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By MARK
Sports Editor
Few are financially stable enough to afford to buy
expensive boots, shirts, pants, nets, and other equipment
and pay traveling expenses for two round trip journeys
to Omaha, one to Wahoo and a round trip excursion "to
Des Moines, Iowa.
Yet the 11 members of the University Soccer Club
who must provide all equipment needed to play a ten
game schedule in the Midwest Soccer League.
It hardly seems fair that a group which is recognized
as a club by the Nebraska Union isn't recognized by the
University's athletic department.
Tim Rickard, club president, who has battled against
so many dead ends in his struggle to get soccer going at
Nebraska that he is surprised when a single day passes
without some new problem occurring, has tried to get
financial support.
NO LUCK
He has contacted the men's and women's physical edu
cation departments, the Nebraska Union and athletic di
rector Bob Devaney with no luck.
He said the reason was that soccer is not a Big Eight
sport since there is no league comprised of Big Eight
schools.
Using the same analogy at another school, the Uni
versity of Minnesota's hockey team isn't in the Big Ten
hockey league because there isn't such a group, but Minne
sota still provides complete support for the squad.
Rickard's team is not asking for 11 full athletic schol
arships. The local president has estimated it would ap
proximately $350 for the team's expenses.
DESERVING
While we admit that with football the only sport fin
ishing in the black, the athletic department doesn't have
money to burn. But it appears to us that somewhere $350
can be obtained to pay the expenses of one of the most
dedicated teams on this or any campus.
When an entire team will pay for all its costs, travel
by car to Omaha, Wahoo and 200 miles to Des Moines
and even journey four or five miles just to play at a
home field generously donated by the Lincoln Job Corps
at the former Air Force Base, they deserve our congratu
lations. This team represents the University in a six-team ama
teur league and it seems reasonable to assume the athletic
department would get behind this sport and its dedicated
players.
When the team opens its spring schedule, let's hope
the University provides full financial support.
Nebraska's defensive middle guard Wayne Meylan,
quarterback Frank Patrick and end Dennis Richnafsky,
set 16 new Husker recordss this fall despite a team which
at times looked shakey.
Patrick established seven peaks including a single
game total offensive showing with 264 yards, season total
iffense with 1,427 yards, passes attempted in one game
with 40. passes attempted in one season with 233, passes
completed in one game with 22, yards passing in one
game with 290 yards and passing in one season with
1,449.
Richnafsky set four pass-reception marks previously
held by 1965 AU-Ameriean Freeman White. He set records
for his 14 pas receptions in one game, his 36 season grabs,
his 67 career catches and his 145 single game passing
yards.
FIVE MARKS
Meylan, who has been named to two Ail-American
teams so far this fall, set five defensive standards.
The Huskers leading tackier led all-other Nebraska
tacklers with 59 unassisted tackles in one season, most
total tackles with 119 this season, most unassisted ca
reer tackles with 118 most assisted career tackles with
120 and most total career tackles with 238.
WHAT'S IT TAKE?
Southern California's running back O. J. Simpson
must be wondering what it takes to win the Heisman
Trophy that was awarded Tuesday to UCLA's outstanding
quarterback Gary Beban.
Simpson raced for 1,415 yards and 11 touchdowns in
?M carries and gained 150 yards or more in seven of
USC's 10 games.
Purdue's Leroy Keyes, who practically tore apart Big
Ten enemy lines finished third as a quarterback won the
nation's highest individual award for the fifth time in the
past six years.
If basketball coaches pulled out a chunk of hair for
each game they coached, Oklahoma State's veteran cage
tutor Hank Iba would have been bald years ago.
Iba has been coaching the Cowboys 33 years.
Meylan Gains Second
All-American Position
Nebraska's defensive mid
dle guard Wayne Meylan was
named linebacker on the
American Football Coaches
Basketball
Tickets Still
Available
Student and faculty-employee
season basketball
tickets will be honored at
Friday's 7:30 p.m. Varsity
Freshman cage tilt, J i m
Pittenger, athletic tick
et manager, said this week.
Pittenger also reported
that 548 of 4,000 available
student season basketball
tickets have been sold as of
Tuesday afternoon.
