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Page 4 The Daily Nebraskan Wednesday, October 2, 1968 IIUIUIIilliMilllllllllllllllllllf lltllMltlllltlllltfIillllllIUtltliri(tlllilIliniI llllllltlllllllt Jittllf lltlltl11lttf Series begins on University intramurals . Be A Sport. j by Randy York ootfoa fields to Assistant Editor ecrease Sports Flag Don Shanklin and Paul Rogers, please step aside for 0 awhile. Baseball, yes, baseball (anybody ever heard of it 0 around here?), moves into the sport spotlight with the start B-- of the World Series Wednesday. Bob Gibson and McLain off in t It's Denny squaring with earn St. Louis' Busch Memorial Stadium. The clash has dossi opening elimination Editor's Note This Is the Before the shortage of fields 'Obviously," he said, "that received one of the biggest buildups in Series " ' preliminary first in a five-pa- rt series on Meier would us because of the mound occurred, said teams force to cancel flag I A," n history, simply rivalry. the intramural a round robin schedule football." the Cards and the ran over University's played Sure, Tigers roughshod in en route to their But what department. leagues with seven or eight everyone respective flags. people Mark Gordon teams. le THREE by Now teams play in FIELDS had been -- k want to know is: who is McLain, the prolific V ! . really better, Editor of or V winner or Gibson, the steady who can Sports agues only five six planned for this fall behind pacemaker V-- ' H Four years ago, nine flag teams with the top two clubs Abel Hall, but only one was - Tf I wear down a fresh supply of hitters in a game? : s 1 f' football fields were available in each league advancing to completed, according t.o i fc V TIME MAGAZINE so much of McLain's feats for intramural games, but a single-eliminatio- n A 1 1 Meier. He added that the thought elimination of schedule. this that it devoted its cover story to mm two weeKs today with the University playoff University is expected to year B team football a "This means some ago. He may down 10 bottles of Pepsi a day possibility, that construct three additional of fields has teams four (the figure used to be 15), but he still managed to produce the number only play games, fields behind Abel, with tern a season, the first time that it has been decreased to four. while a few years ago, they porary lights, enabling five marking schedule to be able to done in 34 years. With the football used play six games to be played there faced with a of or seven at a And the organ-playin- g entertainer turned the trick at shortage games nightly. Meier said. age 24. Gibson is 32, IV2. inches taller than McLain and space, University intramural minimum," "With on three fields, Meier's main lights 10 pounds heavier. What's more, Gibby has just completed director Joel that will give us more concerns Four ago 82 teams space his best season ever with 22 wins. problem finishing years than ever before, he said He's awful too, a 1.12 E.R.A. this the season before the snows played; three years ago that stingy carving year 92 "But you can't play every day all-tim- number to and last to shatter the e National League record. Gibby, a come. jumped on a football field. of Omaha Tech School and who attended year a record-breakin- g 108 graduate High "RIGHT NOW He noted that after one is most noted for his endurance and we're flag football teams entered or Creighton University, playing double sessions at two weeks of ability to progressively get better as the season wears on. competition. constant each field to take up the lack playing, the fields will have of he said. no . He the with a 3-- 5 record playing fields," This with B teams not grass. vl r started year unimpressively we. will finish." year, but then reeled off 15 consecutive victories. Gibson finished "Perhaps entered due to a lack of The Lincoln and yet The the season with 13 shutouts and was the ever Parks the number plans for the project first pitcher loan fields, has to whitewash teams in a season. Recreation Department decreased to 88. But if the have already been drawn up, eight single ed the intramural to department University can provide about according Meier, and they the Woods Park area for flag-footb- are final Gibson's success story comes into focus with the timely $170 to pay expenses to awaiting approval last from the 1 release of his new book, ' From Ghetto To Glory as told games fall. schedule games at the Woods University business to In the Gibson describes Although the agreement was 33rd and manager before construction ' Phil Pepe book, what it Park Field at 0 just 1967 ;'" is that makes the El Birdos click. for just the season, the B football will be held can begin. has to Streets, A few sample city agreed permit and the number of football paragraphs: to be held this fall. " "I know we are and that rah-ra- h stuff is games teams will 120. 'I'm really not satisfied professionals approach - with because sMc- - not supposed to apply to us . and I know one more "We have Woods Park it it's just a n I know that who came over from another "Last season even with the temporary situation," he ad r thing. every player Woods available for he said of eight fields at Park, games," ded." But it is if ,: team Maris, Bressoud, Jack Lamabe all suitable it Cepeda, we had to at hour "But we need about $170 to them said the same thing. play every is made with the understan- and in every corner of the pay a supervisor to watch all and to a driver ding that the University will IS to is to field just to finish the games pay to find "IT difficult explain as it understand. The to haul all our try a larger, better Cardinal team has been like that as as I've season," Meier said. equipment situated area which will be always long back and forth from campus been on it. All the guys seem to pull together." permanent." The elements overcame the to Woods Park." PHOTO BY DAN LAOZLY This cohesvie or glue-lik- e quality, Gibson believes, Meier ar- football said the best The and Old Men saw spawns championship baseball teams. flag program during HE SAID he has written to for football Falcons the Dirty battle flag football action as the 1964-6- 5 rangement flag Gibson continues, "There are no cliques on the Cardinals the academic year. the Dean of Student Affairs intramural season rolls into its second week. The lack of were games would be to play all University's play- we nave parties togetner, we go out togetner. 1 ve gone The football playoffs office and he is word when the awaiting games at one large field ing space has caused teams to play at irregular times and on out with Bob Skinner when he was on the team, and I delayed until spring if the additional funds can be rather dried from the winter than scheduling games Saturday mornings. go out with Dal Maxvill a lot. We go to dinner or out grounds provided from another at various sites in Lincoln. on the town in San Francisco or Chicago or Los Angeles." snows and the football season source. The four-mont- h intramural "I we don't run concluded after a has all just hope department exhausted into the same situation we ran "We don't have three separate groups like some clubs interim. the funds from its current where the the the 1964 football into with the Men's Physical Husker win second Negro guys stay together, Spanish guys stay During flag budget. 'cowboys' place ana tne season, three fields on east Educaton Building," he said. together white guys stay togetner." Meier expects to be notified The University of Nebraska runner-u- p for the to Fargo, North campus, four fields on ground That was supposed to be a Dakota, this week if the money can Intercollegiate Rodeo Team Cowboy. He tied for first November The Cards will throw Gibson (22-9- ), Nelson Briles (19-11- ) presently occupied by the new temporary building back in be raised and B football can second in place in steer wrestling and! and Washburn (14-8- ) McLain (31-6)- , Wromen's Education the early 1940s and it is our finished total Ray against Mickey Physical be played this fall. won third place in saddle Lolich (17-9- ) and Earl Wilson (13-12- ). Who would you take? Building and two football fields permanent location today in number of points earned out bronc. The fact that this is the Redbirds' Series where the current Mall park- 1968." Current Movies third ap- But even if B football is mm of thirteen schools at Radant won second pearance in the last five might be considered whereas ing lot is located were used Larry years held and the eight-fiel-d area MEIER SAID the new Wisconsin State University in in calf and tied for the Tigers into Series action for the in for football games. pro- roping Tudm Faralaked ar Tbealer. plunge first time at Woods Park can be behind Abel even 28 third in ribbon Mat ueai ml mm laca 23 Today, the three east cam- used, ject Hall, River Falls, September place roping. ia years. future for without the benefits he had John Sennett won fourh pus fields remain for possibly prospects playing and 29.

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