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Daily Nebraskan
Thursday, September 12, 1985
Goners back to wishbone in opener
By Mike Reilley
Senior Reporter
The Oklahoma Sooners will have a
new quarterback running their old
jffense when they open the season
Sept. 28 at Minnesota.
Coach Barry Switzer revived the
"pure" wishbone in an attempt to fully
exploit the talents of his running
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After winning national champion
ships in 1974 and 1975 with the wish
bone, Switzer discarded it in 1982
because he thought the I-formation
was better suited for running back
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gams last spring. As a freshmsn last yesr, Sippel fired a
no-hitter and a one-hitter at the College World Series in
Ornsha to guide the Cornhuskers to a second-place finish.
Marcus Dupree.
The Sooners compiled a 16-8 record ,
over the two years they ran the I
formation. When Dupree left school to
play for the New Orleans Breakers of
the United States Football League,
Switzer switched to a variation of the
wishbone, which the Sooners ran last
year.
"We would line up in the wishbone
formation, but we weren't a wishbone
team," he said. "We were more of an
outside option team."
Switzer said the offense the Sooners
will run this year is "basically the same
one we ran back in the '70s a pure
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Running back Spencer Tillman is
one of the main reasons for the switch,
Switzer said. Tillman, 5-foot-ll, 203
pounds, was hampered by a pulled
hamstring during preseason drills and
rushed for only 449 yards. Tillman shed
15 pounds and is fully recovered from
his injury, Switzer said.
"He has never looked better," he said.
Switzer said he thinks that sopho
more quarterback Troy Aikman may be
able to supply the Sooners and the
wishbone with something they have
lacked in the past: a passing game.
Aikman was 17 years old last year
By Lori Griffin
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska women's softball
team will play its only home game of
the fall season this weekend when
they are hosts of the Husker Fall
Classic at Mabel Lee Field.
The Cornhuskers will play two
games each on Friday, Saturday and
Sunday. Other teams competing in
the Invitational include: Kearney
State, Kansas State, Illinois State,
Southwest Missouri State, Iowa State
and Kansas.
The Huskers are seeking a third
Husker Fall Classic title in as many
years. Third-year coach Wayne Dai
gle said he is not sure whether the
team will claim the title again this
year.
"We are a young team. Most of our
players are just out of high school,"
Daigle said. "We are just trying out
the team. You can't tell if a puppy
can swim until you throw him into
the water and that is what we are
doing with our team."
The Huskers return just two star
ters from last year's No. 2 ranked
team. Daigle will start three fresh
men outfielders and one freshman
pitcher this weekend.
Kansas is the best team accord
ing to Daigle. They have been in the
top 10 consistently and have a
pitcher and outfielder who are defi
nitely All-America candidates.
"They are ahead of everybody and
they are the definite class of the
field," Daigle said.
Other competition for the Huskers
will come from Illinois State, South
west Missouri State and Iowa State.
All teams in the tournament will
play each other.
The only wall that the Huskers
must jump over is that of expe
rience, or the lack of it, Daigle said.
"There is not much experience
but there is a lot of talent among our
team," Daigle said. "They are young
and we are getting to know the girls.
The only way that the girls will get
to know each other is to play games."
"We need to knowwhat the team
can and cannot do," Daigle said.
"We need to make sure that our
girls are not intimidated. We need
to play aggressive. We are not ask
ing that they necessarily go out and
win games just that they get after it
and learn how to play aggressively.
The team has nQt had any scrim
mages or played in any game situa
tions this season. This will be the
first real chance that Daigle said he
has had to see the team in action.
"After this weekend we will know
a lot more about the team and how
well they play together," Daigle
said.
"This is the only weekend of the
fall season that we will be playing in
Lincoln, and we hope that a lot of
people can attend."
when he had to forego a redshirt year.
He filled in for an injured Danny Brad
ley in the Sooners 28-1 1 loss to Kansas.
He started the Sooners' next two games,
victories over Missouri and Colorado,
before Bradley returned to action a
gainst Nebraska.
In the Sooners' final scrimmage last
spring, Aikman completed 15 of 22
passes for 203 yards and four touch
downs. "He's the best throwing quarterback
we've ever had at Oklahoma," Switzer
said.
