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I I 1 Ir I FB I II III ebraskas-Broken May tracks Ukianoma ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 1 A pons IOB MOEG, Editor Nov. 26, 1971 PAGES 1 IOB By Bill Seek Of Ihe Pott-Dispatch Staff NORMAN, Nov. 26-As the newspapers say, national champion Nebraska came from behind in the last minute and 38 seconds here yesterday to defeat Oklahoma, 35-31 on tailback Jeff Kinney's fourth touchdown of the afternoon. The game caused the Orange Bowl sponsors to celebrate, the Sugar Bowl sponsors to weep and President Richard M.

Nixon to make two expensive long-distance telephone calls (holding for a half hour on one of them). It was a game in which an Owen Field record crowd of 63,385 surely got its six bucks worth, but for all the tumult and shouting, it turned on one homely little broken play with time running out in the fourth quarter. Jerry Tagge, Nebraska's S-foot-2, 215-pound quarterback, couldn't help grinning like an idiot as he described the play afterward and at that moment, Tagge looked pretty funny, anyhow. He had been thrust under the shower by Us Cornhusker teammates and while he was there, Nebraska Gov. J.

J. Exon had reached in to slap red velvet hat oa Tagge's streaming head. Tagge still wore the governor's hat along with wet clothes as he told how, with less than four minutes remaining and Nebraska trailing, 31-28, the Cornhuskers final drive seemed to have run out of steam on the Oklahoma 46-yard line. "Our whole game plan was not to fall into a third-down and long yardage situation against Oklahoma," said Tagge. "When you do that, they play a three-man line and send everybody and his sister back on pass defense.

"So here we are looking at a third-down and eight and we're too far out to think field goal. And if we turn the ball over we might never get it back, so I called an "all hook" pattern with four receivers down. That means they go down about 10 to 12 yards and then hook back. "It should have worked because their middle linebacker (Steve Aycock) should have gone to one side and then I could have thrown to the othtr. Instead, he dropped straight What about spectacular Greg Pruitt? The little Oklahoma right halfback was shadowed constantly by Willie Harper, Nebraska's All-America candidate at end, that he was held to 57 yards rushing and no touchdowns.

The most prolific runner of the day was Kinney, with 171 yards on 30 carries. He had 21 trips for 140 yards in the second half. Mildren got 130 yards in 31 carries to become the first Big Eight quarterback in history to run for more than 1000 yards in a season. He has 1098. In addition, Mildren completed five of 10 passes for 137 yards.

The Cornhuskers, wno bagged the Big Eight title with their victory, are headed for the Orange Bowl and a New Year's Day date with Alabama. Oklahoma will meet Auburn in the Sugar Bowl. But in the first half, Nebraska didn't look -much like it intended to win. Except for Rodgers's punt return TD and a 54-yard drive to start the second quarter for Kinney's first touchdown, which gave the TURN TO PAGE COL 1 down at the Sooners' 35. That made it possible for the Cornhuskers to continue the drive which was capped when Kinney dived into the end zone from the 2 for the points that won the game.

Almost everyone said that the winner of the titanic clash between Nebraska, the nation's No. 1-ranked team and Oklahoma, No. 2, would have to score first as well as last and that's just what Nebraska did. But throughout, the Sooners remained as dangerous as 11 puppies on a new rug. They led, 17-14, at the half, dropped behind, 28-17, at one point in the third quarter before narrowing the gap to 28-24, and then jumped into the lead again, 31-28, before the Huskers' final march.

Nebraska's first touchdown came on a 72-yard punt return by Rodgers, after which Kinney scored on lunges of one yard, three yards, one yard and two yards. The Sooners opened with a 30-yard field goal by John Carroll and then got a pair of three-yard runs from quarterback Jack Mil-dren plus Mildren touchdown pass of 24 and 16 yards to wide receiver John Harrison. back and I had no place to throw," Tagge said. "So I started running for the sidelines. Then I noticed that Johnny Rodgers (slotback) had started something, too.

He was drifting right with me. So I popped him right between two linebackers and, thank God, he caught it. When you've got a great receiver and a smart receiver, things like that are possible." Tagge's pass was no thing of beauty-low and sinking and Rodgers made a falling, shoestring grab. The Important thing was that the connection gained II yards and a first Vikings (8-2-0) in the NFC's Central Division. Kansas City, now also 7-3-1, also is in second place, behind the Oakland Raiders (7-1-2) in the American Football Conference's Western Division.

"They were sure lucky," said Kansas City poach Hank Stram. "I know they're a good team, but they were still lucky." Steve Owens carried 22 times for 79 yards as he moved within two yards of the Detroit rushing record of 872 yards set by Nick Pietro-sante in 1960. Owens scored one touchdown. Ed Podolak scored all three Kansas City touchdowns, but he was a one-man Star receiver Otis Taylor caught only two passes, and both of them were in Kansas TURN TO PAGE 2, COL. 1 ington Redskins In the National Football Conference's Eastern Division.

