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it 111X Iowa State 1 9, Nebraska 1 0 13 Cyclones! dominate Huskers ISU v' 77 rf Wa 1 1 3 Iowa State's Matt Goodwin (8) faces 4 Continued from Page ID ti State's option offense, attempting just four passes most of thaw shovel attempts. tt He completed three for 28 yard, and Iowa State wound up dominating the Huskers In offense and possession time. The Cyclones piled UP 399 yards to Nebraska's 246. The had the ball for 37 minutes 15 seconds to Nebraska's 22 minutes 48 seconds. Then there was Ty Stewart, who had been criticized by Walden far missing short field goals in recejif games.

Stewart, one of 16 Nebraskans on Iowa State's roster, accounted flf the Cyclones' first 12 points wil field goals of 37, 32, 45 and 30 yard His fourth field goal, with 1 minute 38 seconds left In the second quarter gave Iowa State a 1 2-10 lead. Iowa State's fans stormed the field as the game ended so they could tear down the goalposts. Seeing the without the posts was nothing new for Stewart. "There were no goalposts for me to practice with during the he said. Stewart explained that vandals had broken into Cyclone Staditmf and dismantled the posts.

School officials said one goalpost was vandal-, ized on Nov. 5, the other on Nov. ti They weren't replaced until Thurs day. The victory was Iowa State's first against Nebraska since a 24-21 deciJ sion in Lincoln, in 1977. The Cyclones hadn't beaten the HuskersJ in Ames since a 37-28 victory iii 1976.

Nebraska was ranked ninth nationally in both of those seasons. Th Oklahoma State team that Iowa State beat, 15-10, in 1985 was also; ranked seventh. "This is a game I've been waiting for since I came to Iowa State," sai( Art is arris, an Iowa State freshman1 halfback from Bellevue, Neb. "I was hoping all year fd be able to play." Garris totaled 66 yards in eight, carries his longest for 14. Middle linebacker Malcolm Good-u win led Iowa State's strong defen-" sive effort with 1 1 tackles one foj a 2-yard loss.

Stewart's 37-yard field goal with 9:46 left in the first quarter gave Iowa State a 3-0 lead that wasr matched by Byron Bennett's 33-yarj der4V4 minutes later. Stewart's 32-yarder with SJ seconds gone in the second quarter pushed Iowa State in front, 6-3. But Frazier's 15-yard touchdown pass to Lance Lewis, and Bennett's" conversion, gave Nebraska a 10-6 lead with 11:49 remaining in the first'; half. Walden said he thought the Husk-? ers had an illegal receiver but it meant nothing after the gamA had ended. Stewart followed with his 45- and 30-yard field goals to make it athalftime.

Frazier bruised his left knee the first half. "It slowed me down a lot," Frazier,) said. jj. v-; rm. I nation in rushing offense, but was performance against Colorado last season.

"That was the Tundra Bowl," he said of Iowa State's 17-14 loss in the snow. Watkins said he was happy to be a part of Saturday's victory because he was injured and couldn't play in Iowa State's 33-31 upset of Oklahoma two years ago. The first thing Malcolm Goodwin, the Iowa State middle linebacker who had 1 1 tackles, wanted to know after the game was how many yards Nebraska gained. When told, he seemed amazed. "It was fun," he said.

"The nation's No. 1 (rushing) offense certainly didn't run over us today. If we goalpost Defensive player tackles 1 Nebraska quarterback Tommie tearing down that goalpost." Watkins helped bring down the goalpost at the north end of Cyclone Stadium. The south goalpost came down later. Watkins was part of a defensive effort that limited seventh-ranked Nebraska to 192 yards rushing and 54 passing in the Cyclones' 19-10 victory.

