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Although football season barely has begun, Husker
! winter sports athletes are working quietly behind the
scenes In preparation for their rapidly approaching
season openers. Not to be excluded is the basketball
squad. .,..v:;:,,;..' i';
Practice doesn't begin officially until Oct. 15, but
Coach Joe Cipriano said his team has been conducting a
running and, conditioning prograrn on its own. The
intrasquad red-whKe game is scheduled for Nov. 19,
with the home opener set for Nov. 30 against South
Dakota State; ; .
".Kansas will be favored to win the conference hands
down, but I think we'll be a title contender," Cipriano
said. "We're an upper division club."
, Only two seniors graduated from last year's team
which squeezed Into the upper division with a 7-7 Big 8
mark, good enough for fourth place. Eight lettermen
return this season, including All-Big 8 guard Jerry
Fort.'.
Fort, a junior, led the Huskers in scoring for the
...second year in a row, averaging 18 points a game.
According to Cipriano, he is the only Husker with a
starting spot sewn up.
Junior Larry Cox and senior Steve Erwin, frontline
.starters last' year, will be challenged by sophomores
Mark Enrlght,' Rickey Harris, Bob Siegel and Ron
Taylor. All were lettermen last season.
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' The other letterman is senior Kent Reckewey, who
should. battle junior college transfer Steve Willis and
freshman EricCoard for the other starting guard siot.
Cipriano's squadagain has only two seniors, but he
said the experience gained by the underclassmen last
season and on.thi3 summer's tour in Italy should help
Compensate for their youth. :
"The experience Is going to make them all better
players," he said. "Once you've learned what to do, it
pretty much stays with you."
The tour 'to .''Italy lasted amost the entire month of
July, Competition for the Huskers included a service
team and the Czechoslovak ian national team, as well as
several Italian teams. Cipriano said the quality of
Italian teams Is generally good because of the large
number of Americans who play there.
"One Italian team had eight Americans over 6 ft. 7
in; he said. v
. Hopefully, the experience gained will be instrumen
tal in propelling the Huskers further up the Big 8
standings Who knows, they even may ruffle a few
Kansas Jayhawk feathers.'
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finT?r?5?that back-up split end Bobby Thomas has been
f i f vyi i wv S(jSpen(jed from the Cornhusker squad for the
Minnesota game Saturday, but would bo
SUSDQnCl&Cl lperrnated t0 rejoin the team 'or tne remainder of
U, ,4. "Bobby came in to visit today," Osborne said.
UUL Will '"And he told me he had just been a little mixed up
and had made a mistake in missing practice
Monday and Tuesday.
The sophomore split end. who shares tne
alternate spot with Chuck Malito and has been
used at times as a punt returner, failed to report to
practice Monday and. Tuesdday and failed to
contact any of the coaches.
"These" things happen sometimes to younu
men," Osborne said. "Bobby feels bad and wants
to be a football player. He does not want to quit
the squad. He just made a mistake. ' '
Osborne said Thomas will do some extra
unning this week for missing practice without an
jxcuse, and will not suit up for the Minnesota
qame.
"We'll start working with him as an active
player next week," Osborne said.
The Husker coach said defensive cornerbacK
Jim Burrow and top split end Rich Bahe would
return punts against Minnesota, while Bahe and
Malito would play split end.
. Osborne said he considered the matter closed.
Anthony: school important
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By Larry Stunkel
Intelligence, attitude and age sepa-.
rate freshman l-back Monte Anthony
from your run-of-the-mill football play
er. Only 17 years old and his birthday
overi month away, Anthony Is-majoring
in UNL's difficult electrical engineering
school. He received academic scholar
ship offers to other schools and other
offers for football grants.
Anthony rushed for 111 yards in 14
carries and scored a touchdown during
the Husker's 49-7 win over North
western University Saturday.
Anthony said his age gives him a
psychological advantage, despite its
disadvantage in terms of experience.
"At first "there was a lot of pressure,"
he said. "The coaches tell you you can't
play ;itil proven. I guess I proved
Saturday; now its just getting together
with everybody else and doing the job."
Anthony admits school is more
important to him than football.
"I don't want to end up still being
here after everybody else graduates,'"
he said. "With the program I have now I
can graduate in three to three and one
half years.
"I'm not thinking in terms of
bail," he continued. "Most of
people I went to high school with w
academically minded; we all set gor.l
would be embarrassed if I'm still h
after a few years while they're
on.
Anthony said some of the ocad-
scholarships he was offered v .
tempting, but the schools he visited
no social life.
"I can't go some place where I'd j
exist for four years," he said.
Football and school do mix, Anih
said, because football helps him prep
mentally for classes, while his in'c
gence aids him in making qu
decisions on the playing field.
"The coaches tell you there is only
much they can teach you, because
are the one on the field reading the pi
and that's when you need a
decision," he said.
Playing both fullback and l-back i
Saturday, Anthony said learning i
positions isn't tough if the plays
learned as they come.
He acknowledged he has rocei
help from Tony Davis and John 0'L
and prefers playing at l-back because
iikes to run outside.
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