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Nebraska-Oklahoma gym rivalry
was especially hard on Hartung
HARTUNG from Page 9
that could score more than 55 in the
event.
“Wcdidn’thavcanybody on the
team that could take his place and
it really hurt us a lot,” Howard said.
“We still hyd a pretty good team
but we were just missing Jim.”
Foi the rest of the season Ne
braska held onto its No. I ranking.
The Huskers had defeated No. 2
Oklahoma and No. 4 Iowa State
two times during the regular sea
son.
But at the Big Eight Champion
ships, Nebraska couldn’t dethrone
two-time conference champion
Oklahoma. Hartung said it was
difficult to compete at Oklahoma.
“We have a great arena here at
Nebraska because the fans are
close to the floor and- its well lit,
plus the fan support was
enormous,” Hartung said. “But
down at Oklahoma their arena is
sort like a pit— it’s dark, the fans
arc far away from the floor and
there is never anybody at the meets
except our fans that year.
“We didn’t like being there
more than anything. There were
words going on between our
coaches at the time so it was a bad
atmosphere for gymnastics.”
The Huskers went on to win
their first NCAA championship
later that year by defeating Okla
homa by more than two points.
Hartung said that in the first
round of the NCAA meet, he
wasn’t sure whether Nebraska was
going to win.
“(Former Huskcr) Larry Wil
liams was hurt and Oklahoma was
much better in the compulsorics
then we were,” Hartung said. “We
were t vo-tenths of a point behind
Oklahoma going into the finals.
“Everything was very tense in
the warm-ups for the finals and
they seemed to be more uptight
then we were. One of the boosters
sent Francis a singing telegram and
at the end, he was presented with a
wrench because the year before,
the Oklahoma coach had called the
rest of the gymnastics teams a
bunch of plumbers because they
plumb through their routines. It
caused everybody to just loosen
up.”
Hartung said his two favorite
years were 1979 and 1981 because
everything went right. He said
Nebraska’s defeat of Oklahoma in
front of 8,500 fans in 1981 is the
NCAA meet he remembers the
most.
“I loved to perform in front of
the large crowds, and when we
stepped out on to the fkxtr that year,
the crowd just went crazy,” Har
tung said. “But I finally beat (for
mer Oklahoma gymnast) Bart
(Connor) in a major competition
and thai *vas a big thing to me.”
Hartung said he and Connor had
a rivalry going in 1981.
“By '81, me and Bart had a little
personal battle going,” Hartung
said. “What really hurt me was
before I came to Nebraska, me and
Bart were pretty good friends and
that slowly deteriorated over the
years. It’s almost like I had to hate
Bart to get fired up enough to beat
him.”
Hartung said the rivalry got in
tense during the 1979 Big Eight
meet.
“I remember a guy on the team,
Kirt Fredrick, who was aboutb feet
tall,” Hartung said. “He needed the
high bar adjusted and Oklahoma’s
coach said no. I think that’s the
closest I’ve ever seen Francis and
(former Oklahoma coach Piul
Ziert) almost getting in a fight.”
Hartung said he will never for
get the four years that he competed
at Nebraska. While competing for
the Huskcrs, he won seven individ
ual NCAA titles and a combined 11
NCAA Gold Medals. In 1982, he
was awarded the Nisscn Award,
which is awarded to the nation’s
top senior gymnast.
“I grew so much as a person in
those four years that it helped to
succeed in other things,” Hartung
said. “For now, those four years
were some of the happiest days of
my life, and 1 hope Nebraska will
continue to have the reputation of
being the best gymnastics program
in the United States.”
NU swim team hopes to stay unbeaten
By Jeff A pel
Senior Kdilor
Nebraska men’s swimming coach
I Cal Bcniz will be trying to continue
| his season-long dominance when the
| Comhuskers face Utah today at the
Bob Dcvaney Sports Center.
Bent/, whose Huskcrs have rolled
| to a No. 10-ranking this season while
compilinga 2-0record, said Nebraska
will have to perform to the best of its
ability to defeat Utah. He said the 3
0 Utes pose problems because they
possess several outstanding swim
mers.
“They have some fast people,”
Bent/, said, ‘‘so we need to be ready.”
Bent/ said the meet is also impor
tant because the Huskcrs will be chas
ing several NCAA standards that
eluded them during the Huskcr Invita
tional last weekend. He said he would
like to see Sean Frampton qualify in
the 100-yard backstroke and
Nebraska’s 800-yard freestyle relay
team also meet its NCAA standards.
