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Daily Ncbraskan
Friday, September 2, 1S33
luggers get ready
for tournament action
To play rugby, one should be able to tackle, hit and
push with the strength of a lineman, and run like a
marathon racer.
But he doesnt need to be as big as a lineman.
Vince Powers, coach of UNL's Rugby Club, said a
person's size isn't the dominant factor in the quality
of his playing.
"You must be in very good shape," Powers said.
"Physical size doesn't matter that much, although
your body can't complain about being knocked
about."
Most of the team members didn't play the sport
before the join the team, Powers said.
That's one reason why the quality of the team
goes up and down from year to year," he said.
The team gets a small financial boost from UNL,
but most of its expenses come out of the team
members' own pockets, Powers said.
The members pay dues of $15 a season," he said.
"But that doesn't begin to pay for all of the expenses
like gas money. That's divided up among everyone."
The Rugby Club will begin its season by being host
of the Third Annual Husker Classic on Saturday and
Sunday.
"It's a very strong field," Powers said. "Some of the
better teams in the Midwest will be here. I think if
people would come out they would find it a good
sport to watch."
All of the games will be played at Sawyer Snell
Park at Second and South streets, across from
Sherman Field.
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UNL Baggers in practice.
Two-track Pepin to coach both teams
By Jim Rasmussen
Last spring, when Nebraska men's 28-year track
coach Frank Sevigne called it quits, Nebraska
needed a replacement. The Cornhuskers found one
in women's track coach Gary Pepin.
The university chose Pepin to act as men's head
coach for the 1983-84 season. He will coach both
teams next spring. At first, the double duty wasn't
easy, he said.
"It was hectic at the beginning," Pepin said. "Three
of us (Pepin and assistants Mark Kostek and Linda
Zech) are doing just about all of the recruiting for
both teams," he said. "Plus, we got a late start on
recruiting because of the changeover. Also, we
weren't allowed to announce our new assistants
until June. That hurt us a little, because when you're
recruiting, kids like to know who will be coaching
them.
"We wound up doing about as well as we would
have (without the changeover)," Pepin said.
Sevigne will remain an assistant coach this year,
along with Kostek and Zech. Jay Dirksen, Steve
Rainbolt, Mark Devenney (part-time) and graduate
assistant Jeff Goldberg comprise the rest of the
staff.
"I think our athletes will receive more individual
instruction than in the past," Pepin said.
Pepin took over the Nebraska women's track and
field program in 1981 after being an assistant coach
at Kansas for nine years. The Pittsburg, Kan., native
was a track and field performer in high school and
at several Kansas colleges.
Pepin said he always was involved in athletics,
and decided in high school that he wanted to be a
coach.
"Carol Frost (who Pepin succeeded) did a good
job," he said. "They had competed well at the
conference level, and I think that was their main
goal."
Pepin set his sights not only on conference
honors, but on national prominence as well
"In the past, they had some good individuals, just
not enough of them," he said.
Pepin's national prominence goal was quickly
realized. Led by sprinter Merlene Ottey, and a strong
supporting cast, Nebraska won national indoor
titles in 1982 and 1983, and finished seventh and
third, respectively, at national outdoor meets.
"But I'd have to say that finishing third at last
year's (NCAA) outdoor was my favorite," he said.
"That was one of the most exciting competitions I Ve
ever been a part of."
Soccer club
tryouts slated
The UNL Soccer Club
which will receive mone
from a university depar
ment for the first tim
this season, will have opei
tryouts for a position on
the club next week. ,
John Morton, directo
of the club the last twc
years, said try-outs wiL
be 4 p.m. at Mable Ler
Hall practice field Wed
nesday through Sept. 9.
The Soccer Club is spon--sored
by Miller High Life
and K&Z Distributing Co.
of Lincoln. Miller pur
chases the team uniforms,
but the team must pay
for its own travel ex
penses. The Soccer Club
was one of eight UNL
independent competitive
teams that received some
financial help from the
UNL recreation depart
ment this year.
