thursday, September 23, 1970
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DyMHie McCarthy
The athletes running up and down Memorial Stadium's
steps are not Husker football players. They are members
cf Nebraska's rowing crew.
UNL coach Mark Stormberg has 24 men and 14 wo
conditioning on land and water before the team
travels to the Head of the Regatta meet in Boston Oct.
17, which Stormberg called "the largest single-day sport
izh event in the world."
Stormberg said he is encouraged by both the men's
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Capital Beach last spring. The crews use cf the lake
ths fall is in doubt.
and women's teams, and thinks both will do well this
year. UNL has won the Dig 8 Conference crown the past
two seasons and has placed consistently hfch against top
class teams across the nation.
Despite Sternberg's optimism, the crew has run into
what could a mjaor problem. Last year the crew rowed
at Capitol Beach. This fall, however, problems have arisen .
about a verbal agreement between the crew and the Capi
tol Beach management concerning the crew's use of the
lake.
Stormberg said the problem concerns crew equipment
, stored on the marina property at the lake. He said there
was a misunderstanding between the man who operates
the marina and the crew.
- Stormberg said he would know early next week if the
crew would be able to use Capitol Beach this fall. In the
meantime, the crew has been rowing at Branched Oak
Lake.
Stormberg, a UNL architecture graduate last spring
was named interim coach this fall. He replaced Bob
Spousta.
Pete Zandhergen, UNL graduate and. former crew
coach several years ago, said, "Bob felt there was no
future for crew because the university was unwilling to
support the program. Bob accomplished a lot before he
left...."
' Zandbergen, currently the crew's adviser and publicity
manager, said UNL's decision not to support the crew
came to a head this summer after five years of conflict.
Zandbergen 'said he and two other crew supporters
first went to Athletic Director Bob Devney in the sum
mer of 1975 to request money.
"Devaney referred us to (NU) President D. B. Vamer,"
Zandbergen said. "The president told us to talk to (UNL)
Chancellor Roy Young. The chancellor handed down the
decision that the administration will not support the
crew
Despite lacking UNL's "extra support," Zandbergen
said the crew "is not too bad off financially.
"If the administration could have given crew $15,000,
crew could have raised another $15,000," Stormberg said.
"Last year crew spent $30,000 on equipment, coaching
salaries and traveling expenses.
"AH they gave us was a pat on the back and hope for
the future."
From the university, crew receives a portion of student
fees and free rental of the crew building north of Nebras
ka Hall.
Friends of Nebraska Rowing, the crew's booster club,
also supplies donations.
"People forget that crew is a varsity sport, not intra
murals," Zandbergen said. "The fact is not that crew is
important, but that crew brings credibility to UNL and it
serves the students." :
Zandbergen and Stormberg agreed that the money they
requested is essential to pay a full-time coach and two
assistants. -
"Crew has grown to the point that it's a three-man
job," Zandbergen said.
Stormberg said that when he first became involved
with UNL's crew program, it consisted of a 1928 eight-
Winter athletes straining iat weights
two months before
By Jen Haat
- Participants in winter sports at UNL are busy preparing
for the upcoming season, although it's still more than two
months away for some sports.
Members of the gymnastics team have been practicing
since the beginning of the school year, coach Francis
Men said.
The team practices Sunday through Friday. There are
13 gymnasts out for the squad.
The Huskers are the defending Big 8 Conference gym
nastic champions. They won the title last March in Bould
er, Colo., by defeating Iowa State University (ISU), which
had been champion the last seven years.
. - GymiESt'sopessg "
The Husker gymnastic team will open its season Oct.
23 with a dual meet against ISU.
Husker basketball players are participating in a running
and weightlifting program designed by Husker strength
coach Boyd Epley. The Huskers run four days a week and
lift weights three days, according to head coach Joe Cip
riano. Cipriano said the Universities of Kansas, Oklahoma and
Missouri have running programs similar to UNL's.
The idea behind the running program is to have the
players in ti- h possible shape by the start of formal
practice," Ciprano said. "We want them in shape to prac
tice a full two hours the first day." v
Cipriano said the Huskers have been involved in a run
ning program for the last nine or ten years, but have not
been involved in weight work until the last four or five
seasons. " ... -
The Huskers, 19-8 last season for the third largest win
total in UNL's history, will open their season Nov. 27
their sports begin ":
against the , University of Iowa in the new UNL Sports
Complex.
