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Acs IUolnt 0 Simbag 35r jifltcr DAVID W1TKE, Exkcutivb Sports Eoitok, 515-284-8130 Novkvihkk 1 W2, Rkction He Has the Belt ffiffiG Brno Long Reign Ends Richard Petty, driviiig in his last stockar race today, is beloved by fans for his common touch. Page 13D liiddick Ihwe had advantages against Evander Holyfield, and they brought him the belt. Page 5D FA nJl 7 wdoi(SS st Miters mi 1 OK ter. Aarc Hansen A unlikely hero for Iowa State 1 mes, la. Marv Seiler has a been keeping a scrapbook since bis high sch(K)l days in Illinois.

It's not a large scrapbook overflowing with big photos and gushy newspaper it 1 7f 1 4 Si stones. Once you get past Seiler's exploits as a second-team all-conference quar 1 terback at Joliet West, you ve gone about as far as you can in the glowing tributes department. "There's plenty of room in there," Seiler said after starting his first game Now that he's tasted glory, Marv Seiler doesn't even wish he had another year or so to relive it. in five seasons as an Iowa State student-athlete. No doubt.

Before Nebraska came to BOB NANDELLThe Recistf.r Quarterback Marv Seiler signals a touchdown Saturday that gives Iowa State a 19-10 lead against Nebraska. The Cyclones upset the seventh-ranked Cornhuskers. Iowa State dominates in 19-10 victory fPF1 iff "1 4 TD passes lift Iowa past Northwestern Lii -4 'LjT- ST "3 Senior Marv Seiler, making his first start, leads the emotionally charged team to its first victory against Nebraska since 1977. By RON MALY Register Staff Writer Ames, la. This was one for the ages.

College football upsets don't come any bigger than the 19-10 shocker Iowa State pulled off Saturday against No. 7 Nebraska. A good throwing arm is important for a quarterback, but Iowa's Paul Burmeister says there are two other attributes just as critical. "A quarterback needs two things: confidence and experience. I'm getting more and more each and every time," the junior quarterback said.

Burmeister, making his second college start, threw four touchdown passes Saturday and Ernest Crank returned an onside kick 43 yards for a score to help give Iowa a 56-14 victo Go ahead, call it the biggest vic tory in school history. No one is likely to challenge you. As nightfall covered Cyclone sta Ass iki Iowa quarterback Paul Burmeister passed for 283 yards Saturday. dium once again a place without goalposts Iowa State fans had reason to be proud. r4 j.v iMBdtliam'rfmimffurin- :r.g,tr-.-....l.a "This is a little more overwhelm ing than I think I can handle," Coach Jim Walden said.

"I'm very proud to be the coach at this school HOU ANDKI-VTlIK RHilSThK town with its No. 7 ranking, Marv Throneberry had been soaked in more printer's ink than Marv Seiler. Saturday there was plenty of room in the scrapbook. Starting today, after Iowa State's almost incomprehensible 19-10 football victory against the Cornhuskers, it should be standing room only. Henceforth and forever forward, Marv Seiler will be known as the quarterback of the most stunning upset in Iowa State football history.

Biggest upsets and best victories are always debatable, of course. That goes for this one, too. But wasn't the spread 29 points? Didn't Bob Devaney, the legendary former coach and athletic director, call this Nebraska team the greatest he'd ever seen? Didn't Johnny Orr almost get run out of the studio when he picked the Cyclones to win on "Beat the Bear," the prediction show on WHO-TV? Even though he was going with Iowa State purely out of loyalty? Can anyone name a Cyclone football victim ranked higher than seventh? Can anyone remember the last Tom Osborne squad that lost to a team with a losing record at the end of the season? Nobody can because Osborne never coached one, until Saturday. Even Harry Burrell, the former Iowa State sports information director and unofficial historian, couldn't note a more startling victory. Maybe it isn't the mother of all Iowa State upsets.

But if it is, Marv Seiler helped remove this baby from the womb. "I can't really put into words how good I feel right now," he said. "I'll probably remember it the rest of my life." Probably? If he doesn't, there were 42,008 eyewitnesses, not all of them Cyclone fans, who will. If Iowa State has delivered a more stunning blow to a more powerful foe, nobody could recall it Saturday night. But that's a story for later.

The story for now is a fifth-year senior who came to Iowa State because Iowa State was the only Division I-A school that recruited him. "He played awfully well," Osborne said. "He made a lot of yards after contact." That 's not the half of it. He came out of nowhere in the process. A trivia question for the future.

"A triv ia question," Seiler said with a smile. "Exactly." Here is a kid who sits around for five years, closing in on a degree in management information systems, winning academic all-Big Eight honors and watching everybody else play quarterback. At least he's a member of a major-college football team. At least some today." This was Nebraska, which had a Iowa State's Ben Harvey throttles Nebraska's Tyrone Hughes during a kickoff return Saturday in Iowa State's 19-10 victory. ry against Northwestern.

"It was a big boost in confidence," Burmeister said. "Some days, everything seems to go right. This is a day you dream about. Hopefully, there'll be more in the future." Iowa Coach Ilayden Fry, whose offense has sputtered much of the season, was pleased the seniors won their final home game. Iowa closes its season Saturday at Minnesota.

