-7-—FOOTRALL1992—
Husker ready to go after sitting out first year
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Player improves
academic record
By John Adkisson
Senior Editor
The similarities were all there,
and one young Christian Peter fan
noticed them immediately:
A shaven head, a roundish look,
monstrous forearms and hands that
could probably palm two basket
balls at once.
“Is his name Charles Barkley?”
the child asked his mother at the
Nebraska football team’s annual
Photo Day.
Christian Peter - all 6 feet, 2
inches and 310 pounds of him - just
laughed.
After all, he’s happy. He’s
finally playing football again.
Peter is returning to the field
after two years away from the sport.
The Middletown, N.J., native sat
out his final year of high school
football because of ineligibility and
was a Proposition 48 casualty in his
first year after coming to Nebraska.
How good is it to be back?
“God, it feels great,” said Peter*
a sophomore. “It’s just been tough
sitting out.”
He said the hardest part of last
season was silling in the stands at
Memorial Stadium watching his
teammates play.
“I wouldn’t miss a game,” he
said.
Peter credits Nebraska’s aca
demic support system and encour
agement from friends for turning
stigma into success in the class
room.
“My teammates have been
great,” Peter said. “I can’t say
enough about them or the help I’ve
got. Without their support, I
wouldn’t have been able to get
myself eligible.”
Peter’s physical tools are the
stuff of which legends are made: He
prompted defensive coordinator
Charlie McBride to compare Peter’s
physical ability to former Husker
greats - and current NFL players -
Lawrence Pete and Danny Noonan.
“He’s a man-child,” McBride
said. “He’s a big man in a young
I person’s body.”
Now he enters fall camp as a
self-described “low man on the
totem pole,” hoping to get playing
lime at middle guard, a position hit
hard by the graduation of two-year
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clocked a 4.8 second 40-yard dash
out of high school and bench
pressed 450 pounds.
Those numbers immediately im
pressed Nebraska coaches, and
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Nebraska sophomore nose guard Christian Peter (bottom) gets a hand stretching from junior David Noonan. The two are
competing for time at nose guard, a position left open by the graduation of Pat Engelbert.
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