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Humm's knee mends;
injury situation good
By Bill Bennett
Husker quarterback Dave Humm, who has been hampered
by an injured knee, has been counted out of Saturday's game
with UCLA.
Accor ding to George Sullivan, the team's physical therapist,
Humm's recovery is "progressing about as well as can be
expected. "
The Hu.keis' only other major injury is to offensive left
guard Hob Wolfe. Wolfe injured a knee in a scrimmage
Saturday, but Sullivan said he should be ready for the UCLA
'.jame.
Sullivan said the injflry situation this year is good, and as of
now, no player would be forced out of play for the year
bccuise of an injury.
Working with injured players is nothing new for Sullivan.
He has been the team's physical therapist for 20 years. A
coworker, Paul Schneider, has been the team's trainer for 21
years.
Both men work in the training room, which is in the new
athletic office building at the south end of the stadium.
Two of the most common things found in the training
room are ice and tape according to Sullivan.
"Dun-vj I'.'o- i day practices, almost 500 pounds of ice is
used daily for injuries," he said, "and by mid-October about
18,000 yards of tape will be used."
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Glory
eludes
red shirts
Sports editor's note: Dave McBride's column "Time
Out" and Bob Hill's column "Over the Hill" will alternate
on Wednesdays.
By Dave McBride
Saturday the eyes of thousands of Nebraska football
fans will focus on Coach Tom Osborne's red-clad Husker
legion and will stay on the team until long after the final
whistle of the 1973 grid campaign has blown.
At the same time, however, some Husker football
players are all but guaranteed that no eyes will focus on
them. For these team members, the red shirted players, a
season of hard practice most likely will draw no glory.
Redshirt is the classification of a player who sees no
varsity action during a season. It enables the player to save
that year of eligibility for later in his career.
Take Rich Varner, for example. He was a standout
lineman for Wichita Southeast High School in Kansas. He
came to Nebraska on a football scholarship last fall and
started the first two freshman games as an offensive guard.
Then he was hurt and was played sparingly in the last two
frosh games.
After spring practice was over last May, he was notified
that he would be redshirted this season.
Varner said that when he was being recruited he was
never promised that he would get to play varsity football as
a sophomore. He said he was disappointed about being
redshirted, but not suprised.
According to UNL Sports Information Director Don
Bryant, no player actually becomes a redshirt until the
season is over and playing time is computed. In Varner's
case, because four lettermen are returning at offensive
riuard positions, he has all but been assured that he would
not play this year.
He and other redshirts are practicing with the scout
squads, the units that run plays that Husker opponents are
expected to use.
time out
Varner said that while the redshirts don't work on
Husker plays or strategy, they still have the chance to
develop basic skills and polish their technique.
Motivation to practice is naturally not as great when
there is little chance of playing, Varner said. But the desire
to learn improve and better their chances of playing next
year keep scout squad members going, he said.
While some conferences, notably the Big 10, have chosen
not to permit redshirting, it has been used in the Big 8 for
some time. More than half of this year's Husker offensive
starters have been redshirted.
Redshirting has proven valuable to Nebraska's football
program, and while the eyes of Nebraskans will not focus
on them this year, Rich Varner and his cohorts are still vital
to a winning football team.
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