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Daily Nebraskan
Tuesday, November 16, 1982
Sooner shoot-out depends on quick-draw defense
By Larry Sparks
Oklahoma is sporting a new offense this season, but
when the Sooners come to Lincoln Nov. 26 to play
Nebraska for the Big Eight championship, Husker fans
will see a formation they have become accustomed to,
NU Coach Tom Osborne said at Monday's Extra Point
Club Luncheon.
The Sooners had been running out of the wishbone
for the past decade, but after a 1-2 start this season,
switched to the 1-formation. Osborne said OU now runs
about 75 percent of its plays out-of the I.
"1 promise you, you look at their films now and
you're almost looking at Nebraska," Osborne said. "They
run the same plays and they block them identically as
we do."
Three Sooner players - I-back Marcus Dupree, full
back Stanley Wilson and quarterback Kelly Phelps - have
been the key to OU's successful switch to the I, he said.
Osborne compared Dupree, who is a freshman, with
Georgia's Heisman Trophy candidate Herschel Walker.
He said that Dupree and Wilson both have the ability
to pick up yards even when the opposing defense is
playing well.
Tough to slow down
"It will be tough to slow them down," he said. "I'm
not saying we can't, but it will be tough.
Whites defeat Reds
in annual scrimmage
By Bob Asmussen
BEATRICE - In games between teams with youth
and teams with experience, the experienced team usually
wins. It was no different Monday night at Beatrice High
School.
The Nebraska men's basketball team's annual intra
squad scrimmage featured the experience of the White
team against the youth of the Reds. The Whites came
away with a 74-53 victory.
"I thought that one team was under a situation that
was a little hard on them," NU Coach Moe Iba said.
"The Red team played with only one guard, and that
hurt them."
The Red team had three freshmen on it whilte the
White team included three seniors - Terry Smith, Claude
Renfro and Kenny Walton.
One of the major questions that needs to be answered
entering the 1982-83 season is how well 6-11 Dave
Hoppen will develop at center.
Fansgot an early look at Hoppen, who was one of
the freshmen playing for the Reds. After a shaky first
half in wluch lie scored only four points, Hoppen came
back late in tle game to push his total to 13.
Hoppen wasn't the only Red team member having
troubles the first half. After jumping out to a 6-2 lead
at 17:55, the Reds scored only two more points in the
next 1 1 minutes. They trailed 36-18 at halftime.
The second half began like the first ended. Led by the
outside shooting of Brett Hughes and Smith, the Whites
pushed their lead to as much as 29 points at one stage,
but the Reds pulled back to within 11 points with 3:56
remaining in the game. The Reds' comeback efforts were
turned back, however, ?s they committed numerous
fouls, sending the White team to the line several times
in the final minutes.
Renfro led the White team with 17 points. Smith
and Hughes scored 14 points each and Eric Williams
added 11.
Hoppen 's 13 points led the Reds. Randy Johnson
added 12 and Lenard Johnson had 1 1 .
The Reds outshot the Whites 51 percent to 45 per
cent from the field, but the Whites hit 18 of 23 free
throw while the Reds hit only four of seven.
The Cornhuskers begin the season Saturday with an
exhibition game against Windsor College at 7:30 p.m.
in the Bob Devaney Sports Center. The regular season
begins Nov. 26 against Denver in the sports center.
Intramurals
Alpha Tau Omega won the all-university men's water
basketball championship with a 27-16 win against
Sigma Phi Epsilon. Members of Alpha Tau Omega arc
Scott Schafer, Brad Lilcy. Gregg Pollard. Bob Maurcr.
Pat Trysla. Jim Witter. Pat Jones and Eric Todd.
The Sigma Chi B's defeated the Holysmokcrs, 25-18.
to win the all-university flag football championship.
Members of the winning team arc John Meier. Ross Ba
hensky. Terry Krucser, Mike Rakbaur. Jim Connealy.
Bo Poydence. Dave Haasc. Dave Bloter. Scott Schaub.
Ed Merwald. Rick Thompson and Scott Borcher.
More intramurals results on Page 1 1
"So many times they just hand the ball off to them
and the (defensive) guy is there in good position to make
the tackle but they just run over two or three guys and go
for 50-60 yards. There's not much you can do about
that," he said.
Osborne said it is difficult to make any kind of pre
diction about the NU-OU matchup by comparing scores
of games against common opponents. Nebraska slipped
past Missouri, 23-19, earlier this season while the Sooners
rolled up a 41-14 win against Mizzou last week. On that
basis, Oklahoma should be favored he said.
"On the other hand, if you go on the way we played
Iowa State (a 48-10 NU win) and the way Oklahoma
played Iowa State (a 13-3 OU win), you'd have to favor
Nebraska," Osborne said.
