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NTU'E 10H(D)CJ1S. Quote of the game OSU Coach Pat Jones "(Quarterback) Mike (Gundy) wasn't scrambling back there, he was running for his life all afternoon: And against guys who can run faster than he can." Vs Scoring, team stats OSU OOO 0 0 Nebraska 7 14 7 735 NU Smith 29 pass form Taylor (Dren-nan kick) NU Clark 28 run (Orannan kick) NU Jones 5 run (Orennan kick) NU Jones 17 run (Drennan kick) NU Clark 1 run (Drennan kick) A 50,440 NU osu 36 16 74-466 22-43 151 221 617 264 31 0 8-13-0 20-43-1 3-1 2-1 6-31 4-20 38:06 21:54 3-8 5-15 0-1 1-2 it First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Total yards -Return yards Passing Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards Time of possession Third-down conversions Fourth-down conversion ByMikeBabcock STILLWATER, Okla. Oklahoma State's football team should have learned a valuable lesson from a 35-0 loss to Nebraska Saturday afternoon at Lewis Field: Dont insult people bigger and stronger than you. Or, as Cornhusker defensive end Broderick Thomas put it: "If you're going to talk, you'd better have something to back it up." The insults came Friday night, at the theater complex where both teams went to watch movies. Apparently, the incident began innocently enough with Nebraska defensive backs Brian Washington and -Marvin Sanders, who were watching the recently released comedy "Like Father, Like Soa" Several Oklahoma State players attended the same movie.

According to Sanders, Washington tried to make friendly conversation with one of the Cowboys, a "How's it going?" remark that ultimately turned into an argument involving other players and continuing outside the theaters. "There was a big shouting match," said Nebraska offensive tackle Bob Sledge, who went to a different movie in the same complex. By the time Keven Lightner, another Cornhusker offensive tackle, got outside, Oklahoma State players "were taunting us," he said. In for rough day From the safety of the Cowboys' bus, tailback Thurman Thomas "was saying things like, no one man could bring him down, that kind of stuff," Lightner said. "Right there, I knew he was going to be in for a rough day." Broderick Thomas and Nebraska linebacker LeRoy Etienne "had fire in their eyes," said Lightner.

Saturday afternoon, before an audience of 50,440, that fire all but consumed the Heisman Trophy candidacy of Thurman Thomas, who went into the game as the nation's leading rusher, averaging 140 yards per game and 5.9 yards per carry. Sorting through the ashes, all that could be found were seven yards on nine carries. "Seven yards? I love it," Broderick Thomas said. So did Nebraska cornerback Charles Fryar. "What's bis (jersey) number, if if .4 On the inside Nebraska defensive back Charles Fryar says his key pass interception was typical coverage big receiver vs.

little cornerback, and little cornerback gets inside and wins. Page 6D. Well, three plus four is seven," said Fryar. Thurman Thomas' problems were symptomatic of his team's offense Saturday. Oklahoma State went into the game averaging 442.8 total yards and 37.4 points per game.

The Cowboy defense, though less impressive statistically, had given up an average of 14.8 points per game in five consecutive victories. Nebraska easily RANUY HMMf TUMSUNUAV JOOHNAlSTAfl NU defensive end Broderick Thomas separates OSU's Thurman Thomas from the ball as Cowboy lineman Mike Wolfe (62) looks on. See HUSKERS on page 6D NUdefense relentless against OS U9s Thomas Fx i k-v 'V I It didn't get any. better as he was thrown for losses and held to seven yards oh seven carries in the first half. The frustration built when he carried twice in the third quarter once for one yard and the other for minus-one yard.

"I could tell on the first play, the first hit on Thurman, was the last time he looked like he really wanted the baU," Nebraska middle guard Lawrence Pete said. Stopping Thurman Thomas was the simplest an- swer to stopping OSU's running game, Nebraska defensive coordinator Charlie McBride said. "You dont do a lot different, you just concentrate on stopping a great back with everything you can afford," he said. "Their fullback doesn't carry the ball except on rare occasions, and they are in i the situation where everybody is looking him (Thomas) up because he's going to get it 98 percent of the times they run. i are not ranked high in the defensive statistics, but we have played some of the great guys and some of tensive guys as good as ours.

"I'm afraid we respected him and that special at-. tention cost him a good day." The Black Shirts' performance against the run-after holding their last two opponents to 74 yards (Kansas) and minus-14 (South Carolina) is expected, Broderick Thomas said. "Against the run, I dont think anybody can play with us. This is the Big Eight and a lot of teams like to run and we have the best team against the run in the country," he said. "They (OSU) decided to run right at us and that's what you do not want to do.

