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Senior Duffy qualifie
With a third-place finish in the District V
cross country meet Saturday in Ames, Iowa,
Nebraska senior Wslly Duffy qualified for the
NCAA cross-country championships Nov. 21 in
Bethlehem, Pa.
Duffy finished the 10,000-meter course in
31:20 as the Huskers placed fourth overall.
The women's team, led by Karlene Erickson
and Jill Noel, also placed fourth behind Dig
Eight foes Iowa State, Kansas State and Mis
souri. Iowa State also won the men's title.
Neither Husker team qualified for the NCAA
championships.
In addition to Duffy, Gerry O'Calkghan fin
ished 21st, Kurt Russell 28th, Tom Hoffman
31st, Mark Gokie 34th and Dave Cudmore
39th.
Erickson and Noel finished with equal times
of 18:07 for 13th and 24th place respectively,
followed by Laura Wight, 20th; Carol Nunnally
46th, Sue Nelson 52nd and Carita Kordick
64th.
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Women swimmers
win close BYU meet
The Nebraska women's swim team now
owns a 3-1 dual record after winning Friday
night against Utah 92-48 and Saturday against
Brigham Young 78-62.
Coach Ray Huppert said his swimmers com
peted well against a well-prepared BYU team
in a close meet at Provo, Utah.
"Each race was a real good competitive
race," Huppert said. "It was real nice to see our
athletes be able to compete well in an ex
tremely close meet like that"
The score was 71-62 before the last race.
The winning Nebraska swimmers against1
BYU were Emily Ricketts, in the 1 ,000-freestyle
(10:30.66); Dana Powers in the 50 freestyle
(24.51); Kenya Kelley in the 200 butterfly
(2.O3.30) and the 200 backstroke (2:12X3); r
Susan Cashraan in the 400 individual medley
(4:43.45); Cathy Lundy, who won the 1-meter
diving; the medley relay team of Sharill Prey,
Julie Lammel, Kelley and Powers (4:07.89);
and the 400-freestyle relay team of Michelle
Kallman, Linda Sebesta, Ricketts and Powers
(3:35.77).
Huppert said the vocal BYU crowd, the alti
tude and being on the road all worked against
his team, "yet we rose to the occasion. , ;
"We accepted the challenge," he said. "I was
extremely pleased with that."
He said the competiton from Utah in Salt
Lake City Friday was not as tough, but he saw
"how we could react to swimming as we got off
an airplane trip."
Huppert said his swimmers had faster times
earlier against Ctolorado Stated than they ha)
against BYU, but altitude accounted partly for
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Kansas quarterback Frank Seurer fumbles a first-half snap during Nebraska's 67-13 victory against
the Jay hawks, Tailback Robert Hima (27) recovered the foctbalL
Huskers (unofficially Miami-bound
By Jeff Brown
Nebraska made things easy for the Orange Bowl
selection committee Saturday, as it defeated Kansas
67-13 and raised its record to 1 1-0 in an games and
6-0 in the Big Eight. V.
After the game, Orange Bowl official Harper
Davidson affirmed what everyone had been suspect
sing. since Missouri defeated Oklahoma last eek. -
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. that the Orange Bowl had no choice but to take the
top-ranked Cornhuskers to play in the Jan. 2 game.
"The Orange Bowl selection committee has voted
to take the Big Eight representative at that time
(6.00 p.ra. EST, Nov. 19) with the best overall
record," Davidson said. Nebraska can finish no
worse than 1 1-1, while Oklahoma and Missouri each
can do no better than eight wins and three losses.
Nebraska plays Oklahoma Nov. 26 in Norman.
Nebraska jumped on Kansas early, and never let
up as the Huskers recorded their 21st consecutive
victory en route to their third straight Orange Bowl
invitation. - : ; w'
"I think that we may have played our best overall
game of the season," Coach Tom Osborne said. We
had a Ettle trouble with our extra points, but that -
i 'was about it." ' (
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": they held Kansas quarterback Frank Seurer in
check by intercepting three first-half passes and
taking a 41-0 halftime lead.
