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The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • 11

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Monday, November 16, 1970 'I In Uiu'olii Star 1 1 im an rn UUI EASED in Bowl Appearance To Be Third In Eight Years For NU, Devaney The Husker boss said his players were enthusiastic about By HAL BROWN "But that's only guesswork and I'm Just taking the teams that have only one loss or in the case of Notre Dame with no losses," he added. The Husker coach emphasized, "If we could have known who would be No. 1, we'd have voted to play them." But he also indicated his own team might be No. 1. "If we play well enough in our next game and in the next one, we might be No.

1 regardless of who the bowl portunities. They will be coming to town with a chance to not only tie for the Big Eight championship, but also with a chance at a pretty good bowl." This will be Nebraska's seventh bowl trip in the nine years Devaney has been at the Husker helm. His teams have defeated Miami, in the 1962 Gotham Bowl, Auburn in the 1964 Orange Bowl and Georgia in the 1969 Sun Bowl with losses to Arkansas in the 1965 Cotton Bowl, and Alabama in the 1966 Orange Bowl and 1967 Sugar Bowl. the Orange Bowl and that had they not been enthusiastic, he might not have discouraged waiting another week. Even while discussing the bowl decision with writers and broadcasters, who had waited nearly three hours in sports information director Don Bryant's office for a decision, the thought of this week's game was in Devaney's mind.

"This team coming up here this week has a bowl possibility," he pointed out. "Oklahoma may have several op- opponent happens to be," he observed. -SOONERS AGAIN STAND IN WAY OF UNDEFEATED SEASON FOR NEBRASKA- nly ne Big Sight Hurdle Left For Huskers Star Sports Editor Nebraska, standing at 1-1 in Orange Bowl appearances under coach Bob Devaney, will make its third trip to Miami in eight years this winter for a New Year's Night date with an opponent as yet unknown. The undefeated Huskers, at a squad meeting late Sunday afternoon, voted to accept the only bowl offer they had received the Orange Bowl where the 1963 team defeated Auburn, 13-7, and the 1965 team lost to Alabama, 3M8. Devaney emphasized that the Huskers did not turn down any other offers although both the Cotton and Sugar bowls the Huskers several times this season, including Saturday's 51-13 win over Kansas State.

The Husker coach admitted some thought had been given to delaying a bowl decision until later, but said he discouraged that idea. "Waiting might have had a bad effect on us in trying to get ready for this week's game with Oklahoma because the bowl thing would be on the players' minds," he pointed out. "And the way things are set up, it wouldn't have helped to wait another week. would like to play the team we can gain the most from," he added referring to the idea of playing the No. 1 team in the nation.

"But there is no assurance that we could have done that even by waiting another week." The three teams currently rated above the Huskers are Texas. Notre Dame and Ohio State. "Notre Dame has two tough games left and Texas has one," he noted. "And we have no control over the Big Ten since they are committed to the Rose Bowl and we can't go there." Notre Dame still must play LSU and Southern Cal while Texas has a showdown with Arkansas on Dec. 5 with the winner of that game the probable host school in the Cotton Bowl although Texas Tech still has a chance there.

Although the Orange Bowl officials gave him no indication of who the Husker opponent might be, Devaney listed Notre Dame, LSU, Tennessee, Mississippi and Air Force as the teams he thought most likely. a Cotton Bowl berth in hand to meet Arkansas and a 9-0 record when they flew to Oklahoma. The Huskers came away from that one with a 17-7 loss, then dropped a 10-7 decision to Arkansas. And again in 1966, the Huskers had whipped their first nine foes, had sewn up the Big Eight crown and were headed for a New Year's Day date with Alabama in the Sugar Bowl when they again flew to Oklahoma. Again the unbeaten season was thwarted by the Sooners, who pulled out a 10-9 verdict and Nebraska then was beaten by the Crimson Tide, 34-7.

But this time, the Huskers get the Sooners on their home grounds the Memorial Stadium AstroTurf and Nebraska hasn't lost a conference game at home since being blanked, 12-0, by Kansas State in the final home game of the 1968 season. Since then, Nebraska has won seven straight league games in Lincoln and most observers consider this the best NU team ever. Certainly, it's the most explosive Nebraska team ever, averaging 38.1 points per game, 43.5 against Big Eight foes, By HAL BROWN Star Sports Editor With an Orange Bowl berth tucked away, Nebraska today begins preparations for the task of trying to clear the last hurdle toward an unbeaten regular season when Oklahoma invades Memorial Stadium Saturday. And the Huskers must get that unbeaten season in order, to claim sole possession of the Big Eight championship, a title the Bob Devancy-coached team has won outright in four of the past seven years and shared a fifth time. Nebraska was Big Eight champion for four straight years, from 1963 through 1966, then after being away from the throne in 1967 and 1968, the Huskers came back to share the title with Missouri a year ago.

