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Beatrice Daily Sun from Beatrice, Nebraska • Page 9

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Colorado Shocks Huskers Sooners Keep Their Victory Streak Going Oklahoma Capitalizes On Break To Oust Texas 14 To 13 DALLAS, Oklahoma's Slashing red shirts stormed on undefeated and untied in college football's greatest winning streak Saturday with a breathless, last- minute 14-13 victory over Texas. Texas Bill Porter, back to kick in the lengthening shadows of the Cotton howl, could only fall on a low pass from center, giving the ball to Oklahoma on the Texas 11- yard line, this paved the deciding factor in the Sooners 1 magnificent victory, their twenty-fourth straight over a period of a little more than two years. Araund Right End Billy Vessels, keyman In the lacerating ground game of the Oklahomans, dnsh around right end for a touchdown and Jim Weatherall, the Texan who plays tackle for the Sooners, kicked the extra point that threw a crowd of 75,908 into pandemonium. Minutes before, slender Bobby Dillon, Texas' ace safety man, had skittered 50 yards with an intercepted pass to give Texas a 13-7 lead. Texas had 'em but they got away.

Twice the Longhorns smashed futilely with a bean- shooter's distance of the Oklahoma goal line. MANHATTAN, Kas-, Twice beaten Missouri opened its Big Seven football campaign with a decisive but unimpressive 28-7 victory over the Kansas State Wildcats Saturday. The Tigers of Mizzou scored a touchdown in each quarter and were incontrol at all times but their ball handling was bad and their mistakes numerous. A crowd of 15,500 saw the game. Quarterback Phil Klein flipped a pass to Harold Carter that! covered 36 yards for the first touchdown late in the opening fromperiod.

The other touchdowns were by Fullback Bob Deneke from six Inches out on the first play of the second quarter; by Bob Spoenman on a 12 yard pass from Klein in the the third, and by Ed Stephens from the one-foot mark in the fourth. AMES, la. A running game triumphed over a passing game here Saturday as a pair of hard- driving Kansas backs hammered through and. over Iowa State for a 33-21 Jay hawk victory. Big Seven Lead The victory, watched in a warm October sun by a perspiring record homecoming crowd of 19,500, gave Kansas the lead in the Big Seven conference race with two victories in as many starts.

A Strong Schuyler Whips Wilber 40-6 (The Bnn'i Own WILBER Walter Wohler's injury-riddled Wolverines suffered another 'defeat here Friday night when they bowed to the powerful and big Schuyler team 40-6. Schuyler tallied its first touchdown early in the first quarter when Kramer scooted around Wilber's right end for 10 yards and a touchdown. The second touchdown of the quarter came when Skarda intercepted a Wolverine pass and streaked over the double-chalk mark from 28 yards "out. A short plunge by Fourjik and a conversion by Kramer, gave Schyler a 20-0 half-time lead. Skarda went 30 yards on a reverse as the second period opened and Best plunged through Wilber's line from two yards out to give Sqhuyler a comfortable third- period lead.

Wilber made good a fourth-period threat when Dick Jelinek bucked the Schuyler two-yard line for Wilber's lqae-v tally of the game. The touchdown plunge climaxed a 75-yard downfield drive. Coach Wohler's still has sev- e.ral of his best back sidelined by injuries and dotsn't expect them to be back in top shape for several weeks yet. K-State 9 Beaten By Freshmen LINCOLN, sity of Nebraska freshmen grid- ders beat Kansas State freshmen 34-12 here Saturday. The Nebraska freshmen scored In every in the fourth period Kansas State freshmen scored in the second and again in the fourth.

