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Waldorf Junior College made
sure Nebraska's junior varsity
football team was aware of the
adage: "All good things must come
to an end."
Nebraska's 24-game junior var
sity winning streak died Friday
when Waldorf, fueled by a last
minute broken play touchdown
pass by quarterback Bill Rogan,
upended the Huskers 23-21.
The loss was the first blemish
on the JVs record since 1 979 and
their first loss in Memorial Sta
dium in 15 years.
Nebraska held a 2 1 -1 6 lead late
in the game when Waldorf defen
sive lineman Jerry Harris reco
vered a fumble by back-up quar
terback Jim Toner at the Husker's
39-yard line.
Waldorf drove to t'. le-yard
line where they faced a crucial
fourth-and-goal situation with 59
seconds remaining in the game.
Rogan attempted to run around
the left end, but reversed his field
and found tight end Tom Wagner
in the end zone to put the Histo
rias ahead to stay.
"He (Rogan) had to reverse it,"
Waldorf coach David Bolstorff
said. "It was a broken play. I
looked down there (at three re
ceivers standing in the corner of
the end zone) and I said, 'Oh
please.' "
Rogan ripped the Husker sec
ondary for 279 yards and three
touchdowns. Two of his aerials
fkre intercepted, one by; line
backer Jim (Grruehwaid, who re
turned it 29 yards for a touch
down in the third quarter.
"Bill is all heart," Bolstorff said.
"He's an average quarterback who
does what we ask him to do."
NU junior varsity coach Dan
Yong had nothing but praise for
Rogan.
Their quarterback made things
happen," Young said. "He was
very elusive. We had him on that
Two starters watched the game
from the bench, but Nebraska's
volleyball team won anyway.
The Huskers wiped out Okla
homa 15-7, 15-5, 15-6 to win its
seventh conference game against
no defeats and raise its season
record to 19-1. The eighth-ranked
Huskers will face three other
rated teams this weekend on the
season's first trip to the West
Coast.
Still, just when" the Husker's
ratings rose, the injuries started
to pile up. Sharon Kramer was
lost until December with an ankle
injury at Ames, Iowa. Then, her
replacement Michelle Smith was
lost for an indefinite time with a
soft tissue injury or stress frac
ture at the top of her foot.
As a result, when the Huskers
took the floor against the 16-6
Sooners, Annie Adamczak, the
Big Eight's player of the week,
was set up at middle blocker.
Enid Schonewise was inserted at
Adamczak's former outside hit
ter position, and Kathi DeBohr
was enlisted as the first front
court reserve for setter Mary
Buysse, Schonewise's old position.
"We adjusted to the two of
them (Smith and Kramer) being
out," Nebraska coach Terry Pettit
ssld. "We're lucky to have players
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fourth down, but he slipped away
and hit his receiver."
Nebraska drew first blood when
I-back Jeff" Wheeler wheeled into
the end zone from nine yards out.
Waldorf got on the board with
a 27-yard field goal by Rogan late
in the first quarter. Rogan hit
Wagner with a nine-yard scor
ing strike early in the second
quarter to give the Historias a 10
7 half time lead.
. Gruenwald's interception re
turn put the Huskers back on top,
14-10 with 11:40 to play in the
third quarter.
Rogan's second touchdown pass
came early in the final period
when he pegged fullback Marlon
Long for 30 yards.
Nebraska responded on the
next possession with a 64-yard
drive, capped by a one-yard
touchdown by I-back Jon Kelley.
Gruenwald's extra point gave the
Huskers a 21-16 lead and set the
stage for Rogan's last-minute her
oics. Five of Waldorf s starters were
lost to injuries and didn't make
the trip to Lincloln. Bolstorff said
the replacements got the job done.
"I didn't know if we were ready
physically to play Nebraska," he
said. "But they like to get around
and hit hard. When we come
here, I tell 'em to strap their
helmets on tight."
Bolstorff said playing against
the Huskers makes a long-lasting
impression on his players.
"The whole experience is just a
phenomenal thing," Bolstorff said.
"It's something they'll remember
,all their lives." IL
Young said he sensed before"
the game that his team was not
prepared to play.
"Before the game, the kids
seemed to be flat," Young said.
"They weren't ready to play."
