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Holieway sJfMjustment to college smooth, wwaiyiw uMiii. i mil iwmm By Ken Hambleton NORMAN, Okla. Jamelle Holieway remembers it well "A year ago, we were playing Kennedy High School in the semifinals of the state championships," said the former standout for Banning High in Carson, Calif. "We beat them 534. "It was kind of like this was today," 'said Holieway, Oklahoma's 18-year-old freshman quarterback who rushed 25 times for a net of 110 yards and scored a pair of touchdowns in the Sooners 27-7 victory over No.

2-ranked Nebraska Saturday. Holieway even wore a special towel inscribed, "hit man," sent to him by a high school teammate who attends college in California. "I looked across the field late in the game and thought to myself, Two freshmen leading Nebraska and Oklahoma. That's really funny when you think about it" he said, referring to Husker freshman quarterback Steven Taylor. "Who would have ever thought it'd be like this?" he said.

"I couldnt have believed any of this if you would have told me this summer it would happen the way it has." But it has happened Holieway is the key to the offense, according to OU defensive standout Brain Bosworth. "That first game, when be got thrown in against Miami, he was scared. You could see it in his eyes. Now look at him. He's something else," Bosworth said.

10 the game ranked third In the nation against the rush, gave up a whopping 423 yards to the Sooners wishbone attack. On the other hand, Oklahoma, second in the country against the run, limited' the Huskers to just 161 yards rushing. That was almost 100 yards below the worst previous Nebraska output (256 rushing yards in a victory over Oklahoma State). And 52 of Nebraska's rushing yards came on one play a wingback reserve to Von Sheppard. Doug DuBose, Nebraska's all-conference I back, was limited to just 46 yards on 16 carries.

Nebraska's 10 first downs were five less than against Florida State (the previous low). Oklahoma extended its lead to 17-ztp just before halftime on a 36-yard field goal by Tim Lashar. He then upped the count to 20-0 with a 34-yarder midway through the third quarter. Holieway followed with a 17-yard scamper later in the third frame to com- plete the Oklahoma scorteg. Then came Spachman's last-rasp effort to avoid the shutout Nebraska was not without its chances.

Sheppard's long run gained the Sooner 6, but two keepers by Husker starting HcCatborn Clayton didnt gain an inch and his third-down pass was off the mark. rThat brought on Dale Klein, who had made 13 of 19 field goals this season. But his short 23-yard effort was wide right "If we had been able to get that one in for a touchdown," Osborne observed, "we would have cut the score to 14-7 and been back in the ban game." It wasnt to be. Neither was it to be when two other Nebraska opportunities arose. Late in the third quarter, Oklahoma's Derrick Shepard signalled for a fair catch of a Dan Wingard punt He muffed the catch and NU's Mike Hoefier appeared to recover the ban at the Sooner -20.

But one of the officials Inadvertently his whistle and the play was replayed. The official knew he was wrong and was sorry about it," Osborne said, "but that didnt help us any." iMidway through the fourth quarter, after a poor Oklahoma punt, Nebraska took over at the OU 24 Husker freshman quarterback Steve Taylor, who had relieved Clayton on Nebraska's second possession of the second half, completed a pass to tight end Todd Frata which gained the OU 8. gained seven more on a keeper to put the baU on the Sooner one. But after DuBose was thrown for a one-yard loss, Taylor hobbled the snap from center and Oklahoma recovered. I "If it hadnt been for a couple of bad 1 things like that happening to us," Os-borne said, "we might have made it a -closer game.

But I doubt it would have changed the outcome." Photos on 6D, 7D, 8D by Harald Dreimanis Dave Fahleson Randy Hampton Ted Kirk Associated Press United Press International Nebraska's Tom i I Jamelle Holieway exchange face-mask Husker Bryan Slebler and OU's "Jamelle is a great little football player," Sooner Coach Barry Switzer said "He had a great game today." Holieway is the Sooners' leading rusher, and that's on a team that went into the game ranked No. 3 in the nation in grips in the second quarter. third-and-long, a score that gave Oklahoma a 14-0 lead in the first quarter. His consecutive option runs of 18, 8 and 15 yards set up a field goal in the third quarter, and he scored on a 17-yard touchdown run later in the same period. Sooners defense lays down the law "The touchdown runs were just a faket to the fullback, fake left, and read blocks to the right The blocks make it' all go," he said.

