day night.
One Of Best
One of the best of all
Big Eight shot putters,
Missouri's Gene Crews, is
gone, but one of the tough
est bits of competition for
team points looms ahead.
There is no clear-cut leader
right now, with seven
having a shot at the title.
Top ranked now is Colo
rado's Barry King, a com
pact Britisher who h a s a
55-4 ceiling so far. A postal
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to Tim Rickard, club pres
ident. Make Plans
The Friday meeting,
said Rickard, will be to
make arrangements for
the spring season.
Rickard, a graduate stu
dent in geography from
Great Britain, said that fi
nancial arrangements for
the year, matches with lo-
to the embassy wall in Lon
don, King has a career best
of over 56 feet.
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Nebraska's Dennis Hagin
was the early leader with
his 55-2. All the rest Kan
sas' Gary Tucker, Colo,
rado's Terry Ten Eyck,
Missouri's Jim Judd and
Roger Boyd, and 0 k J, a
homa State's Bruce W i 1
helm, are all in the 51-54
class after the early going.
For Wilhelm, it will be a
one-shot three-try proposi
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day's preliminaries. H i s
best toss will go forth into
the finals alone as he goes
home to wrestle in a d u a 1
against Iowa State Satur
day night.
Outstanding performers
are against each other and
the pluggers are against
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is great depth in all f o u r
events, with no one over
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cal teams and discussion
of the new league will be
the purpose of the meet
ing. Soccer League
The proposed Soccer
league, which would also
include teams from Des
Moines, Omaha and Kan
sas City, is well underway,
according to Rickard.
"We're just waiting for
it to be set up now," he
said.
In addition to the Utah
anl league matches, Rick
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Creighton University and
other Nebraska teams as
distinct possibilities.
The teams' first spring
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Rickard anticipated the
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Americans, but said that
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