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Tuesday, January 2, 1995 FOOL! PAGE 0121 Lincoln Journal-Star Page 7 Football fans at parties across town express joy, relief at win exhilarating. man at UNL in 1987. .1 ft 7 fvl i fin j.y.V the second quarter at Barry's Bar i He was down when the Huskers were down in the first quarter, Grant admitted. But his enthusiasm built as the team gained momentum. By the end of the first half, despite a 10-7 Miami edge.

Grant and fellow fans Jason Hatterman and Steve Di-Salvo were confident and exuberant "The defense is fired up. The offense is fired up. We're going to wup their ass," Grant said. "Costa's (Miami quarterback Frank Costa) back is all greeen in the first half," Hatterman said. "I was so sure, I bought a national championship shirt," DiSalvo said.

"We're doing it." At Montigo Bay, where only a hand-' ful of fans gathered, manager Michael Horn said he never lost faith in a Husker victory. "It's just like the Kansas State game." HORN DESCRIBED himself as a die-hard Husker fan and Tom Osborne devotee, "I don't care what they have to say about Tom Osborne," Horn said. "He's one of the best offensive minds of the game." Horn said he backed Osborne's decision to start quarterback Tommy Frazier, but also the decision to send in Berringer when Frazier failed to produce early in the game. In bars across town, the Berringer-Frazier controversy was the only factor that divided loyal Husker fans. But Rich Dangler, an engineer from Sioux City, Iowa, who was at the Ramada party, supported the coach.

"I figured it was more psychological than anything," he said. "Tom Osborne is not stupid, or he wouldn't be where he's at." From Page 1 Champagne flowed at Billy Frogg's Grill Bar in the Haymarket District "It's about time," said Kent Carney, a former UNL student "This won't end for awhile." he said of the party atmosphere. Lincoln wasn't alone in its celebrating. Fireworks went off in west Omaha and at the Micek Bar in Columbus, where the 250 patrons celebrated by playing the Nebraska fight song over the sound system every five minutes, owner Jim Micek told the Associated Press. "This is the happiest I've ever seen this bunch.

They usually leave here after New Year all dejected. Not this year," Micek said. Acting Gov. Kim Robak issued a proclamation late Sunday that congratulated coach Tom Osborne and the Huskers and declared 1995 the Year of Number One Nebraska. By Cindy Hadish and Bruce Weible Lincoln Journal-Star It's about time.

Fans everywhere expressed the same reaction to the University of Nebraska's 24-17 Orange Bowl victory over Miami. "It's the greatest thing ever," said Mark Penton of Lincoln, who was celebrating at a downtown party. "We waited a long time." Separated by 1,600 miles and about 60 degrees, fans in Nebraska heated up as much as those in Miami to cheer the team to victory. Empty streets gave Lincoln the appearance of a ghost town from 7 until after 11 p.m. Sunday, but Inside homes and bars, those who didn't make the trip to Miami formed their own small seas of red.

Bars attracted far less than capacity crowds, with most Husker fans apparently choosing to create the illusion of being in Miami by not venturing out in Lincoln's near-zero tempa-tures at least until the game was over. At Billy Frogg's, a new bar in the Haymarket, 50 to 75 fans moaned in unison during first-quarter action, when the Miami Hurricane defense seemed impervious to every Husker effort Despite the scoreboard, bar patron Tracy Evans never lost confidence in the team or in her choice of spots to watch the game. "We want to be close to downtown so we can be close to the party when we win," Evans said. Not all the gatherings were in bars, however. IN THE BASEMENT gym of St-Peter's Church School in southeast Huskers eight minutes after sitting out the sec-, ond and third quarters.

"I SAID all along we could beat them here," Frazier said. "They're not unbeatable here." In a controversial decision, Osborne chose Frazier to start the game Instead of Brook Berringer, who was 7-0 as a starter in Frazier's absence. The decision paid off when, with Frazier at the controls, Schlesinger scored on runs of 15 and 14 yards in the fourth quarter to rally Nebraska from a 17-9 deficit. Behind 10-0, Berringer rallied Nebraska in the middle two quarters. But early in the final period, on a first-and-goal from the Miami 4 with Nebraska behind 17-9, Berringer threw an interception into the end zone.

Berringer, his eyes wide and his mouth open, banged his helmet with-his hands after the poor throw. That was his last play. "I was trying to throw the ball away," he said. "It's kind of a tough situation, knowing that if you make one mistake you're coming out" "BUT. WE BOTH have nothing to hang our heads about We both made some mistakes, we both made some good plays, we both helped our team win," he said.

