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daily nebraskan
thursday, September 28, 1978
sports
Husker freshmen prepare
for season opener Friday
By Buck Mahoney
One of the most successful freshmen
football programs on the major college
level opens its 1978 season tomorrow at
Memorial Stadium.
The UNL freshmen team has compiled a
62-8-0 record since 1956 with third year
coach Guy Ingles now in charge of the pro
gram. Ingles has an 8-2 record entering this
season.
On their way to a 4-1 record last year,
the Huskers outscored their opponents
121-63. Their only loss was to the Missouri
Junior Varsity by the score of 12-10.
The Husker freshmen have won 15
consecutive home games. The last time
they lost in Lincoln was to McCook Junior
College, 21-13 in 1969.
Mavericks scoreless
The freshmen have played the Maverick
Junior Varsity every year since 1974. The
Huskers have won all four of the contests
and have held the Mavericks scoreless,
including a 21-0 victory last year.
"I hope that will be the case on Fri
day," Ingles said, "But they'll have a fine
football team."
Ingles said he thinks UNO will play
with a lot of enthusiasm.
UNO had a fine recruiting year inside
Nebraska, Ingles said.
"There are some good players there," he
said. "We wish we had some of them here."
The UNL freshmen squad has about 100
players on the roster, 75 of them walk-ons.
Team leaders
Ingles said that the offense will be led
by split end Anthony Bush from Anniston,
Ala., lineman Randy Theiss from St. Louis,
Mo, and Mike Mandelko of Lexington.
Defensively, the Huskers will be led by
lineman Felix White of Lincoln, linebacker
Scott Poppe of Hebron and back Dan
Fischer of Lincoln. Fischer's older brother,
Tim, is a starter on the varsity.
Another of the leaders on the offensive
team will be quarterback Bruce Mathison
from Superior, Wis. Mathison enrolled in
January and practiced in spring training
with the varsity.
big advantage for me,"
"I learned most of the
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Mathison said.
offense."
Good practices
He said he thinks the freshmen team
will have a successful season and practices
have been going well this year.
The transition from high school to
college football and the problems of learn
ing new terminology and systems has made
preparation for the game difficult,
Mathison said.
"We're just learning the two defenses we
know that they run," he said.
This year the freshmen team has lost
some players because UNL will take advan
tage of the new NCAA rule that allows a
freshman to be redshirted so he will be able
to have four years of varsity action.
Redshirted
Todd Brown, a walk-on from Holdrege,
Steve Damkroger from Lincoln, Steve
McWhirter from Fairfield, Iowa and Jamie
Williams from Davenport, Iowa are four
Huskers that will be redshirted under the
new rule.
Although some talent will be taken
from the freshman team, Ingles said, he did
not think the new rule will hurt the
Nebraska freshmen program.
"We're not looking to redshirt very
many people," he said.
The freshmen have five games besides
the one with UNO, on the schedule for this
year. They play Kansas State and Missouri
in Lincoln and will be on the road against
Iowa State and Dodge City Community
College.
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UNL freshman football coach Guy Ingles prepares his team for the upcoming game
with the Omaha Mavericks, who they have defeated during four previous meetings.
Bostock was Angel of Los Angeles baseball and charity
By Jeff Taebel and
L. Kent Walgamott
Even though two of the division races in
major league baseball were decided this
week, the biggest news in baseball was the
tragic shooting death of California Angels
star outfielder Lyman Bostock.
Bostock, who was batting. 291, ninth
among American League hitters, was shot
Saturday night while riding in a car in
Gary, Indiana. The man arrested for the
crime did not know Bostock.
baseball
It is disheartening to note that it takes
an incident such as this to remind us that
high-salaried professional athletes are not
merely statistics on the sports page or
weekend images on the television screen.
The loss of Bostock not only was a se
vere blow to the California Angels but to
all of baseball.
hi his fourth year in the major leagues,
Bostock was one of baseball's rising young
stars whose play was typified by aggressive
hitting and heads-up fielding with a degree
of intensity that few could match.
