The Times from Shreveport, Louisiana • Page 49

Section Sports Sporty of The Shreveport Times Sunday, Sept. 14, 1975 Page One Outdoors er Fall. 10-7 Fightin' Tig "I said, 'It's up to me, I got to get him 'cause nobody else Jackson later reflected. "I believe he was a little give out. He had his eyes closed, I know he was give out, but you've got to hand it to him he's fast." Thomas was more or less shut off in the second half.

"We got it all adjusted at halftime," said Jackson, who packed a I I- nc 7- TAt -J 8 srz ry. By Bill Mclntyre Times Sports Editor LINCOLN, Neb. The Big Red of Nebraska, rising out of a scarlet background, a capacity 76,259 people wedged into Memorial Stadium, caged Louisiana State's sophomore green Tigers, 10-7, here on a lovely, lukewarm Saturday but don't think "Big" when you review this 197 football opener between the Cornhuskers and Bayou Bengals. Not that there wasn't plenty of beef on the hoof in a mastadonic collision of defensive linemen, but what finally did in the Tigers here in Big Eight country was a 5-foot-8, 162-pound junior split end named Bobby Thomas and a 5-foot-U, 175-pound senior placekicker named Mike (Continued on Page 4-D) import from Bridgeport, who was to pull in four throws for 45 yards, angled on a deep post pattern inside Tiger corner-back Cling Burrell and caught the 5-yard payoff, just inside the backline, from Luck. Coyle, a side-saddle booter, who had misfired on a 27-yard field goal shot less than seven minutes earlier, kicked it out to 7-0.

Nebraska also doubled its first half output when Thomas collared a 41-yard punt from Tiger junior Steve Jackson on the half's final play, broke through a traffic jam and turned on his 4.5 speed for a 57-yard runback to LSU's 14. He was finally brought down by the only Tiger left between him and the goal Jackson. "I thought I might go all the way at the half, but then I knew time was running out so I tried to get out of bounds and stop the clock," said Thomas. "I just couldn't make it in time." LSU Nebraska 0 0 7 7 0 7 t-M gffiS ft 'r0m LUtk (COyl km LSU Lyons 10 run (Moreju kick) A 76,259 i Coyle. Individual ktaders Rushino LSU, Roblskle tM3, Trimble 2-33.

Lvonj 4-20; Nebraska, Davis 16-76, Anthony 9-28, O'Leary 5-25 Passing LSU, Lyons 7-11-59, Moreau 1-1-19; Nebraska, Luck f2(W1; O'LearvO-1-0. Receiving LSU, Dow 2-29, Dunphy 1-14, Lane 1-19; Nebraska, Thomas 4-45, Mallto 2-16, Craig 1-10 (AP Wirephoto) LSU's Charles Alexander (4) Brought Down for No Gain in Second Quarter Nebraska defense rugged as Cornhuskers use field position for 10-7 conquest. Between the constant thrashing and smashing of behemoths scaling upwards of 275 pounds, Thomas and Coyle were putting points on the scoreboard for the Gerry Robichaux en Route to Memphis THE YARDSTICK Nebraska 03 1 LSU 15 7 rry 41-111 57-138 11 If 0 122 9-43 8-39 Fiyftj 5-4 3-1 Lf 3-15 5-52 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards Steamer's Aldridge Has Been in Grizzlies' Den No. 6-ranked Cornhuskers and the Tigers fired back with a third period touchdown by 115-pound quarterback Pat Lyons. And that was the size of it as LSU warmed up forthis week's home opener against Texas and next week's game in Shreveport against Rice.

For almost thirty minutes in the first half, the two clubs rocked back and forth in scoreless exchanges Nebraska converting third down plays with surprising efficiency and LSU spending a sunbathed afternoon getting the football on lst-and-70. Field position? There was none in the game plan offered to LSU. Then, just before intermission, Dave Butterfield pulled in a Steve Jackson punt at the Husker 32 and hauled it clean to the Tiger 34. From there, Nebraska barged into a 7-0 lead on the hit-and-run scrambling of I-backs Monte Anthony and John O'Leary and 214-pound fullback Tony Davis. Husker quarterback Terry Luck kept snapping them off the right side of the attack line behind 255-pound guard Rich Costanzo and 246-pound tackle Steve Hoins.

