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Club wants chance to play
By Scott Jones
UNL's Rugby Club would like to modify a
sports adage. Their version is: It's not whether
you win or lose, it's whether you get to play.
The rugby team is challenging UNL's baseball
team for the most cancelled games in one season.
UNL was to play Kansas State last Saturday, but
the Wildcats already had a match.
Club President Jim Cunningham said St.
Benedict's College in Atchison, Kan., offered to
replace Kansas State. But after nine players
already had left Friday for the match Saturday,
St. Benedict's called and said, "they weren't
ready to play," Cunningham said.
Two Kansas City teams have also declined to
play.
The club will try again this weekend with a
match against a Harlan, la., team Sunday and a
match against the Kansas City Bulls either
Saturday in Omaha or here Sunday.
"We're getting kind of letdown," Cunningham
said. "It's kind of discouraging to get all these
matches cancelled.
"I'm sure we can beat the Harlan team and
I'm hoping that if we can whip them we can get
the enthusiasm up."
Cunningham said rugby is a game where "you
go out on Saturday and knock each other's
brains out, but are still good friends afterward."
The host team also throws a party for the visiting
team after the game.
But if the game against Harlan Sunday is like
last year's rough contest, Cunningham said, the
fellowship may suffer.
"Two guys got bit which shows you what
happened last time," he said.
UNL will also play in the St. Patrick's Rugby
Fest in Omaha April 19.
"With eight teams it should be a real dynamite
tournament," Cunningham said. "If we can go
there and do well, which I know we can, it
should help.
"The Omaha club has big plans for the meet
and should show us a good time."
In games thus far the men's team beat Kansas
State, 4-0, in the rain-soaked Big 8 Tournament
and tied the Omaha Rugby Club, 6-6, March 15.
The women's team beat Missouri, 4-0, in the Big
8 meet and beat Omaha, 8-0.
ByPeteWegman
Members of the University of Nebraska Tae-Kwon-Do karate
club will have the opportunity to show how much they have
improved this semester when they take part in promotional tests
Saturday and Sunday ,'according to club instructor Bert Kollars.
The promotional tests are used to determine if club members
will advance in the succession of karate belts. The belts range from
the lowest level, the white belt, through the yellow, green, blue,
brown and bjack belt, the highest belt obtainable.
Members with green belts and above will be tested Saturday in
Omaha before five judges. All five judges have black belts between
the fifth and seventh degrees (belts range from first through the
ninth degree) and some are coming from as far away as Louisiana.
Lincoln test
Karate club members with white and yellow belts will be tested
Sunday at 1 p.m. in Lincoln at the Omaha Karate and Judo Club
branch at 27th and Highway 2 before the same panel of judges.
Last weekend, about 15 club members traveled to Omaha to
participate in an area tournament sponsored by the American
Tae-Kwon-Do Association (ATA).
According to Kollars, the dub didn't do as well as he expected
against the competition from Chadron State College, UNO, Grand
Island, Norfolk, Des Moines, Omaha, Sioux City and East Lansing,
Mich.
"Our team really should have gotten first," he said. A team
from the Omaha Karate and Judo Club finished first ahead of
Kollars' club.
200 competed
The 200 competitiors participated in such events as team
fighting, free fighting and form.
A team consists of three persons who are then involved in a
single elimination tournament. The team of Chris Tuey, Steve
Ehrlich and Joe McCue from UNL finished fourth.
Free fighting consists of putting all the techniques and
combinations a person has learned into one fight, according to
Kollars.
"The only difference between it and team fighting is that there
is only slight contact instead of full," he said. Kollars added that
sometimes full contact occurs because participants become excited
in the tournament atmosphere.
Best individual
Joe McCue and Kevin Lang placed first and second respectively,
in the heavyweight brown belt division for the best individual
performances in free fighting for the Nebraska club.
In form competition, Tuey placed second in the brown belt
division and Charles Brewster was second in blue belt competition.
"Brewster probably did the best for us," Kollars said. "He
placed in both the form and free fighting competition."
Kollars said form involves putting together a series of punches,
blocks and kicks in different moves.
"It's a; type of ritualized exercise," he said.
The tournament was under the direction of Hank Lee, vice
president of ATA, who holds a seventh degree black belt. Only two
men in the United States posses higher degree belts.
Practices may turn benchwarmers into stars
The annual gridiion warfare of spring practice has
begun at Nebraska, with Husker coach Tom Osborne
hoping to turn an alarming number of question marks
into exclamation points.
Perhaps the three most vital positions on the team
will be manned by players who warmed the bench
most of last season.
Graduation has left the quarterback, wingback and
linebacker spots wide open and hotly contested.
Osborne and his staff have only 20 spring practices
to sort out all the talent and decide who can be of
help in the fall.
At any rate, the Huskers should possess the most
team speed they've had since the day of Johnny
Rodgers. They will need it since practically every Big
8 team will have a sprinter or two.
Of course, the best team in the conference next
fall, in the country for that matter, will be Oklahoma.
There is no getting around it.
However, as Missouri and Wisconsin proved in
their games with Nebraska last year, the best team
doesn't always win.
When the KC-Omaha Kings announced they were
severing Omaha from their operation, some Omahans
began to clamor for an ABA franchise.
The idea might not be as far-fetched as it seems,
particularly if NBC contracts to televise some ABA
games next season as rumored.
The mythical team's only professional competition
in the area would be the Omaha Knights.
However, there is the suspicion that Omahans
would be reluctant to turn out to see players they
hadn't heard of.
This argument bean weight since they turn out in
only modest numbers to watch internationally
famous cagers.
If the team was a loser, there would be more
tumbleweeds than spectators in Civic Auditorium
before long.
page 16
Maybe it isn't such a good idea after all.
Nebraska baseball fans, braced for another long
spring, were pleasantly surprised to see the Huskers
sweep a three game series from Oklahoma State this
weekend.
The Cowboys entered the wind-blown series with a
better-than-respectable record, but were victims of
Husker rallies in all three games.
The sweep put Nebraska at the top of the league
standings but the College World Series, held only 50
miles from UNL, is still a light year away.
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Gijiored spores
Blocking the road from Lincoln to Rosenblatt
Stadium are the Oklahoma Sooners, who at last check
were 26-2.
Former Villanova basketball star Howard Porter's
lawsuit against the NCAA is getting little sympathy
and lots of horselaughs.
Porter, now with the Detroit Pistons, is claiming
he was a victim of player monopolization by the
NCAA.
Even with the rather vague charges, Porter thinks
he is justified in asking for $30 million.
Congratulations are in order for the Nebraska
gymnastics team, which finished fifth best in the
country and the top team in the Big 8.
Not encjh praise can be heaped on coach Francis
Allen, whose dedication, determination and
promotion has brought Nebraska gymnastics to
national contender status.
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Senior Chuck Jones, saftey candidate for the
UNL football team, does an agility drill during
Husker spring workouts. The team held its first
scrimmage Wednesday.
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