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flondoy, September 21, 1970 The Lincoln Star II i JL: i fs. i 4 it 'fe. r. 1 K.1UMirfMM' 'ilk ll. .1 JJj I If Ml; Till' I sir! ov -i 5vti 's-'Jt, -H THE CHASE Nebraska's John Hyland (58) goes after Trojan quarterback Jones and finally gets him.

Husker Players Disgusted 'WE SHOULD HAVE WON' IS FEELING vinced the 73,768 in attendance that they weren't the same, slower team which the Trojans belted 31-21 in Lincoln last year. Southern Cal gained only seven yards on their first series of downs and were forced to punt. Nebraska took over on its own 17-yard line and moved to the USC nine in 13 plays. And after starting with such a bang, anything short of the real thing was hard for the Huskers to digest. "Everybody was so confident," recalled Husker fullback and co-captain Dan Schneiss.

"A couple of bad breaks and one interception and that was it. We wanted this one bad, but we're too proud to let down now just because we didn't get it." Halfback Joe Orduna, who rushed for 39 yards during the initial Nebraska drive, admitted that the Huskers had their chances to win the game. "We could have done it," said the Husker I-back. "I missed two TDs myself." Orduna fumbled on the Southern Cal nine-yard line following the early first-quarter drive. Perhaps another reason Nebraska found it difficult to stomach a tie was because of a missed field goal attempt in the final quarter.

The Cornhuskers had a big chance By JIM JOHNSTON Star Sports Writer Los Angeles Nebraska's Cornhuskers were by no means discouraged with their performance in the Los Angeles Coliseum Saturday night. It was just the final score that bothered them. "I'm disgusted," said middle guard Ed Periard after Southern California fought back for a 21-21 tie. "Later in the season I'll probably be happy because we didn't get beat, but right now I'm disgusted." The Cornhuskers entered the game a decisive underdog and a tie to many an NU fan would have been quite satisfactory. But the Big Red machine started moving fast and con rfj (i to take a 24-14 lead in the final period, but Paul Roger's field goal attempt from the 12-yard line was wide to the right.

"The snap from center was a little low," said quarterback Jerry Tagge who was holding for Rogers. "I should have had it on the tee a little better than I did. It has to be perfect and it wasn't. But I guess its just one of those things." After Nebraska had established a quick running attack early in the game, Husker super sophomore Johnny Rodgers thought the Cornhuskers could win it. "I thought we almost had it won until the last," said Rodgers.

Was the Husker flanker back disappointed with a tie? "I just don't like ties when you're supposed to win," he said. And neither Nebraska coach Bob Devaney nor USC boss John McKay spoke fondly of ties. "Hell no, I'm not satisfied with a tie," said Devaney. "But it is better than losing and I am sure that is the way John McKay feels also." McKay agreed. But after all, Southern California has become adjusted to ties.

The Trojans have tied Notre Dame for the last two years in keeping their undefeated string of 23 games in regular season play alive. "A tie?" quipped McKay. "Well, it's better than losing. But you're always disappointed when you don't win." But neither locker room at the Los Angeles Coliseum was rejoicing after the game. Both teams played hard-nosed football and both teams wanted very badly to win.

"Sure, you always want to win and we came to Los Angeles thinking we were going to win," said Nebraska's Dan Schneiss. "But, I guess a tie means that an undefeated season is still in line." Just ask Southern California. They've gone through the last two seasons undefeated. But it hasn't been without a tie. EMOTION NU's Dave POST-GAME Morock.

EXPERT ATTENTION Donnie McGhee gets treatment from Sullivan. Papa ears' Money Safe ROZELLE'S INTERVENTION MAY BE GOOD Staff Photos By Web Ray Willis Van Sickle PAUSE THAT REFRESHES Terrio gets help from Husker physical therapist George Sullivan. team was guilty of unforgivable stupidities at the end and probably deserved to lose, 30-29, on a field goal in the last four seconds of play. And now a new season is about to begin without any wagers being placed by anyone anywhere. Would anyone like to bet on that statement? Laguna Fight To Be Seen On Television By Associated Press Ismael Laguna, the Panamanian with the whirlwind style, will defend his world lightweight championship against Ken Buchanan, a Scotsman with a classic boxing style, Saturday at San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The scheduled 15-round bout, this week's feature fight, will be held in Hiram Bithorn Stadium and will be seen live in the United States on ABC-TV's Wide World of Sports starting at 1:30 It will be the third defense of the title Laguna won for the second time by stopping Mando Ramos in nine rounds at Los Angeles March 3, 1970. In his first fight, he knocked out 1 IjyiP11 i mi li. i'u i i mm -rr- 'v Its Prohibited by all known rules and a few unknown ones from wagering on any N.F.L. com-i petition Halas attacked the problem from the blind side just as he had with enemy players during his long service as the most ruthless defender on the Bear squad. The Halas plot was to bet $15,000 on the Bears.

