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Saturday's forecast
NEBRASKA 38, Kansas State O...The Black Shirts are starting
to make shutouts a habit.
OKLAHOMA 47, Kansas 14. ..This one is on TV. The Sooners
will try to collect a few more votes by proving their Wishbone is
still explosive.
COLORADO 24, Oklahoma State 7. ..There's still a bowl bid
(possibly the Sun) waiting for the Buffs.
IOWA STATE 21, Missouri 7. ..This will be the first time since
1955 that the Tigers finished in last place.
Kansas State's win over Oklahoma State spoiled the three-week
string of flawless predictions. The season's total stands at 43-10
for 81 .1 per cent.
Varsity athletes
Despite a split decision by the intramurals Student Arbitration
Board, varsity athletes will be allowed to compete in intramural
basketball this year..
New Intramurals Director Phil Sienna suggested to the student
board that varsity athletes not be permitted to compete in
intramural sports. The nine-member board, however, couldn't
reach a decision and later the intramurals department decided to
allow varsity athletes to compete.
"It's just a philosophy of what intramural sports are for,"
Sienna explained. "Is the purpose of intramurals to get the best
team possible and win or allow the average student to get
involved in recreation? I believe the varsity athlete has his
program. It's the other students that I want to see get involved."
Sienna said the type of athlete that competes on the varsity
level at Nebraska has some of the best talent in the nation.
"Why should the average Joe Student be expected to compete
against athletes with such ability? Sienna asked. "I don't think
the average student should be subject with this type of
competition just because he wants to participate in some
recreational activity."
Sienna explained that teams with varsity athletes dominated
much of the play last year.
"The varsity athlete shouldn't be able to take priority in
intramurals," said Sienna. "I'm afraid other students will lose
interest when faced with such competition."
Varsity football players will not be permitted to compete until
after a bowl game. All athletes participating in winter sports are
not elgibile for IM basketball.
Regardless of the feelings students have towards the intramural
department's position, they should be thankful for one thing.
There are finally some individuals in the intramural department
that are taking a sincere interest in the program.
Bowl talk
When people play politics-including those associated with
sports-it's always tough to believe what you hear. Such is
definitely the case with bowl scouts.
But, despite the understanding that it's tough to out-guess
bowl scouts, it appears that Nebraska will receive invitations from
the Orange, Cotton and Sugar Bowls Nov. 20. That's the first day
bowls can talk to teams-five days before Nebraska plays
Oklahoma.
Should Nebraska score a lopsided win over Kansas State
Saturday, the Orange Bowl bid should go to Nebraska before the
game against Oklahoma.
The Orange Bowl will gamble on Nebraska. The Huskers
appear to be a better bet than Oklahoma.
For the Record
For those fans wondering if the Nebraska defense can establish
a school record for most shutouts in one season, forget it.
The Black Shirts have three shutouts this season, but the
season record is 10. That was established in 1902 when coach
Bummy Booth's Nebraska team didn't allow a point all season
while recording a 10-0 record.
The wins came against Lincoln High, Doane, Colorado,
Minnesota, Grinnell, Missouri, Haskell, Kansas, Knox and
Northwestern.
So they say:
Chuck Fairbanks, Oklahoma football coach after the Sooners'
hard-fought 20-3 win over Missouri last week: "I hope we don't
get to the point where we get disappointed with not winning by
enough points. I'm happy if the score is 1-0."
Jim Walden, Nebraska assistant coach who still talks with a
Mississippi accent: "When I scout the game at Oklahoma this
weekend, I'll just wear my red coat and talk with my accent and
they'll never know I'm from Nebraska."
Bob Devaney, Nebraska athletic director: "The reason the
intermission was so long during the Bob Hope Show last week is
because we had a hard time convincing Hope to go back inside
the Coliseum. He was afraid the bats might attack him."
Freshman coach Jim Walden. . .gets chance as head man.
Devaney pupil takes frosh post
The Nebraska coaching staff is noted for
the length of time its members have been
intact as a group. The newest member of that
group, assistant freshman coach Jim Walden,
came to the Huskers because of his former
college coach.
Walden, who joined the full-time Husker
staff in January of this year, quarterbacked
two of Bob Devaney's Wyoming teams to
conference titles and one bowl appearance,
and said he took the opportunity to join the
Nebraska staff to have the chance to learn
from his college mentor.
"I FIGURED this was as good a staff as
there is in America to get in with and learn
from," Walden said.