UNL's wrestling team under coach Orval Borgialli has
not started formal practice yet, but has been in weight
training.
The wrestlers have been involved in circuit training (a
type of weight lifting) three days a week, Borgialli said.
Complex 'excitfeg
"The team's morale seems to be very high," Borgialli
said. "I think the new Sports Complex is exciting them."
Borgialli said he expects 50 wrestlers to turn out when
the team opens formal practice on Oct. 11.
"I found out we have more success by starting organiz
ed practice later," he said. "When we started practice
earlier, our wrestlers were burned out by the B 8 meet"
The wrestlers open their season Nov. 12 with the Great
Plains Tournament in Lincoln.
Swim coach John Reta has his 24 swimmers "easing
into practice," he said. 0
The swimmers are working on stroke technique, heart
and lung techniques, flexibility end strength work, Reta
said.
The swimmers also will be on a weight lifting program
three days a week through the season, Reta said. How
ever, the weight program will be cut back a few weeks be
fore the Big 8 meet, March 3 through 5 in Lincoln, he
said. .
"The idea is to start in gradually and build endurance
. from there," Reta said. "By November and December our
distance men will be swimming 18,000 yards a day."
The swim team is still practicing in the Coliseum pool,
but Reta said he hopes the team will be swimrrung in the
new Sports Complex by next week.
man shell, 16 members and no coach.
The Kimball native, who said he is leaving UNL at the
end of second semester, has no .coaching assistants.
"Coaching the women, freshmen, junior varsity and
varsity is physically unfeasible for one man," he said,
"Mark has a real challenge, but he can do the job,"
Zandbergen said.
Both men said a new coach will be found by next
spring.
Zandbergen said Nebraska's crew has such a reputable
name that they're not going to recommend just anyone
for the job as coach. Most professional crew coaches al
ready are hired this fall, he said.
Stormberg, a rower himself, said the main reason he
returned to UNL was to coach the women's crew team,
but that changed after Spousta left.
Stormberg spent the summer in Philadelphia receiving
rowing instructions from nationally-known coaches.
"Mark rows with some of the best scullers in the world
and should find out in the next two years if he can com
pete on an international level," Zandbergen said. "He
certainly has the desir? it potential."
sports shorts
All students interested in participating in UNL's crew
program are asked to attend a meeting at 8 pjn. today in
the crew boathouse, 1000 N. 16th St, just north of
Nebraska Hall.
An organizational meeting for UNL's Ice Hockey Gub
will be at 7:30 pjn. Sept. 28 in the Nebraska Union. For
additional information, contact Mark White at 435-5349.
Applications for the student migration lottery to the
Husker football game against the University of Colorado on
Oct. 9 in Boulder will be taken from 9 a jn. to noon and 1
to 4 pjn. Sept. 27 through 29.
The applications for the 667 tickets can be made in the
Athletic Dept. ticket office in the South Stadium Office
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sports quiz
UNL vs. CI3 8 Conference football foes
1. Name the Big 8 team that has scored only
nine points against Nebraska in the last five
years. "
2. Which Big 8 team has not beaten the Huskers
in 15 years?
3. Name the Big 8 team that has lost eight
straight and 13 of the' last 14 games against
Nebraska.
4. Which Big 8 team has never beaten Nebraska
since the arrival of Bob Devaney in 1962?
5. Name the Big 8 team that has beaten UNL.
only once in the last 16 years.
6. Name the only two Big 8 schools that have
beaten Nebraska in conference play in the last
seven years (1969-1975).
7. What is Nebraska's winning percentage vs. the
seven other Big 8 teams in games since 1969?
a. .735 b.. 766 c. .835
8. What former Nebraska running back holds
the single-game rushing record against another
Eig8team?
. 9. How many Eg 8 titles has Nebraska won or
shared since the arrival of Bob Devaney at NU
in 1962? a. 8 b. 9 c. 10 -10.
Only three Nebraskans have been conference
scoring leaders in the past 12 years of Big 8
play. Kent McCloughan in 1963 was one and
Joe Orduna in 1970 was another. Who was the
third?
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