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Nov. 7, 1 982 Lincoln, Neb. Sunday Journal and Star SD off Arkansas, 24-17 urprising or Nwirw in the second period, becom- Alfred nderson ran four lng the first Southwest Con-yards for a touchdown with ference team to score a But the throw from flanker Mark Mistier toward running back Thomas Brown was picked off at the Arkansas 47 by Preston Davis. -t Baylor marched the -47 yards for its winning touch-. down, helped by a 10-yard run by freshman Allen Bice, who earlier had fumbled the ball away, deep in his own territory to allow the Razor-backs a go-ahead field goal Baylor head coach Grant -Teaff said it was Just a case of a team deciding it was time to play.

"There was nothing to indicate they would spring this big upset," Teaff said. "Arkansas had everything going for them. We had nothing. I told our players after the Tulane game (a 30-15 loss last week) that they could sit around all week and feel sorry for themselves or they could come back and play a ball game. chose to Arkansas lost two of its top running backs during the game one with a hip pointer and another with a jammed toe.

But Razorbacks coach Lou Holte said their loss did not make the difference, I cant say enough about the big plays Baylor made," said Holtz whose team was one of two unbeaten teams knocked off In college football. "Baylor just played a very good football game. We knew they would play hard. Heck, when you are playing a team ranked fourth in the nation you are going to play hard. We knew it would be a challenge." SMU 41, Rice 14 At Houston, tailback Craig James ran for 130 yards and scored running and passing to lead third-ranked SMU over winless Rice.

James and alternating tailback Eric Dickerson, the Mustangs' "Pony Express," combined to rush for 232 yards, but fell short of their combined per-game average of 245. Big defensive and special team plays got SMU rolling after a scoreless first quarter. The Mustangs quickly grabbed a 27-0 lead on Lance Mcllhenny's 28-yard touchdown pass to split end Gary Smith, a James' 1-yard scoring run, two Jeff Harrell field goals and another score on a blocked punt Texas 50, Houston At Austin, Texas, Robert Brewer threw two touch down passes one a 67-yard bomb to Herkie Walls to spark 19th-ranked Texas in the romp over Houston. Brewer, who passed for 163 yards, also flipped a 36-yard screen pass to Darryl Clark for a touchdown and scored once himself on a 1-yard plunge. Texas Tech 16, TCU 14 At Fort Worth, Ricky Gann kicked three field goals, including a 27-yarder with 32 seconds remaining to lift Texas Tech over Texas Christian.

Southwest to give the Baylor Bears a stunning 24-17 Tlpsa over No. 4 and prevl-. gysly unbeaten Arkansas, jfcjother Southwest Confer-eoc action, SMU bombed Rice, 41-14, Texas crushed Houston 50-0 and Texas Tech nipped TCU 16-14. Texas was Idle. At Waco, Texas, the Razorbacks took a 14-0 lead, in the first half and seemed, on the way to their eighth victory of the season.

But Baylor surprised Arkansas with an 80-yard drive touchdown against Arkansas this year. '0 Baylor first tied the game 14-14 early to the fourth quarter and then fell behind with nine minutes to play on a 33-yard field goal by Martin Smith. The Bears then drove 80 yards, thanks mainly by 60-yard pass from Mike Bran-nan to Anderson, and tied the game on a Ben Perry 32-yard field goaL On the first play after the kickoff, Arkansas tried a trick play a double reverse Standings Conf. All '0 ro 1'0 0 4' 0 t' 1 ft SMU Arkonut Tt0l ToTh Houston Baylor TCU Rico Saturday's rtsults BovlorM, Arkansas 17 Ttxas SO. Houston 0 SMU 41, Rico 14 14 Ttxas Idle Noit Saturday's cotnti Texas at Arkansas (N) Baylor at Rico SMU at Texas Tach TexosatTCU Houston Idle Bayl knocks units Huskers- cornhusker quotes By Wayne Gonyea From page 1D Staff Sports Writer Center Dave Rimington On Mike Rozier's 37-yard TD run which broke for' mer Husker Bobby Reynolds' single-season rushing record: "It was a 41-counter sweep or pitch with the backside guard and tackle pulling on the play.

knocking my guy down. I was helping him up after I thought the play was over when I heard the crowd roar. So I let him back down again. "We were aware the record was close. Once (Fryar) came in and said he needed 22 yards or something like that I feel good about him getting the record, Mike's a great guy.

