By Vince Boucher
"At Nebraska's homecoming game, in
their own stadium, when you can hear
the Kansas fans and not Ntbraskans, it's
pretty disgusting. It's like being at a high
school game."
UNL sophomore Dana Krause gave
that assessment of fan support at the
Nebraska Kansas game when fan activity
was marked by a lack of positive spirit
and some booing.
Krause, who ciescribes herself as "just
a big-moulhed fan," said "a win is a win,
no matter what the score."
Carolyn Grice, a member of Tassels,
the UNL women's spirit group, agreed.
"Some of the Nebraska fans are just not
satisfied if we don't have a 35-7 score,
like last year's average, for each game."
Grice said that the fans fail to look at
the statistics and do not realize that
Nelxaska is still playing a fine game.
"We lead the nation in passing
offense. We are second in overall defense
in the conference and mjny of the
players have great individual records," she
explained.
At the time of the Kansas-Nebraska
contest, Husker quarterback Dave Humm
was rated first in total offense in the Big
8 conference. He had completed 67 out
of 105 passes and thrown eight
touchdown passes.
Nebraska l-back Tony Davis, split end
Frosty Anderson, tight end Brent
Longwell, wingback Ritch Bane and
kicker Rich Sanger also were rated high in
Big 8 statistics following the Kansas
game.
Team statistics also speak well for the
Huskers. After the Kansas Nebraska dash,
Nebraska had 2,437 yards in total
offense, averaging 406.2 yards a game.
Defensively, the Cornhuskers had allowed
only 198.7 offensive yards a game.
Grice claimed enthusiastically,
"People don't realize that the Big 8 is the
most powerful conference."
She said, "Nebraska has not gone
down any, the rest of the teams in the
conference are improving and coming
up."
Yet Nebraska fans did boo their
players, both at the end of the first half
and at the end of the game. Grice said
that negative sentiment was aimed at the
offense, rather than the defense, who
received a standing ovation.
Nebraska Head Coach Tom Osborne
said after the game he had never heard
the Nebraska fans boo their team. Many
of the Nebraska team members remarked
that it was "pathetic," frustrating and
discouraging to the team.
Tassels President Pam Dickey said, "I
knew there was some. I didn't realize that
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