STORY: Page 8D Rose Bowl gets a feeble RSVT There was never any doubt. The week before, the night before 7-1 record. A few days ago, Nebraska Athletic Director Bob Devaney who coached Nebraska to two mythical national titles said it was the best team in his 31 years at the university. with the nation's best rushing attack and the best rushing defense in the Big Eight Conference. But Iowa State, a 29-point underdog, amassed 373 rushing yards to Nebraska's 192 before a roaring crowd of 42,008.

The Huskers had been averaging 351.1. Derek Brown and Calvin Jones ranked 1-2 in the Big Eight Brown with a 107.9 average, Jones with a 107.4 mark. On this 30-degree day, Brown was limited to 64 and Jones to 28 by a team that has a 4-6 record. Nebraska's leader was freshman quarterback Tommie Frazier with 92 yards. Asked if someone would have told him before the game that two players would run for more than 100 yards and that neither would be from Nebraska Walden said, "I'd have asked what they were sniffing." Seiler, installed as the starter because it was his final home game, was the game's leading rusher with 144 yards in 24 carries.

It was Seiler's 78-yard scamper to the Nebraska 2-yard line that set up a fourth-quarter touchdown. "I never saw so much green field," Seiler said. "This was a great way for me to go out," he said. "I didn't think it would ever happen." Fullback Chris Ulrich had 105 rushing yards, including the 2-yard touchdown run that followed Seiler's dash. Seiler masterfully guided Iowa ISU Please turn to Page 1 1 and on game day, Michigan Coach Gary Moeller had decided he would settle for nothing less than a tie; nothing less than an outright claim to the Big Ten title.

A tie is what the third-ranked Wolverines got Saturday to earn an invitation to the Rose Bowl to play Washington. They contented themselves with a late field goal for a 22-22 deadlock with Illinois before 106.48 1 fans wanting more at Michigan Stadium. "It's a sad way to get yourself into a big party," Moeller said. STORY: Page 10D Simpson upset; Drake tops Evansville Jeff Rath scored three touchdowns and set three Iowa Conference records as Upper Iowa defeated Simpson, 28-20, to end Simpson's NCAA Division III playoff hopes. Drake finished with a 7-2-1 record, its best in Division III, by defeating Evansville, 17-7.

STORIES: Page 9D "Iowa State played a great game," Nebraska Coach Tom Osborne said. "The big difference was that they played with a lot of emotion, and our tank was a little dry after two emotional games the past two weeks" against Colorado and Kansas. "We talked (to our players) about the danger of this week, but I don't know how much it sunk in." To beat Nebraska for the first time in 15 games was one thing. The way the Cyclones did it was another. They accomplished it with a senior quarterback, Marv Seiler, who was starting his first game.

The Huskers came into the game Valley's big rally sidelines Newton, 30-29 ITillliilllBd'Mi' Jc 1 By DAN JOHNSON Rk.istkr Staff Writek Lincoln of Stanwood and Dubuque Wahlert win state volleyball titles. Page4D very emotional game. One team would get the momentum, then it'd switch to the other team. We lost our composure a little bit, but I knew we could do it. We had the whole fourth quarter to score twice, and I knew if we scored once, we'd get the momentum going and our defense would make a stand." Leniton normally is a receiver in Valley's nin-and-shoot lineup.

The only reason he was even in the backfield for his scoring run was because a 44 yard punt by New Coach Lee Craw ford said. "Thank goodness for Andy Leniton. It looked like they slammed the door on us, but they didn't kxk it." There was nothing easy about the victory for Valley, which trailed. 29-16. at the start of the fourth quarter.

The Tigers threw for one touchdown and went ahead on Leniton run. but had to hang on as a 29 yard field-goal attempt by Newton's Darin Tisdale sailed wide to the right ith 2: 1 3 left. "We hadn't been that far behind all year." Leniton said "It was a ton's Derek Gosselink had pinned the Tigers at their 2-yard line. Down. 29-23, with 8:35 left, Valley went to a wishbone offense, and Leniton sw itched to halfback.

The Tigers pushed the ball out to the 22. On third-and-2, Leniton benefited from a couple of crushing blocks by his linemen, turned the corner on a sweep around left end. and sped down a sideline untouched. "This has been the dream of the whole team." Leniton said. "We've VALLEY Ptewse turn to Pa? 20 body's paying his way through school.

At least he'll get a decent job out of it when he leaves. Besides, there's Norman, the site of Seiler's previous career landmark. The old highlight was a crucial 23-yard pass to Troy Moore that came out of a punt formation in the third quarter of Iowa State's 33-31 victory against Oklahoma in 1990. Two years later, Seiler has his first Newton, la. Valley's Andy Leniton didn't get tnuch of a chance against Newton in October, but after Saturday, the Cardinals' football fans aren't likely to forget him.

The Tigers rallied from a 13-point deficit and won, 30-29, in the Class 4-A semifinal game, thanks to Lcniton's 78-yard touchdown run with 6 minutes 47 seconds left. Valley will play Friday night for the 4-A title against Bettendorf in the I'M Dome at Cedar Falls. Leniton is just rounding back into form after missing three games during the season with a broken finger an injury sustaiiwd Oct. 9 when the Tigers defeated Newton. 42-31.

"It was poetic justice," Valley HANSEN Plea.se turn tnPiqe 11D.