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Sports lincoln Journal Friday, Sept. T4, 1979 27 NU hoping of Red9 enough to sink Utah St. Nebraska-Utah State lineups NEBRASKA OFFENSE UTAH STATE No. Name Ht. Wt.

Yr. Pos Yr.Wt. Ht. Name No. 89 Miller 4-4 222 Sr.

TE Jr. 217 4-2 Brown 84 72 Goodspeed 4-4 240 Sr. LT Jr. 270 (-3 Vanderbrink 79 49 Havekost 4-4 230 Sr. LG Sr.

245 (-2 French 41 57 Soalfel 4-3 248 Sr. jr. 240 4-3 Fosmark 55 53 Schleuiener 4-5 232 Jr. RG Sr. 252 4-4 Glenn 42 58 Steiner 4-1 238 Sr.

RT Sr. 245 4-5 Stochon 73 84 Smith 4-2 192 Sr. SE Sr. 170 4-2 Thompson 25 11 Quinn 4-2 203 Jr. QB Sr.

199 4-2 Hippie 10 32 Hipp 44 200 Sr. RB Sr. 200 44 Parros 24 39 Franklin 4-1 218 Jr. FB Sr. 200 5-11 Martin 32 22 Brown 4-0 182 Sr.

WB Jr. 175 5-10 Murphy 81 NEBRASKA DEFENSE UTAH STATE No. Name Ht. Wt. Yr.

Pos Yr. Wt. Ht. Name No. 81 Cole 4-2 204 Sr.

LE So. 210 4-3 Bluford 52 55 Horn 4-3 254 Sr. LT Sr. 245 4-7 Jones 80 51 Weinmaster 4-4 214 Sr. MG Sr.

230 4-2 Kirwan 88 97 Barnett 4-5 240 Sr. RT Jr. 221 4-3 Albrittain 84 92 Nelson 4-2 212 Jr. RE Jr. 220 4-2 Ure 59 41 Baker 4-2 207 Jr.

LB Sr. 224 (-1 Drake 58 44 Williams 4-1 221 Jr. LB Sr. 218 4-1 Threlfall 53 23 LeRov 4-2 190 St. Sr.

185 5-9 Thompkins 9 8 Letcher 5-11 178 Sr. CB Sr. 190 5-11 Henderson 23 34 Means 5-11 172 Jr. CB So. 172 5-9 Hogue 28 9 Gary 4-0 180 Jr.

So. 185 4-1 Salvo 30 ByAAikeBabcock Staff Sports Writer Don't expect a sea of red to intimidate the Utah Slate football team. A monsoon didn't, says Aggie quarterback Eric Hippie. Last season, Utah State defeated Idaho State, 1(H), in Osaka, Japan. "It didn't rain the whole week until we got on the train to go to the game," said Hippie.

"Then it started (raining). "By the time we ran onto the field, there were Tour inches of water on the ground," he said. Hippie and his Aggie teammates adjusted that day, so they shouldn't be awed by the Big Red Sea that will pack Memorial Stadium for the 100th straight time Saturday. Besides, "my experience (in Lincoln) was that there was no attempt to intimidate the opponent. There was tremendous enthusiasm for the home team," said Utah State head Coach Bruce Snyder.

''It's not like Wyoming, where you have 10,000 cowboys drinking beer and throwing cans at you. I appreciate the Nebraska fans, and I'm telling the players against major powers. "We didn't win either one, but we sure had it on our minds," he said. Two years ago. with Hippie at quarterback, Utah State led Penn State 7 6 University Park, minutes into the fourth quarter, before losing 16-7.

The Nrtlany Lions finished the season ranked fourth in the nation, at 11 1 Three seasons aao in Fayetleulle, Hippie had the Aggies within a touchdown of the Razorbacks heading into the fourth quarter. Arkansas finally won. 33-16. "This team is better than the team that went to Arkansas and the one that went to Penn State, but we don't have much depth," Snyder said. Of course, he's not about to predict a Utah State victory.

"The bigger, faster guy may not win, but he's sure the best to bet," said Snyder. "I know Nebraska's better than we are, and Nebraska knows they're better than we are, but our players don't know any better," he added The Aggies once handled a monsoon. Now they're going to try to part the "Red Sea." It might take a miracle on that order to spoil Nebraska's season opener. tied San Jose State, 4848, in a defensive coordinator's nightmare. Nebraska hasn't won a season opener since 1975, when the Cornhuskers slid past Louisiana State 10-7 in Lincoln.

