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A PAGE 6 The Daily Nebraskan FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1967 snnmtrniffiantmmmmmmmmunmnmnnnuiimimt mi iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimoiiHtiimiiiiuiiiiiiiim niniittii:fimnini iiiiiiiiiraiiiraimiiiiniiiiiB I Take Me Out . . . 11 3(t-tt-mtttu$ lij O Jrntnglr 1 Byy'.( By George Kaufman A number of bad things have happened while we were away on vacation, and you should get a little mad about some of them. All ready for the five-minute hate: First and worst, the dunk shot is dead. It was settled allegedly to alleviate the big man's advantage in basket ball. This makes about as much sense as to kill the home run because it favors the powerful hitter, or the field goal because it favors the team with a good kicker or revising the obscenity laws because they favor those of us whose prurient interests can be appealed to. Chunk Of Spirit But more than just the justice of the thing, it takes a large chunk out of the spirit of the game. Good Husker basketball fans do not have to be told what excitement a dunk shot can throw into a crowd at the barn. If another point is needed, consider that "little guys" like Stu Lantz and Tom Baack and Nate Branch and Jo Jo White are not put at a disadvantage by the dunk ahot Number Two Bad thing number two was that the Lincoln station did not televise the NCAA finals and left many outstate Ne braska fans, me for instance, somewhat miffed. That should win some kind of ugly award this season. The next bad thingie is the creeping "Slush-Fond complex" which is sweeping the country and seriously threatening college sports. This could easily lead to an un healthy vch hunt, perhaps with the federal government leading the angry townsfolk carrying torches and pitch forks out looking for the terrible monster. Public Hypocrisy This is part of a great public hypocrisy. It is a fact that people, especially alumni type people, expect pro fessional football and basketball from the colleges without the crass commercialization of professionalism. It can't be done and the people knew all along it could not be done and the Cckkle fans greeted the unveiling of one of these funds with the type of righteous indignation which greeted the congressional investigations of house members' ethics and cheating at the Air Force Academy. Professional-type athletes just cannot be recuited and kept with college yea-teams and school colors any more. Face it The "WE EXPECTED THIS" Trophy of the year goes to the University of Nebraska for announcing that the outdoor track at the football shrine is not quite ready yet, forcing the Iowa State-Nebraska dual to be moved to Ames. Coming Next Week Coming Next Week A revelaing expose of the M.I.T. tiddly-winks team slushy fund. How have they really dom inated the Ivy League? r V i . 4 If 1 . 7' snorts. 1 - - ,,' '-r x ! , i. : 'cr """" 1 "y8-, " I - I ; - - V'w ! 1 t,'- lift' - .T . .- ' i-riH-i ilti.-lWlli- J Guy Chamberlin was called the Champ. And the rea son was not only his football prowess, but his character. As one of the Cornhusker grid stalwarts who made Ne braska's name known to the football world, he proved himself among the best. And in 1965 the only Football Hall of Fame in which he was not already enshrined attested to his athletic skill by voting him into the Professional Football Hall of Fame. To hear him talk of "the old days" of NU football was like living a part of the early days of the rough-and-ready sport I had the opportunity to listen and talk over many of "the old days" with the Champ. It was something else to listen as Chamberlin, at the age of 73, relived his associ ation with Knute Rockne, George Halas and Jim Thorpe, as well as Nebraska greats Ed Weir and Dick Rutherford. That was what the Champ talked about most and best the others. For every honor he earned, he insisted that others had earned it as much as he. But even more important that the greats he had played with in the 1910s and 1920's was what he wanted to say to the greats of the 1970s and 1980's. It was the Champ's wish to reach the youth, especially as he moved along in age, with his advice on and love of A month ago. the Champ said this to me in an inter view, "You know, I realize I won't be around much longer, and the thing I would like to do is help those kids in high school get started right in football." The Champ died this week. But his love for the sport and the sport's love for him will never die. To The Ball Game NEBRASKA'S HOME OPENER ... is Friday, a doublf header with Kansas State. After winning only one in six games ia aa early Texas stint, coach Tony Sharpe has noted encouragement in the improvement of his team arrangement for the double match. The first game starts at 1:38 Friday afternoon. Hurler Bob Churchich is ex pected to start the first game, Lefthanded Keith Winter will start the second. In the picture, Huskers practice in a weekday scrimmage. Season Opens The Cornhusker tennis squad opens its 1967 cam paign with a dual at Drake in Des Moines, Friday. The netmen will also meet Creighton University Satur day in Omaha. Tuesday they will again travel, this time to Wash burn University at Topeka before opening at home against Iowa State next Friday. I if i - t 1 t sit "Vi ! I I' ;' -V j -lEXih iAm Triangular Tuesday . . Golf Team, 3-1, Omaha Bound With four meets behind them, the Nebraska golf team sports a 3-1 record as they prepare for a trianga- Iowa State Meet Switched To Ames PBCTO BY TOM BENDEBSOW NEVER AGAIN . . . XU basketball player Roger Leitner demonstrates the newly-banoed dunk shot, backwards. Nebraska's scheduled outdoor track meet with Iowa State, slated for Sat urday at MemoraC Stacfi u. will be held at Ames in stead. Coach Frank Sevigne said the meet has been changed because the Husk er track torn up last year because of Stadium con struction is not yet in good enough shape for competi tion. "We hate to change be cause we know the fans want a borne meet," Se vigne said. "However, the track just isnl ready and we'd rather wait a week and have it in good shape than to run on it before it's ready and get someone injured." The track is getting a thorough face-lifting and the surface is still too loose for good running conditions, Sevigne noted. "Ti e want it in fine shape for Air Force in two weeks, and we could really tear it tip this week if we ran into bad weather before the track is is top shape," Frank said. lar next Tuesday in Omaha against Omaha University and Creighton. The team, led again this year by junior Charlie Bor ner. will not play a meet on Lincoln courses till Okla homa State and Kansas come to town next Satur day Apr. 15). the Huskers opened their season over spring vacation in a dual with Wichita State and Washburn in Wichita, Kansas Mar. 28 1. Burner's 74 was the best Cornhusker score as Nebraska whipped Washburn 14-1 but fell to Wichita State U1 to 62. Two days later Coach Harry Good's team humili ated Washburn on their borne course in Topeka in a 15-0 whitewash. Borner's 71 won medalist honors. The Huskers didn't play foolishly April 1. but instead chalked up another victory, defeating Iowa State 12-6. Again it was Bomer, taking only 69 swings, who sparked the Husker victory. Nebraska's other meet performers were Milt Rom jue. Nick West, Chuck Sweetman, R. B. 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