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Turner still sidelined
NU injuries ‘could be better’
Nebraska’s depth chart
SE Jon Bostick 6-2 185 Jr.
Mark Dowse 6 0 180 Jr.
Dan Pleasant 5-9 175 Jr.
LT Tom Punt 6-8 285 Sr.
Terry Eyman 6-6 265 Sr.
Brent Pick 6-5 265 Sr.
LG JimWanek 6-1 245 Sr.
Jeff Chaney 6-2 250 Jr.
Scott Pedersen 6-4 245 So.
C David Edeal 6-2 260 Sr.
Bill Ziegel baum 6-5 240 Jr.
Terris Chorney 6-1 250 So.
RG Erik Wiegert 6-4 270 Jr.
Will Shields 6-2 260 So.
Chris Zyzda 6 2 255 So
RT Brian Boerboom 6-7 285 Jr.
Steve Engstrom 6-3 290 Sr.
Ray Riefenrath 6-5 290 Jr.
TE Chris Garrett 6-3 240 Jr.
William
Washington 6-2 245 So.
Daryl Leise 6-2 230 Jr.
QB Mike Grant 6-2 210 Jr.
Mickey Joseph 5-11 180 Jr.
Tom Haase 6-0 180 Jr.
FB Omar Soto 5-11 220 Jr.
Lance Lewis 6-0 225 So.
TimJohnk 5 10 215 Jr.
IB Leodis Flowers 5-11 200 Jr.
Scott Baldwin 6-1 200 So.
Derek Brown 5-10 175 Fr.
WB Tyrone Hughes 5-9 175 So
Nate Turner 6-2 225 Jr.
Brad Dev all_LS_18Q Sr.
LOLB Travis Hill 6-2 225 So
David White 6-2 225 So.
Dan Svehla 6-0 230 Sr.
LT Joe Sims 6-3 280 Sr.
Le Andre Anderson 6-4 260 Sr.
Paul Brungardt 6-7 270 Sr.
MG Pat Engelbert 6-2 250 Jr.
Greg Koellner 6-3 280 Jr.
Mike Jefferson 6-2 280 Fr.
RT Kenny Walker 6-4 240 Sr.
Brian Brown 6-6 260 Jr.
David Noonan 6-3 265 Fr.
ROLB Mike Croel 6-3 225 Sr
Dan Svehla 6-0 230 Sr.
Rick Wendland 6-1 215 Sr.
SLB MikePetko 6-2 230 Jr.
Matt Penland 6-0 220 So.
Troy Branch 6-2 220 Fr.
WLB PatTyrance 6-2 240 Sr.
Mike Anderson 6-1 230 Fr.
Paul Wightman 6-1 220 So.
LCB Bruce Pickens 5-11 190 Sr.
JonCrippen 5-10 170 Sr.
Robert Hicks 5-10 185 Sr.
RCB Tahaun Lewis 5-11 170 Sr.
Tyrone Legette 5-9 180 Jr.
Eric Anderson 5-8 175 Sr.
SS Reggie Cooper 6-3 210 Sr,
Curtis Cotton 6-1 210 Jr.
Brian Pollard 5-10 190 So.
FS Tyrone Byrd 5-11 165 So.
Steve Carmer 6-1 205 So.
Will Thomas 6-0 175 Jr.
John Bruce/Daily Nebraskan
By Chris Hopfensperger
Senior Reporter
Nebraska coach Tom Osborne still
has a few things up his sleeves for use
when the situation arises.
Osborne said Baylor’s ball-con
trol game plan kept the Comhuskcr
offense off the field and left the team
with a number of plays untested for
use in tight game situations.
“A lot of times you don’t get to
certain things,” Osborne said Tues
day at his weekly press conference.
“We still have a lot of things we’ve
been working on. It won’t be any
thing real overwhelming. When the
time is right we’ll use them.”
Osborne also would like to use
quarterback Mike Grant who suffered
a bruised knee late in the first half of
the game against Baylor. But the in
jury, which kept him out of the North
ern Illinois game, continues to ham
per him this week.