The tickets, costing $5.25,
are on sale at the Coliseum
ticket office until Dec. 8.
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team.
This is the second All
American team for Meylan
who was earlier chosen to the
Look magazine All-American
team.
Oklahoma's Granville Lig
gens was chosen as middle
guard for the team.
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day's Varsity-Frosh tilt.
Eight Lettermen Return
To NU Gymnasti cs Team
By CHARLES DA VIES
"We basically have the
same strength as last year,"
Jake Geier said of his Ne
braska gymnastics team
which compiled a 7-5 rec
ord in the 1966-67 season.
He said trampoline would
be Nebraska's weakest event
with only one capable man
available, while the t e a m
strength lies in still rings,
floor exercise, and long
horse events.
The graduated seniors
have been replaced by some
capable sophomores al
though they lack experience
he said.
The sophomores include
Allan Cook on still rings
and parallel bars. Kennoth
Lamb on side horse, and
Tom Reising on the trampo
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as Husker basketballers
"These boys will help
quite a bit," Geier said.
Besides the sophomores,
Geier has eight returning
lettermen from last season's
squad which finished fourth
out of six teams in the Big
Eight meet. I Oklahoma
State and Missouri do n o t
have gymnastic teams. )
Junior standouts Steve
May and Malcolm Johnsen
return from last year's
squad. Both juniors partici
pate in the all-around event.
"There will be a struggle
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from the top spot," Geier
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Two-year lettermen re
turning are Pat McGill on
floor exercise and team
captain Robert Santoro on
floor exercise and long
horse.
Other lettermen are ju
niors Burton Christopherson
on side horse, Michael
Hoskovecon all-around,
George SederaVicius on long
horse, and Thomas Traver
on side horse.
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By MARK GORDON
With the regular season
less than five days away,
Nebraska basketball coach
Joe Cipriano has seen a
variety of ailments plague
three of his top men.
6'1" senior letterman
Fred Hare, who sat out last
season with a knee injury,
missed last week's prac
tice sessions because of his
mother's death.
Both Bob Gratopp, a 6'4"
sophomore and Dale Von
Seggern, a 6'7" sophomore,
who have been vying for
the starting center spot have
sustained sprained ankles in
the last week.
GRATOPP SORE
"Gratopp has been start
ing at the high post posi
tion and his ankle is still
a little sore, while Von
Seggern has been running
at about three-quarters
speed," Cipriano said this
week.
Cipriano said Hare, who
led the Huskers in scoring
his sophomore season. "Was
doing real well until last
week, but it will take him
a couple of weeks until he
gets back in the swing of
things."
Although Cipriano has
been pleased with the prac
tice sessions, he said jok
ingly, "It will be good to
play against some new
faces after six weeks."
Before meeting California
State at the Coliseum at
7:35 p.m. Monday to kick
off regular season play,
Nebraska will meet its
freshman counterparts at
7:30 p.m Friday on the
Coliseum court.
"We've worked on polish
ing up our offense and de
fense and with two scrim
mages a week, we have
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FORCES OPPONENTS
"It forces the opponents
into a different type team
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If the new Husker de
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month of the season, he
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"We have a tough Te
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meets three teams which
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"Washington State tied for
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line," he said.
TO HAWAII
The Huskers meet the
westerners in a two game
set in Pullman Dec. 8 and
9 that begins a western
swing reaching Hawaii be
fore the annual Big Eight
pre-season tournament in
Kansas City Dec. 27-30.
He said Michigan State,
which tied for the Big Ten
crown last season and Wyo
ming which won the Western
Athletic Conference league
title a year ago, would pro
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Jayhawks
To Repeat
As Champs
The Kansas Jayhawks
should repeat as Big Eight
champions with relative
ease according to Sports
Illustrated's annual basket
ball issue.
The Jayhawks, who cap
tured the Big Eight title
with a 13-1 record last
year, "should have little to
worry about until they hit
the March midwest NCAA
regionals," the publication
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"They have worked on
their shooting trajectory
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with all of last year's start
ers except Ron Franz will
be formidable to the op
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