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Willie Thornton (65) and George Mills (75) close in on quarterback
Tom Sorely (12) during Saturday s scrimmage.
Swim team improvement
depends on young members
By Jim Hunt
Lifting the UNL swimm team out of the
Big 8 cellar depends on a young team this
season for coach John Reta.
Reta, in his tenth year as swim coach at
Nebraska, has nine returning lettermen
from last year's team which finished
seventh in the conference meet. Kansas
State does not compete in swimming.
Top returnees are Bryan Moss, Pat
Murphy, and Scott Russer. Moss a sopho
more, broke conference records in the 100
and 200-yard breaststroke. Murphy set
varsity records in the 5 00-, 1000-, and
1,650-yard freestyles as a freshman. Russer
a senior, set varsity records in the 100
yard butterfly and the 200-yard individual
medley at the Big 8 meet.
Freshman help
Of the 12 freshman out for the team
Reta hopes that at least four can help
immediately. They are Jeff Barnard from
Ann Arbor, Mich, a 1974-75 high school
all-American; Ed Johnson from Lincoln
Southeast, the state champion in the 100
yard butterfly and the 200-yard individual
medley; Dave McCleery the state champion
in the 50-yard free style and Mark Crowder
from Wood Ridge, 111.
Reta also hopes to get help from Pat
DiBiase, who transfered to UNL from
Kansas. Reta said that DiBiase is an excel
lent backstroker that qualified for the
NCAA national meet two years ago.
"The team had some good performances
in the Big $ meet last year, but we weren't
very deep," Reta said. "Most cf the team
had their personal best in the conference
meet, and that is important. Major areas of
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stroke, and the distance events."
Kansas, the defending conference
champs, should be in the thick of the title
race again this year, Reta said. Iowa State
and Oklahoma also should be battling for
the championship.
"The Big 8 Conference is getting a lot
tougher," Reta said. Last year was the first
year in a long time that the Big 8 was
tougher than the Southwest Conference."
New NCAA restrictions
Reta said that new NCAA restrictions
might hurt swimming. The NCAA has cal
led for a 40 per cent cutback of scholar
shops in non-revenue sports and has
restricted coaches from talking to swim
mers until their senior year in high school.
"We have had a program of excellence
on our minds for years," Reta said.
Good pools play an important part in a
program, Reta said. "Right now in our
pool we have nine out of 16 lights out, our
water is like milk, and this is not good for
recruiting."
"Certainly we tell people we are in the
process of building a new pool," Reta
continued. "I noted in some of the kids
who I told the pool would be done in 1974
and then in 1975 and a credibility gap
arises. I don't think we should stress the
new Field House until we can take a
recruit out there and show him its
completely done."
1975-76 Swim schedule
Dec. 4, 5, 6-Big 8 Relays at Colorado;
Jan 17- at Iowa State; Jan 23- Chicago
Skate Univ.; Jan 24- Minnesota; Feb. 13
double dual with Kansas and Colorado;
Feb. 20- at Oklahoma; Feb. 21 at Okla
homa Stat; Mar. 4, 5, 6- Bia 8 conference
at Iowa State.
By Irry Stunke!
Eifore August practices started for
UNL's football team, Husker coach Tom
Osborne told reporters he felt under more
pressure this season. .
little did Osborne know the added
problems to be encountered during the
first three weeks of practice.
Defensive safety Jim Burrow,.defensive
end Ray Phillips, defensive tackle Dean
Gissler and quarterback Vince Ferragamo
had already been declared ineligible by the
NCAA for the first game.
One week later, first team guard Nick
Zanetich quit the team, then back-up guard
Stan Waldcmore injured his knee the next
day. Senior defensive tackle Ron Pruitt
now is out for the season with a broken
ankle'.
Records rumor
The day after Pruitt's injury, it was
rumored that sophomore I-back Monte
Anthony might be ineligible for the season
because of a records mix-up.
The foul up was straightened out, and
Osborne announced Anthony will play.
'That would have been it," he told the
Lincoln Journal, "I would have gone to the
top of Memorial Stadium and jumped off."
Osborne probably isn't considering
suicide, but the misfortunes aren't remov
ing any pressure.
Position uncertainty
Osborne said the reasons, why he feels
more pressure range from purely personal
feelings to the uncertainty about some
positions.
'The more you're around, the more you
know what's expected," he said. 'The best
team may always get the majority of
breaks, but the more you're in coaching
the more you realize there are factors, you
can't control."
Although Osborne said he thinks the
Huskers will be a good team this year, he
added how well they compete depends on
how well things go early In the season.
Last year after two losses, (Wiscon
sin and Missouri,) Osborne said it was like
'swimming upstream because some of our
incentives were taken away."