“When he first hurt that knee I
figured he might be sore for a few
days and would certainly play against
Northern Illinois,” he said. “Then I
figured he’d be well by last Friday,
then by Monday for sure he would
really look good. He’s still limping
and he’s not really full speed.”
‘‘So I’d say he’s still a little bit
touch and go for this week and that is
certainly a concern.”
I-back Scott Baldwin also is ques
tionable for Saturday after suffering a
toe injury against Northern Illinois,
Osborne said.
“I think he’s a little touch and go
even though he can run fairly well,”
he said. “He’s got to be fully recov
ered from that toe injury to be effec
tive.”
Nebraska was idle last weekend
alter moving the Baylor game up to
Sept. 1, to accommodate ESPN’s tele
vision schedule. That layoff could
pose a problem.
‘ ‘ A lot of teams don ’ t do wel 1 after
a week off,” Osborne said. “I guess
we generally play pretty well after a
week off and I think the reason we
have is that we work pretty hard.”
‘‘We had a good scrimmage (Fri
day) so it wasn't like we went 14 days
without contact. We should be a bel
ter team than we were before, but I
think playing games brings you along
a little faster than just practicing.”
A number of other players took
advantage of having last week off to
recover from various bumps and
bruises, Osborne said.
Reggie Cooper, Mike Croel, Lance
Lewis and Tyrone Byrd all sat out of
Friday’s scrimmage but are expected
to play against Minnesota.
Tackle Joe Sims, who missed the
Northern Illinois game along with
Grant, is expected to return.
“Overall this (injury situation)
could be worse,” Osborne said. “But
it could be better, too. Particularly if
you take the fact that we didn’t have
to play a game on Saturday.”
“Fortunately we have not had a lot
of practice injuries. So most of these
arc carry over from cither before the
season began and then one or two in
the ball games we have played.”
One injury that continues to carry
over is the loss of wingback Nate
Turner.
Turner, who broke his collarbone
in the second day of fall practice,
missed the Comhusker’s first two
games and will sit out the Minnesota
game as well.
“We were really disappointed in
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Nebraska I-back
ignores publicity,
returns to team
Chris Hopfensperger
Staff Reporter
Lasl fall, Lament White was one
of the most talkcd-aboul people asso
ciated with the Comhuskcr football
program, overshadowed only by the
likes of Gerry Gdowski, Mickey Jo
seph and Armen Kcteyian.
This year, though, White is just
another player standing on the side
lines on game days -- something he
doesn’t mind.
At least, he said, he still is part of
the team.
There was a time when White didn’t
think he would be. That lime came
after he was arrested in June 1989 for
cocaine possession. Charges that were
eventually dropped last summer.
“At one point, I thought about
leaving before the coaches even knew,
because 1 thought for sure they were
going to kick me off the team,” White
said.
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Flowers suffers
injury to knee
Nebraska No. 1 I-back Leo
dis Flowers suffered a knee in
jury at Tuesday’s practice and
could miss Saturday’s game with
Minnesota.
Flowers was hurt while the
team was working on a fake
punt drill, and another player
landed on the back of his knee.
Nebraska coach Tom Osborne
said he did not think the injury
was serious, but added that Flow
ers may not be available for
Saturday’s game, and could be
out as long as two to three weeks.
He said he would not know the
junior 1-back’s status until tests
were completed.
If Flowers is unavailable,
freshman Derek Brown would
start and junior George Achola
would be his backup, Osborne
said. Scott Baldwin, who backed
up Flowers in the Northern Illi
nois game, is questionable for
Saturday after injuring his toe
in the Northern Illinois game.
Tackles have big hightops to fill
By Todd Cooper
Staff Reporter
When defensive tackles David
Noonan and Scott Spachman com
bined for a slop in the Nebraska jun
ior varsity’s season opener Sept. 7 at
Memorial Stadium, the 1,612 fans
attending may have had visions of the
past.
Their brothers - Danny Noonan
and Chris Spachman - regularly
combined for tackles in 1986 when
Danny was named an All-American
and Chris an All-Big Eight their sen
ior years.
