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Friday, September 10, 1982
Daily Nebraskan
Sports
Coach says Hawkeyes
no Saturday pushover
By Bob Asmussen
If Nebraska football Coach Tom Osborne had his
way the Cornhuskers wouldn't be playing Iowa this
Saturday.
"I don't dislike it but I don't like it either," Osborne
said. "I'd like to start with an easy opponent. In recent
years it hasn't started out that way that often - hardly
at all."
Following Thursday's practice Osborne was asked
if the Huskers would play Iowa again at some point in
the future. Osborne commented that he doesn't get too
involved with the scheduling. He pointed out that
Nebraska's schedule is made into the 1990s.
'That's the thing about scheduling. I guess I'd get
more into it if I even knew I'd be alive (when the games
are played)," Osborne said.
Osborne said the Huskers have no major injury prob
lems heading into Saturday's contest. Turner Gill will
start at quarterback. Osborne said Nate Mason will also
play.
"We'll try to play him for a series or so early," Osborne
said. "He seems to be doing okay."
It was announced earlier in the week that Roger Craig
will be the starting fullback and Mike Rozier will start
at I-back. Irving Fryar will be the starter at wingback.
The depth at wingback has been hurt by the injury to
Tom Vergith.
"Vergith will be suited up and available to play,"
Osborne said. "We'll go with Jimmy Thompson first
because he's healthy."
The offensive line is set with Jeff Kwapick and Randy
Theiss at tackle, Dean Steinkuhler and Mike Mandelko
at guard and Dave Rimington at center. Jamie Williams
will start at tight end and will be backed up by Mitch
Krenk. Todd Brown will start at split end.
On defense the Huskers will be led by Steve
Damkroger. The senior linebacker from Lincoln was
named co-captain earlier in the week, along with
Rimington. The other linebacker will be Steve McWhirter.
Wade Paeuner was named as the starter at defensive
end but will share time with Bill Weber. At right end
will be Tony Felici. The tackles will be Toby Williams
and Doug Herrmann. Jeff Merrell will be die middle
guard. The defensive backfield will consist of Allen
Lyday, Kris Van Norman, Bret Clark and Neil Harris.
Iowa is expected to start Chuck Long at quarterback.
Long completed 78 percent of his passes during spring
scrimmages. Starting for Iowa at tailback will be Eddie
Phillips. Phillips scored the Hawkeyes lone touchdown in
their 10-7 upset victory of Nebraska last season.
Iowa returns only two starters from last year's Big
Ten representative team in the Rose Bowl. The defense
will be spearheaded by tackle Mark Bortz. The Iowa
defense will also be assisted by the punting of all
American Reggie Roby.
"I have no idea what's going to happen but I feel
we've done about all we can," Osborne said. "There's
no use worrying. We just have to go out and get things
done."
Huskers to play alumnae
The Nebraska softball team takes on former Husker
Softball players Saturday at 10 am. at the Husker Soft
ball Complex behind Mable Lee Hall.
Coach Nancy Plantz, said the purpose of the game
with the alumnae is to generate interest among alumnae
and fans - if the team plays a lot of home contests this
fall on campus, the fan interest established should carry
over into the spring season, she said.
Shelly Scott, named all-Big Eight at third base, and
infielder Linda McCrea are two top players scheduled to
play for the alumnae team.
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Nebraska I-back Mike Rozier (30) tries to pick up yardage in last year's 10-7 loss to Iowa in Iowa City. The
Huskers will get their chance for revenge when the 1981 Big Ten and Big Eight champions battle each other at 1 :30
p.m. Saturday in Memorial Stadium.
NU ready for Iowa in season opener
The season gets into full swing this week with most of
the major powers except for Brown seeing action. And
now ... on with the show.
Iowa at Nebraska. The Hawkeyes shocked Nebraska
in last year's opener and continued to shock people for
the rest of the season.
But Iowa isn't going to sneak up on the Huskers this
year. The Hawks lost everyone but Kurt Vonnegut to
p.
) Jeff Goodwin
graduation. (He's been gone for a few years now.) It
says something about Iowa's offense that the Hawkeyes'
best player is their punter, Reggie Roby.
Nebraska is going to be ready for this game. There's
no doubt about that. Ask Florida State what happens
to teams that visit Memorial Stadium after beating the
Huskers the year before.
Nebraska's only problem in this game is that it might
be looking ahead to New Mexico State: Nebraska 35,
Iowa 9.
Southern California at Florida. For some reason
USC is only favored in this game by two points. I don't
have the slightest idea why. Of course, I'm sure the
bookies who set the spreads know more about foot
ball than I do. (They are after all, making more money
off it than I am.)
USC did lose a lot of people, most notably Heisman
Trophy winner Marcus Allen. But USC turns out tail
backs like Detroit turns out cars. And their offensive
line still looks like the Great Wall of China.