“Our feeling is we like to move
forward,’’ Bent/ said. “So we would
like to gel the cuts out of the way.’’
Bent/, said the meet may help the
Huskcrs make their cuts because they
will be focusing strictly on Utah. He
said that during the 10-tcam Huskcr
Invitational, it was easy for Nebraska
to focus on the team race rather than
individual performances.
“In a big meet like we had last
week sometimes your times can get
fragmented and you can get into your
own thing,*’ Bent/ said, “but in the
smaller meets you have to focus in on
the competition.”
Bent/ said he hopes Nebraska’s
victory over No. 8-ranked Arizona
Suite at the Husker Invitational shows
coaches across the nation how power
ful Nebraska is. He said the times that
some Huskers swam would gel some
attention.
“I think the times will be as impor
tant as the win itself,” Bent/, said.
Utah coach Don Reddish said he
was impressed by the limes Nebraska
has posted this season. He said the
Utes will need lobe in top form if they
are going to defeat Nebraska.
Reddish said Nebraska will enter
the meet as the favorite even though
Utah hasn’t lost a dual meet in two
years because the Huskers arc ta
pered. Tapering is a process in which
sw immers hope to reduce their times
by shaving and resting.
Reddish said the Utes won’t taper
until the Western Athletic Confer
ence meet in March.
“It’s just a difference in coaching
philosophies,” Reddish said.
Forward Vick accepts leadership role
as young Huskers battle age dilemma
The players should have known
they were in for a tough practice.
Nebraska coach Danny Nee showed
up wearing black. All black.
Nee decided a few players were
loafing in three-on-two drills. He’d
had enough.
“All right, everybody on the line
except for Derrick (Vick) and E.J.
(Eric Johnson),”
Nee said. “We’re
going to run.”
Vick, Nebras
ka’s top returning
scorer, and John
son, a transfer from
Baylor who is a
starting guard, stood on the side tak
ing turns at the drinking fountain.
Kent
Endacott {
Vick ux)k off during the National
Invitation Tournament last season,
leading the Huskers to a third-place
finish. He was named to the All-NIT
first team. This season, he said, big
things are expected of him.
“He (Nee) is looking to go to me
more this year because I’m one of the
lop returning men,” Vick said, “and
also because we have a lot of young
guys. He has to look to the seniors for
leadership until the freshmen come
around and mature. 1 ’vc accepted this
role.”
Nee said that for the Cornhuskers
to win this year, Vick will have to
score and guard Henry Buchanan will
have to run the team.
“We’re going to have to build
around them,” Nee said. “No two
players contributed more than
Buchanan and Vick going down the
stretch and in the NIT. They were both
big game players for us.”
And Vick should be again. Nee has
said Nebraska will run even more this
season than they did last year. At 6
!oot-6and 200 pounds, Vick’s mobil
ity should help him score more often
off the fast break.
“Thai’s a way of getting me open,
and I can do what I want,” the senior
forward said.
Considering Vick’s credentials
coming out of Hutchinson (Kan.)
Junior College, it seems amazing that
he chose Nebraska to do what he
wanted. He earned honorable-men
tion Junior College All-America
consideration and was recruited by
Kansas Stale, South Carolina, Oregon
and Oregon Slate.
Nee had just been hired at Ne
braska when he met Vick at the Na
lional Junior College Tournament.
Vick said he liked Nee immedi
ately and wanted to play his up-tempo
style. Nee hired Vick’s junior-college
coach, Gary Bargen, hut Vick said
that had nothing to do with his deci
sion to become a Huskcr.
“I decided before he said he was
going to Nebraska,” Vick said. “Well,
1 didn’t really decide it, but I had a
feeling I was going to like it up there
with the new coach and his persua
sion-type of recruiting and his hon
esty.”
Bargen said Vick has improved
since he coached him in junior col
lege.
“He’s developed. It’s a little dif
ferent type of a style,” Bargen said.
“He’s the kind of guy you watch the
whole ball game and you don’t sec a
lot of stuff, and then all of a sudden the
game’s over and he’s got his 12-15
points and his eight or nine re
bounds.”
This season, Vick said, he knows
he’s going to get a lot more attention
from opponents. He said he’s ready.
“I’m looking forward to that chal
lenge,” Vick said. “Everybody really
knows about me now. I’ll be heavily
guarded. If I do a lot of scoring, then
1 II know I’ve improved over the
years because now everyone will be
keying on me.”
Kndacott is a senior news-editorial major
and a Daily Nebraskan sports reporter.