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2S The Des Moines Register Friday, September 9, 1994 College Football With 524 Yards Rushing nn 1 Nebraska rolls past Texas )' I i I i Ayr fc fe wA ill I Tf-s 'iff vi- i i i'v yvi Panthers' offense struggles in loss UNI Continued from Page IS Bobcats totaled 283 yards. Northern Iowa was fortunate to be trailing only 3-0 at halftime. Southwest Texas State was held at the goal line on one drive and missed 31-yard field-goal attempt by Ray, Whitehead with 5 seconds left in the half. Northern Iowa's offense, which had 211 first-half yards against Iowa State, struggled to get 1 15 in its 6 minutes 48 seconds of possession against Southwest Texas State's myriad defensive looks. Take away a 31-yard gain on a draw play by Stovall and a 20-yard scramble by O'Donnell and the Panther offense virtually was non-existent.

It may have been a sign of things to come when Northern Iowa couldn't capitalize on its first possession after Dedric Ward's 33-yard punt return to the Southwest Texas State 38-yard line. The Panthers lost 2 yards before punting. O'Donnell completed three of 10 passes for 20 yards in the first half. He hit 12 of 15 for 126 yards and two touchdowns in the first half last week. 4 S.W.

TEXAS 20, UNI 19 Northern Iowa 0 0 13 6 19 S.W.Texas State 0 3 14 3 20 SECOND QUARTER SW-FG Whitehead 39, 13:29 THIRD QUARTER Nl Ward 53 pass from O'Donnell (kick wide), 11:23 SW Miller recovered blocked punt in end zone (Whitehead kick). 8:53 Nl Ward 55 pass from O'Donnell (Waller kick, 557 SW-Rogers 2 run (Whitehead kick). 1:59 Dallas Morning News Lubbock, Texas Top-ranked Nebraska played about 40 minutes of championship football Thursday night. Texas Tech was thankful the Cornhuskers didn't go the full 60. The Red Raiders gave it their best shot, but, as expected, that left them a distant second in a 42-16 track meet.

Nebraska, a 25-point favorite, won by 26 with a second-half surge and by rushing for 524 yards on 63 carries that's 8.7 per attempt. "We played good football, but we didn't play sharp football," said Cornhuskers Coach Tom Osborne. "Looked to me like Tech was more excited about playing Nebraska than Nebraska was about playing Tech." Nebraska began with an almost casual burst of brilliance by quarterback Tommie Frazier, who raced 58 yards untouched for a touchdown with 2 minutes 5 seconds gone. The play was a runaway, and the crowd had to wonder if this would be Nebraska's theme all night. "We just ran the ball," Frazier said.

"Old, traditional Nebraska football run it down their throat." Tech defenders made enough big plays thereafter to make it a competitive first half, however. The Cornhuskers punched out one more touchdown on a 15-play, 98-yard drive when Frazier bounced over from the 3 with 1 :47 gone in the second quarter; then the Red Raiders shut them down the rest of the half and put up three points of their own. Tony Darden, starting at quarterback again, hit split end Field Scovell deep with a 47-yard pass to the Nebraska 37, and three plays later Jon Davis kicked a 49-yard field goal. Nebraska kicker Darin Erstad later missed twice from the same distance, so Nebraska settled for a 14-3 halftimelead. Zebbie Lethridge, Tech's other freshman quarterback, sparked the home team's best drive to open the second half, and briefly very briefly the crowd thought the Raiders might be a serious threat.

Lethridge scrambled for 18 yards twice and kept the Huskers' defense Nebraska's Lawrence Phillips is upended by Texas Tech defenders wake-up call with touchdown drives of 82, 82 and 69 yards on three of its next four possessions. off-balance in a nine-play, 80-yard drive that ended with a 6-yard pass to tight end Scott Aylor to narrow Nebraska's lead to 14-9 with 2:27 gone. Tech tried a two-point conver- The second 82-yard surge used sion attempt, but Lethridge bobbled only three plays and 56 seconds, the snap and was smothered. with I-back Lawrence Phillips cover-So were Tech's hopes for the rest ing 76 yards in carries of 20 and then of the game. 56 for the touchdown.

