European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 02, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse T is i Herbie Husker gets the Boot too John Lindsay Scripps Howard news service after a year of pointing out picking on and laughing at the Good bad and ridiculous in College football we return for our second year. Loyal fans swear by our unique Brand of wit sarcasm and nastiness. Others just swear at us. Judging from the Virginia Michigan thriller in last saturday s pigskin classic and even Ohio state s rout of Boston College in sunday s Kickoff classic the new season looks promising Don t get me wrong the same old stuff is always going on. Players Are getting in trouble off the Field see Tennessee Penn state Nebraska Missouri Florida. Coaches Are whining is that Lou Holtz. Bowl officials Are scheming $8.5 million each for the fiesta bowl wonder How much of that will go toward women s Archery. Nonetheless More important stuff has changed most notably Duke got rid of its female kicker. It s not Clear Why Heather sue Mercer Felt she needed to become the Shannon Faulkner of major College football. Duke already has a Fine kicker in senior Tom Cochran 10 of 11 inside 40 Yards last year 22 career Fps fifth All time at Duke. Four other Blue devils including three walk on backed up Cochran. Duke coach Fred Goldsmith also says he needs his backup kickers to play positions on the scout team during practice not exactly Wise for the 5-9, 145-Pound Mercer and that the Guys have better Range and longer kickoffs but on the strength of her herculean performance in Duke s Spring game hitting a 28-Yard Chip shot against a Light Rush in the final second Mercer claims she belongs and that Goldsmith reneged on a Promise to have her on the team. I believe if were a Man and had the same kicking skills that i have i would be a member of the Duke football team Mercer said. Perhaps if Mercer really wanted to play College football she was a third team All state kicker in High school in Yorktown Heights could have taken her skills to a lower Pepe Pearson has a bang up time with Boston college1 Daryl Porter in Ohio state s 38-6 Kickoff classic Victory sunday. Classification division ii or Iii maybe Heck if she had her heart set on i a Check out the lowly mid american conference. Half the teams there can t score anyway. Try Ohio University where the 0-11 bobcats racked up 82 Points last year Only 62 fewer than helsman Winner Rashaan Salaam of Colorado. Nebraska canned its Mascot. Yep after 20 years that huge strange Cowboy hatted Guy known As Herbic Husker is out. When has a defending National Champion Ever dumped its Mascot admittedly the Cor huskers monstrously a i . s the alternative a Gigantic ear of Cor when artist Dirk West penned Herbic Back in 1974, he Sard his concept of a Burly rugged confident fellow was perfect for Nebraska football. We smell a conspiracy. Has gender equity spread to mascots Quick get Oliver Stone on the phone. Fortunately Good May still prevail. Several petitions Are floating around Lincoln designed to save Herbic. Cor Husker officials Are uptight. Herbie Husker will still be our Mascot and a representative of the school but will not be on the Field for football games this season said Nebraska director of sports information Chris Anderson. He will be available outside the stadium to Greet children and we do not anticipate a change in that policy this mascots beware. College football really is a cruel business. Weekly reason to hate. Notre Dame Loyal readers and notre Dame fans will remember our constant belittling of the Irish last year. And what a year we picked watching the overrated puffed up Irish stagger to a 6-5-1 finish was a slice of heaven. But this year Well spread things around a Little. Since there arc so Many targets football Why waste All our bullets on the Irish so our first Zinger is headed a notre Dame. Irish haters must concede that there is Little Chance the. Irish will. Approach last year s misery that s because notre Dame took the Quick route to Success softer scheduling. Irish conquerors Florida state and Michigan were bounced in favor of patsies Vanderbilt and army Navy and air Force remain on the schedule making the Irish the Only school to play All three service academies. Notre Dame has won 31 straight Over Navy 10 straight Over army and seven straight Over air Force. Can t you hear Holtz telling us How Tough those titans will be upset pick fresh off its Miracle Over Virginia Michigan will be exposed at Illinois today. Look for the Zillini and their Nasty defense featuring linebackers Simeon Rice and Kevin Hardy to Knock off the wolverines. Conference of the damned our mythical league formed for teams that never win anything marches into is second year. Wan proof our eight teams have a grand total of one conference championship and 12 bowl trips since i960. Last year s Champion Rice 5-6 narrowly missed ending a 33-year bowl drought. Vanderbilt 5-6 had Ashot at our title and the commodores first winning season since 1982,before getting edged by Tennessee 65-0 in their finale. Psi was so impressed that a rescued Vandy coach Gerry Dinardo tabbing him to succeed Curte mailman. As Don King would say Only in America. The other six teams new Mexico Oregon state Northwestern Wake Forest Temple and Iowa state combined to go 17-48-2 a hound a standings team a it Rice 0-0-0 Vander Eilt 0-0-0 new Mexico 0-0-0 Oregon state 0-0-0 Northwestern 0-0-0 Wake Forest 0-0-0 Temple 0-0-0 Iowa state 0-0-0 next opponent univ Alabama Northern Arizona Wahpat notre Dame appalachian state at Kansas state Ohio. Is september 2-8, 1995 beyond the game. Page 9