Despite the fact that he was one of base
ball's highest paid players, Bostock always
felt a great responsibility towards his team
and community.
His early season performance with the
Angels was disastrous, prompting many
California fans to cry out that he was not
worth the money he was being paid. There
were also some skeptics who felt that his
outstanding 1977 performance with the
Minnesota Twins might have been a one-shot.
However, Bostock surprised all of his
detractors by asking Angels owner Gene
Autry to withhold his first month's pay
check, since his performance was not up
to par. When Autry declined, Bostock
donated the money to charities.
Bostock also purchased a number of
tickets to Angels games which he gave to
underprivileged children in the Los Ange
les area.
Bostock's example could well be fol
lowed by some of his colleagues in base
ball as well as by athletes in other sports.
His play will be missed by the Angels
and his low-key, team-oriented attitude
will be missed by all baseball followers in
these days of high priced, loudly
complaining superstars.
The first division race to be clinched
this year was the National League West as
the defending NL champions, the Los
Angeles Dodgers, finally put away the
Cincinnati Reds and San Francisco Giants.
The Dodgers cruised through the home
stretch on top of some of the strongest
hitting and pitching in baseball. The
Dodgers now lead the National League in
each category.
While Dodger stars Reggie Smith and
Don Sutton have had their problems of
late, the slack has been more than amply
taken up by Steve Garvey and Burt Hooton
who are playing their best baseball of the
season.
In the American League West, the
season-long dogfight between the Cali
fornia Angels and the Kansas City Royals
ended Tuesday night as the Royals
clinched the division crown with a six game
cushion.
The Royals have been propelled of late,
by the strong pitching of Dennis Leonard
and the play of unheralded reserves like
Pete LaCock, Joe Zdeb and U. L. Washing
ton. Philadelphia seems to be on the verge of
ending their season long struggle to retain
their National League East crown,
however, a season-ending series with the
second place Pittsburgh Pirates could prove
to be the decisive factor in this race.
The American League East race seems
destined to go down to the last game as
the New York Yankees still cling to a one
game lead over the resurgent Boston Red
Sox. Unfortunately, the two teams will not
meet head to head again this season, so
their fate rests in the hands of other
American League clubs.
A division playoff, if necessary, would
held in Boston on Oct. 2 and the league
playoffs would begin on Oct. 3. The
National League playoffs begin Oct. 4.
Coach 'confident9 of cross country team
The Cornhusker men's cross country
team gets its first test this Saturday when
it races Kansas State in Lincoln.
Coach Bob Unger said he has eight to
ten runners, including three who competed
for the team last year, who have been
"working out seriously" since classes
started.
The 1977 Husker team placed fourth in
the conference and Unger said the primary
goal of the team is to improve on that
finish.
And he thinks they can do just that.
Colorado is everybody's choice to win
it. They won very easily last year," Unger
said. "Without being totally up-to-date on
the other schools, I think it is wide open.
"If we do well against Kansas State and
Missouri, I think we will do well in the
conference."
The three returning runners
are seniors Steve Allen, and Mark Fluitt
and sophomore Brian Dunnigan. Unger
called all three "good and consistent
runners."
Joining them on the squad will be fresh
men Daniel Chirchir, Stuart Jenkins and
Tom Bowmaster and senior Kevin
Hoffman.
Unger termed Chirchir, who is from
Kenya, and Jenkins, who ran a marathon in
under two hours and 30 minutes in high
school, as being very good distance
runners.
Unger said it is hard to tell who will be
the top man on the team between Allen,
Fluitt, Dunnigan, Chichir and Jenkins.
"It could fluctuate about who will be
the top man, it is that close," he said.
Dunnigan won a three-mile runoff
earlier this fall, but Unger said, "In the
longer races, Allen and Jenkins could be
better. Well just have to see how it
develops in meet competition."
Saturday's race will be four miles. Unger
said, and will start at 10 ajn. at Wilderness
Park, 1st and Van Dorn streets.