daily nebraskan
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Athletes get short vacations, contests keep teams busy
monday, January 14, 1980
By Ron Powell
While UNL students have been on vacation for the past
three weeks, some UNL athletes didn't get a vacation
from theirjiports.
The most notable sporting event was the Cotton Bowl,
in which the Huskers lost to Houston by the familiar score
of 17-14 on New Year's Day.
It appeared the Huskers would dominate the game in
the first quarter. Houston's John Newhouse fumbled on
the first play of the game and L.C. Cole recovered for
Nebraska at the Houston 25 -yard line. But the drive
stalled and Dean Sukup missed a 23-yard field goal try.
The Huskers' second drive, however, was more
productive. UNL drove 85 yards in 14 plays with I-back
Jarvis Redwine covering the final nine yards for the score.
Sukup's extra point made it 7-0 with 5:15 left in the first
quarter.
Cougars slowed offense
After the touchdown, the Houston defense clamped
down on the Nebraska offense, holding the Huskers to
just 228 total yards. Cougar backup quarterback Terry
tlston came in and led Houston to its first score in the
second quarter; an 8-yard run by Elston that capped a 71
yard drive.
The score remained 7-7 until the fourth quarter when
Houston kicker Kenny Hatfield kicked a 41-yard field
goal to give the Cougars a 10-7 lead with 8:25 left in the
contest.
But the Huskers came right back. Bill Barnett
recovered a Newhouse fumble on the Houston 31 and it
took Nebraska six plays to score. The Huskers appeared to
score a touchdown on a trick "swinging gate" play in
which quarterback Jeff Quinn snapped the ball to
Redwine who ran in for the score. The play was nullified
by a penalty on both teams.
. Huskers hold on
On the next play, however, Quinn found back-up tight
end Jeff Finn all alone in the end zone for a 6-yard touch-'
down pass. With Sukup's extra point, victory seemed to
be in the Husker's grasp with a 14-10 lead with 2:10 left
in the game. . .
The Cougars came right back on the strength of
Elston's arm and receiving of Eric Herring. The clinching
touchdown came on a 6-yard pass from Elston to Herring
on fourth down with just 12 seconds left.Husker corner
back Rick Lindquist appeared to have broken the pass up,
but the ball was tipped right to Herring.
The Huskers ended the season 10-2 and ranked seventh
nationally in the Associated Press poll and ninth in the
United Press International poll.
Semester break started well for the UNL men's basket
ball team. First, the Huskers defeated Alabama-Birmingham
92-84 in a four-overtime thriller at home.
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Houston quarterback Terry Elston eludes the grasp of Husker linebacker Brent Williams en route to scoring the
Cougars' first touchdown in their 17-14 Cotton Bowl victory over Nebraska.
Then, the Huskers went to Hawaii to play in the Rain
bow Classic. They won their first round game 83-82 in
overtime against Wisconsin. Forward Jerry Shoecraft
connected on both ends of a ,one-andone with two
seconds left in overtime for the win. -
In the semi-final game, against Hawaii, disaster struck
for -the Huskers. Forward Tim West, who had been
averaging 13 points a game, severely sprained an ankle
early in the first half of that game and has still not re
turned to action. ; - . '
Men return home .
The Huskers lost to Hawaii 67-55 and then lost the
third place' game 65-58 to nationally ranked Louisville.
Before returning home, the Huskers stopped to play Idaho
Jan. 2, and lost 64-55.
Nebraska pick.d up a pair of easy wins against
Wisconsin -Oshkosh Jan. 4 and Angelo State Jan. 5. The
team opened the Big Eight season Jan. 9 with a 58-50 win
at Iowa State, and lost to Missouri Saturday, 84-63.
The women's basketball team, now 13-9, opened
vacation with a pair of home victories against Iowa and
the University of Manitoba before leaving for a six-game
road swing. -
The Huskers lost their first game 64-63 to Queens
College Jan. 2, but came back to beat St. John's
University 73-68 Jan, 3 and Fairleigh Dickinson 65-56
Jan. 4. v. . -.
On Jan. 7, Nebraska lost to the nation's fifth ranked
team, Tennessee, 8242, but the next night the Huskers
avenged an earlier loss to Tennessee Tech with a 73-60
win.
'On Friday night, the Huskers traveled to Ruston, La.
to play the nation's top ranked team, Louisiana Tech. The
Huskers trailed by only four points, 62-58 with eight
minutes remaining, but Tech finished strong for an 88-64
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