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rDtoiraPOCKETBOOK, 20-21 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1 994 LINCOLN, NE. JOURNAL 15 Osborne -realistic enlteoiiig OSU showdown Nebraska. At least not effectively." Probable starters NEBRASKA (3-1) Offense has not lost a conference opener in 10 years and has not lost to OSU since 1961. In Nebraska's last eight losses, the Huskers have bounced back to win the next game by an average of 3L5 points. That total includes bowl games.

Saturday is the first time in 16 years that OSU win face Nebraska coming off a defeat OSU's six-game winning streak, including two last season, is the longest in the Big Eight It is OSU's longest winning streak in 25 years. During those six wins, the "Pokes have outscored the opposition by an average of 19.8 points a game. Cowboy kicker Larry Roach, with 61 career field goals, is third on the all-time NCAA field goal chart He trails Arizona State's Luis Zendejas (69) and Georgia's Kevin Butler (63). Saturday's game is the first between the two schools while both were ranked in the top 10. NU is 8th in the AP and 9th in UPI.

OSU is 8th in UPI and 9th in AP! The last time the two teams met in a televised game, the Huskers scored a 54-7 win in Stillwater in 1981. no Name 94 Hlemer 73 Behning 58 Grimminger 57 Traynowlcz 67 Orion 77 Morrow 88 Kimball 15 Sundberg 28 Smith 26 Rathman 17 Swanson NEBRASKA 87 Weber 76 Spachman 52 Graeber 75 Stuckey 90 Strasburger 51 Oaum 41 AAunford 2 McCashland 33 Burke 11 Harris 10 Clark Yr Ht wt Wt Ht Yr Sr. 4-3 215 TE 232 6-2 Sr. Sr. 6-6 290 LT 358 6-5 Jr.

Sr. 6-3 265 LG 270 6-2 Jr. Sr. 6-6 265 242 5-11 Sr. Sr.

6-1 260 RG 256 6-3 Sr. Sr. 6-3 260 RT 250 6-4 Jr. Sr. 6-0 195 SE 175 6-0 Jr.

Sr. 6-1 190 QB 205 6-4 Sr. Sr. 5-9 195 IB 212 6-1 Sr. Jr.

6-1 235 FB 215 5-11 Sr. Sr. 5-9 200 WB 170 5-10 Sr. Defense Sr. 6-2 210 LE 224 6-2 Jr.

So. 6-4 260 LT 240 6-2 Sr. Sr. 6-2 245 MG 265 6-5 Jr. Sr.

6-3 245 RT 235 6-4 Jr. Sr. 6-1 205 RE 207 6-2 Jr. Sr. 6-3 235 LB 215 6-2 Sr.

So. 6-2 225 LB 220 6-2 Jr. Sr. 6-1 200 188 6-31 Sr. Sr.

5-10190 LCB 192 6-0 Jr. Sr. 6-0 190 RCB 198 6-0 So. Sr. 6-3 200 201 6-3 Sr.

OKLA.ST.4-0) NameNo Hanna 82 Shanklln 76 Burton 66 Tucker 67 Partlda 50 P. Blair 72 Wlemer22 Hllger 12 Jones 3 Cook 26 Harris 83 OK LA. ST. Ham 40 Harding 42 Washington 80 O'Neal 99 Roberts 6 Monger 90 Adams 54 Brown 27 S. Blair 20 Moore 44 Hinds 14 ABC (KETV Chan "im be a defensive battle- all the way," predicted OSU comerback Mark Moore.

Osborne isnt so sure. "Both teams have very good defenses," he said. "But neither team is shabby on offense. It ought to be very interesting." NU-OSU notes ABC-TV win televise the game to most parts of the nation. The telecast begins at 2:30 p.m on KETV (Channel 7 in Omaha).

