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IT uin? jo)fifp To) Ms lr SECTION 8P8BTS DES MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER OCTOBER 26, 1980 Pes Memot Regilter and Tribune Company Photo by DAVE PETERSON Iowa State starts fast, then fizzles mmmMm, -its Oklahoma erupts, 42-7, after halfrimc deadlock 1 ji s' 1 i -JairifcfT Someone to lean on wasn't too much earlier in the day that both faces with optimism, the Cyclones having raced to first-quarter lead over Oklahoma. Then, like a sandstorm out of the Southwest, the 17-ranked Sooners swept back with a fury, turning smiles to frowns and optimism to fatalism with a 42-7 Big Eight victory. Mitt syieidSy9 Statistics OU 56-31 0 IS 60-2S1 Flrtt downi Rutnes-vardi Patting yard Raturn vardt PatMt Punlt Fumblt-lott Penaitiat-vardt Otitahama 10 64 0-2-0 J-ll-2 4-4S 7-40 JO J-0 2-20 4-20. SCOKINS 14 21 41 tawa StaM t- 1 ISU CrulcMIdd 7 run (Giffordt kick) OU Overtlreet 14 run (Keeling kick) OU Want 45 run (Keeling kick) OU Wilson 53 run (Keeling kick) i OU Want 1 run (Keeling kick) OU Watts 12 run (Keeling kick) OU Peguet 12 run (Keeling kick) A 52,074 "They start four guys who can go the distance against you and have about three more on the bench." Donnie Duncan By MAURY WHITE i Sunday Keatiter SMI Wrttar AMES, IA. Rarely has a good, slam-bang football game gone sour faster for the home fans than it did Saturday when Oklahoma's great individual running talent produced five second-half touchdowns three by quarterback J.C.

Watts to turn a 7-7 struggle into a 42-7 rout of Iowa State. The plays producing the winning 1 and icing points were Watts' twisting, hippety-hopping 45-yard jaunt to glory on a broken play early in the third quarter that soon was followed by Stanley Wilson's scoring run for 53 of the 160 rushing yards he netted in 7 24 tries. "Great players make great plays. I don't know if I can pinpoint an exact vurning point," said Cyclone Coach'1 Donnie Duncan, a former Sooner' assistant who truly felt his (previous-ly) once-beaten troops had a chance' against an offensively powerful team that had lost two games largely 1 because of its own errors. This time, as an Oklahoma football team defeated one from Iowa State for the 19th time in a row the longest period of dominance going in the Big Eight Coach Barry'; Switzer's team didn't lose a fumble or throw an interception on either of its two pass attempts.

"Best Game" "It's good to play a game without a turnover. This was by far our best game of the season," said Switzer.J The Sooners are 3-0 in the league and 4-2 for the year and probably due to rise from No. 17 in the Associated! Press poll for this drubbing of the 5-2 Cyclones. The fact of it is, the first two Oklahoma touchdowns came on plays that didn't go as designed but! produced points because of outstand-' ing individual effort. And two touch, downs were all that was really needed at the end.

The Cyclones scored first, on the; game's first possession, and looked magnificent after Mike Payne had returned the kickoff 31 yards to the 31. Dwayne Crutchfield who valiantly banged 36 times for 179 net yards carried eight times, the last for seven yards and a score that became a 7-0 lead with Alex Giffords conversion kick into a stiff wind thai caused some problems. Although it was a bitterly cold day, i IOWA STATE Please turn to Page 31) PEACH Nebraska Statistics Dejection is drawn on the faces Saturday as Karen Kilberg and Seabrooke walk from the field at By RON MALY Sunday RaoitMr Stall Wrttar MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. So the pig stayed. Actually, it's a wonder Floyd of Rosedale, the bronze hog that's been going to the winner of the Iowa-Minnesota game since 1935, didn't boycott Saturday's game and find something more interesting to do.

