FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, K59
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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Probable Starters
HOUSTON PH. NtlRASKA
O. Taylor -lf F Bob Orttopp OS)
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F Chuck Jura (410)
C Laroy 'Chalk (4-7)
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0 Al Nlttan (e-3)
Melvln Bell -7)
Poo Welch 4)
J. Hickman -4)
by Randy York
Nebraskan Sport Editor
Tradition Is one thing
Nebraska's basketball team
won't have on its side when it
tackles nationally-ranked
Houston in the first round of
the Astro-Bluebonnet Classic
Friday night at Houston's new
Hofheinz Pavilion.
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flourished under the 3-year
dynasty of Elvin Hayes and
Co., has won the Classic seven
times in its 9-year history.
Oklahoma in 1960 and Michigan
in 1962 are the only teams to
bag a championship other than
Houston, which owns the
Classic's last six titles.
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armed with the season's big
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upset, takes , the theoretical
favored role into the 4-team
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fifth-ranked Duquesne, 82-77 in
Lincoln Tuesday.
Nebraska's chances of
cracking the Houston domina
tion apparently rests on the
availability of 6-10 sophomore
forward Chuck Jura, who suf
fered a sprained ankle in the
second half of the Duquesne
game.
Jura, however, is expected to
start Friday night's 7 p.m.
engagement, although Thurs
day he was still limping.
Jura holds the key to the
Husker bid. If his effectiveness
is hampered by the ankle in
jury, Nebraska coach Joe
Cipriano may be forced to shift
guard Tom Scantlebury un
derneath and move Marv
Stewart, who sparked the Du
quesne upset, to the vacant
guard slot.
Although the Huskers will not
face as big a front line in
Houston as they did in Du
quesne, the Cougers are con
sidered a rugged rebounding
club.
Included in the Houston front
line of Dwight Davis and
Melvin Bell, each of whom
stands 6-7, is 6-2 guard Ollie
Taylor, who averaged 21.7
points per game In his team's
first three wins over
Southwestern Louisiana (89-72),
Texas-Arlington (88-70) and
Centenary (70-64).
Guard Poo Welch, a junior
college transfer who averaged
29.8 points per game last
season, has furnished 15.7
points per game this season for
Houston.
Bell (9.0), Davis (8.7) and
forward Jeff Hickman (11.7)
complete the balanced scoring
attack of the Cougers' starters.
Guard Tom Gribben, who
National media
football team
by Joe Baldwin
Sports Columnist
Obscurity '69. That's the best
way to describe this years
Nebraska football team, at
least as far as the national
sports media are concerned.
Coach Bob Devaney and his
staff turned in the finest
coaching Job of their careers,
guiding a team picked to finish
no better than fifth In the con
ference to a share of the Big
Eight title and a Sun Bowl bid.
The young Husker offense
and the seasoned Black Shirts
scrapped their way to a fine 8-2
record, earned against (1) the
No. 4 and No. 5 teams In the
nation (USCand Missouri), (2)
two conference champions
(USC and Missouri), (3) three
bowl teams (USC, Missouri and
Colorado), (4) six teams with a
.500 record or better (USC,
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Stephenson is named
most valuable player
Nebraska co-captain Dana
Stephenson Wednesday night
was named the most valuable
player on the 1969 Cornhusker
football team at the Extra
Point Club's annual banquet at
the Lincoln Hotel.
Stephenson, defensive cor-
nerback from Lincoln Pius X
High School, also was named
the outstanding senior
defensive back besides being
named recipient of the Guy
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end to Houston
started last year in Houston's
16-10 season, has contributed
five points per game.
Taylor, despite being only 6
2, is considered the best re
bounder in the country for his
size. Playing alongside two 6-7
players and one 6-9 player, he
managed to pace the reboun
ding department with 12 per
game.
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Nebraska coach Joe Cipriano, flanked by sophomore starters Chuck Jura
(left) and Al Nissen (right) has guided the Huskers to their best basketball
start since 1919, the last time NU won its four opening games.
Missouri. Colorado, Oklahoma
State, Kansas State and
Oklahoma) while (S) playing
three of the four toughest op
ponents (Missouri, Kansas
State and Oklahoma) on the
road.
Okay, I'm overdoing it. But
no one disputes the fact that
Nebraska played one of the
roughest schedules In the na
tion. Harry DeVold, The Foot
ball News' noted college
analyst, says that NU played
the fourth toughest non-conference
slate in the country and
the fifth most difficult overall.
But the key to the Huskers'
lack of recognition was not who
they played, but when they
played them.
The publicity spotlight shone
on Nebraska twice in the USC
and Missouri games. We lost
both, but what's worse, we lost
Chamberlain Trophy.
Halfback Larry Frost, middle
guard Ken Geddes and tight
end Jim McFarland also were
cited at the awards banquet,
which featured guest speaker
Duffy Dougherty, head foot
ball coach at Michigan State
University.