The network is bringing its No. 1 broadcast crew, Keith Jackson and Frank Broyles, to call the game. Nebraska has not lost two regular-season games in a row since 1976 when the Huskers dropped a 37-28 decision at Iowa State and Mowed with a 20-17 loss at Oklahoma. It Is the only time in Osborne's 12-year tenure as head coach that the Huskers have lost back-to-back regular-season games. Counting bowl games, NU has lost two straight games four times under Osborne.

Nebraska lege football that has seen such a team as Vanderbilt transform a 2-9 season last year into a. 4-0 start, i Osborne Insists that just because Ne- braska has not lost three games in a row since 1961, it cant happen. He in- sists just because the Cowboys have not beaten the Huskers since 1961, it can't happen. First-year OSU Coach Pat Jones is playing on the same theme. He insists his approach' will be different than Jimmy Johnson, his predecessor now at Miami "I dont think Jimmy ever thought he could beat Nebraska," Jones told a press conference earlier this week.

"Every time he talked about Nebraska, he talked about their weight facilities and their walk-on program." i This year, Jones has decided not to worry about the Huskers coming off a 17-9 loss to Syracuse. If anything, he is using it as psychological ammunition. Not the answer i "Our guys, seeing that Syracuse-can beat them, makes them think that their -(Nebraska's) program isn't the God-ever answer to all things." Last year, Jones was the defensive coordinator when OSU held Nebraska to a 14-10 win in Stillwater. Jones is expecting another defensive battle. "What will be interesting to see is if we can move the ball on them," he said.

"We've never moved the ban on By Randy York Ataistant Sport Editor With Pitt 0-4 and Alabama 1-3 this season, the question is obvious. Can Nebraska experience a similar nosedive? Three days before his team hosts State in a 2:50 p.m. homecoming showdown at Memorial Stadium, Nebraska Coach Tom Osborne provided a clue. Til ten you what, it may be that the fans aint seen nothing yet and that's what worries me," Osborne said as the Huskers prepared to play the only Big Eight team that hasn't beaten Nebraska since Bob Devaney's arrival In 1962. Osborne got a sampling of negative feedback on his state-wide radio call-in show last Wednesday.

"One guy called in and said, 'We're still behind Like, golly, we're 4 and 0," Osborne said. "But, man, we've won three and we've lost one. "We've lost one regular-season game in the last 25 and the way life is out there, folks, it's possible to drop four or five in a row," Osborne said. "It can happen to you. Now, we hope it doesn't happen and I may not be around when it does happen' College trend Osborne was not bemoaning an injury-plagued team preparing for back-to-back battles against Oklahoma State and Missouri.

He was emphasizing the trend in col Kickoff 2:50 p.m., Memorial Stadium. Telecast nel 7). Broadcast: Nebraska Football Network (Omaha KFAB, Lincoln KFORand KZKX). 1 I 5V1 II 69 Tom Welter OT 6-4 255 So. 70MlkeHoefler OG 6-4 225 So.

72RobMaggard OT 6-3 265 So. 73Mark Behning OT 6-6 290 Sr. 74 Stan Parker OG 6-4 240 So. 75 Rob Stuckey DT 6-3 245 Sr. 76 Chris Spachman DT 6-4 260 So.

77 Tom Morrow OT 6-3 260 Sr. 78MikeZierke DT 6-3 240 Sr. SOToddFrain TE 6-2 230 Jr. 81 Brad Smith DE 6-3 230 Jr. 82PoulGangwish DE 6-1 215 Sr.

83Jeff Kranti SE 6-1 180 So. 83BradTyrer DE 6-2 210 So. 84 Gregg Reeves DE 6-3 215 Jr. 85RobbSchnltzler SE 5-9 170 So. 86 Jason Gamble SE 5-11 175 Fr.

87 Bill Weber DE 6-2 210 Sr. 88 Scott Kimball SE 64 195 Sr. 89ScottTucker DE 6-3 220 Jr. 90 Scott Strasburger DE 6-1 205 Sr. 91 Rod Yates SE 64 180 Sr.

