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Huskers Huskier For '66 Ry HAI. BROWN Star Sports The Nebraska football team will be the largest in the history. That fact was confirmed Wednesday as 94 II gridders put more than 10 tons of weight on the Fieldhouse a 1 during official Rig Kight weigh-ins. The 94 players weighed in at 20,182 pounds or an average of 215 pounds per man, far surpassing what was be- lii'vcd to have been the heftiest Huskers aggregation that included Rob Brown and doyd Voss. That 1903 team of 06 weighed 13,449 jiounds.

an average of 204 pounds. Only seven players off that a were above 230 while IB topped that figure a year ago. Tw enty-eight of the 94 players weighing in Wednesday made the scales jump to 230 or more. Bob Tauchcr. the 6-5 giant from Cleveland weighed in at 275 to edge out Louis Cooper, the 0-7 by 27.3-poiind defensive tackle, lor Taucher and Coojht the only Husker.s in the 270 category, but hitting the 200- mark were offensive tackle Jim (Jatziolis at 204, defensive tackle Card Stith at 201, left end Karl Liggett at 200.

and left tackle Sam Buda barely at 259. The iiglitevt member of the squad, replacing I'rank Solich. is UachhoUz at 1W5. On; Bub ur. iv ii at 173 alcty Sam Bccchruu' 175, dcicn Denni-.

Tih.rcll 174 and iia.liiack l.aune (irten at 170 able li) in uciicr ir.O a at and 178 f'Uul fuel liKc a midget, d.re; a aackndd ut Kiiiand at 219 Harrv at 212 and r.f u'r Pete Tatman at 220 or Ciiaiiie Wintei at 228 The No. 1 offensive line at present has Mike viin (2031 at left end. LaVerne Allers (2H) at left guard. Jim Os- Rob (258f at left I a I e. (235i at right tackle, Dennis (189) at right end and Kellv Petersen (215) at eeriter.

The detcn Vf line is even bigger Wit I Patton at end. Jim at left tackle, Wayne Meylan at middle guard. Card Stith '2011 at right ta. kle and Langston Coleman d97i at right end. wei Ml ng in Wednesday altcrn ion, Huskers staged a ii -rkout.

wearing Hurt and nii pads, 15 le ,11 luc by me to ii l.m Light tnrs aiiernoon. Thursday, Sfpt. 1, 1966 Ltnealn Star 39 GIANTS, PIRATES BOTH WIN Gains 20th Victory, 2-1 By United Press International Southpaw Billy hurled four innings of shutout relief ball Wednesday night as the Pittsburgh Pirates sent Don Drysdale to his 15th defeat of the season with a 4-3 victory over the Los Dodgers. The victory enabled Pittsburgh to retain a share of first-place in the National League with San Francisco, a 2-1 winner over York, and dropped the third-place Dodgers off the National League pace. came into the game, aroni blooped a single to cen- in relief of Steve Blass in the sixth inning after Willie three-run homer had reduced the Pirates lead to 4-3.

The veteran lefty scattered five hits the rest of the way and pitched out of two jams as he protected ninth win in 14 decisions, i Blass has not completed a game in 23 straight starts. The pirates scored all their runs off Drysdale in the fifth by smacking out six singles. With one out Bob Bailey beat out an infield hit. Jim Pagli- PRIDE AN ADVANTAGE- Devine Says Tigers To Be 'Good Team' sruKV AT l.Hl-’T RK.C.ILSr AND smallest NU gridder, Larry Wachholtz. Biggest Husker, Bob Taucher, -TV PHOTO hovers over Columbia, Mo.

we're going to have a football Missouri coach Dan Devine said Wednesday. be bitterly di.sappointed if be doggone unhappy if we at least finish in the first Devine told Big Fight Skywriters. momentum and our pride are he said. is no way I can say now that be as good as we were in 1965. The reason is we an experienced team Missouri was the Big Plight runner-up and Sugar w' 1 champion last fall.

The Tigers are considered the No. 3 team this year, behind defending champion Nebraska and Colorado. strength ineliides a good pair of starting a 1 f- backs in Farl Denny and Charlie Brown; a good safety in (iary iirossnickle, tackle Rill Powell, guard Don Nelson, ends Rnss Washington and Dan Schuppan and defensive back Jim he said. The other boys are going to have to pretty much prove he added. Devine said he would list quarterback as neither a ter and Blass beat out an infield hit to fill the bases.

Gene A 11 singled to score Bailey and Pagliaroni, Clemente singled to score Blass and Willie Stargell singled home Alley. Willie Mays opened ninth inning with a triple and scored on a two-out throwing error by catcher Jerry Grote to give Juan Marichal his 20th victory as the San Francisco Giants edged the New York Mets 2 1 Mays tripled off the right centerfield wall but held third as Jack F'isher retired Willie McCovey. i Ray Hart then flied to short right field and Mays who made a short break home after tag-1 ging up, decided to stay on third as Cleon Jones fired a strike to the plate. Grote, however, made an attempt to get at third and threw the ball into left field as the Giant star scampered home with the winning run. Marichal, who has never lost to the Mets in 17 decisions, hurled a four-hitter in bringing his season record to 20-5.

