St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 101

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1975 SECTION 1-12F 1 lnlyskirS lluM(o)E W-7 By Bill Beck Of The Post-Dispatch Staff COLUMBIA, Nov. 1 Saturday was a "bummer" of a day for the University of Missouri football team and the 68,195 fans who came to Faurot Field hoping to see the Tigers upset unbeaten, No. 3-ranked Nebraska. And it started being a "bummer" late in the first half when the talented Cornhuskers, not content with rudely outmuscling their hosts which they had done since the opening kickoff, also snookered Mizzou with an ancient fake punt "con" carried in coach Tom Osborne's playbook under the title "Bummeroosky." This play turned a Ne- A Bummer 7 It A 7 17 1 Nebraska Missouri NEB FGCovleM NEB Jenkins pass from Fcrrogomo Covlekick MO Golbreoth 1 run Gibbons kick NEB O'Leory 40 run kick failed Thomas 37 pass from Ferrogamo Covle kick Thomas 61 pass from Ferrogamo Coyle Kick A 68,195 STATISTICS Nebraska Missouri 14 18 braska punt into a 40-yard touchdown run by reserve tailback John O'Leary that sent the Cornhuskers out of what had previously been a white-knuckle first half with a 16-7 lead.

This was the fulcrum of a 30-7 Nebraska victory. Momentum, which Missouri had just claimed by turning a Nebraska fumble into a one-yard touchdown vault by tailback Tony Galbreath, went back to the Huskers and quarterback Vince Ferragamo knew just what to do with it. He used momentum and his 9-point cushion to play the Mizzou defense like a violin in the second half. kl J' I I 1 4 in actually if not mathematically. It also left them one chance with victory over national champion Oklahoma, Nov.

15. Nebraska, 8-0, is gazing at a bigger carrot. If the Huskers can beat Oklahoma Nov. 22, they can win the Big Eight title and an Orange Bowl invitation is theirs by contract. It was a "bummer" for Missouri in many ways and not the kind of game the Tigers wanted to put on for the millions watching on ABC television.

"Bummeroosky" was humiliation enough. Imagine being gulled by a trick so ancient that coach Al Onofrio recalled it had been used by Arizona State when he was coaching there in the late 1940s. Worse than that was the fact the Cornhuskers picked on each one of the Missouri points of pride and systematically pulled them apart. The Tigers had prided themselves on the fact they could move the ball on the ground against anybody. The Cornhuskers responded by holding them to 71 yards rushing and limiting Tony Galbreath, 230-pound Missouri tailback and co-captain to a mere 36 in 15 attempts.

Galbreath, who has been battling a heel injury, may not have been at full speed but he was close. The Tigers had prided themselves in their ability to protect quarterback Steve (Zark) Pisarkiewicz when he dropped back to pass. Nebraska's famed blackshirts that's what the defenders are called even though Saturday they wore white sacked Zark nine times for 55 yards. The Tigers had prided themselves on their antiseptic kicking eame. But the Huskers blocked a Jim Goble ount to set up their first touchdown and converted boo-boos by Tiger punting teams into two other TDs those two second half bombs.

One of these followed a fumble after a "fair catch" signal by freshman Leo Lewis. Missouri lost more than the game. Tackle Keith Marrissey is out for the season with ligament damage to his knee. Fullback John Blakeman vows he can come back, but with hyper-extended ligaments of the knee, he might not. If there was a bright spot for Mizzou, it was Pisarkiewicz who produced 151 yards passing (12 completions in 27 attempts).

He was intercepted once and that cost Missouri a touchdown. And, in view of the score, Missouri's defense was improved, too, even though the Tigers stuck with the 5-2 that had betrayed them before. The only score Nebraska made without help was that first field goal. The Cornhuskers drove 64 yards to set that one up. Visions of a high-scoring game (most experts thought it would be) evaporated when the Tigers won the toss and couldn't march, especially on the ground.

Pisarkiewicz passes got them as far as the Cornhusker 36 but they wound up punting from the 44 when Zark was sacked, by Cornhusker tackle Jerry Weid for an eight-yard loss. Then the Huskers, with Ferragamo showing his See MIZZOU, Page 4 First downs Rushes-vards Passing yards Return yards Punt Fumbles-lost 55-237 136 28 8-17-0 7-35 2-2 47-71 151 7 12-29-1 10-34 3-1 5-29 5-54 Penalties-yards INDIVIDUAL LEADERS RUSHING Nebraska, Anthony 1545, Davis 15-49, O'Leory 10-79. Missouri, Golbreoth 15-36, Brown 9-34. RECEIVING Nebraska, Thomas 2-98, O'Leary 2-6. Missouri, Grossart 5-72, Marshall 2-31, Galbreath 3-36.

