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Monday, December 6, 1971 Tlio Lincoln Star 17 llfl mi km mm NU Becomes Winningest Team In College Football History in the 80s every day, Huskcr I-back Jeff Kinney, the leading ball carrier with 56 yards in 16 carries, didn't consider it a vacation. "I don't think you could call it a vacation," he offered, "it was another game on our schedule and we had to come over here and play it. "I think most of the guys were dedicated and took pride in themselves giving a good performance. If it hadn't been for that dedication and pride, it would have been easy to have come over here and just goofed off." But Tagge considered it a vacation of sorts. "It was good to have this type of game to get a chance to relax before starting to get ready for Alabama and after Oklahoma," Tagge figures.

"Alabama is going to be just like Oklahoma all over again. The build-up will be just as big and the game will be just as important to us." Husker head coach Bob Devaney made a hasty exit from the field immediately after the game, hustling off with Rodgers and Jacobson to catch a flight for Miami, where the two players will take part in the Football Coaches' all-American ceremonies. The Huskers came out of the game in relatively good physical shape with injuries to only linebacker Bob Terrio (strained knee ligaments), offensive tackle Daryl White (sprained ankle), linebacker Bill Sloey (reoccurrence of knee injury) and quarterback Van Brownson (pulled hamstring muscle). But trainer Paul Schneider said none were believed to be serious. audibles at the line of scrimmage and three of his 12 passes went for touchdowns.

"I was calling a lot of audibles early in the game," Tagge explained, "But then they started doing a lot of jumping around on defense, so we went to calling plays on a short count and we caught them jumping around a few times." Tagge's touchdown passes included an 80-yarder to tight end Jerry List for a 17-0 lead with 2:45 left in the first quarter, a 33-yarder to Johnny Rodgers for a 31-3 edge with 2:50 remaining in the third quarter, and a 17-yarder to Frosty Anderson with 8:08 left in the game to wrap up the scoring. Tagge also ran 12 yards for a score with 2:40 left in the first half that gave the Huskers their 24-3 halftime cushion. The other NU score came on a 21-yard scamper by back-up quarterback Van Brownson with 12:35 left in the game that made it 38-3. "I think we were prepared for the game when you take everything into consideration," Tagge allowed after the game. "It's hard to concentrate over here with all the distractions.

"I think we all came over here with a relaxed attitude and I think we all had a gocd time. It was a good break for us after the Oklahoma game." The NU quarterback was ready to argue with anyone suggesting the Huskers' performance was a disappointing one. "It's hard to be disappointed when you win 45-3," he allowed. Despite the Hawaiian climate which saw temperatures yards into the end zone and Sanger's first of six perfect conversion boots made it 10-0 witn only six minutes gone in the contest. From that point on there was no doubt as to whose name was going to appear at the left of the football scores' column of Sunday papers (Monday in most cases because of the time difference between here and the mainland).

But the 251 yards in total offense gained by the Rainbows was more than the Huskers' average yield and more than most Big Eight teams had been able to gain against the Husker defense. Of that total 204 came via the air lanes, the only place the Rainbows were able to hurt the Huskers consistently and even via that method they could not get across the goal line, having to settle for Henry Sovio's 29-yard field goal with 6:30 remaining in the first half after Nebraska had rolled to a 17-0 margin. While 481 yards is a creditable figure with the figure being well balanced between rushing (233) and passing (248), it was far from one of the Huskers' better offensive performances of the season. Husker quarterback Jerry Tagge faced as much or more pressure from the Hawaiian pass rush as he's faced all season despite the fact that the Husker offensive line had the Rainbow defensive front outweighed by 18 pounds per man. Many of the 12 passes Tagge hit out of the 25 he threw were done with him face to face with a green-jerseyed Hawaiian.

But the veteran quarterback did a masterful job of calling By HAL BROWN Star Sports Editor Honolulu Nearly every member of the Nebraska football team that had just become the winningest in the history of college football here Saturday night would admit that playing Hawaii isn't like playing Oklahoma and playing in Hawaii isn't like playing in Norman, or Lincoln, or any other spot you might happen to name in the continental United States and you could also throw in Alaska if you wanted. "Hawaii is a great place to live or to visit," said one. "But it's no place to play football." "Didn't our season end about nine days ago," asked another, referring to the Game of The Decade of Nov. 25 in which Nebraska had protected its No. 1 ranking and won its third Big Eight title with a 35-31 win over Oklahoma.

