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Dorsett carries 35 times for 227 yards, 3 scores Monday, Octobet 18. 1976 Columbus. Nebraska Columbus Telegram 7 FOOTBALL By GREG AIELLO UPI Sports Writer Poor Pittsburgh. The No. 2- ranked Panthers had lost their two top quarterbacks to injuries within a month and all week long Coach Johnny Majors said he didn't know who would replace them.

What Majors could have been implying by his refusal to name his quarterback was that it might not matter. Remember Tony Dorsett? Majors found someone capable enough to hand the football to Dorsett 35 times Saturday and the Heisman Trophy candidate rushed for 227 yards and scored three touchdowns in leading Pitt- sburgh to its sixth victory without a loss, a 36-19 triumph over Miami of Florida. "This guy under the cir- cumstances has been even more valuable when we needed him," Majors said of Dorsett. "He took a lot of pressure off our quar- terback." Tom Yewcic, a senior walk- on, directed the Panther of- fense to 341 yards, most of it gained by Dorsett. Yewcic threw a 40-yard scoring pass to Dorsett, who also scored on runs of three and 53 yards.

He is now only the second player to rush more than 5,000 yards in his career. It also was Dorsett's 14th straight 100-yardplus rushing game and his sixth career 200-yard- plus game. Pitt's defense forced nine turnovers, including four that resulted in two touchdowns and field goals of 25 and 39 yards by Carson Long. "I don't think Pitt football had a better game in its history," Majors said. In other games involving top 10 teams, No.

1 Michigan beat Northwestern, 38-7, No. 3 Nebraska blanked Kansas State, 51-0, fourth-ranked UCLA trounced Washington State, 62-3, No. 5 Oklahoma defeated Kansas, 28-10, No. 6 Maryland edged Wake Forest, 17-15, Iowa State upset seventh-ranked Missouri, 21- 17, No. 9 Ohio State beat Wisconsin, 30-20, and tenth- ranked Texas Tech defeated Rice, 37-16.

Eighthranked Southern California was idle. Michigan raised its record to 6-0 as Rob Lytle scored two TDs and rushed for 172 yards to move past Ron Johnson into third place on the Wolverines' all-time rushing list. a a i Ferragamo threw four TD passes and Oklahoma took advantage of a third-quarter knee injury to Kansas quarterback Nolan Cromwell to snap a 10-10 tie. Cromwell will be lost for the season. By Unittd Prtis Inttrnationtl Ellt Allegheny 24 WasflJeH 7 Albright 48 Susquhnna 7 Am Inll 20 Ithaca 19 Amherst 7 Bates 3 Boston Coll.

14 W.Va. 3 Brown 28 Cornell II Brdgewlr St It W. Conn 7 C.W. Post 14 Kin 9 i Pt. 0 Canlslus 35 Oswego IS Crngie-Mlln 36 J.Carroll 0 Colgate 17 Princeton 7 Delaware 24 Vlllanova 24 E.

Stroudsbg 54 Manslld 8 Edlnboro 25 Clarion 20 Gettysbg 28 w. Marylnd 0 Grove City 17 Geneva 8 Harvard 17 Dartmouth 10 Holslra 23 Fordham 21 Lycomlng 14 Junlata 13 Mass. 14 Rhode islnd 7 Montclr St. 28 Wm. Patrsn New Hamp 34 Cent.

Conn. 21 Nichols 34 Me. Maritime 33 N.c. Cent 27 Delaware St. 16 Penn St.

27 Syracuse 3 Penn 15 Lafayette 14 Pitt 36 Miami Fla. 19 Rutgers 28 Lehigh 21 Shippnsbg 7 Lock Haven 0 Slppry Rock 42 cal. Pa. 6 S. Conn 27 USCG 6 Trntn St.