"Our defense played as well as they have in a
while," Osborne said.; "They really played well up
front and didn't give them (the Jayhawks) too many
' first downs."
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The defense's performance came as a relief to
Osborne because he and the defensive coaches had
been criticized the past few weeks because of the
defense's generosity in allowing points. V
"Maybe I wont get so much help coaching defense v
this next week," Osborne said. "Defensive coaches
were coming out of the woodwork last week."
Nebraska's defense made some allowances for the
Jayhawks pass-happy Seurer, but both Osborne
and safety Bret Clark said those adjustments wer
en't that important.
"We held up pretty well today with just our basic
defense," Osborne said. "We were finally able to pick
off a few passes." . ,
The few changes the Husker defense did make
weren't in formation or scheme, but in personnel.
Nebraska substituted linebacker Tony flolloway
and end Scott Strasburger for linemen to give the
Huskers more speed with which covet the Jayhawk
receivers.' , ; ; ; ' ' '. ''r. '
"We played mostly zone defense," Clark said. "We
didnt use the new defense more than four times the
whole game. Everyone just played their responsib
?lity a little better;"' ViV':
Clark said the Jayhawks didnt complete a pass
when Nebraska had the extra linebacker in the
game. Part of that, Clark said, wa3 because ofSeur
crs own problems. ' "
"He's got a terrific arm, but he was a-litth off
today," Clark said
While Nebraska's defense was holding Seurer
down, the Huskers' record-setting offense , con
tinued to run wild. f , ;-.,-.--:
Nebraska scored on five of its first six possessions,
rolled up more than 400 first-half yard3 and estab
lished several NCAA individual and team records. -
I-back Mike Rozier was the center of all the
record-setting attention as he gained 285 yards on
31 carries and scored four touchdowns. The 285
yards was a Nebraska single-game rushing record,
breaking the mark of 255 set by Richard Berns
against Missouri in 1978.
Rozier also broke the NCAA record for touch
downs scored rushing in a season. He now has 28.
The Huskers' 67 points gave them 506 for the year,
surpassing the old NCAA record of 560 set by
Brigham Young in 1980. : - . :
Quarterback Turner Gill said he expects to hear
more charges this week that Osborne ran up the
score again, especially because of a 68-yard touch
down bomb at the end of the first half from Gill to
I-back Jeff Smith.
"Coach Osborne asked me why I didnt throw the
ball short (to a primary receiver)," Gill said. "I told
him they were all covered. Then he said, "What are
you trying to do to me? "
Kansas coach Mike Gottfried said he didnt need
to be Nebraska's publicity director . he said Nebras
ka's players do a good enough job of that themselves.
And he declined to call the Huskers a great team.
."You dont need my stamp a it," he said They
best us 67-7 (sic). It's about the worst (defeat) I can
, remember, but there's a lot of gara saytig that this
year." " .
wimmers win Kansas Invitational
Nebraska men's swimming coach Cal Bentz said
he is pleased with his team's progress alter they won
the Kansas Invitational in Lawrence, Kan. Saturday.
The other Big Eiht schools and Arkansas swam in
the meet, which was the Huskers' first competition
this season.
"We feel pood about where we are riht now "
Bentz said. This gave us a little better idea of what
' everybody in the conference has."
' Nebraska won with 645 points, while Missouri
finished a distant second with 433. Iowa State took
third with 416.
For Nebraska, Eric Oribene and Renaldo Castro -CnLhcd
rzi and ecccr.d in 3-ractcr iir.. Fresh
man Ernie Duran won the 500-frecctjie (4 41 52)
and the 1,650 freestyle (1654.27). Freshman Scott
fctaMin took second in the 1650(1654 23) Th00-
Lamonson and Kevin Weircs won (l16l) Hie
same four won the 400-medIsy relay (SMJC3). The
l!cgnonson and Chuck Rea won (3:03.71)
!w trfSS. won Lh8 J0 breaststroke (59.87),
with Rick Gilbertscn takirj second (1 00 12)
riJ he nvr improvement since the
team intra-sad meet Oct 28.
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excCent team," he said. L 10 L ;cn