PASSING Nebraska, Ferragamo 8-17-0, 136 yards. Missouri, Pisarkiewicz 12-27-1, 151. He sent tailback Monte Anthony and fullback Tony Davis into Mizzou's soft underbelly for just enough time-consuming short yardage to lay the Tigers open to the bomb. He fired two, one of 37 yards and the other for 61, to speedy wide receiver Bobby Thomas to put the game out of Missouri's reach. That made three touchdown passes for Ferragamo who earlier fired a five-yard bullet to tight end Brad Jenkins to make it 100, Nebraska in the first quarter.

Specialist Mike Coyle had capped the Cornhuskers' first possession with a 30-yard field goal. At any rate, Ferragamo, who completed eight of 17 passes for 136 yards, was named offensive player of the game. The defeat, Missouri's third in eight games and second in league play, doomed the Tigers' Big Eight title chances actually if not mathematically. It also left them once chance plete. Fitzgerald's protest of offensive pass HMMMM.

Nebraska split end Bobby Thomas battles Missouri cornerback Rob Fitzgerald for a first-quarter pass that was incom interference was rejected. (Post-Dispatch Photo by Jim Forbes) 'Fein? A 'Bymmoreosfey1 By Jeff Meyers Of the Post-Dispatch Staff COLUMBIA, Nov. 1 Everybody was certain of three things on the University of Nebraska's successful fake punt Saturday at Faurot Field. No. 1: the center snapped the ball to someone.

No. 2: John O'Leary somehow scored a 40-yard touchdown on the play. No. 3: Everything in between Nos. 1 and 2 was a blur, especially to the University of Missouri.

"Let's see now," a man said in the press box. He picked up a sugar cookie and an oatmeal cookie. "The sugar cookie is Tony Davis (blocker on the play). He gets the snap and gives the ball to the oatmeal cookie, which is O'Leary (the upback)." The oatmeal cookie spun around and headed toward the left side of Missouri's punt coverage team. Enter the winesap apple.

"The apple," the man said, "was Bob McRoberts (MU defensive end)." The apple and the oatmeal cookie nearly collide, but the oatmeal cookie slides down the table toward the soda machine. Touchdown. The nationally third-ranked Cornhuskers call the play the "bummeroosky" after its originator, Houston Oilers coach Bum Phillips, who gave it to Nebraska assistant Jerry Moore three years ago. It failed the Cornhuskers in 1973, and was stored in their playbook until the second quarter Saturday. Leading 10-7, the Huskers were stalled at the Missouri 40-yard line and lined up for an apparent punt.

But the ball went to Davis instead of punter Randy Lessman. Davis slipped the ball between the legs of O'Leary, who was in a crouch, three yards in front of him. At this point, nobody knew who had the ball, except the Cornhuskers. The Tigers surely didn't know what was going on. The 68,195 fans must have thought somebody ate the pigskin.

The sports writers in attendance raced for the television set to check out the instant replay, and found out that the American Broadcasting Co. cameramen were as much in the dark as everyone else. What most observers watched was Davis and three other blockers take off toward the right sideline and yell "reverse!" O'Leary whirled, faced his end zone, and then scooted around the left side. He said hello to McRoberts, who mistook him for a blocker and brushed him aside. From there, he waltzed into the end zone to the tune of "There's No Place Like Nebraska," as played by the Cornhusker band.

The Tigers had been out in the cornfields on the play. "I don't know where they were, but they sure weren't on the football field," O'Leary said. "They weren't ready for the play at all. That guy (McRoberts) thought I was a blocker and tried to get rid of me." The Huskers practice the play at least once a day and, O'Leary said, "It even fools our defense." The play was sent in by Nebraska coach Tom Osborne, who let some other people in on the ploy the officials. "The officials said they were glad we told them about it because it's easy to call a play like that dead," Osborne said.

"I decided to use it at that time because we were beginning to lose our momentum. We got the execution, and that was it." Osborne said the play "saved the first half for us," and the turning point of the second half occureed when Nebraska quarterback Vince Ferragamo threw a 37-yard touchdown pass to split end Bobby Thomas late in the third quarter. "We went ahead 23-7 and sealed tle game," said Osborne. Thomas, who runs the 40-yard dash in 4.4 seconds, put the game out of reach of the Tigers when he hauled in a 61-yard bomb from Farragamo in the fourth quarter. On both his touchdowns, Thomas beat corner-back Rob Fitzgerald, who had been playing an exceptional game.