92 Don Bourn TE 6-3 215 Sr. 93 Rod Reynolds DT 6-3 235 Jr. 94 Brian Hlemer TE 6-3 215 Sr. 95 Danny Noonan DT 6-3 265 So. 96JlmSkow DT 6-3 235 Jr.

97JonBunger DT 6-2 240 Sr. 98 Lee Jones DT 64 230 So. 99KenShead MG 5-11 235 Jr. No. Player Pos.

Ht. Wt. Yr. I Dale Klein 6-1 190 So. SMlke McCashland 6-1 200 Sr.

4GuyRoiier 5-9 190 Jr. JRIckvGreene CB 5-9 180 Sr. 6 Todd Fisher 4-0 185 Jr. 7VonSheppard WB 5-9 185 So. 8 Pernell Gatson WB 5-10 180 So.

9JerrvMllnar QB 6-1 700 So. 10 Bret Clark 6-3 200 II Neil Harris CB 6-0 190 Sr. 12CleteBlakeman QB 6-1 185 Fr. 13 Kevin Bisoers 5-10 185 Sr. 14 Travis Turner QB 6-2 205 Jr.

15 Crolg Sundberg QB 6-1 190 Sr. 16 Don Douglas QB 64 175 So. 17 Shane Swanson WB 5-9 200 Sr. IB Brian Pokorny CB 5-10 175 Sr. 19 Bryan Slebler 5-11 190 So.

21 Paul Miles IB 5-10 200 Jr. 22 Doug DuBose IB 5-11 185 So. 23 Roger Llndstrom WB 5-10 195 Jr. 25 Molt Strasburger 6-2 190 So. 26 Tom Rathman FB 6-1 235 Jr.

27 Dennis Watkins CB 5-11 180 Jr. 28 Jeff Smith IB 5-9 195 Sr. 29 Dan Thayer 6-2 190 So. 31 Charlie Cartwrlght 5-9 195 So. 32 Thurman Hoskins IB 5-11 200 So.

33 Dave Burke CB 5-10 190 Sr. 34ToddProffitt LB 6-0 235 Jr. NU's SmtifcMkely to start against OSU Oklahoma State roster 28 Can Lowe DE 6-1 195 Sr. 30 Kenneth Cumby CB 64 205 Fr. 31 Will Timmons FB 64 220 So.

32 Charles Crawford RB 6-2 230 So. 33 David Webb DE 5-11 200 Sr. 34 Thurman Thomas RB 5-11 185 Fr. 39 Ken Montgomery DB 64 178 Jr. 40 James Ham DE 6-2 224 Jr.

42 Rodney Harding DL 6-2 240 Sr. 44 Mark Moore DB 64 198 So. 45 Raymond Polk DB 64 195 Sr. 48WindellyYancy DB 6-2 197 So. 50 Ralph Partida OG 6-3 256 Sr.

SITonyWilkins OG 6-2 250 So. 52 Jerry Coshow 6-1 240 Sr. 53 David Storey 6-4 260 Jr. 54 Ricky Adams LB 6-3 220 Jr. 55JimKrebs LB 6-2 218 Jr.

58 Doug Meachom OL 6-3 226 Fr. 62 Mike Wolfe OT 6-5 250 Fr. 66Derek Burton OG 6-2 270 Jr. 67 David Tucker 6-2 270 Jr. 69 Marvin Hawkins NG 6-2 254 Jr.

72 Paul Blair OT 6-4 250 Jr. 74 Keith Brown OL 6-2 262 Sr. 75 Schaun Gallagher OG 64 240 So. 76 Chris Shanklin OL 6-4 240 Jr. 78 Chris Parton OT 6-5 269 Sr.

