Lincoln Journal Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • 31

SECTION Sports September 17, 1978 Lincoln, Neb. Iniker deny Kaimdbows theii DOt of ffOld 3COLORL Howaii NU First downs 14 31 Rushes-yards 41-100 47-389 Passing yards 132 210 Return yards 0 82 Passes 12-21-0 16-20-0 Punts-ave Fumbles-lost 4-3 3-2 Penalties 9-89 5-43 Third down conversions 3-12 9-11 Time of possession 31:53 28:07 By Randy York Staff Sports Writer Jimmy Durante was the guy who said it "Everybody wants ta get into da act." It's true. When there's an audience, everyone likes to think he's a performer, and in Nebraska's case Saturday, everyone was. In its own attempt at the ratings game, the Huskers tried substituting a variety show for "Hawaii Five-O" and ended up making the whole thing sing like "Blue Hawaii." Eight different players lugged a football into Hawaii's end zone, and by the time the sun set, a Big Red cast of thousands had staged something similar to an all-school musical at the Rainbows' expense. The final 56-10 score didn't matter so much to the 75,615 who paid good money to watch.

It was more a social exchange than a football game, anyway. Fans came primarily to sun themselves in points and watch a team build up its ego, and that's exactly what they got as I.M. Hipp, Andra Franklin, Tom Sorley, Frank Lockett, Kenny Brown, Richard Berns-, Jim Kotera and Craig Johnson scored Husker touchdowns. Hawaii, which really isn't that bad a football team, must have felt like a sacrificial lamb. Nebraska, unsatisfied with its first two times out of the gate this season, went after the Rainbows with the intensity of a hurricane sweeping the Islands.

The Huskers were so physical they looked like the initial stages of the prison guard team in "The Longest Yard." Proud, confident and well-organized, it was obvious from the outset that Nebraska was bent on making the other team pay dearly for anything to which it thought it was entitled. "We had to get after 'em right off the bat," Husker defensive tackle Rod Horn said. "We had to keep punching at them and not let up." Aggressiveness indeed seemed to be the keynote of the whole attack "We've been working on it all week," offered second team linebacker Brent Williams, who laid such a block on Hawaii's Craig Roberts on a second quarter punt return that everyone in the crowd felt part of the pain. "Aggressiveness, going after them real hard, is the goal of this team." It may have been the goal, but getting kicked out of the game was not part of it. Dan Pensick, who was in the logjam on the Hawaii 18 after the Rainbows failed to handle a Nebraska kickoff, came up with the ball in a mass of confusion.

But Pensick was ejected from the game three plays before the Huskers built a 21-0 lead. It was about the only thing to go wrong for Nebraska this however. Hawaii had to feel somewhat snake-bitten despite the lopsided score. Even the umpire managed to get in the way of Rainbow ball carriers a couple of times, nullifying what could have been sizeable gains. No one can see a facial expression through a helmet, but Hawaii's frustration became apparent when Brown, who probably will lead the nation in punt returns next week, zipped 52 yards for a touchdown three minutes before halftime to give the Huskers a 35-0 cushion.

Nathan Fletcher, an 18-year-old freshman and Island native, didn't get to lay a hand on Brown during his artistic return. So he did the next best thing. He followed Brown intothe corner of the end zone and while the Nebraska wingback was hoisting the ball in the air, Fletcher knocked the celebrant off balance. It may not have been intentional but if it was, you could understand why. Hawaii came into the game genuinely expecting to win.

The Rainbow Warriors had made a solemn vow to at least keep the sco- HUSKERS continued Page4D NV ry (hi ml Wr(ff 1 a 1 i STAFF COLORPHOTO BY WEB RAY 3, in 1976. During the first quarter he lifts a pass over wingback Tim McCrady (24) to I-back I.M. Hipp (32). Lineman Lawrence Cooley (67) adds pass protection against defender Tom Tuinei (88). McCrady led Cornhusker receptions with five, but suffered a shoulder seperation and will miss at least six weeks of action.

After one game of nearly non-existent offense and one with a good second half, the Nebraska Cornhuskers put together four quarters of potent attack Saturday against Hawaii. Quarterback Tom Sorley (12) led the attack with nine completions in 11 attempts for 133 yards and one touchdown. NU's 56 points was its highest total since it beat Hawaii, 68- Injury silences victory exultation for McCrady Kenny Brown. He moved into that position when freshman Maurice McCloney injured an ankle Thursday at practice and didn't suit up. But when the day was over, McCrady wasn't concerned with the statistic sheets; three x-rays hanging in the training room were his immediate concern.