"The line blocks and we run. It's simple, but it's the way things are done here." Holieway said he was more beaten up, after the Missouri game, but1 that Nebraska gave him enough punishment "Nebraska plays the whole 60 minutes, and they were our equal in be said. "We just blocked so wen and got; the plays we needed, even though they got their sacks the way we knew they, would." The first Sooner touchdown, on Keith' Jackson's 88-yard tight-end reverse, helped the OU offense the rest of day, Holieway said. "We thought they'd take Our outside; and our pitch, and with that play they had to make some adjustments," he said. "Nebraska played OK.

"It was their best against our best," and we proved we're capable of making the yards and getting the win against' one of the best teams around." Despite the confidence and ability he's shown while leading the Sooners, if will still take a while for it all to sink in, Holieway said -1 "Of course, I remember that last year I was playing high school ban," he said "To go from there to here and win this game is just too much to think about. It's funny, but it's true." ble, despite Nebraska's impressive' statistics going into the game. After watching films 6f the Cornhuskers, Casillas concluded, "they weren't as explosive as the Nebraska teams I've seen since I've been here." i Nebraska finished with more rushing; and total yards than Oklahoma's used teg giving up this season. ADefensively, didn't have our best game by ln2 means," Bosworth said JSS "We played well, but we didnt per form up to oitf expectations. It wasn even close." If the Sooners had played to thctC capabilities "we could've shut 'em oaC no question," said Bosworth, who crej ited the Oklahoma offense with assisting? the defense, -k.

3 When the Sooner offense scored firstquarter points, "it put pressure on, them," Bosworth said "That really helps the defense." ZZZ Oklahoma also had almost 10 minfltC more to time of possession. According to Bosworth, the two best teams in the country played Saturday a Owen Field To him. it was the naUoaaC championship and as such, emo; Hons ran high. Despite the intensity, "there was no bad-mouthing on either team. You'd hit a guy and then help him up," said Bosf worth.

It wasnt like playing Texas or; rival Oklahoma State. Prior to the game, he characterized what would happen on both sides as "respectful abuse, and that's what it was," Bosworth said The sophomore Ail-American from IrS ving, Texas, was asked if and when tC thought the fight went out of Nebraska. "Toward the end of the third quarter, said Bosworth, pinpointing the play on which Nebraska appeared to have re- covered a fumbled punt only to have it nullified and replayed The Cornhuskers may have realized then that nothing was going to go right; for them, he said Murphy's rushing offense. He has been a key in OU's five-game winning streak. Holieway was the key in hitting Keith Jackson on a 38-yard pass play on a third-down-and-four situation.

The pass set up his 43-yard touchdown run on the third quarter. By Mike Babcock NORMAN, Okla. Kevin Murphy, a senior defensive end on Ihe Oklahoma football team, wanted to rewrite Murphy's which states that if something can go wrong, it wilL His amended version would say: "If anything can go right, it wilL" "Good things happen to people who work hard," Murphy said after the Sooners' 27-7 victory over Nebraska Saturday afternoon at Owen Field 1 That wasnt entirely true, of course. I The second-ranked Cornhuskers worked hard but fell victim to the original Murphy's Law. Not much went right for them.

In fact they barely avoided being shutout Nebraska averted a shutout on defen-. sive tackle Chris Spachman's 76-yard touchdown run with a fumble, 26 seconds before the game ended "I felt like crying when I saw that" said Sooner middle guard Tony Casillas. "I thought about tackling him." Oklahoma linebacker Brian Bosworth, who was credited with nine tackles, dismissed the touchdown. "I was hoping somebody would tackle him," Bosworth said "But the defense got a shutout and that's all that counts." Although Nebraska wasnt shut out "I personally think they know we dominated them," said Casillas. The statistics were on his side.

The Cornhuskers, who went into the game ranked first in the nation In rushing and second in total offense, managed 224 yards, 161 of which came on the ground They had been averaging nearly 500 total yards, 396 rushing yards and 39.1 points per game. The disparity in those numbers didnt surprise Murphy, however, who plays for the nation's top-ranked defense. Earlier in the week, he told Sooner Coach Barry Switzer "flat out we could dominate them. I didnt think anybody was going to shut them out, but I thought we could control them" Casillas thought a shutout was possi-. -AV a.

5 I Rathman feels the brunt of the Sooner defense as he is gang-tackled in.