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IfCHARTROOsfil IMU CABOOSE Eat in or FAMOUS STEAK SANDWICHES Lincoln's Own Carry Out or '---s Famous NEW « . . _ . » ”HOTPHILADELPHIA DELIVFRY Corner °* 15th & 0 St. STEAKSANDWICH 7£- ^ We Proudly Support the Big Red Card 4/o-JUib j^e onjy chartroose in Town 1 8 ft 1 i M WE1MI 1MVRB I VII if. m W mBm MS i 1M > i KTT. aEff/HrHfil i i B-fflRllM imWWn itfi i IlriiilfM^^ 1 i Hol iday Sale ^ A Christmas gift is magic.. . £ and the magic comes from you | and the Post & Nickel! .4 % Special Gift Ideas at Great Sale Prices on Men's & Women's ; clothing, sportswear & footwear! Husker lineman has title hopes for former Irish teammates By Mark Derowitsch Senior Reporter Nebraska offensive guard Mark Antonietli has national champion ship hopes - not for the Cornhuskcrs, but for Notre Dame. It’s not that Antonietli has given up hope for the Huskcrs, but he said he wants to slick by the Fighting Irish the way they stuck by him. Top ranked Notre Dame will play West Virginia Jan. 2 in the Fiesta Bowl in a game that most people agree will decide the mythical national champi onship. ‘‘I owe them some loyally,” said Antonietli, who played lor the Irish in 1984 and 1985. ‘‘It has to do with some of my friends that still play there. It’s nice to sec people you went to school with perform well.” Antonietti transferred to Nebraska in the fall of 1986 and sat out a year. When he became a Husker, he was reunited with Nate Turner and Mike Murray - his former teammates at Mi. Carmel High School in Chicago. Antonietli said he didn't regret his decision to leave Notre Dame. “I was given an opportunity to play in one of the best programs in the country,” Antonietli said. “I can’t complain aboul anything. The kids on this learn are really good people.” Bui Antonietli said he would rather play Notre Dame for the na tional title in ihc Orange Bowl than waleh ihc Fighting Irish on televi sion. “It’d be nice to play (Notre Dame) for the national championship,'' he said. ‘ ‘ I had always hoped that I d get a chance to play them.” Although he w"ould rather play the Irish, Antonietti said he’s gla^l the Huskers tire playing Miami in the Orange Bowl. The game will be held Jan. 2. 7 have (Notre Dame) some loy alty. It has to do with some of my friends that still play there.1 - Antonietti H ill mi H 1 11 §Hl iHI Mi1 “TheOrange Bowl is the place for Nebraska,” he said. “It’s the only place we can go if we hope to be a national contender. We have to beat Miami to be a contender, and that would be a great achievement for us. They’re definitely one of the best teams in the country.” But Antonietti would also like to defeat Miami and end its national title hopes’because of something that happened in 1985. During Antonietti s sophomore year at Notre Dame, the Irish were defeated by Miami 58-7 in Miami. It was the last game for Notre Dame coach Gerry Faust, w ho was replaced by current-coach Lou Holtz. Many people thought Hurricane coach Jimmy Johnson ran up the score on the Irish. “Coaches do what they have to do,” said Antonietti, referring to Johnson. “I have no real reason to hale them other than the fact that they stand in our way of something we want.” Antonietti said he thinks Faust wasn’t respected during his tenure at Notre Dame. “I know it’s really hard to be ob jective about something when you live there,” he said. “I know he was a good person. He might have been in a situation over his head. I think he handled the situation well, though.” Antonioni said he left Notre Dame “lor personal reasons.” But, he said, that’s now behind him. “I got an opportunity to come here,” he said “At the lime 1 came here, they were really looking for linemen, It was a perfect spot for me. And the transition was pretty easy.” But for now, Antonietti would iike the Huskers to go through another transition -- of being national cham pions for the first time since 1971. “I 'd like to see us win ihe national championship,” Antonietti said. “It's the foremost thought in my mind. To do it, we must first beat Miami. It would give me tremendous pride if that would happen.” Missouri names Stull; replaces Widenhofer COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - Bob Stull, credited with turning around Tcxas*El Paso’s dismal football pro gram in three seasons, was hired Wednesday to pull Missouri from a suing of five suaight losing seasons. Stull, 43, was awarded a five-year conuacl at a base salary of $85,0(K) a year. “We feel fortunate to have the opportunity to hire an outstanding football coach like Bob Stull,” Ath letic Director Dick Tamburo said at an afternoon news conference in Columbia. “His background and credentials more than qualify him for this posi tion. When he was here in Columbia for his interview, everyone who met him was most impressed with his presentation and enthusiastic about making him our top candidate,” Tamburo said. Stull replaces Woody Widen hofer, who was pressured into resign ing last month after failing to post a winning record in four seasons. Mis souri last had a winning record, 7-5, in 1983 and was 12-31-1 under Widenhofer. Stull’s name surfaced even before Widenhofer’s departure, but he ap parently did not settle on Missouri until after he interviewed Sunday for the opening at Stanford. Stull was named to the Missouri post just hours after workmen re moved Widenhofcr’s nameplate from the football office door and his portrait from the press lounge in the athletic department. Stull look over at UTEP in 1985 following a 1-10 season under Bill Young. After posting 4-8 and 7-4 records his first two years at El Paso, Stull led his team to a 10-2 record, the best in the school’s history, and a berth in the Independence Bowl against Southern Mississippi this year. The UTEP team also set a school scoring mark of 35 points per game in 1988. Stull, a native of Davenport, Iowa, has previous experience in the Big Eight Conference, where he played offensive center at Kansas State in the mid-1960s. He previously coached two years at Massachusetts, where he was 10-12. Before becom ing a head coach, he was an assistant for more than a dozen years with Don James at Kem State and Washington, a graduate assistant at Kansas State from 1969-70 and a defensive coordi nator at Dubuque (Iowa) High in 1968 69. Stull received a base salary of about $58,000 at UTEP and about $52,(X)0 in broadcast income for a total package of about SI 10,(XX) this year. Previous published reports said the Missouri package, with broadcast and other income, was worth between $200,000 apd S250.000 a year. El Paso community leaders trying to keep Stull at UTEP offered him an investment package that eventually ttould have been worth as much as S4(M),(X)0, but Stull said money was not a factor in his decision. Jonathan Rogers, the El Paso mayor who helped pul (ogethcr the investment package, joined commu nity and university leaders in ex pressing disappointment that Stull was leaving UTEP. “He’s done an outstanding job here in El Paso. I think he wants to move up to a bigger challenge,” Rogers said. We regret the loss of Bob Stul 1 as our head football coach,’” UTF.P Athletic Director Brad Hovious said in a prepared statement from the Western Athletic Conference meet ings in Denver. “It goes without saying that he did a great job for UTEP. Wc know we will feel his lass in our football program for some lime.” Stull was hired at UTEP in 1985 by ihcn-Prcsidenl Haskell Monroe, now the chancellor at the Missouri Columbia .campus. Tamburo, the Missouri athletic director, knows Stull from their days together at Kent State. Tamburo said earlier that Stull, who visited the Missouri campus the lirst weekend in December, was the best of five or six candidates that the school considered. T know Bob is an excellent, out standing coach,” Tamburo said. * ‘He impressed everyone he was in contact with during his visit to the univer sity.” Earlier published reports said other coaches considered for the Missouri coaching job included Ore gon’s Rich Brooks, Marshall’s George Chaump and Appalachian Stale’s Sparky Woods.