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Starting Hiisker I-back Monty Anthony (49) finds himself trapped by
these Colorado Buffalos. Last week he rushed for 104 yards against
Kansas State and remains the Huskers' leading ground gainer.
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Downing ISU would clinch
perfect season for frosh
By Scott Jones
Nebraska's freshman football team will
have plenty of incentive to beat Iowa
State's (ISU) junior varsity Friday at
1 :30 p jn. in Memorial Stadium.
For starters, the freshmen are 4-0 and
would like to finish the season unbeaten.
They also are unscored upon, making a
shutout even more desirable.
Incentive is increased because the game
probably will be the last for freshman
coach Jim Ross, who may manage the new
field house next year. With a 26-2 record
in seven seasons, a victory would give Ross
his fifth perfect season.
Iowa State probably will give the fresh
men their stiffest challenge this season.
They are 3-1, having beaten junior varsity
teams from Drake, 17-7, UNO 41-8, and
Missouri, 21-13. They lost to Waldorf,
26-6.
Nebraska also has played UNO, winning
41-0. Other Husker victims were Kansas
State's J.V., 30-0, Marshalltown Junior
College, 63-0 and Kearney State College's
J.V.,45-0.
Ross said earlier this year that his team
has not played a good team, lie reiterated
that statement after the redshirts scored
twice and shut out the freshmen in a
scrimmage last Thursday.
Haven't seen anything yet
'They kicked the hell out of us," Ross
said. "I hope we can play a little better
(against ISU) than we did then.
"They've done a good job," he said.
"We'd like to win the last game, but if we
don't win they'll still b a good fresliman
team. It won't be the end of the world."
Not outwardly sentimental about his
last game, Ross said, "We all have to quit
sometime."
Quarterback Tim Hager has a special
reason for wanting to beat ISU because
he almost decided to attend Iowa State
before a recruiting visit changed his mind.
"I'd been offered a full ride before I
went up there, but when I got there they
told me they might not be able to give one
to me," said Hager, a Lincoln Southeast
graduate.
The ISU offer never came through and
Hager decided to walk on at Nebraska. He
said new restrictions prevented him from
receiving a scholarship here.
'They (Nebraska) said they considered
me in their top 10 walkons and encouraged
me to try out," said Hager, 6 ft. 1 in. and
170 potmds. "They said if I'd bwi bigger
or I'd been the same size but ran the 40
faster, they would have given me a scholar
ship." He has completed 14 of 21 passes for
three touchdowns and hopes to raise that
total Friday.
Hager's primary target this year has
been Tim Smith, Mike Kennedy's high
school teammate in California. Kennedy
shares quarterback duties with Hager.
Long touchdowns
Hager and Smith have combined for
long touchdown completions in Nebraska's
last three games, 70 yards against UNO, 31
yards against Marshalltown and 56 yards
against Kearney State. Smith also caught a
42-yard touchdown bomb from Kennedy
against Kearney State.
He has caught 12 passes for 30S yards,
25.4 yards per catch.
Nebraska's 205 yards passing against
Kearney State showed that it can pass as
well as run. The freshmen are averaging
322 yards rushing and 110 passing per
game.
Ross said Mike Burton, who usually
plays at I-back, will start at wingback
Friday. John Havekost, offensive guard,
has a sprained ankle and may not start.
Admission price is $1 .
Saturday's football game againsi the
Iowa State (ISU) Cyclones will be Dad's
Day for the Cornhuskers, the 81st
consecutive Memorial Stadium sellout and
the last home game for 21 Husker seniors.
ISU, number one in Big 8 pass defense,
will test the passing arm of Husker quarter
back Vince Ferragamo. The Huskers,
now ranked second in the country, lead the
series between the schools 57-1 1-2.
The Cyclones, who have a 4-5 season
record, allowed 81.6 yards through the air
this year, while Ferragamo leads the Big
8 with 10 touchdown passes.
Ferragamo also leads Big 8 quarterbacks
in completion percentage, hitting 59 of
100 passes for 59 per cent.
The ISU defense is last in Big 8 rushing
and scoring defense, allowing 258.8 yards
and 21 .6 points per game.
The Huskers will enter the game second
in Big 8 scoring offense, with an average of
323 points a game.
Stingy defense
Nebraska's defense is the stingiest in the
conference allowing its opponents an
average of 9.4 points and 218.6 yards a
game.
Head coach Earl Bruce and his Cyclones
have had a frustrating season. After a 37
21 opening season loss to UCLA, the
Cyclones won their next four games b it
suffered a series of injuries. ISU has dro
ped its last four games, all to Big 8 foet.
Probably ISU's major loss is quarter
back Buddy Hardeman, out of action with
several injuries. Hardeman, ready for action
tomorrow, will enter the game with a 43
yard rushing average and a .553 completion
percentage, hitting on 21 of 38 passes for
276 yards.
Injured Huskers are Wonder Monds,
sprained ankle and Tom Heiser, pulled
hamstring, but neither appears serious.
