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Allen joins ranks of women’s gymnastics
Front Staff Reports
Coaching Nebraska men’s gym
nastics for 2A years wasn’t enough for
Francis Allen.
Now he’s going to be the women’s
coach as well.
Allen was named Tuesday to re
place Rick Walton, whose contract
was not renewed for next year. Allen
has coached the men’s team to seven
NCAA championship titles and has
been named the U.S. Olympic coach
twice.
Allen said he would not be stretch
ing himself thin by coaching both
teams.
“(Athletic Director) Bill Byrne is
going to allow us to hire a full staff for
die women, so 1 won’t have to do
anything that will take away from the
men’s team,” he said. “I think the
feeling from the administration is that
they are committed to women’s sports
and women’s gymnastics.”
- Allen said the women’s gymnas
tics program at Nebraska was already
successful, and only needed improve
ment.
“Last years’s women’s team was
an excellent team, they just didn ’l do
well at the end of the year,’’ he said.
“They had a couple of really freak
injuries.
“The Nebraska women’s program
is no slouch. I’m excited to think I can
help the program, so I’m going for it.”
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Shields looks
to excel with
NFL’s Chiefs
By Derek Samson
Staff Reporter
After the Kansas City Chiefs ob
tained quarterback Joe Montana from
San Francisco, they started looking
for people to protect him.
The Chiefs took a step in that di
rection when they chose Nebraska
Outland trophy winner Will Shields
as their first selection in the NFL
draft.
Although Kansas City did not have
a selection until the third round when
Shields was picked, Sports
Illustrated’s draft analyst Peter King
said Kansas City grabbed exactly what
it was looking for.
Inc cruets nave changed uieir
offensive blocking philosophy,” King
said. “They used to just steam-roll
over people, but now they need to be
quicker.”
Shields quickness goes along with
his 6-foot-1,30S pound frame.
“What I remember about Shields
was how much quicker he played than
a normal guy that size,” King said.
“Obviously, he is huge, but it was his
n‘ ;k feet and quickness off the ball
attracted them to him.”
Nebraska coach Tom Osborne has
coached three Outland award win
ners: Dave Rimington, Dean Stein
kuhler and Shields. Osborne said
Shields ranks with the best of the
lineman he’s coached.
“He’s one of the better ones,” he
said. “He’s intelligent, has a lot of
quickness, excellent speed and his
maneuverability is gotkl. One thing
he needed to work on and he did
improve was his strength.”
Shields, an All-American and
three-lime All-Big Eight selection,
wasted no time in signing with the
Chiefs.
“Now I can gel right into the work
outs and everything,” Shields said.
“There are a lot of new techniques and
a lot of new things to learn, so I
wanted to get going right away."
Osborne said Shields decision to
sign quickly would benefit him in the
long run.
ii is very important tor a player
not to miss any training camp because
things move so quickly,” he said. “A
lot of agents will tell you to wait for
the money, but if you don’t get in
there, you’ll be left behind”
Shields, who is from Lawton,
Okla., said he was eager to start prov
ing himself.
“I know where I need to improve to
become a dominate lineman like I
want,” he said. “Right now, I’m just
looking to help contribute in any way
that I can.”
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