Then after the Chicagoans had muscled past such rock crushers as the Minnesota Vikings, Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers to take the Central Division Championship thcis season, the sum of $3 million would have been won by Halas, the boy plunger. Without even stopping to count it, he intended to turn it over instantly at a million apiece to the cancer research units named for Vince Lomhardi, Jack Mara and Brian Piccolo, all cancer victims. Deep is the hatred every sport has for gambling except horse racing, whfch loves it anw protective shields constantly are being enlarged to guard against any encroachment by the wagering gentry. The antennae of Commissioner Pete Rozells begins to twang in alarm at any mention of the word, bet, even when whispered to him seductively by Halas. Appreciative though he was of George's motives, Pete had to squelch the charitable instincts of the innocent from Chicago, George Stanley Halas, by flatly refusing permission to make any sort of wager.

Before the witching hour of midnight reaches the Yankee Stadium Saturday night, Halas might be starting to think that maybe Rozclle saved him $15,000 of betting money. Such notion could enter his nofigin if the New York Giants should knock off the Bears in the 41st game of this ancient scries as the new season formally gets under way. If the Chicagoans win, though, George's phantom bet would still be alive. But if they lose he probably will be pleased by the Rozelle circumspection. Both Bears and Giants, two historical powerhouses, have been in twin states of disintegration of recent years and each hopes that large shifts in personnel will give new lifts.

The Giants have been battling throughout the exhibition season and the most puzzling game of all was the one with the Jets. For the first 16 minutes the Giants looked superb. They slammed hard and effectively. They capitalized on Jet mistakes and a crowd 70,000, most of them Giant fans chortled in glee. "This is what we'd geen waiting for," one neighbor said to another.

"The Giants are on their way baclc to the top." But then everything stopped. The better-coached Jets brushed aside weak Giant blockers with one platoon and the other platoon brushed aside weak Giant tacklcrs. The Giants won 28-to-24 over a team that lacked Joe Namath. Yet the Jets were superior everywhere but on the scoreboard. A week later the Giants were even worse against Terry Bradshaw and the Steelers.

Last Saturday the Giants had many moments of high encouragement against the Cleveland Browns, particularly in the ball-carrying of Tucker Fredericks and Ron Johnson. But the cEfcecUiljorkSimrl By ARTHUR DALEY New York It is to be doubted that George Halas has recklessly risked any of his money since he handed over $50 to the newly-formed national football league a half-century ago for his Chicago Bear franchise. If that transcation now smacks of being a sure thing, it was a pure gamble in the distant past because pro football was a nothing sport and was so ignored by press and public that the Bears lost $71.63 in their maiden year in Chicago. The Papa Bear has improved his financial position since then, of course, and has eased unobtrusively into the ranks of the millionaires. For most of that time the Bears prospered with him as they became the scourge of the gridiron and the dominant team in play-for-pay circles.

But a fadeout began over the last decade until the once mighty Bears produced as sorry a record last season as there was in pro ball. These former invincibles won only one game. At the age of 75 Halas is as much of a belligerent battler as he always was. So he bristled with indignation when he recently read that the odds makers in Las Vegas had so low an opinion of his ball club that they practically dismissed the team as 200-to-l shots to wm even a divisional title. Tlte Papa Bear, a nongambler couldn't resist such odds although he should have been smart enough to realize that this is sucker bait.

Stung by the insult George dreamed up a scheme for teaching the rascals a lesson. Shimatsu Suzuki of Japan in 13 rounds at Panama June 7. Laguna, who has 63 victories, six losses and a draw, won and lost the world title to Carlos Ortiz in 1965. Buchanan, the British Empire champion, has a 36-1 record. I- Olympic Date Set The 1976 Winter Olympics will be held at Denver, Teb.

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