Anytime Roger-(Craig) or Mike get 33 carries they are going to get a lot of yards" On falling four yards short of Rick Berns' single game rushing record: "That will give him some-' thing to shoot for next year, we don't want him to get everything his junior year." Middle guard Ken Graeber On Oklahoma State's national rushing leader Ernest Anderson: "He's a real good runner, but we knew he wasn't their whole offense. After he got hit he would still get that extra three or four yards." Offensive tackle Randy Theies On Rozier's record-breaking, 37-yard TD run: "Mike (Mandelko) and I both pulled and they had a lot of penetration. Mike (Mandelko) got a good block and I got half a block, and Mike (Rozier) just did the rest on his own." Offensive guard Mike Mandelko i On Rozier's 37-yard TD: "It was a 41-counter I i ky y. i J.i Yet S'WwS i STAFF Nebraska quarterback Bruce Mathlson (19) tries to elude OSU's Chris sweep. We ran it all day, but this was probably Huskers suffer bumps and PHOTO BY HUMBERTO RAMIREZ Rocklns (37).

Monster Kris Van Norman also "got a little fuzzy" when he was hit in the head in the second quarter. "But he's okay, too," Weber said, adding that Van Norman also slightly re-injured a foot. I-back Jeff Smith sprained a wrist cornerback Neil Harris bruised a shoulder, wing-back Irving Fryar re-bruised a thigh, fullback Doug Wid Several There were plenty of bumps and bruises in Nebraska's locker room Saturday, but Nebraska trainers don't believe any injury will keep a player from making next weekend's trip to Iowa State. The most serious injury was probably back spasms suffered by starting fullback Mark Moravec. "I get my first chance to start, then get hurt in our first scoring drive.

I guess that's life in the Big Eight," Moravec said. "It's just an-othermental and physical ob worst one of the game. Mike (Rozier) just did it on his own, mostly. We stuck with our blocks as best, we could, and Mike made a real good read and got outside. I felt like he did it on his own." On OSU's defense: They had a real good defense but just like last year (a 54-7 NU win) I was amazed at how easily we ran on them.

Their linemen are tall and fast, and we tried to stay down on them. I don't think they liked that, there was a lot of limping towards the end of the game." Tight end Jamie Williams On OSU's defense: "They weren't as aggressive as I thought they would be. I dont know If they were sitting back, intimidated by us or what, but it seemed they could have been more aggressive. When you keep beating a team for so long, maybe they get scared to really come after us." On his J-yard reception for NlTs second score: "We had a 41-pitch called and Turner (Gill) just au- -cabled to a 91 on his own. He could see their comer-back was going to come up so he made a good audi- ble.

I'm supposed to release into the open Their end played me and tried to hold me up. I just' had to block him quick and get off him, then Turner put the ball right there." Defensive end Tony Felici On OSU closing to within 21-7 with a TD just be-' fore the end of the first half: "When a team plays us they get fired up in the first half. We just try to' wear teams down and beat them in the third and; fourth quarters. They were still in the game at half-, time, but they looked intimidated after that. It's like' they knew in the third or fourth quarter they were going to get beat anyway." The Big Eight Conference clash was billed as a matchup between Oklahoma State's Ernest Anderson, who going into the game was the nation's leading rusher, and Rozier.

It wasn't much of a match. After the Cowboys received the opening kickoff, Anderson carried on the first two plays for minus one and plus two. The next three times he carried the ball it was for four, two and one-yard gains. While Rozier was gaining 251 yards, Nebraska's Black Shirt defense was holding Anderson to just 68 yards on IS carries. "We played very well," Osborne observed.

"This very well may have been our best game of the year on both offense and defense. Except for the one long pass (OSU scored its only TD on a 63-yard pass 58 seconds before halftime), the defense had a good day and we moved the ball very well (465 yards in total offense)." Gill injured Osborne played four quarterbacks, although some of the changes were dictated by injury. Starter Turner Gill bruised his right leg above the ankle and retired with nearly four minutes left in the first half. "It's the same leg but not the same kind of thing as the nerve injury," Osborne assured. Then No.

1 replacement Bruce Mathison got poked in the eye and suffered double vision. Nate Mason took over for the last five minutes of the third quarter before giving way to Craig Sundberg in the waning moments. Wingback Irving Fryar tallied Nebraska's first touchdown on a 13-yard run with 4:12 left in the first quarter. The Huskers' second touchdown came when Gill tossed a nine-yard pass to tight end Jamie Williams. Then Rozier took over.

He had the next four in a row. A four-yard run made it 21-0 before the Cowboys got their onlyTD of the day. "Actually, their touchdown gave our defense new life," NU defensive coordinator Charlie McBride felt "Our defense went out there with new determination for the second half." Steinkuhler recovers fumble Nebraska didn't move with the second-half kickoff, but Grant Campbell's punt was muffed by OSU's Greg Hill and Dean Steinkuhler came up with the ball Three plays later Rozier ran 17 yards and a 28-7 NU lead. "That fumbled punt really helped us and maybe was the key to breaking the game open," Osborne said. The next time the Huskers had the ball it took just eight plays to move 62 yards.