Back on track
It was a 56-0 win over Kansas that got
the Huskers back on track!
"The Kansas game showed how a season
can hinge on one game," Osborne said.
They never recovered. Before, they were
4-1 and nationally ranked, after we beat
them they didn't win another game."
But Osborne said he thinks this year's
team has enough character to avoid such a
slump in a similar situation.
Osborne still hasn't announced who the
starting quarterback will be against LSU,
but did say Bobby Thomas will return
punts in Burrow's absence and Jerry Wkd
will start in place of Pruiit.
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Husker coach Tom Osborne
spoils, snofls
Possible national affiliation
Physicals for women interested in UNL
women's intercollegiate athletics will be
today from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. in the train
ing room of the South Stadium Office
Bldg.
Nearly every varsity football player saw
action Saturday in the Huskers' final major
scrimmage before next Saturday's home 1
opener against LSU.
The number one and two units scored
four touchdowns on the scout teams
during the two-hour closed-to-the-public
session. Randy Garcia and John O Leary
UNL Fencing Club plans tournamen
By Susie Reitz
Monthly tournaments and possible for
mation of a Nebraska division of the
Amateur Fencing League of America
(AFLA) are among plans of the UNL
Fencing Club, according to club sponsor
BobDushane.
At an organizational meeting Thursday
night, members decided to hold the first
club-sponsored tournament Sept. 14. The
tournament will be open competition in
foil and epee divisions. (The difference
between foil and epee is size of the blade).
Club members discussed having the epee
competition at dawn-in keeping with
fencing tradition, Dushane said, "But no
times are set for sure. Foil will follow the
epee event."
f Tournaments planned
The club plans at least one tournament
a month in the Women's P.E. Eldg. this
year, Dushane said.
Letters of inquiry were sent to fencing
dibs within the state and in Kansas to
determine interest.
"We've written about the possibility of
having exchange nights or weekends with
fencers within a few hundred miles," he
said.
Dushane said the club is trying to find
enough interest to organize a Nebraska
division of the AFLA.
Competition as an AFLA club would
allow Nebraska fencers to be nationally
ranked and hold a state championship
tournament.
Separate divisions
"At our tournaments we let men and
women compete in any division they want
to," Dushane said. "But .if we formed an
AFLA division and had official tourna
ments, that would change."
AFLA competition aUows women to
fence foil while men compete in foil, epee
and saber.
The Fencing Club is for students and
faculty Interested in fencing. Membership
does not require fencing skills, since the
club is not a varsity sport. Most students
learn fencing in P.E. classes, then join to
practice and improve skills, Dushane said.
"Some of our best fencers - good
enough to place in any national novice
competition, I'm sure-started in classes
last fall," he said.
Equipment provided 1
Club members use Recreation Dept. end
P.E. equipment, so members need not
provide their own, Dushane said.
Annual dues of SI for students and $2
for faculty members are used to meet
expenses of tournaments. Although entry
feel changed for tournaments, costs usually
exceed the fees total, he added.
We give medals for five or six places and
that is expensive," Dushane said, "but it
gives the novice fencer more confidence
and encouragement if he gets i medal for
placing."
Club members meet twice weekly on
Monday and Thursday, 7 to 9 p.m. in WPE
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scored on short runs while Bobby Thomas
and Dale Zabrockl caught touchdown
passes.
Head coach Tom Osborne said the start
ing lineups for the LSU game will be
announced later today and the entire 60-
man squad will be named Tuesday.
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Entries for co-rec flag football, men's
tennis singles and women's tennis singlet ,
are due Wednesday in the Recreation and
muamurtu iftuve, a its tv w..,
472-3467.
Entries for men's and women's goll
singles are due Friday.
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As far as UNL's Water Polo Club
is concerned, Nebraska is still part ' of the
Great Amcricaii Desert.
Nebraska is the only school in the
Big 8 with a water polo team, and in such a
competitive deseii, scheduling is difficult
and road trips long.
Water polo is played with two seven
men teams who maneuyer in the water and
try to throw the ball Into a
' soccer-like goal.
The club's first action will be Sept. 19
and 20 in a tournament at Central Missouri
State College.
"Our chances are pretty good if every"
body keeps practicing," club member Mark
Rhine said, The 20 club members practice
Monday through Thursday from 6:30 p.m.
to 8 p.m. at the Coliseum pool.
The dub will compete in tournaments
at the Universities of Wyoming and Wis
consin in October. If enough interested
teams are found, Rlnne said UNL also will
hold a tournament.
"We're concentrating on tournament
this year because we know they won't be
cancelled," Rlnne said.