He raised up his right arm, and there was a glimmer of hope. Maybe the shoulder wasn't separated afterall. Maybe he'd be back in two weeks against Indiana, wearing No. 24 and being part of the Huskers' underclassman, wingback shuffle. "The doctor said, 'Hey, can you lift your McCrady said.

"But then he put up the x-rays I felt like grabbing an 11-yard pass from Jeff Quinn at the Hawaii 49 yard line early in Ihe fourth quarter. Rainbow defensive back Nelson Maeda made a hard, clean hit and separated McCrady's right shoulder. "It was just an out with about 10 minutes to go," he said, fighting back the emotion. "He hit me with a helmet. There was a glimmer of hope if I hadn't More bitter silence and thoughts of a Sunday operation which will leave him sidelined for at least eight weeks.

Since he was a redshirt last season, only a quick recovery can save this one now. McCrady started Saturday afternoon as No. 2 wingback behind the Huskers' Rodgers wins, Karthauser 11th LYNCHBURG, Rodgers, winner of the last two Boston Marrathons and a 1976 Olympian in that event, won the Virginia 10-miler Run here Saturday in a time of 48:33. It was the fourth straight time Rodgers has won the race. Cliff Karthauser of Lincoln finished 11th, ahead of such world class runners as Frank Shorter, winner of the 1972 Ulympic Marathon, and Lasse Viren of Finland, two-time Olympic double gold medal winner.

His time was 51: 50. The race was run in 84-degree heat. Karthauser set the early pace, leading for the first mile-and-a-half Karthauser said after the race that he made a tactical error by going out so fast. He felt he could have finished in the top ten if he hadn't burned out early. Seattle Slew wins Marlboro NEW YORK (AP) The Old Slew is back.

"I've never been around a horse of this class," jockey Angel Cordero Jr. said of Seattle Slew. "It's like flying an airplane." Seattle Slew, beset by injuries and illness since capturing the ltf7 Triple Crown, led all the way Saturday in the $300,000 Marlboro Cup at Belmont Park, winning by three lengtsh over Affirmed, the 1978 Triple Crown winner. It was the first time in throughbred history that two Triple Crown winners had met. Cordero was riding Seattle Slew for the first time, and it resulted in the 4-year-old colt's first stakes triumph in 15 months.

And his time for the 1 18 miles was only two-fifths of How AFs top 20 fared Next week's opponent 1. Alabama (2-0), def. Missouri, 38-20 USC 2. Arkansas (1-0), def. Vanderbilt, 48-17 at Okla.

St. 3. Oklahoma (2-0), def. West Virginia, 52-10 Rice 4. Mlchl9an (l-O), def.

Illinois, 31-0 at Notre Dame 5. Penn State (3-0), def. Ohio State, 19-0 SAAU 4. Ohio State (0-1 lost to Penn State, 19-0 at Minnsota 7. Texas (1-0), def.

Rice, 34-0 Wyominp 8. USC (2-0) def. Oreaon, 37-10 At Alabama 9. UCLA (2-0) def. Tennessee, 13-0 a Kansas 10.

Texas A8.M (1-0), Idle at Boston College 11. Missouri (1-1), lost to Alabama, 38-20 at Georgia 12. Nebraska (2-1) def, Hawaii, 54-10 idle 13. LSU (1-0) def. Indiana, 24-14 Wake Forest 14.

Pitt (1-0) def. Temple 15. Notre Dame (0-1), idle 14. Fla. St.

(2-0) def. Okla. State, 38-20 at Miami 17. Kentucky (0-0-1 tied South Carolina, 14-14 Baylor 18. Washington (1-1) def.

Kansas, 31-2 at Indiana 19. Iowa St. (2-0) def. San Diego State, 14-13 at Iowa 20. Maryland (2-0) def.

Louisville, 24-17 at No. Cqro. got hurt, and we were alternating anyway. "But it's not like the position is doomed. Maurice will be ready for Indiana, and Kenny Brown, is well, just Kenny Brown." A week ago, McCloney sparkled in the Huskers' 36-26 victory over California.