And the early part of a current unbeaten string that stands at 17 in a row this morning was what gave them that tie last season after an opening league loss to Missouri, the last loss suffered by Nebraska. Twice in the past, Oklahoma has dashed NU hopes of. an unbeaten season in the final game of the campaign. In 1964, Nebraska had the Big Eight title wrapped up, and with one game remaining the Huskers have gained 4,217 yards rushing and passing, surpassing the record set by the 1965 club at 4,040, a team that completed an unbeaten regular season before losing to Alabama in the Orange Bowl, 39-28. And although the pollsters don't see it that way, there are many who have seen the Huskers play, who would rate them No.

1. One of them is Devaney, a member of United Press International's coaching board that votes for UPI's top 10. But after Saturday's convincing 51-13 win over a good Kansas State team, the Husker coach had company in his feelings that Nebraka should be No. 1. "I know most of you people are expecting a close game," Joe Katz, executive director of the Sugar Bowl, said before the game Saturday, "But I don't, i think Nebraska will win big.

"This is the sixth time I've seen this team and I think on any given day, Nebraska can beat anybody in the country." After the game, Joe came around with an "I told you so," statement. Another in the NU corner was a Cotton Bowl official viewing the game. "This could well be be the best team in the country," he said to no one in particular as the score mounted in the Huskers' favor. Following the contest, Cliff Spcegle of the Cotton Bowl, opined, "Nebraska certainly deserves a chance to play for No. 1." However, neither the Cotton nor Sugar Bowls extended offers to the Huskers this weekend.

Huskers' JoltiiY Joe Orduna Or Through Tfiemi No Hole No Problem For IHe Can Go Over Them Southeast THE THIRD HALF it ft By Tom Henderson Star Sports Writer Rated No. 7 In Class A By VIRGIL PARKER Prep Sports Writer The topsy-turvy high school Ml 1 football season is over and as the result of a wild series of II A Jr fc I circumstances at the tail end Jr rl of the campaign, Lincoln Southeast emerges as the Class A champion for 1970. The finish was reminiscent of the one two years ago when Ito mont, seemingly assured of the crown, was eased out of the top spot when the Tigers were tied in the Big Ten Conference championship game by underdog Scottsbluff. This year it was the Metro League title tilt in Omaha that proved the undoing of season-long ratings leader and defending state champion Creighton Prep. The Junior Jays were edged by Omaha Tech, a three-time loser which had also been tied once.

Actually a partisian booster Sanity Waning Finishing up on the second annual Professional Bowlers Association Lincoln Open while wondering if PBA publicists Wayne Cody and Jerry Levine can stand the pressures o( the tour's constant traveling much longer. Not long after hearing Cody and Levine explain the hardships of traveling with the tour and caution writers present never to take on such a venture for a lengthy period at the risk of losing their sanity, this writer walked into the press room to discover the PBA's jolly twosome deeply engrossed in a badly offtune chorus of "Down By The Riverside." Although they couldn't make it as singers, the pair might consider teamming for a comedy act should they ever leave the PBA. The evening after the seranade, Cody and Levine displayed a talent in that area with an impromptu performance during a question and answer session between the spectators and pros Bill Johnson and Dick Battista. Levine had conducted a similar interview the night before and, after no one in the audience could muster the courage to ask questions, he enlisted the help of two "plants" for Cody's night on the spot. Levine Takes Up Slack With his "plants" waiting in the audience, Levine felt confident Cody's question and answer session would get off the ground, but Cody hadn't been clued in properly.

He walked out in front of the audience and supplied the answers to the prearranged questions as part of his introductions of the pros. Quick-thinking Levine took up the slack himself, however, and Cody wasted no time joining his pal in a 45-minute laugh session which kept the audience in stitches. "Is it true that the slimmer the bowler the better he bowls? Levine queried. "Well, I'd say the rotund Cody started, but Levine interrupted him. "Let the pros answer," he said.

"I am," Cody challenged, drawing a roar from the crowd. "Seriously though," Cody continued, "I was taking instructions from one of the pros the other day and he told me I had to pop my hips to get them out of the way. "So I was practicing popping my hips on lane 12 and I did it so well I knocked the lady over on lane 1." Nebraskans In Record Book The file of American Bowling Congress statistics and oddities has several Nebraskans on its list, but only Valentine's Curt Hearnsberger has the dubious honor of making the record book twice. Hearnsberger owns the third lowest series ever recorded in league play with a 150 and also the second lowest triplicate score, rolling three straight games of 50. Both were recorded on Sept.

