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Title is at stake •
• for two schools
By The Associated Press
Colorado against Nebraska
It won’t just be the biggest
game ever played in Boulder,
Colo. At stake could be a shot at
a national championship.
Since second-ranked Miami
lost 24-10 to ninth-ranked Flor
ida State Saturday, Colorado
• and Nebraska should move up a
notch each in the poll and be
Nos. 2-3 behind Notre Dane
when they meef Saturday at
Boulder.
Third-ranked Colorado beat
Oklahoma 20-3, and No. 4
Nebraska beat Iowa State 49-17
Saturday, while the Irish beat
No. 7 Pittsburgh 45-7. Notre
Dame, Colorado and Nebraska
all are R-ft
The Colorado-Nebraska
winner almost certainly will
win the Big Eight and a trip to
the Change Bowl, where die
logical matchup would be
against Notre Dame, if the Irish
remain No. 1.
* That win means a lot to this
program,” Colorado coach Bill
McCartucy said
‘‘It now puts us in position to
play the biggest game ever
played in Boulder/^
The only other ranked un
beaten team is Alabama, at 7-0
after beating No. 14 Perot State
17-16. ^
Colorado beat Oklahoma for
the first time since 1976 and at
Norman, Okla., for the first
time since 1965. The Buffaloes
held Oklahoma to 167 total
. yards.. ... .
Although Colorado quarter
back Darian Hagan had 107
yards rushing and JJ. Flanni
gan, subbing for injured Eric
Bieniemy, bad 103, the Buffa
loes’ 20 points were their few
est of the season. Colorado has
scored 40 or more points five
times.
Colorado’s final points
came after an Oklahoma
fumble at its 9. Hagan scored on
an 8-yard run with 3:26 left.
Iowa State coach‘totally fed ud’
By Cory Golden
Staff Reporter
Gone was the Iowa State coach
Jim Walden, who three weeks ago
had joked about hearing the sound of
Godzilla one, Godzilla two, and
Godzilla three” approaching while
preparing for Colorado, Oklahoma
and Nebraska.
In his place sat a coach who was
frustrated to the poipt of anger after
seeing his team drop a 49-17 decision
to Nebraska Saturday at Memorial
| Stadium.
Walden silently entered the field
house room set aside for interviews.
He began quietly, then worked to a
boiling point
“Well, there’s not much to say,”
Walden said,4 4just a bigger, stronger,
more deep football team that one day
I d like to be even close to.
“We’re tired. This is our third
straight week of this type of competi
tion.”
Walden paused. He looked down
at the floor, glanced up at the crowd
of reporters, then after a long silence
started again.
“We’re not capable of me answer
ing your questions gentlemen,” he
said, his face, growing increasingly
red and his voice increasingly louder,
“‘cause what you want me to say is
that we got beat by a good team. We
did.
“But I can’t tell you how frustrat
ing it is to keep trying to play against
this type of competition with what
I’m having to do it with.”
Then Walden quit holding back.
“You can call it whining - you
can call it any goddamn thing you
want,’ ’ he said, ‘ ‘but I call it injustice
and I am sick of it.”
“lam sick of having to come over
here and play Nebraska and not be
able to compete against them and
have them run over my guys because
they should. Not because they’re
better, or because they’ve got 10
times more guys to pick from than I
do.
“They’ve got 75 more guys and I
get sick of doing it for the last three
weeks.
“I’ve watched walk-ons and
freshmen go out there and try to stop
five-year seniors on great teams,”
Walden continued, “and take noth
ing away from Nebraska and Tom -
he’s not my problem.
“But the problem is it’s a damn
shame you guys have to watch it. And
you have to keep asking me stupid
questions about why we don’t do
better, ‘cause what you’re watching
is a great team playing against j.v.’s.
And it’s not fair.”
Walden stopped again momentar
ily, then looked back up into the
lights from the television cameras.
“So I’d like to brag on Nebraska
I’d like to tell you they were every
thing I thought they were gonna be.
They ran us over like I thought they
were going to and they won the game
exactly like I thought they should
have.
“And I don’t give a damn who
wins the Colorado-Nebraska game --
so don’t ask it.
“Is there anything else you want
now?” Walden asked.
The room was silent.
“Thank you,” he snapped, rising
to his feel. “I’ve had enough.”
On the way out of the room,
Walden stopped.
“I don’t want that down there like
I’m mad at you,” he said, pointing at
one reporter’s legal pad. “I’m not.”
The coach’s anger again reached
fever pitch.
“I’m just totally fed up to here
with watching my guys get run over
by good kids. It’s not fair,” he
shouted, “and I shouldn’t have to put
up with this shit.”
cross country team captures title
By Cory Golden
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska women’s cross
country team repeated as Big Eight
champions Saturday at Ames, Iowa,
while No. 1-ranked Iowa State ran
away with its third straight men’s
crown.
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The Husker men’s team finished
second with 68 points to the Cy
clones, who placed four individuals
in the top five — including champion
John Nuttall — en route to a final
score of 22.
