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friday, decembero, daily nebraskan nebroskon srls page 16 By Jim Hunt . Tall is the word used to describe the University of Washington Huskies who will invade Lincoln to take on UNL's basket ball team Saturday night. Tipofff is scheduled for 7:35 p.m. at the Coliseum. Leading the Huskies, who were ranked twentieth in this week's AP poll, are James Edwards, Kim Stewart and Lars Hansen. - Edwards, a 6 ft. 11 in. junior center, averaged 12.3 points a game last season. Stewart, a 6 ft. 7 12 in. forward, averaged 2.5 points a game last year as a freshman. Hansen, a 6 ft. 11 in. senior averaged 10.3 points a game last season. "They are bigger than any team we will play all year," said assistant basketball coach Lonnie Porter, who scouted Washington last weekend. Two other tall Huskies, who will be sitting on the bench, are 6 ft. 10 in. Larry Jackson and 6 ft. 9 in. Al Smith. f Porter said they are similar to last year's Kansas team "as far as big men are con cerned." At guard, the Huskies have 6 ft. 4 in. Clarence Ramsey, who averaged 17.8 points a game last season and Chester Dorsey, a 6 ft. 1 in. junior who averaged 4.9 points a game last year. "They have a paid of good guards," Porter said. "Dorsey, their point guard, is their play maker. He plays good defense and puts everything together for them." Porter said Washington is the best team the Huskers will have played so far this season and will display a pressure defense. Undefeated The Huskies, undefeated going into tonight's game against Wyoming, have beaten the Australian National Team, Santa Clare and Seattle. Last year the Huskies were 16-10 and 6-8 in the Pacific 8 Conference. UNL is 1-2, with a victory over North western and losses to Illinois and Iowa, all Big 10 schools. The Huskers are led by two-time all-Big 8 guard Jerry Fort and center Larry Cox. Fort is averaging 20.7 points a game, Cox is averaging 14. It will be a reunion of sorts for UNL head coach Joe Cipriano who was graduat ed from Washington in 1953. Cipriano started At Washington, Cipriano was a three year starter. The Huskies collected a 79 15 record, won the Pacific 8 the three years he was there and finished third in the NCAA tournament in 1953. Cipriano coached the Washington fresh men team for three years before taking the head coaching job at Idaho in 1959. UNL and Washington have met five times. The Huskies won all five games. Team 'riddled' with injuries Ailing wrestlers travel to Iowa State Husker guard Jerry Fort in action against Illinois last weekend. sports shorts The UNL women's basketball team, 1-1, travels to Creighton University tonight for a 7:30 game. The Huskers host Tarkio at 5:45 p.m. Saturday in the Coliseum. The UNL women's swimming and diving team competes in the Big 8 Relays at Kansas University in Lawrence, Kan., this weekend. Coach Pat Sullivan said she will take a 17-member squad. By Pete Wegman Nebraska's wrestling team travels to the Iowa State Invitational this weekend in what head coach Orval Borgialli calls "rid dled shape." Bob Johnson, defending 190-lb. cham pion in the Ames, la., tournament, will not attend the meet because of a pulled ham string. Three-year letterman Tony Jennings, at 142 lbs., is listed as questionable by Bor gialli. Jennings, who sprained an ankle earlier in the year, resprained it in practice Wednesday. , Heavyweight Bruce Conger has been slowed by a sprained ankle, but will attend the meet. Conger won the invitational's heavyweight division last year. The Friday-Saturday tournament will be attended by seven schools: Colorado, Drake, Iowa State, Kent State (Ohio), Mis souri, Nebraska and Winona (Minn.) State. Borgialli said Iowa State probably will field the strongest team in the tournament, although no team standings will be kept. He said Missouri looked good in last week's Oklahoma Open and "has really come on strong." Colorado, under second-year coach Mjke Sager, has "cleaned house," according to Borgialli, and recruited seven high school Ail-Americans. Nebraska and the other schools, under new NCAA regulations, may take 12 wrest lers to compete in the 10 different weight classes. Last year Huskers took 25 to the invitational. Extra men Borgialli said Nebraska will take an extra man in the 118, 150 and 177-lb. classes (with Johnson injured, the Huskers will have no 1904b. entrant). Nebraska wrestlers not making the trav eling squad may enter the tournament themselves and compete unattached, ac cording to Borgialli. Four freshmen, Seve Hill and Kent Lang at 150 lbs., Jim Calvert at 167 lbs. and Martin McCurdy at 177 lbs., are on Ne braska's traveling squad. Hill has been a pleasant surprise for Hus kers this fall, according to Borgialli. "He demonstrated a lot of talent in competition," he said. "He's one of two or three wrestlers I've had in my coaching career here who have had exceptional balance. He's real scrappy." May be seeded Borgialli said Conger, Hill, Jennings and Bill Hoffman, at 177 lbs., have chances at being seeded in the tournament. . "Hoffman is emerging as one of our young leaders," Borgiallia said. "He's well respected on the team and is probably our biggest draw as far as spectator appeal be cause of his aggressive style." Following the invitational, the team has duals at Drake on Dec. 12 and at Iowa State on Dec. 13, closing this semester's action. Borgialli said, however, he is attempting to enter five of Nebraska's top wrestlers in the Midlands Championship at North western University in ' Chicago Dec. 26. "It (the Midlands meet) probably is the third biggest meet in the country, follow ing the NCAA finals and the Big 8 meet," he said. Borgialli said he had not received word from meet directors mat the entries have been accepted. Athletic De Di s on record . 