Phillips fin-Nebraska thanked Tech for the ished with 175 yards. Cyclones primed for another upset FOUKFH QUARTER Nl FG Waller 46. 14 43 NI-FG Waller 34. 5:59 SW-FG Whitehead 47. 1:17 i-4 4 4 STATISTICS No.

lowaS.W.TexaV First downt Rushing Passing Penalty 17 8 6 3 5 4 Ruthel Yards gained Yards lost Rmhlng yards 30 164 31 133 49 217' 35 182 Passing yards 219 J5i Passes 12-32-1 Offensive plays 62 65 Net yards Gain per play 352 57 283 44 Return yards 41 36 Fumbles-lost 0-0 1-0 Penalties-yards 10-82 10-90 Punts-average 3-31 5-44 Third down efficiency 7-15 7-16 Sacks by-yards Time of possession 22.38 RUSHING No. Iowa Stovall O'Donnell Brown Porter Hamrock No. Yds. W. Texas No.

Yds. 34 J84 3 1 2 -31 10 -6 7 17 99 Wilkerson 4 2 4 3 18 Mathis 13 Dyson 2 Rogers 1 PASSING Northern Iowa Comp. Alt. Int. Yds.

ODonnell 12 32 1 219 W. Texas State Comp. An. Int Yds. Rogers 4 11 0 67 Dyson 3 5 0 34 RECEIVING No.

Iowa Ward Taylor Stovall Sharar No. Yds. 7 185 2 18 2 14 1 2 SW. Texas McGarrahan Hygh Adkms Mathis Owen No. Yds.

TACKLE LEADERS No. Iowa Hammond Durflmger Wolt Allen Delaere McCleary Glass Moretz Marbles U. 5 5 2 1 4 3 3 0 0 SW. Texas Collins Reid Swinnea Thompson Siebert -A. 10 7 7 2 4 III 11 (Jf-'i wA tory two years ago against Nebraska was, it had a storybook touch to it because of the presence of Marv Seller.

Seiler was a fifth-year senior quarterback who had never started a collegiate game. The week before in a game televised by ESPN, Iowa State was beaten at Kansas State, 22-13, and didn't look good. Consequently, little was expected of the Cyclones against Nebraska. The Cornhuskers entered the game with a 7-1 record and led the nation with a 351 -yard rushing average. The week of the game, Nebraska Athletic Director Bob Devaney said the 1992 Huskers were better than the 1971 team he coached that finished No.

1 in the nation. It was a no-lose situation for the Cyclones. "Nebraska came into the game flat," Seiler said. "It had been a long season for us, and we were trying to get something positive going. When we went ahead, 19-10, early in the fourth quarter, I figured we could hold on to win." Seiler wound up rushing 24 times for 144 yards.

He passed for 26 yards. A bit of trivia: Earlier in the season, that Iowa State team lost to Northern Iowa, too. Seiler said there's no way to predict what the Cyclones will do Saturday. "It depends on which Cyclone team shows up," he said. "I'm originally from Illinois, and when I got to Iowa State I didn't realize what a big deal the Iowa State-Iowa game is.

But I soon learned." Seiler said it's not up to the coach ISU Continued from Page IS 33-31, in 1990 and against Nebraska, 19-10, in 1992. Nebraska, which was ranked seventh, was a 29-point favorite. Oklahoma, ranked 16th, was a 24-point favorite. Iowa is unranked, but is a 12-point favorite in Saturday's 2:35 p.m. game after rolling past Central Michigan, 52-21, last week.

Walden said the Hawkeyes should be favored by 35, but that's one of his ways of laying the groundwork for what he hopes is another Cyclone upset. It's part of a coaching trick that's been around since the days of Pop Warner and leather helmets or no helmets at all: Lull the opposition to sleep with praise and by saying your team has no chance. A former Cyclone who was part of both the Oklahoma and Nebraska upsets is Mark DouBrava, whose last season as a defensive back was 1992. "I started both games," DouBrava said. "Anything can happen in a game the longer you stay in it.