But despite the non-football atmosphere here in which the Huskers had to prepare and play their 12th game of the season, they did win it, 45-3, and they even beat the point spread that had wavered all week between 36 and 42 points and finally settled at 41 at game time, which was also a non-football oriented midnight Lincoln time. That 12th win against no losses is the most any college team has ever won in a regular season and pushed the Huskcr unbeaten string to 31 straight and their winning string to 23 straight, dating back to a 21-21 tie with Southern California at the start of the 1970 season. The win was accomplished the same way those previous 1 1 wins this season were accomplished with balance, balance between offense and defense and balance between running and passing on offense. But the most glaring mismatch in a game that had a mismatch nearly everywhere you looked even to the mismatch between the vocal support offered by the 7,000 to 8.000 red-clad Husker fans and that offered by the more bashful Hawaiian fans, who made up the rest of the capacity crowd of 23,500 was the mismatch between the Nebraska defensive line and (he Rainbows' offensive front wall. It was apparent from the opening series of plays the Rainbows ran after the Huskers had taken a 3-0 lead on a 32-yard field goal by Rich Sanger on their opening possession that the Hawaii offensive line was no match for the likes (if Bill Janssen and all-Americans Rich (ilover, Larry Jacobson and Willie Harper.

On the Rainbows' first attempt at moving the ball Larry Sherrer, their leading rusher, was stopped for no gain. On the second, quarterback Elroy Chong was thrown for a nine-yard loss. On the third, a horde of white-jcrseyed members of the Husker Black Shirt gang stormed Chong like the surf rolling in and forced him to get rid of the ball to free his hands to break the fall that was about to come. The result was a completion to NU monster Dave Mason, who ran it 25 Nebraska, Oklahoma Nip Marks Kansas City (UPI) Longstanding NCAA and Big Eight football records went tumbling Saturday when No. 1-ranked Nebraska and No.

3 Oklahoma completed regular-season play with overwhelming victories. Nebraska smashed Hawaii, 45-3, extending its unbeaten streak to 31 games and Oklahoma clouted Oklahoma State, 58-14. Oklahoma became the first team in NCAA history to run for more than 5,000 yards in a single season. The Sooners finished with 5,196, far more than the old record of 3,910 set by Oklahoma in 1956. Both Nebraska (469) and Oklahoma (494) surpassed the old Big Eight scoring record of 466 points by the '56 Sooners, but they needed extra games to do it.

And Greg Pruitt, with 189 yards against Oklahoma State, finished the season with 1,665 yards rushing, breaking Steve Owens' Big Eight record of 1,536 yards in one season. The Sooners also finished with an average of 566.2 yards total offense surpassing the NCAA record of 562 set by Houston in 1968. For the season, Big Eight teams logged a 25-7-1 record against non-conference foes. The .773 percentage is the best PORT SGMS 7 By Hal Brown Sports Editor, The Star STAFF PHOTO BY BOB GORHAM GOOD PROJECTION Tagge gets good protection on this play from his line. Kellv's un Soarks Cleveland NU Cagers To Battle Duquesne BROWNS CLINCH AFC'S CENTRAL DIVISION TITLE in the history of the league.

Big 8 Standings Confcrercc Games Pet. Pts. Od. Nebraska Oklahoma Colorado Iowa State Oklahoma State Kansas State 1.000 279 tn .857 II .714 181 138 .573 189 145 .286 110 254 .286 125 192 .286 Kansas 2 Missouri 104 218 57 200 All Games 10 1 9 2 8 3 Pet. Pts.

