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Oct. 22, 1978 Lincoln, Sunday Journal and Star '7E 2 C-M. Davis 1 iiiSliiltfiil jr -5; npvr t-'! 2: 'rV'-i'lSJ: cocks his arm and lets fly with a perfect strike (2) to wingback Kenny Brown (22) between Colorado defenders Mark day for Sorley who passed for 178 yards. Shocked Mallory says 'They were too good for us 9 -k i "Sure you're tired," he said. "But I'm not out there for the glory of not being tired.

I'm out. there lo work as hard as I can." No matter how hard Vaughan tried, the Huskers kepi coming. "The last two years we lost because of mistakes," he said. "But they just came out and played us a damn good ball game thus year." Vaughan is convinced this is the best Nebraska football team he has seen. Fullback James Mayberry, who was limited to just 38 yards rushing, agreed.

"I'd classify this as the best," the Buff senior said. "They're tremendously hard-hitting, and they're poised on defense." Hi course, Mallory agreed. "They just overpowered us," he said for what must have been Ihe 10th time. "They bulled us out of there. "I really feel for the kids because there's no way you can know how much they wanted to win this one.

I just don't know the answers." V-t- Miller 1. 1 By Mike Babcock Staff Sports Writer BOULDER, Colo. Bill Mallnry sat limp and glassy-eyed in the interview room. The Colorado head football coach stared straight ahead as if there was an instant replay of a nightmare running some-where in the back of the room. Perhaps he was contemplating the certain flak he will take this week from Buffalo fans who had expected a better showing against Nebraska.

But he was no longer full of fire, and he didn't battle with the assembled writers. Something had happened at Folsom Field Saturday afternoon that he couldn't explain. Mallory looked the part of a man who had just seen his team overwhelmed 52-14. He was a beaten man and couldn't hide it. "To be tied 14-14 and then get beat 52-14 just can't find any explanation," he said.

"I hate to sit here and say they were too good for us, but that's Mallory said. "When you get your rump kicked so bad, you've just been outcoached." Mallory was trying to shoulder the blame fur a destruction which had seen Nebraska score 49 straight points against a Colorado defense that had been one of the best in the Big Eight. Coming into Saturday's showdown, the Buffs led the league in total defense. "We didn't get their sweeps stopped. In the second half, they came at us like a Mack truck," he said.

"When they get you down, they just keep gel-ting stronger and stronger, and their confidence mounts. "We took a real physical heating in the second half," Mallory said. "We had a lot of people get hurt, and our defense really got battered." But he refused to think that the Huskers had tried to run up a score the devastation was so complete, they didn't have to. "I don't think so, no," Mallory said. "They weren't pour iX sj.vV' Colorado quotes By Mike Babcock Ruben Vaughan, defensive tackle On Ntraskfl's ground attack: "Their execution was so good.

Thev ran the bail damn flood. In the second holt I think they changed the blocking assignments a little, but that's no excuse. I don't blame nobody. On Richard Berns: "Richard Berns is a real hard-nosed runner. We didn't give (Isaiah) Hipp any seams, so he didn't have anyplace to run.

But Berns is a hard runner, and he'll iust try to run over you. They're both real good backs." Bill Solomon, quarterback On Colorado's offensive problems: "Maybe our main problem was, we ran the expected all the time. They knew what we were going to run, and that's what they counted on. When you can't run those plavs, you're in trouble. On the Huskers: "We expected everything they threw at us, but we didn't handle them In the line." Tim Roberts, safety On the running of Berns: "He's a hard runner built a lot different than Mayberry, but he runs the same.

He'll run you over." On the lopsided score: mat's typical tor them i iiiink. They never back off until they get 20 or 30 points on you." On trying to cover Junior Miller's 42-yard touchdown: He released down the inside, and I got lulled to sleep playing the run. By the time I sot turned around, it was too late. That might have been the thing that broke our I don't really know." On his return of an Isaiah Hipp fumble to set up Colorado's second touchdown: I think I can give the credit for that to Mike Davis (defensive halfback). He's the one who stuck his head in there and popped the ball loose.

