Wednesday, October 8, 1980
page 10
daily nebraskan
Johnson says football part of life's challenges
By Joni Kramer
Although he is unhappy that Jarvis Red
wine is injured, Craig Johnson said he is
looking forward to starting this week
against Kansas.
Johnson was advanced to the starting I
back position because Redwine fractured
a rib against Florida State. The injury
could keep Redwine out for as much as
three weeks.
want and we're pulling for each other,"
Johnson said. "There will be games when
the defense works well, and other games, it
will be the offense. We all help each other
and just remember not to get down on
each other for a bad performance."
Looking at his role at Nebraska in the
past three years, Johnson said his responsi
bilities have made him grow up a lot, and
the challenges he has faced have given him
a "never quit" attitude.
"Even though I've been discouraged
at times, I've never really felt like quit
ting," Johnson said. "My feelings of gain
overcome all the discouraging times. There
will always be sore spots, but that's iust
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"This year we can be as good as we part of life."
Despite having to play on the second
string team most of his career, Johnson's
attitude of team orientation has been evident.
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Johnson, who has been playing football
since he was 7 years old, said a number of
factors kept him interested and active in
football all these years.
"My parents influenced my start, and
later my dad coached me, nd this factor
played in my continuing ambition to play.
As I grew up, I found that football was the
best sport for my talent, and 1 continued
because 1 was rarely discouraged," Johnson
said.
"1 find football a challenge and some of
my incentive for college ball is all the
people who come to watch us. Knowing
this helps work for the game," Johnson
said.
Some loyalty and some good football is
what Johnson says brought him to UNL.
"I'm from Omaha and after comparing
football elsewhere, I figured why go out of
state when the best is right here in Nebras
ka," Johnson said.
Although Johnson said he feels athletics
can hinder an education because it takes so
much time, he feels football has been an
asset to his education.
"By playing football, I'm getting school
paid for. Some people may think footbaU
is a lot of pressure, but if I wasn't playing,
I'd probably be working to pay for my
school, which is a pressure," Johnson said.
No matter what turns up in the future,
Johnson said football will have an effect.
"If I get the chance to play pro ball, I'll
jump on it," Johnson said. "But, being a
business major, I'd like to have my own
business, and learning to face challenges
through football and school will help in
other life challenges. Playing at Nebraska
will also be beneficial in my future because
of the exposure we've gotten."
Johnson, who is getting married in
April, and who will graduate this year, said
that when football ends his ambition is to
raise a family.
"I want to raise my children as well as
my parents raised me, and I hope to pre
pare them for life as well as I feel I have
been," Johnson said.
Photo by Mitch Hrdlicka
Craig Johnson escaped a tackle in the Florida State game last weekend.
Frosh game postponed
Even more tickets
f The UNL Ticket Office announced that
The freshman footbal game between persons holding iottery numbers 1 through
Kansas and Nebraska will be postponed 2,662 will receive tickets to the Colorado
untd Monday at 1:30 p.m. in Lawrence, Nebraska football game. Students can
Kan The game was originally scheduled for' pick their tickets up today from 9 t0 noon
this Friday. and from 1 to 4 p.m.
Redwine continues to lead the nation in rushing
Despite being injured late in the Florida State game.
Husker I-back Jarvis Redwine still leads the nation in rush
ing. Redwine has picked up 666 yards on 88 carries for an
average of 7.6 yards per carry and 166.5 yards per game.
Dwayne Crutchfield of Iowa State and David Overstreet
of Oklahoma were 12th and 14th, respectively, with aver
ages of 1 19 and 1 16 yards per game.
ions to lead the nation with 1 .25 per game.
In scoring, Redwine and Crutchfield are tied for
first in the conference and the nation, averaging nine
points per game.
Nebraska's Todd Brown is second in Big Eight pass
receiving, averaging 3.7 catches per game. Oklahoma's
Mel Campbell leads the conference and is seventh in the
country with a 5 3 catch per game average.
Missouri's Bill Whitaker has picked off five intercept- Redwine is third nationally is all-purpose running,
averaging 181.7 yards per game. Oklahoma's David Over
street is the only Big Eight player to be ranked nation
ally in this category at 20th with a 1413 yards per game
average.
In the Associated Press Poll, the Huskers slipped from
third to 10th, and in the United Press International Poll
the Huskers are ranked ninth.
Ohio State, upset by UCLA last Saturday, slipped from
second to ninth in AP and tenth in UPI.
Goalie says meeting people a soccer club bonus
By Inta Rizijs
Getting out and meeting a lot of new people is what
'senior Phillip Strevey notes as being the best part of
playing on the UNL Soccer Team. Stervey is the goalie
for the team and also serves as the soccer club president.
Stervey started his soccej career in high school. Al
though he's originally from England (100 miles from
London) he spent most of his life in Miami, Fla. He began
by playing full-back on the high school soccer team.
When the goalie for the team graduated from high school,
Strevey decided to go out for the sport.
-I tried out for it and IVe just stuck with it, Strevey
said. For me, it's the best position."
When Strevey came to UNL he immediately got in
volved with soccer,
"At first, it was just a fun thing to do," he said. "Now
we've developed a pretty good team and Fm more serious
about it."
Strevey decided to attend UNL because his father,
who was originally from Nebraska, moved here. Strevey is
majoring in agronomy arid plans to go overseas when he
graduates to work for chemical plants and large fertil
izer companies in England. He said that he's been vary
ing his classes to include a background in both business
and farm management, but is mostly interested in doing
actual work in the fields.
Hobbies seem to lean, in one direction for Strevey,
He played basketball in high school and spends his sum
mers doing the same. He also enjoys watching other
sports. Photography is another one of his interests.
Strevey doesn't plan on playing soccer when he goes
to England although it is their major sport. A lot of
emphasis is placed on soccer in Miami., too. He noted
the difference in support between UNL and Florida.
"It's (soccer) just been there longer than it has here,"
Strevey said. He said the main reason was because high
percentage of Latins down there.
"Soccer is a major sport in South America," he said.
"When they came here (United States) they developed
soccer in youth league, then high schools, and finally
colleges,"
Strevey said that if, given the chance, he probably
wouldn't play any other position than goalie.
Scheduling classes around practice hasn't posed any
problem for him. Practicing 10 to 12 hours a week along
with games can get pretty heqtic, he said.
"It especially gets hectic when we have six games in
five days," Strevey said. ""But it's the kind of game I
could never get tired of."