80 John Washington NG 6-5 265 Jr. 82 Barry Hanna TE 6-2 232 Sr. 83 Jamie Harris SE 5-10 170 Sr. 84 Leonard Jackson DL 6-2 238 So. 87J.R.DIIIard TE 6-4 245 Fr.

90 Matt Monger LB 6-2 215 Sr. 91 Warren Thompson DE 6-4 215 Jr. 92 Robert Nunn TE 6-2 222 Fr. 96 Tavie Hampton DL 6-2 242 Sr. 97 Ricky Shaw DE 64 215 Fr.

99 Leslie O'Neal DT 64 235 Jr. Nebraska roster 35 Kevin Parsons 36 Scott Porter 37 Bob Kingston 38 Steve Forch 39 Jim Thompson 40JonKelley 41 Marc AAunford LB 6-2 FB 64 IB 5-11 LB 6-1 WB 5-9 IB 6-0 LB 6-2 230 So. 222 Sr. 190 Jr. 220 So.

190 Sr. 200 Fr. 225 So. 180 So. 205 Fr.

195 So. 230 Jr. 200 Jr. 210 Sr. 210 So.

235 Sr. 245 Sr. 290 Sr. 230 So. 205 Jr.

235 Jr. 265 Sr. 265 Sr. 255 Jr. 250 So.

240 Sr. 255 So. 265 So. 265 Jr. 225 Jr.

260 Sr. 270 Jr. 42 Mike Carl DB 5-11 43 Brian Washington DB 4-2 45 Chris Carr 6-1 46ChodDaffer LB 6-0 47DanWingard 6-1 48 Scott Livingston K6-2 49KenKaelln FB 5-10 51MarkDoum LB 6-3 52 Ken Graeber MG 6-2 53 Anthony Thomas OG 6-2 54 Mark Cooper 6-1 55StonlevWade LB 6-3 56 Jack Noel 6-1 57 Mark Traynowlcz 66 58 Harry Grimminger OG 6-3 59JlmDlttmer OT 4-3 61 JohnMcCormlck OG 6-0 62JohnRelnhardt MG 5-11 63 Todd Olson OG 60 64 Brad Johnson OT 6-3 65TimRoth OT 64 66 Phil Rogers MG 6-1 67GregOrton OG 6-1 68 Bill Lewis 6-6 1 Bobby Riley 2 Ken Zachery 3 Shown Jones 5 Demise Williams 6 Harry Roberts 7 Cary Cooper 8 Malcolm Lewis 9 Lorry Roach lOMlke Hudson 12 Rusty Hllger 14 Adam Hinds 15 Ronnie Williams i 16 Rich Thompson 17 Rusty Ronkik 20Stanlev Blair 21 Lynn Beck 22Terry Werner 25 Jon Miller 26 Kelly Cook 27 Rod Brown with 7-1 "I had Bobby Brown ready to hit for Whitson," said Padres Manager Dick Williams. "But the two-run double changed the situation." Although the Padres broke the game1 open with three runs in the fifth and four more in the sixth, one of the keys to the game seemed to be the Cubs' second inning, when they opened with a double by Keith Moreland, a run-producing single by Ron Cey, and another single by Jody Davis. Whitson then got Larry Bowa and Dennis Eckersley on popups, and Bob Denier lined out to Templeton.

"Getting just one run in the second inning hurt us a lot," said Frey. The Padres' McReynolds agreed with the Chicago manager, saying, "Just getting out of that inning with one run was very important for us. If they had scored more, it could really have changed things around." Williams, asked if he'd held a team meeting Mowing the two losses in Chicago, said he hadn't, but that a crowd of some 3,000 fans who welcomed the team home Wednesday night perhaps performed a similar function. "That was something, after we'd lost two games in Chicago," he said. "San Diego is proving it's a good sports town, as Chicago is." SE 5-10 165 So.

TB 64 204 Jr. TB 6-1 212 DB 6-2 215 So. DE 6-2 207 Jr. 5-10 155 Fr. SE 6-3 210 So.