Frost was named "the
outstanding senior offensive
back. Geddes was named the
outstanding senior defensive
lineman and McFarland the
outstanding senior offensive
lineman.
The Nebraska team, co-Big
Eight Conference champions,
posted 17 records en route to an
8 2 seasonal record.
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The Cougers have been get
ting a lot of mileage from 6-9
sophomore frontliner Robert
Hall, who has collected 18 re
bounds and 16 points in three
games.
Nebraska (4-0) also features
balanced scoring, paced by
center Leroy Chalk (12.5),
guard Stewart (12.2), guard
Tom Scantlebury (11.4), Jura
assign
to obscurity
them early in the season when
the writers', pollsters' and bowl
scouts' minds are most im
pressionable. Then, because of
i weird schedule that postpon
ed the other key games,
Kansas State and Oklahoma, to
he tailend of the season, plus a
lucky escape from an awful
Kansas team, NU faded from
the national scene.
Only after the Impressive ef
forts against the Wildcats and
the Sooners did the Huskers
climb back into the Top Twenty
and the bowl picture. As NU
Sports Information Director
Don Bryant observed rather
bitterly. "We did In November
what all the rated teams did in
October. That's why we're
going to El Paso instead of
Jacksonville."
The other handicap to Husker
recognition was, strangely
enough, the magnificent Black
Shirt defense. In a year when
bowl scouts wanted offense,
offense and still more offense,
Nebraska was a defensive giant
and thus presumed un
marketable. Almost 400,700
rabid fans who packed
Memorial Stadium (the third
largest home attendance In the
nation) thought differently of
course, but that didn't matter.
The major bowls without
previous commitments went
with the John Reaves, the
Archie Mannings, the Pat
Sullivans and the Elmo
Wrights, leaving the Huskers
and other "team" teams like
ISV. Air Force and Arizona out
In the cold.
Nebraska did get some in
dividual recognition In 1969.
Dana Stephenson and Jim
McFarland were second-team
All-Americans and Ken Ged
des. Sherwln Jarmon and Jerry
Murtaugh were honorable
mentions. The same five made
one All-Big Eight team or
another and Jeff Kinney wai
the Associated Press'
Sophomore of the Year (UPI
picked Oklahoma's Jack
Mildren last June.)
But Devaney lost Coach ot
the Year honors to Oklahoma
State coach Floyd Gass, who
guided the Cowboys to a stun
ning 5-5 record, a whopping
one-game Improvement over
1968.
Nebraska achieved km
Centennial Year success
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The Nebraska-Houston match
will be followed by the Texas
A&M-Kent State game at 9
p.m. Consolation and cham
pionship games are on tap
Saturday night in the 12,000
seat capacity Hofheinz facility.
Thumbnail sketches of the
Huskers' possible Saturday foe:
NU
without All-Amerlcan candidate
Joe Orduna. The Huskers
defied the odds and won six
straight conference games
after the narrow Missouri loss.
And Big Red attoned for one of
its worst defeats in history,
that 47-0 debacle at Norman In
1968, with one of its greatest
victories, the 44-14 demolishing
of Oklahoma and Helsman
Trophy winner Steve Owens.
That November 22 afternoon
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Snakepit Jinx for all time.
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some conspiracy afoot to Ignore
Nebraska in 1969. Maybe we
should have let Ralphle into
Memorial Stadium, after all.
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nt 8 p.m. in the Nebraska
Union. Officers will be elected
and a report of the Dec. 6 Big
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State will be given. All students
who are Interested are en
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Kent State The outlook is
encouraging, although the
Golden Flashes lost their all
time leading scorer. Coach
Frank Truitt's club, after a 6-6
finish in the Mid-American
Conference, has been
established a co-favorite with
Miami to capture the league
title. The team is built around
6-7 Tom Lagodich, a top re-
Huskers head
Big 8 classic
Nebraska's participation in
the Astro-Bluebonret Classic ac
Houston headlines this
weekend's Big Light Con
ference basketball slate.
The Huskers, Oklahoma State
and Missouri ar3 the only
league teams to suivive the
first two weeks oi the seaso.i
without a loss.
Conference teans who own a
26-5 record against non-conference
opposition, again meet
talented clubs this weekend.
Iowa State getJ the stiffest
tests among Big b teams. The
Cyclones tackle Western
Athletic Conference favont;
Arizona Friday night before
meeting natiot.ally-rank?d
Southern California Saturday
night.
Kansas State meets Wichita
State twice this weekend on an
alternate site basis (at
Manhattan Friday and at
Wichita Saturday).
The weekend slate:
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Arizona; Wichita State .it
Kansas State: Nebraska ts.
Houston in Aslro Bluebonnet
Classic; Oklahoma at South
Alabama.
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Southern California; Kansas
State at Wichita Stble; Kansas
at Chicago Loyola; Northern
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