Teams like Oklahoma and Nebraska don't expect Iowa State to be hanging around in the fourth quarter. When we are, they get kind of nervous. "When I played, we never counted ourselves out of any game. We thought we could beat anybody. "I'm sure Iowa State's players will be ready for Saturday's game.

It shouldn't be any problem to get them up. If they're not up for that one, they won't be up for any game all year." As big an upset as Iowa State's vic Associated Press Thursday night's 42-16 romp. Phillips 2 run (Sieler kick) Phillips 56 run (Sieler kick) NAlford 35 pass from Frazier (Sieler kick) Kaufman fumble recovery in end zone (Davis kick) Childs 30 run (Sieler kick) INDIVIDUAL LEADERS Rushing Nebraska: Phillips 19-175. Schlesinger 6-84, Frazier 13-84; Texas Tech: Lethbridge 6-62, Cram 1 5-46. Passing Nebraska: Frazier 5-15-0-88.

Berringer 0-2-1-0; Texas Tech: Lethbridge 5-14-1-46. Cavazos 3-5-0-40 Receiving-Nebraska: Phillips 3-39. Alford 1-35; Texas Tech: Scovell 4-74, Mitchell 3-24. Sis1 The Register victory at Oklahoma in 1990. happening for us in the game," Pedersen said this week.

"We built on momentum. I think it was a good day for Iowa State football because we hadn't beaten Oklahoma in so long." Pedersen said he doesn't believe Iowa State's players will have any problem getting emotionally ready for Iowa. "I don't know whose job it is to motivate," he said. "The players have to do some of it themselves." Even in a 3-8 season last year, Iowa State pulled an upset. The Cyclones surprised 18th-ranked Kansas State a one-touchdown favorite at Ames, 27-23.

That, too, came after a loss. Iowa State had been beaten at Missouri. 37-34. the average salary from $51,501 in 1976 to $1,188,679 on opening day this year. Five more games were wiped out Thursday, increasing the total to 357, more than 15 percent of the schedule.

Negotiations have taken on a sense of urgency since Selig announced the deadline Friday. The strike, which began Aug. 12 and enters its fifth week today, is baseball's eighth work stoppage since 1972. Around the nation, teams watched and waited. Many owners received an update during an afternoon conference call.

"I'm sitting here anxiously awaiting," Philadelphia owner Bill Giles said from his office in Veterans Stadium. Bart Thomas (23) and Cat Adams Nabrnka 26 63-524 Texas Tech 17 42-147 150 7 11 29 1 8-41 1-0 4-30 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards 5 Passes 5-17-1 Punts 3-47 Fumbles-lost 0-0 Penalties-yards 5-44 Time of possession 33 50 26:10 Nebraska 7 7 14 14 42 TeaiTech 0 3 6 7 16 Frazier 58 run (Sieler kick) Frazier 3 run (Sieler kick) FG Davis 49 Aylor 6 pass from Lethridge (conversion failed) i' Iowa State to an improbable 33-31 to be the star of the game, was aware that some of Oklahoma's players were eating hot dogs on the sideline during their 56-3 victory against Iowa State in 1987. So, for him, the 1990 game was a payback. Pedersen ran 29 times for 148 yards and completed five passes for 102 yards in the game Iowa State's first victory in the series since 1961. After Oklahoma place-kicker R.D.

Lasher missed a 23-yard field-goal attempt with 2 minutes 50 seconds left, Pedersen directed Iowa State on its winning drive scoring a touchdown on a 1-yard run with 35 seconds remaining. "I just think good things started Saturday. He said owners had withheld information previously, leading the union to believe fewer teams would receive smaller amounts of money. Small-market teams have called for change this year because of a drop in television money. National broadcast revenue, which totaled $15.4 million per team in 1993, was expected to fall to $6 million per team this year as baseball switched from a guaranteed deal with CBS to a joint venture with ABC and NBC.