Defensive tackle Toby Williams, who strained his
knee against Iowa State, is the only player currently
listed as questionable for the OU game. I-back Mike
Rozier, offensive guard Dean Steinkuhler and fullback
Doug Wilkening all suffered sprained ankles Saturday
but are expected to be back in time to play against the
Sooners.
Extra time an advantage
Osborne said having moved the OU game from Nov. 20
so it can be nationally televised probably will work to
Nebraska's advantage because it will give the Huskers
two weeks to recover from their injuries. Even with the
By Cindy Gardner
The bowl picture is beginning to take shape and it
appears that the loser of the Nebraska-Oklahoma game
will go. to the Fiesta Bowl, Nebraska Athletic Director
Bob Devaney said Monday.
"They (the Fiesta Bowl) seem very interested," De
vaney told the Extra Point Club. "They havp not given
us a definite yes. We're going to find that out sometime
tonight."
Of course, Devaney said, the Huskers' No. 1 choice
is to beat Oklahoma and go to the Orange Bowl. At this
point the Fiesta Bowl is considered the second choice.
The Fiesta Bowl has the advantage of being a New
Year's Day game in a warm climate. The Bowl also pays
$875,000 to each team. But Devaney said the Fiesta
Bowl docs have one drawback.
"If you have to play Arizona State down there it's
just like playing them on their home field. It's not a
good situation as far as the football game is concerned,"
he said.
Arizona State is the likely candidate to meet the
Big Eight runner-up in the Fiesta Bowl, but Devaney
cautioned that it is not a sure thing. Should Washington
State upset Washington this Saturday, the Sun Devils
could still back into the Rose Bowl.
If a Fiesta Bowl deal should not pan out, Devaney
said the Bluebonnet Bowl is "somewhat interested"
in being host of the Big Eight runner-up. The problem
would come if Texas receives a Bluebonnet bid.
"Oklahoma did not want to play Texas again and
we'd almost have to kind of make a deal with Okla-
Huskers in top form, however, it will be difficult to de
feat the Sooners, he said.
"We are really going to have to play great defensive
football. We're going to have to have 1 1 players around
their ball carrier every time," he said. "Offensively, we"
just can't afford to have many drives where we stop our
selves. We're going to have to make them stop us."
Osborne said he gave the Huskers Monday and today
off but will resume workouts Wednesday in preparation
for the shoot-out with Oklahoma.
Assessing Saturday's 48-10 win against Iowa State,
Osborne said he was most pleased with the fact that the
Huskers didn't commit any turnovers, despite the frigid
temperatures.
"When you think of playing in that kind of a day and
trying to handle the football, having only one turnover
by both teams combined was really kind of remarkable,"
he said.
Osborne said the Huskers played well against what he
called a good ISU football team. He said the key to the
victory may have been in the first half after the Cyclones
had tied the game at 7-7. At that point, the Huskers took
the kickoff and moved it downfield to go on top for
good.
"I was afraid that the momentum was going to get
going, their crowd would enthuse and their players would
start believing they could win the game," he said.
noma as the other party," he said.
Devaney also said the Tangerine Bowl was still inte
rested the last time he talked to them. The athletic
director ruled out both the Gator Bowl and Liberty
Bowl, which he said already have chosen their teams.
It looks like the winner of the Husker-Sooner shoot
out may meet Florida State in the Orange Bowl. Devaney
said the Orange Bowl Committee is talking to Florida
State but Pittsburgh and Penn State are also in considera
tion. LSU is apparently out of the picture after losing to
Mississippi State last Saturday.
A Pcnn State-Nebraska rematch in the Orange Bowl
seems unlikely because the Nittany Lions are in the posi
tion to call the shots and choose which bowl game they
want to go to, Devaney said. It is speculated that Penn
State is likely to choose a Sugar Bowl matchup with
first-ranked Georgia.
Bowl bids will be announced Saturday after 5 p.m.
Four Huskers all-Big 8
The 12th-ranked Nebraska volleyball team,
which won its seventh straight Big Eight cham
pionship Saturday, placed four players on the
Big Eight all-Conference team that was announced
Monday.
Sophomore Cathy Noth, junior Erin Dean and
senior Gwen Egbert were first team selections,
while sophomore Mary Buysse was named to the
second team.
Nebraska defensive tackle Rob Stuckey tries to stop an Iowa State player at Saturday's 48-10 win against the
Cyclones in Ames, Iowa. The win raised Nebraska's record to 9-1 overall and 6-0 in the conference. The Huskers
will meet Oklahoma Nov. 26 in Lincoln to decide the Big Eight championship.
Huskers aim for Orange Bowl
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