6-1 175 Sr. DB 6-2 195 So. QB 6-4 205 Sr. FS 6-3 201 Sr. QB 6-4 205 Fr.

64 215 Fr. QB 6-2 190 Fr. DB 64 192 Jr. Ft 6-1, 193 Jr. SB 64 175 Jr.

TB 6-1 200 So. FB 5-11 215 Sr. SS 6-3 188 Sr. retaliate In a Thursday breakfast at Omaha, Osborne said he hopes to give backup quarterback Turner more playing time. Turner has played only sparingly.

Sundberg missed some practices be-; fore last week's loss at Syracuse. Tut' ner didnt play until the final series. "Maybe it was my fault for not changing quarterbacks," Osborne said. "But ngot to the point that I kept thinking the best chance we had to win was with the guy who had a fair amount of experience." Turner, a Moot-2, 205-pound junior from Scottsbluff, has completed 4 of 11 passes this year. "I'd Uke to try to play him," Osborne said.

"It's going to depend on the circumstances. I dont want to put him in the middle of the drive, and I don't want to put him in with the ban at our own 5-yard line. If it's tight and Craig is really doing a good jcb of moving the ball, he may not play." Padres SAN DIEGO (AP) Kevin McRey-nolds figures the Cubs got most of the breaks in Chicago, so it's the Padres' turn. After being outscored 17-2 by the Cubs in the first two games of the National League Championship, the Padres returned home Thursday night and did some hitting of their own banging out 11 hits in a 7-1 victory. "In Chicago, we hit balls hard but they all went at somebody," McRey-nolds said after the Padres trimmed the Cubs' lead in the best-of-five series to 2-1.

"We figured it was just a Wtter of time. "The Cubs seemed to get aU the breaks in Chicago; I hope that will happen for us in San Diego." McReynokls ripped a three-run homer, Tony Gwynn had three hits, Garry Templeton hit a two-run double, and Ed Whitson limited the Cubs to five hits. "Whitson showed good stuff, had us off stride," said Chicago Manager Jim Frey. "He pitched a strong game." Asked how his club might react to the one-sided loss, Frey smiled and said, "I'll say the same thing I said after we beat them in Chicago; We're going to start aU over tomorrow, huh, Saturday. "We beat them pretty good over in Chicago and it obviously didn't have any effect on them," Frey said of the Padres.

Jeff Smith returned to practice on Thursday and win likely start for the Nebraska football team in Saturday's televised homecoming and Big Eight opener against Oklahoma State. "Jeff ran better today," NU head Coach Tom Osborne said. "It looks like hell be able to play and hell last" Because of an ankle sprain which kept him out of the Syracuse game and hampered his running early in the week, Smith didn't suit up for Wednesday's practice. "The way he ran Monday and Tuesday, he wouldn't have been very effective," said Osborne. According to Osborne, Doug DuBose, the No.

2 1-back, and first-team fullback Tom Rathman both were "better" on Thursday, after being slowed by sore ankles. Quarterback Craig Sundberg "threw the baU today," Osborne said. "I don't know if Craig's 100 percent yet but he's better." Sundberg has been bothered by a sore right shoulder and was held out of passing drills on Wednesday. Defensive end BUI Weber, who's recovering from a pulled groin muscle, practiced as did cornerback Dennis Watkins, who missed practice on Wednesday with an achilles problem. The Comhuskers were also minus their top two defensive left tackles.

Starter Chris Spachman didnt practice because of an ankle sprain and "may be doubtful" for the Oklahoma State game, said Osborne. Spachman's back-up, Danny Noonan, was sent home with the flu, as was Travis Turner, the second-string quarterback. All things considered, "I can't remember going into a big game in recent years when we've been quite this beat-up," said Osborne. "I hope we can still play weU. The big thing is how wen the guys who are hurt hold up." Even though Smith should be able to start with DuBose as his back-up, Osborne said freshman I-back Keith Jones would not travel with the Comhusker junior varsity to Coffeyvflle, for Friday's game with top-ranked CoffeyvUle Junior CoUege.

