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MLcagers expected to be Big 8 contenders
Tuesday marks the traditional opening of
the basketball season with the Red-White
intrasquad game, and Husker sports fans
might find it worthwhile to divert their
attention from the Nebraska-Oklahoma foot
ball match.
This year's basketball squad is expected to
be a contender in the Big 8, and one of the
newcomers expected to play a big role is
junior college transfer Steve Willis.
Willis, the smallest player on the team at 5
ft 10 in., is battling it out with senior Kent
Reckewpy for the starting guard spot
opposite Jerry Fort. Although still learning
the Husker system, Willis believes he has the
upper hand.
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"If i work and do everything all right, I'm
pretty sure I'll start," he sid.
According to Willis, his strong points are
leadership, quickness, defense and "decent
parsing ability."
' And I can shoot a little bit, too," he
added
Honorable mention All-Americar.
T hat is def inite y an understatement. In his
two seasons at Northern Idaho Junior
College, he averaged 22 and 21 points a
game, m: king honorable mention All
America both years. He said he hopes to
continue his high scoring, "at least in double
figures."
"But as long as we win, that's all that
counts," he said. He pinpoints the Huskers'
team defense as the factor which should
contribute the most toward those hoped-for
wins.
"We're not that big and strong, but we're
awful quick," he said. "If we gel and play
cur defense all the time, we'll be a top
contender."
A weakness which he sf id may hurt the
team is a relative lack of rebounding
strength.
' We're going to have to outwit a lot of big
teams, ' ' he said.
Defensive adjustment difficult
The most difficult adjustment Willis said
ie has had to nrake in the jump from junior
college to major college basketball is in the
defensive phase of the game. He said there
are fewer zone defenses and more movement
here. An added complication is the Big 8's
30 -second clock, which requires the offensive
team to shoot the ball within 30 seconds,
preventing stalls. Willis also said the players
are generally quicker and bigger at the major
college level. j
Although basketball is overshadowed by
football on the UNL campus, he said that
doesn't bother him. He pointed out that
football has a winning tradition and deserves
fan support.
"People want to see people winning," he
said. "If we start winning, people are going
to come and watch us."
The Red-White game starts at 7:35 p.m. in
the Coliseum, and besides Willis, fans will
get their first look at the other newcomers
junior college transfer Ernie Martin and
freshmen Eric Coard, Terry Novak and Curt
Hedberg. Regular season play begins with a
home contest against South Dakota State,
Nov. 30.
The Alpha Xi DeltaAlpha Gamma Rho
co-rec football team had its championship
hopes dashed in the final playoff game Nov.
6. For four years in a row, the team has won
its league title, only to lose in the playoffs. (
The winner this year was a squad called
Loser's Lost, which overcame a 22-6 halftime
deficit to win 23-22 in the championship
game. On the last play of the game, Vicki'
Maseman hit Larry Wetterberg with a
touchdown pass to tie the score. The winning
extra point came on a pass from Laura Carsc.
to Kathy Hawkins. !
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The win enabled the firet-year team to post
an 11-0 season record, an amazii.g feat,',
considering the fact the players conducted no'
practice sessions. !
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Fiodeo Club tries to 'round-up' student interest
By P Je Wegman.
Or - e rodeoing gets Into a
per sen's blood "it's kind of hard
to quit." said Jack Fudge, team
cantain of the University of
Nebraska Rodeo Assoc. (UNRA).
Fudge, a senior from Ashland
who has been rodeoing for four
years, said he is trying to build
up student interest in the rodeo
club
Trere are six male members
ard one female in the club this
fall. "It seems like the fall is
busier for students and not too
many have time to rodeo," he
said.
According to Fudge, interest
picks up in the spring, as
students have more free time
and the number of rodeos
increase
Team makei p
A complete rodeo tfam con
sists of six males and three
females. Men participate in
bareback, saddle bronco and
bull-riding, steer wrestling; and
calf and team roping. Barrel
racing and goat tieing are the
women's events.
Fudge said h-? considers the
sport to fall in th? amateur class
but conceded that most partici
pants at the college level belong
to the Rodeo Cowboys Assoc., a
professional organization.
He said the UNRA is a
nonprofit group 'which raises
most of its money frcn a rodeo
held at the State Fairgrounds
Cotiseum in the spring. He
added that the club received a
small amount this fall from the
student activities fees.
The club has participated in
three rodeos tms semester. In
the first, held at the University
of Wisconsin at River fa! is, John
Mundorf finished fourth in bull
riding. At the Black Hitls State
College rodeo in South Dakota,
team memers didn't fare qt ite
as well, Fudge said.
First place
However, at the oict recent
rodeo at th 3 University of North
Dakota-Fargo, Mur.dorf finished
first in bull riding.
Fudge said the number one
rodeo school in the area is the
National College of Business b
Rapid City, South Dakota. Team
members there receive rodeo
scholarships and have ail travel
expanses paid by the school.
While Fudge said he wishes
for much of the same a.
Nebraska, he added that it is
more realistic to work on getting
more club members for next
spring.
The next rodeo the club will
send a team to is at Michigan
State in East Lansing in
February. Following that rodeo,
there will be a series of about ten
others throughout the Midwest,'
ending in Montana in June with;
the national championships. (
In the interim between now;
and the trip to East Lansing,.
Fudge and the other club
members will be rounding up'
support for the organization and
searching for new members, he
said.
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Women's
rugby:
'definitely
better'
By Steve Taylor.
Chris Frudyma didn't hedge
when asked to compare the
women's rugby team with the
men's squad.
"The men are pretty good,"
conceded Frodyma, who is the
captain of the women's team. "But
we are definitely better."
This might seem a fairly bold
analysis, especially since this is the
first year for the women's team and
they don't even have uniforms.
3-3-1 record
The squad just completed its fall
season, posting a record of 3 3-1 .
Frodyma and teammate Jo
Williams said they hope to have the
uniform matter cleared up before
they begin their spring schedule.
"We hope the university 'will
chip in and .help us get the
uniforms because we plan to be
great by next fall," Frodyma said.
"We advertise pretty well,"
pointed out Williams. "Next spring
we'll have more people and a
bigger team."
Wii' ams, who also participates
in sw.mming, basketball, tennis
and boxing, said there are numer
ous benefits in playing rugby.
Meeting people
One of them is the opportunity to
meet people, she said, and the
constant running the sport requires
keeps rugby players in good
enough shape "to run the Boston
Marathon."
Both women mentioned a third
place finish in a tournament at
Kansas City as the highlight of the
fall season.
Besides the benefits and oppor
tunities it provides, rugby also has
its share of hazards, they said.
"In the tournament at Kansas
City, one girl broke a vertebrae and
was paralyzed for a while, "
Frodyma reported. "People are
always getting knocked out."
Quick, aggressive players
Despite the injury risk, Frodyma
and Williams agreed that a good
rugby player has to be quick,
aggressive and not afraid of being
hurt.
Frodyma, a 21 year-old senior
from Omaha, says the women's
athletic program has made great
strides since she was a freshman.
In her estimation, the Women's
Physical Education Bldg. is one of
the finest women's facilities in the
nation, she said.
A student assistant on one of
Abel's coed floors, Frodyma sees
similarities in her roles of rugby
player and floor overseer.
"They are both new adventures
and both are really challenging,"
she commented. "In both cases
you have to work with people."
However, she added, "People on
the floor aren't quite as under
standing when you tackle them."
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