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COLOR NU (Lontrol 3ncks 34-7 Ball ts --i It" y- i i.j' i I i 'f -1 w.v i I 1 A 'J I fc'x i 'W; 1 COLOR impotent by the Husker Black Shirts. tew Statistics Oregon NU First Downs 13 26 Rushes-yards 22-80 73-298 Passing 118 117 Return 10 Passes 13-25-3 10-13-0 Punts 6-32 4-38 Fumbles lost 0 2 Yards penalized 49 30 By HAL BROWN The football'. experts" were saying no one would hold Oregon to less than three touchdowns this season, but Nebraska's Black Shirt defensive gang, complemented perfectly by a yardage and time-devouring Husker offense, had other ideas Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium. The record books won't show it as a shutout, but to the 11 Husker Black' Shirts and the 67,437 fans, who saw Nebraska 4 Section LINCOLN, NEB. SEPT.

12, 1971 Page 1 open defense of its national championship with: a 34-7 victory over the Ducks, it was. The Ducks were supposed to have one of the country's most potent offenses with nearly everyone returning from a team that ranked 12th nationally last season in total offense, but they were rendered J. 'If 1 y- 'I core surprises The Ducks were able to gain only 86 yards rushing and added only another 118 passing, far below their 1970 average of 420 yards per game. And ail-American, candidate Bobby Moore was stopped virtually in his tracks by the Huskers' gang tackling. But the Husker defense was only part of the story of stopping the vaunted Oregon offense Saturday afternoon as the Huskers pushed their unbeaten streak to 20 games.

In addition to the NU Black Shirts not permitting the Ducks to keep the ball for long on any possession, the Husker offense was extremely inhospitable about giving it back- to them. The most tired people in Memorial Stadium at 4 p.m. Saturday had to be the Nebraska offensive platoon and the Oregon defensive unit for they're the ones that spent the most time in the hot sun on the AstroTurf surface with the termperature in the mid-80s. While Oregon was being held to only 204 yards in total offense, Nebraska was racking up 298 on the ground and another 117 through the air. But perhaps the most important statistic was one that showed the Huskers running 94 plays to only 61 for Oregon.

Keeping the game from going into the books as a shutout for the NU Black Shirts was an Oregon touchdown with 3:21 left in the game, a touchdown set up when Nebraska sophomore Glen a fumbled a punt and the Ducks recovered only 11 yards away from the Husker end zone. By the time Moore galloped six yards into the end zone, red-shirted Huskers had galloped into the Ducks' end zone five1 times and the JL Husker Leaders 1 -J 0 let. 1 iff By DON FORSYTIIE Cornhusker co-captains Jim Anderson and Jerry Tagge were unanimous on one point Saturday after a season-opening 34-7 win over Oregon. "The score surprised everybody," said Anderson. Tagge, his old high school teammate, echoed the reaction.

"I was really surprised it wasn't a close game," said Tagge. "Oregon is a better ball club than it showed. I think the heat kind of sapped it out of them. They tired early and we beat them man on man," said Tagge. The Cornhusker quarterback added.

"I think we'll represent the Big Eight real well and we'll be ready for the Big Eight race a month from today." Anderson praised his defensive mates for an excellent job with their zone pass coverage and saluted the offense for its control of the game. "The offense did on heck of a job on controlling the ball. That helped '-e the pressure off the defense," ne said. The senior corncrback admitted that the defensive unit had not been enthusiastic in last week's final scrimmage, Jerry Tagge Ready for Big 8 Cont. on Page 3D if that the team was ready to play.

"It's just a feeling. You can feel the enthusiasm during practice," he said. Linebacker Pat 1 1 echoed Anderson's praise of the offense. "It was tremendous. They ate up the clock and on a hot day like today it means a lot," he said.

"We were on the field a lot," offensive tackle Carl Johnson conceded. "But that's what we want. We knew no matter how hot it was for us it was hotter for them because they hadn't Cont. on Page 3D Duck Soup Time NU OU Left 6 0 Kinney, 1 run 1:21 7 0 Sanger, (pat) Second Quarter 13 0 Dixon, 2 run 8:55 14 0 Sanger, (pat) Third Quarter 20 0 Dixon, 2 run 7:47 21 0 Sanger, (pat) Fourth Quarter 27 0 Dixon, 6 run 14:56 33 0 Butts, 2 run 5:18 "4 0 Sanger, (pat) 34 6 Moore, 6 run 3:21 34 7 Battle, (pat) STAFF COLOR PHOTO BY HARALD DREIJWANIi Jeff Kinney (35) scores on a one-yard plunge for Nebraska's first touchdown. The McCook native had a busy afternoon, carrying the ball 22 times for 124 yards in the 34-7 NU victory.

STANDINGS National GB 5Vi 12 22 27V4 East Pittsburgh 87 59 St Louis 81 64 New York 74 69 Chicago 74 70 Montreal 63 79 Philadelphia 59 86 West Francisco 82 63 Los Angeles 79 66 Atlanta 74 72 Houston 71 74 Cincinnati 71 76 San Diego 54 91 Pet. .596 .559 .517 .514 .444 .407 .566 .545 .507 .490 .483 .372 8'4 Results NewYrk 9, Philadlphla Montreal 4, Pittsburgh Chicago 7, St Louis Houston 5. Cincinnati 2 1 0 2 4 Atlanta 5. Francisco Other clubs not scheduled. Sunoay-j Games at Montreal Pittsburgh (Briles 6-3) at San (Renko 14-13) Los Anqeles (Osteen 13-10) Dieqo (Arlin (9-16) New Philadelphia (Champion 2-2) at York (Gentry 11-10) St.