That should be encouraging to the Aggies as should the fact an underdog Washington State team surprised NU. two seasons ago, the last time the Huskers opened at home. "It's certainly a good chance for us to get into the national limelight," Snyder said of his team's visit to Memorial Stadium. "We're excited about the prospects of playing them because obviously it gives us a chance to beat them," he said. Two previous Aggie visits to Lincoln were unsuccessful Nebraska won 28-7 in 1966 and 42-6 in 1971.

Snyder was an assistant coach at Oregon during the time Utah State made its first trips to Nebraska. He first saw Memorial Stadium in 1971, when the Cornhuskers defeated Oregon, 34-7, in their season opener. Snyder is in his fourth season as head coach 'at Utah State. In that time, he's taken two Aggie teams on the road that. We're not in that same kind of atmosphere here," Snyder said.

The Aggies do need to be concerned about the flood of red jerseys, however, when Nebraska kicks off its 1979 season at 1:30 p.m. They won't be playing the fans. Nebraska opens its season with a No. 8 national ranking, sight unseen, and the remnants of a team which finished 9-3 last year to earn both a share of the Big Eight title and a trip to the Orange BowL The Cornhuskers have a rebuilt offensive line, a new quarterback homegrown Jeff Quinn, from Ord Junior Miller, perhaps the best collegiate tight end in the country, and I-back Isaiah Hipp, who is within 350 yards of becoming Nebraska's all-time leading career rusher. They also have a defensive front which is essentially intact from a year ago, led by tackles Rod Horn and Bill Barnett, and middle guard Kerry Weinmaster.

Utah State hopes to stay afloat against Tom Osborne's seventh Nebraska team with a wide-open offense keyed by Hippie and running back Rick Parros and a defensive assault headed by All-American p. m. Broadcasts: KFAB, KLIN, WOW, Good fortune aids Expos past Bruins Net meet to start Sunday Site: Memorial Stadium. Kickoff: 1:30 KFOR, KRNU FM. candidate Rulon Jones, a 6-7, 265-pound end.

Philadelphia catcher Bob Boone tangle Phillies' 2-1 victory. Fi4crs xw i iff- I if ik ill -tw Tot iA The Aggie defense leaked badly in its season opener a week ago. Utah State APWIREPHOTO at home plate. Youngblood was out, a national championship. In 1975 in the Sun BowL Pitt downed the Jayhawks and went on to a 12-0 mark and a national title the next year.

The biggest Oklahoma question marks Iowa's match might answer is how good will be the quarterbacking and the offensive line. The Sooners will start junior J.C. Watts behind center and three brand-new blockers. If the line blocks crisply enough, Heisman winner Billy Sims might get a good start on the 537 yards Haywood "We've been trying all summer to acquire a strong forward to compliment this team and I feel we've come up with one of the fine players in the league in Spencer," said new Lakers coach Jack McKinney. "His presence will allow Ja-maal Wilkes to play small forward and give us rebounding help for Kareem (Abdul-Jabbar)." Haywood, notified of the trade at his New York home, said, "This is the greatest thing to happen to me.

Winning a championship has always been my primary goal and now I'm with a contender. Kareem has been a long-time friend of mine and Magic Johnson and I come from the same area so I'm familiar with him." The Lakers also announced the signing of 6-foot-10 free agent center Dawan Scott, who played in a pro league in France last season, 'and fourth-round draft pick Ray White of Mississippi Slate. Scott averaged 13.3 points and' 10.2 rebounds per game in his senior at Seton Hall University. New York's Joel Youngblood and trying to score the tying run in the Five Big By Associated Press Whatever it is luck, talent, clean living that makes a winner, the Montreal Expos seem to have it. "It's not only being good, you've got to be lucky in this game too," Expos outfielder Ellis Valentine says.

"We've had the talent for two years, but now we're getting the breaks to go along with it." A big break gave Montreal a 4-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs Thursday tiight and helped the Expos open up a .003 lead over the Pittsburgh Pirates in the National League East. Trailing 3-2, pinch-hitter Rusty Staub came to bat in the bottom of the ninth with two out and the bases loaded. Cubs super-reliever Bruce Sutter was looking for save No.36. Staub "chopped a grounder down the first-base line. It hit a seam in the carpet at Olympic Stadium and bounded away from Chicago first baseman Larry Biitt-ner, scoring two runs.

"There are seams all over this ballpark and there's no way you can adjust quickly in a bad hop," Staub said. "We've been getting some breaks, but we're playing like anything and it sure makes you feel like this is our year." The grounder handed young reli5ver Bill Atkinson his second win of the season. "When I saw the ground ball in the ninth, I just thought to myself we're losing a half-game to Pittsburgh because they didn't play tonight," Atkinson said. "But nobody's dying on this club. It's a big happy family." The Expos entered the contest a half-game behind Pittsburgh but actually in first place by less than one one-hundredth of a percentage point since they had played five fewer games.

