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UNL women athletes will take on KFMQ radio disc
j6ckeys in a basketball game at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the
Coliseum. After the game there will be a raffle drawing,
followed by a sock hop. The events are planned to raise
money for the Women's Athletic Dept.
Center Rik Bonness and wingback Tom Heiscr have
been named to the 1975 All-America football team.
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A money-raising aqtiathon will be Saturday from 9
ajn. to noon to help send members of the UNL women's
swim team to the national meet in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
Team members will swim a maximum of ?fY1 tana nW
in the 25-yard Women's Physical Education Bldg. pool.
Coach Pat Sullivan said she hopes to raise $1 ,000.
Independents Steve and Dave Kramer, senior and
sophomore , from Lincoln, respectively, - won the
intramural paddleball doubles championship Tuesdsy
night.
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Coach Joe Cipriano will try to get his team back on the
' winning track Saturday when UNL's basketball team hosts
Colorado University (CU) in a 7:35 pjn. game at the
Coliseum.
The Huskers will be trying to rebound from a 65-60
loss to Oklahoma University Wednesday night that
dropped the Huskers to 6-2 in the Big 8 Conference play
and a tie for second place vith Kansas State.
The Huskers will need a win to keep up with Missouri
University, which took a 72-71 victory over Oklahoma
State University Wednesday. The Tigers, now 7-1 in Big 8
Uphill dash awaits
Husker trackmen
By Dennis Onnen
The Nebraska track team is no longer the Big 8 Confer
ence doormat, but the Huskers do not appear quite ready
to step across the threshhold and regain the indoor crown
they won in 1972 and 1973.
After a last-place finish in the Big 8 indoor meet last
spring, the Huskers showed they were on the way back
with a 92-39 win over Iowa State University (ISU)in the
opening meet Jan. 24. However, they lost a triangular
meet to Oklahoma University and defending Big 8 cham
pion Kansas University one week later.
"This is a very str6ng year in the conference," said
John Korky, UNL assistant track coach. "To finish in the
upper division is not going to be an easy thing."
Although several Huskers have marks that put them in
UNL's all-time top ten, some may be hard pressed to place
high in the conference meet. Sophomore Dean Herzog of
Lansing, Kan., exemplifies the Huskers' frustrations.
He highjumped 6 ft. 1 1 in. in the ISU meet, the highest
ever for a Husker, indoors or outdoors. But he stands only
, third in the conference. Missouri University freshman Nat
Page has cleared , 7 ft. 1 in. twice and ISU's Steve Kuehl
has jumped 7 ft.
In the triangular meet, sophomore Steve Millard of No.
Bellmore, N.Y., hurled the shot put 54 ft. 4 34 in.,
fourth best in Husker history. Yet he placed fifth in the
meet.
Three other Huskers, now ranked third on the all-time
char, are sophomore David Green of Jamaica, who has
jumped 49 ft. 8 in. in the triple jump, freshman Doug
Phelps of Hastings, who high jumped 6 ftT 10 in. and
sophomore Harold Stelzer of Scituate, Mass., who ran
8:52.1 in the two mile.
The Huskers next see action Saturday against the Air
Force Academy and Utah University in Colorado Springs,
Colo. Korky said Air Force has lost just one of Its last 15
home duals and will be tough to beat. ' .
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play, host Iowa State University Saturday.
"Colorado is a good team that has not gotten many
breaks this year," Cipriano said. "Dave Logan is a fins
athlete who can hurt you if you give him the chance. Even
though Colorado's record is not impressive, they are still
a very competitive team and we will have to come up wth
a total team effort to beat them."
CU is led by two-sport star Logan. The 6 ft. 5 in. senior
guard is averaging 14 .points and 6.5 rebounds a game.
Other starters for the Buffs are guard Jay Sferra, for
wards Greg Mueller and Dave Bolen and center Larry
Vaculik..'
Vaculik, a 6 ft. 8 in. sophomore from Omaha Ryan
High School, is averaging S3 points and seven rebounds a
game.
"As a team, we've returned to the same form we were
in last December," CU coach Sox Walseth said. "We're
playing sloppy basketball and making mental errors.
Losing all those one- and two-point conference games that
we did has certainly taken its toll."
Colorado is 4-16 on the season and 1-7 in Big 8 play
but has lost five games by less than five points.
