Sports
Volleyball team
to face Cyclones
By John Adkisson
Staff Reporter
Iowa State is catching the Nebraska
volleyball team on the way out of
town.
The Cyclones visit Nebraska, 14-1
and ranked No. 1 nationally, today in
a 7:30 p.m. contest at the NU Coli
seum. The match comes just before
the Comhuskers depart for a tourna
ment in Palo Alto, Calif., on Wednes
day. The Huskers head to the West
Coast to play No. 14 Brigham Young
Thursday, and No. 6 Stanford and
Saint Mary’s Friday in the Stanford
Invitational.
Despite this week’s crowded sched
ule, Coach Terry Pettit said Nebraska
won’t be looking ahead.
“Tradition says we don’t look past
teams,” Pettit said. “We won’t over
look Iowa State.”
The Cyclones are 11-6 overall,
and 3-1 in the Big Eight. Iowa State
features this week’s Big Eight player
of the week in outside hitter Tracy
Graham. For the season, Graham has
recorded a team-leading 170 kills,
and owns a 2.79 kills-per-game aver
age.
Pettit said that Graham is an ex
ceptional player.
“We saw her last year,” he said.
“She makes them extremely strong at
left-side hitter.”
Last year, the cyclones were the
only Big eight team to take Nebraska
to five games, and were only one of
five teams to do it all season.
Pettit said that although he hasn’t
seen any films of the Cyclones, Iowa
State could be just as tough this year.
“I know they return four starters,”
Pettit said. “And they played us ex
tremely well twice last year.”
Nebraska and Iowa Slate have
played two common opponents this
season, Kansas and the University of
Nebraska at Omaha. Both teams beat
Kansas, but Iowa State lost to UNO.
Nebraska swept the Mavericks in the
first match of the season.
Pettit said Iowa State’s loss to UNO
is misleading.
“UNO is a pretty good team,” Pettit
said. “And you’ve got to remember
Nebraska coaches express concern
about emergence of Missouri team
By Todd Cooper
Staff Reporter
Nebraska coaches expressed con
cern Monday with Missouri’s impres
sive showing against Colorado this
weekend while, at the same time,
questioned the validity of Colorado’s
win over the Tigers.
The fiasco — in which Colorado
took five downs to beat Missouri in
the game’s closing seconds — was
termed a “half-win” for the Tigers by
Comhusker graduate assistant coach
Bill Kuccra who was at Faurot Field
scouting the Tigers.
“It was quite a deal,” Kuccra said
at Monday’s Extra Point Club lunch
eon.
He said Tiger fans flooded the
field after the game and the Missouri
players were brought back out of the
locker room and they tore down one
goal post.
“That was kind of symbolic, it was
kind of half-a-victory and hence the
one goalpost went down,” Kucera
said. “But Missouri is for real. They
played a whale of a game.”
Nebraska will face Missouri Sat
urday at Memorial Stadium.
Charlie McBride, Nebraska’s de
fensive coordinator, noted that they
key to Missouri’s success is a bal
anced attack. Led by quarterback Kent
Kiefer and wide receiver Damon Mays,
Missouri has the weapons for an ef
fective passing game, McBride said.
‘They don’t strictly depend on their
throwing game, although that, of
course, is the major part of their of
fense,” McBride said. “They use their
running game enough to where you
aren’t definite on whether to put your
dime defense in or your regular de
fense.”
He said Kiefer is not afraid to air it
out and go for the bomb.
“Probably the scariest part of what
I saw on film was that they ’re going to
go deep with it,” McBride said.
“Colorado got beat twice — I mean
he (Mays) flat-out just ran by people.
I would guess the first play of the
game they may try to shake you up
right away and go deep with it.
“And that’s what I’ll be dreaming
about this week.”
He may be dreaming about meth
ods to get around Missouri’s huge
offensive linemen.
“Physically, they may be the big
gest team we’ll see all year,” he said.
“Right now we’re in the process of
studying their blocking protection
schemes.”
He said they have a 6-foot, 10
inch, 312-pound tackle in Russ
McCullough, and the rest of the of
fensive linemen are in the 280- to
290-pound range. He said the offen
sive line’s splits are about three inches
apart.
“You have trouble running a lot of
the different stunts, and things we’ve
done in the past couple of weeks to
get pressure on the quarterback,”
McBride said.
Nebraska’s offense has experienced
problems getting started the last two
games, while thedefense, for the most
part, has maintained its intensity level
through four quarters.
“Maybe it’s the emotional part of
it,” McBride said, referring to the
offense’s early sputtering. “J think
defensively it’seasier to maintain the
emotional level.
“But I think this week they won’t
be in that mode.”
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Big Eight appeal not applicable to NCAA
rules; Colorado-Missouri outcome stands
From Staff Reports _
The Big Eight Conference, fol
lowing review of procedures used by
game officials, determined Monday
that the final score in the Colorado
Missouri football game will remain
as posted.
John A. McClintock, Big Eight
Supervisor of Football Officials, re
viewed the situation in regard to the
fifth down play that Colorado scored
on the last play of the game to beat
Missouri 33-31 Saturday, and stated
that the allowance of a fifth down is
not a post-game correctable error.
Big Eight Commissioner Carl James
announced that the oflicials who
worked the game, including Scott Koch
of York, Willie Wcisbrook and Frank
Gaines of Lincoln and Paul Brown of
Omaha, had been given an immediate
suspension for an indefinite period.
