thursday, October 9, 1975
dally nebraskan
page 7
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Husker offensive line
ress pleases coaches
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Progress of the offensive line is pleasing
the coaching staff, according to Cletus
Fischer, UNL's offensive line and kicking
coach. A major area of concern at the sea
son's start, the offensive line is minus four
of five starters from last year's team.
Lone returning starter is aU-American
center Rik Bonness. Because of injuries this
season, sophomore Tom Davis has filled in
for Bonness during his absence.
"Bonness is the best in the country,"
Fischer said. "He is quick and a leader on
the field.' He got his first good test against
Miami and held up good."
With Bonness and Davis, Fischer said he
thinks UNL has the best 1-2 center situa
tion in the country.
Senior Rich Costanzo, junior Dan
Schmidt, and sophomore Greg Jorgensen
have shown strength at guard, he said. Jor
gensen has been playing both right and left
guard.
Tackle positions have been filled by
juniors Steve Hoins and Bob Ungenfelter,
Women's basketball squad
gets something for nothing
By Susie Reitz .
You can get something for nothing
these days.
The UNL Women's basketball team this
year will benefit from the coaching ex
pertise of George Nicodemus. The former
coach at John F. Kennedy College (JFK) in
Wahoo, where the Patriettes were a nation
al power, will cocch the UNL team without
pay this year.
"We are grateful to George for agreeing
to coach," Women's 'Athletic Director
Aleen Swofford said. "We hope to be able
to pay him for his time next year, but .
we just don't have the funds this year."
Six women are on UNL basketball
scholarships including senior Jan Zink,
sophomores. Sherry Brydle Brink and
Rhonda Rhodes, and freshmen Jan Crouch,
Kathy Foley and Darcy Williamson.
"Some of our players are out for other
spoits-like volleyball and field hockey,"
Nicodemus said, "so they will be coming
out later. But we're going to start practices
right away."
Nicodemus has announced that prac
tices for the basketball team will start
Monday at 4:30 pjn. in the Women's Phys
ical Education Bldg. '
With the assistance of Coach Jo Owens.
Nicodemus will try to build a team
comparable to his past clubs at JFK.
. While at JFK, Nicodemus's teams won
National Amateur Athletic Union (AAU)
championships in 1972 and 1973 and were
runners-up in 1974.
His teams won second place in the
National Women's Invitational Tournament
in 1972, 1973 and 1974 and third in 1971.
The 1972 and 1973 teams also won the
Phillips University Invitational and Iowa
Invitational tournaments. ,
In 1973, the JFK team was selected to
represent the United States in a U.S. State
Dept. tour of the People's Republic of
China. The team played eight games in 21
days in China and also went to Hawaii,
Hong Kong, Korea and Taiwan on the tour.
Nicodemus compiled a 154-54 record at
JFK, a record he said he hopes to better at
UNL.
Nicodemus coached and taught in Iowa
junior high schools for most of the 20
years following his graduation from junior
college in 1949. He earned his B.A. in 1955
and his M.S. in Education in 1970, when
he transferred to JFK.
In 1970, he coached the Look Magazine
AAU Women's basketball team.
sporls .'shorts
Those interested in try
ing out for the UNL hock
ey club should contact Mark
White at 423-1486, even if
you went to the original
meeting in September.
UNL's freshmen football
team beat the UNO junior
varsity 41-0 Tuesday night
in Omaha. ,
Walk-on Dean Sukup,
from Cozad kicked a fresh
men record 52-yard field
goal, in addition to t 35
yard fielder in the first
quarter.
Intramural foot&aJI pamea
tonight "
Vine No. 1
6 p.m.-Cather 13 "A" v.
Abel 3 "A", 7 p.m.-Ag Men "B"
vi. Acacia "B", 8 p.m.-BtW
Theta Pi "B" v. Phi Gamma
Delta "B".
Vine No. 2
6 P.m.-Burr 1 East "A" vi.
Abel 7 "A", 7 p.m,-5Sflma Phi
Epillon "8" vi. Phi Delta Theta
B", 8 pjn.-m Delta Phi "8"
vi- Fr. Dental Student.
Vina No. 3
6 p.m.-Se!lec! Gusdrenole
A" vi. Burr 2 "A", 7 p.m.-
vi. Alpha Gam-
Sigma Nu "B
ma Rho "B'
Xatarnai OroanliatiOfl VI. Civil
Wart.
Cathar No. 1
6 pn .-Cathar 9 "A" va. Abel
8 "A", 7 p.m .-Delta Upillon
"8" vi. Farmhouie "B",8 p.nv
Army ROTC w. Chargeri.
Cathar No. 2
6 p.m.-Burr 1 Wert "A" vi.
Abel 13"A",7p.m.-BetaSigma
Pil "B" vi. Kappa Sigma "B".
Cathar He. 3
6 p.m.-Centennlal "A" va.