Kansas State was threatening again 'as the game ended with Kansas State in possession of the ball on the Nebraska 6 yard line. Sam Sarette, halfback from Berwick, scored for Nebraska in the first quarter and in the third. Harold Gallagher of Hot Springs, S. scored. In the second period and Don Vogt of Watertown, S.

and Dennis Emanuel of North Bend, scored for Nebraska in the final period. Bobby Decker of Omaha kicked the extra points. Scoring for Kansas State were Rex Wade of Hoi ton, In the second quarter and Veryl Switzer of Bogue in the fourth. Switzer scored on a 40-yard run around left end after Gerald Cashman of Holton, had intercepted a Nebraska pass. Both K-State tries for extra point failed.

In statistics, Nebraska made 19 first downs to K-State's ,10, net yards gained by rushing: Nebraska 316, K-State 135. Three Beatrice boys were suited up for the game. They were Duane Gay, Max Kenedy and Bud Robertson. Alvo Runs Over Liberty 47 To 0 (The Sun'i Own Service) six-man team blanked Coach Ron Anderson's Liberty squad here Friday night 47-0, in a contest which saw the Liberty boys tremendously outweighed. Alvo started rolling in the early minutes of the game and scored in every quarter.

The first touchdown came when Liberty fumbled the ball deep in its own territory and Alvo recovered. The visitors were over the goal line two plays later. They added another touchdown in the same period; three more in the second period, another pair in the third period and two more in the fourth quarter. Liberty threatened only once That came in the third quarter when Vern Craig intercepted an Alvo pass and got to the four-yard stripe. The threat quickly ended as the heavier Alvo boys stopped Liberty cold for four straight downs.

Score by periods: Alvo 12 7 13 Liberty 00 Omaha University Doane20-6 OMAHA The of Joe Arenas, Rudy Rotella and Johnny Potts built a 20 to 6 victory for Omaha university of Doane here Saturday. Each of Omaha's three touchdowns started with a pass from Arenas. In the first quarter, he tossed a 10 yard try to Rudy Rotella. In the second, a 32 yard sling to Rotella was followed by a lateral from Rotella to Potts who skipped two yards to the.goal; An eight yard pass to Rotella did the job for the last counter. Bob Provorse scored Doane's lone touchdown.

Stops Dick Punches Ex-Wymore Star Makes One Buff TD BOULDER, rado's sophomore-loaded Bisons smashed Nebraska's dream of football empire Saturday by whipping the unbeaten Cornhuskers, 2849, in Big-Seven football tilt before a record crowd of 25,000. Kept Ahead Nebraska, a winner last week over Minnesota, was rated at least a 1 touchdown better than Colorado and its backers came here with high hopes for an undefeated season. But Colofado kept ahead all the way. The vaders' last hopes died late In the final period when Bill Mueller Army Routes Michigan By 27-6 Score Black Nights Held By Wolverines During 1st Half NEW YORK, to a 6-6 standstill for 30 rugged minutes, Army's awesome football forces turned on the power in the second half to run up a 27 to 6 score on the Big Ten co-champions I Fumbles lost 2 fumbled behind his goal line and tackle Dick Punches pounced on the ball for the winners' fourth touchdown. the Dick Punches who fell on the ball none other than the former Wyrtiore High school letic Punches a senior Colorado university and played with the Buffaloes last year when they Invaded Cornhuskerland.

The touchdown play wasn't the only time Punches gave the Huskers headaches, either. He spent a good deal of his time In the Ne braska backfleld. Punches It the ron of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Punches of Wymore.

Colorado scored twice In the second period. Sophomores Zack Jordan and Woody Shelton teamed on a 29-yard pass play for the first. Powerful Merwin Hodel ran 33 yards for the second counter, ending a burst that carried 67 yards in four plays. STATISTICS First dowhs 15 Rushing yardage 236 Passing yardage 109 Passes attempted 23 Passes completed 10 Passes intercepted 4 Punts 7 Punt'average 47.3 Neb. Colo.