The Pirates had a home game against St. Louis rained out Thursday night. Montreal now has won six in a row and 16 of 17. In other National League games, At- Saturday he needs to overtake Greg Pruitt as Oklahoma's No. 3 career rusher.

Oklahoma State's new topkick, Jimmy Johnson is undefeated as a head coach following the Cowboys' 25-7 victory over North Texas State. And they're likely to remain unbeaten when they get through with the rebuilding Wheatshockers, especially if quarterback Harold Bailey can repeat his 275-yard passing performance. Kansas State's Dickey is nervous, but eager to get to work. "I'm nervous before all games, the first or the last," he said. "We've put in some new things and I'm sure Auburn has, too.

It will just be a matter of recognizing and making adjustments during the game." Fairbanks has made no effort to hide his disappointment after getting beat by Oregon last week, 33-19. "We got beat in basic football," he said. "We were beaten in the lines both ways and did not play pass defense as well as I thought we would. We must accomplish a lot of things befre we become a good football team. We have to show a lot of improovement if we are to beat LSU.

They have a good team with an experienced defense." Duncan's head coaching debut has been spoiled by a few pre-season injuries. "This is game week and even though we've had more injuries than we would have liked, it's time for those who can play to get ready TO play," he sail "That's the apprach we're taking as a team." Is Duncan ready to debut? "I've been ready for a long time," he said. "I'm very excited and enthusiastic and I'll continue that way. It will be a GREAT mment for me when we take the field." Shepard says he's quitting SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Larry Shepard, blamed by some for the pitching woes of the San Francisco Giants, says he is quitting as the team's pitching coach after the season is over. "I'm tired of the travel," said the man who has managed or coached in the big leagues since 1968 after 20 years as a minor league manager.

"I'm 61 years old. I feel like I owe the old lady a few summers. I haven't been home for one since 1948." Although Shepard called the San Francisco pitching staff "the best I've ever seen," it has not fared well this season and Shepard has been criticized for emphasizing off-speed pitches- with fast-ball hurlers like Vida Blue and John Montefusco. Shepard. a Lincoln resident, became pitching coach for the troubled Giants this season after the departure of Herm Starrette to Philadelphia.

He says he will help his successor by coming to spring training next season. "I'm going to ask Spec (Richardson, Giant general manager) to let me come to spring training next year so that the next pitching coach won't have to go through what I did," Shepard said. lanta whipped San Francisco 4-1, Philadelphia edged New York 2-1 and Los Angeles downed San Diego 8-6. Both Cincinnati and Houston, fighting for the NL West lead, were idle Thursday. "I thought I was going to get a good bounce and then it took off on me," said Biiltner, who drove in two of Chicago's runs.

The Expos mounted the winning rally against Rick Reuschel, 17-10. Gary Carter singled with one out, and Valentine followed with another single, taking second on the throw to third. Sutter came on for Reuschel and intentionally walked Larry Parrish. Rodney Scott then forced a runner at the plate to set the stage for Staub's fluke hit. "I guess we're living right," Manager Dick Williams said.

"I know we're" playing hard, and we don't quit." Reuschel drove in a run for Chicago in the sixth to give the Cubs a 3-2 lead Football tonight Following the procedures for the second of the Lincoln Public Schools special nights at Seacrest Field, members of service clubs and their families will be admitted free of charge to the Lincoln High-North Platte football game Friday night. For those who aren't able to attend the 7:30 p.m. game in person that will match Lincoln High first year Coach Bob Starr with the school he coached at last year, Cablevision Channel 9 will televise the action and KBHL-FM will broadcast live from Seacrest Field. Other Friday night games involving Lincoln schools send Lincoln Pius to York, Northeast to Fremont and East to Hastings. All games start at 7:30 p.m.

KFOR will broadcast the York-Pius game and KLIN the Northeast-Fremont game. Beatrice and Lincoln Southeast will play Saturday night at Seacrest. Eight debuts slated By Virgil Parker Sports Editor The $25,000 American Express-Frontier Airlines professional tennis tournament, with a much stronger overall field than a year ago, opens a week-long stand in Lincoln Sunday. "Our event was scheduled at the same time as several others tournaments around the country last year," tournament chairman George Grothe recalled. "This time, only a Grand Prix event in Los Angeles, with a $175,000 purse, will be conducted at the same time.

Since only a very limited number of players will be eligible for the LA affair, the others will be headed for Lincoln." Forty-eight of the 64 spots in the Capital City event are exempt to seeded, world-ranked pros. The last position went to the 293rd ranked player in the world, indicating the overall strength of the field. "The competition will be outstanding," Grothe promised. "There is very little difference between the ability of the 100th best player in the world and No. 300." The Lincoln tournament boasts a worldwide flavor.