Louis (Gibson 14-12) at Chicago (Pappas 17-12) San Francisco (Cumberland 8-4) at Atlanta (Stone 6-6) Houston (Wilson 14-7) at Cincinnati (Simpson 4-5). Monday's Games Pittsburgh at Chicago Montreal at New York, 2, twl-night Atlanta at Cincinnati, night San Diego at Houston, night Philadelphia at St. Louis, night Los Angeles at San Francisco, night. It J- 3t' 1 but said that he knew Thursday Injuries Concern Devaney By DON FORSYTIIE Bob Devaney, who can usually pinpoint several areas of concern after a win, admitted to just one worry Saturday after his Cornhuskers had opened with a big win over Oregon. "The sobering part of the game was the injury situation.

We may have lost Bill Sloey for the season if there's been damage to the cartiiage in his knee Doug Dumlcr will be out a week with a bad foot and they're going to x-ray Jerry List's ribs," he lamented. But Devaney made no attempt at finding fault with the opening game performance of the Cornhuskers. "We had a real good chance for a shutout I didn't think we could come this close to shutting Oregon out," he said. The Nebraska coach pointed to a "fairly constant pass rush, good pass coverage" and Oregon's inability to establish a running game as the keys to the excellent defensive effort. "And our offense was very consistent it had fine consistency for a first game.

This helped the defense. Ball control is important against a team like Oregon," he said. Devaney also pointed to conditioning as being a factor. "We worked our players hard in the hot weather and it paid off today," he said. One of the most pleasing developments was the play of alternate unit performers.

"Last year when we substituted our second team against somebody's first team it sometimes looked like a track meet. For the first game, at least, the reserves played American East GB 1014 15V, 18'2 32 35 Baltimore Detroit Boston New York Washington Cleveland Nebraska's first offensive drive of the game was thwarted on the Oregon seven-yard line when Duck linebacker Tom Graham (52) helped jar the ball loose from fullback Bill Olds (44), who fumbled. Oregon defensive back Fred Manuel (37) was waiting in the right place and recovered. Pet. .633 .556 .521 .500 .406 .385 .639 .542 .469 .465 .453 .431 60 76 72 5B 55 West 92 78 68 67 65 62 iniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Oakland Kansas City California Chicago Minnesota Milwaukee 52 66 77 77 77 82 Huskers' Terrio Sophomore Davis Scores Twice 14 24' 25 26 30 Becomes Father Results Boston 1, LSU.

31-21 Colorado Stuns 10, Cleveland Surprises come in small pack Detroit New York Washington Kansas City Oakland (10 Innings) Milwaukee postponed 2 3 ages. At least that's what hap at Baltimore 4, Chicago 5, Minnesota 3, California Statistics I On The I Inside I SE Wins Page 2D Colorad ISU 20 17 58-203 40-150 82 77 196 45 8-19-3 9-27-4 5-31 7-39 2 2 93 33 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yardage Return yardage Passes Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalized Sunday's Games Minnesota (Perry 16-15) at Oakland (Blue 23-8) Milwaukee (Pattin 12-14) at California (May 9-11) Chicago (Wood 19-11) at Kansas City (Draqo 16-8) Boston (Siebert 16-9) at Detroit (Kilkenny 4-0 New York (Peterson 13-11) at Cleveland (McDowell 11-14) Washington (Gogolewskl 4-4 and Thompson 1-6) at Baltimore (Dobson 17-7 pened to Nebraska linebacker Bob Terrio, who was informed that his wife was at St. Elizabeth Community Health Center expecting a child during the Cornhuskers' 34-7 win over the Oregon Ducks Saturday. Mrs. Terrio, the former Diane Mills, gave birth to an eight-pound, three-ounce boy shortly after the Husker defensive standout arrived at the hospital following the game.

Mrs. Terrio originally had planned to attend the game, but was taken to the hospital at 1 p.m. and delivered at 5:03 p.m. INTO nd McNally 18-4), 2 Mondays Games Detroit at Baltimore, 2, twi-night New York at Boston, night Washington at Cleveland, niqht Oakland at Kansas City, night Chlcaqo at Milwaukee, night Minnesota at California, 2, twi-night against the rushing game last season. A sell out crowd of 67,500 sat quietly as Colorado bounced into a 7-0 lead on a seven-yard pass from sophomore quarterback Ken Johnson to Willie Nicols in the last three seconds of the first period.

LSU brought the big crowd to its feet in the early minutes of the second quarter when alternate quarterback Paul Lyons skirted left end for five yards for the tying score. Colorado 7 3 14 7-31 LSU 7 0 7 7-21 Col Nichols 7 pass from John (Dean kick) LSU Lyons 5 run (Michaelson kick) Col FG Dean 35 Col Branch 75 punt return (Dean kick) Col Davis 3 run (Dean kick) LSr Dantin 10 pass from Lyon (Michaelscn kick) Col Davis 47 run (Dean kick) LSU Gainey 27 pass Interception (Midchaelson kick) A 67,500. I Page 2D I I KSU Hit I SPORTS SLATE Baton Rouge, La. iB Sophomore Charles Davis, who left the Texas plains for football in the Rocky Mountains, sped through Louisiana State's vaunted defense for 175 yards and two touchdowns Saturday night as the Buffaloes upset the heavily favored Tigers 31-21 in the season's opener for both teams. The 198-pound Davis, who hails from West Columbia, Texas, scooted 47 yards for a Colorado touchdown) in the fourth period and went three yards for a Buffalo score in the third period.

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