Malito facing dilemma over track and football
By Scott Jones
Nebraska track coach Frank Sevigne may be
fighting a losing battle against time. In time, the
pressure on his young team will ease as they gain
experience.
But that same ingredient, time, is increasingly
putting pressure on one of Sevigne's veterans, junior
Chuck Malito.
Malito shared split end duty with Rich Bahe last
fall for Nebraska's football team. The decision facing
Malito is whether to devote full time to track during
the outdoor season or join spring football drills March
3.
"I've been thinking about that a lot," Malito said.
"As it stands now I'm going out for track. I love
football and I can still make the team during the fall,
but I can't help the track team then."
Husker wide receiver coach Jerry Moore said he is
not pressuring Malito to take part in spring drills.
"That's Chuck's decision," he said. "We left it up
to him."
But Malito may be feeiing pressure nevertheless
because of the consequences of skipping spring
practice.
"At that particular position, we probably have as
much competition as any position on the team,"
Moore said. "My wife could tell me that it's going to
hurt his chances of starting.
"He maybe can come back during two-a-days (in
the fall) and make up the ground but neither you or I
or Chuck know that now."
Last year, Malito completed spring practice but
played in only the first half of the spring game and
ran the 220-and 100-yard dash against Colorado State
for the Husker track team during the second half.
Two weeks later he ran 48.7 to win the 440 at the
Big 8 meet held in Lincoln during a driving rainstorm.
Malito could repeat the trick again this year. Both
the spring football game and a home dual track meet
' with Missouri are scheduled for May 3.
"I definitely won't split time," Malito said. "It's
just too hard both mentally and physically to do
both.
I'll either do one or the other and (if he favors
spring football), then when football is over I may go
out for track."
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Making the decision harder for the 6 ft. 2 in., 173
pound Malito may be that his main Interest is
football.
"My main interest has always been football," he
said. "I would like to play professional football
sometime if everybody quits saying I'm too small."
Malito is undefeated after two indoor meets. He
came within one-tenth second of tying UNL's indoor
440 record of 48.1 at Kansas two weeks ago. His time
of 30.8 in the 300 was good for a victory and a
school record at the Michigan State Relays last
Saturday.
The Lakewood, Colo, native ranks second in the
Big 8 in both the 440 and 300. Kansas' Cliff Wiley is
the 300 leader with a 30.2 and Waddell Smith, also
of Kansas, owns a 48.1 in the 440.
Nebraska's indoor track team will host Nebraska
Wesleyan, Doane College and Kearney State College
Saturday at Memorial Stadium. Field events begin at
1 p.m. and track events at 2 p.m.
The Huskers originally had been scheduled to
compete in the U.S. Track and Field Federation meet
in Oklahoma City, Okla.
Sevigne said the nonscoring meet Saturday will be
less expensive and give his young team a needed rest.
"We have a young team and we went to Michigan
State last week and were on the road the week
before," Sevigne said. "To throw a young team to the
wolves every week is like pitching a young pitcher
every day against the Yankees."
Huskers play Buffs Firs' B's 8 meel
at Boulder Saturday Women to swim at ISU
By Pete Wegman
When the Nebraska Cornhuskers play the Colorado Buffaloes
Saturday, the Huskers will be attempting to do something they
have managed to do only once in the last twenty-one years, win a
basketball game in Boulder.
Other than a 65-63 Husker win in the Colorado Fieldhouse in
1971, the Huskers haven't won there since 1953. Last year
Nebraska lost 65-64 before 2,500 fans in Colorado.
The two teams have met already this year. On January 25, the
Huskers defeated the Buffaloes 85-59 at the Coliseum. Four
Huskers scored in double figures in that contest, led by Steve Willis
with 18. Ron Wrigley and freshman Larry Vaculik, a graduate of
Omaha Ryan, each had 12 for Colorado.
Losing string broken
Colorado broke an 11-game losing string when they defeated
Oklahoma State in Boulder last Saturday.
Guard Tony Lawrence and forward Greg Mueller led Colorado
in scoring with 14.2 and 14 points respectively. Lawrence tallied
23 and Mueller scored 8 in Colorado's 80-66 loss to conference
leading Kansas State on Wednesday.
Colorado and Nebraska are the Big 8's worst offensive teams,
averaging 71 and 69 points, respectively, and are seventh and
eighth in conference rebounding totals.
Colorado, however, is also seventh in the conference in the
defensive category, allowing 87 points a game while Nebraska leads
the Big 8 defensive charts giving up an average of 66 points every
game.