Eleven Huskers starting in Saturday's
game are among the 21 seniors who will be
playing their last home game. Some, such
as Rik Bonness, who entered the 1975
season with more than 700 minutes of
previous playing experience, have played in
nearly every game the last three seasons.
Others, such as center Tom Thomas,
who had no varsity playing time before the
1975 season, have spent most of their time
on scout teams and on the bench.
Kicker Mike Coyle said the fact that
tliis is the last home game would "psych"
the seniors. The seniors wanted a national
championship more than anything this
year, he said.
Coyle is Nebraska's eighth leading
career scorer with 120 points. He recently
had a string of 36 consecutive extra points
(a Nebraska record) snapped when he
missed against Missouri.
John Lee, a three-year starter and the
team's third leading tackier this year,
agreed that the seniors wanted to win.
"There's no way I'm thinking now that
this is my last home game," he said. "I'm
thinking the same way as when I was a
sophomore-I just try to win."
The 1975 season has been a frustrating
one for quarterback Terry Luck.
Lost starting role
Luck directed Nebraska's win over
Florida in the Sugar Bowl last year and was
the starting quarterback at the beginning
of this season, but he lost his starting role
to Vince Ferragamo.
"I haven't reached a lot of my goals I
had when I first came here," he said. "But
a lot of that was beyond my control."
Luck said Nebraska home games can't
be compared to anything.
"They're just indescribable. The fans are
fantastic and the support is great," he said.
Dean Gissler, a second-team defensive
tackle, said he hadn't thought about the
game being his last home contest and
added that he had no regrets about it
because "I think five years is enough."
Gissler said the thing hell remember
most about home games is the fans.
"I can't forget going out on the field
and seeing red everywhere."
Table tennis victors named
Pat Chastain, table tennis club member,
paddled his way to victory in the intra
mural table tennis doubles tournament, but
his efforts in the singles competition finals
ended in defeat.
Herman Mu joined Chastain to over
power Terry McRell and Richard Lowery
21-5 and 21-14 in doubles.
Chastain's loss in the singles tournament
was to Chris Megstrik, an Abel 2 represent
ative. Match scores in the finals were
15-21, 21-16 and 21-15.
Assistant Intramurals Coordinator Tom
Fagot said Chastain and Mu were top-seeded
in the singles tournament after their
performances in doubles competition.
Players in both tournaments were seed
ed, Fagot said, but were ranked more by
ability in singles competition than in
doubles.
Fagot said better rankings in singles
competition probably caused more player
interest in that tournament. He said that
out of 4 entries, 21 doubles competitors
participated, while 72 players of 127
entries competed in singles play.
"It's frustrating and ruins the tourna
ment when people don't show," Fagot
said.
In co-rec doubles competition, Molly
Mathews, representing the Independent
1641 team, and Mike Herman of Phi
Kappa Psi, won. They beat Pat Sobczyk
and Mike Flynn, also of 1641 and Phi
Kappa Psi.
Could be team's last competition
Tourney ends home hockey games
By Susie Reitz
The Region 6 field hockey tournament
in Lincoln today and Saturday is the final
home appearance for five seniors and could
be the last appearance of any UNL field
hockey team, coach Elizabeth Petrakis said.
The regional tournament could be the
end of field hockey at UNL if the program
is dropped for lack of funds, she said.
"Money for athletics is running short
and field hockey is on the list of sports
that could be cut if there aren't enough
funds," she said. "A lot will depend on
how well we do in this tournament and
how much fan support we have."
More fans
The number of fans at field hockey mat
ches has increased this year, said team cap
tain Mary Amstrup.
Families are getting Interested in the
matches, too, said senior Tain Thietje. She
said her grandfather attended field hockey
matches for the first time this year.
Field hockey has gained recognition on
campus, said senior Beth Pillen.
"When I was a freshman and would
walk to practice carrying my hockey stick,
people would just stare," she said. "They
didn't know what it was. Now they may
stare, but I get glimmers of recognition.'5
Players are recognized, too, Thietje said.
4-year veteran
Amstrup and Pillen have played for four
years and senior Mary Claire Franssen and
Sue Hansen have played for three. Thietje
made the team this year.
Although tournament teams are limited
to 15 players, the other squad members
have been supportive of the tourney team,
Amstrup said.
Region 6 tourney entries aie UNL,
Southwest Missouri State University
(SMSU), Bemidji State University, Moorc
head State University, Kansas University
(KU), and Central Missouri State (CMSU).
Bemidji was first in the Minnesota state
tournament and Moorehead, second.
CMSU was first in Missouri and SMSU was
runner-up.
In Pool 1 , UNL plays Bemidji at 1 1 ajra.
today and SMSU at 2 pjn. Moorehead, KU
and CMSU are in Pool 2. Pool 1 winner
flays Pool 2 runnerup at 1 pjn. Saturday,
ool 2 winner plays Pool 1 runner up at
10:30 ajn. Pools 1 and 2 third place.teams
play at noon. Losers of the first two
matches Saturday play at 1:30 pjn. and
winners play at 3 pjn.
Regional winners will compete in the
United States Field Hockey Association
Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for
Women national tournament in Harris
burg, Va., Nov. 26 to 29.