"We took care of our business," Watkins said. "Now I'll have to (buy) our offensive guys some dinner because they scored on almost all their drives." Watkins said the Iowa State locker room was a madhouse after the game. "You'd have thought everybody won the Ed McMahon sweepstakes," "That's when I believed in my heart we could actually do it," said Seiler, who rushed for 144 yards and threw four passes. "Realistically, you had to look at it and say we don't have a chance. But if we go out there and play anything can happen." Seiler is proof.

The Cyclones had been gaining steam, yards and confidence as the afternoon grew longer. This was no fluke victory, decided by an extra down or an official's call or a crazy bounce. In fact, the scoreboard did an injustice to Iowa State's dominance. The Cyclones caught a few breaks. They fumbled four times without losing possession.

The Huskers were without their top two tight ends. An injury at the end of the first half limited Tommie Frazier's mobility at quarterback. But this was not a stolen victory. This was earned yard by yard, point by point. One by one the players entered the interview room, grabbed the statistic sheets and stared incredulously at the numerical imbalance.

Dan Watkins, a defensive end, glanced at the yardage: 399 yards for Iowa State, 24G for Nebraska. Two hundred forty-six for Nebraska, a team that had been swallowing yardage in chunks against the likes of Kansas and Colorado. "Damn," Waikins said softly to himself. Malcolm Goodwin, a linebacker who should got his share of all-con-feremv votes, let out a histle. When the game was over, friends and strangers poured out of the stands to tear down the goalposts 1 1.

I By RON MALY Rboister Staff Writer Ames, la. The game was over. Dan Watkins had only one thing in mind. He'd been trying to wrap his arms around Nebraska football players all afternoon. Now he wanted them wrapped around the goalposts in Cyclone Stadium.

It was Watkins' time to celebrate. "I was on one of the goalposts when they were tearing it down," the Iowa State senior defensive end said Saturday. "Hey, I was all for tearing down the stadium. How many times do we beat Nebraska here? I just hope I don't get a bill for Frazier. Nebraska was No.

1 in the he said. "It was a great feeling. We had expected so much out of this season a bowl game, to beat Iowa and Oklahoma but those things didn't come true. Everybody counted us out against Nebraska. Everybody thought we'd lie down, and they'd get their 600 or 700 yards of offense against us.

"But it didn't happen that way." Watkins said Iowa State's coaches prepared them well. "You always feel you can win," he said. "When we play together, we can beat anybody. I was awfully confident that, whatever Nebraska threw at us, we could handle." Watkins said the defensive display ranked alongside the Cyclones' i kk I Stunning triumph for the scrapbooks rV'ir I BOB NANDEITllE RiBISTER held to 192 yards Saturday. could have played this way in other games, I think we would have had a good shot of going to a bowl game." Goodwin said all the defensive players carried out their assignments.

"The defensive backs came up to give us support," he said. In the days leading to the game, Goodwin said he talked little about a possible upset. "But, in the back of my mind, I was thinking upset," he said. "This game ranks No. 1 with me in my Iowa State career.

I don't feel I was really a part of it when we won at Oklahoma two years ago." At that time, Goodwin was a member of Iowa State's special teams. M4m, Lcrs of tlie Iowa State sideline party -aid they thoucht the Huskers had a few linemen amirped illicitly down-field hut the to ichdow MikkI. Nolmdy figured it would stand alone Not the Milkers, who were takirjZit liard afterward. "It's i V'lhahiv the worst loss I've had suv-e I've been liter Jim ak! That', what vou all a bad loss ISU 19, NEBRASKA 10 NebrHka 3 7 0 km SUM 3 0 0 10, 7 'I FIRST QUARTER FG Stewart 37, 9:46. Drive: 1 1 plays.

60 yards. 5:14. Key plays: Ulrich 32 run. Ulrich 13 pastH from Seller on third down. FG Bennett 33, 5:17 Drive: 9 plays.

56 yards. 4:29 Key plays: Fraier 1 1 run. Brown 19 rut). SECOND QUARTER I FG Stewart 32, 14:23. Drive: 12 66', yards.

