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Pirates Mm at Nebraska, '280 t. Army in- vy 7 Pennant Marches Stopped I ii- lb i If f. Pinch runner John Jeter raced home on a short sacrifice fly by Jose Pagan In the seventh Inning to give' the Pittsburgh Pirates a 4-3 victory over the New York Wets Saturday and clinch a tie for the National JLeague East Division title. The victory left both the Mets and the Chicago Cubs, who lost to the Philadelphia Phillies, 4'i games behind. The Pirates have four games remaining.

The! Cubs and Mets have five. With one out in the Pirates seventh, Bob Robertson singled to center and the ball went past Tommis Agee for a two-base error and Robertson was at Manny Sanguillen was safe at first when Donn Clendenon dropped a throw' from Ken Boswell while Jeter running for Robertson, held at Pagan, batted for Richie Hebner and hit a short fly to Agee, but the speedy Jeter beat the throw to the plate. The Pirates Jiad taken a 2-0 lead with runs in the second and third innings, but the Mets tied the score in the fourth when starter Tom Seaver boomed a triple to center with two men on base. Hebner hit a solo home run in the second inning and Willie Stargell cracked a bases-loaded single in the i for the two Pirate runs. The Pirates went ahead 3-2 in the fifth on consecutive doubles by StargeU and Robertson, but the Mets tied the game again in the seventh when Agee led off with a triple and Wayne Garett hit a sacrifice fly to Alou.

It was a decade ago when the Pirates last won a title and that year, 1960, they took it all in eluding the World Series under-; Manager Danny Murtaugh, who is the present manager. 4, 3 few A STAFF COLORPHOTO BY RANDY HAMPTON Nebraska defense which held Army to a mere 18 yards rushing Saturday, was led by the likes of John Hyland (58), with his arms draped around Cadets back' Ray Ritacco (46) as Husker. Jerry Murtaugh (42) approaches with added help. Devaney Had a Few Things to Say Half time Pep Talk Gives Cornhuskers Boost 1 "I think this Minnesota team might be the best Minnesota team Nebraska has had to play." Tagge was enthusiastic about the play of Husker defense that kept them in the game until the offense could get moving. "Our defense is becoming more cohesive every game," he observed.

"You vpuld tell that by those goal line stands. It's a great inspiration not only to the defensive players, but also to the offense to see them play as well as they did today." v- fy SEC. 10 PAGES LINCOLN, NEB. SEPT. 27, 1970 By HAL BROWN Fiery dressing room pep talks are supposed to be something you only see in the movies these, days- and Nebraska coach Bob Devaney tried to play down the role of such a halftone visit with his players, but the NU gridders were talking about it after their 28-0 victory over Army afternoon.

"Coach Devaney got us fired: up at the half," quarterback Jerry Tagge out. "He had a few 'things' to say to us." "Coach Devaney gave us a good talking to at halftime," flanker Johnny Rodgers added. "And we know what he meant. He talked to us about not taking a team seriously enough and said he could see it coming all week." Devaney preferred to speak of it in terms of a technical discussion, explaining, "I don't think I saw a letdown coming, but I was afraid we weren't 1 i- V-S. Another player happy with the defensive effort was Dave Morock, the Husker monster man who claimed, "That defensive line of ours made playing pass defense easy today because of the rush they were putting on the passer.

"Those people we've got up front are getting experience and gaining more confidence. They're starting to go after people. "And our No. 2 defense did a great job on that goal line stand. We've' got good defensive people all the way ddwn to the third and fourth teams." Another player happy with the work of the No.

2 defense was No. 1 middle guard Ed Periard. "We were really cheering for them on that goal line stand," he said referring to the No. 1 unit's thoughts when the No. 2 unit was in the game.

"It vk-' -A. Over Huskies football game. Henry, who didn't enter the game until the third period, broke a 3-3 deadlock with his eight-yard run with 24 seconds left in the third period as the Wolverines finally capitalized on Husky offensive mistakes. 'ii-li-k'K--'' r- f. W-ivT going to be to pick up some of their stunts.

"It was a very frustrating first, Army is the type of team that has" always given us trouble through the; years. We get guys big enough to handle big teams, then we have trouble with the' small, quick, teams." 7. Tagge admitted that part of i the halftime discussion did. deal with techniques. "Offensively, we were very erratic and just couldn't seem to get a sustained drive going.