F'isher, who allowed the Frank Robinson celebrated his 31st birthday by collecting four hits, including i 43rd home run of the season, to lead the Baltimore Orioles on a 5-1 victory over the Cleveland Indians. The victory snapped a four- game Oriole losing streak and increased league lead to 12 games. Jim a a the American wmningest pitcher, picked up his 21st victory as Minnesota trounced Boston 11-2. It was the sixth straight win and 15th complete game for the tall lefthander w' gave up seven hits and fanned five. strength nor a weakness, but he think quarterback Sooner Scrimmage Postporied By Rain N'orman, Okla.

University of Oklahoma football squad will try again Thursday afternoon to hold its first scrimmage of the year, said coach Jim Mackenzie. The Sooner head mentor said the grounds were too wet to scrimmage after Wednesday rain. A double practice session was held, however, and Mackenzie said he was far from pleased Rug Salesman Leads National Amateur WHIFFS ONE BALL COMPLETELY EN ROUTE TO 69 I SPORTS 1 MENU Thursday noK-t RA( ING i'n umbus 3 pn (Hill I ii. Links Park I'riday I Ardniore, Pa. Roger McManus, a 42-year-old Ohio I rug salesman, ran off a streak of four straight birdies for a one-under-par 69 Wednesday that gave him a one-stroke lead in tiie first round of the 66th Golf ('hampionship.

The mild mannered mid- westerner from llartLille, Ohio, who lines up his putts through thick spectacles and Astleford Cards 79 In Amateur Ardmore, then putts without them, would have fattened his advantage if he whiffed a ball completely and taken a double bogey on the short nth hole. One shot back of him, tied at even par 70, came Ron Cerrudo, a 21-year-old San Jose State senior from San Rafael, who blew his chances with a double bogey 6 on the final hole, and Jerry Greenbaum. a 25-year-old real estate and liquor store owner from It was a day of wasted opportunities for many in field of L50. who found the par 70 i Bill Hvndman III Mkar Tutwiler Bob Klrouac Kai BiBv Patton Ken Tom Cruae Bunky Henry Bob Murphy Ken Ellsworth Gerry Courville Jack W. Ward Wettla(ifer Charles Kocsia Jack Baldwin Brunn Tom Herb Jurham Charles Ham.son Bob BoWt Bob Garv Cowan Marty Flerkman Ren 3R .14 72 72 72 ifi 72 34 -73 3P 3fi 37 73 37 36-73 .37 3r, 73 3u 73 35 73 38 3V-73 30 14 73 37-36- 73 3334 73 37-36 73 I 38 36 73 33 38 73 36-38 74 33 74 33 33 7t 37 7t' Monty Ka.ser Lewis rtehmiif Jim Grant Bill Campbell Tom Beck Hall Downing A Gray raig Harmon Larry Feldman Dick Eller Jerrv VVarikins Ralph Schlict Dick Evans Jim Rhelm Dick Hunter H.

McDonald Kuntz Tom Blair Gart Wnght Rue sheiman Finger HI Blum Hem ai Everilt 40-34 -74 37-37-74 3.V39-74 36-38-74 38-37-75 4 41-34-75 37 38-75 38-37-75 36-38-73 38-37 -75 41-34 -75 30 36 75 30- (6 75 I 38-37 75 1 34 11-75 was a problem Kombrink is ahead at quarterback right 0 he said. a spunky little guy, smart and quick and an excellent first three games are against Minnesota, Illinois and the Rose Bowl Champion, UCL.A. But Devine said this could help mature the team we get through those three games without any key injuries and play he said, schedule could work to our The coach said Bill Powell and Washington, 6 foot 6 and 280 pounds, will start on defense and both will play a lot of offensive tackle. two will be our only two-way he said. The Tiger.s have only 18 let; termen and must rebuild I their offensive line.

have confidence in our Kombrink said. Denny said the Tigers feel great pre-season pressure as the 1965 club did. have a chance to be as good as last n- ny said. Brown, All-Big Eight halfback w'ho gained 937 yards last fall, said he believes the Tigers have of leadership and the ability to cause trouble in the league his I2th loss in 21 decisions, i with the results. OPTIMISTIC Champion Bob; Golf Club course a tiger that Astleford of Omaha shot a snapped back repeatedly.

Saturday KAt 11 t.OI D.t L.ifxn D.i> 1- 2 Pin Tourna lui iidincnt Dl 5 I', pm Spi Siaic mne-over-par 79 in the first round of the National here Wednesday to trail the leader by 10 strokes. wasn't able to find a birdie during his round and went three over par at the turn with three bogev'' He bogeyed three straight iioles on the bai'k side, starting with the nth, then took a double-bogey-6 at the 16th and another bogey at No. 17 for his 79. McManus, a semifinal loser to Charlie Coe in the match play championship in 1958. birdied five of the first nine Cyclones Could Be Best Ever At ISU Iowa is in a row starting: potentially the best team at the came to the at Iowa Oach 17th hole needing par for clay said here night.