HoroW DrvtmoniiLincoln JournohStor and Grill, 235 N. Ninth St. face appeared on the 9-by-12 foot television screen. Chants of "Go Big Red," rose from the crowd, some standing on chairs set up in the hotel's ballroom. The noise didnt bother the mostly younger crowd gathered to watch the game.

"As long as they win, who cares?" said Steve Booth, a 27-year-old UNL dental student who sat near the back of the room. Shawn Swisher of Lincoln said he was on the football team as a fresh- Fans as the excited crowd streamed into the frigid stadium. UNL POLICE officer Mike Pearson said university personnel had taken down the goal posts prior to the game. "I guess they knew if Nebraska won, they'd come here for the goal posts," said Pearson, one of about six UNL officers stationed at the stadium since kick-off. Once the crowd realized there were no goal posts, people began streaming out on their own.

Lincoln police Lt Kent Woodhead said there were no arrests at the stadium. "We're here for an order-maintenance approach to make sure no one's hurt," Woodhead said of the Lincoln officers at the stadium. Lancaster County Sheriffs investigator Harry Stewart displayed a beer "So of course I'm a fan," he said. The gathering was as close as he could come to the excitement in Miami, Swisher said. Wearing a UNL sweatshirt, Jan Douglas came all the way from Tucson, to watch the game in Lincoln, Well, she actually came to visit her sons in Nebraska, but the game was a bonus.

DOUGLAS, 57, said she went to school with Osborne in Hastings. "He's a fantastic man," she said. "A quiet giant" Even non-Nebraskans turned into fans on Sunday. Sarah Pope, an Oklahoma State University student, donned a Nebraska sweatshirt and went to the Ramada party with her friend, UNL graduate student Medea Hermann. "I'm here with her, so I guess I'm a fan for tonight," Pope said.

"She knows who Tom Osborne is and what color to cheer for," Hermann added. Oklahomans Brad Waters and John Cotton said their loyalties were cemented by raucous fans at P.O. Pears where perhaps Lincoln's largest bar crowd took on the tone of a mell-erdrammer audience. The image of Miami defender Warren Sapp drew vemonous taunts whenever it appeared on television screens. Images of Brook Berringer and Damon Benning, the heroes of the Huskers' late first-half rally, prompted wild cheering.

Among the loudest fans was Gerry Grant, who admitted the game had been as discouraging as it had been can that someone had thrown at him during the melee. Stewart said nearby broken bottles were also thrown by fans at the stadium. At least one person reported a broken arm. In other places, the crowds were as excited, but less violent. It was instant camaraderie.

"Are you a Husker fan?" an obviously intoxicated man who identified himself as Marty asked a reporter just inside the door of Husker Haus. When the reporter answered in the affirmative, Marty responded with a rib-crushing bear hug. "TITLE TOWN! Title town USA!" another male fan shouted. At the Zoo Bar. customers were "buying rounds for the house, hugging each other and dancing," bartender Cathy McBride said.

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Frazier returned with 12:07 left and Nebraska still down by eight points. "I just felt like it was time to get Tommie in," Osborne said. "I was prepared to play the rest of the game with Brook, but I felt it was time for Tommie." Osborne's instinct was right Nebraska quickly tied it at 17 on Cory Schlesinger's 15-yard run and Frazier's two-point conversion pass. Then, after Nebraska stopped Miami, Frazier ran the option for 25 yards on a third-and-4 at the Corn-huskers' 48, setting up another touchdown run by Schlesinger. "If I'd played the whole game, I might have been tired," said Frazier, slowed slightly by a cold.

"I might not have been so fast" he said. "But I came back in the fourth quarter and I was the freshest one out there." Train derails near BAYARD (AP) A 22-car Union Pacific coal train derailed near this western Nebraska town Sunday, but there were no injuries. The track was expected to remain closed until Monday. Crews were dis-patched to clean up. The cause of the derailment was University wants to help you keep your resolutions to: finish your bachelor's degree 9 pursue a degree in a NEW career explore a NEW interest by taking evening classes in our Wesleyan PM program What's NEW with Wesleyan PM? fl NEW degrees in Social Work and Sociology 8 NEW opportunity to test out of courses with the College Level Exam Program NEW evening schedule permitting two classes in one evening NEW faces stop by and meet Dr.

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The latest defeat doomed third-ranked Miami's slender hopes of a national championship. "We had a chance to put ourselves in position to win the national championship," Miami Coach Dennis Erickson said. "You have to give them credit. They came down here and beat us in our stadium." The Hurricanes appeared to be in control when Frank Costa's 44-yard touchdown pass to Jonathan Harris gave them a 17-7 lead early in the third quarter. Miami stopped the Huskers without a point on seven consecutive possessions.

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