Schramm 10 "A", 7 p.m.-A!pha
Tau Omega "B" vt. Sigma Alpha
Epillon"B",
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Fnaineerina.
Math,
Physics
Seniors
I graduated from un-l. in now,
I'm earning $17,000-plut while enjoying,
a -haltensing job -with fantastic frinp
benefits. My name ii Dave Frank and I'll
be on campus today to talk about, how
you can do the same. ,
If you'll graduate this year and are inter
ested in nuclear powsr, I suggest you talk
.to ma. Call the VHL Placement Offica at
472-3145 in the Nebraska Union for en
appointment.
Preparing for the games has been diffi
cult because the team doesn't know what
the opponent will run against them,
Fischer said. .
"We have faced a different defense each
ball game," he said, "but I don't think we
have gone into any game unprepared. From
now on, things should be a. little more
predictable." ,
, "We can never, say we are totally
pleased," Lirigenfeiter said. "We have
played good and bad this season, and made
some mental errors, but I think we are get
ting better." -
"We . didn't block that bad in the first
half against Miami," Fischer said. "Poor
field position, a couple of fumbles and
some penalties hurt us, but we had more
yards than Miami. I
"Sometimes when we aren't scoring a
lot of points, people think the blocking is
poor, but we have had to play against some
good defensive lines this year," he said.
"We tried to finesse Miami too much
the first half," Iingenfelier said. "At half
' time Coach Osborne and Coach Fischer
told us to just go but and blow them out
the second half. ...
"We have no more easy games; Lingen
felter added. "With six of the Big 8 teams
in the top 20, we can't afford to have a bad
half."
OV- ' . pit Stop
Facts dazzle car buyers
By Jim Williams '
Key, buddy, ya wanna play da numbers
racket? '.
Just try shopping for an economy car
and you're in it. The magic razzle-dazzle of
EPA mileage, sticker price, power and
room makes it seem like Texas Instruments
should be writing the ads.
There's the new Chevette, which
Chevrolet pushes on the strength of its
40 m.p.g. highway and 28 m.p.g. city
figures, and the $2,899 sticker on the
stripped Chevette Scooter.
Ford fights back with the Pinto Pony
MPG, which, at a big four dollars less,
gives you a back seat, chrome bumpers,
and "627 -more pounds of road-hugging
weight" than the Scooter (oh, come on,
Fordl). Mileage-38 highway, 25 city.
Meanwhile, Volkswagen heaps scorn on ,
"the Detroit Concept: make it look new"
as distinct from their Rabbit's "make it
new.'' VW skips the fact that the Rabbit's
basic layout first appeared in the 1959
Austin Mini, stressing instead its good
performance and EPA ratings of 38 m.p.g.
highway and 24 m.p.g. city.
You can also find out (in smaller print)
that another Chevrolet gets 19 m.p.g.
on " the highway and 13 in' the city,
although this isn't one of the Corvette's
prime selling points.
The most interesting thing about EPA
mileage figures is that the EPA doesn't
really test gas mileage. Their first job was
to test the exhaust emissions of new cars to
see if they met government standards.
This is done on a dynamometer, a
machine that lets a car be "driven" under
laboratory conditions while its exhaust
is collected in a big plastic bag.
Since, as we learned in chemistry class
matte; is conserved in burning, it should
be possible to measure the emissions and
calculate how much gas was used. This is
what the EPA does.
The theory is sound, except that most
of us don't drive much in laboratories.
In the EPA driving test cycle, the hypo
thetical roads are pancake-flat, the speed
limit is 49 m.p.g., and acceleration is
about as feeble as a bicycle's.
This causes several strange quirks. For
instance,' the new Chevette will be offered
with two engine options-a 1.4 liter and a
1.6 liter. In the EPA tests the smaller
'1.4 gets better mileage, but the 1.6 will
probably do better on the street. This is
because the small engine will have to run
harder to achieve the same acceleration,
using more gas.
Another case where numbers don't tell
all is the Axle-Ratio Shuffle. This trick
improves highway mileage by changing the
gears in the car's differential. For instance,
in Car A the driveshaft has to turn 3.89
times to turn the wheels once, while in Car
B it must turn only 2.92 times.
This means that at highway speeds Car
B's engine will be running slower, saving
gas. The trade-off is in torque, the twisting
force that influences acceleration. The
37-m.p.g. Pontiac Astre has such a tall
axle ratio and so little torque that to get
it away from a stoplight quickly you have ,
to race the engine and slip the clutch
which shortens clutch life. Take your
choice.
The Wisdom of the Book of Good
Mileage: the car shall be light and its engine
size suitable to its weight, and it shall
have a manual shift. The only way to
decide which econo-car is right for you is
to drive them a lot. Wasn't it Mark Twain
who once classified all falsehoods as lies,
damned lies and statistics?
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