But the second half we came at 'em a little better and we knew a little better about what they were doing on defense. The coaches showed us some things on the blackboard." But the Husker quarterback admitted that part of the Husker offensive problem might have been a combination of taking Army too lightly and the Cadets being fired up for the contest. intercepted a Penn State pass on the first play of the game and 90 seconds later went in for a touchdown. The opportunistic Buffaloes never let up and the baffled Lions were unable to make a contest of it after early in the second period when they cut the Big Eight team's lead to 13-7. Penn State 7 0 613 Colorado 13 7 14 741 Col-fTarver one run (Haney kick) Col FG Haney 35 Col FG Haney 48 PS Harris 6 run (Reitz kick) Col Rieger 1 run (Haney kick) Col Branch 57 kickoff return (Haney kick) Col-Walsh 19 run (Haney kick) PS Edmonds 3 pass from Parsons (run failed) Col Kay 17 pass from Arendt (Haney kick) Another String tory over previously unbeaten Tarkiohere.

Doane 3 3 7 320 Tarkio 0 7 0 07 Doane Hunt, 27-yd. field goal. Doane Hunt, 45-yd. run with Intercepted pass. Tarkio Smith, 1 run (Smith kick).

Doane Saltier, 31, run (Hunt kick). Doane Hunt, 22-yd. field Statistics Army NU First downs 13 Rushing yardage 18 Passing yardage ....128 Return yardage 35 25 222 229 53 Passes Punts 14-36-0 17-23-0 11-37 3-31 Fumbles lost 0 Yards penalized IS 4 61 By DON FORSYTHE You can say what you want about the offensive ex- plosion in college football, but good defense will never be obsolete. Nebraska proved it Saturday with a tenacious defense which held Army at bay until a mistake plagued offense warmed to the task in the third quarter. It was Mr.

Excitement, Johnny Rodgers, to the rescue as the Cornhuskers improved on their slim 7-0 halftime lead and rolled to a 28-0 triumph. While a fierce pass rush anchored by middle guard Ed Periard highlighted a strong showing by the Black Shirts it took a brilliant goal line stand by the No. 2 defense to preserve the Cornhuskers first shutout in 12 games. The last whitewash was last year's 14-0 win over Texas The alternate defense, which had given up 65 yards as Army marched to a first and goal at the Nebraska two yard line early in the fourth quarter, was given a standing ovation by the crowd of 66,928 as it turned the ball over to the offense at the seven. It was one of only three serious Army scoring threats as the Cadets were held to a r.et of 18 yards on the ground and 128 in the air by the bristling Cornhusker defense.

Had it not been for big play capabilities of Rodgers the Cornhuskers might have never got on the board. Even Johnny wasn't perfect, however, as his fumble of the first Army punt contribute greatly to Nebraska's early offensive woes. But by the time he hauled in a 43-yard pitch from Jerry Tagge for the first Nebraska tally late in the second quarter, set up the second touchdown with a 38-yard punt return' and scored the third on a 26-yard pilch from Tagge the slippery sophomore had atoned for his opening faux pas. The Cornhusker offense, which had played sensationally a week ago against Southern Cai, had six opportunities with the football in the first half. All six were marred by major errors.

Nebraska was off to a shaky start when Bill Kosch fumbled the opening kidkoff and recovered at the Nebraska eight. Tagge led the Cornhuskers out of that hole, but Jeff Kinney muffed his third and eight pass over the middle from the Army 49 and Nebraska was forced to punt. Seven plays later Army's Ron Danhof kicked to Rodgers and tight end Mike Masciello covered Johnny's fumble at the Nebraska 49. The Cornhuskers got the ball back again in four plays, but had to start at their own eight. An illegal procedure penalty botched the second series and when the Cornhuskers had driven from their own 20 to the Army 15 as the quarter ended the offense finally appeared to be in high gear.

But Tagge couldn't get rid of the ball on third down and took a 10-yard loss to force a Paul Rogers field goal attempt from 42 yards out. His boot was long enough, but wide to the left. When the Cornhuskers got the ball again with 11:52 left in the half coach Bob Devaney sent Van Brownson out for his season debut at quarterback. It was by no means a smash hit. He appeared to have to lunge to make handoff connections on two carries by Joe Orduna, then fumbled the snap on third and one.

Army's Dave Smith recovered. The Cadets moved from the Nebraska 40 to the 21 before the Black Shirts stiffened and forced a 37-yard field goal try by Arden Jensen. It was short with 8:21 left in the half. Tagge was called a into action and got the Cornhuskers on the board despite having Jerry List drop a potential 40-yard gainer and having a 12-yard toss to Rodgers wiped out by a clipping penalty. The moved to the.