The younger Noonan and Spach
man never gave their eventual team
ing for a tackle, as their brothers once
did, much thought.
“1 didn’t even think about it until
I heard the P.A. announcer say ‘Noonan
and Spachman on the tackle’,” Spach
man said.
Noonan didn’t even hear the an
nouncement.
“I didn’t realize it Til when we
came out after the scries,” he said.
‘‘Somebody said they announced our
names on the tackle and that it was
like deja vu. 1 thought it was kind of
funny.”
But what hasn’t been amusing loi
them are the expectations associated
with being brothers of former Huskci
stars.
“There’s a lot of pressure,” said
Spachman, who walked on this year
* ‘There’s a little more because every
one talks about me living up to whai
Chris did.”
But Spachman also said he pub
much of the pressure on himself,
which is one of the reasons he chose
to wear his brother’s old number ~
No. 76.
“I thought it would kind of carry
on the tradition,” he said.
Noonan doesn’t let tradition or
references made to him about his
brother bother him, he said.
“1 don’t pay much attention to
them.” Noonan said. “I base my goals
on my ability, not about what Danny
did.
“1 mean 1 don't say, ‘Well, Danny
started as a junior or he was an All
American as a senior so 1 have to
those, too.’”
Noonan docs realize, though, that
he and his brother’s style of play arc
similar. That may be where the com
parisons arise.
“He’s a lot stronger than me, but
as far as our styles arc concerned
we’re both similar . . . we’re both
pretty much power and strength play
ers,’’ he said.
Nebraska will lose a lot of power
and strength next year, with three left
tackles — Joe Sims, LeAndre Ander
son and Paul Brungardt — using up
their eligibility after this season.
Noonan, a 1989 scholarship re
cruit, said he thinks he is playing with
the JV team to get game experience
for varsity next year.
“I hadn’t played in a game situ
ation in about two years,” Noonan
said. “Coach (Charlie) McBride said
it (the Snow game) would give me
some game experience, and then I
was fortunate enough Saturday (against
Northern Illinois) to get in a few
series.”
Noonan said he hopes Nebraska
has a few more games where the
margin in scores is wide, allowing
most of the reserve players like him
self some playing lime.
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All-American outside hitter Janet Kruse prepares for a bump
at last weekends Baden Mi zu no Invitational.
Year of the quarterback
features Heisman prospects
Welcome to the year of the quar
terback.
Only three weeks into the season,
college football fans have been treated
to stellar performances by signal call
ers across the country.
And at least four quarterbacks have
a leg up on any running back or wide
John
Adkisson
receiver who would entertain dreams
of owning a Heisman trophv.
It’s Air Show 1990, and the quar
terback who has been flying the high
est this season is Ty Detmcr from
Brigham Young University. Detmcr
catapulted himself into the national
scene when he led his Cougars to a
28-21 win against Miami. But per
haps his best performance came last
Saturday, when he rallied his team
from a three-touchdown deficit against
Washington State to a victory.
Critics say that BYU doesn’t play
a tough schedule, and it’s hard to
argue that the Western Athletic Con
ference is a power-laden conference.
But in Nebraska we’ve come to learn
that it’s the win total that counts, not
necessarily the quality of the compe
tition. Dctmer and BYU will pul up
wins this year, and that’s enough.
University of Southern California
sophomore Todd Marinovich may well
be on Detmer’s heels when it comes
time to counting Heisman votes.
Marinovich struggled last weekend
in a 19-14 Trojan victory over Penn
State. But he will get better and USC
w ill get plenty of television exposure
playing UCLA, Notre Dame and Ohio
State yet this season.
While Dctmer and Marinovich are
dueling for the title “Fastest Gun in
the West,’’ Miami’s Craig Erickson
and Virginia’s Shawn Moore will keep
things interesting for fans back East.
Erickson may well be the most
underrated player in the game. He led
the Hurricanes to a national title last
year, and handed Notre Dame its only
loss in the last two vears.
Erickson can kill a defense by
methodically hitting the short strike
and then connecting with a bomb. He
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