Sports Weekend
Friday, October 7, 1994 Page 9
No. 2 Huskers face Oklahoma State
By Mitch Sftnmm
Senior Reporter
In Pat Jones’ coaching career at
Oklahoma State, his Cowboy teams
have played Nebraska 10 times.
Ten times Oklahoma State has
lost.
On the surface, it appears to be a
lopsided series, but as Nebraska
coach Tom Osborne is quick to point
out, the Cowboys’ lack of success is
not a result of poor effort.
“We have had some close ones,”
Osborne said. “And they have always
had excellent athletes.”
Jones will try again to notch his
first win against the Cornhuskers at
Memorial Stadium on Saturday at I
p.m.
Last season, Oklahoma State led
the Huskers 13-6 at halftime before
Nebraska scored 21 unanswered sec
ond-half points. The Huskers escaped
Stillwater with a 27-13 victory.
Osborne, who owns a 20-0-1
record against Oklahoma State, said
he expected another battle from the
Cowboys.
“They play hard,” he said. “Over
all, Oklahoma State has pretty good
team speed. Defensively they move
around well and have been fairly im
pressive in terms of the people they
have.”
The Cowboys, 3-1 this season, are
emerging from one of the most un
successful periods in Oklahoma State
football history. After two consecu
tive 10-win seasons in 1987 and
1988, the Cowboys fell to 4-7 in 1989
and 1990.
In 1991, they hit rock bottom, go
ing 0-10-1 and suffering badly from
the effects of NCAA probation. Since
then, the Cowboys have gradually
begun to move forward. A 4-6-1 sea
son in 1992 was followed by a 3-8
season a year ago.
“I really think they are starting to
come out of their effects from the pro
bation,” Osborne said.
The Cowboys rallied for their third
win of the season last week. Place
kicker Lawson Vaughn drilled a last
second 43-yard field goal to defeat
Division 1-AA North Texas 36-34 last
week in Stillwater. Nebraska beat
North Texas 76-14 last year in Lin
coln.
But Osborne dismissed the com
parison between Nebraska and Okla
homa State just because both teams
played the same opponent.
“In that game, I think it was a case
of North Texas being excited to play
Oklahoma State, and Oklahoma State
probably not being quite ready for
North Texas,” Osborne said. “It came
down to the wire, and it was an in
teresting ballgame.”
Osborne said he expected a better
showing this week from the Cowboys,
who also have wins over Northern
Illinois and Tulsa.
A key to Nebraska’s success Sat
urday, he said, will be the Huskers’
ability to contain Cowboy quarter
back Tone Jones. Jones, who took
over the starting job four games into
his true freshman season in 1993, has
averaged 154.5 yards of total offense
per game this year.
“He seems to be a very good
player,” Osborne said. “He has good
quickness, and he has a little more
maturity now.”
Nebraska’s quarterback situation,
Osborne said, is not quite as stable.
Despite still feeling soreness in his
chest. Brook Berringer will make his
second career start for the Huskers.
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Michalto Paulman/DN
Nebraska’s Reggie Baul breaks up a pass play to Wyoming’s Greg Van Leer during the
Comhuskers’ 42-32 win over the Cowboys last Saturday.
Cowboy coach hopes to lasso Huskers
By Trevor Parte
Staff Reporter
Last season’s 27-13 loss to Nebraska should
give Oklahoma State confidence going into
Saturday’s game at Memorial Stadium, Cow
boy coach Pat Jones said.
Jones said his team started six freshmen in
last year’s game, which helped his young ball
club.
“Because of that we realize if we play well,
we know we have a chance to win,” Jones said.
“As young as we are, I wouldn’t say we’re over
confident”__
*Because of that we realize if
we play well, we know we have
a chance to win. ”
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PAT JONES
OSU football coach
However, the last time Oklahoma State vis
ited Lincoln ended in a 55-0 victory for the
Comhuskers in 1992.
But Jones said the Cowboys were missing
three starters, including flanker Rafael Denson,
in that game.
This season the Cowboys are in the same
situation they were when they played host to
the Huskers last year.
Oklahoma State was 3-1 heading into the
Nebraska game, and after losing to the Husk
ers, they lost six in a row to finish 3-8.
Jones said he hoped that same scenario
didn’t happen again this season.
“If we lose a bunch of people to injuries like
we did last year, we’ll start losing,” he said.
This season it is Nebraska that has been hit
by injuries, with the biggest hit to quarterback
Tommie Frazier, who may be sidelined for the
rest of the season.
But Jones isn’t expecting the Husker offense
to have a letdown with Brook Berringer at the
helm.