"He's a good defensive back," Thomas said. "He had some good drops and he was playing me tight in the first half. It took a while, but I was able to run by him in the second half." The reason Thomas shot into the clear was the faking of Ferragamo. On each pass, Farragamo pumped once to freeze the defense. "They were reading my eyes," said Ferragamo, who has brown eyes and a fuzzy beard as well as a good arm.

While Thomas was complimenting Fitzgerald, he wanted to point out that "nobody Missouri has is as good as Dave Butterfield." The Nebraska left cornerback, Butterfield made two exceptional plays to perhaps turn the game around. He batted down a Tony Galbreath-to-Henry Marshsll halfback pass in the third quarter and intercepted a pass to Marshall in the end zone in the fourth period. "the halfback pass was the same as the one we saw in films," Butterfield said. "It developed the same way. I hung back and waited and was able to come up in front of Marshall and slap the ball away." THE LAST STRAW.

Dave Butterfield's end-zone interception, in front of Henry Marshall, killed off Missouri's last chance to score. (Post-Dispatch Photo by Scott C. Dine) college football 111 DDUD Badgers' Sitting Blackman's Contract Extended To 1977 MADISON, Nov. 1 Unbeknownst to most. University of Illinois football coach Bob Blackman has signed a contract that will run until January 1977.

The university had made no announcement of the move that was made last spring. The thought had been that Blackman this season was working on the fifth year of a five-year contract that he had signed when leaving Dartmouth. warm day before more than 78,000 Badger fans here. There were two reasons for the demise of the Illini. One was Wisconsin tailback Billy Marek, one of 45 players from Illinois on the Badgers' roster.

The other reason was freshman defensive back Ken Dixon, who in his first start intercepted three Steger passes. Marek is an unlikely looking superstar. He's short just 5-8. And he's bald. "You can't have everything," laughed the man who Saturday became the leading career rusher in Badger football history.

His 189 yards on 39 carries against Illinois gave him a career total of 3250 yards pushing him 38 yards ahead of Alan Ameche. It was Marek who was either directly, or indirectly, responsible for Wisconsin's three touchdowns. After Illinois had taken a 3-0 lead on its See ILLINI, Page 9 As Blackman sat on a table in front of his team's dressing room, defensive tackle John DiFeliciantonio was carried out on a stretcher. DiFeliciantonio had suffered a head injury in the first half of Saturday's game. He had stood on the sidelines for a few minutes of the second half and had become sick and gone to the locker room.

He had become sicker and now was being carried to an ambulance that would take him to a Madison hospital. He spent Saturday night there because of a concussion. There were other injuries as well. Late in the game, quarterback Kurt Steger suffered a back injury; the extent of that injury isn't known. Earlier, defensive back Jim Stauner injured an arch.

He did not play in the second half and may not be ready for next week's game against the Buckeyes. All things considered, it seemed as if the Illinois season had ended on this bright and By Doug Grow Of the Post-Dispatch Staff MADISON, Nov. 1 How soon they forget. A week ago, after the University of Illinois football team had upset Michigan State, Illini coach Bob Blackman had been mobbed by quote-hungry reporters. Saturday he gave a press conference and nobody came.

The Illini were beaten, 18-9, by the University of Wisconsin and a slim hope of staying in the Big Ten Conference race as well as reporters had passed by. "It's more important for people to hear what John (Wisconsin coach John Jardine) has to say," said Blackman as he looked for faces that weren't there. Blackman sipped on a soda and shook his head at the signs of defeat that were everywhere. The Illini now are 3-2 in the Big Ten and 4- 4 overall records Wisconsin also has. More important, Illinois now must play Successive home games against Ohio State and Notre Dame 31, Navy 10 Cincinnati 28, Houston 23 Temple 23, Dayton 10 Illinois St.

27, Northern Illinois 10 SOUTHWEST Texas 30, SMU 22 Baylor 24, TCU 6 SOUTH Georgia Tech 21, Duke Florida St. 43, Clemson 7 Penn St. 15, Maryland 13 Wake Forest 21, North Carolina I Tennessee 28, Colorado St. 7 Florida 31, Auburn 14 Georgia 28, Richmond 24 Kentucky 23, Tulane 10 Vanderbilt 17, Virginia 14 West Virginia 38, Kent St. 13 Appalachian 22, Citadel 17 Virginia Tech 24, William Mary 7 Mississippi 17, LSU 13 North Carolina St.

