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The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • 38

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The Lincoln Stari
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I Mtl T. MMMMrMM.tTT 80 Sept. 30, 1979 Lincoln, Sunday Journal and Star Missouri- -From page ID- Chuck Sinclair three times. Missouri coach Warren Powers was resolute in defeat. He vowed he's never watch his Missouri football team take another shellacking like this.

"Texas is a great football team, they played hard and they're well coached," said Powers. "We're just too explosive of a team to get shut out again. All I know is that with our talent we sure won't be shut out again'. Fred Akers, coach of the fourth-ranked unbeaten Long-horns, was gracious in victory. "They had a good football team," he said.

"We admire Missouri. Their defense was on the field a long time. We feel extremely fortunate to win this game and especially to shut them out. Field position was crucial to them, and we had the better of it." diove 28 yards to the Tiger 6 to sej up Goodson's 23-yard field goal. Cornerback Vance Bedford then picked off a Phil Bradley pass to give Texas the ball at the Missouri 32, setting up Goodson's 50-yarder.

A Bradley fumble at his own 4S set up Goodson's 35-yard field early in the second quaster and Texas put the ganfe on ice with its only touchdown drove in the final two minutes of the half. Quarterback Donnie Little hit Les Koenning with a 39-yard pass and then bolted 21-yards on his own to set up Jones' scoring run. Goodson added his 25-yard field goal early in the fourth quarter to ensure Missouri its first loss in four games. Little completed nine of 19 passes for 122 yards and also rushed for 76 yards to help Texas remain unbeaten at 2-0. The day was a complete disaster for Bradley, the All-Big Eight quarterback who completed only five passes in 18 tries, was intercepted once, fumbled twice and was sacked Texas Missouri 8 10 0 3-31 0 0 0 0-0 Tex FG Goodson 23 Tex FG Goodson 50 Tex Safety.

Slavdon block punt through end zone Tex FG Goodson 35 Tex Jones 1 run (Goodson kick) Tex FG Goodson 25 A 75,136 UPI TELEPHOTO Texas Longhorn's quarterback Donnie Little fumbles as he is hit by Missouri's Norman Goodman (98) and Wendell Ray (90). Missouri recovered thcfumble. Penn State postscripts- Mack runs, Hubach boots lift Kansas to win, 37-18 Sooners clobber Rice Unusual reunion There was a traditional reunion of tradition in the Capital City over the past weekend that would be difficult to rival arry where in the world. Not many, if any, schools can match the record of Lincoln High's graduates of the "Dirty Thirties." Alone, their accomplishments are staggering but lumped with those from LHS graduates through the 1920s also included in the reunion even Webster hasnt come up with a word that would adequately describe the domination. Through the 20 years of football, Lincoln High won 85 percent of its games, compiling a 156-15-12 record including 12 state championships, six in each ten year period.

The record slacked off to a mere 308-122 in basketball, a 72 percent winning ratio that included four state titles, two in each 10-year span, and three second place finishes. The 100-plus athletes that invaded the city from both coasts and a variety of occupations to take part in the.reunion, also accounted for six state track championships, three in tennis, three in swimming and five in golf. Now 'California' Nebraskan One of the members of the "Dirty Thirty" group, former ail-state and all-Big Six center Franklin Meyer, found the timing perfect to mix pleasure with two groups the Lincoln High grads, and the Californians For Nebraska. A retired civil engineer for the state Department of Roads. Meyer found his way to California last year to enjoy his life in the mountains near San Bernardino on Big Bear Lake.

Meyer bides his time chopping firewood for the winter, cross-country skiing and listening to Nebraska football "We're up at 7,000 feet," Meyer said. "We knew they usually had a little snow up there, but last year, the total snowfall was over 16 feet. We didn't figure it would be like that." While there were more prolific lettermen at Lincoln High during the "Dirty Thirties" with Beraie Masterson receiving 10 letters and Herm Rohrig nine, Meyer's five were unusual considering just one came in football the sport he went on to gain the most fame from. "I lettered twice in track and twice in swimming, but only in football at Lincoln High," Meyer recalled. "It's funny, because I lettered three years at the University of Nebraska, and played in the East-West game against former president Ford after my senior year." Does that mean Lincoln High had a better program? "It was pretty impressive," Meyer said.

"It's not like today when Lincoln has to feed all the other schools in town. With all the athletes at Lincoln High, we should have had good teams." The 1931 team that Meyer competed on wasn't one of the state champions. "When I was there, we never did win a state championship," Meyer said. "We came in second in swimming, and in track, I came in second to Lloyd Cardwell when he set the state record in the high hurdles, but he was so far ahead, I won't try iO claim that I pushed him. We did win our conference in football" Old Oval recalled Some of the Lincoln High grads probably stared in disbelief when they toured the school on Saturday morning and saw the old Oval had been razed to make room for a new structure.

