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Pick up any newspaper or listen to any
television report on spring practice for the UNL
football team. Husker Coach Tom Osborne has
made clear what he expects to accomplish.
As 60 degree temperatures welcomed 150
athletes, including 34 lettermen, to tha opening
of spring drills. Monday, Osborne and his staff
set out to find replacements for his graduation
scarred defensive secondary and line, while
trying to fill a fullback spot that lacks any
potential players who have had experience.
"I'm anxious to get spring ball started to sea
what we can come up with at those spots," said
Osborne.
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"Spring Is where we try to evaluata our.
personnel more than enyuiiny eiie. We try to
find where our best ballplayers are, and it's
really when a player makes the team for next
fall because we don't have a lot of time to
experiment with different positions in the fall,"
he said.
Osborne made no secret that one of his
experiments will be with last season's leading
rusher, Tony Davis, at fullback. Davis will try
to make the shift from I -back where junior
John O'Leary and senior Jeff Moran return
with considerable experience.
The Husker's fullback woes may be solved
by the switch, or additional help may come
from sophomore Gary Higgs and Jason Justice.
Both candidates were standouts at that position
as freshmen. .
Despite the return of six starters on offense
and five regulars from last year's blackshirt
unit, Osborne expects competition to be strong
for every starting position.
One of the more interesting battles could be
between senior Dave Humm, whose passing
laurels fill the record books, and sophomore
Earl Everett for quarterback, Humm appears to
hve the edge here because he has led the
Huskers for two seasons. But the abilities
Everett displayed last fall could spice what
Osborne calls s potentially strong offense.
Another position to watch this spring will be
the middle guard spot. Admittedly the hub of
traditionally one of the nation's stingiest
defenses, defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin is
looking for a top athlete to fill the shoes of
John Be!!. Juniors Willie Thorton and John Lee
appear to be leading contenders for the spot,
but sophomore Joe Collura also bears
consideration.
Coming off a winter conditioning program,
the team has excellent overaii speed and is in
good condition, according to Osborne.
Practices will be Monday, Wednesday and
Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings every
week until the sessions climax with the annual
Red-White scrimmage May 4.
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Freshman
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tennis team
Freshman Kathy Hawkins is the kind
of all-around athlete coaches dream of.
At Omaha Burke High School, she
participated in track just as that sport was
opening for girls. This winter she was a
star on the UNL women's basketball
team. Now, she has firmly established
herself the No. 1 player on the UNL
women's tennis team.
She will lead the tennis team in its
rematch with Concordia College
Thursday at Seward. !n the team match
earlier this season, UNL won 9-0.
Hawkins not only won her singles game,
but teamed with Cindv Gossard for a
first-team doubles victory. Gossard also
won her No. 2 singles match.
more," Hawkins said. "If more of a net
game, and I enjoy playing the net."
Each team match consists of six singles
matches and three doubles matches.
Gossard said that eight women now
participate in the matches, although there
are 16 on the team. The players are rated
In order and are given a chance to move
up throuah challenge matches during
practice. The season ends with the
Missouri Valley Tournament in late April.
Gossard, in her second year of
competition, said this year's team has
more depth than last year's. Although no
cuts were made last year, this year Coach
Gail Whitaker had to cut twice from the
original 35 or 40 that tried out.
"I've always enjoyed playing doubles Last year, one men.ber of the UNL
team advanced to the semifinals of the
tournament. According to Gossard,
Hawkins has a good chance of doing that
this year.
Hawkins Isn't as openly confident. She
said she has played he women who
finished first and second last year and has
never been able to beat them. Another
factor might keep her from even making
it to the tournament. She said she is a
bridesmaid in a wedding the same
weekend.
Although more women throughout the
country are participating on men's
athletic teams such as tennis, Hawkins
said she wasn't going to make that move
for women's liberation here. She said
playing against men's team members, as
she does, is good practice, though.
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its first home appearance at
Woods Park today,
The Husker baseball team
ended an 11 -game losing streak
and captured its first victory of
the year by defeating
Morningside College Tuesday
8-5 in th first game of a
doubleheader.
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daily nebraskan
Wednesday, april 3, 1974
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