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Nebraska vs.
Florida state
Sunday, Octobers 1 p.m.
Abbott Sports complex
1 1/2 miles north of
Cornhusker Highway
on 70th Street
alumni Game
SUNDAY, October 8
1 p.m.
NU Softball Complex
14th &W
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Paving the way
* JayCaldoron/DN
Nebraska fullback Brian Schuster runs through a hole courtesy of the Nebraska offensive line
in the Huskers’ 35-21 win over Washington State. Nebraska leads the nation in rushing offense.
linemen earning recognition
By Derek Samson
Senior Reporter
When Nebraska’s top two quar
terbacks struggled through the 1994
season with injuries, the offensive
line was praised for plowing the
Comhuskers to an 11th NCAA rush
ing title and an undefeated season.
This season, Nebraska has seen its
top three I-backs miss games for vari
ous reasons, but the offensive line
? has helped the Huskers average a
nation-leading 491 yards rushing a
game — 151 yards a game more than
last season.
While the linemen of last year’s
squad were known around the state
and country, this year’s group has
gone almost unnoticed.
“Last year, all the linemen had
been around for two or three years,
and a lot of these guys are in their first
year,” said Dan Young, who along
with Milt Tenopir coaches the line
men. “They’re not the household
names, but they’re doing every bit as
good a job. They’re getting better
with every game.
“I think they’ve gotten a lot of
recognition. Just the fact that we’re
running the ball the way we are is a
tribute to them. You can’t do that
without great guys up front.”
Picks from tite
Hicks
Daily Nebraskan staffers pick the winners
of 10 major college football games this
weekend, with winners in bold;
Ohio St. at Penn St.
Oklahoma at Iowa St.
Kansas at Colorado
Florida at LSU
Northwestern at Michigan
Tennessee at Arkansas
Texas A&M at Texas Tech
Notre Dame at Washington
Rick the score
Miami 16 at Florida St 40
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eight games last year, backing up
Tyrone Williams and Leslie Dennis.
He said he didn’t want to rush into the
lineup and take another player’s po
sition.
“It wasn’t like I was thinking I was
going to come here and take
everybody’s place. I just wanted to
play.”
Perhaps the biggest test for the
1995 offensive line came Saturday
against Washington State.
Against the No. 4 rushing defense
in the nation, the Huskers rushed 63
times for 428 yards in the 35-21 win.
Young credited the Husker run
ning backs with the ability to run well
against any team.
“We expect to run well every
game,” he said. “Our I-backs are
pretty dam good. Even if you drop
down to three or four, there isn’t a
real big dropoff.”
Senior center Aaron Graham, a
three-year starter, anchors the offen
sive line. Steve Ott and Aaron Taylor
start at guard, while Chris Dishman
and Eric Anderson fill in at tackle.
Adam Treu and Jon Zatechka have
also seen playing time equal to that of
a starter.
Young said the fact that Graham
was the only returning starter was
deceiving.
“They got to play quite a bit last
year, and they did well every time
they got a chance. That’s helped a
lot,” Young said. “They did their job
well. People are going to have to start
committing an extra defender to the
run, and then we’ll have to open up
the passing game a little more.”
Young, who has been sharing the
offensive line coaching duties with
Tenopir for 10 years, said if the line
men felt like they weren’t getting the
credit they deserved, they just had to
wait another year or two — exactly
what last year’s senior offensive line
men did.
“Most of those guys started play
ing quite a bit as sophomores, and
that’s the same with some of these
guys,” Young said. “You’ve got some v
guys there that are going to become
household names. It’s always good ta
have that experience coming back.
So I can see some similarities be
tween them, as far as that goes.”
NOTES:
•Ott and Taylor both missed prac
tice with sprained ankles Thursday.
Dishman was held out for the second
straight day with a case of pneumo
nia.
• Wingback Lance Brown (pulled
hamstring) and fullbacks Brian
Schuster (sprained ankle) and Jeff
Makovicka (pulled groin) returned
Thursday. Brown also suffered a pos
sible fractured finger on Wednesday.
Quarterback Brook Berringer was sti 11
out with traumatic bursitis in his right
knee.
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NU recruiting carefully
By Mike Kluck
Staff Reporter
No game for the Nebraska foot
ball team does not mean a week
end off for the coaches.
Most of the Comhusker coach
ing staff will leave Lincoln today
to search the country for the best
high school football talent, ensur
ing that the Huskers will maintain
their status as a dominant football
program.
Since running back Lawrence
Phillips’ conviction of third-de
gree misdemeanor assault last
month, Nebraska’s recmiting poli
cies have been scrutinized.
However, Nebraska coach Tom
Osborne and Steve Pederson,
Nebraska’s associate director for
football operations, said they have
always taken into consideration an
athlete’s background during re
cruiting.
Pederson, who coordinates po
tential recruits’ visits to Lincoln,
said the Nebraska coaching staff
made an average of five to seven
contacts with different school per
sonnel in order to check the off
field behavior of an athlete.
“We want to know as much as
we can about a person,” Pederson
said. “We will talk to the coach
and their counselor. We try to do
as diligent a job as we can.”
No matter how careful Nebraska
is in its recruiting process, Pederson
said coaches still couldn’t control
a student’s progress once he ar
rived on campus. Phillips, who
moved into a group home when he
was 12, did not have a criminal
record when he was recruited.
Pederson said Nebraska made
about 1,500 contacts with differ
ent athletes throughout the year.
He said coaches 1 imited their search
to about 125 possible candidates,
10-15 of which are not recruited
because of possible behavioral
problems learned from talking to
people close to the athlete and the
school.
He said at least 50 percent of
the students Nebraska doesn’t re
cruit because of potential prob
lems are recruited by other Divi
sion-! schools.