Army 43, where Jeff Kinney was stacked up for no gain on first down. Then Tagge 6ent Rodgers streaking down the left sideline behind Army cor-ncrback Lane Morehead and Buffs Ambush Penn State -r means a lot to a defensive unit to get a shutout. "Our goal on defense is to be better than the defense of last year and they gave up 10 points a game. We want to do better than that and a shutout helps." This year's defense ha? now given up 11 points per game in the first three, but Periard points out, "We've got some good teams yet to play." Even while the offense was having problems in the first half, Morock said he and his defensive mates were confident the offense would begin scoring points soon. "We felt we had to give our offense a chance to get rolling," he pointed out.

"Sometimes, it takes an offense longer to get moving than it does a defense. "it's a good feeling on defense to know that you've got Cont. on Page 2C 4 it. f. How They Scored NU A How Scored Time Left defeat all but ended the hopes of New York to repeat as the world champions as well as those of the Cubs Tim McCarver drove in three runs with a single and double as the Phillies crushed Chicago 7-1 behind Barry Lersch's six-hitter.

The Phillies wasted little time getting to 17-game winner Bill Hands, raking the Cubs' right-hander for eight hits and six runs hi 1 2-3 innings. Elsewhere in the National League San Francisco nipped San Diego, 7-6; Cincinnati stopped Los Angeles, 6-3; Houston defeated Atlanta, 5-2 and St. Louis ripped Montreal, 7-2. In the American League New York's ritz Peterson won his 19th game, 2-1 over" Detroit; Baltimore stopped Cleveland, 1 7-4; Milwaukee dumped 9-5; Bostton whipped Washington, 6-3, and Kansas City blanked Minnesota, 5-0. Oakland nipped California, 4-3, in the other AL contest.

Rodgers Nixes Fair Catches "Nebraska flanker and punt returner Johnny Rodgers explained to writers after the Army game Saturday that it wasn't a fear of not getting a chance at a punt runback that keeps him from calling for fair catches on punts. afraid I might drop it with all those people watching me," he explained." iiiiiiffli American East 103 91 84 77 75 70 West 95 86 ai 63 62 56 54 69 74 81 83 86 61 71 75 95 94 101 Pet. .656 .572 .532 .487 .475 .449 .609 .548 .519 .399 .397 .357 GB 13 19Vi 26' 28 Va 32' Baltimore New York Boston Detroit Cleveland Washington Minnesota Oakland California Milwaukee Kansas City, 9'j 14 33 33 3914 Chicago Results Cleveland Baltimore 7, (It Innlnas) Boston New York Oakland Minnesota at Washlnaton 2, Detroit 1 at California at Kansas City 9, Chicago 5 Milwaukee 12 Innings) Sunday'! Garnet Milwaukee (Downing 5-12) at Chicago (Horlen 6-15) Baltimore (Phoebus 5-5) at Cleveland (McDowell 20-11) Minnesota (Tiant 7-2) at Kansas City (Rooker 9-15) Boston (Peten 15-11) at Washington (Bosman 16-11) Oakland (Dobson 16-14) at California (May 6-T3) Detroit (Hiller 5-4) at New York (Slot-tlemyre 14-13) National i East Pet. GB "i'A Vt 11 13Vk 16 Pittsburgh 86 72 .544 New York 81 76 .516 Chicago 81 76 .516 St Louis 75 83 .475 Philadelphia 72 85 .459 Montreal 70 88 .443 West Cincinnati .100 59 .629 Los Angeles 85 72 .541 S.Francisco 85 72 .541 Atlanta 75 84 .472 Houston 74 B3 .471 San Diego 62 96 .392 14 14 25 25 37'A Results Philadlphia 7, Chicago 1 Pittsburgh 4, New York .3 St Louis 7, Montreal 2 Houston 5, Atlanta 2 Cincinnati 6, Los Angeles 3 Francisco 7, San Diego Sunday's Games New York "(McAndrew 10-12) at Pitts- burgh (Ellis 12-10) San Diego (Coombs 10-13 or Corklni 5- 6) at San Francisco (Perry 22-13) Houston (Blasingame 3-3) at A 1 1 a a (Barber 0-2) Los Angeles (Moeller 7-9) at Cincinnati (Nolan 17.7) Chicago (Jenkins 20-16) at Philadelphia (Bunning 10-14) at. Louis (Parker i-u ai Montreal (Morton 17-11) "I think we learned a lesson today," he pointed out.

