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daily nebraskan
tuesday, november 1 1, 1980
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Osborne says 'big, physical' ISU may be tough
By Tad Stryker
At the start of the season, Tom Osborne was hoping
that Iowa State would provide his team with a breather
before it faced Oklahoma in what could be an emotional
encounter.
"But it doesn't look that way now," Nebraska's head
coach said at the weekly Extra Point Club luncheon Mon
day. The Cyclones started fast, racing to a 5-0 start before
losing their last four. They seem to be on a downswing,
but Osborne said if their running game is effective, they
could be as tough as Missouri, which beat Iowa State 14
10 Saturday.
"Iowa State seemed to have more momentum at the
end of the game. Missouri was on the ropes, but they hung
on," he said. "Iowa State just flat ran over them."
He said that ISU is a big, physical team.
"They'll have the biggest offensive line we've faced so
far," he said, "and Dwayne Crutchfield will be the biggest
quality back we've seen. We'll have to stop their running
game if we are going to win ."
No walkaway
"I was hoping Missouri would give Oklahoma a tough
game and we could go to Iowa State and not have to play
60 tough minutes-kind of a turnaround from 1978," he
said. Missouri still may give Oklahoma all it can handle,
but Osborne said he's not counting on a walkaway at
Ames.
Of the Kansas State rout, Osborne said, "All the
coaches and players were pleased with the most complete
game we've played all year.
"I thought the kicking game was pretty good," he said.
The Huskers kicked two field goals, punted only once,
and, according to Osborne, covered kickoffs pretty well,
except for one. The Wildcats broke second-half return be
yond the KSU 40 against the second-string kickoff team.
Also, "we didn't make real good decisions on punt
returns," Osborne said. Dave Liegl had a 21 -yard return,
but on other punts he "fielded the ball when he shouldn't
have, and let a couple go he should have caught," Osborne
said.
Osborne said jokingly that what really upset him about
Saturday's game was that K-State tried and made a two
point conversion after their touchdown.
"I try to be a nice guy, and where does it get you?" he
said. "We led 33-0 after (Mark) Mauer's touchdown near
the end of the first half, and I could have gone for two.
But when I did that at Lawrence, I got half the state of
Kansas mad at me, so we kicked the extra point. Then Jim
(KSU coach Dickey) turns right around and goes for two
on me. I was real irate about that."
Unfriendly neighbors
"We don't have too many friendly neighbors right
now," Osborne said, referring to the controversies that
have followed him so far this year. "We've got half of
Kansas, all of Missouri, and half of Iowa mad at us, all be
cause of the game of football."
Osborne praised the freshman team's 5-0 season and
said the freshmen would probably play the Huskers'
redshirted players in a scrimmage Thursday.
"They (freshmen) will probably get more competition
from them than they got from most teams they played
this year," Osborne said.
A freshman-redshirt scrimmage was played last year,
and Osborne said it turned into a spirited battle.
"Solich (Husker freshman caoch Frank) already told
me he wants to bring in some outside officials for the
game," Osborne said. "He doesn't want me or Lance Van
Zandt to referee the game, like we did last year. I think
he feels his team got cheated," Osborne said with a smile.
The scrimmage will be the final action for most of the
freshmen, but a few will be used on the scout team next
week to help run the wishbone offense for the Husker
defensive team, Osborne said.
"We'll take some of the faster guys, like Irving Fryar
and Turner Gill, and use them in practicing against the
wishbone," he said. "I think it's important that we get a
lot of speed in there before we see Oklahoma."
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Photo by Mark Billingsley
Defensive end Derrie Nelson watches Saturday's
action from the sidelines because of a pulled ham
string. Coach Tom Osborne is hoping to have Nelson
back in time for this week's Iowa State game.
Training changes increase swim team optimism
By Joni Kramer
Competing in the Iowa State Relays the weekend of
Nov. 1 opened the Nebraska women's swim team season.
Finishing fifth, Coach Ray Huppert said the team score
wasn't that good, but individual times were.
"This year we have a smaller team. We lost quite a few
through graduation, and three swimmers are injured, so
we just don't have the numbers," Huppert said. "The in
dividual times, however, were quite good for this early in
the season."
According to Huppert, the practice format from last
year hasn't changed, but the team is concentrating on
different areas.
"We've made some changes in our program," Huppert
said. "Our weight program is centered more around power
and our swimming workouts are run with more intensity
each day."
Huppert said there has not been any problems with the
changes, and practices are going extremely well.
"We're already ahead of ourselves from last year by
quite a bit. This comes from the girls hard work and
acceptance of workouts," Huppert said.