Saturday McCrady and Brown emphasized that passes to the wingback were back in vogue at Nebraska. "That's a very competitive position," wingback coach Gene lluoy said. McCrady had fought the anxiety of not playing in Nebraska's first two games because that injured right shoulder had plagued him since the start of fall practice. "I took off a week and missed the Alabama game," he said. "Then I practiced for California, and this week it really came along.

"It was weak I guess. It was the one we've been working on and maybe I babied it so much, it took a little strength out of the shoulder. "My shoulder's been screwed up, but it's (the separation) not related to that," McCrady said. Now he says he understands how Brad Humphrey felt last season Humphrey was a sophomore quarterback at the time when his shoulder was separated during fall practice. "I saw him every day, and I used to talk to him all the time about how it felt," McCrady said.

But his empathy didn't come cheaply. "It was just like seeing the season go before my eyes," he said. "I'm really not believing it yet, but I probably will tomorrow." No one knows how McCrady feels. It should have been a day to remember, and he probably will but not happily. in the understatement of the day.

"The trouble with football is that it's a four-quarter game," Powers added. "We only played well in one, the second. You can't expect to beat a great team like Alabama doing that. "We had the momentum turned around until the blocked punt," Powers felt, "but from there on it was all downhill. "We're a better team than we showed, however.

We know how we can play and we know how we played today. We've just got to make teams beat us instead of making so many errors and beating ourselves." Alo 09ilvie23-run (McElrov kicki. Alo Neal 6-pass from Rutledge (McEI-rovkick). Alo FGMcElrovJ Wis Gonl 4-run Brockhaus kick I Mis Brodlev 69-run (kick wi(J). Mis ColoDrese 30 interception return 1 Brockhaus kick) Alo Gilliland IS return of blocked punt (McElrov kick) Alo Nothon 1 run (McElrov kick) Alo ikncr 23 pass from RuHoOW (McElrovkick) A 73,655 1 By Mike Babcock Staff Sports Writer It might have been the greatest football afternoon in Tim McCrady's life: five pass receptions for 58 yards and an end-around for another 24.

For an all-too-fleeting instant he was the newest offensive star in the Nebraska constellation. But the sophomore from Plainview sat staring at the red carpet on the floor of an empty varsity lnckerroom. The joyful echoes of the Huskers' 56-10 victory must have seemed hollow as he watched a painful replay of his fifth reception flicker slowly across the carpet. His right shoulder slumped just a little, and his body shook with emotion. "I just get a shot and then McCrady wanted to say something to try to grasp what had happened, but he couldn't finish the sentence.

The invisible replay showed him take claims 38 opening Columbia appearance for the ex-Nebraska assistant. Despite falling behind 17-0 at the out- set, the Tigers clawed their way back to a 20-17 halftime lead. The key play of the contest for Missouri, ranked No. 10 in one national poll and Uth in the other, came on the Tigers' first possession after intermission. Alabama's E.J.

Junior, the same defensive end who intercepted a Nebraska pitchout two weeks ago to spoil a Husker comeback bid in Birmingham, roared in to block a Missouri punt Linebacker Rickey Gilliland scooped up the ball and saundered 35 yards for a go-ahead touchdown. Powers' troops never recovered as fabled Coach Bear Bryant's Crimson Tide club added two more insurance touchdowns to settle the issue. Nebraskans, who may have been fearing the season-ending game against Missouri in Lincoln-after Powers' Washington State team beat the Huskers in the Capital City last year in his initial test as a head coach-can now expect a dead- them." The way McCrady performed against llawau, you can bet his sure hands would have pulled the x-rays down. Except for that last reception, it had been a good day. "The second play I as in, we called a hook for the split end," McCrady said.

"I was supposed to clear out the side. Tom (Sorley) threw it to me, and I just went down, caught it and was on my way." The first catch gained five yards. Then came one for 17 yards, one for 16 yards, the reverse for 24 yards, another pass for nine, and the disastrous 11 yarder from Quinn. "It was great," he said of the opportunity to play. "Maurice (McCloney) just the only one he had to beat." Affirmed trailed by two lengths in the early going and fell behind by and finally three, which Seattle Slew maintained to the wire.

Cauthen said: "At the top of the stretch, I got after Affirmed and he tried his best to catch the winner but could not catch up to him. He ran his race and never gave up." Meadow Will Stable's Nasty and Bold finished third in the field of six, five lengths behind Affirmed. As the 2-1 second choice behind 1-2 Affirmed, Seattle Slew, timed in 1 returned $6.20. $2.80 and $2.40. Affirmed, who carried 124 pounds including Steve Cauthen, paid $2.20 and $2.10.