'conveniently unavailable1 By Larry Stunkel It's too bad the UNL marching band can't go to the Fiesta Bowl Dec. 26 unless funds can bt obtained from outside the university budget. It's worse that the announcement Wed Ttt'izy from UNL scting chsnc?!!or Ad?rn Breckenridge probably came too late for bandsmen to generate an adequate fund drive. (Breckenridge said, although it's been known that the band couldn't go for two weeks, "we don't make quick decisions.") But what's worse yet is that the Husker Athletic Dept., which is in the middle of the controversy, has conveniently made itself unavailable for comment. Athletic Director Bob Devaney is out of town until Monday (He was at the Big 8 meeting in Kansas City, Mo., Thursday but will be in Hilton Head, S.C., over the weekend for a golf tournament and nobody in the Athletic Dept. office has been au thorized to comment on the subject. No money Devaney 'i secretary said all Devaney has said is that there just isn't any money. . However, many people have questions whether that's really true. Wally Provost, Omaha World-Herald sports columnist, said in his Wednesday column: "A study of the 1974 Sugar Bowl junket expenses by Nebraska suggests that some prudent economizing might provide most, if not all, the money required to have the band on the scene at Tempe. "Items charged to the 'athletic group' a year ago include "phone calls" ($295.99), "staff children" ($8,019), "extra awards" ($12,267.56), unspecified outlays such as "incidental expenses" ($25,775) and "mis cellaneous" ($2,109.35)." Some band members have been asking why the regents and other administrators (and thfcif fmiVt pet evnensf-nn'tA trn to bowl games. Explain costs One would think (at least I did) that the Athletic Dept. would want to clear up whether there really is room to economize (as Provost suggested), and would want to explain the unspecified costs in more detail. So I went into the office of Husker busi ness manager Bill Fisher with these ques tions and here is how the conversation wertt: Fisher: "YouH have to talk to Bob De vaney about that. Those are my instruc tions." "But why can't you talk to me?" Fisher: "Look -why should we help you out when you've been stabbing us in the back all season with tfut 10 cent program? (in reference to First Down which I also edit)" "I'm not here for any favors, I just thought you'd like to tell your side of the itory." Hiding something? A more suspicious person might wonder if Fisher has something to hide. That same suspicious person might wonder why De vaney picked this weekend. . .but that's starting to sound like someone who's just a little frustrated that people don't want to settle an issue. The bad guy isn't really the Athletic Dept., which has had problems of its own this year with NCAA restrictions, the added cost of women's athletics (where commendable efforts have been made to generate their own funds) and the added costs of the nrngratri KC ?.'.'?? of th economy. " I'm sure the personnel In Athletic Dept. are justified in wanting to have their fam ilies with them during the holiday season, and that the players deserve some frills. After all, they arc the ones who got us to the bowl in the first place and deserve a reward for a good season. The Athletic Dept. has had the burden of supporting the total band budget "for as long as I can remember," said Miles Tonv meraasen, vice chancellor of business and finance. Bigger band This year, when the band increased its size without the approval of the Athletic Dept., athletics absorbed the added cost. Both band members and Athletic Dept. officials have expressed a desire to find al ternative means of supporting the band. It's just too, bad mat red tape, lack of communication and who knows what else have brought us to this situation. I guess the only thing left to do is urge students and faculty members to contrib ute generously to the band fund so band members can make the trip. Intrasquad gym meet today The UNL wdmen's gymnastics team will have an exhibition intersquad meet today at 4:15 p.m. in Women's P.E, Bldg. 119. All-around scholarship gymnasts Peggy Newport, Kathi Ruddick, Sandy Czeplew ski and Barb Baker and all-aroundcr Carol Lundcen will lead the team. "Last year Kathi and I tied for first in all-around. She docs best in vault and that's one of my weaker ones. She's not as strong in beammy strongest." Unity is the "neat thir.g about the (gym nastics) team," Newport said. "It's not possible to say any one person is the best gymnast. Everyone works to gether and has i favorite event they are best in. "We all work well together but we're trying to get the freshmen more involved," she said. "There's a strangeness when you re a freshman because you're new on the team and have a lot to adjust to."