It was that bad. There was more fighting than good football on a bitter, 36-degree afternoon that saw Minnesota whip Iowa, 24-6, in a game Hanaeyes That, folks, was the kind of day it was for Iowa. Sad and bad those words tell the story of a day in which Iowa lost for the third straight time in this series and for the ninth time in the last 12 games with Minnesota. Iowa fumbled seven times and lost possession of the ball on four of those bobbles. Quarterback Phil Suess was IOWA Please turn to Page 2D of fan and footballer Cyclone fullback Jack Iowa State Stadium in in which the Hawkeyes repeatedly committed offensive suicide.

"I'm greatly discouraged," said Iowa Coach Hayden Fry, who watched his team's record slide to 2-5. "We played very poorly certainly not up to our capabilities. "We didn't run hard and we didn't block hard. Minnesota just whipped us at the line of scrimmage." At times, the game resembled a waterfront brawl. Every conceivable type of penalty was called, and there were occasions when flags should point.

This one might not have been as close, but it was just as exciting. Outside the Drake locker room, minutes after the thrill-a-minute affair, the scene was still pandemonium. Big Hug Chris Faros, the Bulldogs' defensive coordinator, rushed up to Head Coach Chuck Shelton and threw a bear hug around his boss that would have made Gorgeous George proud. "That's six!" Shelton yelled at Faros, "and there aren't any of those they can take away from us." Shelton's reference was to the six victories the Bulldogs now have under Ames. It were flushed a 7-0, dogs assured of first vanning season since 197; tawa 12 34-24 171 48 16-32-0 3-44 7-4 7-10 Minn 16 46-124 114 I 7-l-3 5-21 4-2 5-4S Flrtl downs Ruthat-yards Patting yardt Return yardt Pattm Punlt Fumblet-lotl Panalilet-yardt SCORING 3 10 0-6 7 0 7 10 24 Mkimtola Minn Barbar 1 run (Gallery kick) Iowa FG Roby 32 Iowa FG Otalniciak 27 Minn Barbar I run (Gallery kick) Minn Barber 2 run (Gallery kick) Minn FG Gallery 42 A 50.150 Statistics Drake NMS 22 25 56-372 41-104 159 272 136 7 15-24-2 10-40-5 5-1 1-1 6-50 0-70 14 14 0 20 0 7 0 21 Flrtl downt Rutncs-vards Patting yardt Return yardt Pattet Punlt Fumotet-loit Penaltles-yardt SCORING Drake New Mnk StaM NMS Rudlton 10 pen from McAlltler (Cebalkn kick) Duntmore 0 patt from Catko (Mlke-Maver kick) Casko 3 run (Mike-Mayer kick) Casko 1 run (Mike-Mayer kick) Tanks 3 run (Mlke-Maver kick) NMS Norwood 2 run (CebaUot kick) NMS Haynet 20 patt from McAlltler (Locklln past from McAHster) REGISTER PHOTO INSIDE THE (jiwiwiiy.yiMii.twiiiiii..jii' By BOB DYER Sunday Reatter Stall Wrttar LAS CRUCES, N.M.

When Drake and New Mexico State meet on the football field, it's nearly always wise to grab your Gelusil tablets, throw in a couple of nitroglycerin pills, and maybe take along some tranquilizers. Saturday night, before 15,327 fans at Aggie Memorial Stadium, it was business as usual as the Bulldogs turned back a furious New Mexico State rally to post a 28-22 victory that will be memorable for many reasons. Four times in the previous six games between these clubs, the outcome has been decided by a single There were heroes galore for the Bulldogs, including running back Amero Ware, triple-threat quarterback Rick Casko and a defense that intercepted five passes and also recovered a key fumble when the Aggies were knocking on the door. 179 Yards Ware, a 205-pound sophomore fullback, banged his way for 179 yards in 24 carries, tying him with the legendary Johnny Bright for ninth place on the school's all-time, single-game rushing list. "The running game was going," DRAKE Please turn to Page 6D have been tossed, but weren't.

In all, Iowa was penalized seven times for 80 yards, Minnesota five times for 45. The strangest set of happenings all day came in the fourth quarter. After Gopher fullback Garry White ripped off an 11-yard run to the Iowa seven, Iowa's Todd Simonsen was called for piling on, then Hawk defensive back Kent Ellis drew an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for throwing the official's flag into the end zone. Minnesota scored on the next play. their belts, which assures them of the school's first winning season since 1972.