The team will play in a
tournament in Texas this
weekend and plans to play
in Minnesota and at sev
eral Big eight schools this
year, Morton said.
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Dawgs will win
without Herschel
Analysis by Jeff Goodwin
Herschel Walker, John Elway and
Tom Vergith may be gone, but college
football still promises to produce its
share of stars this season. The
stargazing begins Saturday night on
ABC with:
UCLA at Georgia. Both teams lost
big offensive weapons. Herschel
Walker in Georgia's case and UCLA
lost All-American quarterback, Tom
Ramsey. Both went to the United
States Football League.
Defense will be the mainstay of this
year's Bulldogs. The secondary, led by
Jeff Sanchez and Terry Hoage (21
interceptions between them), may be
the best in the nation.
UCLA needs to rebuild their passing
game that will take some time and
wont happen before the Dawgs bruise
the Bruins: Georgia 21, UCLA 10.
OTHER PREDICTIONS
Cyrseuse 21, Temple 17; Hirsb
gippi State 23, Tclsne 24; UlzrA, Fix
31, Florida 21; North CsrcUna 21,
Esrth Carolina 7; Tenia A.I 23,
California 14; Duke 23, Vhrlria 21;
Pittsbsri 20, Tennessee 14; Ksnsss
17, Northern Illinois 10; Lo?3 B??i,h
Ctcte 23, Kcass3 Ctite 14.
Husker volleyball
opens against Iowa
By Jeff Browne
A home-town girl comes home tomorrow
morning, but she wont be looking to right any
grave wrongs or prove any great truths. In fact,
she doesnt even expect to win.
Iowa volleyball coach Sandy Stewart, a 1977
Graduate of UNL, starts her second year at the
lawkeye helm. She will bring her young and
improving team to the Coliseum Saturday at 10
am. to face Coach Terry Pettit's Cornhuskers.
"We expect to be much improved this year"
Stewart said. Her team finished 10-22 last year.
"By the end of the year, we hope to be competitive
with teams like Purdue, Northwestern and
Nebraska.
"We're playing (Nebraska) mostly for
experience," she said.
Stewart also said she's looking forward to
playing in front of a large crowd and hoped that
the Huskers' "Volleyball Day" promotion (which
will bring in approximately 1,000 high school
volleyball players) will help the Hawkeyes'
recruiting.
Pettit wasn't about to believe that Stewart has
little chance to win.
"There's no question in the minds of most of the
coaches I have talked to," Pettit said, "that any
Division I team can beat any other."
Pettit's wariness stems from his team's injuries
and, despite volleyball being an indoor sport, the
weather, which has kept people tired all summer.
"We will, of course, try to win," he said. "But,
most importantly, we will evaluate the match,
position by position, movement by movement, in
order to improve for the remainder of the
season."
Husker injuries may keep a couple of players
out of the first match of the season, Pettit said.
Freshman blocker Enid Schonewise tore cartilege
in her knee a few weeks ago in practice, and
although the injury isn't serious, Pettit said he
doesn't expect Schonewise to play much in the
early season.
Pettit said that if Schonewise had been an
experienced player, she might have been able to
contribute within a couple of weeks. However,
since she is a freshman, Pettit expects
Schonewise to be "helping us by mid-season, since
she is such a great athlete."
The rest of the team, which Pettit calls one of
the most exciting athletic teams to ever play at
Nebraska, is fairly set for the season opener, he
said.
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women's athletics
loth year anniversary
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Poll ranks spikers 15th
Nebraska begins the
1933 season ranked 15th
in a national poll by
Volleyball Monthly
magazine. . v
, Hawaii was the mag
azine's top-ranked team,
followed by Stanford,
San Diego State, Pacific,
two-time defending
champion USC and
UCLA.
Depending on how
tournament draws go,
Nebraska could face
seven of the pre-season
top 20 teams this year.
Nebraska senior Erin
Dean, an outside hitter, is
a third-team pre-season
All-American, the mag-,
azine said.
