Honolulu Star-Bulletin from Honolulu, Hawaii • 165

section The Sunday Star-Bullatin 1 Adverbw -k. Prepared by the staff of the Honolulu Advertiser fcX Honolulu Adwtiut, Inc. 4 righfj roMmwd Nebraska's trouble in paradise 4 only a mirage in 37-16 victory i Hawaii lead disappears in fourth i 4 'is i 1 fV By Ferd Lewis Advertier Staff Writer For a half last night the University of Hawaii Rainbows were doing the improbable, leading third-ranked Nebraska, 100. Meanwhile, Nebraska's all-Big Eight quarterback, Turner Gillji' was doing something even more improbable. He was standing on the sidelines watching it all.

But improbability gave way to reality and the Rainbows gavel way to the Cornhuskers. Gill I came off the bench in the quarter to lead Nebraska to 37 second-half points and a 37-16. victory. I Gill, conspicious by his ab-f sence, was dominating with his presence. He led the Cornhusk-'i ers to 17 points in a 1:37 span of the fourth quarter to shatter! hopes for what would havel been the biggest upset in UHf history.

-I For more than 49 minutes, the Rainbow faithful in the largest Aloha Stadium crowd of the season, 46,876, watched as Hawaii, a 28-point underdog, had its way with the nation's! top offensive and No. 3 defensive team. The Rainbows turned away three first-half Nebraska scor- ing threats and used a touch-- down and a Lee Larsen field goal of 40 yards for a 10-0 halp time lead the biggest anybody had had on a Corn- husker team in 23 games. It was the first time in 17 games that NU had been shut out in the.l first half. Hawaii made it 13-0 early in the third period and therel seemed to be a miracle in the.f making in Halawa.

In stepped Gill to unmake one. Sidelined by a pre-game back spasm that disappeared at' v' Advertiser photo by Ron Jert Hawaii's Kent Kafentzis stuffs a punt attempt by Nebraska's Grant Campbell during the third quarter. The block set up a 27-yard field goal by Lee Larsen which gave the Rainbows a 13-0 lead 'HMskers were ripe for picking andv yamaguchi Advertiser halftime. Gill came to start the third quarter. On the Corn-huskers' second possession om the second half, he drove them 80 yards for their first touch-'J down, a 31-yard run by back Irving Fryar.

The Rainbows, behind a nard QuarlesM.o-Ray Butler pass of 21 yards that set up Larsen's: second field goal, a made it 16-7. Then a Big Red blur swept the Rainbows for 17 points in I 1:37 and a 24-16 lead. Gill drove the Cornhuskers 74 yards, setting up Kevin Seibel's 23-yard field goal, and Nebraska took the lead 24 seconds later on Gill's 18-yard touchdown run. The go-ahead touchdown was -set up by Allan Lyday's recov--ery of an Anthony Edgar fumble. Lyday, with an outstretched arm, hooked the ball loose as Edgar tried to bolt by.

Safety Bret Clark set up the insurance score 1:13 later, intercepting Quarles pass and returning the ball 25 yards to the 50. Craig broke loose on a 34-yard run and then scored two staff writer back into the Stone Age. But for the time being, the Rainbows were winning with guerilla warfare the onside kick, using backup, quarterback Raphel Cherry at tailback, changing Cherry's jersey number from 10 to 17 in the second half, and throwing to such unlikely receivers as Reggie Young and Ray Butler. Quarles had plenty of time to pass and exploited Nebraska's soft secondary for 169 yards. But in the fourth quarter, the Cornhusker offense was poppin' especially center Dave Rimington, the 295-pound Outland Award winner, who See Rainbows on Page L-3 "Wouldn't this be Hawaii's biggest win, ever?" one of the -other sportswriters asked.

"Has to be," another replied. There we were, a bunch of grownups, thinking the unthinkable, believing the unbelievable and hoping the near-impossible might actually happen. Many of the 46,876 fans in Aloha Stadium were probably thinking the same thing. The seed of the thought was planted on the game's first play, when Falaniko Noga shot through a gap and dropped Nebraska I-back Mike Rozier for a yard -loss. The wishful-thinking continued on UH's first When the third quarter ended with Hawaii leading Nebraska, 16-7, 1 picked up the pressbox phone and called my office.

"Hey," I said, "how's this for a headline: 'Green Giants can Corn(huskers)?" I got groans in stereo, from the guy on the other end and the people around me in the pressbox. Too "corny," I guess. Then I started roughing out my story in my mind. It would have said, "The Rainbows pulled off the upset of the year in college football with their own 'Aloha Bowl' or 'Senior Bowl' or whatever you want to call it, as inspiration." Or something like that. turnovers: a fumble, an interception and a recovery of an onside kick after Lee Larsen gave Hawaii a 10-0 lead with a 40-yard field goal in the second quarter.

The Rainbow defense came up with another big play in the third quarter when Kent Kafentzis blocked a punt to set up a 27-yard field goal by Larsen. The Cornhuskers answered with a touchdown but Larsen followed with a 42-yard' field goal to give Hawaii a 16-7 lead. All the while, you had the feeling that Nebraska had too much firepower and, at any moment, might kick Hawaii possession, in which Rainbow quarterback Bernard Quarles hit on four passes for 63 yards before scoring himself on a four-yard bootleg. Almost everyone was standing for the ensuing kickoff, and you could feel the crowd thinking, "Hmmm, this is getting interesting." It got even more interesting when UH forced three first-half See Nebraska on Page L-3 uh statistics titers ''r' fvT I i 1 if U'1 a 6 fa Nebraska 0 0 1 3037, Hawan 7 3 6 0 UH Quarles 4 run (Larsen kick) UH Larsen 40 FQ UH Larsen 27 FQ Neb Fryar 31 run (Seibal kick) UH Larsen 42 FQ I Neb Seibel 23 FQ i Neb Gill 18 run (Seibel kick) Neb Craig 7 run (Seibel kick) Neb Wiikenlng 10 run (Seibel kick) Neb Fryar 70 punt return (kick tailed) A 46.876. Neb Haw First downs 26 16 Rushes-yards 66-479 34-96 Passing yardage 96 203 I Passes 6-15-1 17-41-1 Fumbies-lost 3-1 4-1 1 Punts 4-17 5 6-39 2 i I' 2Vi I it 1 hi Tense moment The Hawaii bench reacts to a key first down with 3:37 remaining in the third quarter.

The Rainbows converted on a fourth and one play at the Nebraska 26. RUSHING: Nebraska Craig 16-127, Roner 14- t-'i in, i-ryar e-o, smnn -ot, tiin B-bB, yviikening 8- jm, Mason z-ii, U'ungarm 10, Matnison B-minus Hawaii Quarles 16-37, Edgar 8-30. Young 5-12. Fletcher 3-11, Cherry 14. Murray 1-0.

PASSING: Nebraska Malhison 4-7-1 49 Mason 1-3-011, Gill 1-5-0-36. Hawaii Quarles i i 1-3J-1 1BK, Crierry 3 B-U 34. RECEIVING: Nebraska Brown 3-54, Williams 2- 23. Fryar 1-19 Hawaii Coleman 4-53. Butler 2-39.

Murray 2-31. Edgar 2-16. Scott 2-16. Kurt Ka'enUis if-I 2-14, Nobles 1-19. Young 1-13.

Fletcher 1-2. AdvwIiMf photo by Ron Jtl a "3mA Mm K. itinii WUm rl.