"I never get too disappointed if it's something for progress," Meyer said of the Oval's demise. "That's where we played all our games. But when we played there, it was just dirt and sand all ground up. They'd come in and disc it up before the games. Sometimes we'd find an occasional spike or nail.

Our knees, elbows and faces would get all skinned up. There was no turf there." It would seem hard to feel bad about losing a place like that but for the graduates of those proud times, putting up with dirt, dust, sand and scrapes was a small price to pay for the success they enjoyed. Bio Eight NTex KU 16 28 30-96 63-300 245 165 24 32 13-35-0 15-33-1 8-35 4-47 3-2 3-1 6-59 5-51 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards OU Rice 19 16 54-355 43-171 44 188 25 15 3-11-0 16-35-3 5-37 7-40 2-2 61 9-84 5-65 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Posses Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-vards By Ken Hambleton and Brent Robinson Receiver Brad Scovill On his 19-yard touchdown pass from Dayle Tate in first quarter: The first play to set up the touchdown was an audible. I iust sot free of the linebackers and found the seam. The touchdown pass was another play-action pass that froze the linebackers.

We crossed the tight ends and the seam in the middle was open again. Nebraska was in a zone defense, but was in a man-to-man defense most of the game, after then. "NU really didn't adlust much, they iust didn't give Tate as much time to throw as he had earlier." All-American defensive tackle Matt Millen "We're lust going to have to start all over again." On NU offensive line: I expected a more physical game, and was hoping for one, because we probably would have done better. But Nebraska doesn't come straight at you. All they did was that leg-blocking, and that's frustrating.

All-American defensive tackle Bruce Clark "This was really frustrating. Those guys would be monkeying around at your feet with those leg blocks. It's not impressive, and it's not physical, but it's effective." On NU offense: "Their play-action plays froze the linebackers and the defensive backs and we iust started playing too cautious most of the game. We'd stop them and they'd come up with the big plays. I wish they would've come to my side more.

But everytime Matt (Millen) and I would line up to stop the option, they'd run the inside trap, and everytime we lined up inside, they'd go outside. Those audibles made a lot of difference. Quarterback Dayle Tate "They took us out of our game plan with that pass rush. After the first quarter, when everything was looking good, we'd iust get three plays and then to the bench. "We iust haven't got It all together vet." On NU's 28-point second quarter: "We helped them a lot, with my pitch and the fact we didn't get many first downs.

"Our plan was to open the game up, because we figured they'd be expecting the run, but they took away the passing too." Defensive back Tom Wise On his first quarter touchdown interception: "It was iust the coverage we were using. I thought he might be swinging one out my way, but I never even thought about an interception, let alone a touchdown." On the Nebraska offense: "They have some great backs and a solid offensive line. They more or less stuck to basics but they did things the way they were made to be done. Nebraska is a good solid football team." Running back Matt Suhey On problems moving the ball: "We iust weren't blocking people. We have to eliminate our mental mistakes if we're going to get back on the right track again.

To get beat that bad on one thing didn't beat us it was a combination of events. We felt we could run on them enough to set up a good passing game. The roll-out should have worked." Center Bob Jagers On Kerry Weinmaster: "He really has good leverage, and he's not weak by any means." On NU's defense: "They were fired up and played about as tough a team defense as you can play. Nebraska doesn't stop you with one defender, they bring 'em all in after you." On the Husker's pass rush: "They blitzed and did some different things, but we really knew about everything they did defensively. They blitzed more today than they showed in the films.

They were well prepared, but we didn't execute as well as we could have." yards, capping drives of 52 and 76 yards engineered by reserve quarterback Joe Stevenson, who took over for starter Jordan Case in the first quarter when Case reinjured a shoulder. Stevenson moved the Mean Green to within one point, 13-12, with a 41-yard third quarter scoring pass to tight end Mark Witte but the extra point attempt was blocked by J.C.' Booker to preserve the Kansas lead. That was as close as North Texas could come as Capers, Bethke and Mack added the insurance touchdowns. Stevenson hit Pete Harvey with a 37-yard touchdown strike early in the fourth quarter to wrap up North Texas' scoring. Stevenson finished the day with 12 completions in 31 attempts for 237 yards.

North Texas State 0 6 6 61) Kansas 3 10 7 (7-37 Kan FG Hubach 22 Kan FG Hubach 44 NTS FG Smith 41 Kan Sydney 27 run (Hubach kick) NTS FG Smith 20 NTS Witte 41 pass from Stevenson (kick failed) Kan Capers 3 run (Hubach kick) Kan Bethke 1 run (Hubach kick) NTS Harvey 37 from Stevenson (pass foiled) Kan FG Hubach 23 Kan Mack 23 run (Hubach kick) LAWRENCE, Kan. (UPI) -Sophomore tailback Walter Mack rushed for 124 yards and one touchdown Saturday and Mike Hubach kicked three field goals to give Kansas a 37-18 victory over North Texas State that snapped the Jayhawks' 10-game losing streak. Three other Kansas players ran for touchdowns in the romp. Hubach booted field goals of 22 and 44 yards in the first half and added a 33-yard kick in the last quarter to help lead the Jayhawks to only their second triumph since 1977. Mack's touchdown run of 23 yards capped a 17-point fourth quarter to give Kansas its first victory in three games this season.