Nasty and Bold paid $2.40. coln last season. During the interim, Rut-ledge set an Alabama school record by throwing 100 passes without a theft. No. 101 got him in trouble.

"We thought we could keep them from running the ball-we have a good, physical defensive team," Powers observed. "We hoped to force them to pass. And it almost got them into trouble." Powers' voice trailed off. What he didn't add was the fact Missouri's kicking game got the Tigers in even deeper trouble. Montgomery averaged just 25 yards on seven punts-not counting the blocked attempt which doesn't count against him.

'Bama returned three of them for a total of 42 yards. The Tide's Umphrey averaged 47.2 on five punts-despite having a 51-yarder called back by a penalty-and Missouri wound up with a minus-1 on its returns. "We're going to have to lake a hard lok at our kicking game," Powers noted 20 victory over error-plagued Missouri a second off the world record set by Secretariat in the 1973 Marlboro. "I beat a great combination," said Cordero, "a great horse, a great trainer and a great owner. There'll probably be a rematch but I got the biggie.

We're No.l." The key to the race was the opening quarter-mile, which was run in a slow 24 seconds. From there, the fractions became quite fast, but Slew relaxed on the lead and had plenty left at the end. Laz Barrera, who trains Affirmed, was upset at the fractions for the first two quarters. "He (Affirmed) started to move about the three-eighths pole," Barrera said. "I told him (Steve Cauthen) to stay one length away at most off that horse his best effort of the day.

It went 32 yards, and The Tide took just seven plays to make it 14 0. Missouri quarterback Phil Bradley suffered a pass interception just before the end of the first quarter and Alabama converted that into a field goal and a 17-0 lead early in the second stanza. Then Mizzou began to move. Three touchdowns before halftime, although one extra point boot was missed (there's that kicking game again), gave the Tigers their 20-17 mtermission lead. It was the most points scored against Alabama in one quarter since Auburn tallied 24 in 1969.

Missouri sustained a drive of 72 yards in 10 plays for the first one. Bradley broke a keeper run for 69 yards for the second and two plays after the ensuing kickoff got the third on a Russ Calabrese pass interception. Just 49 seconds separated the two touchdowns. Ironically, it was the first interception of a pass by 'Bama quarterback Jeff Rut-ledge since Nebraska picked off five of his tosses when the Huskers won in Lin Alabama Ala Mis First Downs 20 15 Rushes-yards 59-254 43-192 Passing yards 70 125 Return yards 47 29 Posses 50-12-211-19-1 Punts Fumbles-lost 51 3-2 Penalties-yards 4-30 3-15 Aiebanw 14 1147 Missouri 020 00-20 By Virgil Parker Sports Editor COLUMBIA, you ever try to repair a burst balloon? Warren Powers made some temporary repairs and got his flying in the second quarter here Saturday afternoon, but it exploded again in the third stanza. There wasn't enough tape left to patch up the gaping holes and No.

1 rated Alabama went on to claim a 38-20 football victory over Towers' Missouri Tigers. Mizzou, which stunned defending champion Notre Dame on the road a week ago, 3-0, returned home for Powers' debut before a record Faurot Field crowd of 73,655. But a rash of first-quarter errors and an inferior kicking game spoiled the even contest based on the results against Alabama. The Crimson Tide topped Nebraska, 20-3, two weeks ago. That 17-point spread was one better than the Tigers managed here Saturday.

"There's no doubt about the blocked punt being the key play as far as we were concerned," Powers noted. "We had the ball around midfield and the wind at our back. We had the lead and a chance to pin them deep in their own territory. Instead, they block the kick and go ahead on the scoreboard." The difference in the kicking game was obvious from the start. Mizzou punter Monte Montgomery's first punt went 29 yards.

Alabama zipped to a touchdown in six plays to take a 7-0 lead. Montgomery's second punt 'traveled just 26 yards. Though the Tiger defense held, 'Bama punter Woody Umphrey unloaded a 56-yarder that was downed at the Missouri one-yard line. When Mizzou couldn't get out of the hole, Montgomery, who had a one-yard punt against Notre Dame and averaged just 26 yards in that entire game, got off.