Cipriano pleased
Husker coach Joe Cipriano said he has been pleased with the
play of junior guard Jerry Fort. Fort leads Nebraska in scoring with
an 18.3 average. He has scored 28 and 32 points in the last two
games.
Fort, who already holds one Nebraska career record, of having
the most field goals in one game (15), is on the verge of setting a
host of others. If he averages 14 points a game the remainder of the
season, he will become the Huskers all-time leading scorer.
Tom Baack, who played from 1965 thru 1968, holds the record
with 1293 career points. Fort, with 1209, trails Baack, Stu Lantz
and Chuck Jura. Fort started the season with 844 points and at
that time was tenth on the all-time list.
If Fort scores ten field goals against Colorado Saturday, he will
become the Husker career leader in that department also. Fort now
has 515 goals to Baack's 524.
Nebraska, 5-3 in conference play, is tied for third with Missouri,
behind conference leader Kansas State, with a 7-1 record, and
second place Kansas (6-2). The Huskers have six Big 8 games
remaining, four on the road and two at home.
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UNL's women swimmers will be competing
for the first time in a Big 8 meet when they
travel to Ames, Iowa, this weekend for the Big 8
women's swimming and diving meet.
Lack of money prevented the women from
competing last year.
"We weren't university funded for the Big 8
meet a year ago," "said Pat Sullivan, swim coach.
The two-day meet starts this afternoon at 1
p.m. All events, except for diving, are timed
finals, Sullivan said. The diving competition is
divided into preliminaries, semifinals and finals.
Iowa State is favored to win the meet,
Sullivan said.
"We hope to end up third or fourth. Iowa
State, Kansas State and Kansas defeated us
solidly in seasonal competition so it will take a
top performance from every swimmer to place
third."
Lack of depth will hurt the 12-member team,
she said. UNL will not compete in the 400-meter
freestyle and 400-meter medley relay.
"Those are the two long events," Sullivan
said. "We can't fill them without overtiring our
swimmers.
Ginny Kincade, top diver for UNL will have
tough competition, Sullivan said.
"ISU and KU both have good divers, but if
Ginny puts out a good performance she is
capable of winning in both the one- and
three-meter diving events."
Nancy Dykes is expected to place high in the
diving competition, Sullivan said. Both Kincade
and Dykes already have qualified for national
competition.
UNL's Ruth Spencer is expected to take first
in the 40-meter breaststroke. "She is a strong
swimmer," Sullivan said. "She will also be, a top
contender for first in the 100-meter event.
Spencer, along with Mikki Crosby and Deb
Peterson, are hoping to achieve national
qualifying times this weekend, she said. Crosby
has two chances to qualify, one in the 50-meter
flystyle and 100-meter individual medley.
Peterson hopes to qualify in the 50-meter
backstroke.
The strongest relay event for the women will
be the 200-meter medley composed of Peterson,
Spencer, Crosby and Kincade, Sullivan said.
UNL's women's basketball team hosts the
University of South Dakota tonight at 7 p.m. in
the Women's Physical Education Bldg.
Oklahoma will invade the Coliseum pool for a
dual with the UNL men's swimming team at 1:30
p.m.
Winner of 27 NCAA championships and three
of the last four Big 8 titles, Oklahoma State, will
host the UNL wrestling team in a dual at
Stillwater.
The Husker's dual record is 8-2, and the meet
will be the first action for 190 lb. Bob Johnson
in four weeks. Johnson was out with a knee
injury.
Top Cowboy wrestlers include 126 lb. Billy
Martin, defending conference champion and
NCAA runner-up last year: 142 lb. Steve
Randall, also a NCAA runner-up; 177 lb. Rick
Jones, Big 8 champion; 134 lb. Steve Barrett and
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134 lb. Ron Ray, who is undefeated this season.
Francis Allen's UNL gymnasts will host
Kansas in the Henzlick gymnasium Saturday at 2
p.m.
The Huskers scored a season high 216.15
points last Saturday against Kansas State.
The women's gymnastic team will host Kansas
and Iowa State for a double dual at 2 p.m.
Saturday in the Women's Physical Education
Bldg.
Practice for the UNL Rugby club will begin
Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Schulte Field House.
Anyone interested should call Jim Cunningham.
477-1609.
The UNL intramural office is still looking for
women to officiate women's intramural games.
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call 472-3467.
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friday, february 14, 1975