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Opening theyear with a record of two wins and
five losses shouldn't seem too out of the ordinary for
Kansas State's football team.
After all, KSU has had two losing streak in their
history of more than 20 games, only one conference
championship and one bowl bid in a day when bowl
bids seem to flow like US. and Soviet arms to Central
America.
But this is the first year A.B. (After Bowling), and
the sixth year in Coach Jim Dickey's extensive
rebuilding program. Both Wildcat coaches and play
ers say they expected much more than the dismal
record they now have, and are very frustrated by it.
Assistant head coach Marion Latimore said many
of the Wildcat problems can be traced to an abun
dance of injuries.
"We've played consistent football most of the
time," he said, "and the kids have done their very
best. We just arent deep enough to overcome our
injuries."
One of those key injuries for the Wildcats has been
a badly sprained ankle by last year's leading rusher,
tailback Joe Faraimo.
Faraimo has rushed three times this year, but has
filed for a hardship ruling that would give him
another year of debility. II: b row a junior, and
probably will remain a junior for the 1CJ1 season.
Faraimo, despite the prcbeela hardship ruling,
has still been frustrated by the Wildcats' sermon.
"We started off the season thinking really positive
things," he said. "Now, things look pretty bad. The
coaches come out with a good game plan, and the
team has a good attitude, but somebody somewhere
ends up messing up something."
Faraimo's place in the starting lineup has been
taken by sophomore Greg Degeforde, who has
rushed for 373 yards and four touchdowns.
Quarterback Doug Bogue, who started the Wild
cats' first six games before being forced by an injury
to sit out the 33-0 loss to Missouri last week, to
expected to start Saturday at KSU stadium against
Nebraska.
His replacement was junior Donnie Campbell
Campbell said the team tent as bad as the record
might indicate.
"We're making little mistakes here and there," he
said.
"I thought we were going to play a lot better
against Missouri, but we just started making little
mistakes."
Neither Faraimo nor Campbell is willing to say
that the Wildcats expected improved performance
c gainst tha Iluskcrs will net them a win.
They (Hcfcraeka) ere just awesome," Faraimo
said. "We just have to play cur best and hepe they
mess up on just about every play
Campbell was a little more optimistic about the
-Wildcats chances.
"They're coming in here with everything to lose "
he said. "Our season h pretty much over as far as
trying for bowl games. WeVe got everything going for
us, but I'm pretty nervous."
The K-Ctate defense is led by two-time all-E!g Eight
tackle Keggie Singletary. Singletary is second in the
conference with nine tackles for losses, and Lati
more describes him as one of the players he can rely
on for a really consistent performance.
Latimore said 'the defense is playing a bit short on
experience because of injuries.
"We're playing a couple of guys (freshmen linemen
Curtis Hughes and Lcs Miller) who are going to be
great players," he said. "But they're not the type of
players we want to play now."
Latimore said that playing freshmen is not a con
cession to building the future at Kanssj State.
"We're still going to line up with the best players
we have each Saturday, he said.
Cross country team hopes to eml losing iraoliiion
Dy Jeff Browne
UNL's cross country team is badly in
need of some good traditions, its coach
said, and Saturday's Big Eight meet in
Lawrence, Kan., just might be the place
to begin.
"We have not been a real good team,"
first-year Coach Jay Dirksen said. "But
this year weVe run well I hope we can
finish third or fourth in the Big Eight.
There's no reason why we shouldn't."
; In the past nine years, Nebraska's
team has finished eight in the confer
ence six times. It has finished seventh
each of the last two years and its high
est finish in the past nine years was
fourth in 1977. So, Dirksen is predict
ing history in the making.
"Iowa State was picked by the coach
es to win," Dirksen said, "and Colorado
has great tradition, so they'll be hard
, to beat. Every team will have to run
well to beat us."
Dirksen said he expects Nebraska
and Kansas State to battle for the
third spot in the meet because the
Huskers have consistently beaten other
teams in the conference this year.
Nebraska's top individual performer
is Wally Duffy, a senior from Shenan
doah, Iowa.
"I look for Wally to finish in the top
five," Dirksen said
i The runners to watch out for, Dirk
sen said, are Yobes Ondeicki and
Joseph Kipsang of Iowa State. Dirksen
said they have a realistic shot at plac
ing high in the national champion
ships later this year.