The Nebraska women captured
their title with 43 points. Ninth
ranked Oklahoma State was second
with 59, followed by fourth-ranked
Kansas State with 64. Missouri was
fourth with 131 points, followed by
Colorado with 135, Kansas with 141,
Iowa State with 163 and Oklahoma
with 177.
In the men’s race, Colorado fin
ished in third with 92 points, fol
lowed by Kansas Slate with 110,
Kansas with 113, Oklahoma Slate
with 128, Oklahoma with 182 and
Missouri with 209.
Nebraska cross country coach Jay
Dirksen praised the effort of the
Comhusker women.
“There was a real good example
of a team enort on the women’s
side,” Dirksen said. “The top six ran
real well.”
All-America selection Yvonne
van dcr Kolk was the Huskers’ top
finisher in the women’s 5000-meter
race with a time of 17:19. That mark
was 13 seconds behind individual
champion Heather Garrett-of Okla
homa Slate.
Garrett was followed by teammate
Jackie Goodman and Missouri’s
Susan Bliss.
“I haven’t figured it up, bull think
we would have won even if Yvonne
hadn’t run,” Dirksen said.
Nebraska’s all-around effort in
cluded three more finishers in the lop
10. Kalic Fletcher finished sixth and
Juliet Prowsc and Fran tcnBenscl
finished ninth and tenth respectively.
Dirksen praised the effort of
Fletcher and tcnBenscl, who arc a
pair of redshirt freshmen. He said
Prowse also deserved praise, as she
ran her best race of the year.
The remaining lop-20 finishers for
the Huskers were Kelly Loos and
Michelle Marthaler, who finished
14th and 15th.
“It’s encouraging to have that
kind of depth,’ Dirksen said.
“That’s really good to have for the
national meet, assuming we make
it.”
The men’s race came down to a
battle for No. 1 between Nuttcll and
Nebraska All-America selection Joe
Kirby, who finished second.
Dirksen said the two pulled away
with more than a mile to go. Kirby led
with approximately a half mile to go,
but Nuttcll used his closing kick to
win with a lime of 25:11.
Nebraska’s other reluming All
American, senior Jacques van
Rcnsburg, finished sixth with a 25:40
clocking.
Dirksen said he was impressed by
Kirby and van Rcnsburg.
“Kirby ran a great race,’’ he said.
“On a different day, he might have
won, Jacques might have won. Any
one of the top six might have won on
a given day.
“There were some great runners
at this meet. Five, six, maybe evdn
eight guys from the top 10 will proba
bly be All-Americans.”
Dirksen said he was pleased with
the meet.
‘‘It was great,” he said. “Our
women were really impressive.
That’s the first time we’ve ever had
four girls in the top 10.
“Everyone ran really hard. We
had people who laid it on the line and
ran their best front the gun.
“Thai’s the kind of effort we need
at districts and nationals.”
Pettit: Line-up change made
to prepare team for future
By Darran Fowler
Senior Reporter
Realizing that Nebraska was up
against a struggling Missouri team,
Comhusker volleyball coach Terry
Pettit experimented against the Ti
gers by giving several Huskers the
opportunity to play.
Without a struggle, third-ranked
Nebraska raised its record to 17-1 and
8-0 in Big Eight conference play by
defeating Missouri 15-10,15-2,15-2
in front of 1,381 fans at the NU Coli
seum Sunday afternoon.
The Tigers came into Lincoln rid
ing a 14-match losing streak, and are
now 4-19 and 0-8 in the Big Eight.
Pettit opened each game with a
different starting line-up and also
substituted randomly in giving all but
one Husker playing time in the
match.
Sophomore middle blocker Sara.
Hesch, who still is recovering* from
shoulder surgery, was in uniform but
did not play.
Putting players in at various points
of the match and having them assume
different roles and situations will
prepare the Huskers for the future,
Pettit said.
Nebraska, which normally runs a
5-1 offense with setter Val Novak,
ran a 6-2 against the Tigers whenever
the Huskers’ other setter — freshman
Val Vermeulen — was inserted into
the line-up at the same time as Novak.
Novak led the nation last week by
averaging 14.08 assists per game.
Pettit said there may be a time
later this season when the Huskers are
struggling with the 5-1 ,and may need
to switch to a 6-2.
Also, by using Vcrmeulcn as a
setter in the 6-2, the Huskers can take
advantage of Novak’s hitting experi
ence, he said.
We weren't just
messing around.
We were getting
people in situ
ations where they
might help us.
Those are things
that may come
into play in
matches down the
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Novak had 373 kills last season at
the outside hitter position.
“We weren’t just messing
around,” he said. “We were getting
people in situalion»whcre they might
help us.
“Those are things that may come
into play in matches down the road.
On the whole, I thought we did a
pretty good job.”
Vermeulen, who recorded four
assists and one service ace in the
match, said she doesn’t have any
problems running the Huskers’ of
fense.
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Eileen Shannon and Virginia Stahr block a kill attempt by Missouri during Sunday’s game.