28, South Carolina 21 WEST Air Force 33, Army 3 California 28, L'SC 14 New Mexico 23, Texas-El Paso 3 Utah St. 27, Wyoming 21 Oregon 26, Washington St. 14 Stanford 28, Oregon St. 22 Washington 17, UCLA 13 Arizona 36, Brigham Young 20 Arizona St. 40, Utah 14 NIGHT GAMES Texas Tech 28, Rice 24 E.

Carolina 21, Furman Memphis St. 13, Wichita 7 Alabama 21, Miss. St. 10 So. Miss.

43, Lamar 3 AREA Nebraska 30, Missouri 7 Wisconsin 18, Illinois i Colorado College 34, Washington, U. 14 Rose-Hulman 40, Principia Drake 38 Southern Illinois 27 BIG EIGHT Colorado 28, Iowa St. 27 Kansas 28, Kansas St. 0 Oklahoma 27, Oklahoma St. 7 BIG TEN Iowa 24, Northwestern 21 Ohio St.

24, Indiana 14 Purdue 20, Michigan St. 10 Michigan 28, Minnesota 21 MIAA Northeast Mo. 27, Central Mo. 12 Lincoln 28, Missouri 26 Southeast Mo. 41, Northwest Mo.

7 Southwest Mo. 16, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 13 EAST Brown 24, Princeton 16 Columbia, 42, Cornell 19 Yale 16, Dartmouth 14 Harvard 21, Perm 3 Boston U. 3, Holy Cross 0 Lehigh 38, Colgate Delaware 14, Villanova 13 Boston College 21, Miami Pittsburgh 38, Syracuse 0 MIDWEST Tulsa 38, Louisville 14 Ball St. 27, Bowling Green 20 Youngstown 15, Eastern Michigan 14 Central Michigan 34, Marshall 0 Miami (O.) 35, Toledo 21 Ohio U. 24, Western Michigan 10 Coveted: lues Tie Swarthmore Ends Losing Ways, 16-14 SWARTHMORE, Nov.

1 (AP) Bruce Leinberger scored two touchdowns to lead Swarthmore to a 16-14 victory over Muhlenberg, snapping one of the nation's longest collegiate football losing streaks at 34 games. 91-1 Shot Wins CHICAGO, Nov. 1 (AP) Winter Fox, a 91-1 shot owned by William S. Farish III of Houston, won the tenth running of the $133,800 Hawthorne Derby Saturday before 19,494 at Hawthorne. Gassoff returned to the ice, Ververgaert knocked down Andre Boudras' pass with his glove and fired a quick 15-foot shot past goalie Yves Belan-ger.

The Blues tied the score on Red Berenson's power-play goal only 22 seconds after the start of the second period. Garry Unger passed the puck to Berenson for a 40-foot shot that went high off Lockett's glove, bounced behind the goalie and rolled into the net. The game suddenly became wide open with Vancouver's Gerry O'Flaherty being stopped by Belanger on a By Gary Mueller Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The Blues had to come from behind three times to gain a 3-3 tie with the Vancouver Canucks in a National Hockey League game on Saturday night at The Arena. The tie kept the Blues and Canucks deadlocked for second place in the ConnSmythe Division, each with nine points, five behind the pace-setting Chicago Black Hawks. Despite being soundly outplayed in the first period, Vancouver came eft on top, 1-0, on a power-play goal by Dennis Ververgaert at 17 minutes and 10 seconds of the period.

The Blues had a 13-5 edge in shots on goal, but couldn't score against Vancouver goalie Ken Lockett, despite a few juggling acts by Lockett, who was making only his second start of the season. The Blues got into trouble when Bob Gassoff and Chuck Letley each incurred minor penalties within 21 seconds of each other. The Canucks didn't get a shot on goal during the 99 seconds they had the two-niin edge, but five seconds after clear breakaway and Lockett stopping Lefley on a breakaway. On each breakaway, O'Flaherty and Lefley had clear sailing all the way into the goalie from the center red line. Lefley, who already has scored four shorthanded goals this season, had his breakaway while the Blues had a man in the penalty box.

Rookie Rick Blight gave the Canucks a 2-1 lead at 8:28 of the second period, fighting off Lefley and lifting a backhander over Belanger at the very mfcment a tripping penalty to Bob Gassoff expired. Derek Sanderson, making his St. Louis debut in a Blues uniform, tied the score with only eight seconds left in the second period. Sanderson was inserted at right defense only seconds earlier by Blues coach Garry Young who wanted to go with four forwards in the final seconds of the period, flicked a quick wrist shot past Lockett. Sanderson, who also had scored a goal in Boston on Thursday in his first game after being acquired from the New Yourk Rangyrs in ex-See BLUES, Page 9 i fi- rr-ii rt t- -ii.