21 Seton HII 15 Tults 9 Norwich 7 Upsala 15 Del. valley 9 Wslyn 43 Wrcser Tech 21 SPORTS Scorer sorry it happened but glad it was discovered Sooners top Kansas, Cromwell is lost OMAHA (UPI) The disqualification of state girls golf individual medalist Cathy Curry and her team by the Nebraska School Activities put Ralston's Gigi Fry through one of the worst days in her life. It was Miss Fry who 'marked down a four on the 17th hole at Omaha Benson Park course after hearing 'Miss Curry say she scored a 'six. After Miss Curry signed her 'scorecard, accepted her 'medal and left for home, 'WOW-TV sportscaster John Knicely noticed the 17th hole score of four marked on the final tally sheet. Knicely had accompanied Curry on the 17th hole 'and filmed her taking six shots instead of four.

A quick review of 'the film from the computerized Action-Cam-6 confirmed his suspicions and he reported it. The question was decided by the NSAA after con- sultation with the United States Golf Association. Officials declared Miss Curry must be disqualified under a rule concerning the giving of false information by signing an incorrect card. With Columbus losing the title, Lincoln Southeast, the only Class A Lincoln school to field a team, backed into the championship. Southeast was led by Sue Hergert's 81.

Miss Fry said, "I just feel sick about it. It was an honest mistake on both parts. She said six and for some reason I marked down a four. I knew she had a six because she teed off after me on the last hole and I had a five on 17." Miss Fry says she hopes Miss Curry knows she's really sorry. She said Columbus' deserved to win.

and Miss Curry is "a great Miss Hergert will be awarded the A medalist award, an honor she would have won anyway because Miss Curry recorded an ad- justed score before disqualification of 82. "I'm sorry it had to hap- pen," Miss Hergert said. "But if it was wrong, I'm glad it was brought out in the open." "I would have been so easy for the TV man to turn his back and not say anything. It sort of baffles you. It's hard to figure- why something like that would happen." KANSAS CITY, Mo.

(UPI) There was nothing fifth- ranked Oklahoma wanted more last weekend than revenge for its only football loss in four years, but once the Sooners got it something seemed to be lacking. A year ago, Kansas took advantage of eight Oklahoma turnovers to beat the Sooners 23-3. Oklahoma retaliated Saturday to run its record under coach Barry Switzer to 37-1-2 with a 28-10 Big Eight win over the 18th-ranked Jayhawks. But what was missing was Kansas quarterback Nolan Cromwell. After directing his team to a 10-3 halftime lead, Cromwell was cut down by a knee injury midway through the third quarter with the score tied 10-10 and was lost v-boll tourney begins in Cedar Rapids CEDAR RAPIDS-Action begins tonight in the Goldenrod volleyball tournament to be held in Cedar Rapids.

Play starts at 5:30 with Silver Creek meeting Clarks and a 6:15 it's St. Edward challenging Fullerton. Genoa faces Cedar Rapids at 7 p.m. while Stromsburg is slated against Osceola at 7:45 for the last game. The tournament will be held in the Cedar Rapids High School gym with admission $1.25 for adults and 75 cents for students.

for the season, undergoing surgery on Sunday. Iowa State got itself a big win, knocking off seventh- ranked Missouri 21-17 to run its record to 5-1 and assuring the Cyclones of their best record in four years under Earle Bruce. In other -Big Eight games, third-ranked Nebraska em- barassed Kansas State 51-0 and Colorado scored 10 points in the final 42 seconds to beat No. 20 Oklahoma State, 20-10. This week's action has Iowa State traveling to Colorado; Oklahoma hosting Oklahoma State; Missouri at Nebraska and Kansas at Kansas State.

While Kansas was losing its quarterback Oklahoma lost defensive backs Jerry Anderson and Scott Hill to injuries suffered in the game and maybe offensive tackle Mike Vaughan, too. "I was so happy I couldn't talk with the team after the game," said Iowa State coach Bruce, whose team has had three straight 4-7 season. "It was a heck of a game our biggest win yet." Dexter Green ran' for 214 yards and two touchdowns as the Cyclones built a 21-3 lead and then held on. The victory was finally secured in the closing minutes when a 77- yard Leo Lewis punt return, which would have put Missouri ahead 23-21, was called back by clipping. Oklahoma State coach Jim Stanley wishes a penalty had come along somewhere in the last minute of his team's game.