Nebraska's cross country problems
in the past have been caused by a lack
of emphasis on the sport, Dirksen said.
He said that the athletic department
wasnt sure it could have both a good
track program and a good cross coun
try program. UNL now intends to do
well in both, Dirksen said.
Nebraska's strength this year lies in
its balance, Dirksen said. '"" "
"We have a couple of guys who can
run close to Duffy," he said. "All of the
other guys will have to run their best
times for us to finish high in the con
ference, but I think they can easily do
it"
UNL's second runner is Gerard
O'Callaghan, a sophomore from Cork, ;
Ireland.
"Gerry used to be a shorter distance
runner," Dirksen said, "but he's adjust
ed and now is a good runner."
Other runners who Dirksen said he
will need good meets from are Tom
Hoffman, Kurt Russell, Marc Adam,
Mark Gokie and Dave Cudmore.
"Hoffman has really come around
since the start of the year," Dirksen
said, "and Ruseell was the 1931 junior
college national champion. Dave Cud-,
more is the best seventh man in the Big
Eight."
The Big Eijht meet has nothing to do
with qualifying a team or any Individ- But, Saturday's meet in Lawrence
ual3 for the national championships, may ceo important as any for UNL, as
Qualifying takes place later this year at it to a chance to break a long, firustrat-
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as" Peru playsfootball
If the state of Nebraska hail such
a thing as an Aggie Joke, Peru State
College students and alumni just
might be willing and able to write a
book filled with such barbs.
But their self-deprecating humor
conveys a great amount of heminess
and happiness associated with their,
experiences on the "Campus of a
Thousand Oaks." Peru State's
athletic teams are also, then, a great
source of entertainment and sense
of community if not a source of con
stant pride.
Peru State's football teams have
had high and low seasons recently,
but great success has efuded the
Bobcats since the early' lCSOs. This .
year, the college hired Jay Adcoz, a
31-year-old bundle of inspiration
: from Missouri, to help steer, the ;
' Bobcats back to glory. . :
Peru State's HomecorrJug, Oct. 8,
featured the . Bobcats against
Northwestern ""College - of Orange '
City, Iowa, the nation's second
ranked team in Division II of the
National Association of Intercolle
giate Athletics.
Alumni returned to this small
: southeast Nebraska town in modest "--,
numbers for the game and the activ-"
ities surrounding it. They seemed to
: be in agreement that Peru Stats had
.. changed a great deal since "they .'
attended, but that the overall
atmosphere of the campus wa3
the s
The alumni appeared to enjoy
: meet ths community atmosphere of
the game. The entire southeast
ccrner cf the state seems to show up
for Peru's games. A dozen high
" school and junior hih i znCz per-
formed at hslftimcj and school
.. tuee3 lined the streets of the town.
. Thatjttracephcre, vhch-so cn-
cr-.rr:::d ti;? durnrJ, zn-z?d much
cithu ttuer.t fca Jy. Tcef
When the high school and junior -
they paraded around the Peru
band. These bands had completed
in a contest earlier that week at,,
Peru and the winners in the high
school and junior high divisions
were announced at the half of the
, football game.-
"Looks Eke Peru again," said one
student, who said he was from
Chicago. . .. '
The lettermen's club at PSC also
announced its ra3a winners at half
time. One student gave his version
of what the prizes would be.
"First prize is one year's tuition at
Peru," he said. "Second prize is two
year's tuition." .
Peru's student body is a curious
mix of white rural students and
black uxbanites from Chicago and
Florida. Segregation and tension
, ; never surfaced . among any of the ,
'students or alumni at the game,
though. Peru's football program
. owes a lot to two black players from '
Florida, who led "the-Bobcats to
national prominence in the late
1970s. :
Thb day, however, PSC dropped a ';
never-harrowing 51-7 decision to
Northwestern and the students had
fun until the end of the game.
Coach Adcox, despite the rest cf ':
. the camps' seemingly las attitude
about football success, wasn't
pleased v.lth the outcome or the
: "I dcrt tnc.T he told Mi team,
' "maybe we c'.it to cancel the rcat
cf our games so you guys can go cut :
. and drink beer. I can get another jab ;
- tomorrc-T. You can't find another ;
' football car,eh that faet."
Adco waent nearly as ne":.th3
f about the pregram in more private '..
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