Opp. l.OOO 469 .909 494 194 .818 341 .700 322 217 .455 219 29 .409 184 322 .364 18 286 .091 93 260 Nebraska Oklahoma Colorado Iowa State Kansas State Oklahoma State Kansas Missouri 5 4 .4 6 6 7 1 10 Saturday's Results Nebraska 45, Hawaii 3 Oklahoma 58, Oklahoma State 14 Kelly's game -winning touchdown came after the Browns cut the Bengals' lead to 27-24 on a 12-yard field goal by Don Cockroft. The Bengals had an early 20-7 lead but the Browns got back into the game on two touchdown passes by Bill Nelsen, who was 14-for-28 for the day. John Hadl's five-yard TD pass to Mike Garrett gave the Chargers a 17-14 lead over the Vikings early in the fourth period and the Chargers added two field goals by Dennis Partee and a TD by Pete Barnes on a pass interception. The 30 points were the most scored against the Vikings in any game this season but Minnesota retained its game and a half lead in the National Conference's Central Dvision because of Detroit's loss.

Jim Plunkett threw TI) passes of 26 and 23 yards to ex-Stanford teammate Randy Vataha as the Patriots ended the Dolphins' eight-game winning streak. Jim Nance ran six first period and the Steelers never threatened. The Oilers defense held the Steelers to 73 yards rushing and 49 passing in eliminating Pittsburgh from title contention. Larry Brown scored two touchdowns and Curt Knight kicked two field goals to lead the Redskins who are now 8-3-1 compared to Dallas' 9-3 mark in the NFC's Eastern Division. Willie Ellison scored on an 80-yard run and Travis Williams returned a kickoff 1C5 yards while Roman Gabriel threw three TD passes for the Hams in their victory over the Saints.

Norm Bulaich's one-yard TD plunge and Johnny Unitas five-yard TD pass pro-duced 14 third-period points for the Colts after they had been played to a scoreless tit; by the Bills in the first half. Jim Turner's field goals of 33 and 37 yards offset a 34-yarder by Mac Percival in the Bronco-Bear defensive struggle and Tim Webster's 27-yard field goal at the final gun lifted the Packers to their tic with the Cardinals. Hawaii Highlights Honolulu Short shots collected while watching a lot of short skirted things walk by: The 6,000 tn 7,000 Nebraskans, who followed the Huskers lure, may have pulled the greatest mass camouflage act the world has ever seen. From the time the Nebraskans hit the Island and bought their first Hawaiian shirt, it was tough to tell the tourists from natives except by their complexions. But that all changed at 5 p.m.

Saturday as the wild Hawaiian garb was tucked into the closets and the red garb war brought out. From looking across the stadium Saturday night, it was hard to tell which was the home team, but if a mass fight had broken out, the odds would have been about even. There was hardly any danger of fights as Hawaiians treated the Nebraska tourists royally and got the same courteous treatment in return from the well-behaved Husker backers. Plaudits For The Fans Writers seldom take time or space to mention the noisy, but well-mannered NU boosters, but Honolulu Star-Bulletin sports writer Jim Becker noticed the behavior of the Nebraska fans. There are some 12,000 (to the natives it probably seemed like that many) fans of Nebraska in town you can tell them by their haircuts: the barbershop LIVES! in Middle America plus the team and coaches, and from all reports they are No.

1 in off-the-field conduct, too," Becker wrote. "From Waikiki waiters to the fellows who are going to have to play them, the reports are we have never had a finer group of ladies and gentlemen in our midst Estimates have run as high as 10,000 regarding the number of Nebraskans who came here to see the Big Red play for the first time. "Among them was an 88-year-old Nebraskan, who was spending a second "honeymoon" here with his 81-ycar-oId wife. They were a part of one of the many tours, who followed the Husker team here. One of the things Nebraka fans found unusual here was that the nightly TV news shows did not include a weather segment.

The weather here apparently is so constant and perfect that it's just taken for granted. Hawaiians Knowledeabh Speaking of fans, Hawaiians have to be among the most knowledgeable college football fans in the country of the United States. That was particularly true of the staff at Jiro's, a local night spot where the girls serving the liquids were as knowledgeable about Nebraska football as were the writers they occasionally served. They were much more knowledgeable about Nebraska football than this writer was about Japanese delicacies. They all were taken aback after explaining that the raw fish I'd been eating and didn't know it was worth $5 a pound, causing me to ask how much extra it would be if they cooked it.