The Cowboys were leading 10-7 with less than a minute left when OSU's Jerry Cramer intercepted a Jeff Knapple pass in the end zone. But instead of taking a touch- back, which would have given Oklahoma State the ball on the 20, Cramer tried to run the ball out of the end, zone and fumbled it away on the one. Seconds later Jim Kelleher dove in from a yard out to put the Buffaloes ahead and with two seconds left, Colorado added another touchdown on an interception return. Nebraska ran up 475 yards total offense, Vince Ferragamo threw for four touchdowns and the Cor- nhusker defense held Kansas State to 81 yards total offense, including minus 45 rushing. Wm Mary 21 Navy 13 Widener 26 Moravian 9 Williams 13 Bowdoin Yale 37 Columbia 6 South Alabama 20 Tenn.

13 Ala. A8.M 22 Flsk 20 Ga. Tech 28 Auburn 10 Crsn Nwmn 41 Mars HII 16 Clemson 18 Duke 18 Duquesne 22 Cath U. 8 East Carolina 17 VM1 3 Elon 38 Presbyterian 7 Florida 33 Fla. St.

26 Georgia 45 Vanderbilt 0 Grmblng 20 Miss. Val St. 7 Hmpdn-Sydny 15 washiLee 7 Howard 42 Virginia St. 15 Kentucky 21 LSU 7 Loulsvl 36 NE Louisiana 8 La. Tech 37 Lamar 7 Md.

17 Wake Forest 15 Madison 17 Davidson 12 Miss. St. 42 Mmphs St. 33 M. Brown 14 Fla.

AM 14 Murry St. 24 Mid Tenn. 20 Nichlls St. 3 0 N.C. St.

21 No. Carolina 13 Norfolk St. 24 Hampton Inst. 7 N.C. A8.T 37 Md.

Esn Shre 13 28 Emry fl. Hnry 21 Slsbry St. 37 l. Hopkins 0 S.C. St 17 Morgan St.

0 South Carolina 10 Southern 20 Jackson St. 6 So'wstrn La. 27 Furman 16 Tenn. Tech 22 w. Ky.

12 Texas Arl 27 McNeese St. 10 Tulane 23 Army 10 Va. Tech 14 Virginia 10 Wslmnstr 55 Frostbg St. 7 Yngslwn St. 33 Morehed St.

7 Midwest Akron 3 Ball St. 0 Ark. St. 41 SlU-C'dale 10 Ashland 30 Fairmont St. 7 Baker 9 Bethel 7 Bowing Green 17 Kent St.

13 Capital 20 Heidelberg 0 C. Mich. 16 Ind. St. Ind.

13 Cincinnati 16 Tulsa 7-Hope21 Alma 8 III. Wslyn 17 Wash. Mo. 0 Illinois 21 Purdue 17 Indiana 14 Iowa 7 Iowa St. 21 Missouri 17 Kenyon 52 Oberlln 0 Knox 36 Coe 34 Lawrence 24 Lakeland 19 Luther 28 Central 0 Marietta 25 Denlson 7 McPherson 35 Kan.

Weslvn 7 Minnesota 14 Michigan St. 10 Michigan 38 Northwestern 7 Mo. Sthrn 44 Lincoln 0 Mo. Val 35 Cent Meth 7 Nebraska 51 Kansas St. 0 Notre Dame 41 Oregon 0 Norlhwood 21 St.

Norbert 3 No. III. 7 III. St. 3 Ohio U.

28 Miami 0. 14 Ohio Wesleyan 10 Mt. Union 7 Ohio St. 30 Wisconsin 20 Oklahoma 28 Kansas 10 St. Ambrse 30 Mrqutte 0 So.

Dakota 17 Mrngsde 14 St. Dial 36 Macalester 0 Waynesburg 17 Flndlay 6 W. Mich. 34 Toledo 21 W. III.