"I know they'd (the jayvees) love to nave him, but witlf Paul Miles out, and Jeff and Doug both questionable, it would be foolish to send him down there," Osborne said. "It may be a deal where Keith doesn't play a down (on Saturday), but the percentages are better that we keep him here." Miles is sidelined with a dislocated shoulder, and Thurman Hoskins, who moved up to third-string, is concentrating more on fullback this week. ('Lincoln Northeast's Steve Strauss victory APW1REPHOTO watches his fifth-inning three-run O. South playoff San Diego's Kevin McReynolds homer sail over the wall. situation most, of the time," Jackson said.

"That left me one-on-one with one of their guards and I was just able to get in there." Jackson also credited the play of his teammates in the defensive backfield. "There were several tones when their quarterback looked like he was ready to throw but he had to pick out a secondary receiver and that extra time made it possible for me to get Jackson said South Coach Jack Oholendt also credited the Northeast defense. "We just couldnl generate any offense and they played with a lot of emotion tonight and we didnt," Oholendt said. "We're a power football team and we couldnt run our power at any time during the game." Els was gut the win. "It waS a ioug lime coming," Els said.

JbjHUArmltMS AL series resumes Detroit's Milt Wilcox and Kansas City's Charlie Leibrandt are the starting pitchers as the American League Championship Series resumes Friday' night at 7 p.m. Wilcox will try to give Detroit a clean sweep of its best-of-five series with Kansas City, while Leibrandt will try to keep the Royals alive so the can attempt to match a feat set by the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers, currently the only team to win the ALCS after dropping the first two games. Templeton, who made a couple of fine defensive plays in addition to his fifth-inning double that opened the floodgates for San Diego, said he feels the Padres are rolling now heading into Saturday's fourth game and a possible deciding contest Sunday. "We have the momentum," he said, adding that the Padres have the home edge now. "The pressure's on them to win one, and we're tough at home." Templeton's performance helped the Padres in more ways than one he got Whitson out of trouble by spearing line drives to end Cub threats in the first and second innings, and his double kept the San Diego pitcher in the game in the fifth.

STAFF PHOTO BV HUMBtHTO RAMIREZ Rocket defense dominates LNE shuts down 1 s. Ely Ron Maulsby Journal Sports Writer An aroused Lincoln Northeast footbaU team defeated Omaha South on Thursday night at Seacrest Field, 20-0. Following the lead of nose guard Dan Jackson, the Rocket defense completely shut down the Omaha South offense on its way to claiming its first win of the season after five straight losses. Jackson, a 5-11, 205-pounder, spent a great deal of the night in the Packer backfield, recording sue sacks in the process. Two of the Jackson's sacks resulted in fumbles and the Rocket senior was able to recover one of those.

"He may never play another game as well as this one," said Northeast Coach Bob Els, "but his performance tonight is the best individual effort I've ever seen." "The fense we were in on most of the sacks put them in a double team "We've played some good footbaU in those five losses and felt like we should have won a couple of those games, but it just wasn't to be." Els had other things to be pleased about besides the performance of his defense. Dave Svehla, a sophomore, was making his first start at quarterback for the Rockets. Svehla carried the ball 13 times and gained 97 yards to lead the Northeast ground attack. He executed the option weU throughout the game and picked up sizable gains on several occasions. "That was the thing that Dave gave us that has been missing before," Els sail "He has the speed we've lacked and was able to pick up the extra yards." The Rockets also were helped by poor ban handling on the part of Omaha SeeLNEonpacf3l7 il lltMftl Mfimiil I HiWll ii I HMh) i rfi'i hi i) ni tW'Wafct IT dodges Omaha South's Mark Stoley (4i) and John Jennings..