At the 224-yard l7th, he hit the conference is the his tee shot just over the green toughest since Fse been ALSO AT FAIR Lincoln's Beckman Will Drive Sprinter onto the back of a trap. He had to stand with one foot In the sand to swing. On his first try, he missed the ball completely. He then elected to accept his position as an unplayable he. He dropped a ball with a Stapleton said his defensive ncy.

quarterback unit is a question mark be- Gakler. offensive cause of inexperience but feel the defense will be better than in 1965 because we have better Willie 227 drivers, who have been standouts in local supe-moJi- iied racing circles, have been nominated for seats in a pair of the or it interfere with his activities on the LMCA circuit. Woolley will be in cent on 1 lui UI.5 92 Uhevv-powered Midwest quickest sfunnt ears (iuriUi, three second place in of racing at tne Fair Missouri Futur- SeturdaN, Sunday and classic at the Sedalia State d.iv afternoons Nebraska Slate F'air seere- lary Henry Brandt also points il that the races will mark the first occasion for the sprinters rim on the new half-mile track, compl ied this summer. Brandt said that Lloyd Beckman of Lincoln would be at the wheel of the No. 52 fair.

penalty stroke, hit a beauti- tackle, we have the fill to within three feet of sophomore lineman I ve the cup for his bogey 5. Iowa State. He looked as if he was going for i reflexes and puts out seven, better than 100 per On the final hole, he had to '('vVlnne eoaeh recover from a trap and sink an 8-footer for his par. the Rill Roger Mc.Manu« 32 37-69 Jerry Greenbaum 35 Ron Orrudo 70 36 3S-7I 38-35 -71 37-34 71 36 35-71 36 35-36 71 37 34 -71 37-34 71 U--M-72 15-37 72 ,1 I Thompson sprinter, the same one he' Mike Moreiy Deane Bemaa Dirk Kunkle Bob LitOer Dirk Sidrrowf Gerry Don Jim King In tiiat event Wooley trailed cpdegraff the eventual winner. Bill U.z of Scdaiia, for some 25 miles, i repeatedly thrusting along-! side only to have to fall back' the pair through the narrow turns.

A field of 30 or more cars is expected for this weedend's cited three other sophomores on the defensive unit as prime reasoiis for his optimism. They are ends Sam Campbell, 223, and Don Graves, 207, and Offenhauser-p ma-! racing, Brandi said. More chine owned IL'ii Lempcli- than 30 entries have already been recorded. Time trials Saturday will be at 1 m. and wiil hold for the race meet.

of six raein event.s will get under way at In the fair's only other motor spciHl oflering. a field jf 60 ear.s and drivers will vie for the Nebraska fied Racing Championship on us of St, Haul. Beckman. who mg re i 1 in re t-ian am oth- 1 Cl in nnrf r.io and entrv t.f lat Woolles of V. a 1 va the 196.1 International Motor Contest sociation ear champ, who races supers whenev-jThursday afternoon, Sept.

8. Minnesota Sprint Win To Bigelow Paul, lUPIl Tom Bigelow of competing in a compact sprint car for only the second time this summer, won the 20-lap feature at -Minnesota State Wednesday. The 26-; ear-old for truck driver, now a iull-time auto racing conijietitor. a clocked in 8 02 20 and He also a track record the qualifying laps, traveling the half-mile oval in 21.53 seconds. Knee Ailment Sends Ex-Husker Johnson Home Black Mountain, N.C.

The Atlanta Falcons bought fullback Jimmy Sidle from the Dallas Cow'boys Wednesday and will look at him as a possible running back. Sidle, a fourth round draft choice in 1965, saw little action last year because of a recurrence of a vhouldt injury received when he was fur in 1964 Hai.back RusK J- uin pcrmitted to i omr tu Lincoln. Neb for because of hiv -lew lecovery from a knee operation He is a three-year veteran from the I San F'ranciico 49ers. linebacker Terry Vo), 211. again we will be throwing when we get off the bus but this time we will be throwing a little the coach said.

Stapleton was high in his praise of split end Flppie Bar- Tim a guard Bill Brooks and wingback Busch isn't much lean say about Van Galdcr that he said himself, Stapleton said. is an tnifstanding personality and 1 never hope to have a better quarterback at Iowa KU Football Team Reports In Good Shape Lawrence, The Kansas University football team is in good physical shape, e.specially in regard to weight, coach Jack Mitchell said Wednesday. Mitchell said all the players kept their weight within limits he set for them last spring. Heaviest man on the squad is Keith Christensen, 255- pound sophomore tackle from Concordia, Kan. Mitchell said Christensen came down from 290 pound.s.

Golf Duos Advance Sick and dcii died Ld and I 1-up, wliile Dick Jovcf and Bob diwiu-u Dale Ganz and al 0 I up, in Wednesday (juaiteriinal in the Lincoln Country 'I'wo- Team Club Championship. Weyhrauch Maintains Ladies Lead I Janet Weyhrauch maintained her lead through the second day of the Lincoln Ladies Pub-Links Golf Tournament Wednesday with a net 83 at Pioneers Park for a 162 total. The final round will be played today at Holmes Park. The second-round scores: Weyhrauch 83-162, 84-169. Eileen 83-172; Parker 86-175, Irene 85-175.

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