All of a sudden, there It was. I stayed to the outside Instead of culling back, and (Tom) Sorley knocked me out of bounds." On the NU sweeps: That's their bread and butter like Oklahoma running the option. They'll probably run It a thousand times. On the CU second-half collapse: The big defensive plavs didn't come after that (his fumble return). Momentum Is a funny thing." James Mayberry, fullback On NU "We knew we'd have to play with intensity, but they iust ing il on; I've got a lot of respect for Tom Osborne in that area." Respect was something CU's big defensive tackle Ruben Vaughan also came away with Saturday as he experienced the most lopsided score in the seasons he's been a part of the Nebraska-Colorado rivalry.

"Like I had a hell of a lot of respect today," he said. "It surprised me because all the time I knew I was nobody's punk that's what life's all about. "You can't go through life waking up saying, 'That dude don't have no respect for and that's what I've been doing with Nebraska," Vaughan said. "They didn't have any respect for me." Even when the Buffaloes got hopelessly down by the fourth quarter, Vaughan refused to come out of the game. "They (the coaches) wanted to take the first team out of there, but I was the first one to say, 'Hell no, we're going to stay fJ C-Roberts 41 V- played us a real good football v.

exactly what happened in the second half." Awkward silences punctuated each answer as Mallory searched for an explanation of the inexplicable. "Last year I could pinpoint things that were turning points in the game, but this year they just dominated us the second half," he said. "It's a helpless feeling. We'll have to regroup, but right now, my mind's numb," Mallory said. "I'll have to do some thinking about it later they just overpowered us; I didn't believe that could happen." Mallory refused to hide behind excuses.

Even though his Buffaloes had been helplessly throttled try Nebraska both offensively and defensively, he tried to be convincing when he said Colorado had come ready to play. An early burst of opportunism gave the Buffaloes a 14-3 lead and credence to Mallory's assertion. "But when you get beat like that, only one guy's at fault," il two! Here comes quarterback Tim Roberts Individual Statistics Nebraska Offense Rushing No. Yds. Ave.

HiPP is 5.1 Berns 17 Wurth 7 Brown 4 Franklin 7 Sorlev 132 69 47 25 3 7.8 9.9 11.8 3.7 0.5 9.3 3.0 2.0 U.0 13.0 4 jr Urn if game. Colorado Offense Rushing No. Yds. Ave. Mayberry 13 Solomon 15 Hornberger 4 Davis 9 Green 5 Humble 1 Ford 2 Passing No.

Co. Yds Solomon 10 2 2 Davis 3 2 Pass Receiving No. Ballage 1 Hornberger 1 Solomon 1 Howard 1 PI "8 0 Punting No. Yds. Ave.

Doolittle 6 322 56.6 Olander 2 52 Kickoff Returns No. Ballage 5 Haigh 1 Tope 1 Humble 1 Pass interceptions No. Johnson 1 Yds. Defense Linemen UT AT TT Visger Yds. Yds.

J3 33 TT 1 5 fi A 1 Johnson 7 45 Kotera 1 3 Hoaer 1 Quinn 1 McCloney 1 13 Passing No. Co. Yds Sorlev 17 11 I Haoer 1 0 0 pass Receiving No. Miller 3 Smith 3 Brown 2 HiPP Lockett 1 Berns 1 Yds. 54 41 43 13 16 II Punting No.

Yds. Ave. Smith 2 44.5 Punt Returns No. Brown 3 Kickoff Returns No. Yds.

39 Yds. 31 Brawn 2 Richard Berns (35) up the middle (1). At least that's the way it appears to the Colorado defense, but Tom Sorley (12) only faked to Berns and instead threw to tight end Junior Miller (89) behind CU safety (31) for a two-point conversion (2) that tied the score at 14-14 with 6:57 remaining in the first half. The two-pointer came after the Huskers' first touchdown a five-yard run by Berns. Good for Pass Interceptions No.

Dunning 1 Means Defense Linemen UT AT Pensick welnmaster 3 2 Barnett 3 2 Cole Horn Andrews I Linebackers Kum I Punning I Williams 2 Backs Pillen 3 2 5 LeRov 3 1 4 Fischer waiton 0 Linebackers Browder 3 9 Lee 4 1 Backs Roe 13 Johnson :5 0.