"They tried to run Thomas away from us, but I told him if he hadn't sprouted wings by Saturday morning, he was going to be in trouble." Thurman Thomas' longest run was four yards and that was on the second play of the game. ByKenHambleton STILLWATER, Okla. Not even the television show "60 Minutes" could have grilled Oklahoma State's Thurman Thomas as brutally as the Nebraska defense did on Saturday, Thomas, leading the nation in rushing coming into Nebraska's 35-0 victory over the Cowboys, was held to seven yards on nine carries. It was the least productive pme the Ail-American back has had in his four years at OSU. The vaunted Oklahoma State offense, one of the best in the country statistically, was held to minus-14 yards rushing through three quarters.

"For 60 minutes against our defense, Thurman Thomas is just another person," Nebraska's Broderick Thomas said. "Seven yards for the tion's leading rusher says a lot about our defense. "We just had to show him a few things. Like that we are not a joke," the NU defensive end said. "We "And you dont have to tell the guys that Thurman Thomas is being boosted for the Heisman Trophy and he's the leading rusher in the country McBride said.

Nebraska's defensive plan against the run was to control the middle of the line and stop the traps and draw plays. "Lawrence Pete controlled the middle by not getting overanxious and playing to one side of another," McBride said. i I On a number of plays, Nebraska ran a twisl where the defensive ends, Broderick Thomas; Jeff Jamrog or Jon Marco, would loop around tackles Tim Rother and Neil Smith to the inside, while the tackles would play to the outside. "So we always had someone coming up the chute in the middle and always had someone on containment to the outside," McBride said. "We just mixed -it up a little." NU's Broderick Thomas Huskers manhandled Oklahoma St.

si Virgil Parker Columnist APUPI This week 17 1. Oklahoma (6-0) def. Kansas St. 59-10 Colorado 27 2. Nebraska (6-0) def.

Oklahoma St. 35-0 Kansas St. 37 3. Miami, Fla. (4-0) was idle at Cincinnati 47 7.

Florida St. (6-1) def. Louisville 32-9 idle 57 4. Auburn (5-0-1) def. Georgia Tech 20-10 Mississippi St.

67 5. Louisiana St. (6-0-1) def. Kentucky 34-9 Idle 77 6. Clemson (6-0) def.

Duke 17-10 N. Carolina Stay 8. Tennessee (4-1-1) lost to Alabama 41 -22 at Georgia Tech 97 9. UCLA (5-1) def. Oregon 41-10 California 10710.

Penn St. (5-2) lost to Syracuse 48-21 Idle 11713. Notre Dame (4-1 def. Air Force 35-1 4 Southern Cal 12712. Oklahoma St.

(5-1) lost to Nebraska 35-0 at Missouri 1371 I.Syracuse (6-0) def. Penn St. 46-21 Colgate. 147 14. Florida (5-2) def.

Temple 34-3 Idle 15715. Arkansas (4-2) lost to Texas 16-1 4 Houston. 167 18. Oregon (4-2) lost to UCLA 41 -10 at Stanford 177 16. Ohio St.

(4-1-1) def 20-1 7 Minnesota- 1 87 17. Georgia (5-2) def. Vanderbilt 52-24 Kentucky- 19720. Michigan St. (4-2) def.

Northwestern 38-0 Illinois 207 Indiana (5-1) def. Minnesota 18-17, Friday Michigan- 1 9. Minnesota (5-0) lost to Indiana 1 8-1 7, Friday at Ohio St we've had an opportunity to beat them. To go out like this is sad. I knew it would be tough, because they dont allow a lot of rushing yards.

But I didnt expect it to be that tough." One of Nebraska's gang leaders on defense had one thing in common with the OSU star, a surname Thomas. But in this game, Husker end Broderick Thomas got the best of bis Cowboy coun- terpart. Broderick Thomas is well-known for saying whatever is on his mind. In fact, NU (defensive; coordinator Charlie McBride has jokingly said that Thomas costs opposing. teams at lot of extra money because of the scotch tape they need to put his quotes on the locker room walls.

1 In true form, Nebraska's Thomas didnt think it unusual that the Huskers stopped Oklahoma State's Thomas cokL "Against the run, I dont think anybody can play with us," Broderick said. "Anybody in the country, including Okla- I That's a four-year total of 123 yards, less than his per-game average going into Saturday's game. "I cant remember ever playing in a game when I didnt have more yards than today," Thomas said. "But Fve got to give the Nebraska defense credit. They have been tough on me ever since I came to Oklahoma State.