before 67,076 in Yankee stadium Saturday. Upset Started An upset of majestic proportions appeared in the making when the Wolverines, fighting like their namesake to avenge three previous defeats by the Cadets, scored first in the opening quarter and barely missed a field goal which would have put them in front again early in the third period. But then the big Army machine began to roll, spearheaded by a Yards penalized 60 Nebraska rallied late in the second quarter on an 83-yard drive with Bob Reynolds taking Fran Nagle's short pass in the end zone for a touchdown. Reynolds put the Cornhuskers very much back in the ball game on the second running play of the third period when he raced 81 yards for a touchdown. The steamed-up home club bounced back with a 52-yard drive 1 climaxed by Hodel's three-yard bSng uUback scoring plunge shortly ed'Al Pollard from Los Punches put on cHncher Ne- And before the shouting crowd well known what was happening, the West Pointers had smashed across three touchdowns in a matter of five minutes and threatened to turn the game into a one- sided rout.

Plymouth Defeats Virginia 55 To 12 (The Owa Servioa) chalked up its fourth win of the season here Friday night by slaughtering Virginia 55-12. The victory gives Plymouth a season's record of four wins and one loss, the defeat coming from Alexandria. Wurm led Plymouth's scoring spree with three touchdowns. Two of his tallies came in the final quarter. One was from four yards, the other a three-yard plunge.

The fleet back 1 scored his other touchdown when he rambled 20 yards to pay dirt in the second period. Other touchdowns were scored by Gummert Xvho made a pair on 40 and 20-yard runs; Ressner who made two, on 65-yard runs and Niemeier who intercepted a Virginia-pass and went 35 yards to cross the double chalk mark. Virginia's TD's were made by Reiman who ran 35 yards and Gordon Braun' who rambled 40 yards. Plymouth's next game is with Chester next Friday night on the Plymouth gridiron. Score by periods: Plymouth 21 20 0 Virginia 066 braska fought to its final score with three minutes remainning when Reynolds took Nagle's 11- yard pass in the end zone at the end of a 77-yard march.

Sophomore Lee Venzke helped keep the winners ahead by running his string of points after touchdowns to 11 straight. The victory left Colorado with a .500 average in Big Seven play. two" wins, and two losses. It was Nebraska's first conference game. 16 First Downs Colorado rung up 16 first downs while netting 158 yards on the ground, and 229 yards by passes for a total of 387.

Nebraska made first downs, ran'for .236 yards, and passed 1 for 109 in making its total of net yards gained of 345 Saturday's sellout crowd eclipsed the previous folsom field attendance mark of 22,00 set at the Kansas State homecoming game in 1948. Score by periods: Nebraska 0 6 6 Colorado 0 14 0 Peru State Whips Chadron 12 To 0 CHADRON, Neb. keyed- up Peru State Teachers college eleven outcharged Chadron for a 12-0 victory Saturday before 2,500 homecoming fans. Fired by early success the Peru club smacked Chadron for a first period touchdown by Bob (Red) Wilson from the two capping a 67-yard drive, and then at the opening of the fourth period End Fred Thomas intercepted Johnny Alberta's pass and ran 35 yards to score the other. Marietta, Bellwood Jars Ravens 47-0 (The Snix's Own St.

Joseph's of Beatrice took it on the chin again Friday night when the Red Ravens were defeated 47-0 by Marietta of Bellwood. Marietta scored in ter. They started the game with a 20-poirit scoring spree in the first quarter, adding 13 more points in the second period to take a 33'Q half-time lead. The squad came back during the final two periods, scoring a touchdown in each of the stanzas. Coach Fr.

Jerome Murrayfg hopes of getting his squad back into good physical cpnditlon suffered another setback when Jim Weise, St. Joe back, suffered a twisted knee in the first quarter. The boy had to sit the rest of i the game out, according to Murray, hut should be to go again next Friday. Score by periods: St. Joseph 000 30 13 7 I.ennie Merullo of the Cubs made four errors in one inning in a game in 1342 tq set a for Auto Races Added Attraction Tractor Racps GAGE COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS Beatrice, Nebraska Admission $1.00 Tax Incl.

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