Friday, October 29, 1982
Daily Nebrcskan
Page 13
Busker menu is beefed up with club 's donations
By Tim Woods
One must forgive George Sullivan for borrowing one of
Satchel Paige's legendary training habits.
"Avoid greasy, gaseous foods," the late, great baseball
pitcher always said. "They jangle the nerves and make the
stomach uneasy."
Sullivan, UNL's head trainer and physical therapist,
said the Huskers indeed avoid such foods, especially
during their noon meal.
"You can't go from the dining" hall to practice after
eating those foods and expect to perform properly," he
said.
As a result, Sullivan, who helps coordinate the Huskers
twice-daily meals in Selleck Quadrangle, sometimes alters
the team's menu.
The Huskers have the same general menu as UNL stu
dents who live in dorrnitories, Sullivan said.
"But if something spicy like runzas is served, we have
to substitute," he said. "Otherwise, the players eat the
same things as all the other students."
An exception, of course, is the assorted cuts of beef
donated by the Cornhusker Beef Club, which the players
are served Monday evenings.
"It's a tribute to (the members of the beef club) that
the players are able to eat well on Mondays," Sullivan
said.
The beef club was started "years ago, when we weren't
selling out," Sullivan said. Contributors are eligible to buy
season tickets, "but as the program grew, the number of
donors far exceeded the number of available season
tickets," he said.
Today, the beef club has approximately 500 members,
according to the UNL Sports Information Office.
Nebraska beef has accompanied the Huskers on the
road just once, Sullivan said.
In that episode - now part of Husker football lore -UNL
Coach Bob Devaney had Sullivan bring meat and
other foods from Lincoln along to the 1971 Nebraska
Oklahoma game in Norman, Okla.
"We received all these funny phone calls about how
our players might get food poisoning," Sullivan said. "It
was just a precaution, but it was for a good reason."
That game aside, the Huskers, while on the road,
usually dine on food served in their hotel's restaurant, said
Tiger volleyball match to be intense
By Ward W. Triplett in
If you haven't got all that anti-Missourism out of your
system yet from Saturday, the UNL Coliseum will be the
place to be this weekend, as the Nebraska volleyball team,
ranked 13 th in the NCAA, is host to Missouri in a battle
that should determine the Big Eight championship.
Nebraska Coach Terry Pettit, who has directed his
underclassman dominated squad to 20 wins in 24 tries this
season, said Saturday's 2 p.m. match will be the most
important match for the Huskers since he became coach
in 1977.
"This is the first time that we've been in a match where
we must win," said Pettit, who will be seeking coaching
victory 202.
"It's going to be a very intense match, and an oppor
tunity for people who have never seen volleyball to see
two great volleyball teams."
The first 400 people who show up for the match will
be eligible to receive a free 7-UP, T-shirt or radio at the
conclusion of the match. The promotion is sponsored by
7-UP.
Missouri, which took a 23-3 record into Iowa State
Thursday, set. up the must-win situation by topping
braskaraTColumofa in 'September!.
"We had by far the worst serving errors and reception
errors of the year," Pettit said. "Yet we were still serving
for the match in the fifth game?'
Ready for Saturday
Pettit said that neither Nebraska nor Missouri played
well that game, but he expects his players to be at their
best Saturday.
Missouri, which is rated 17th in the Tachikara coaches
poll but unranked in the NCAA poll, is led by returning
all-Big Eight performers Ritchie Poinquenette, a sopho
more center-blocker, and outside hitters Diane Ohlmsted
and Debbie Arbanas.
"I think they're a little too dependent on getting the
ball to Poinquenette in the middle," Pettit said. "When
you play Missouri, you know that they're going to go
there first, then to those other two players.
"It's not a necessarily bad plan to set that pattern, and
say 'Here we come, try to stop us.' Our (Nebraska) attack
is a little more versatile."
Serving essential
Pettit said the Tigers are a little suspect in serve re
ception, which should make serving the most important
fundamental in the match.
Pettit added that the Huskers also have an edge in
depth. Thirteen Huskers played in a straight set victory at
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"I think we're improving," Pettit said. "We're well rest
ed, we're playing well, "and we're beginning to establish
a rhythm. . . there's less of the going and stopping . . .
we're starting to play some nice ball."
The Huskers will start season-long starters Erin Dean,
Gwen Egbert, Mary Buysse, Sharon Kramer and Cathy
Noth, whom Pettit said is playing "as well as any volley
ball player in the nation right now." Annie Adamczak still
is holding down the sixth spot after replacing Michelle
Smith in the Oklahoma Invitational three weeks ago,
when the latter suffered an ankle injury. Smith has played
in the last two Husker matches, Pettit said, and only
sophomore Teresa Bonn is questionable for Saturday's
match.
Bonn, a defensive specialist from Friend, hyperextend
ed an elbow last week and hadn't practiced as of Wednes
day. "Missouri knows that if we. pass well and they don't,
they won't be in good shape," Pettit said. "If we can get
the ball to Sharon, it's going to make our outside hitting
that much more effective because then they'll have to
honor the middle."
"Basically, if we just play well, we'll win," he said.
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Gary Fouraker, UNL athletic business manager. ,
Fouraker, who travels to road game sites to finalize the
Huskers' housing accommodations, takes along a menu
suggested by Sullivan.
That menu includes similar food items the Huskers eat
at dinner while in Lincoln, and "something light" for
breakfast on game day, Sullivan said.
Breakfast, eaten at 8:30 a.m. for a 1:30 p.m. kickoff,
includes a sweet roll, cold cereal and orange juice, with an
occasional slice of Canadian bacon.
That menu has been used by Sullivan the. last IS years,
hejsaid.
"It's not a whole lot (of food), ut we'd rather have
them go out there a little hungry," he said.
Husker opponents would likely admit that Sullivan's
prescribed bill of fare suits Nebraska just fine.
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