Everyone has heard of tickets being scalped to a football game, but when a special Nebraska luau was sold out at 3,300 people at $12 per person at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, there were reports that tickets to the luau even were being scalped. Nebraska coach Bob Devaney and three of the Husker players, Dick Rupert, Jerry Tagge and Jeff Kinney, will be returning here after the Orange Bowl for the Hula Bowl all-star game on Jan. 8. And don't be surprised if there's an announcement in the near future of a contract for a repeat visit by the Cornhuskers in four or five years. The Hawaiians liked the Husker Red, but they like the Husker Greenbacks better.

1 record compared to the Vikings' 9-3 slate. The Oilers scored a touchdown and two field goals after intercepting three of Terry Bradshaw's passes in the Butler's Score Sparks Knights Omaha Jerry Butler's goal with 3:55 left gave Omaha a come-from-behind 5-4 Central Hockey League victory over Oklahoma City Sunday night. It was the third straight win for Omaha and lifted them into a third-place tie with Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City tied the score at 4-4 with just 22 seconds gone in the third period which paved the way for Butler's final goal. Oklahoma City 3 0 1 4 Omaha 2 2 15 First Period 1, Oklahoma City, Shop-pard (Caron, Klatt) 2, Oklahoma City, Forbes (unassisted) 3, Omaha, Vickers (Newell, West) 4, Omaha Lefley (Coalter) 5, Oklahoma City, Caroi (unassisted) 8:36.

Penalties-New-ell, Om. Tarnow, OC, Newell, Om, Coalter, Om Durbano, Om, Adams, OC, Baird, OC, 17:20. Second period 6, Omaha, Hoqaboam (unassisted) :45. 7, Omaha, Hogaboam Durbano) 12:31. Penalties Forbes, OC, Durbano, Om, 19:45.

Third period 8, Oklahoma City, Shep-pard (Wing, Klatt) :22. 9, Omaha, Butler (Coalter Williams) 16:05. Penalties Gratton, Om, Newell, Om, Morusyk, OC, 12:40. Shots on goal by: Oklahoma City 5 11 7-23 Omaha 6 6 416 Goalies Adams, Oklahoma City; Bel, Omaha. A 3,371.

By United Press International Leroy Kelly scored on a four-yard dash with 1:48 left in the game Sunday as the Cleveland Browns rallied for a 31-27 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals. The win clinched the Central Division title in the National Football League's American Conference for the Browns. Cleveland became the first team to clinch a division title despite their 7-5 record when the second-place Pittsburgh Steelers lost to the Houston Oilers, 29-3. The Browns and Steelers could finish the season with identical 7-7 records but the Browns have completed their division play with a 5-1 mark and the Steelers have a 3-2 mark within the division. Otherwise, the day was marked by four major upsets-involving division title contenders the San Diego Chargers defeated the Minnesota Vikings, 34-14, the New England Patroits beat the Miami Dolphins, 34-13, the Atlanta Falcons downed the Oakland Raiders, 24-13, and the Philadelphia Eagles topped the Detroit Lions, 23-20.

The Raiders' loss dropped them into a virtual tie for first place in the American Conference's western division with the Kansas City Chiefs, who play the San Francisco Forty Niners in Monday night's game. In Sunday's other games, the Washington Redskins whipped the New York Giants, 23-7, the Los Angeles Rams outscored the New Orleans Saints, 45-28, the Baltimore Colts blitzed the Buffalo Bills, 24-0, the Denver Broncos shaded the Chicago Bears. 6-3. and the Green Bay Packers and St. Louis Cardinals played a 16-16 tie.

The Dallas Cowboys crushed the New York Jets, 52-10, in a Saturday afternoon game. Pittsburgh, Pa. Duquesne University provides the first road test this season for coach Joe Cipriano's Nebraska basketball team. The Cornhuskers, 1-2 after three Coliseum matches last week, meet the Dukes of coach Red Manning here at the Civic Arena Monday beginning at 7:30 p.m. Lincoln time.