Despite the loss, Young remains
optimistic.
"We'll just have to start up
Monday and see what our guys
want to do," Young said. "I think
they'll come back."
short notice like that. The prolem
is trying to fill Annie's spot, then
Enids', then Kathi's."
Oklahoma failed to provide
much of a challenge to the Husk
ers, who also dispatched the
Sooners in three games in Nor
man, Okla., this year. Nebraska
scored the first six points of the
match, only to have Oklahoma
storm back to tie at 7-7. But
Nebraska regrouped in time to
win the next eight points and the
game.
Nebraska also jumped to big
leads in the next two games, lead
ing 14-2 in the second and 13-3 in
the third, before the Sooners were
able to mount any attack. In the
last set, Nebraska led 7-4 when
Adamczak served an ace for the
eighth point.
Karen Dahlgren had eight kills
in 1 0 attempts for Nebraska, while
Cathy Noth had 13 and Adamc
zak 10. The Husker kill percen
tage for the match was 62.3 per
cent. Pettit said he considered the
match a team victory because cf
the adjustments each team mem
ber had to make. Pettit said the
team switched to a defense to try
to get the ball to either Buysse or
Noth more. That, as v. ell as the
new line-up, worked well for a
NU Blackshirts throttle
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By Laari IIcppIs
Daily Kebrtskan Senior Editor
The Blackshirts battled the
black jerseys Saturday in
Boulder as both defenses kept
the Nebraska-Colorado football
game alive.
Although the Huskers won
the game 24-7, they trailed the
Buffaloes 7-3 until the fourth
quarter. Before then, the Hus
ker offense was plagued by
fumbles and an inability to
capitalize on good field posi
tion, but mostly by a razor
sharp CU defense.
The Buffaloes, wearing black
jerseys instead of their usual
light blue ones, had marked
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as the most important of the
season, and attacked the Hus
ker offense with a specially
designed "tilt" defense.
Colorado coach Bill
McCartney said the "tilt" was
conceived last summer, but the
team saved it until Saturday's
game. The tilt aimed CU line
backers at Nebraska center
Mark Traynowicz and guards
Harry Grimminger and Greg
Orion.
"We put two guys in there
and mixed up the charges to
neutralize Nebraska's ability to
dominate the line of scrim
mage," McCartney said. "They
certainly stopped them enough
times to win the game."
And the Huskers made
enough mistakes to help the
Buffs win the game. The Hus
kers failed to take advantage
of the good field position ClTs
bad punts gave them and lost
three of five fumbles. Colorado
came out of the game with no
fumbles.
In the first quarter, Nebraska
drove deep into Colorado ter
ritory three times but failed to
score. Two of the drives were
stopped by lost fumbles one
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man and one by I-back Doug
DuBose.
But although the Buff de
fense played well, their offense
did not respond.
"We just had to negotiate
some offense and we couldn't,
and that was our undoing,"
McCartney said.
The Buffs scored early in the
second quarter on their first
drive. The Huskers closed the
gap slightly with a field goal
late in the second quarter, mak
ing the score 7-3. But CU remain
ed ahead through the third
quarter for the first time
against Nebraska since 1967.
In that game, the Buffs led the
Huskers 21-13 in the third
quarter and went on to win
the game 21-16.
Although CU failed to score
again Saturday, the game
looked like it would be a repeat
of 1967.
Instead, it took on the look
of last year's game, which
Colorado led 14-12 at half time.
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The Huskers then scored a
record 48 third-quarter points
on the way to a 69-19 victory..
The Huskers began their 1983
replay early in the fourth
quarter, when quarterback
Travis Turner scored on a one
yard dive to give Nebraska a
10-7 lead.
Some of the new-found Hus
ker momentum may have been
sparked by the injury of CU
strong safety Mickey Pruitt,
who was knocked out of the
game with a severely sprained
neck. Although McCartney
denied after the game that
Pruitt's injury had any psycho
logical effect on his players,
the CU defense seemed to lose
its edge on Nebraska from that
point on.
Turner, scrambled for three
yards to score again with 12:42
left in the game, raising the
lead to 17-7. The last touch
down came with 4:45 left, when
Turner connected on an 11
yard pass to tight end Brian
Hiemer.
