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SE 7 Reggie Baul 5-8 170 SE 17 Chad Carpenter 6-0 191
LT 75 Chris Dishman 6-3 310 LT 72 Scott Sanderson 6-7 286
LG 67 Aaron Taylor 6-1 305 LG 66 Jason McEndoo 6-6 297
C 54 Aaron Graham 6-4 275 C 68 Marc McCloskey 6-4 313
RG 69 Steve Ott 6-4 290 RG 71 Cory Solomon 6-4 260
RT 70 Eric Anderson 6-4 300 RT 79 JohnScukanec 6-5 308
TE 87 Mark Gilman 6-4 240 TE 89 Eric Moore 6-5 225
WB33 Clester Johnson 5-11 210 SB 1 Jay Dumas 6-1 177
QB 15 Tommie Frazier 6-2 210 QB 12 Chad Davis 6-2 200
FB 22 Jeff Makovicka 5-11 225 RB 5 Derek Sparks 5-11 230
IB 21 Damon Benning 5-f1 205 FL 18 Bryant Thomas 6-1 202
PK 20 Kris Brown 5-11 190 PK 47 Tony Truant 5-8 180
LOLB 93 Jared Tomich 6-2 250 SE 92 Dwayne Sanders 66 257
DT 55 Christian Peter 6-3 300 T 97 Darryl Jones 6-3 309
DT 95 Jason Peter 6-4 275 T 95 Gary Holmes 6-7 275
ROLB98 Grant Wistrom 6-5 240 WE 46 Shane Doyle 6-3 240
SAM 56 Jay Foreman 6-1 220 WLB 22 Chris Hayes 6-0 213
MIKE 41 Phil Ellis 6-2 225 MLB 33 James Darling 6-1 245
WILL 91 RyanTerwilliger 6-5 225 SLB 4 Johnny Nansen 64) 222
LCB 20 Michael Booker 6-2 190 LCB 6 Brian Walker 6-1 184
RCB 8 Tyrone Williams 6-0 185 RCB 27 Greg Bums 5-10 178
ROV 10 MikeMinter 5-10 190 SS 25 Duane Stewart 6-3 208
FS 9 Tony Veland 6-2 205 FS 20 Derek Henderson 6-0 200
P 19 Jesse Kosch 64) 180 P 26 George Martin 6-3 187
Osborne: Cougars
the best team yet
By Derek Samson
Senior Reporter
Nebraska coach Tom Osborne
wanted to warn his team about names.
A big-name team doesn’t always
equal a great team, Osborne said, and
the same goes for lesser-known op
ponents.
After Washington State, which
will play Nebraska at 1 p.m. Satur
day, upset UCLA 24-15 last week,
Osborne said his team shouldn’t need
much convincing.
“If UCLA was coming in here this
weekend, I think a lot of people would
be thinking that it was going to be a
tough game,” Osborne said. “I think
we are playing a better football team
than UCLA. That was not a fluke.
Washington State went out and beat
them and did it fairly soundly.”
Osborne said he doubted fans
would see the rout they have become
accustomed to witnessing this sea
son.
“There’s no question from my
perspective that at this point, they are
the best team we’ve played this year
— by a fair amount,” he said. “They
have good athletes, and they do a
great job of coaching. To lose eight
starters and have the type of defense
they have now is pretty remarkable.
They must do a great job of coach
ing.”
The 2-1 Cougars enter the game
with the fourth-best rushing defense
in the nation — giving up only 69.7
yards a game on the ground.
Match that against Nebraska’s of
fense — the country’s best in total
offense (688 yards a game), rushing
offense (507 yards a game) and scor
ing offense (60 points a game)—and
it promises to be an interesting con
test.
“They’ve been particularly tough
on the run,” Osborne said. “But they
also have a good pass defense. A lot
of teams give up on the run pretty
early and start throwing the ball. Most
people don’t stay with the run. I’m
sure we’ll stick with it a lot longer
than most people would.
“It’s probably not going to be any
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fracture
keeps Ellis
on sideline
From Staff Reports
Starting MIKE linebacker Phil
Ellis will be sidelined for at least
three or four weeks, Coach Tom
Osborne said Thursday.
Ellis fractured his foot in
Wednesday’s practice. The foot, how
ever, will not require surgery.
“We hate to lose Phil Ellis,”
Osborne said. “He’s a great player.
He has excellent speed and, above
all, he is very knowledgeable.
“The one thing I would like to
point out is that the injury was on
grass, and not out here on the turf.”
Senior Doug Colman, who started
the first eight games at MIKE line
backer last season, will get the nod as
the starter. Junior Jon Hesse will move
into the No. 2 spot.
“We feel good about Doug
Colman,” Osborne said. “He’s a very
experienced player. He’ll do a fine
job. We feel good about Jon Hesse
behind them.”
In other practice news, I-back
Damon Benning and split end
Brendan Holbein returned to prac
tice. Osborne said he expected both
to be ready to play Saturday against
Washington State.