Rozier carried on six of them, going the final two yards with 6:35 left in the third quarter. That was followed by his record-setting 37-yard TD run at the outset of the final quarter; a 42-yard OSU field goal; and a one-yard touchdown run by I-back Jeff Smith with 40 seconds left in the game. Next up for Nebraska is Iowa State in Ames, a team that as upset by Kansas, SSKI's Campbell new father back in so he could get those four yards and see him get injured." Rozier wasn't Saturday's only record-setter. Kevin Sei-bel was good on all six of his point-after-touchdown attempts to increase his string to 62 in a row. His first of the day broke his own record of 56, stopped last season when he missed one against Missouri.

He had equaled that number again prior to Saturday. That means Seibel has now made 118 of his last 119 PATs. His six points also upped his career total to 182 points, No. 5 on the all-time Nebraska scoring chart. Speaking of career marks, while increasing his two-year total to 2,322 yards, Rozier went by six players on the career rushing list Monte Anthony, Tony Davis, Jarvis Redwine, Bobby Reynolds, Jeff Kinney and Roger Craig.

Only I.M. Hipp and Berns are ahead of him. Rozier is about 500 yards shy of leader Berns with a possible 14 games (bowl games don't count) remaining. bruises ening re-bruised a shoulder and defensive tackle Doug Herrmann re-injured a knee. "Moravec's injury is probably the most serious because it's the most tender.

He's going to be sore for a few days," Weber said. "I feel okay now," Moravec said. "My biggest worry is getting out of bed tomorrow morning." From page 1D son to Jim Evans, one of the "only times we messed up," Damkroger said. "We didnt have many breakdowns." According to McWhirter, "we thought if we could stop them on the ground, we'd be in good shape because they havent thrown that much." Nebraska forced two interceptions, the first by defensive end BUI Weber, the second by safety Pat Larsen. Jeff Merrell made five tackles, four of them unassisted Late in the first quarter, the Cornhusker middle guard was waiting for Anderson on a Ihlrd-and-nine from the OSU yard une.

Anderson managed one yard before going down "Were we pumped up for him? I think so," said Merrell. "Wt wanted to stop him, and I think we stopped him pretty good. "We wanted Mike (Rozier) to have a big day, not him." Is Anderson as good a running back as Roaer? "No," Merrell said. "No way. Anderson is good, but "he not In the same caliber as Mike" ft Nebraska may have punter named Campbell about 20 years from now.

Husker punter Grant Campbell had a pre-game surprise Saturday when his wife Laura gave birth to a 6-pound, 14-ounce baby boy hours before the NU game bruising his right calf. "He could have gone in, if necessary, in the second half," Weber said. Bruce Mathison's, Gill's backup who was forced to leave the lineup late in the third quarter when a hit in the head caused visual problems, "is fine now," Weber said. "He's been checked out by a neurologist" NU's Grant Campbell Kenny Zachary (2). Defense and try to run the baU down our throats.

They were lining up in an unbalanced line at first, trying to get him outside." The problem was, Anderson "didn't have any place to go. We tried to force him in Statistics cowboy chatter STAFF PHOTO BY WEB RAY (24) gets the punt off under a rush from OSU's stacle for me to overcome." Moravec suffered the injury when he made a good block on an Oklahoma State linebacker. "I went low and my lower back just popped," he said. "When I stood up, I tightened up. I couldn't even touch my knees, so I hobbled off the field." Jerry Weber, NU's assistant trainer and assistant physical therapist, said quarterback Turner Gill was taken out of the lineup late in the second quarter as a precautionary measure after against Oklahoma State.

Campbell, a 6-foot-2, 195-pound pound senior from Southfield, said his new son hasn't been named. "She didnt tell me what it's going to be," Campbell said of his wife. "Maybe Grant he added. Harris 1 Holbrook 1 Larsen 2 Murphy 0 McCashland 2 Green 1 Oklahoma State Offense Rushing No. Yds.

Ave. 8.7 3.0 4.5 4.5 1.0 Jackson 3 -26 Cook 4 12 15 48 Hinds 4 -19 Roberts 10 45 Price 1 1 Passing No. Co. Yds 13 7 137 7 51 PI 1 1 Pass Receiving No. Evans 1 Young 1 Anderson 3 Cromer- 2 Hanna 2 Roberts .4 Zachary 1 Punting No.

Yds. Con wav 4 278 Punt Returns No. HIM 2 Kickoff Returns No. 2 Roberts 3 Yds. 63 14 23 37 24 18 Ave.