"I was really frustrated," Thomas admitted, "because this was my last chance against them. Their line wasnt as big as they've been in the past I really thought we could rush the ban on them." Thomas said the only thing the Cowboys can do now "is try to block this game out of our minds. But that's going to be easier to say than do. After alL this game was on national television. We wanted to come out and prove that we wereforTeaL i i "But we never really had a Thomas added.

"They just out-manned us. It especially hurts because in a couj pie of the games since I've been here, STILLWATER, Okla. The last time Oklahoma State beat Nebraska, in 1961, John F. Kennedy was the president of the United States. Kennedy's favorite pastime was touch' football, what Oklahoma State should have been playing against the Huskers here Saturday.

The Cowboys just couldn't match up physically against Nebraska on offense or defense. The statistics tell the story of what was supposed to be a big game. Okla-homa State was unbeaten after five starts and ranked 12th in the country. Yet the second-ranked Huskers recorded their best numbers of the season. Nebraska's 36 first downs were two more than the team's best last year 34 against Kansas.

The total offense of 617 yards also topped last year's best, of 587 against the Jayhawks. the most telling statistic came from the Nebraska defense and the way the Black Shirts contained Cowboy tailback Thurman In each of OSU's five victories this year, Thomas had more than 100 yards rushing. He came into Saturday's game leading the nation in rushing with a 140- yards-per-game average. Yet, on nine carries against the Husk- Thomas managed a measly seven yards. When you look through the records, however, that was really nothing new.

While seeing limited duty as a freshman in 1984, Thomas gained 12 yards against Nebraska. As a highly-touted sopho- more, he had 71. Last year, he had just 33. il Gladdenl Twins slam Cardinals 10-1 i 'I a Duck decoys fill the bill for Lincolnife Page 9D pitch and seemed to unnerve Joe Ma-grane, the first left-handed rookie ever to start the first game of the World Series. He wore arplugs to block out the sound, but be could not block out the Twins' big hitters.

Magrane held Minnesota hitless for three innings, extending the Cardinals' post-season scoreless-inning streak to 25, before the Twins broke out for the biggest World Series outburst in 19 years. Gladden's slam, the first in Series play since 1970, capped the inning. "We felt we could get him after the first time around," said Gladden, the leadoff batter. Cardinals Manager Whitey Herzog played down the Metrodome's effect, even though St Louis outfielders let not one, but two Minnesota flies drop in cen-terfiebif "I don't want to blame the dome for losing that baUgame," he said. "They just beat us." i Herzog has seen this happen in the past In 1982, Milwaukee beat St Louis 10-0 in Game 1 of the World Series before the Cardinals came back to win in seven And counting Kansas City's decisive seventh-game victory in 1985, the Cardinals now have been out-scored 21-1 in their last two World Series games.

Viola, who was supposed to be best man at his brother's wedding Saturday in East Meadow, N.Y, was certainly the best man on the mound. He threw 100 pitches, 71 for strikes. He struck out five, walked none and the only run scored on him came on on a bloop double, flyball andRBIgroundouL i to fact, he went to a three-ball count MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Dan Gladden; and Frank Viola turned the Metrodome into a house of homers and hankies for; the Minnesota Twins and horrors for the; St Louis Cardinals in the opening game; of the first Indoor World Series; i I Gladden sparked a seven-run fourth' Inning with the first Series grand slam in 17 years and added an RBI double, and' Viola threw eight innings of five-hit ban as the Twins crushed the Cardinals 10-1 Saturday night Steve Lombardozzi added a two-run homer as the Twins, whose starting) lineup outhomered SL Louis' 17342 this season, turned on the power and their fans and blew the Cardinals out of the I ballpark. i "I might need a hearing aid after this," Lombardozzi said. i The 55,171 fans roared from the first a just once before Keith Atherton pitched a perfect ninth, saving Viola's valuable left arm for Game 4.

The Twins' damage in the fourth came on six pitches. Gary Gaetti and Don Baylor led off with singles on first pitches, and Tom' Brunansky's single on an 1-0 count loaded the bases. That sent pitching coach Mike Roarke to the mound, got Bob Forsch wanning in the bullpen and had the screaming fans swirling their good-luck handkerj chiefs. Kent Hrbek, just 3-for-20 in the TwinsT playoff victory over Detroit, rewarded them with a two-run single up the mid' die on an 0-1 pitch. Lombardozzi walked to reload the: See SERIES on pegs 1 1 0 Jameson FG gives Yesleyan win over Doane Page 2D Syracuse blows out Penn State i Page 4D i LSE's Nielsen, DeVoogd run to victory Page 80 S3.