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daily nebraskan
monrtay, august 25, 1975
Luck, Martin are elected
1 9 75 HuSker cocaptains
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Terry Lu ck will captain the
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After three seasons of misfortune that
included three knee operations, things may
be looking up for senior quarterback Terry
Luck.
Luck and senior defensive end Bob
Martin have been elected Husker
cocaptains for the 1975 football season.
After an outstanding freshman season,
Luck had a pedestrian football career until
the 1975 Sugar Bowl game against Florida.
With the Huskers trailing 10-0 in the fourth
quarter, Luck came in to engineer three
scoring drives for the 13-10 victory.
Starting fall camp as the No. 1
quarterback, Luck has received
competition from four other candidates.
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"I certainly don't think being elected
captain locks up the position for me,"
Luck said. "If anything, it will put pressure
on me to hustle all the harder. "
But Luck said the election shows the
team has confidence in him.
Martin emerged as the starting defensive
end the first game of his sophomore season
in 1973, and except when injured, hasn't
lost the starting job in two years.
Last year he was selected as an all-Big 8
conference player. This year's preseason
a II -conference polls also include his name.
Martin, The Omaha World-Herald's
1972 high school athlete of the year, won
1 1 letters in three sports at David City
High School. Luck was an all-stater in
football and baseball at Massey Hill High
School in Fayetteville, N.C.
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NCAA 'super conference propose
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A super conference of 75 of the nation's
largest universities has been proposed in
response to legislation passed at a special .
NCAA meeting Aug. 1 3 to 1 5.
The idea was introduced by the NCAA's
Special Committee on Reorganization at
the August meeting called to find ways to
cut the rising costs of intercollegiate sports.
The proposed super conference would
be primarily a football conference. The
preliminary plan calls for combining seven
major conferences,. including the Big 8, Big
!0, Pacific 8, Southeastern, Southwest,
Atlantic Coast and Western Athletic
conferences. There also will be 15
independent schools, bringing the total
number of schools to 75.
Super conference play
The remaining 64 teams in Division I
would be reclassified Division I-A. The rest
of the NCAA schools that field football
teams would remain in Division II or III.
NCAA football schools were divided into
the present three division system in 1973.
A member of the super conference
would have to play at least 51 per cent of
its nonconference games against other
Division I schools. The 15 independents
would be required to play 51 per cent of
all games against Division I teams.
In basketball, a team would be required
to play at least 10 nonconference games of
which 75 per cent would have to be against
other members of the super conference.
The independents would be required to
play 75 per cent of all games against the
other super powers.
October consideration
The NCAA Council said that the plan
would receive consideration at its next
meeting in October. The proposed super
conference could become reality as soon as
1976.
coach Tom Osborne, 12 full-time
assistants, three graduate assistants and
four part-time assistants.
Scholarship limitation
Also put into effect was a rule limiting
the number of football players that can be
on scholarships at one time from 105 to
95.
Size of traveling teams and the number
of players a coach can suit up for home
football games was also limited. Previously,
a team could take 55 players to an away
game, now the number is only 48. Only 60
players can suit up for home football
games, whereas before, there was no limit
to the number.
Other action taken at the convention
limits the size of football coaching staffs to
one head coach, eight full-time assistants
and two nart time hIHa At nrunt h
Nebraska coaching staff consists of head student-athlete scholarships.
Other legislation sliced the number of
scholarships for nonrevenue sports from
over 200 to around 90 and eliminated
money allotted for "incidentals" (books,
wash and other expenses from
Student tickets go on sale Tuesday at 8
aon. at the Coliseum ticket office. All seats
are in the end zones, tickets cost $ 1 7.
The UNL soccer team will begin
practice Tuesday at 6 p.m. in Memorial
Stadium. For information on tryouts call
472-3191.
All men and women interested on trying
out for varsity golf teams should contact
coach Larry Romjue, 472-2271. Leave
name, address and phone number and
information will be mailed to you.
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There will be an organizational meeting
of all UNL women's sports teams Thursday '
at 6:15 p.m. in the theater in the South
Stadium Office Bldg. Physicals for all
women planning to participate are required
and will follow the meeting at 7 p.m. in the
University Center.
Women's sports director plans 'year of building'
By Suzie Reitz
After nearly two months in Lincoln,
new women's athletic director Aleen
Swofford is settled and anticipates a "big
building year for women's athletics at
UNL."
Women's athletics have a "good start"
here, she said, but she hopes to change the
attitude that women's sports are more
recreational than competitive.
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to the highly competitive level of the men s
sports," Swofford said. "We don't want to
take away from them, but we want to give
the women a chance for high quality
competition."
Left Texas
Swofford was an assistant professor of
physical education at Texas Women's
University in Denton, Texas. She said
, TWUs women's athletic program is "highly
developed." Her responsibilities included
administration of the required physical
education curriculum and graduate
program and coaching volleyball and
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In her position at UNL one of the first
tilings she accomplished was establishing a
fund for Women's Intercollegiate Athletics
(UNL-WIA fund) through the University of
Nebraska Foundation, she said.
Money from the fund will be used to
provide uniforms and equipment for
women's teams and to provide
scholarships, but will net be used for
coaches salaries or "frills" she said.
'T.y.t 'now we- have one set. of
warm-ups for three teams-that doesn't go
very far," she said.
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Most of the athletic training rooms will
be made available to the women's teams,
she said. Workout space and times will be
split between the men's and women's
teams in the new sports complex.
Sixty scholarships are available for
women and 54 nave been awarded,
according to Swofford. The scholarships
provide tuition and fees.
"We hope to expand these but haven't
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between the nine teams," she said. "We try
to keep everything balanced without
favoring any one sport."
Better recruiting
With the assistance of the new women's
sports information director June (Jay)
Davis, Swofford said she hopes to improve
recruiting of women athletes and provide
sports clinics for Nebraska high school
"We're also hoping to start some
booster clubs for the girls," she said.
There's a lot of support from parents and
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others and when there's support, the
athletes will naturally perform better.
"One thing we're shooting for is
bringing in some money with our
program " she said. "Right now women's
sports just don't have enough to pay their
way, but we want to become separate from
the men's fund-we don't want to depend
on them or hinder them at all."
With more Ami!, fiill-timm inorK
could be hired-perhaps to coach two
sports, she said. With two exceptions,
coaches now double as faculty members in
the women's P.E. department, dividing
their time between coaching and teaching, r
Exceptions are golf coach Larry Romjue
and basketball coach George Nlcodemus.
Sports important
"It is really something good when
people see women's competition and lock
at a girl and say she is beautiful in sports,"
Swofford said. "Athletics are important to
women as well as men.
"Of course none of these changes in the
women's program here are going to be
sudden and I can't predict national
championship teams this first year, but
with community and university support
the program will really grow," Swofford
said.
Many women have indicated interest in
sports and are asking about scholarships for
1976-77, she said. .
"If we're going to build the women's
program we might as well make it good,"
she said. "Then people support it because
they want to, not because they have to.
"We have some highly skilled athletes,
vsry high levcl-and we want to provide
quality competition for them in all sports,
not Just one or two."
