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8FPTCMBFR 1 son SUNDAY JOURNAL-STAR 3 HUSKERS 2EC 1 Baylor; Fumble shatters Teaff commends s1 tu. If 'l i By Curt McKeever Nebraska had all it could handle in beating Baylor 13-0 Saturday night, but Bears' Coach Grant Teaff said Corn-husker faithful shouldn't be disheartened. "Probably the thinking would be that, iwell, Nebraska just didnt play very good. I thought they played really well," Teaff said. "If they hadnt have, they wouldn't have won the football game.

"Don't grade Nebraska down. They responded the way a team has to in a critical situation." In the fourth quarter, Baylor threatened to erase a 6-0 deficit by driving to the Cornhusker 5-yard line. But on sec-ond-and-goal, fullback Frankie Smith fumbled and NU defensive end Travis Hill recovered at the 3. "I kind of got the ball stuck on my side and was trying to pull it in. As I tried to pull it in I got hit and then it just kind of fell out of my arms," said Smith, who played defensive back for three seasons before switching to offense.

"It was very frustrating because I felt we were about to score, if not that play the next play. Confidence shattered "It just knocked the confidence completely out of us. It knocked out the fire the Bears would get the ball back soon and have good field position. "Our defense had been playing great all game and I couldn't see their offense moving the ball on us," be said. Defensive end Santana Dotson, who helped limit NU to 335 yards of offense, said Nebraska didnt do anything different on its longest drive of the game.

"I just think we were trying to make a play and we got kind of out of position and they broke one pretty long one," he said. Linebacker Daniel Morgan agreed. "They just caught us in the wrong defense and they executed well," he said. Frustration That spelled frustration for Baylor, but not a loss of confidence. "We felt like if we could play as well as we thought we could we'd make it come down to that," Teaff said of the close outcome.

"We played everything to the it was great "There wasnt any mouthing or talk-ing out there. They just played football and got after it like two good teams Added Dotson, "I think we gained a lot of respect, but we didnt prove a point because our point was to win." In everything." Nebraska fueled by a 23-yard pass from quarterback Mike Grant to split end Jon Bostick and a 53-yard run by I-back Scott Baldwin then marched to the Baylor 2 before linebacker Lee Bruderer recovered a Grant fumble in the end zone for a touchback. But by then, Baylor had less fire and little time with which to work. "I think anybody that saw the game knows that the game really hinged in the fourth quarter when we fumbled down on the 3-yard line," Teaff said. "And then their offensive team did an excellent job, made two big plays one the fingertip catch to get them out of the hole.

Otherwise, we've got the field position and the momentum. We're moving the football, all we've got to do is score and kick our extra point and we win the football game. "But Grant completed the fingertip catch on the sideline, and then they had the big run that switched ends of the field, which took away our offensive momentum because we weren't going to be able to throw the ball deep on them." Another chance Despite Smith's fumble, Baylor quarterback Steve Needham said he thought 0 ttfiP 'rB sr Jf s'ik 1 i Individual statistics 0 PkV 1 WmlW 1 pm White 1 Cotton 1 Carmer 0 Baylor Offense Rushing Klckoff returns No. Yds. Baldwin 1 22 Interception returns No.

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Yds. Legette 1 Hughes 2 37 Zacharlas 1 Bostick 1 12 Anderson 0 I ifMAA few I Itf "-S fi 1 1 I s. HARALO DREIMANISSUNDAY JOURNAL-STAR IJtV Keith Caldwell (right) of Baylor pulls down Nebraska's Jon Bostick (18) after Bostick caught a 12- 2Z iJ yard pass from Mike Grant in the first quarter Saturday. pV 1 HARALO OREIMANIS SUNDAY JOURNAL-STAR Up, Up and Away Nebraska's Scott Baldwin (29) jumps up in the air from the 1-yard line (above), dives over the goal line (middle) then fumbles the ball Saturday in the waning seconds of the Cornhuskers' 13-0 victory against Baylor. Officials ruled that Baldwin crossed the plane of the goal line before fumbling.

Ht 7 A 4 Huskers From pag10 out and I could only hope one of our guys Tyrane, forced a Baylor punt that Ty- But it wasn't before a short debate would get it," the senior linebacker said, rone Hughes returned to the Bears 37- among the officials that Baldwin's "That was such a good feeling to stop yard line. touchdown was ruled a touchdown and Baldwin, who finished with a game- not a fumble. them and get the ball and keep the shut out- leading 92 yards, rushed five of the next Nebraska appeared to take control eight plays, including the final three "I had just told Mike (Grant) to hold right after the turnover. yards to score and give Nebraska its onto the ball after he fumbled at the goal Grant teamed up with Bostick on a 23- first touchdown of its second century of line and then I go and do the same yard sideline pass to a Nebraska 26. Bal thing," Baldwin said.

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Highlighted by Joseph 14, 7 runs. Baldwin 6 run and aided by personal foul penalty. Barrios 20 field goal 0:02 Drive: 50 yards in six plays. Highlighted by Grant 11 pass to Hughes, 34 pass to Bostick to Baylor 4. FOURTH QUARTER Baldwin 3 run ,0:22 Drive: 37 yards In seven plays.

Highlighted by Baldwin 10 run, 12 run and aided by offside penalty. Conversion Barrios kick. ranoy hampton sunoay journal-star frustrated, but I knew we were wearing 0-13 Baylor's Malcolm Frank (middle) fumbles the punt as he gets hit by Nebraska's David Edeal (58) and ZfJfJS iSrlStl Mike Anderson (48) Saturday in the first quarter. Officials called the ball down and gave it back to ChaStoCr2rSL Quarterback sacks by Mike Croel and.