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daily n Foosball ... the sport of bar hoppers. Foosball flourishes in Lincoln by Andy Riggs The game is fast and furious, one team maintaining a four to three lead. One more goal and the game will be over. The ball snaps instantly by a goalie and two defenders for a score. The game is Foosball (the sport of the bar hoppers), a kind of minature soccer-football. Foosball came to Lincoln years ago, but remained dormant until recently. Today, almost any student-oriented bar or lounge has at least one Foosball table, some have two or more. Even the Nebraska Union has Foosball in its basement game room. Foosball can be played man against man, or more commonly, one two-man team against another. The players control the play by pulling, pushing and twisting steel rods which protrude from the side of the Foosball table. The ball is "foosed", and the game starts. In team play, one member handles the offense ane one the defense. When the ball is "fooses", it rolls along the center line from a hole in the table's side until one team wins control of it. Fakes and passes occur frequently until a player can get a clear shot at his opponents goal. The reasons for playing Foosball vary. "It is a competitive game," one player said. "I'm not very good at anything else almost everyone can play the game. At bars and in the Union particularly, the competition is very tough. Many guys have been playing for a long time." The game cost 25 cents to play. The winners get the next match free. As long as they keep winning, they don't have to pay. "If you can get good enough," one player commented, "sometimes you can get through a whole night of Foosball for about 50 cents or so. "No matter how good you are you always find someone who is better." me fired Bmhhs Le ow boincj formoi Orgmhafwnd mooting on Thursday, 7:00 P. Meh isExa union Loaguo wiii bowl at 9:09 every Thursday night Cornhusker coaching staff loses one, keeps another Nebraska's football coaching staff has recently lost another member but learned that a third coach has decided to stay. Jim Walden has been hired by the University of Miami as backfield coach, but Monte Kiffin announced that he has withdrawn his name from consideration for a vacant head coaching position at the University of Louisville. Walden is currently defensive ends coach here. Ha will join another ex-Husker coach at Miami. Earlier this month offensive line coach Carl Selmer announced he was leaving Nebraska to Join Pete Elliotf $ Miami staff. Walden came to Nebraska four years ago as a graduate assistant. He moved up to full-time coach and last year was defensive ends coach. Walden played quarterback for former Nebraska Coach Bob Devaney at Wyoming. ' The Aberdeen, Miss., native expressed pleasure with his new . position. 'This is the type of job I've always wanted to do, plus they offered me a lot more money." Kiffin, defensive line coach for the past six years, said he ; was impressed with many aspects of the Louisville job but still decided to stay at Nebraska. Head coach Tom Osborne already has hired new coaches Jerry Moore and Rick Duval to replace Selmer and fill the vacancy created when Osborne moved to head coach. A replacement for Walden, who will leave Nebraska Feb. 1; has not been announced. UNL students may win golden gloves Two UNL students appear to be in the thick of the Southeast District Golden Gloves title race. The Golden Gloves boxing matches are scheduled for Pershing Auditorium tonight and Friday. Dan Wernimont and Mike Rowe will be boxing for the Easterday Recreation Center. "Mike should take his class," Coach Randy Nelsen said. "I don't have any doubts about him. He's,, hard worker and . he's 8t a mental peak." Rowe, 23, needs only nine hours to graduate with a degree in animal science. Rowe, who competes at 178 pounds, has . been boxing competitively for only one year. He has a 2-1 record to date. . Rowe said he likes boxing because of the competition. "I don't eat up flag football. I like something a little more competitive," Rowe said. "I like contact sports." Correction. . . The Daily Nebraskan incorrectly reported in Monday's section of Sports Shorts that retired Nebraska football jersey No. 60 was worn by Tom Brock. No. 60 was worn by Tom Novak, All-American center for the Huskers in 1949. THIS IS THE HILARIOUS UNCUT,ORIGINAL VERSION OF "REEFER MADNESS1 DON'T BE MISLED BY SUBSTITUTES. THE 1936 "CLASSIC" LARGELY RESPONSIBLE FOR MARIJUANA LAWS TODAY. NOW A FANTASTIC COMEDY. ,,Hilarlous"-WABC.TV "The humor is everywhere" Chicago Tribune "As frightening as It is funny"-Derrot Free Press I'-f -in i- 1r j ,f FROM NEW LINE CINEMA. mi $m Sheldon Art Gallery Sponsored by the Nebraska Union Special film Committee Admission $1.00 page 8 daily nebraskan Wednesday, January 24, 1973