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Nose guard spot poses problem for Osborne
by Dave Sittler
With two spring football sessions under his belt,
Nebraska's new head coach Tom Osborne has found
some problems, but also said he's pleased with the
practices.
Osborne, who took over the head job when Bob
Devaney retired after last season, made his
observations after viewing Husker practices Friday
and Saturday.
"Our young players have been able to pick up the
offense and defense we've put in, which has been very
encouraging," Osborne said. "We try to use the early
spring practices for evaluation, but it's tough to tell
much until scrimmaqe."
Osborne said that the first scrimmage for his team
has been scheduled for Wednesday.
"We want to start scrimmaging as soon as possible,
but I trvnk we should wa.t until Wednesday," he said.
"We've had a little contact already and there will be
plenty of hitting Monday."
One of the biggest problems for the new coach has
been trying to sort through the huge group of players
who turned out for spring ball.
With a bulging official roster, Osborne has had
more than 30 walk-ons, who are hopeful of
performing for the Big Red.
Woikmg with such a large number of players
causes difficulty for the coaches to devote time to
piayers who need individual attention, Osborne said.
The Husker coach said he believes the Nebraska
lostei will start to dwindle in the next few days.
"Some of the players will just cut themselves after
a couple of practices," he said. "But the coaches will
have to call in some playeis for a talk if it's obvious
they can't make the team."
While an overabundance of players does exist on
the Cornhusker team, the middle guard position
remains one of Osborne's dilemmas.
Senior letterman John Bell was expected to move
into the starting spot vacated by all-American Rich
Glover. But Bell was injured in a freak accident at a
Lincoln amusement park the day before practice
started.
Another middle guard, Bill Anderson from Toledo,
Ohio, did not show up for practice Friday and it was
rumored he had left school.
"I've had a report that he packed his bags
Thursday and left town." Osborne said. "But I
haven't had a chance to talk to him so I'm not sure
what Bill has decided."
With Anderson's apparent depasture and Bell's
injury, Jeff Class of Sioux Falls, S.T.t started spring
practice as Nebraska's middle guartTon the first-string
defensive unit.
While Osborne pondered the middle guard
problem, he also expressed concern over the
condition of quarterback Terry Luck.
Fluid must still be taken from Luck's knee
although he has had two operations after injuring the
knee on the first day of spring ball last year.
"We thought they solved the problem by removing
a little cartilage in the second operation," Osborne
said. "But it continues to swell up so we will have to
just wait and see how Terry holds up."
But quarterback Dave Humm, a starter for last
year's Orange Bowl champion Huskers, was throwing
both long and short passes with accuracy as was Steve
Runty the 1972 back-up quarterback.
Osborne said both quarterbacks have kept
themselves in top shape during the off season and
were able to open spring drills at full speed.
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Quarterback Dave Humm . . . opened the
spring practice sessions in top shape.
Cipriano wins recruiting battle
with Siegel and Seidel signings
Nebraska's basketball program may have
received the boost it needs to become a
consistent winner Saturday when Fairbury
all Stater Bob Siegel signed a national letter of
intent with the Huskeis.
Coinhusker Coach Joe Cipriano has been
battling with more than 200 schools for the 6-5
basketball star.
"I'm really very, very pleased with Bob's
signing," Cipriano said.
Siegel's signing came on the heels of Sidney
star Rick Siedel's announcement that he also
would attend Nebraska next fall.
The 6-6 Siedel was the leading scorer for the
Sidney team which lost to Fairbury and Siegel
in the finals of the Nebraska Class B
championships last month.
"Siegel and Siedel may even be the best
recruiting effort we have had in Nebraska since
I've been here," the Nebraska coach said. "I
think they may be better players at this stage
than either (Chuck) Jura and (Mike) Petersen
were when they signed (in 1967)."
Cipriano said that Siegel could very easily
start as a freshman at Nebraska.
Although signing the two Nebraska players,
Cipriano is not ready to write this off as the
end of a successful recruiting year.
"There are some other boys we want very
badly and need if we are to improve our
program," he said "Some of them are still not
sure what school they want to attend so we
have to keep working. "If we can get the big
men we are after, our program at Nebraska will
see a great change for the better," Cipriano
said.
Netters will meet
Kansas Tuesday
Nebraska's tennis team will
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daily nebraskan
monday, april 9, 1973