5 54 Key play: Seiler 32 run. Lewis 13 pats from Frailer (Bennett 1 1 49 Drive: 7 plays. 80 yards. 2:34. Key ptey.ul Fraier 52 run.

I FG Stewart 45. 5:49. Drive: 13 plays. 46 yards. 6 00 Key play: Seiler 2 run on fourth down, I FG Stewart 30, 1:38 Drive: 7 plays.

27 yards. 3 05. Key play: Patterson 12 pass from Seiler. i FOURTH QUARTER i I Ulrich 2 run (Stewart kick). 10:50 Drive: plays.

80 yards. :42 Key play: Seller 78 run. STATISTICS Nrtrastuj ISU' First downs Rushing Passing Penalty 13 10 3 0 201 a Rushes Yards gained Yards lost Rushing yards 39 217 25 192 7e: 399 26- 373- Passing yards 54 Passes 3 12-0 3-: Offensive plays 51 7K Net yards Gain per play 246 48 399 S4.i Return yards Fumblet-lost 0-0 4-0 Penalties-yards 5-40 JJ3, Punts-average 7 40 9 2 380 Third down efficiency 2 11 6 16 i Sacks by-yards 2 14 Ofl Time of possession 22 45 3713" RUSHING Nebraska raner Brown Jones Lewn Ne. ve. kwattMe 13 92 Sew 14 64 umcn 9 28 Garni 3 8 Patterson jo.

W.ams Knott Ne. Ves. 24 t4 17 105" 8 6 If 6 17 1 4 PASSIM ASl 12 Yds. Yds. 2 0 b.

0 KCCCrYIM Nebraska ICWS Yd. 20 19 IS ha Yds. 2 I 1 13 Parterson TACKLE LEADERS Nebraika P- in 7 Iowa tuts 3 Goodwm 4 1, jr HANSEN Continued from Page ID start. It takes an injury to the No. 1 quarterback and two losses under the No.

2 quarterback. Seiler doesn't really mind playing a back-up role. He doesn't moan or think once about transferring. "I wasn't too confident with the offense for the first three years," he said. "The option was more my style." The Cyclones waited until Seiler's fifth year to haul it out of moth balls.

Here he is, one of the most unlikely heroes in school history. Now that he's tasted glory, Seiler doesn't even wish he had another year or so to relive it. "Five years is a long time," he said. "I think I'm kind of ready to get out." Not a bad way to go out and come in at the same time. "It looked like he'd been playing all year." receiver Chris Spencer said.

"He did an excellent job." More than that. He walked into the history books. Actually, he ran into the history books with a 78-yard dash that helped sew up the game. I've never seen so much green field in my life," said Seiler, who does not shatter stopwatches with his time in the 40-yard sprint. "I don't think I've ever had a breakaway run in my life.

I kept waiting for someone to catch me. Finally, somebody did." They caught him all right, several gulps of air later on the Nebraska 2-yard line. Before Seiler could even catch his breath, Chris lm was putting the Cyclones ahead by more than a touc hdown. BNAM)K1THI KtCISTlH clones' 373 rushing yards. Nebraska was leading the Big Eight Conference in rushing defense entering the game, allowing 1 17.4 yards per game.

Iowa State's Marv Seiler cuts through the Nebraska defensive line on Saturday in Ames. Seiler, in his first start, led Iowa State with 144 of the Cy- boxing judge could have picked the wrong winner. Nebraska's touchdown came on a broken play born of the crealhe juices and athletic genius of Frazier. a true freshman. Frazier squirmed rijjit.

lie slithered left, lie squirmed riKht He whirled and fired a desperation touchdown pass. Jim Walden and a few other mem- and hug the players. For a while it looked as if they'd gotten it the oi her way around. "I pretty much g't attacked." Seiler said "I was just hoping to prt back into the lin ker room. I think I received more today than I ha in my entire life." Why Tins was mh an im nnl-ibly obvious caso of one team dominating another, not even an Olympic A A mm J.

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