He filled the vacancy left when assistant
coach George Kelly left Nebraska for Notre
Dame. He served as a graduate assistant with
the frosh for two years until taking the
full-time assistant freshman post this year.
Walden led Devaney's 1958 Wyoming
squad to the Western Athletic Conference
title as a junior, a season which included a
post-season victory over Hardin-Simmons in
the Sun Bowl.
FOLLOWING their 8-3 record that year,
Walden quarterbacked the Cowboys to a 9-1
mark as a senior and another conference
crown.
He then went to the Canadian Football
League and played for two years at
Vancouver and two at Calgary.
Walden followed his professional career
with a five-year coaching stint at Amory
(Miss.) High School before moving to
Nebraska.
In addition to the coaching duties, which
include handling the offensive line, Walden
has also split time with frosh head coach Jim
Ross and varsity assistant Bill Thornton the
last two years in scouting opponents.
THE HUSKER frosh close their 1971
season Friday at Manhattan when they take
on the Kansas State yearlings.
"We think they're a pretty good football
team, Walden said of the Wildcat frosh.
"Anytime these teams play Nebraska, they
give an extra effort to try to get things
started on the right foot for the next years.
"Generally in freshman ball, it just boils
down to what type of athletes you've
recruited," he said, noting that a freshman
team's record is not always a good indication
of whether they have individual players who
can help the varsity.
NU-OU bone-picking neors
by Jim Johnston
The odds were against it. In
September it would have
probably been listed as a 100-'
longshot.
How could Nebraska and
Oklahoma both be undefeated
when the two teams meet on
national television
Thanksgiving Day?
Who would have thought
Oklahoma could survive three
straight weekends against
Southern Cal, Texas and
Colorado? Was it possible for
Nebraska, the nation's No. 1
rated team, to survive the upset
bug?
The meeting of the nation's
two top undefeated teams isn't
official, yet. But the odds have
definitely changed. Nebraska
and Oklahoma are big favorites
to win Saturday, the final game
for both teams be fore
Thanksgiving Day.
Nebraska, however, draws
the toughest assignment this
weekend. The (ornhuskers
must travel to Manhattan,
Kan., to meet a much-improved
Kansas State team.
Oklahoma, meanwhile,
entertains lowly Kansas in the
Sooners' homecoming which
will be tele vised to a
nation-wide audience. Game
time is 12:50 p.m. It will be
televised in Lincoln.
The Cornhuskers have been
"playing 'em one at a time"
this season and head coach Bob
Devaney promises no peeking
at Oklahoma.
"This game means too much
to our players," said Devaney.
"I'm not worried about a
letdown. We look at every
game we play as the most
important game of the season."
There's no reason to fear a
letdown by the Nebraska
players. The opportunity for a
letdown has presented itself in
other games this season, but
the Cornhuskers have
overcome such feelings.
Kansas State will provide a
good test for Nebraska's pass
rush. Wildcat quarterback
Dennis Morrison, a drop-back
passer, is suddenly developing
into one of the best passers in
the Big Fight.
But adjectives such as
"good" in describing a
quarterback seem to bring out
the best in Nebraska's defense.
Remember Oregon quarterback
Dan Fouts, Minnesota's Craig
Curry and Kansas' David
Jaynes. They also brought
impressive passing statistics
into games against the Huskers.
They left the games,
however, with the taste of
pigskin sandwiches in their
mouths.
Kansas State, as usual, also
has an abundance of running
backs. Tailback duties are
shared by 2 20-pound Bill
Butler and sophomore
sensation Isaac Jackson.
Butler has been the leading
Wildcat rusher for the last two
years. Bill Holman, also a
sophomore, holds the fullback
slot.
Morrison's favorite receiving
target is sophomore tight end
Henry Childs, who hasn't
started a game yet. Even so,
Childs caught seven passes for
90 yards and two touchdowns
against Oklahoma State last
week and will probably start
against the Cornhuskers.
Kansas State's defense,
which was second in the nation
against the rush before facing
Colorado and Oklahoma, has
slipped to fifth best in the Big
Eight.
The Wildcats are giving up
186 yards on the ground per
game.
In other Big Eight games
Saturday, Oklahoma State
visits Colorado and Missouri
travels to Iowa State. The
Tigers are the only winless
team in Big Eight competition,
while the Cyclones are still
struggling to finish in the upper
division of the conference.
When you're out of Schlitz, you're out of beer. wsM
Cal Vert-Beyer D'lSt. Co. 800 S Str&et Lincoln, Nebraska
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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1971