Since their season starts late, the
Sooners have had an extra two weeks to
Training table food cold;
more a 'social' experience
By Kyle Foster
Staff Reporter
As an athlete on the cross country
and track teams here at Nebraska, I
have access to the athletes' training
table. Last year I dined at the "table"
regularly. This year I live off campus, so
when I was asked to review the training
table I had to make arrangements to
eat there.
I had dinner at the table Sept. 10.
Dining Review
The service line at the training table
is awkward. After showing your card,
you are allowed to enter a squared-off
area where all the food is located.
Drinks at one end, food at another, and
condiments in the center create an
unorganized "battle of the biggest," in
which athletes dash back and forth,
first checking out the menu and then
returning to the food of their choice.
Unfortunately, this runnerreporter
failed miserably at the battle.
I survived this expedition and after
seven or eight minutes I finally sat
down food in front of me. For my
dinner I chose brocolli beef pie, Phila
delphia cheese steak sandwich, chili,
french fries, a Cherry Coke and Mr.
Pibb. For dessert I selected yellow cake
and vanilla ice cream. If the training
table has one major advantage over res
idence hall food, it's that you can eat a
lot more.
I started with the brocolli beef pie.
This odd-looking creation tasted a lot
Weightlifting club for
competition and for fun
By Doug Carroll
Staff Reporter
The UNL Weightlifting Club will
meet the first time this semester at 6
p.m. in the Coliseum weightroom. New
members are welcome, said club presi
dent Mark Hentschke. Membership fee
is $10.
The weightlifting club is for UNL
students who like lilting weights and
powerlifting competitors. Thirty-five
people are members.
Competitive weightlifters can belong
to the club's powerlifting team. The
club has sponsored the state collegiate
powerlifting championships at UNL the
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for 1985-86 will be sold Sept. 16 through
20 at the South Stadium ticket office
from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m.
Season tickets will cost $26 for stu
dents ($2 a game) and $52 for spouses,
said Cindy Bell, a ticket office employee '
Checks should be for the exact amount.
Students must bring their applica
practice, which Switzer said has been
an advantage.
"The only disadvantage I can see
with starting the season so late is that
Minnesota will have already played a
couple of games," Switzer said. "It
could turn out to be the same type of
situation as Nebraska had with Florida
State."
Nebraska coach Tom Osborne agreed.
"Minnesota has a lot better chance
against them than if they both started
at the same time," Osborne said. "Okla
homa is not known as a fast-starting
football team. They usually improve as
the season goes on."
like a runza although it was a bit on the
cold side. The Philadelphia cheese
steak sandwich was a thin slice of fried
steak-um meat and a slice of cheese on
a long bun. This sandwich wasn't too
bad I ate it with ketchup and mus
tard. Next I turned my attention toward
the bowl of chili. The chili was quite
bland. I'd say it was closer to tomato
soup than any chili I've ever had. My
french fries were raw. However, this
may have been my own fault, because I
think I intimidated the girl frying the
fries when I mumbled something about
arranging for Madonna to sing at her
first born's wedding.
Being a person who likes to dwell on
the positive, I must say that the Cherry
Coke was superb, my ice cream was
fine and the yellow cake was entirely
edible.
On the whole, though the food was
cold and very bland not bad tasting
just cold and bland very similar to
the food served at the university resi
dence halls.
As to the general lack of warmth in
the food I did a little checking around
and discovered that the coaches are
expecting a cold game day against Illi
nois and thought the cold food might
prepare the players better.
All in all, my experience at the train
ing table was a fairly pleasant one. I'll
give it a 2.5. Good friends and good
conversation often times can take your
attention off the quality of the food.
After all, where else in Lincoln can you
bump into Bill Jackman or Micah Hei
bel at diriner? Then again, where else
in Lincoln can you eat brocolli beef pie?
past two years and is the defending
state collegiate champion.
The powerlifting team also competes
in other meets across Nebraska and
Iowa.
The meets are divided into weight
classes so that each person competes
against opponents his own size. There
are 11 weight classes for mm and ten
for women.
The winner of each weight class is
determined by total poundage of best
attempts in three different lifts: the
squat, bench and deadlift. Each com
petitor gets three attempts at each lift.
To raise money for the club, members
work as security guards at rock concerts.
tickets to go on sale
tion, a full-time student ID and pay
ment to the ticket office. No mail
orders will be accepted.
Applications will be filled in the
order received, Bell said. Groups will
be limited to six people, Bell said.
Tickets can be distributed Nov. 4'
through 8.