11, 1956, during the first league series he ever bowled. The last game of his triplicate series was bowled lefthanded. can mane a reasonaDiy sona case for any team among the top six or seven. Since every club has at least one loss marring its record, it becomes a case of finding the 'most excusable defeat to overlook. Do vou foreive Prep for losing Tech? A Tech club that lost one of its games to Omaha Central, a team that can only count two other victims tor the entire season? Or do vou forgive Southeast for its loss to East? Though East also lost three games, as did Tech, East won its last four 1 in a row in impressive style One of the few point com '4 lrV- IYVH parisons available shows the i I jit nair to be on an eaual par.

Prep edged Bellevue, with the aid of a late fumble recovery return that turned defeat into victorv. bv four points. Bellevue beat Lincoln Northeast by 26. In theory, at least, that makes Co Prep 30 points better than Northeast. Southeast blanked Northeast.

28-0. That leaves Big 8 Standings little from which to choose. Conference Games In fact, despite the three Pet. Opp. losses each suffered, on the Nebraska 6 Oklahoma 4 1 basis of their showing in the Kansas Stat I Colorado 3 final weeks alone, you could I 1.000 261 113 .800 122 99 .714 130 134 .429 200 148 .667 125 158 .333 122 134 .200 91 170 .167 108 204 All Games .950 381 156 Nebraska Prep Mings By Virgil Parker make a case for East and Tech.

Kansas 2 Missouri 2 Oklahoma State ...1 Iowa Stat 1 But obviously the overall season record must also bear some of N.hrjuku 9 0 1 the weight. fttclAhoma 6 3 0 181 185 .667 194 .600 183 .556 257 Fremont would have to be 170 .500 253 249 Kansas State 6 Colorado 5 Kansas Iowa State Missouri excused from losing to Beatrice, Bellevue from losing to Omaha, .444 193 226 .400 215 206 ,333 171 244 Benson and Lincoln High from droDning games to Southeast and Pius in order for them Class A 6- Fremont (8-1-1) 7- Omaha Tech (6-3-1) 8- Omaha Benson (5-2-2) 9-Omaha Ryan (5-2-2) 10- Grand Island (5-4) to stake a claim to the throne. 1 Lincoln Southeast (7-1-1) 2- Creighton Prep (9-1) 3-Bellevue (7-2) 4-Lincoln High (7-2) 5-Lincoln East (5-3) Class Pius is a key to much of that. Southeast and East both edged Pius and all three beat How Top 20 Fared Beatrice, mat manes Fremont's loss the "least excusable" and slides the Tigers it 10. Tennessee, 7-1, Idle.

taiuraay kuh Nebraska 51, Kansas State 13 Oklahoma 2f, Kansas 24 Colorado 30, Oklahoma State 6 Iowa Stat 31, Missouri 19 This Week's Game Oklahoma at Nebraska Kansas at Missouri Iowa State at Oklahoma State Colorado at Air Force Kansas State at Florida State Wednesday Deadline Openings remain in the Y.M.C.A. Early Bird Basketball Tournament. Information and entry blanks can be obtained from Bob Cap-pel. Assistant Physical Director at the Central Branch Y.M.C.A. Entry deadline is 5 p.m.

Wednesday. 11. Arizona State, 1-0, beat Utah 37-14. to sixth despite bombing a I 12. Mississippi, 7-1, beat Chattanooga, 44-7.

crippled Scottsbluff club in this year's Big Ten finale. 11 Air Eftlr 0.1 Ct.nlnrI 41 1J LL 14. San Diego State, 9,4, beat Santa How the Associated Press' top twenty major college football teams fared Saturday: 1. Notre Dame, 8 0, beat Georgia Tech 10-7. 2.

Texas, 8-0, beat TCU 58-0. 3. Ohio State, 8-0, beat Purdue 10-7. 4. Nebraska, 9-0-1, beat Kansas State 51-13.

5. Michigan, 9 0, beat Iowa 55-0. 6. Stanford, 1-2, lost to Air Forca 31-14. 7.

Arkansas, B-l, beat SMU 36-3. I. Auburn, 7-2, lost to Georgia 31-7. 9. Louisiana State, 7-1, beat Mississippi St.

38. IAS I Dmuara 04-. 15. Dartmounth, 8-0, beat Cornell 24-0. 16.

Toledo. 10-0. beat Da ton 31-7. II Bellevue, on the basis of comparative scores with Omaha Westside. and the fact that 17.

UCLA, 5-4, lost toWashingtonoJ-20, in. aournem cal, 5-3-1, idle. Benson is also rated, slips into 70. Kama Rtata a Mkb the No. 3 position..

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