It was also the fourth straight victory for Drake, and the fourth straight triumph on the road, putting the season slate at 6-2 and 2-2 in the Missouri Valley Conference. New Mexico State is 3-4 and 1-2. "Oh, boy, this is a milestone," Shelton said. "They're never easy against New Mexico State. This wasn't a work of art, but we got it It was important that we get six victories at Drake right now.

Getting six establishes that our program is going in the right direction." his niece NBA? The man himself will have none of that kind of talk, however. And why should he? Wasn't that Lester at Angel Guardian Gym scrimmaging, going through plays, running sprints, getting bumped here and spilled there? And wasn't that Ronnie Lester bringing words of praise to Jerry Sloan's lips? "I THOUGHT Ronnie looked terrific today," the Bulls coach said after Monday's workout And other than the fatigue that two hours of NBA run-and-gun brings, Ronnie Lester could not disagree. "I think I can do all the same things I did before," he said. "I just want the chance to play and establish myself and contribute along with the rest of the guys. All I need now is the game experience and some confidence shooting the ball and driving to the basket" And an injury-free season something he was not able to extract from his final year at Iowa and LESTER Please turn to Page 8D ester sneak mm Ian the courts of the Davenport prep Roger Craig's 17 send Nebraska past Colorado, Page goes for a tie with Oklahoma State No.

16 Missouri avenges last year's Page4D Craig leads QTlXe mm Former rushing yards 3D Kansas and gets it, and loss to K-State Schlichter Art Schlichter's State thwart Herrmann breaks passing yardage, Northwestern and Dave Wilson Emmetsburg Defending 3-A high school straight year, Moines record playoffs began playoff report see Southeastern Conference Southwest Conference Pacific Ten Conference Atlantic Coast Confer met Storecard Weaver keeps Utte Sports Opinon In The Open By MARC HANSEN Sunday Register stall Writer CHICAGO, ILL. He was never one to let the words jump freely from Ms tongue, but then Ronnie Lester was never a leaper and a bounder on the basketball court, either. I He was an all-arounder who fettered monosyllables off the court and spoke volumes on the court with lis 20-footers, his loopy-doop drives, lis masterly passes and the ieemingly endless stanzas he kept adding to the epic poem that was Iowa's 1979-80 basketball season. I For most of the Hawkeyes, it was a season that never wanted to end. For tester, the ail-American guard whose right knee buckled three times, it was a season that never wanted to begin.

And last week, as he waited on the injured reserve list, waited to play in his first National Basketball Association game, where he would score eight points in his Chicago Stadium debut, there were still questions to be answered. THOSE WHO had watched Iowa go from an 8-7 team without a healthy Lester to a 15-1 team with him thought back to his final play as a collegian. They thought back to the time his failing knee could no longer support the Hawkeyes, who would then fall from grace and out of the National Collegiate tournament. The beginning of the end came without warning in Iowa's semifinal loss to Louisville. There were 7 minutes 47 seconds left to play in the first half when, suddenly, the team doctor was showing Ronnie Lester to the bench and the scoreboard was showing the Hawkeyes a 22-19 deficit they would never make up.

He had connected on all four of his shots from the field and on both of his free throws. He looked the way Ronnie Lester was supposed to look. And yet, it was to be only a matter of seconds before he would find himself lying on the floor and his future in doubt It is seven months later now and there are more than a few doomsay-ers insisting Ronnie Lester still has not arisen, and maybe never will propels Buckeyes two touchdown runs for Ohio Wisconsin, 21-0, Page 2D Marlt an NCAA record for career, Indiana comes back to dowri Michigan rips Illinois and passer Page4D i in playoffs again champion Emmetsburg makes the football playoffs for the seventh' tying 4-A Dowling of West Des for the most appearances since the in 1972. To find Chuck Burdick's Page 7D roundup P9 t) roundup Po roundup P9 50 roundup Pa 50 Poe 100 Pie 100 Pae 110 Pa 12P an KOMlie LSier Oil a WOpy-dOOp.