"I think we may have been thinking about a Big Eight cham-' pionship already and we learned we can't do that. "I think we got those ideas out of our head today and now we're ready to play each game as it comes." Tagge promised that Minnesota, this week's foe, would not be taken lightly. "They beat Ohio bad today and when a team can hold Missouri scoreless in the first half, we're not going to take them lightly. Minnesota Tramples Ohio, 49-7 Statistics Ohio Minn. First downs 22 35 Rushing yardage 83 489 Passing yardage 163 44 Return yardage 25 21 Passes 14-36-3 6-10 0 Punts 4-35 Fumbles lost 1 Yards penalized 27 112 Minneapolis (UPI) Using a devastating ground attack, the Minnesota Gophers overwhelmed the smaller Ohio University team 49-7 in a non-conference contest Saturday.

Each of Minnesota's touchdowns was scored by a different player as the Gophers moved 489 yards on the ground and picked up "35 first downs to set a new school record. The previous record was 27 against Indiana in 1965. Ohio got to the three yard line in the first period, but was stopped by the Gopher defense and had to turn the ball over. They finally scored in the fourth quarter when Bill Gary rushed for two yards to climax a 77 yard drive. Ohio 0 0 0 77 Minnesota 14 14 14 749 Minn Cook 2 run (Clare kick) Minn Clare 16 run (Clare kirk) Minn Curry 19 run (Clare kick) Minn Buetow I pass from Curry (Clara kick) Minn Mayer 21 run, (Clare kick) Minn Humleker 5 run (Clare kick) Ohio Gary 2 run (Green kick) Minn Morgan 5 run (Clare kick) Sunday Bob Devaney Show 10:30 p.m.

(10); 11:15 p.m. (7). Pro Football New York Jets Boston, noon, followed by Oakland v. San Diego 3 p.m. (3).

Pro Football Los Angeles v. Buffalo, Noon (6-10). Bowling Noon (7). BasebaU Minnesota at Kansas City, 7:10 p.m. (KLIN).

Notre Dame Football 10:30 a.m: (3). College Football Highlights -1 p.m. (7). Statistics Penn State Colorado First downs Rushing yardage Passing, yardage Return yardage Passes Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalized 9 23 144 144 212 194 0 12 14-27-2 14-27 2 6-43 3-32 3 3 61 74 Boulder, Colo. Fired up Colorado ambushed Penn State's fourth-ranked Nittany Lions Saturday, 41-13, in a national televised football game and smashed the longest major collegiate football winning streak in the nation.

Penn State came out to the mountain country with a 23-game victory string and hadn't been defeated in 31 games. But the aroused Buffaloes Doarie Starts Tarkio, Mo. Doane College of Crete, which had a.38-game unbeaten streak snapped last week by Concordia, got back on the winning track Saturday night with a 20-7 vie-; A ft if'J li 4 1 ri -J (II I if jiiFiiitiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiftfiiiciiiiiiiiaiitiiiiiiiiiiiJiitit iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifitiiiiiiaiiiiifiitiif Cornhusker sophomore Johnny Rodgers discusses strategy with coach Bob Devaney as Nebraska mounts a successful third quarter rally against Army. Rodgers scored twice on pass catches and set up a third Cornhusker touchdown with a 38-yard punt return. Punt Return Sequence Photos on Page 4 Upset Alley Pius Over Links Page 2c Missouri Ambushed Page3C Oklahoma Loses Page3C 2 Michigan Wins Statistics Mich Wash 20 First downs Rushing yardage Passing yardage Return yardage Passes Punts Fur.ibles lost Yards penalized 15 215 67 47 HI 117 19-33-3 10-38 1 50 7-23-1 7-31 3 29 Seattle W) Preston Henry, a third-string tailback, scored on runs of 30 and eight yards to spark sluggish Michigan over a rabid Washington defense.

17-3, Saturday in an intersectional Second Quarter 6 0 Rodgers, 43-yard pass from Tagge 4:48 7 0 Rogers, kick. Third Quarter 13 0 Orduna, t-yard run 13:33 14 0 Rogers, kick. 30 0 Rodgers, 26-yard pass from Tagge 8:08 21 0 Rogers, kick Fourth Quarter 27 0 Cox, 31-yard pass from Brownson 13:37 28 0 Rogers, kick. Michigan I li 7- Washington I e. Wash FG Wiebowski 35 M'Ch FG Com 3 Mich Henry I run (Kilhan kick) Mich Henry 3) run (Killian kick) A-S' tiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiimininiiiiiB Cont on Pase 2C i.

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