Husker player follows father’s footsteps
By Steve Sipple
Staff Reporter_
Freshman strong safety Freeman
White III is making strides in the
Nebraska football program, and they
arc right in the footsteps of his father.
Freeman White Jr. was a Corn
husker All-America split end in 1965
and played for the National Football
League’s New York Giants from
1966 to 1969. He ended his career in
1970 while playing for the Ottawa
Rough Riders of the Canadian Foot
ball League.
The elder White, who was re
cruited in 1962 by former Nebraska
coach and current athletic director
Bob Dcvaney, said it is a special
feeling to have a son playing at his
former stomping grounds.
“It definitely is,” he said. “When
the old-timers get together, like Tony
Jeter, Frank Solich or Walt Barnes, we
always say we started it. We feel we
were the ones who started the tradi
tion.”
“Then to have a son come in and
have that winning tradition still going
on is a great feeling.”
White helped the Husker fresh
men continue their winning tradition
in their season-opening, 62-0 victory
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varsity. He returned two punts for 86
yards and played a strong game in the
secondary, Nebraska freshman coach
Shane Thorcll said.
White said his father helped him
prepare for the rigors of college foot
ball by monitoring a summer workout
program. He said every morning at
7 a.m. he would run two miles, com
plete a series of 50-yard uphill sprints,
do sit-ups and push-ups, and pound on
a speed bag.
“It was like preparing for a fight,
mentally,” he said. “It prepared me
for making hits.”
Thorcll said White’s“tacklingand
toughness” arc his main attributes.
White agreed.
“That’s why I play,” he said. “I
like to hit.”
White, a 6-foot-1, 195-pound
walk-on from Kansas City, said he’s
anxious for Nebraska’s next game
against Bethany College because he
wants to show the Husker coaches he
deserves a scholarship.
White said the special teams are
the best place for him to cam a schol
arship.
“I know there’s great athletes at
that level,” he said. “I’d break my
heart to just be on the special teams.
I have the desire. My dad always told
me it’s 90 percent desire and 10 per
I
cent what you know.”
Thorcll said any talk of a scholar
ship at this point is premature.
“We usually don’t give them
scholarships before they get at least to
second team on varsity,”Thorcll said.
“He really shouldn’t worry about it
until spring ball.”
CurrenUy, freshman Reggie Coo
pe is ' e No. 3 strong safety on the
vai sit; vk pth chart behind seniors Jeff
Ton.j ► and Brian Washington.
White said even though he knows
moving ahead of the seniors isn’t
realistic, he would “break his neck ’ to
be in Cooper’s spot.
White said he received scholar
ship offers from Nfaine and New
Hampshire, but his father figured
prominently in his decision to be
come a Husker.
“Basically, he was my mentor,” he
said. “He gave me all the information.
He didn’t say I should go here or I
should go there... he just helped me.
“Since I’ve been young, everyone
I knew who came to NU, which is a
lot, were positive about it. I never
talked to anyone who wasn't positive
about it.”
He said the favorable reviews have
held true, but one thing is missing.
“The only problem is, I need a
scholarship,” White said.
While White has set lofty goals for
himself, the elder White said he has
always been careful not to force too
much on his son.
“He’s at the age now where he can
make his own decisions,” he said.
“He knows my feelings. My feeling is
you always give it 100 percent. You
know what they say, you get out of it
what you put into it.”
White said he’s confident his son
will succeed.
“He has got an extra-ordinary
heart,” he said.
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Nebraska's Freeman White III returns a punt during the Cornhusker’s 62-0 victory over the St. Thomas (Minn.) Junior
Varsity. White is a starting strong safety for Nebraska.
Deardorff leads NU to Jayhawk Invitational title
By Lori Griffin
Staff Reporter
Nebraska pitcher Donna Dcar
dorff struck out 13 1 “j
batters to lead I
Nebraska to a 2-1
victory over Kan
sas Sunday in the
finals of the Jay
hawk Softball
Invitational at L-——_
Lawrence, Kan. Wolforth
The Comhuskers, who finished
the tournament with a 2-1 record,
defeated Iowa State 7-2 Saturday,
but lost to Illinois State 2-1 Sunday
to finish in a three-way tie for first
place. Iowa State and Illinois State
also finished with 2-1 records.
Nebraska coach Ron Wolforth
said the Huskcrs didn’t play up to
their expectations. He said he felt
responsible for Nebraska’s per
formance.
“I believe that we played with
less intensity and less aggressive
ness than I thought we would. We
need to get our minds on the matter
at hand,” Wolforth said. “The
chemistry wasn’t there, and we
weren’t as mentally lough as we
need to be to win the Big Eight or
any other tournament.
“We have to have a certain level
of concentration, but it just wasn’t
there.”
Wolforth said that although
they committed no technical mis
takes in the tournament, the Husk
ers made too many mental errors.
“I was disappointed in the
menial frame of mind our players
had,” he said. “We arc, by far, the
best learn in the Midwcsl, but we
can’t coach on potential. We have
to execute.”
Wolforth said the relaxed atti
tude of the Nebraska coaching staff
helped the Huskers throughout the
tournament. He said Nebraska has
taken a relaxed attitude throughout
its fall season.
Wolforth said the best Nebraska
player throughout the tournament
was senior outfielder MargicOgro
dowicz. He said all the Husker
players would benefit if they fol
lowed Ogrodowicz’s lead.
Ogrodowicz, who transferred
from Texas Tech University as a
sophomore, broke the all-time
Nebraska stolen-base record when
she stole her 49th career base
against Iowa State. That mark
broke the old record of 48, which
was set by former Nebraska player
Shelly Scott in 1981.
“Margie played every inning as
if it were her last,” Wolforth said.
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