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Tickets on sale Tickets for Nebraska’s Nov. 6 foot ball game against Kansas in Lawrence, Kan., are on sale at the South Stadium Ticket Office. The tickets will be on sale until Thursday. Tickets are $19 each. Stu dents wishing to purchase tickets must be present with their UNL student ID and payment. Greisch V ' <£* L" Continued from Paige 7 % until they realize that they sound like barbarians. Then they say fights are terrible and that something needs to be done to stop them. But the next Saturday, they are back on the couch watching foot ball, s Face it, as long as sports are competitive, fights will occur. If youdon’twant to see violence, quit watching football. Or better yet, stop watching television. Grlesch Is a Junior news-editorial ma jor and Daily Nebraskan senior reporter and columnist. Ifiet to use vbec ycuar terse capers efeill not *i&&lfrtd bxfc /««■ Prb|fcSt J.S. H Mlmm IP. m- ^ l&lULa Ta • . ^ ' - f v ▼ HML HI CVcrywncfC UNI ?V4IU IO D“i _CUu U&A Inc 1083 —I Cooenn ctsktc Nebraska's team lOCaoUll 9 la 19 leaders after No. Yards Longest TDs 7 133 41 2 __0 ... 5 73 37 0 Reggie Baul 4/4 6 65 31 3 Clester Johnson 4/0 5 58 18 0 PASSING Games/ Comp.- Comp - Starting Att. Pet. Int Yds. TDs Tommie Frazier 4/4 32-60 .533 1 430 4 Brook Berringer 4/0 12-17 .706 0 162 2 LoSuwB^nkl INTERCEPTIONS „ vl D Avg (tames No Ret. yards TD l^Stofcw1 334$ 0 - Karcem Moss - m HHHHi ~ i ‘ DN graphic J ones practices again; Phillips, Frazier rest From Staff Reports Nebraska junior I-back Calvin Jones, recovering from a strained lig ament in his knee, was back in prac tice Tuesday. Freshman I-back Lawrence Phillips, who started against Colo rado State in place of Jones, missed practice because of a hip pointer inju ry from Saturday’s game. Cornhusker coach Tom Osborne said Jones wasn’t quite full-speed yet. Jones, who has been out since the first game of the season against North Texas, may see some live action later in the week, he said. “Hopefully he’ll be all right for next week,” Osborne said. “WerU have a few live plays on Thursday or Fri day. “Whether Calvin participates de pends on the doctors.” Osborne said Phillips would have been no more than half-speed Tues day. Sophomore quarterback Tommie Frazier was held out of practice with an injured toe. Osborne said Frazier’s injury was not serious, and he should be back by the end of the week. Junior left guard Joel Wilks didn’t practice, Osborne said. Wilks still is having trouble with an injured calf muscle. Osborne said senior linebacker Austin Wertz practiced for the first time this year after having cartilage taken out of his knee. Armstrong Continued from Page 7 on in 1989, as a shy, skinny kid from Ponca. “I remember the first two-a-day practice when I was a freshman, Armstrong said. “It was one of the loneliest times of my life. I came from a big family to a foreign city where you don’t know anybody.”. As a freshman, Armstrong started out as the seventh tight end on the Nebraska depth chart. He received sparse starting duty on the Husker junior varsity team. Despite not playing on the varsity in his first two years at Nebraska, Armstrong said he never gave up on his hopes of playing for the Huskers. “When I first came down here, I knew that I didn’t deserve to be on the field," Armstrong said. “I thought that through hard work, I would at least get a chance to help the team somehow, but I never even thought about doing the things I have done.” Armstrong weighed only 185 pounds when he arrived at Nebraska. But with hard work in the weightroom, he has bulked up to 225 pounds. Now, he's a force both as a receiv er and a blocker. “It is a case where you just keep working hard, and you improve in practice and start opening people’s eyes," Armstrong said. Despite his notoriety for scoring touchdowns, Armstrong said his blocking was probably the strongest part of his game. Armstrong said some of his suc cess as a blocker may have come from playing fullback in high school. “1 really liked playing fullback in high school,” Armstrong said, “and 1 would have liked to play it here, but most of the fullbacks at Nebraska are 6-foot or a little shorter. “I didn’t play any tight end until my senior year of high school. But I guess I’m glad that I’m still playing tight end.” osu Continued from Page 7 Sanders left Oklahoma State after his junior season in 1988, when he became the Cowboys’ all-time scor ing leader and finished third on Okla homa State’s all-time rushing list. It was believed that the probation was one of Sanders’ main reasons for leaving school early. Sanders went on to become a first-round draft pick of the NFL’s Detroit Lions in 1989. Despite their success so ftr this season, Jones said, he doesn’t expect the Cowboys’ program to come full circle until at least next year. “We’re not at the level we were in ’88,” he said. “Defensively, we’re probably as good as we were, but offensively we’repretty young. We’re still taking things just one step at a time.”