14 E. Illinois 10 Wittenberg 30 0. Northern 24 Wilmington 21 Anderson 0 Wm. Penn 20 Simpson 7 Wichita State 33 Drake 23 TD STRIKE Vince Ferragamo hit tighl end Mark Dufrense for the third Husker touchdown against Kansas State Satur- day. The aerial travelled 10 yards.

(Telegram Photo by Terry Anderson) Huskers wallop K-State 51-0 MIDGET FOOTBALL CHAMPS Dworak; third row, Gary Reimers, Ron ronl row, Tom Ryan, Pete Hoffman, Gard Hare, Jeff Sohl, John Determan, Todd rerichs, Jeff Olson, Tim Fox, Jerry Martensen, Scott Cruickshank, Rick Bussc ischer, Jeff Coonce, Scott Spale, Karl Brad Losoko; back row, coaches, Tom An 'loth, Kevin Zuroski; second row, David derson, Bruce Schneider, Mike Mullen oseke, Ned O'Brien, William Puckett, Jim Fritz. eff Barnes, Ben Kilnam, Steve Seiple, (Telegram Photo by Terry Anderson cott Hughes, Dan Davidchek, Tony Coifs win midget league fiffe Colts wrapped up a championship season Sunday in the Columbus Midget Football league, but couldn't remain in the unbeaten ranks, as the Bears stopped the Colts, 19-7, in the last game of the season. Bears scores were made by Greg Laben (2) and Cill Chavanu. Scott Fulton tallied an extra point. Scott Cruickshank marked the lone Colt score.

Rams beat Lions, 32-7, to tie Bears for second place in the league with like 3-3 records. Chris Styskal registered two touch- downs for the Rains. Others were scored by Todd Kudron, Rick Bukacek and Tom Alt. Cletus Arasmith and Jim Peterson scored extra point for the Rams, The Lions score was by Jim Rawhouser with Dick Bartlett adding the arfra point. The final season standings are: Colts 5-1 Rams 3-3 Bears 3-3 Lions 1-5 Coaches of the champion Colts are Tom Anderson, Mike Mullin, Bruce Schneider and Jim Fritz.

Bear mentors are Dale Rodgers and Darryl Robinson. Tom Steuber, Paul Matson and Mark Sutko head the Rams. IJons are coached by Jerry Avery, Steve Sutton, Don Muhle and George Johansen. Tom Shunk is director of the program, which is sponsored by Columbus JayCees. Tom Behmer has been commissioner of the league.

Games were played at Glur Park. Southwest Ab. Chris 17 E.Texas St. 0 St. 23 Paso 6 Colorado 20 Oklahoma St.

10 Houston 7) SMU 6 Howard Payne 9 Angelo 9 Mlllsaps 35 McMurry It No.Texas 10 W. Texas 7 NE Oklahoma 16 EC Okla 12 NW Oklahoma 24 Panhandle? SE Oklahoma 33 Tarleton 17 sw Oklahoma 21 Esn. N.M. 8 SW Tex. 31 5.

F. Austin 0 Texas AM 24 Baylor 0 Tex. Uuth 48 Prarle View 14 Texas Tech 37 Rice 13 West BYU 63 So. Miss. 19 Carroll 28 E.

Montana IB Cal Ply-SLO 17 Frsno St. 15 Color. St. 27 Air Force 3 Humbldt St. 22 Sac.

St. 13 Idaho 45 Weber St. 17 43 Idho Col. 22 Mont. Tech 10 W.

Montana 6 Montana St. 28 Idaho St. 7 Montana 17 Boise St. 14 Vegas 63 Neb Dm 42 Oregon St. 10 California 9 St.Mry's Cal.

36 Ore. Tech 21 San Diego St. 21 Pac. Cal. 15 San Jose St.

34 Lng Bch St. 7 Stanford 34 Washington 28 UCLA 62 Washington St. 3 Utah St. 28 Utah 17 Willmtte 23 Pac ore. 21 Wyoming 24 New Mexico 23 Butch Beard Texas Open champ SSN ANTONIO, Tex.