Owners presented their salary cap proposal on June 14, but the union has said it never will accept the idea. Owners repeatedly have insisted that they need cost certainty, but players have said they like the free-market system of free agency and salary arbitration that has increased in mwm- i Conf. Overall W. L. T.

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Northern Iowa 0 0 0 1 1 0 47 34 W. Illinois 0 0 0 1 1 0 49 43 S.W.Missouri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 E. Illinois 0 0 0 0 1 15 31 Illinois State 0 0 0 0 1 0 17 31 Indiana State 0 0 0 0 1 0 17 20 S. Illinois 0 0 0 0 1 0 26 35 Chris Pedersen (5) quarterbacked to get the players aroused for a game. "The players should want to play," he said.

DouBrava said Walden tries to find different ways every week to get players motivated. "It's not the coach's fault if the team comes out flat," he said. "It's up to the players." The week before the Cyclones upset Oklahoma in 1990, they lost to Colorado, 28-12. After Iowa State's coaches and players arrived in Oklahoma the day before the game, Walden was so ill with the flu that he couldn't accompany the team to its practice. But the upset seed had already been planted.

Iowa State quarterback Chris Pedersen, who turned out teams share 43 cents per ticket, which amounts to about 4 percent. Fehr said the union's new ideas stemmed from additional information owners provided to players last Players offer 'taxation' plan on eve of deadline THURSDAY'S GAMES Southwest Texas State 20. Northern Iowa 19 Western Michigan 43, Western Illinois 7 SATURDAY. SEPT. 10 6 00 Southern Illinois at Mississippi 6 35 Washburn at Illinois State 7 00 Lock Haven at Indiana State 7 OO-North Texas at Southwest Missouri State 8 00 Eastern Illinois at Texas-El Paso 3L NASHVILLE WINS AGAIN Joe Hall, Dave Milstein and Ray Durham combined for 1 1 hits and six runs-batted-in to lead a 17-hit attack as visiting Nashville routed New Orleans, 10-4, Thursday to take a 2-0 lead in their best-of-five American Association semifinal series.

The Sounds, 2-7 at New Orleans during the season, return to Nashville for the rest of the series. GREENE LIFTS INDIANAPOLIS Willie Greene's three-run home run in the 10th inning lifted Indianapolis to a 9-5 victory at Louisville in the second game of a best-of-five American Association semifinal playoff series. The Indians took a 2-0 advantage in the series, which moves to Indianapolis today. DAY 28 Games lost: 5. Total games lost: 357.

Games remaining: 312. Negotiating session Thursday: Yes, informally. Next negotiating session: Today. Estimated revenue lost by owners: $238 million. Total Income lost by players: $123.7 million.

Money lost by Bobby Bonllla, New York Mets third baseman who has the highest salary this season at $5.7 mi'lion: $872,131. Money lost by players at the major-league minimum of $109,000: $16,678. Key development Players presented their proposal during a 30-minute evening session at the commissioner's office. It called for the top 16 clubs by revenue to pay a two percent payroll tax that would be redistributed to the other 12. It called for teams to split 25 percent of their gate receipts.

Key quote "Everything is as it's been all along. (Friday's deadline) still applies." acting commissioner Bud Selig. STRIKE Continued from Page IS lawyers delivered the plan. Accompanying them were Los Angeles pitcher Orel Hershiser, Pittsburgh shortstop Jay Bell, Texas pitcher Kevin Brown and Oakland catcher Terry Steinbach. "To go without a postseason would be devastating to the game," Butler said.

"Nobody is going to win and nobody is winning right now." The proposal, according to the union, is based on a framework similar to the revenue-sharing agreement owners adopted last January. Instead of a salary cap, however, it includes a taxation concept in which clubs could have any payroll they wanted, but would be forced to share a larger amount of locally generated revenue as their payrolls increased. Currently, American League teams share 20 percent of their gate receipts while National League.