friday, december 14, 1979
page 20
daily nebraskan
But Mee whiz, Coadbu it's Christmas 1'
'Life in the Big Eight ends for students next week
tern porarily. But, while most of UNLs 22000 students
trek home for a month -long nap, some will be confined
to sweaty gymnasiums and musty tracks.
Life in the Big Eight goes on for a lot of UNL athletes.
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The Husker football team began full pad practice last
week in preparation for the Jan. 1 Cotton Bowl in Dallas,
Texas. The Huskers take on the Houston Cougars in what
should be one of the more exciting bowl games.
The Huskers will practice until Christmas Eve, but are
allowed to go home Christmas Day .
, Senior guard John Havekost said if the Huskers would
have beaten Oklahoma last month and were going to the
Orange Bowl, they probably wouldn't get Christmas off.
"It's kind of nice. I'm looking forward to spending
Christmas at home for once," he said .
The UNL men's basketball. team will play seven games
and travel to Honolulu for three days to play in the Rain
bow classic during winter break.
Saturday, Jan. 12, the Huskers take on Missouri in an
annual Big Eight rival match up. Right now; Missouri is
50 for the season, including a win over USC last week.
The Huskers then launch heavily into their Big Eight
schedule, playing Kansas Jan. 18. ,
The UNL women's basketball team is scheduled to play
eight games during the semester break, including UNO and
Oklahoma.
Head Coach Lorrie Gallagher has said she is pleased
with the Huskers performance this year.
"Diane DelVigna has really come on strong for us," srn
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Don 't slipi
UNL student Steve Turner climbs Emerald
Lake icefall last, Friday during a Recreation
Department snow and ice climbing trip to the
Rocky Mountains near Estes Park, Colo. Eight
students went on the trip which included
three days of actual climbing.
OU bowl ticket
Although the UNL athletic ticket office is close to sell-1
ing out its total allotment of tickets for the NU-Houston
Cotton Bowl clash, apparently the Oklahoma ticket office
is having difficulty selling out its allotment for the Orange
Bowl.
According to Helen Ruth Wagner, ticket manager, the
university has sold about 14,000 tickets for the Husker's
New Year's Day clash. ',
Wagner said that some remaining orders may still be
filled because more tickets recently came to the depart
ment. ; V ; .
But according to the Associated Press, the Oklahoma
University athletic department has turned over approxi
mately 2,500 Orange Bowl tickets to Florida State, the
Sooner's New Year's opponent.
There hasn't been this little interest in an OU Orange
Bowl battle since 1962 when 8,500 Oklahoma fans pur-
s not sellin
chased tickets to see their Sooners lose to Alabama 1 7-0,
Only 350 student tickets were sold for this year's
game, compared to the 950 sold for last year's OU-Nebras-ka
rematch, ,
OU ticket manager John Cherry said that last year,
Oklahoma sold its entire 12,500 allotment and had to
deny some requests. Cherry added that this year's lack of
enthusiasm Isn't surprising,
'This is the third year in a row we've been there," he
said, "It costs so much to go down there, this is not a
national championship game and there's no big rivalry
between the two schools. It's just a lot , of ingredients
combined."
Florida State also was alloted 12,500 tickets, but
according to their ticket manager Claude Thigpen, "We
could have sold 30,000 to 35,000 tickets if I'd have had
them."
said.
The Husker wrestling team also will see sports action
during vacation. The Huskers take on Colorado St., North,
west Missouri and Northern Illinois in a home triangular
Jan. 12. , ,
The next week, Jan. 19, they face Oklahoma State at
home. The Cowboys finished second in the Big Eight last
year. ...
The men's swimming team will spend two weeks tram
ing and competing in Texas, and the women's team will
host the AAU Christmas Classic Dec. 14-16.
The women's gymnastics team will . meet Iowa
Saturday, Dec. 15 but the men's team won't begin its
regular season until Jan, 19 facing Colorado at home.
