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Tuesday, January 20, 1937 Daily Nebraskan Pago 5 Scouts v to a . 'ft fe wsy C -a. a. o r o T? C x- V : pts Wyoming job l ) c By The Associated Press and Staff Reports Gene Iluey, who has been the wide receivers' coach at Nebraska sine v V'll, 1 accepted a position r c T .vf a - iir.ator at the Uni ur ltf Huey confirmed I ' ji "t ' 1 o I i . t I. ;braska's program f rl U' cy've been 10 very jM you that you need ,se!f a little mere. Jlr tt.is is going to be a V II. y said. "There isn't a belt n 2 tl an this. So, for what it has to eifer me, I felt I should take it." iluey hebed to d.vii;p such play ers as All Americans Irving Fryar an i Junior Jsiulor and a.l L.g Eijht selections Kenny Brown, Tim Smith and Jamie Williams. The Wyoming position will be a homecoming for Haey, who played his college football at that school for then assistant coach Paul Reach in I860' 63. Those Cowboy teams won three Western Athletic Confer- Iluoyset 13 Wyoming records as a receiver and made WAC all-conference teams as a receiver and as a d.um ivc Lock. He v. as the f.rt 1 1 k:r to earn l.th ch" .'I've End ch." ..:,e h:;.,:s in t! e V.AC. "...r :ta d n Dieg, in the K :; I I. Lregj: in 1CJ i t ft r? a Tfr. .. ....... i. f j . i r t. ana i,ie, iit ica t;,cq 13 . job at New Mexico, where he served as a receivers' coach from 1B74-76. Roach, who had been Wyoming's athletic director for several years, was named the school's football coach Jan. 9 after Dennis Eritkson left to become Washington State's coach. The Cowboys were 6-8 overall and 44 in the WAC loot season. 72, 11 reti "Over the last 1 7 years some hard times have fallen over the program, particularly because of the revolv ing door of coaches," Iluey said. "Wyoming has potential. I feel if the right people are there, we can get it done." IIe?y, GO, was expected to leave To to recruit far Wcmirg, II? recro'i; d in Texas 0nd Lei !Jra f,r 'a?-i 111 crrM- ji'.th.t UBJL falls to Aiisoma tin first meet By Rich Cooper Staff Reporter At the start of the fourth rotation Friday night at the Bob Devaney Sports Center, Arizona women's gymnastics coach Jim Gault told his team to "let it fly" on vault because it could be close. That's exactly what they did, as the No. 9 ranked Wildcats, behind NCAA vault champion Mary Kay Brown's 9.6, defeated the Nebraska women's gymn astics team 184.45 to 181.90. Minnesota, ranked No. 14, finished third in the meet with a 177.45. Before the fourth rotation started Arizona had already opened up a two point lead, Cornhusker coach Rick Walton said. In the third rotation the Huskers performed on balance beam, while the Wildcats performed the floor exercise, one of their strongest events. The Wildcats averaged 9.3 on the floor exercise while the Huskers aver aged 8.9 on the beam. "Basically, the whole meet was decided in the third rotation," Walton said. "We made some mistakes on the balance beam and Arizona performed well on the floor exercise." Walton said he wasn't surprised with the meet's outcome. He said he knew going into the meet that Arizona was strong in the floor exercise and vault. "Down the road, I would have to say those two events will be the ones Arizona will fall back on to win their meets," Walton said. Sophomores Jeaneane Smith and Crystal Savage were Nebraska's top all arounders. Smith won her seventh career all-around title with a 37.05. Savage finished third behind Arizona's Brown with a 36.80. Walton said he was pleased with the 35.0 all-around performance from fresh man Angie Burdette. Three of Walton's four all-arounders each scored over 36. "What we wanted to get out of this meet was for our all-arounders to score anywhere from a 36 to 37," Walton said. "We probably had around 12 or 13 falls in this meet, but last week Arizona, in their first meet, fell that many times and look what they did this week with their score." Walton said that as the season pro gresses, Nebraska is going to earn some respect. He said scoring 181 for their first meet is a "heck of a start" and if the Huskers keep improving they'll be scoring 185 by the end of the season. 1. .. , 1. .11 , -. . . r A ( ; .. jJ i i t f Linda StoryDaily Nebraskan Nebraska gymnast Crystal Savags performs her floor-exercise routine Saturday night at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. Savage placed third in individual all-around points during the three-team meet. ATTENT Mr Members of the Finance Club, the Marketing Club, and the MBA Program PAYL ESS SHOESOURGE PRESENTS: Vice President of Advertising and Sales Promotion on the Topic of: MARKETING AND PROMOTIONAL STRATEGIES Payless ShoeSource: ... A Division of the May Company . . . Opens a store every 21 hours Payless ShoeSource . . . Operating over 2200 stores nationwide . . . 1987 sales over $1 billion DATE: Thurs., Jan. 22, 1987 TIME: 7:00 p.m. PLACE: Union Ballroom