The top 22 seeded entries represent nine countries. No. 1 seed David Schneider of South Africa the 76lh ranked player in the world will be joined by prosfrom Mexico, Finland, India, Rhodesia, New Zealand, Australia, Venezuela and the United States are in that group. Some of the most competitive matches of the week are expected Sunday when 32 non-exempt players all among the top 500 players in the world will compete for eight spots in the final field. The necessary two rounds of matches just to earn a spot in the tournament will be contested on the University of Nebraska varsity courts on north 14th, just north of Vine Street.

The main tournament starting Monday and concluding a week from Sunday will be held indoors at the Bob Deva-ney Sports Center. "The indoor courts (located at the west end of the building in the track area) are an excellent facility for both the players and the spectators," Grothe said. "We will have lots of courtside bleacher seating in addition to the permenant seating that is already in the building." A new champion is assured. John Sadri, last year's winner, who went on to upset the 5th seed at Wimbledon this summer, will not return. However, Kevin Curren, last year's runnerup, who just recently upset the 11th seed at the U.S.

Open, is among several returnees. The Sunday qualifying nlatches set to start at 9 a.m. and run continuously until about 6 p.m. as well as the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday elimination matches in the Sports Center, will be I open to the public free of charge. Adults will be charged a SI fee Thursday, while Friday's quarterfinals and Saturday's semifinals will carry a S2 ad- mission cost The finals on Sunday, Sept.

23, will be S3. A tournament-long ticket can be purchased for S5, while students will be admitted for $1 any day. rT Sporls IV Scene Friday Football Lincoln Hioh vs. North Platte, 7 p.m., Baseball Braves vs. p.m..

QD Saturday Batcball This WmK In Baseball, 1 :30 p.m., GD Dotfaersvs. Reds, 3: 15 p.m.. 0(53 This Week In Baseball, 3:30 maD Braves vs. Poor, 9 p.m., CD Football Mlchleoe vt. Notrt Oamo, 2 p.m., (9 GD Fambrough is as eager to get started as anyone.

"You'd always like more time," he said, "but I feel this team basically is ready to play. I can think of a lot of people I'd rather open up against," he added. "Pitt has an experienced team with some outstanding individual talent. More than that, they're used to success. They've been to four straight bowl games they know how to win." The last time Kansas met Pittsburgh, the game propelled the Panthers toward Lakers get LOS ANGELES (UPI) The Los Angeles Lakers' search for a power forward has ended with the acquistion of Spencer Haywood from the relocated Utah Jazz in exchange for Adrian Dantley.

The Lakers had sought a big forward for several months and new owner Jerry Buss had termed the need for a power forward "crucial" Haywood, 30, 6-foot-9 and 225 pounds, averaged 20.9 points per game last season. He played the final 34 games with the New Orleans Jazz after starting the season with the New York Knicks. He has a career scoring average of 22 points per game in his nine NBA seasons. "Adrian is a great player but we need a power forward like Spencer," Laker general manager Bill Sharman said Thursday. "We just had too many small forwards and we needed rebounding help." Dantley, 23, a 6-foot-5 forward from Notre Dame, averaged 17.S points per game last season and has a 19.9 average in his three pro seasons, KANSAS CITY, Mo.

(AP) A young man's fancy might lightly turn to love in the spring, but in September, when he's black and blue from pounding his friends, he's happy just to hit somebody in a different uniform. "It's been a long month of practice and it gets a little monotonous playing against the same people every day," said Kansas State quarterback Sheldon Paris, expressing a commonly held opinion. "I think we're ready to start hitting somebody in a different uniform," agreed Wildcat wide receiver John Liebe. Five Big Eight teams, including No. 3 Oklahoma and No.

8 Nebraska, will line up against real opponents Saturday for the first time this season. Kansas State begins year No. 2 of the Jim Dickey era with a road date at Auburn, expected to contend in the Southeast Conference. Kansas, launching Chapter 1, Book II of the Don Fambrough era, also draws an intimidating opener at No. 16 Pittsburgh.

Iowa State, opening yet another era in a conference that's not exactly a coaches' rest home, showcases Donnie Duncan's first team at home against Bowling Green, Nebraska and Oklahoma are both home and big favorites. The Huskers start with Utah State and the Sooners host Iowa. Missouri, Colorado and Oklahoma State opened last week and resume action Saturday. The llth-ranked Tigers, who got a big scare before finally subduing San Diego State, travel to Illinois. Oklahoma State is at Wichita State and Colorado will seek to present Chuck Fairbanks with his first college victory since January 1, .1973, by beating Louisiana Slate at Boulder.

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