Both the men's and women's track teams have been
working out this fall, and will continue to train during
vacation. Meets for the two teams will begin in the middle
of January.
inframurals
The Phi Kappa Psl "A" team defeated the Stooge
Boys, 8-15, 15-6, and 15-11 in the finals of the All
University volleyball championships. The Phi Psis ended
the season undefeated, as they took the title away from
the Stooge Boys who were defending champs. To get to
the finals, the Phi Psis defeated the Falcons, 6-4, 4-10,
and 12-0 while the Stooge Boys beat the Phi Delta Theta
"B" team, 15-3, 8-6.
Members of the winning team are: dark Rasmus
sen, Bill Goa, Dan Guenther, Wayne Reinwald, Tim
Meyers, Steve Hovendick, and Kirk Hovendick.
The co-rec All-University basketball championship
was played Wednesday night with the team of Sigma Nu
and D1LLWRGAD defeating Gather 6 by the score of
48-39 to claim the title.
Drop in and express your opinions of the Student
Recreation Buildings site design display on Friday, Dec
14, 12:30 to 4:30 in the Centennial Room of the
Union,
Intramural entries are due Friday, Dec. 14 by 5 p.m.
In the Recreation Office for men's and facultystaff
basketball and women's and co-rec volleyball.
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She advised stopping by any one of the seven city mu
seums. All are no-cost operations except the wax museum,
The museums, including health and science, garden, fine
arts, natural arts, and "Age of Steam," are located in State
Fair Park, which Tex said is near the Cotton Bowl.
Neiman Marcus, "the largest specialty store in the
world" was another not-to-miss on Tex's list, She said if
she were a tourist to Dallas, this stop would prove expen
sive, but entertaining,
. . ,
. The Cotton Bowl Parade is a highlight Cornhuskers can
catch gratis in downtown Dallas, on the morning of the
game,
Tex forewarned Nebraskans traveling to Dallas of the
room shortage,
"People who don't have rooms won't get them down
town," she said, but accommodations further from the
.Cotton Bowl still are available, ; , , ;;, , i u ;, -.m
SEVERAL TRAVEL agencies in Lincoln are offering
excursions to Dallas to see the Cornhuskers battle the Uni-
versity of Houston Cougars, Packages Vary in price from
$596 for single rooms to $89 per person-four to a room.
Lincoln Tour and Travel was by far the most expensive
agency offering Cotton Bowl charters, with the "Air
Fare" package running $596 per person per room; $489
for two per room, ' ; -V
This air package entails a four-night stay at the "top
notch deluxe" Fairmont Hotel in downtown Dallas,
. according to tour coordinator Leslie Stauffer, Apre-game
brunch with cocktails, inflieht meals, came tickets in.
Dallas transit, and taxes round out the fare, Stauffer said,
Lincoln Tour and Travel also offers two coach pack
ages; with slightly less services offered, and accordingly
lower prices, The $299 package includes three nights at
the Holiday Inn; the Ramada Inn being the home for the
$275 buyers,
The agency offers two "land packages" according to
Stauffer, You provide the transportation-they provide
game tickets and a place to stay,
Travel Unlimited of Lincoln offers similar packages,
according to manager Tom Cebuhar, With their land pack
age at $89 per person-four per roonwhey offer the low.
est price of travel agencies contacted,
ACCORDING TO CEBUHAR, Travel Unlimited kept
their package low-key because the main eve" of the trip
is the game,
Most people will "go down, see the game, rest a few
days, and come home," he said.
The agency has had about 100 people apply for their
various trips,
Via Van Bloom of Lincoln has medium-range prices for
their package deals to Dallas, but has the extra incentive
! no ' accommodations with the football team at the
Mariot Market Center,
Sherri Case, travel consultant of Via Van Bloom, said
that in addition to air-fare, hotel, game tickets, in-city
transit taxes and tips, their package offers optional New
Year's Eve festivities at the Mariott.
The Misty III restaurant of Havelock is again sponsor
ing their annual bowl-game charter, according to manager
Steve Stutzman,
Four days with the Misty at the DuPont Plaza Hotel
runs 5249 per person for double accommodations, with
bus transportation, luggage, tips, taxes and "a vctory
cocktail party," Stutzman said.