The Gators' best offensive weapon is quarterback
Wayne Peace. Peace is not the best quarterback in col
lege football but he has managed to escape the dreary
backwater town of Lakeland, Fla.
Look for the men of Troy to shatter Peace and his
Gators: USC 28, Florida 17.
Brigham Young at Georgia. You can be sure of one
thing when BYU plays - the ball will be in the air. For
Georgia that's bad news. The Bulldogs will have had only
four days to get ready for the Cougars' passing attack
and that's not much time.
Georgia showed against Clemson that their offense is
sorely lacking without Herschel Walker. And Walker
doesn't figure to play that much in this game.
For BYU this is a big game. A win against Georgia,
even a Georgia with a less-than-healthy Herschel Walker,
would be a big boost to their program.
The Cougars pull an upset: BYU 31, Georgia 24.
Wisconsin at Michigan. Last year the Badgers upset
Michigan in the first game of the season, dropping the
Wolverines from the top spot. The Badgers don't appear
to have the horses to beat Michigan again. Nor, for that
matter, do they have the football players to beat
Michigan: Michigan 28, Wisconsin 10.
Other Games
East: Penn State 35, Maryland 17; Syracuse 21,
Temple 10; Navy 16, Virginia 10; North Carolina State
34; East Carolina 14.
South: Alabama 35, Georgia Tech 7; Tennessee
24, Iowa State 7; Mississippi 34, Southern Mississippi
28; Miami, Fla. 27, Houston 21; Auburn 21, Wake
Forest 13; Southern Methodist 36, Tulane 10; Memphis
State 14, VanderbOt 0.
Midwest: Missouri 28, Army 14; California 21,
Colorado 17; Oklahoma State 27, North Texas State 20;
Oklahoma 28, West Virginia 17; Kansas 23, Wichita
State 7; Kentucky 24, Kansas State 20; Ohio State
31, Baylor 21; Illinois 27, Michigan State 17;Indiana 38,
Northwestern 10; Purdue 20, Stanford 17.
West: Arizona State 24, Utah 3; Arizona 45, Oregon
State 7; UCLA 39, Long Beach State 17; Washington 37,
Texas-EI Paso 7; Washington State 28, Idaho 6.
Colorado State Rams rash to top of Bottom 1
Editor's Note: With this edition, the Daily Nebraskan
begins publication of The Bottom 10, a weekly satirical
column written by Steve Harvey of Universal Press Syndi
cate. Each week, Harvey will take a look at what he con
siders to be the low points of professional and college
football.
77ic Colleges
Proving that football really is a game of inches,
Colorado State's running backs broke loose for four yards
Steve Harvey
Bottom Ten race, Colorado State is clearly under the
driver's 6eat.
Highest-ranking newcomer was No. 4 Texas A&M, a
16-38 loser to Boston College. B.C. Coach Jack Bicknell
entered the game a 15-point and $210,000-per-year under
dog to Jackie Sherrill, A&M's Quarter-Million-Dollar Man.
Meanwhile, Northwestern (dropped from The Bottom
Ten pending the outcome of allegations that its players
are legitimate students) fell for the 32nd time in a row,
1349 to Illinois. The Mildcats, anxious to show that they
don't play only tough teams to pad their losing streak,
meet Miami of Ohio Sept. 18.
in 31 carries in their opener against Missouri Saturday.
Thit works out to almost five inches per attempt.
The Rams also exhibited an impressive fumble comple
tion rate of .714, losing five of seven bobbles. It all added
up to a 14-28 loss to Missouri, proving that in this year's
The Rankings
LAST WEEK NEXT LOSS
Colorado St. (0-1) 14-28, Missouri Wyoming
Memphis St. (0-1) 10-27, Mississippi Vanderbilt
Georgia Tech (0-0) idle Alabama
Texas A&M (0-1) 16-38 Boston Col. healing
Long Beach St. (0-0) idle UCLA
Oregon (0-1 ) 3-34, Arizona St. San Jose St.
TEAM. RECORD
1
2
3
4
5
6
7 Oregon St. (0-0) idle Arizona
8 USC (0-0) studying Florida
9 Miami (Fla.) (0-1) 14-17, Florida Wm.&Mary
10 Missouri (1-0) edged Colo. St. Army
28-14
11 Columbia (0-0); 12 Kansas (0-4) 13 Penn (0-0)- 14
Wyoming(0.1);15 Notre Dame(0-0); 16 Pentagon (Army
Navy, Air Force, Tennessee Volunteers) (0-2); 17 Clemson
(0-1); 18 Cornell (00); 19 LSU (0-0); 20 Tulane (0-1).
Other receiving votes (in no particular order):
Richmond (0-1). '
Omitted from last week's rankings due to blackout in
Northwest.
Includes four games from 1980 season that the
school was recently ordered to forfeit for academic ir
regularities. . Crummy Game of the Week: Miami (Fla.) vs. William &
Mary (twi-nite double-header).
Rout of the Week: UCLA at Long Beach Staie.
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