Home schedule
opens Saturday
with Oklahoma
By Trevor Parks
Senior Reporter '
After dismantling Colorado
Wednesday night in Boulder, Colo.,
the Nebraska volleyball team returns
to Lincoln to open its conference
home schedule.
The Comhuskers, 11-1 and 1-0 in
the Big Eight, play host to Okla
homa, 11-2,1-0, in a 7:30 p.m. Satur
day match at the NU Coliseum.
The No. 1 Huskers, who have a
10-match winning streak and a 30
game winning streak, are coming off
a performance in which they rallied
from an 11-5 deficit to Colorado in
the third game to win the game and
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In his last year at Nebraska, Brady Bonsall is stretching for a run at All-American honors.
He said he had been running more than 90 miles a week.
Bonsall runs toward success
By Gregg Madsen
Staff Reporter
Nebraska cross country runner
Brady Bonsall has high hopes for
this season.
“My personal goal is to be an
All-American,” Bonsall said.
Earning All-American status
was far from Bonsall’s mind early
on in his career, but the redshirt
senior has come a long way since
his freshman year.
Comhusker cross country coach
Jay Dirksen said that Bonsall was
very typical of runners who come
from Nebraska high schools. Many
talented Nebraska high school run
ners don’t get pushed at the high
school level like they do in col
lege, he said.
Bonsall said he had a difficult
time adjusting to running in col
lege.
“I was really down in my first
two years here,” Bonsall said.
The transition from winning
nearly every race in high school to
running against stiffer competi
tion in college was a tough one for
Bonsall.
‘7 guess that the biggest thing for me was
realizing that track wasn’t the most important
thing in my life. ”
BRADY BONSALL
Nebraska cross country runner
“I guess that the biggest thing
for me was realizing that track
wasn’t the most important thing in
my life,” he said. “Really, my faith
in God has helped me to keep my
focus.”
Dirksen said Bonsall’s work
ethic also has led him to where he
is now.
“Brady has really worked hard,”
Dirksen said. “He is very disci
plined.”
Focus is a key to Bonsall’s suc
cess as a runner. In the Woody
Greeno/Nebraska Invitational
Sept. 16, Bonsall found himself
alone for most of the race, tryingto
catch up to a pack of runners in the
lead.
“I think it was good for me. in
an early-season meet like that, to
have to work through the mental
part of having to go out and catch
ing those guys by myself,” he said.
“Really, if I know the course really
well. I’m thinking about what’s
comingupinthenext 1000meters.”
Bonsall finished fifth in the
8000-meter run with a time of 25
minutes, 30.4 seconds, but he said
he was happy with the way he ran
despite not taking the top spot.
Bonsall has been working hard
already, running more than 90
miles a week. He said he hoped the
hard work would pay off in district
competition; where a top finish
will earn a trip to the NCAA Cham
pionships.
Nathan McKinney
Hunter’s fees
help habitats
for waterfowl
Duck season opens Saturday,
and this year hunters will be able
to enjoy extended time in the field
and increase their limit.
Abundant rainfall and contin
ued wetland conservation efforts
in North America have yielded the
highest breeding duck population
in 15 years, allowing Nebraska to
select more liberal hunting sea
sons for 1995.
I’m proud to say that I’ve played
a major role in the wetland conser
vation efforts in North America,
and I consider the Nebraska Game
and Parks decision to extend sea
sons and increase bag limits as a
way of saying thanks.
I do as all hunters do. I spend
money beyond any rational rea
soning. If I calculated the price of
what I put on the table from hunt
ing, the cost would be well above
the best meal any Lincoln restau
rant has to offer.
Many individuals and organi
zations view duck hunting ascoun
terproductive to the continued ex
istence of healthy waterfowl popu
lations. But a closer look into the
funding of waterfowl habitat will
show die sportsman as a major
player in the building of waterfowl
populations.
bvery waterfowl hunter in Ne
braska must purchase a $12.50
small-game hunting license, a $10
Nebraska habitat stamp and a $15
Federal Migratory Waterfowl
stamp. With more than 25,000
waterfowl hunters in Nebraska, li
censing fees alone generate more
than $ 1 million for game and game
management.
Along with these figures, hunt
ers on a national basis contribute
to waterfowl population through
other means. For example, the
Pittman-Robertson Act, which puts
a federal tax on hunting licenses
and guns, has channeled moit than
$1.7 billion into research and res
toration of wildlife habitat.
Private contributions also can
be enormous. The members of
Ducks Unlimited raise more than
$50 million a year to pay for the
protection of wetlands in Canada
and the United States.
Giving hunters more time in the
field and more generous bag limits
is not designed to deplete the duck
populations back to previous lev
els. On the contrary, the new regu
lations are designed to promote
more hunting, more spending and,
as a result, more habitat funding.
There may have been a time
when some wildlife were
overhunted, but those times are
gone forever.
As contributors, people going
after ducks this weekend should
pat themselves on the back for a
job well done. Duck populations
are back where they should be
because of irrational spending by
those who enjoy the sport, a sport
that both ducks and hunters are
winning.'
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