The Mean Green fell to 2-3. New Mexico beats NMS The Jayhawks, who only gained 8 yards rushing in opening the season with road losses to Pittsburgh and Michigan, also scored on touchdown runs of 27 yards by Harry Sydney, 3 yards by Wayne Capers, and 1 yard by reserve quarterback Brian Bethke. The 27-yard run by Sidney midway through the second quarter was Kansas longest touchdown run in two years. Sydney, a converted quarterback, finished the game with 101 yards rushing. Hubach put the Jayhawks in front for the first time this season with a first quarter field goal set up when Hilton Dawson recovered a Milton Collins fumble at the North Texas 17.

Hubach added his second midway through the second quarter to increase Kansas lead to 6-0. North Texas closed the gap to 6-3 when Whit Smith booted the first of his two second-period field goals of 41 and 20 rczaczafl coupon icsdicj 1 $2 OFF with this coupon HOUSTON (AP) Oklahoma's Billy Sims scored three first-quarter touchdowns and set up a fourth with a picture-perfect 40-yard run to start the third-ranked Sooners on a 63-21 rout of hapless Rice Saturday night. Sims, the 1978 Heisman Trophy winner, scored on runs of 8, 4 and 4 yards on Oklahoma's first three possessions of the game and retired to the sideline before halftime with 103 yards on 12 carries. Sims, who spent part of the third quarter signing autographs from the stands, rushed over 100 yards for the 12th straight game and scored two or more touchdowns for the sixth consecutive game. Oklahoma, 3-0, scored on six of its eight first-half possessions to take a 42-0 lead at intermission.

Quarterback J.C. Watts added two Sooner touchdowns on runs of 4 and 1 yard. Backup quarterback Kelly Phelps ran 14 yards for another touchdown with 18 seconds to play in the half, with most of the OU starters sitting on the bench. Rice, 1-3, had only one chance to get into the ballgame early in the second quarter when Earl Cooper took a pitch-out and ran 50 yads to the Sooner 8, with the Owls trailing 21-0. But Rice quarterback Randy Ilertel threw a desperation pass that was intercepted by Richard Turner and returned 16 yards to the OU 27.

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(AP) -Quarterback Casey Miller, making his first collegiate start, rallied New Mexico to 27 second-half points Saturday night with his pinpoint passing and timely running to spark the Lobos to a 30-16 non-conference victory over turnover-plagued New Mexico State. Miller, a fifth-year senior, was thrust into the starting role when star quarterback Brad Wright had to undergo knee surgery earlier this week. The 6-foot-l, 200-pound Miller hit on 12 of 22 passes for 173 yards and one touchdown. He also picked up 74 yards on the ground, including a 49-yard scamper to the NMSU one that set up the Lobos' final score. The Lobos improved their record to 3-2.

NMSU, 2-3, plays Nebraska next Saturday in Lincoln. New Mexico 0 3 10 1730 New Mexico St. 37 6 016 NMSU FG Richardson 34 NAA FG Moore 23 NMSU-Nlls 3 run Richardson kick) NMSU Niles 1 run (kick foiled) NM Combs 8 pass from Miller (Moore kick) NM FG Moore 39 NM savers 1 run (Moore kick) NMFG Moore 43 NM-Foxl run (Moore kick) The bumps and bruises from Nebraska's 42-17 football victory over Penn State Saturday would be apparent Sunday morning, NU head trainer and physical therapist George Sullivan said. But the Cornhuskers came away from the game in reasonably good shape. Quarterback Tim Hager had two stitches taken in his tongue, after being hit in the chin by the helmet of a Nittany Lion defender on the last play he ran.

"I bit right through it," Hager said. Linebacker Brent Williams sprained a wrist. John Ruud, another linebacker, strained a knee. And defensive back Andy Means hurt his back early in the game but "never came out," Sullivan said. "Derrie Nelson (defensive end) was pretty banged up, too," said Sullivan.

"But it was nothing specific." SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -Split end Ken Thompson scored a school-record four touchdowns as Utah State overpowered downstate rival Utah 47-21 Saturday night in a non-conference football game. Utah State struck early, held off a brief third-period Utah threat, and broke the game open with two touchdowns in the final quarter. Thompson caught nine passes for 184 yards and four touchdowns before sitting out much of the fourth quarter. The scoring passes were evenly divided between USU quarterbacks Eric Hippie and Craig Bradshaw. Hippie's touchdown passes covered 28 and 6 yards, while Bradshaw brother of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw found Thompson for touchdowns of 42 and 56 yards.

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