Mental boost
Beginning the competitive season has been the best
mental boost for the Huskers since training started in
September, he said.
"The mental attitude is getting better now that the
team is going into their meet season. They have the
opportunity now to see themselves under a competitive
meet atmosphere, so the spirit's better," Huppert said.
The average age of this year's team is 19. which has its
advantages and disadvantages. Huppert said.
"Getting young people from different parts of the
country brings in different philosophies that can add to
the program. The only problem with a young team is the
adjustment to a different environment that freshmen have
to make, but most make the adjustment quite well,"
Huppert said.
New recruits
New recruits this year include Marie Suppers from
Minnesota and Sandra Killon from Toronto, Canada.
Huppert said both are very talented as well as versatile.
Another recruit is Ann Stahlmecker, a diver from Canada
who Huppert said he is happy to have.
Walk-ons include Ann Briggs, a diver from Lincoln, and
Janet Goodridge, a swimmer from Illinois.
Coming up on Nov. 13 to 15, Nebraska has three mee
back to back. They meet Colorado State in Fort Collins
on Thursday, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming in Laramie
on Friday, and a seven team relay meet in Laramie on Sat
urday. Huppert said having three meets so close together
is not hard for the swimmers to handle at this point in the
season.
"Early in the season, consecutive meets aren't bad, be
cause of the intense training we're going through right
now," Huppert said.
Tough competition
The toughest competition Nebraska might face this
season, according to Huppert, will be in the first home
meet against Kansas, and the Husker Invitational.
"The week following Kansas we host the Husker Invita
tional. It should be an interesting meet with a lot of talent
and it should be one of the finest meets in the country
this season," Huppert said.
Eight of the nine teams competing in the Husker
Invitational scored at the national meet last year.
Huppert said he expects a tough, but good season, and
hopes for a lot of support.
"We've had tough competition before, but we have to
naintain our philosophy and have to swim the best to get
setter," Huppert said.
Women win; freshman bowls perfect game
By Scott Ahlstrand
The UNL Bowling Team has a new look this year,
and has started the season off right.
Competing in the Husker Invitational Collegiate
Bowling Tournament at the Nebraska Union lanes, Ne
braska's women finished first among the four-team
field, while the men finished third.
The women were paced by Judy Harrington, who
finished the twelve-game tournament with a 170-pin
average. Freshman Kevin McGeer led the men with a
193 average that included a 300 game. McGeer'sgamc
was the first sanctioned 300 game in the history of
the UNL bowling team and also the first sanctioned
300 by a UNL bowler on the union's lanes.
Husker Coach Rollie Hughes said that he hopes the
changes the team has made will allow it to remain
successful for the rest of the season.
"We c'.iange the team concept every year, trying to
get closer and closer to the perfect format," Hughes
said. "This year, more and more responsibility lies with
the bowlers. They make up their own rules, and except
for a few basics that I set down, they have total con
trol over the team."
Hughes said he feels that the main reason for all the
changes comes from the lack of financial support that
the team receives.
"Excep! for a little bit of aid that the rec room pro
vides, the bowlers have to pay their own way. Since
bowling isn't recognized as a collegiate sport, we don't
receive any aid from the university" Hughes said. "I've
always had the philosophy that it is hard to dictate
rules to a team when they pay their own way a good
deal of the time."
The students decided where and when they would
practice and what meets they would attend.
The team decided to drop out of the Kansas-Nebraska
league to save money.
"I think the move to drop out of the Kansas-Nebraska
league was just about the best thing we could've
done," Hughes said. "The league took too much ti-ne
and traveling. The team decided to attend more team
tournaments instead. Now the team doesn't have to
miss as much school, and because we've cut down on
our traveling we have less financial problems."
To alleviate some of their fiscal worries, the bowl
ing team is going to hold a bowl-a-thon Nov. 14. The
bowlers will take pledges for each game bowled and
their goal is to earn SI 00 per bowler.
The money that the team earns will go to paying
their way to tournaments. The team will attend the
Kansas State Classic, the St. Louis Collegiate Invita
tional and the Las Vegas Collegiate Invitational, among
others.
Although the team is preparing for these tourna
ments, its main goal is to reach the National Coliegiate
Finals in March.
"We have to finish first or second in our regional
tournament to make it to the sectionals, then if we win
the sectional, we'll be in the finals," Hughes said.
"We're in a really strong regional, we've got Wichita
State (the defending men's national champion) and
some other tough teams in there.
"Our women should have an excellent chance,"
he said, "and if our men perform well they'll have an
opportunity. The regional being held here will also give
us a home-lanes advantage, and that should help our
chances."