Seven plays, and they sat at the LSU 5. With 1:24 left in the half, Thomas, an dressing room before the game in Mem-' phis," he recalled of Chicago's last game, "that the team was in trouble. But no one-knew for sure. It was a feeling among the old Fire players who were still with the team (the Fire bellied over in 1974 three games before the season ended). "We didn't know when we got back to." Chicago Sunday.

We had Monday off and then they called a team meeting on Tuesday," he said. "They told us we'd go to other clubs but they didn't say how it would be handled," he related. However it was handled, it worked out to the liking of the Prairie View standout who had helped his college club to two national titles in four years. STEAMER NOTES Mark Ilgenfritz, a two-year pro veteran recently released by the Cleveland Browns, has joined the Steamer and will play in today's game. He's a 6-44 and 255-pound defensive tackle and played at Vanderbilt Sonny Jenkins of the Steamer shares the: WFL lead for interceptions.

The back out of West Virginia has three swipes. MEMPHIS AUen Aldridge sat comfortably in the Delta jet as it winged its way toward this Tennessee city Saturday afternoon. He never let on if he had any of the feelings Custer might have had if he'd been given the opportunity to return to the Little Big Horn. Last time Allen Aldridge went to Memphis, the World Football League entry there took no prisoners, routing Aldridge's Chicago Winds team, 31-7. Two days later, the Winds were quieted for good in the WFL, dropped forever from the league, due to lack of financing.

"I only played on third down situations in that game," recalled the pro veteran from Prairie View who will start this afternoon (2 p.m.) when the Shreveport Steamer takes on Memphis. "Mostly passing situations and I didn't play more than six plays," he recalled of his duty with the Winds' defense. At the time, Aldridge was a "travelin man," something he's just getting away from with the Steamer. This is his first full week with the club and he'll start at defensive end today when the Shreveport-ers (2-4) try to shuck a three-game losing streak against the Grizzlies, who are 4-1 and lead the WFL East. "I'd just been with the Winds three days before the game.

That's why I wasn't used more," he related. Shreveport, when it got the rights to Aldridge, didn't waste any time putting him into service. He arrived in Louisiana Friday of last week, two days after the Winds were dissolved, and was in uniform and in the lineup the following night against Jacksonville. "I was used mostly in passing situations last week, too," he said. But today, Aldridge will get in from the very beginning.

The 30-year-old Texan, who spent five years at Toronto in the Canadian League, feels he's got the Steamer scheme down pat. "After you've been with three clubs it's all pretty basic," he says. That was one reason he was able to move into the Steamer lineup so quickly last week. "We knew we had to stop Memphis' running game," he recalled of his last trip here two weeks ago. "We had to force them out of their game and take their strongest suit away from them." Essentially, that's what the Steamer will have to do today against Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick, John Harvey and Willie Spencer.

Usually, Memphis looks to the run. "On third and less than five you expect them to run," says Aldridge. "And they usually come straight on. They ran about 50-60 plays against us (the Winds) and used only about three sweeps. A lotta misdirection.

The dives and slants are very much of the same power type plays. "It's like the old T-formation, a blocking back followed through the line by a runningback," he remembered. "They hit, hit, hit inside with big backs and then came with a play action pass. Everything they do is basic not much trickery. It's like 'here we he recalled.

What's it like to stop the running of the 238-pound Csonka and the 208-pound Kiick? Aldridge isn't much help in deter mining. "My job is to hit people. It doesn't really matter who. When you're hitting those big backs you can't really think who." But he is convinced that Kiick, although sometimes overshadowed by Csonka, is every bit as dangerous. "Kiick is a runner and receiver," he says.

"He was the leading receiver for the club when they played us. You've always: got to be aware of him," says the 6-foot-3: Steamer. Allen, from Eagle Lake, said that when he joined the WFL after two years with Houston of the NFL and a stint with the Browns and Redskins, he wanted to latch on with Shreveport. "I wanted to play here in the first place," he said. But he had been with Leo Cahill at Toronto for five years and Cahill left Memphis to join the Chicago franchise as general manager just a couple of weeks before it went under.

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