The Huskers are led by Jerry Fort. Fort, a 6 ft. 3 in.
guard from Chicago, is averaging 19.9 points a game. He
hit 20 points in the loss to Oklahoma.
CU leads the series with the Huskers 43-30. The two
teams have met once this season, with the Huskers taking
a 66-64 victory in Boulder.
nebraskan
Correction
The proposed rate increase for single rooms , in UNL
residence halls is $50, from $1,490 to $1,540, according
to UNL Housing Director Richard Armstrong. Monday's
Daily Nebraskan incorrectly reported that the increase
for single rooms would be $35. That figure is the increase
for double rooms, which will be raised from $1,190 to
$1,225, Armstrong said.
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For those who bemoan the United States Olympic
team's lag behind the Soviet Union and East Germany, in
the Winter Olympics, at Innsbruck, Austria, there is one
explanation: . x - . ;
Professionalism.
Unlike the United States, Russia and East Germany
have no professional sports. Thus, top athletes in those
countries compete in a number of Olympics, while some
American amateurs graduate to the rich fields of pro
fessional sports after one Olympic outing.
American sports, which have no professional hierarchy,
generally lack competitive interest.
Sports like bobsledding, luge and ski jumping are
basically hobbies in the United States. In other countries,
they can be obsessions.
The Russian hockey team, which defeated the United
States 6-2 last Friday, is comprised of Russian army
veterans. Some have been playing for more than 10 years.
However, the American hockey team, organized last
August, is comprised mostly of college students. Some
are only 19-years old.
Russia's Olympic team is composed of players from the
two Russian teams that toured the United States last fall
and beat many of the top National Hockey League (NHL)
clubs.
The Russian team is made of the country's best hockey
players-the best American players are in the NHL and
World Hockey League.
The Russian team stays organized since team members
are stationed at the same base. This may seem unfair, but
the United States could do the same thing if the top
players could be convinced to enlist.
Figure skating is another area. The Russian couples
champion were in their tenth yeaf of international com
petition. American stars eventually turn professional, like
Peggy Fleming, the last American figure skater to win a
gold medal. , ,
Another factor is that Russia and the Eastern European
countries give their athletes greater subsidies than the
United States does.
It costs an American athlete a lot of money to compete
and train in most sports, like skiing and skating. The
United States Olympic Committee practically begs for
money just io send these athletes to the games.
An amateur athlete who remains an amateur in the
United States really has nothing to gain. Glory doesn't
buy much food.
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By Jim Hunt
Confidence is the key to success for UNL distance
swimmer Pat Murphy. -
"Sometimes I underestimate my ability," said the
sophomore from Coronado, Calif. "But I am beginning to
realize that if you don't believe in yourself you shouldn't
be swimming." v .
Murphy said he came to UNL because he said he
thought he had a better chance of swimming here than at
some of what he called powerful California schools.
Last year as a freshman, Murphy placed sixth in the
1 ,650-yard freestyle in the Big 8 Conference meet.
"Being a freshman, I waskind of nervous," Murphy
said. "I might have a chance! to win this vear, but I am
shooting more for a good time to qualify for the national
. meet."
Murphy said he wants to have one of the top times in
the 1 ,000-yard freestyle going Into the Big 8 meet because
the top six timet are seeded in the men's 1 ,650-yard event. ,
, . lis said it is harder psychologically to tain, sJace he is"
the only distance man on the squads
Murphy and the rest of coach John Reta's swimmers
will be in action tonight at Lawrence, Kan., in a meet with
Colorado and defending Big 8 champion 'Kansas
Universities. , . , ' '... -.
"Kansas is a team with a lot of versatility and depth "
Reta said. "They are led by Tom Kempf, who can swim
anything from the 1,000-yard freestyle down to the 200
yard freestyle." ' .
One of the featured races in the meet should be the
200-yard breaststroke, Reta said. The race will include
swimmers with the top three times in the Big 8. Huskers
Pat DiEiase and Bryan Moss rank first and third respec-
After Friday's meet, the fluweers travel to Oklahoma
University Feb. 20, and Oklahoma State University Feb.
21 before the Big 8 championships at Iowa State Univer
sity in Ames March 3 through 6.
Reta said that no swimmers from the Dig 8 have qutU
fled for the national meet yet.
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