46.3 Yds. 1 Yds. 20 48 Defense Linemen UT AT TT 10 17 1 5 Nebraska Offense Rushing No. Yds. Ave.

3.4 7.6 35 5.5 4.0 7.4 3.0 4.0 3.4 6. 1.3 5 18 SozJftT 33 251 WIHwnlng 4 21 G2lec 2 CralB. 7 52 Brown 1 -5 Schellen 2 4 1 6 Mason 5 17 Smith 5 33 DuBost 3 4 Passing No. Co. Yds PI Gill 3 31 0 3 1 4 0 Mason 2 1 4 0 Pass Receiving No.

Yds. 2 22 Williams 3 21 Punting No. Yds. Avo. Campbell 5 172 34.4 Punt Returns No.

Yds. 4 42 Smith 1 7 Kickoff Returns No. Yds. Smith 1 23 Interception Returns No. Yds.

Weber 1 1 Lorsen 1 12 Dtfenst Linemen UT AT TT Rimington nominee By Ken Hambleton Staff Sports Writer Middle linebacker Mike Green On comparing Ernest Anderson with Mike Rozier "Rozier packs more of a wallop, because he's bigger. That's not to take anything away from Ernest, but Rozier is very tough, so is (Roger) Craig. No- body has two backs like that in the country. "One time Rozier got away from me because my feet weren't planted and he just ran over me. He did that to Rod Brown on that touchdown where he knocked Rod backwards.

If you don't hit him hard, hell run over you and keep on driving away." Comparing Oklahoma with Nebraska "Nebraska's offense is better by far. Nebraska gave us a lot more problems. Just trying to get away from the blocks to make the play was harder than against Oklahoma." Quarterback Ike Jackson "Nebraska has the best offense we've faced make that the best well face this season probably. "Their line opens up bigger holes and they have great running backs, depth and a darn tough defense." On OSU's passing "I came in here feeling we could throw. Then we had to throw.

Nebraska shut down our running game, so we had to pass to open the running up again. They took the flairs to the back away and I was talking to our tight end (Barry Hanna) and he said they were stunting on him at the line almost all day." On comparing Oklahoma with Nebraska "Oklahoma's defense is faster and physically they're the same. They both have quality athletes, stronger and faster than anyone else in the conference. "But Nebraska has the best offense by far. I pick Nebraska by 13 points over Oklahoma, because Nebraska Is more consistent" Flanker Jim Evans Oa his (3-yard toacbdowi pass from Ike Jacksoa "We've been trying to make that play work aQ season and finally everything worked the way it should.

I looked back over my shoulder and there was the sun in my eyes and the little black dot of the bal It was just like I dreamed. That was my first big play of the season." side," McWhirter sail With its running game negated, for the most part, Oklahoma State turned more to passes, completing 14 of 23 for 188 yards. The Cowboys' only touchdown came on a 63-yard pass play from Jack- fensive outside linebacker of Arizona State; Mike Pitts, defensive end of Alabama; Billy Ray Smith, defensive end of Arkansas; and Darryl Talley, defensive outside linebacker of West Virginia. All nominees are seniors except for Marshall who is a junior. Four finalists, who will attend the awards ceremony in Houston, Texas, Dec.

will be announced later this month. The winner receives a forty-pound granite trophy as the "College Lineman of the The award is presented by the Houston Rotary Club in memory of the legendary coach Vince Nebraska center Dave Rimington, the winner of the Outland Trophy (best interior lineman in the nation) last year as a junior, is one of 12 nominees announced Saturday for the 1982 Lomhardi "College Lineman of the Year" Award (which also includes ends). In addition to Rimington, the others are: George Achi-ca, defense noseguard, Bruce offensive guard and Don Mosebar, offensive Udue, aO, of Southern CaB-fonua; Charles Benson, defensive end of Baylor; Jimbo Covert, offensive tackle of Pittsburgh; Tim Krumrie, defensive noseguard of Wisconsin. Wilber Marshal defensive outside taebacker of Florida; Vernon Maxwell. Of Weber ..2 1 3 Hording 1 Williams 3 4 7 Lewis 1' 4 1 5 K.Brown 3 2 2 4 Chochere 4 FellcL 2 3 4 Guv 4 ProtiJryr 1 0 1 0 2 1 Rldtfer ......2 1 3 1 Strosburger 2 1- 1 Llhebocken Tronmer 1 1 2 Green 7 Linebackers Spencer 7 3 0 3 Morlton 2 McWhirter 7 2 Monger 2 Evans 1 1 2 Bocks Knox 4 3 7 HIM 4 Bocks Rocklns 12 Lvdav 2 1 3 Poik 2 VonNormon 2 2 R.Brown 4 Ckjrk 2 1 3 Fisher 1 1 1 2 Lowe ,4 rvn I Ik i LTU.

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