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QB 18 Brook Berringer 6-4 210 QB 9 Tone'Jones 5-11190
FB 40 Cory Schlesinger 6-0 230 RB 28 David Thompson 5-9 175
IB 1 Lawrence Phillips 6-0 200 FB 4 Joe Jefferson 5-9 205
SE 7 Reggie Baul 5-8 170 FL 22 Rafael Denson 5-8 180
WB 27 Abdul Muhammad 5-9 160 SE 80 Kris Lofton 6-1 185
RT 72 Zach Wiegert 6-5 300 RT 67 Scott Waterbury 6-5 298
LT 56 Rob Zatechka 6-5 315 LT 64 Derek Leinen 6-4 292
RG 55 Brenden Stai 6-4 300 RG 59 Alan Orts 6-2 294
LG 76 Joel Wilks 6-3 280 LG 62 Josh Henson 6-2 250
C 54 Aaron Graham 6-3 280 C 56 Bryan Hope 6-4 270
TE 85 Matt Shaw 6-3 235 TE 88 Derek Jones 6-2 266
PK 12 Tom Sieler 6-5 205 PK 13 Lawson Vaughn 6-0 180
LOLB 86 Dwayne Harris 6-2 225 LT 98 Lorenzo Green 6-2 270
DT 55 Christian Peter 6-2 285 LE 58 Jevon Langford 6-5 260
NT 99 Terry Connealy 6-5 275 RT 95 Tyler Williams 6-2 253
ROLB 84 Donta Jones 6-2 220 RE 47 Demetrius Crowder 6-3 262
SAM 4 Troy Dumas 6-4 220 SILB 57 Line Harden 6-3 225
MIKE 48 DougCotman 6-3 240 WILB 40 Jame Elliott 5-11245
WILL 32 Ed Stewart 6-1 215 MLB 42 Eric Hobbs 5-11235
LCB 14 Barron Miles 5-8 165 LCB 3 Johnny Jones 5-9 165
RCB 8 Tyrone Williams 6-0 165 RCB 8 Cleavon Williams 5-10180
ROV 29 KareemMoss 5-10 190 SS 26 Jitu Criddle 6-1 185
FS 9 TonyVeland 6-2 200 FS 2 Louis Adams 6-1 217
P 6 Darin Erstad 6-2 195 P 7 Greg Ivy 6-0 190
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“If he was a guy who hasn’t played much,
that would be a lot different,” Jones said. “They
won’t run anything different.”
But Jones said there would be a slight dif
ference.
“If they have got to make a great play on
just individual talent, that might hurt,” he said.
Otherwise, Jones said, there won’t be any
major discrepancies with the Husker offense,
especially on the offensive line.
“They are big and strong, a lot like typical
Nebraska,” he said.
This season the Cowboys have victories over
Northern Illinois and Tulsa and a 36-34 win
over North Texas last Saturday.
The lone loss was a 14-10 game at Baylor
in the second week of the season.
Jones said he was happy to open the con
ference season at No. 2 Nebraska.
“Any time the league race begins, it adds a
little luster,” Jones said. “It’s not televised this
year like it has been in the past, but it’s not
like any other ballgame, because it adds some
thing special.”
Frazier may get
his eligibility
extended to 96
By Todd Wilkenhoft
Staff Reporter
Nebraska junior quarterback Tommie
Frazier underwent surgery on Thursday
morning as part of continuing treatment
for a blood clot that was discovered on
Sept. 25.
Dr. Deepak Gangahar performed a
surgical procedure that tied off a vein
with a smaller clot that was suspected of
causing the recurring clot.
Gangahar said Frazier should remain
in the hospital for a week to 10 days.
Frazier still is likely to miss the rest
of this season, because he will be on
blood thinners for a substantial amount
of time, said Dr. Lonnie Albers, the di
rector of athletic medicine for Nebraska.
“The need to be on blood thinners for
a long period of time,” Albers said, “will
keep Frazier from contact sports for what
appears to be the rest of the season.”
Albers said that playing contact sports
while on blood thinners would be dan
gerous because of the risk of internal
bleeding if hit *
Nebraska coach Tom Osborne said he
had not given up hope that Frazier would
return this year.
“The doctors have indicated he won’t
play,” Osborne said, “but you never say
never in athletics. I wouldn’t hold out
that hope to anybody. The main concern
now is down the road, to get him
healthy.”
Because Frazier's injury occurred
early in the season, Nebraska officials are
looking into applying to the NCAA eli
gibility committee for a medical hard
ship. If the request is approved, Frazier
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