Reader faults sports desk
for printing inaccuracies
Dear Sportswriters:
I’m writing this letter concerning
the misinformation which you have
been giving the readers in your Daily
Nebraskan sports section.
In your Wednesday, Sept. 19, is
sue, John Adkisson had an article
about the great talent of quarterbacks
in college football this season. Adkis
son failed to mention anywhere in his
article David Klingiler of Houston
University. The sophomore, Klingler,
has thrown for more yards per game,
more touchdowns and less intercep
tions than the highly touted Ty Det
mer of Brigham Young University.
Perhaps more research should be done
before talking about the nation’selite.
In that same issue, a co-rec flag
football Top-10 list was published.
This list had Schramm 6 as the sev
enth-ranked team. Being a resident of
Schramm 6,1 am well aware that we
do not have a co-rec flag football
team.
Finally, in the Friday, Sept. 21,
issue, Chris Hopfensperger states in
his “Huskers aren’t bullies. . ar
ticle that Nebraska defeated Northern
Illinois 54-10. You’d better double
check that one. The final score was
60-14.
Keep in mind that you do have
readers that are knowledgeable about
the subjects in which you are writing,
and they would like to see the correct
information printed. Besides making
yourself look foolish, you are cheat
ing the readers from getting the proper
information.
Heath E. Kramer
freshman
broadcasting
Editor’s note: Adkisson, in a col
umn, can include or omit any quar
terback he wants. Readers can dis
agree. . .The Husker Red ratings
are done by the Office of Campus
Recreation, and the office verified
the existence of a team called
Schramm 6.. .We regret, as we do
any errors, printing the wrong score
and other mistakes that ran in the
Sept. 21 issue.. .By the way, it’s the
University of Houston.
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Softball team’s lack of focus
in defense dismays coach
Todd Cooper
Staff Reporter
In a fall season that so far has
been a defensive disappointment,
Sunday’s sweep of Wayne State
didn’t do much to encourage Ne
braska softball coach Ron Wolforth
for today’s doublchcadcr against
the University of Nebraska at
Omaha.
Nebraska goes into today’s
games, which start at 6 p.m. at the
NU Softball Complex, coming off
a pair of two-run wins at UNO
Thursday, splitting two games at
Kearney State on Friday and sweep
ing Wayne Stale on Sunday. Home
games feature free admission to
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
students who show their student
ID’s.
”1 think the four games this past
weekend against UNO and Kear
ney State were as poor of a per
formance as I’ve ever had here,”
Wolforth said. “We turned it around
Sunday, but I’ve never had a fan
congratulate me on a sweep of
Wayne State, and rightfully so.”
But Wolforth admits the Com
huskers are in a no-win situation
wilh a weak fall schedule, which
might explain the sub-par perform
ances.
“There’s not much that can be
an advantage when you play teams
like UNO, Kearney State and Wayne
State again and again in such a
short lime,’’ he said. “Our girls
have had a hard lime getting moti
vated.
“(But) getting beat at Kearney
State gives us a good positive pres
sure. Our girls are realizing that
they’re playing for personal pride
or for their own personal improve
ment.”
Wolforth said he is worried about
Nebraska’s defense. The Huskers
will need good defense to win
conference games this spring, he
said.
“Defense continues to be my
concern,” he said. “I don’t think
we’ve ever won a Big Eight game
where the opponents have scored
over two runs.”
Nebraska pitchers Marie Bowie
and Stephanie Skcgas have been
injured this fall, but Wolforth is
not looking for excuses.
“We need an improved effort
from our pitchers,” Wolforih said.
“I know they’ve been injured but
if we don’t improve in the next few
weeks, it’ll be a long off-season
with a lot of sleepless nights.
‘‘They’re very capable, but
they’ve been very unfocused.”
The defense also hasn’t been
very focused, Wolforth said. So
far, every time a Husker opponent
reaches first base, there is a 36
percent chance that runner will score,
he said.
‘‘That’s awful,” he said. ‘‘The
other teams have been getting runs
far too easily. We need to get it
down to 15 to 17 percent or it’ll be
a very long year.”
On the other side of the table,
Nebraska offense scores 47 per
cent of the time a runner gels on
base,” Wolforth said.
‘‘That’s tremendous.” he said.
That rate of scoring is helped by
Nebraska’s base stealing.
‘‘We’ve had 24 steals and have
n’t been thrown out once,” Wolforth
said. ‘‘Our opponents have tried to
steal seven times and have been
thrown out every single time.”
Missouri suffers, Oklahoma shines
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - As if
Nebraska didn’t give the rest of the
Big Eight plenty to worry about, along
comes Derek Brown.
The Comhuskers hadn’t started a
freshman at tailback for 16 years until
Brown lined up Saturday against
Minnesota. He gained 120 yards as
the Huskers buried the Golden Go
phers 56-0.
Nebraska did not let Minnesota
past the 50-yard line. The Huskers
had only three penalties for 30 yards
and forced four Minnesota turnovers.
They built a 42-0 halftime lead.
“1 think it was a very complete
football game that wc played,” said
Nebraska coach Tom Osborne. “Wc
had the game in hand about as early as
any game I can remember. We were
able to control the line of scrimmage,
sack their quarterback a few times
and not give up a big play.”
In stark contrast to the Huskers
were the Missouri Tigers. In losing at
Indiana 58-7, the Tigers let the Hoo
siers set a stadium scoring record and
handed Coach Bob Stull one of the
most lopsided losses he has ever
experienced.
“I don’t think I’ve ever been in a
game where there were more mis
takes made in a row,” Stull said.
‘ After an easy drive for a first touch
down for us, from there on we just
made almost every mistake in foot
ball. They broke an 80-yard run be
cause of poor coverage in the secon
dary , then we followed with two inter
ceptions in a row to give them two
easy scores. Then a coverage break
down, then a blocked punt and then a
punt return.
“They basically had two drives,
89 and 45 yards, late in the fourth
quarter. Those were the only sus
tained drives they had all day.”
The Tigers also laid waste to the
old theory that says: “As you prac
tice, so shall you play.”
‘‘It was the best week of practice
we’ve had since we’ve been here,”
Stull said. ‘‘Our players wanted to
play well against Indiana because they
had had four years where they came
close but always came away on the
bottom end. Our practices were ex
cellent. Everybody physically exe
cuted well. We practiced well and
came out and played tentatively and
cautiously. It was tough.”
The only Big Eight team doing as
well as Nebraska is Oklahoma, and
the Sooners are doing it in very un
characteristic fashion. In their 52-10
squashing of Tulsa, Coach Gary Gibbs’
team:
© Threw for 202 yards on 25 passes,
six attempts short of the school record
set in 1938.
• Completed 12 passes, three shy
of the school record set three differ
ent times, most recently six years
ago.
• Opened the game with a pass
play for the third week in a row,
something no Oklahoma team has
ever done.
The last time Oklahoma attempted
and completed more passes in a game
was in 1969 when Jack Mildrcn was
15-for-30 against Nebraska. In scor
ing touchdowns via the pass on their
first two possessions, the Sooners did
something they hadn’t done since Dec.
2, 1972.
“As we’ve said all along, we’ve
got to throw the ball more than we
have in the past, and we’re going to,”
Gibbs said. “We went in and look
what Tulsa gave us. They kind of
forced us to throw the ball.”
One reason for this passing up
surge is quarterback Steve Collins.
Oklahoma has rarely had a quarter
back who could throw effectively.
“There’s no question about it,”
Gibbs said. “We’ve worked hard since
last spring throughout two-a-days. And
the more you do something and the
more success you have, the more
comfortable you feel doing it.”