(UPI) --The victory was a long time coming and that made it seem even better to Butch Baird. "Everything went my way. God was smiling on me," Baird said Sunday. The 40-year-old Miami pro defeated Miller Barber on the first hole of a sudden death playoff Sunday to win the $25,000 first prize in the Texas Open golf tournament. (UPI)-In contrast to Nebraska Coach Tom Osborne's predictions last week that the Huskers would face a tough Kansas State defensive line, his comment Sunday was, "Obviously we didn't play a real strong team." The Cornhusker's.

51-0 victory Saturday the Wildcats pleased Osborne, and he said Nebraska's only real weakness appeared to be in the offensive reserves. Osborne said the reserves primarily were guilty of tur- novers, but he blamed that on lack of experience. Most of the backup players for the offense last saw action against TCU Sept. 24, he said. Nebraska's first shutout of Sports groups end conference BARCELONA, Spain (UPI) Weeklong meetings bet- ween the International Olympic Committee and the World Sports Federations ended Sunday with the ad- mission by both bodies they are unable to prevent sports from, being used for political ends.

Additionally, no sanctions were imposed on the African countries, which boycotted the Montreal games at the last moment in a protest against apartheid in South Africa. The two bodies, which be- tween them control all aspects on amateur sports throughout the world, agreed on only two things: that any retroactive sanctions would harm the athletes and not the politicians, who made the decisions at Montreal, and that new rules were necessary both to act as a deterrent and to take action in any future event when politics are in- jected into a major sports meeting. the 1976 season was for the most part an injury-free game, Osborne said. Only two Huskers fullback Gary Higgs and Iback Dave Gillespie were injured in the rout over KState. Higgs sprained his ankle in the first quarter, and Gillespie reinjured a hamstring muscle, Osborne said.

Higgs could be ready for next a a nationally televised game with Missouri, the coach said, but Gillespie probably will be sidelined. "We'll try to run him (Gillespie) some" in. this week's practice, Osborne said, "but his stakes are really doubtful." Nebraska's 51-point scoring drive began with Al Eveland's 20-yard field goal in the first quarter. Then quarterback Vince Ferragamo's 8-yard scoring pass to Ken Spaeth, followed by Eveland's suc- cessful boot, gave the Huskers' a 10-0 first quarter lead. When the halftime gun sounded, Nebraska had a comfortable 30-0 lead.

Fer- ragamo hit split end Bobby Thomas in the second quarter with a 15-yard pass and Eveland managed the extra point. With about five minutes left in the second period, the Huskers had a six-point play when Mark Dufrense was in the endzone with a 10-yard pass from Ferragamo. Rounding out the second quarter with a minute to play, Thomas ran 13 yards into the endzone and Eveland booted the extra point. The third quarter's scoring opened with Ferragamo throwing his fourth touch- down pass, which matches the school record set by Dave Humm, who now plays with the Oakland Raiders. Ferragamo passed five yards to Thomas after the Huskers' 16-play, 80-yard scoring drive.

Eveland's extra point kick was good, as were two others following touchdown runs of two and six yards by Gillespie and Dale Zabrocki. Gillespie's six-point run came with nearly six minutes remaining in the third quarter, while Zabrocki's run early in the final period followed a two-play, seven- yard drive set up by a KState fumble. When looking ahead to next week's game, Osborne said two junior starters sidelined i a a i a "hopefully will be ready" to face the Missouri Tigers in Memorial Stadium. Fullback Dodie Donnell and I-back Monte Anthony both were injured in the Miami game and missed practice last week. Seventh-ranked Missouri lost 21-17 to Iowa State Saturday, and Osborne said the Tiger loss "isn't going to help us." Osborne predicts the Missouri squad will "regroup and play better after the loss to Iowa State." In addition, 'he said, the defeat will "serve to give them (Missouri) added in- centive to play well." Ncbr.

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