In the only other National Football League game yesterday, Landry passed the Detroit Lions to a 32-21 victory over the visiting Kansas City Chiefs. Early in the second quarter of the Detroit-Kansas City game, a Landry pass bounced off the chest of Chiefs' defender Johnny Robinson into the waiting arms or Lions tight end Charlie Sanders, who was lying flat on his back. "I thought to myself that if that's the way things are going to go, maybe I ought to throw more," said Landry, who completed 15 of 22 passes for 225 yards and two touchdowns. The victory boosted Detroit's record to 7-3-1, good for second place behind the Minnesota From Peet-Dlspateb Wire Services DALLAS, Nov. 26 Tommy Prothro got the message right away.

Greg Landry took a little longer. Prothro, coach of the Los Angeles Rams, watched the Dallas Cowboys' Isaac Thomas return the opening kickoff for an 89-yard touchdown and made a mental note that resulted in a successful onside kick later in the game. "We thought the onside kick had a good chance to work," said Prothro. "The opening kickoff influenced me, too." But Prothro's bag of tricks ran dry when a pass was overthrown on a fake field goal and when a third-down punt didn't exactly fool the Cowboys, who defeated the Rams, 28-21, and moved one full game ahead of the idle Wash Pat Sullivan Wins Heisman Sports On Radio, TV TODAY PRO BASKETBALL: Baltimore at Atlanta, 1 p.m. (KTVI) SATURDAY COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Army vs.

Navy. Philadelphia, 12:15 p.m. (KTVI): Auburn vi. Alabama, Birmingham, 3 p.m. (KTVI).

HOCKEY: Bluea vs. Boston, The Arena, p.m. (KMOX radio). BOWLINd: Brunswick World Open, Glendale Heights, 111., 4 p.m. (KSD-TV).

BOXING: Videotape of Ray White vs. Jlmrnle DuPree, Inglewood, 9 p.m. (KDNL-TV). Heisman Trophy Voting NEW YORK. Nov.

26 (AP) The tabulation of Voting, with player, team, first-place votes and total points, for the 1971 Heisman Trophy: Pat Sullivan. Auburn 355 1597 Ed Marlnaro, Cornell 295 1445 Greg Pruitt, Oklahoma 64 586 Johnny Musso, Alabama 23 365 Lydell Mitchell. Penn State 29 251 Jack Mildren, Oklahoma 35 208 Jerry Tagge, Nebraska 23 168 Chuck Ealey, Toledo 31 137 Walt Patulakl. Notre Dame 8 121 Eric Allen. Michigan State Is 109 Bill Taylor.

M'chlgan 12 86 Bobby Moore, Oregon 6 50 Terry Beasley, Auburn 2 50 Sonny Blzklller, Washington 3 45 See Me AL FINE Now for a New '72 Chevrolet From Poet-Dispatch Wire Service AUBURN, Ala. Pat Sullivan was too stunned to move when he was told he had won the 1971 Heisman Trophy as the nation's outstanding college football player. "I never thought I had a chance," said the Auburn University quarterback. "I just sat there." Terry Beasley, Auburn's split end and Sullivan's favorite passing target, reacted quite differently. "I jumped off the floor about 10 feet when I heard it," said the 5-foot-ll Beasley.

"I live in a trailer and I nearly jumped through the ceiling." Sullivan, who had been sequestered in a local motel awaiting the announcement, received the official word by telphone from an official of the Downtown Athletic Club of New York during halftime ceremonies of the nationally televised Georgia-Georgia Tech game. "It's the biggest surprise I've ever had," said Sullivan. "I just don't know what to say, I really don't." Others present at the motel with Sullivan, his parents and his wife and daughter, weren't at a loss for words. "Nobody eould have won it and deserved it more, said Auburn University president Harry M. Phillpot.

"He is a great football player and a great boy in every respect." Auburn coach Ralph (Shug) Jordan said he thought Sullivan deserved to win the honor, but said he was worried that the award might go to someone else. "The Heisman is like the weather," said Jordan before the announcement, "There is nothing we can do about it." Sullivan has led Auburn to a record, with a season-ending game on tap tomorrow against Alabama and a Sugar Bowl date against Oklahoma set for Jan. 1. lit I the Tigers to 25 victories in 29 games, passing for 1891 yards. He has thrown 26 touchdown passes this season, giving him a National Collegiate Athletic Association career record of 71 TD passes.

Last season Sullivan led the nation in total offense with 285.6 yards a game and finished sixth in the Heisman balloting. This year he polled 355 first-place votes and 1597 points to 295 first-place votes and 1445 points for runner-up Ed Marinaro of Cornell. AL FINE NO PRICE INCREASE HERE! $AVE NOW! Pro Football SUNDAY Cardinals at New York Giants, noon Atlanta at Minnesota Baltimore at Oakland Cleveland at Houston Denver at Pittsburgh New England at Buffalo New Orleans vs. Green Bay at Mil- San Diego at Cincinnati San FranclMO at New York Jets Washington at Philadelphia BRENNAN'S Special Sale on '71 Demonstrators! FIRST OF FOUR. Nebraska's Jeff Kinney leaps over the Oklahoma defense from the Sooners I -yard line as he scores a second-quarter touchdown for the Huskers yesterday at Norman, Okla.

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