"They're a tough team they use defenses like those we've seen this year," says Cipriano. 'They use a mid-court press and change from a man-to-man to a zone defense." Duquesene, which has appeared in post-season tournaments the past four years, won its opener last Thursday, defeating Morehead State, 76-63. Cipriano said he talked with Morehead coach Bill Harrell, a former aide on the NU basketball staff. "He (Harrell) told me they have a fine team he was real impressed with their 6-9 center," Cipriano said. Lionel i 1 1 i the sophomore center from New York City, opened his varsity career with 21 points against Morehead State.

He paced the Duke freshmen last season with game averages of 29 points and 15 rebounds. Ruben Montanez, a 6-2 junior added 20 for the Dukes in their opener, which provided Manning with his 200th win at the Pittsburgh school. Coming off a 21-4 season, Duquesne lost the services of Mickey Davis, who decided to forego his final year of college eligibility to play professional basketball. In two previous meetings, Duquesne prevailed 55-49 during the 1948-49 campaign and Nebraska triumphed 82-77 in the 1969-70 season. JFK Girls Rap Milwaukee Team Wahoo John F.

Kennedy College defeated Real Refrigeration of Milwaukee, 70-36. here Sunday afternoon in AAU women's basketball. The JFK gals were led by Barb Wischmeier with 21 points, Diana Daniel with It and Gail Ahrenholtz also with 11. The team now has a 7-1 record. The Wisconsin team finished sixth in the national tournament last year.

Creighton Seeks Third Win With Idaho State Omaha Undefeated Creighton will be seeking its third straight win of the season here Monday night at Civic Auditorium against Idaho State University. Coach Eddie Sutton's Blue-jays, are 2-0 after victories over Wisconsin State University of Oshkosh and Montana State University last week. NWU's Sapp Triumphs In Doane Tourament Willv Sapp of Nebraska Wes- Sports Menu pts. GF GA 13 29 81 65 24 75 67 20 79 80 Dallas Tulsa Oklahoma City Omaha Kansas City Monday BASKETBALL Big Eight: Nebraska at Duquesne; Kentucky Kansas Slate; Washington at Colorado; Kansas at Indiana; Montana State at Missouri; Oklahoma at Texas Tech; State Colleges: Idaho State at Creighton. Omaha Civic Audi'orium, p.m.; Nebraska Wcs'eyan at Loyola of Chicago; Con- 0 10 9 11 8 11 20 63 74 18 68 66 17 65 83 yards for another TD and Larry Carwell scored on a 53-yard pass interception.

Mercury Morris scored the Dolphins' TD with a 94-yard return of the opening kickoff. Tom Hayes sent the Falcons off in front with a 60-yard run with a fumble in the first period and Atlanta 1 Oakland, 17-3, at halftime. The Raiders cut their deficit to 17-13 on a 31-yard TD pass from Dayle Lamonica to Fred Bilet-nikoff in the third period but the Falcons clinched the game with a 58-yard TD drive in the fourth period. Pete Liske's five-yard TD pass to Kent Kramer with one minute left enabled the Eagles to top Detroit after the Lions overcame a 16-0 halftime deficit and went ahead 20-16 on Greg Landry's five-yard TD run with 1:53 remaining. The loss gave the Lions a 7-4- Forth Worth 7 13 Sunday's Results Omaha 5.

Oklahoma City 4 Only game scheduled curjia, at UNO. Tuesday BASKETBALL Big Eight: Iowa State at Dv.ke; State Colleges: Doane at Peru; Wayne at Midland; Dana at BeHevue; Conco'dia at Kearncv; Central Neb Tech at M.lt.mva'p, Fair-bury Junior College at York Wednesday BASKETBALL Big 'Eight: Texas at Kancu'-. S'ae; Wichifa at Coloiado; Notre Dame at Kansas. Lincoln Hgh Schocls: Lincoln East vs. Lincoln Hiqh at Pershing Auditorium, 8 p.m.; State North Platte Junior College at Nort'ieaitern, Junior Callcge at Wcr'hmqton.

New Zealand's Charles Wins Otago Golf Meet Auckland, New Zealand ij Left-hander Bob Charles of New Zealand fired a three-under-par 69 Sunday and won tne S16.800 Otago Golf Classic by six strokes over Martv Bohen of the United States. leyan University captured the 190-pound weight championship in the Doane Invitational Wrestling Tournament Friday by pinning Cienrne Kuffin in tj 30..