Thursday, December 14, 1957
The Daily Nebraskan
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Sports Editor
Can Joe Cipriano's hot shooting offensive-minded Ne
braska basketball team play over its erraticness that has
plagued it so far this season?
That's the question Husker fans hope can be answered
positively before the Big Eight season opens after the
holiday vacation.
The Husfcers are currently averaging 88 points per
game wMe last season's squad, which was first tabbed
as the conference favorite, scored at a 79 point clip.
FINE SHOOTERS
Defensively, the Huskers are allowing 77 points per
match almost the identical figure as last year's 36-9 crevr
The Huskers have fine shooters in seniors Tom Baack
and Stuart Lantz, who both have a crack at breaking
Herschell Turner's alVtime Nebraska scoring peak ' 10;
points-nd sophomo Tom Scantlebury.
These men give he Huskers an efficient shooting com
bination that is capable of breaking most games wide
pen, but Nebraska lacks an experienced tall man at the
center position along with a proven bench that can pro
vide help without losing efficiency.
Sophomores Bob Gratopp and Dale Yon Seggern had
been battling for the starting berth but neither had played
varsitv ball before this season.
Gratopp. led the learn with a 19.5 scoring average
before the western swing started last Friday night, but
the former Nebraska All-Stater from Geneva, has hit just
23 points in the three road games on the tour.
Von Seggern has height at 67" but he has . averaged
less than five points per outing and hurt an ankle during
la Fridays battle with the Washington State Cougars
and is lost for an idei'inite period. ,
Nebraska mopped up two subar toes m California
State 111-74 and the University of South Dakota 94-61 but
the Huskers' biggest problem was shown m the WMJ
SmeS INCONSISTANT
The Huskers opened at Pullman by bowing in a 23
point decision 93-70 and then came back the following eve
ning to down the Cougars by 15 points 91- 4.
And there lies the team's weakness it is cither -quite
not or verv cold on a given night . i
Granted. Nebraska has problems but we dom tea
they are insurmountable. The Huskers. aren't real bona
fide Big Eight title contenders, but they certainly can
compete with the other league foes for the runner-up
Sp0t FIVE RETURN
With non-conference games against respectable foes
such as Wyoming and Michigan State. Nebraska should
know how its stands when the pre-season Big Eight tour
nament opens in Kansas City in two weeks.
Did you know that all fiveall league basketball selec
tions return for another season this year'
Iowa State's prolific scorer Don Smith, who scored 33
points against the nation's top-rated UCLA Bruins last
week, the Kansas dual of Rodger Bohnenstiehl and Jo Jo
White and Oklahoma's great Don Sidle will all be giving
pponents headaches this season.
REGAINING TOUCH
Nebraska's Stuart Lantz, who has regained his scor
ing touch on the western swing also returns to play his
fine vear for the Huskers. Many of these all-stars will
repeat as all Big-Eight performers. 1 wouldn't bet against
any of them not getting the award again.
Oklahoma and Oklahoma State have such a fierce
wrestling Tivalry going that their Jan. 6 dual meet in
Stillwater has already been classified as a sellout in 7.200
capacity Gallagher Hall. They are apparently going to bat
tle each other again for both the Big Eight and national
titles.
'SLIPPED'
The Cowboys, who 'slipped" last season to a third
place finish in "the league and a sixth place national fin
ish, which was their worst season since 1960, defeated the
Sooners 76-74 in OSU's eight team tournament last week
end. While the Cowboy starters were winning the tourna
ment, the second stringers traveled to Lincoln for the
Great Plains and made a shambles of the Capital City
tourney.
With seven OSU reserves winning here last weekend,
the Cowboys appear strong challengers for conierence
and national laurels.
Two Basketball Games
Televised Jan. 13, Feb. 24
campus talent. Each game,
if time permits, will be fol
lowed by a ""coaches cor
ner". The schedule: Jan. 6
Kansas State at Oklahoma
State
Jan. 13 Missouri at Ne
braska Jan. 20 Iowa State at Mis
souri Jan. 27 Oklahoma State at
Iowa State
Feb. 3 Okla Kahontarn a
sas Feb. 10 Kansas at Colora
do Feb. 17 Oklahoma at Kan
sas State
Feb. 24 Nebraska at Colo
rado Mar. 2 Colorado al Kansas
State
Mr. 9 Iowa State at Kansas
Two Nebraska basketball
games will be televised this
season in a series of 10 Big
Eight Conference games
Saturday afternoons.
The first game will be
against the Missouri Tigers
in Lincoln Jan. 13 followed
later by the Nebraska-Colorado
game in Boulder Feb.
24.
Air time for the games is
set for 1 p.m. (C.S.T.), with
the first five minutes of
each program previewing
the Big Eight race to date.