James added that the question of
an appeal of the Big Eight Confer
cncc rules to allow a change in the
officials’ error is not applicable to the
administration of the NCAA football
playing rules. As members of the
NCAA, conference schools agree to
conduct football games by the na
tional rules. Those regulations state
that the game referee is the sole au
thority for the proper score.
J.C. Louderback, who was the
referee and crew chief for the game,
praised Missouri and Colorado for
their handling of the situation.
“Through the entire episode, the
coaches and players were very pro
fessional,” Louderback said. “In offi
ciating, you work the game for the
players...
“It’s always a tough feeling when
a rule, or an error in a rule becomes a
factor in the game. We (the officials)
arc human. We erred. And, we feel
terrible in regards to the circumstances
at the end of the game.”
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anything can happen early in the year.”
A change in the Nebraska offense
— moving Cris Hall to part-time
middle blocker— has allowed senior
outside hitter Linda Barsness to play
more, Pettit said.
“It gives us a little bigger look
with Linda on the floor,” Pettit said.
“And Linda’s responded very well to
it.”
Joseph to start
at quarterback
against Missouri
From Staff Reports
Nebraska will have a new starter at
quarterback Saturday against Missouri.
Mickey Joseph will be the starter,
Nebraska coach Tom Osborne said
Monday. Joseph was more consistent
than Mike Grant, who started last
week against Kansas State, Osborne
said.
The Comhuskers returned to prac
tice Monday with some injuries brought
back from Kansas State.
Tight end William Washington
injured his leg on the third play of
Saturday’s game and missed Mon
day’s full-pad practice. Osborne said
Washington was able to walk with
crutches, but is highly doubtful for
Saturday.
Right tackle Steve Engstrom also
missed practice with a sore ankle, and
right guard Erik Wiegert missed the
work-out and may have jammed his
neck against Kansas State, Osborne
said. Will Shields, who played against
the Wildcats despite being sick, prac
ticed Monday.
Sims’ tackles, sacks
contribute to NU’s
taming of Wildcats
By Paul Oomeier
Senior Reporter__
Joe Sims won the fifth heat in
the Race to the Quarterback.
Sims, the starting left defensive
tackle for Nebraska, had eight tack
les and three quarterback sacks
Saturday as the 5-0 Comhuskers
beat Kansas State 45-8. That doubled
the season tackle total for the sen
ior from Sudbury, Mass.
And with those sacks — his first
of the season — he’s back in con
tention for a goal he said he and
middle guard Pat Engelbert have
set: Beat Kenny Walker in sacks.
For Sims, 6-foot-3 and 280
pounds, that isn’t the easiest job.
For one thing, he missed the sec
ond heat of the competition — the
Northern Illinois game — because
of an injured knee.
Secondly, the 240-pound Walker
and 250-pound Engelbert arc known
for their quickness and pass rush
ing ability.
Sims is known for his size. He
peaked out at about 305 pounds
last year, he said. This season, he
has kept his weight down. He said
he would like to lose another five
pounds.
Against Kansas Slate, a couple
of new pass rushing stunts freed
Sims for some early pressure. He
sacked quarterback Paul Watson
for a two-yard loss on Kansas Slate’s
first play. He stopped the Wildcats
with consecutive six-yard sacks on
Kansas State’s next drive.
Walker, the right tackle, look
part in two sacks, giving him six
for the season. Engelbert has three
sacks but was shut out Saturday.
Not only have Walker and
Engelbert been winning the Race
to the Quarterback, they’ve also
been winning the Race for Public
ity.
Butafter Saturday, Sims is lead
ing all other defensive linemen in
interceptions. He snared the first
pass of his career in the third quar
ter. Outside linebacker Travis Hill
pressured Wildcat quarterback Carl
Straw and batted the pass straight
up into the air.
The ball fell right to Sims.
“I was amazed. I almost forgot
what to do,” said Sims, an all-state
split end in high school. “I just
grabbed the ball and ran with it.”
Sims was pulled down at the
Kansas State 31-yard line, seven
yards away from where he caught
the ball. Nebraska scored two plays
later.
“I can’t run with the ball yet,”
Sims said. “Maybe next week.”
Nebraska sophomore wingback
voted offensive player of week
From Staff Reports
Nebraska sophomore wingback
Tyrone Hughes was unanimously voted
the Big Eight Offensive Player of the
Week, it was announced Monday.
Hughes tied an NCAA Division I
A record with 247 punt and kickoff
return yards in theComhuskers’ 45-8
win over Kansas State Saturday. He
tied the record set by Brigham Young’s
Golden Richards against North Texas
State in 1971.
Hughes had three kickoffs for 153
yards, including a 99-yard touchdown
return. It was the longest return for
the Huskers since 1949. The 153 kick
off return yards also broke a Ne
braska single game record of 140
yards by Bob Smith in 1951.
He also added 94 yards in punt
returns on five attempts. His longest
was 66 yards.
Hughes ranks second nationally in
kickoff returns at 37.38 yards a carry.
In a split vote, Missouri defensive
back Harry Colon was named the
defensive player of the week over
Husker defensive tackle Joe Sims,
who had eight tackles, a career high
three sacks, an interception and two
quarterback hurries.
Colon leads Missouri, Nebraska’s
opponent Saturday at Memorial Sta
dium, with 59 total tackles — seven
of which were for losses. Colon had
seven unassisted tackles against Colo
rado on Saturday.