ID Fort Worth STAR-TELEGRAM Mebraska Overcame Mistakes to —Associaled Press Wirephlto UP AND OVER — Nebraska's Jeff Kinney goes over the line to score the second touchdowns for the Corn-huskers Thursday against Oklahoma No 43 is the Sooner's Steve Aycock a linebacker Nebraska Outlasts Oklahoma 1305-31 (From Page 1) point deficit in the first half clawed Lind scraped back again in the final act Down four points they sailed 63 yards and finished the drive on a fourth (10W11 17 yard pass from Mddren to Jen Harrison that duo's second touchdown connection of the game The statistics of the game reflected the racking pace There were 41 first downs and 829 yards of offense The Sooners the fastest offensive guns in the country had their share — 22 first downs and 467 yards Ironically how e v e r Nebraska shut clown the Sooners' sensational runner Greg Pruitt who came into this 10th game averaging more than nine yards a carry He couldn't turn the big mobile Nebraska ends this day however when they whittled him to 53 yards on 10 carries THAT AVENUE blocked Mildren attacked in a different fashion Ile himself carried 31 times mostly on self-draw plays outside Nebraska's fierce nose guard Rich Glover and made 150 yards "And then he threw Oh how he threw They were no piddling dump passes but long floaters on the 16-mile wind Ile completed five of them for 137 yards and the brace of touchdowns "A defensive man was in my face all day They always had two guys outside" Mddren said It was the pass a rare weapon for Oklahoma this season that provided OU the most spectacular touchdown of the game Tied 10-10 with 51 second left of the first half the Sooners went 78 yards on two running plays a rid two passes that covered 67 yards both to larrisen The second one was a 24-yard payoff shot that Harrision caught on the line with five seconds left That the Sooners could move on the world's best defense was apparent much earlier On their second possession they moved 72 yards for a field goal Then they put na two touchdowns in the second period on drives of 80 and 73 yards a score in the third period on a 73-yard march and a final six points on a 60-yard drive in the last quarter From the moment they ran on the field it was just as apparent that the Cornhuskers STEUBENVILLE Ohio (Al') — West Liberty State WVa and Livingston Ala clash Friday night in a NAIA national college division football semi-final game here Amor 11 by ! were confident they could out-score the Sooners with an offense resembling a tank battalion crashing through 1 grove of saplings Tit EY RAN over the dogged Oklahomans in the last hx Kinney was superb running with his shirt shredded Unbelievably he made 151 yards in the last half He put Nebraska into a 1 14-3 lead with a one-yard burst in the second quarter but from the3 until his final 'I'D the lead changed hands five tiles He scored four of Nebraska's five touchdowns — all but of course Rodgers smart runback corly in Ihe game Mildren in his final appearance on Owen Field engineered all of the sooners' touchdowns naming three yards for a pair and passing for a pair John Carroll kicked a 33-yard field goal la the first Period "We played the best game we could The only thing they trk away from us was our long runs Well I didn't think we'd break any 70-yard runs on them but we didn't do badly moving the ball" said CU coach Chuck Fairbanks AFTERWARD of course Nebraska sensed a repeat national championship "It was the greatest victory of my career" said coach Bob Devaney When we were down 31-29 late I thought we could score because we were really moving the ball the second half "But you know I hoped Nye wouldn't score too quick to give them another chance at us We knew we had to score more than four touchdowns to will" At the end in the crowd scene on this field after the clock had stopped for the last time there was a warming vignette Kinney dirty and tired end in rags walked out of the arena with his arm around an Oklahoma player They didn't appear to be talking Kinney had von a game a big one The Oklahoma kid had only won respect whrAgiol 7 7 14 1-15 Oklahoma 3 14 7-11 Neb—Rodoers 72 punt return (San- gerIkki!lc--qG Carroll 10 Neb—Kinnev I run (Sancier kick) Okla—Mi Wren 3 run (Carroll kick) Okla—Harrison 24 pass from Waren (Carroll kick) 21 Ittant7r) k I r k 1 Okia—Mi khan 2 pin (Carroll kirk) Okla—Harrison I ins from Mktrn (Carroll )run (Senor kick) A—Ol1326 'IIUSKER-SOONElt INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS PUSHING NEBRASKA — Kinnev 11174 Tango 166 Podoors 4-2 ()an icor 3-21 Dixon 1-2 Olds 422 Oklahoma MI Wren 31-150 Crosi Wino 59 Pruitt 10 53 Welch 8-26 WOW 3-11 PASSING 0 Nebraska Intige 6-12-65 RodUera l Oklahorna—Mildren 5-10-131 Harrk son RECEIVING 1 Nebraska — Rodoers 5-61 Kinney 4 OkkhoMil — Harrison 4i115 Chandler 273 Friday Morning November 26 1971 Triumph Tagge Sparked Winning Drive In Last Moments NORMAN Okla (AP)— 'Even "bad coaching" and an unsuccessful game plan couldn't stop Nebr a sk a 's drive for a second consecutive national championship The poised and confident Cornhuskers recovered from their only offensive mistake '- of the game-Jerry Tagge's fumble-and went on a 12-play 74-yard touchdown drive that ate up almost five and a half - of the final seven minutes to V41 edge the second-ranked Okla44 homa 35-31 and maintain their ‘19F! standing at the top of the college football world TH4 trv WHEN OKLAHOMA forged 41 '''1144 ahead 31-28 with 7:10 remain- 04 4 ing on Jack Mildren's second touchdown pass off the game 46 110 to Jon Harrison it marked 44 only the second time in this 11-0 season that Nebraska 10z000t0 found itself trailing The first time came with five seconds left in the first half when Mildren took the 1 Sooners 73 yards in four plays and 46 seconds pitching a 24- yard strike to Harrison for a ' 17-14 lead "We changed very little in 1u41 our defense" said coach Bob Devaney "but we did change our pass defense a little We v o- switched for a zone to the h-ao man-to-man and if 1 had to ve r do i it over again I sure as hell rn- wouldn't have he "On Oklahoma's last possession we went back to a three-deep zone We should have done that before the end 13 of the first half so they couldn't go the length of the field in 45 seconds That was bad coaching 461 "OKLAHOMA threw the ball better than I thought they would I didn't expect quite 1 out- that good passing Mildren in of- threw the ball like a pro guar-bat- terback and we were unable h to cover Harrison one on one" Nebraska's offensive game the plan didn't pan out either the But like the champions they perb are the Cornhuskers came up hred- with what they needed to win "Our game plan was to go e 151 wide against them' Devaney e put said "but in the second half lead we decided to run right at a the them" the) Tagge in the verge of lead being the goat when he fumtines bled a dipsy-doodle behindiska's the-back fake at the Oklaut of homa 32 and set up the fourth run- period touchdown that put the Sooners in front for a spell pear- cooly directed the Cornhuscngi- hers to the winning score Nixon's Call to Devaney Complete After Long Delay NORMAN Okla (AP) — After hulding at the phone for 30 motes President axon final got through to coach Bob Devaney in the Nebraska locke: room Thursday following the Cornhuskers' 35-31 vieLry over Oklahoma The phone rang in the press box seconds after the game ended iit1 the operator announce I that the kVestern White House was calling Attermys to make connections betwcen the press box phone and phones on the field were unsucccbsful Fitnry a member of the Oklahoma press crew took down the number of the West NORMAN Okla (AP)—When you're No 2 you talk to the President second Coach Chuck Fairbanks got his condolences from the top Saturday after his secondrankei Oklahomans lost 35-31 tu top-ranked Nebraska "IF YOU played again Oklahoma would probably win" President Richard Nixon told a smiling Fairbanks by phone after the game But Fairbanks had to wait until the President stopped congratulating winning coach Bob Devaney before he got his call "Yes sir we did play well" Fairbanks told the President "I was very proud of our team today" Nebraska's heralded defense did not break Oklahoma's Wishbone attack but bent it up a hit Fairbanks was obviously emotionally drained after the "dream game" turned into a "nightmare" for him before a national television audience and a record-breaking crowd of 63385 Fairbanks watched Nebraska score in the final minutes to grab the win and probably the national championship ern White house and promised to have Devaney return the call The operator ann011tieeli that Devaney could "call ccilect if he likes" file connection eventually was made on a telephone in the Nuttraska locker room but neither end of the conversation was clear although Devaney three times said 'Thank you President Nixon The conversation lasted about five minutes When told that the President was trying to get hold of him Devaney smiled and quipped "Well he is still in office" Automotive Parts Discount Center 2415 West 7th Street Phone 3321533—We Deliver Open Daily Monday Friday 8 AM to 5:30 PM Saturday 8 AM to 1:00 PM —Star-Telegram Photo RAMS SCORE—The Rams' Larry Smith cracks through the line from one foot out to score a first-quarter touchdown Cowboy linebacker Lee Roy Jordan 55 is trying to stop the charging Ram OU NOT UNHAPPY 'Huskers S Called 'True Champil ns' MOPAR OIL FILTERS L72 9 14Gap )ecial lommemonowill then lauded the Cornhuskers as "true champions" "I am obviously disappointed but I am not at all disappointed in our football team —they played their hearts out" Fairbanks said "They have no reason to hang their heads" "DEVANEY AND the Corn-huskers are true champions" The Oklahoma players said Nebraska had by far the best defense they had played this season "But" Mildren said "we didn't on too badly moving the ball EMI TIRES 1 UNIROYAL REPEAT for a 1101ROVAL BUY3 at our price get the UNIROYAL The only tires all these features: SPECIAL TIRE DESIGNED FOR THE SPECIAL TIRE DESIGNED FOR THE POLYESTER CORD PLIES EXTRA HEAVY RAYON CORD BELTS EXCLUSIVE 2 COLOR OPEN LINKS SEALRITE LINER EXTRA TREAD DEPTH FOR EXTRA SPECIALLY COMPOUNDED TREAD a! 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