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It was anything but
Southern hospitality for
Nebraska basketball coach Joe
Cipriano ami his Cornhuskers
over the weekend.
The Buskers split a pair with
Texas teams dumping Texas
Christian 69-64 Friday and
bowing to Southern Methodist
80-75 Saturday night
Saturday's loss dashed hopes
of the best Nebraska start since "
1919 when tLe Big Red rattled
off six straight wins. Nebraska
now stands 4-1 on the year.
The Huskers would have been
trying for win No. six tonight
NU gymnastic
team places
fifth of fourteen
The Nebraska gymnastics
team placed fifth in a field of 14
teams at the Iowa Open gym
nastics meet in Iowa City
Saturday.
Husker coach Francis Allen's
squad scored 138 points and
trailed winner Iowa St. 165,
Iowa 156, Oklahoma 151, and
Kansas 150. .
Hoppy Batten, the only
Nebraska performer to gain the
.finals, placed fifth on the
horizontal bars. He also placed
13th in floor exercise.
Other Husker finishers were
Jeff Johnson, 14th, and John
Kocourek, 15th, (vaulting);
Johnson, 14th, (floor exercise);
Larry Lococo, 10th (rings); and
Rick Yates, 11th, (side
horse.)
The NU gymnastics squad
will not be in action again until
Jan. 15 when they travel to
Norman, Okla., for a meet with
Oklahoma University and
Memphis.
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when Nevada invades the Col
iseum if it hadn't been for what
Cipriano called "the longest
five seconds I've ever been
associated with in basketball."
Those five seconds were tlx
finale of the Souther a
Methodist game when the
Mustangs were awarded six
shots from the free throw line
making three.
Nebraska, which had led 26
12 early in the game, trailed 77
75 with five seconds remaining
when Tony Riehl's corner shot
fell short Chuck Jura snagged
the rebound but the ball was
knocked out of bounds and
awarded to SMU.
v.A free-foi-all fight, which
emptied both benches and in
cluded abont 200 members of
the SMU cheering section and
the cheerleaders, ensued on the
in-bounds pass by the
Mustangs.
After about a five minute
delay, Riehl was charged with
an intentional foul giving
SMU's Larrj Delzell two shots.
He missed the first, but con
verged the second for a 78-75
lead.
Still with five seconds left,
Nebraska was given the ball
out of bounds. But Cipriano was
then charged with a double
technical foul.
Cip's complaint? "I ques
tioned SMU s right to call a
time oat after we had posessloo
of the ball," be said. "Al
Nlssen had thrown the ball
half-court, we caught it and
then SMU was issued a time
out. They can't do that when
we have the bail In play."
According to the official,
SMU had called the time out
before Nebraska had the ball in
play.
The two-shot technical sent
Gene Phillips to the line who
connected on one shot. Then
Nebraska's Randy Watts was
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two on
charred with a two-shot
personal foul on the next in
bounds plaj and SMU scored
its 80th and linal point.
Although Cipriano admitted
the game could have been won
in the final five seconds, he was
quick to add that "all these
things had no bearing on the
final outcome. We played great
the first 12 minutes and had our
chances to win the game, but
we just got troi."
Nebraska did have a good
first half. "It was perhaps the
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Borg's Bunnies don't quit ... It was a long weekend for Nebraska wrestlers losing
21-15 to South Dakota State and dropping a 25-8 decision to national champion Iowa State
but wrestling coach Orval Borgiaiii's Borg's Bunnies stuck it out and will continue to back the
NU grapplers daring the season.
Levy, two-mile relay post
wins in Omaha USTFF meet
The indoor track season got
off to a blistering start Satur
day during Omaha's United
States Track & Field Federa
tion (USTFF) meet as Col
orado's Marcus Walker tied the
world record in the 50-yard
high hurdles
Walker , a Colorado
University senior, was second
in last year's NCAA outdoor
high hurdles and won the 1970
U.S.-Russian dual. His time of
5.8 topped runner up Jim
Beijing of Oklahoma State by
three-tenths of a second.
One of two Nebraska vic
tories came in the 50-yard dash
where Horace Levy sped 5.2 to
edge Kansas State's Dean
Williams. His time tied the
meet record set by Missouri's
Mel Gray.
Youth was the keynote in the
other Nebraska win. The two
mile relay composed of
freshmen Jeff Wisemiller, Dan
Speck, Larry Clmato and
sophomore Jim Hawkins led
from the gun to claim a 7:48.9
victory.
NU's Hopeton Gordon finish
ed a close second to Kansas'
defending Big Eight champion
Phil Reaves m the long jump.
Thirds for coach Frank
Sevigne's squad were picked up
by Bob Pierce in the 600, Larry
Cherny in the shot put, and
Howard Burns with a 6'8" high
jump.
In a special Masters Mile, 30
years old and up, Oscar Moore
fait his predicted time of 4:25 in
winning to show that he's re
tained much of the conditioning
that won hLn a place on the
1960 U.S. Olympic Team.
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test half oi basketball we've
played this year," said Clp.
"And we played well against
Texas Christian, too. We
showed confidence in our
shooting and proved that we
can get a great team effort."
Tonight the Huskers host an
experienced outfit from
Nevada. Wolf Pack coach Jack
Spencer has seven returning
lettermen and two junior col
lege transfers from which to
build his squad.
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Sophomore Jim Hawkins anchored Nebraska's two-mile
relay to a 7:43.1 victory io the Omaha Federation meet. Haw
kins is the oldtimer it the foursome . . . teammates Jeff
Wisemiller, Dan Speck and Larry Clmato are all freshmen.
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offense which is usually tough
to defend.
And the Huskers will have an
additional problem. They're
coming off a very disappointing
loss and could be tired from
having to play three games in
"We'll be tired, admitted
Gp, "but tht kids know they're
a good ball club and I think
they want to prove it in front of
the home folns."
Game time at the Coliseum is
7:35 p.m.
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