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daily nebraskan
Wednesday, august 19, 1931
OU picked to edge Buskers in close Big 8 race
It's the same old story. For 19 straight
years and 33 of the last 35, the conference
championship has come down to the Oklahoma-Nebraska
game. It could very well be
20 straight by the time the two teams do
battle Nov. 21 in Norman, Okla.
The crystal ball is a little cloudy this
season with the Huskers and the Sooners
both having big holes to fill, but the guess
here is that when all the fighting is done,
the game in Norman will again be for all
the marbles . . . er, make that oranges.
Wm?y sparfxs
At Oklahoma, Barry Switzer will be try.
ing to replace J.C. Watts at quarterback,
but if history repeats itself in Soonerland,
Switzer will have found someone capable
of leading the wishbone by the time the
season winds down. He could have a little
bit tougher time filling the holes in the
Sooner defense, though.
The big task at Nebraska this fall is re
placing Jeff Quinn at quarterback. Coach
Tom Osborne appears to have some
qualified but inexperienced candidates.
The problem will be trying to get the
position settled while playing the toughest
non-conference schedule the Cornhuskers
have seen in a long time.
Questions loom in other positions too.
All-American candidate Roger Craig re
turns at I-back but gone will be the depth
Nebraska has enjoyed at that spot in pre
vious seasons.
The defense appears to be tough. With
names like Jimmy Williams, Ric Lind
quist, Sammy Sims and Rodney Lewis fill
ing the ranks, the blackshirt defense could
have its best year since the national
championship team of 1971 .
Tough schedules
The two Big Eight powers could have a
rough time staying in the race for the nat
ional title this year. The Huskers have to
play a non-conference slate of Iowa,
Florida State, Penn State and Auburn
while the Sooners must face Texas in
Dallas and Southern California in Los
Angeles.
The conference race could very well
stay a two team race the entire season.
Missouri, heavily hit by graduation, doesn't
seem to have the guns to stay in the battle
this year, although they do get to play Ne
braska and OU in Columbia.
Kansas, directed by Don Fambrough,
could be the darkhorse this year. After a
disappointing start last year, the young
Jayha,jvks won five of their last seven
games and one of the losses was a two
pointer to Oklahoma. The Hawks appear to
be a year away but with some help from
the younger members of the team, could
surprise a few people.
Iowa State, if it can shake the injury
problems which have plagued the Cyclones
past two years, appears to be another team
to be reckoned with. Coach Donnie Dun
can returns 17 starters from last year, in
cluding second team All-American tailback
Dwayne Crutchfield. The Cyclones have to
play at Oklahoma and Nebraska but face
OU early in the season and are sandwiched
between the Sooners' games with Southern
Cal and Texas, a good time to catch
Switzer and Company off guard. If ISU can
pull off an upset against Oklahoma, they
could be tough to stop.
Same old story
The story for Colorado, Kansas State
and Oklahoma State is all too familiar for
their fans. The Buffaloes will spend the
seasonjust trying to gain some respect and
stay out of the cellar.
Oklahoma State, which was "fixing to
knock their eyes out" last year, could wind
up in a two way fight with Colorado for
the bottom spot this year. Coach Jimmy
Johnson returns only three starters on
offense and faces a big rebuilding task on
defense as well.
Jim Dickey's Kansas State team could
wind up with a top division finish with a
little luck but tradition just isn't on the
side oftheWUdcats.
So the stage appears to be set for
another exciting season leading up to the
shootout in Norman which will decide the
conference championship. Husker fans
only hope this story has a different ending
than past years.
Big Eight Forecast:
1. Oklahoma
2. Nebraska
3. Iowa State
4. Kansas
5. Missouri
6. Kansas State
7. Oklahoma State
8. Colorado
Bryant appoints assistant
Tom Simmons has been named Nebra
ska's acting assistant sports information
director, replacing Bill Bennett who resign
ed to become the information officer for
the department of athletics at the Uni
versity of Nevada-Las Vegas.
The appointment, made by UNL Sports
Information Director Don Bryant, is con
sidered temporary until it is approved by
university officials.
Simons assumed his. duties Aug. 10. It
marks his second job with the Cornhusker
Sports Information Office. He held the
position of assistant SID until 1974, when
Bennett replaced him and Simons became
assistant publicity director of the NFL's St.
Louis Cardinals. After a two-year period
with the Cardinals, he was named SID at
Southern Illinois University, where he
served for four years. For the past year,
Simons has been a student at UNL and a
part-time member of the sports staff at the
Lincoln Journal and Star newspapers.
Eight returning starters
aid women's golf team
By Jodie Fields
The women's golf team should do
well in Big Eight competition this year,
according to Coach Gerry Fisher.
After finishing fourth in the confer
ence meet last year he said he expects
eight returning golfers to be an advant
age for Nebraska. Fisher said that while
Oklahoma finished first in the Big
Eight last year, Oklahoma State is the
team to beat this year.
Robin Scherer, senior and Jan
Stanard, junior, said they feel the team
will be in a good position this year.
"We have everybody back with one
year more experience," Stanard said.
Stanard said she was playing well and
was looking forward to this season. She
played in several tournaments this sum
mer and won the Lincoln women's city
tournament.
Scherer placed second in the Lincoln
women's city tournament and said she
felt her game was improving.
The team will have five tournaments
this fall and four more in the spring.
The first tournament is the Susie Max
well Burning All-College Tournament
Sept. 13 in Oklahoma City.
Fisher said the team will meet when
school starts and begin qualification for
the tournaments.
The team doesn't begin practice
early, but Fisher said he has seen the
golfers play throughout the summer. Be
sides Scherer and Stanard, other players
have also done well in competition this
summer he said. Kathy Nelson won the
State Match Hay tournament and Shelly
Godekin and Lori Miller competed in
tournaments also.
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