The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • 49

October 28, 1975, Lincoln, Sadiy Jotnal tai Star 5E Cl's Coach Kept Hoping The Nightmare Would End By Randv York Bill Mallory felt like the guy who showed up at the wrong wedding Saturday. At various points in the second half while his Colorado football team was absorbing a 63-21 drubbing from Nebraska, a shellshocked Mallory temporarily lost track of reality. "I couldn't believe I was at the right place," he said. "You keep hoping maybe you're sleeping, you'll wake up and the nightmare will be over." As he said it, Mallory hit himself on the head with a cardboard folder, hoping maybe that would awaken him -15 minutes after the fact. But the tiny cubicle in the visiting locker room remained a twilight zone.

Couldn't Believe It "I couldn't believe it. I really couldn't," Mallory said. "Coach Osborne told me he couldn't believe what had happened either." Mallory, who has a reputation as a Mr. Tough Guy disciplinarian, was far from it in the locker room. He was soft spoken, perhaps in large part out of disbelief.

He was willing to assume the brunt of the embarrassment. "We got outcoached all the way through and outplayed by a very fine Nebraska football team. "You ask yourself why," he offered. "Foot' ball is a game of momentum. We scored first, but then all H-E-double broke loose.

"In 17 years, I've never seen a game like this," Mallory said. "Every freakish thing in the world happened. You name the mistake and we made it. I couldn't believe it. The bottom just fell out." Hours Like Days The three hours it took to play Saturday's showdown between the two top 10-rated Big Eight powers seemed more like three days to Mallory.

"We're a pretty good football team," Mallory assured himself. "Nebraska's a good ball club, but I can't think we're that bad. We had to put two good games together back-to-back and we couldn't do it. "The game got away from us. It's as simple as that," he said.

"Nebraska executed very well and we reacted very poorly. "It's embarrassing," Mallory said. "That many turnovers Good Lord, my Gosh I've Just never seen anything like it. I still can't believe it. It's so hard to Mallory was gracious about the slaughter, knowing it could have been much worse.

"Tom was a real gentleman about the game," he said of Osborne. "It was long out there. I wondered when it was all going to end." Race to the Wire According to Mallory, the Big Eight race "looks like it's going down to the wire between Nebraska and Oklahoma. It ought to be a whale of a ball game between two excellent teams." Although his Buffs apparently are out of the title picture with two losses, Mallory stressed "we have too much going to let this season get away from us now. "When something like this hits you in the face," he said, "it's tough to pick yourself up and put it back together again.

"But I don't believe in laying down and giving up," he said. "We've got Iowa State next week down there' and three tough ones after that," Mallory pointed out. "I'm disappointed and the players are disappointed. But we both better snap back come Monday. It's a matter of character and hanging in there now." Asked the effect of starting tailback Tony Reed and linebacker Gary Campbell missing the game for disciplinary reasons, Mallory almost laughed.

Mistakes Killed Us "Good Lord, I guarantee they would have made no difference today," Mallory said. "Mistakes took us apart and killed us." He indicated Reed and Campbell "have the opportunity to report back Monday. It's up to them." The thought of his disciplinary problems, coupled with the nightmare of defeat, was almost too much for Mallory. "What a week," he muttered. "What a week." I IB wmkkt1 W'kn 11 U9 Urotm TaIitI A'T flnni I TTlll fnlrA wuuu uvotj mil wmc a wuuiuuwu uijr wajr uc uui gci ii.

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Corgan's gift came in the form of the 350 yards which Big Red picked up on the ground Saturday. Those gains were part of an overall attack which rolled for over 500 yards and tallied 63 points. Nebraska cornerback Dave Butterfield (34) defense. He also shared top tackling honors dives over Billy Waddy (38) to recover the with Clete Pillen as each came up with Colorado running back's fumble. Butter- eight stops, five of Butterfield's being un- field was credited with two of the six fum- assisted, blc recoveries turned in by the Nebraska There were few real in the 63-21 victory but Colorado quarterback David Williams (12) proved to be one at times.

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