Just prior to game time,
another five minutes will be
devoted to "University
Showcase", a spotlight on
the host institution. H a 1 f
time program will feature
Time
Names
Meylan
Nebraska's standout mid
dle guard Wayne Meylan
has been selected to h i s
fifth AE-American team as
Time Magazine has named
Nebraska's all-time leading
tackier to its All-American
crew.
Big 8 Offense
Still Potent
Only one team in the Big
Eight basketball race re
turn less than 50 per cent
of its offensive punch from
last year.
The lone squad, the Kans
as State Wildcats are just
ene under that figure and
till Wildcat coach Tex
Winter feels his squad has
'Improved over last season's
fourth place loop crew.
Jnlra-Mjiiad
Track Meet
The University track
squad will hold an intra
squad meet open to the
public Friday at 3:30 p.m.
at the East Stadium.
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NEBRASKA'S AL CtK;K . , .. performs his bar routine beiore competing in the
ring event in which he placed second during Nebraska's victory over the Air Force
Academy.
Varsity, Freshmen
Tankers Compete
The Nebraska Freshman
and Varsity swimmers will
square off Saturday at
2 p.m. in the Husker's
Coliseum pool.
"We will swim the Var
sity like an ordinary meet."
swimming coach John Rta
said. "The best guys will
be thrown in."
"This meet gives the
freshmen a taste of competi
tion." he said. "It also
leaves us with something
before vacation."
"The freshmen are real
enthusiastic and hopped up
for this meet." P.eta said.
Reta said he wasn't hap
py with the Huskers seventh
place finish in the Big
Eight Relays last Saturday
but that they didn't even en
ter the diving events.
"This left us without two
events to score in which
our divers most certainly
would have done." he said.
However the swimming
coach was pleased with the
good attitude of the team.
"The team's times were
better than last year." he
said
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Cyclone's Smith Aims
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Iowa State's All-American
cage star Don Smith is
well on his way towards be
coming one of the greats in
Bis Eight cage history.
By scoring 619 points last
season, he became only the
sixth player in conference
history to score more than
6(10 points in a season.
Alter two seasons in t h e
loop. Smith ranks 21st on
the all-time scoring list in
loop annuals with 1.068
points.
Last season Smith led all
players in scoring averages
with a 24.8 average produc
tion and also topped loop
players with a 13.4 rebound
ing job per outing.
If he wins his third
straight Big Eight rebound
ing title this year, he w i 1 1
become only the second
player to accomplish this
teat. The lone player previ
ously to win three consecu
tive rebounding crowns was
Kansas' Bill Bridges.
Smith pulled down 226 ca
roms his sophomore y ear
and w.th his 334 last season
he now has 660 good for 14th
place on the all-time list.
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Geier: 'Best learn
Effort I've S&eii
"Collectively this has
been one of the best team
etforts I've seen." Jake
OSU Picks
4 Huskers
To Squad
Four Xebraskans were
named to the Oklahoma State
17 All-Opponent squad.
All - American defensive
middle guard Wayne Meylan,
offensive Jackie Glenn Pat
terson, halfback Ben Gregory
and fullback Dick Davis were
picked at tlieir respective po
sitions. Nebraska defeated Okla
homa State in the Lincoln
Homecoming Hilt this season. 11
braskan
Applauds
The University of Nebras
ka soil judging team placed
second in the North Central
Regional Collegiate Soil
Judging contest al St. Paul
Minnesota. Hie team,
coached by Dave Lewis of
the NIT Agronomy Depart
ment staff, is now qualified
to compete in the National
Collegiate Soil Judging Con
test at Manhattan, Kansas
in May.
NT placed behind Iowa
State University, in a field
of five midwestern univer
sity teams. Lloyd Reeder,
Shell on. was second high
soil judge in the contest
Other team members are
James Schepers, Shelton:
William Amer. Lincoln; and
Alan Zwink. Rockville.
Geier said after his Ne
braska gymnastics team
defeated Use Air Force
Academy 165.05 to 158.9
last Saturday.
Geier said he didn't feel
they could win the meet
with Steve May, last year's
top scorer out of action.
May will be sidelined for
six weeks with a dislocated
elbow sustained when he
fell from the sidehorse a
few davs before they meet,
AVE HAD THEM
"These young fellows de
cided they would do the
routines and did them as
good as I Ye seen," he said.
"When the dust finally
settled," Grier said, "we
had them,"
Geier said he had never
seen an Air Force team that
wasn't strong. "We have
had some good meets
against them in the past."
GOOD RUM
The Husker gymnasts'
next meet will be Satur
day against Hays Stale
CWJege in the Men's Phy
sical Education Building at
2 p.m.
Geier said he didnt know
how Hays State is this year
but "they gave us a good
run last year, losing by
about three points," he said.
He said he hopes the
team can continue to do as
well in the future.
SURPRISE!
"Tom Riesing surprised
by winning the long horse
event" Geier said, "I hope
we continue to have these
little surprises."
"Hays State will have to
make a good run at us to
beat us'.' he concluded.
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