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13 Lincoln Evening Journal Nebraska State Journal Friday, November 25. The Difference: Blocked Husker Kick N-Thorell v. i i 3 It, A O-Hinton k' If 1 4 NWachholti 1 1 N-Vochholfi ft i J. If Oklahoma scored when Eddie Hinton made a good catch of Bob Warmack's pass, then outraced Husker defenders as Larry Wachholtz fell, and scored on this 48-yard play. A i A .1 Stephenson Intercepted 1 Victory margin was extra point which Nebraska didnt get.

Oklahoma's Bob Stephenson blocked the kick. Gregory Gets 'Everything I Can' R.chncfi'hY j. 4 'V 7 high, three high school, one frosh and two varsity college years, Gregory- has-been on a loser only five times About every two years -something gets fouled up and the team loses. Or at least the scoreboard shows. He's still trying to pull a couple of them out.

He hated to give up Thursday. "I thought we were in it to the last," Ben said. "Even when there were 10 seconds left I still thought something could happen." During the Huskers' final effort to pull the game out Gregory caught one pass, a delay-over the middle. And OU, in a prevent defense, had the field covered with red shirts. "I still thought I could go all the way," Ben said.

"I saw one guy and caught another out of the corner of my eye. I felt if I could just get by that one guy but then that's how I think all the time." And that, more than anything else, is why he got 109 yards Thursday. He put on one of the finest displays of Norman, Okla. One of the more unfortunate aspects of the Nebraska loss to Oklahoma Thursday was that Ben Gregory was deprived of the chance to enjoy his finest afternoon of college football. Silent Ben, who speaks as softly as he runs hard, piled up 109 yards in the defeat, his highest "since I've been here at Nebraska." Those 100-yard days come few for most backs, almost as few as losses do to Gregory.

In nine years of competitive football three Junior AT 1 Last NU bid was shut off by Rod Crosswhite's interception of a Bob Churchich pass. 1 1 N-Gregory vV- outright power running of the season. Time after time he broke -a tackle or dragged somebody with him for a few yards. "I just always have it in my mind to get everything I can," Ben said. "If I'm playing defense, I just try to not let him have anything.

It's kind of a contest within myself." Ben's parents had called him Sundayand told him they would be watching the game on television. He likes the TV games. "I love it," he says. "I wish we played on televi-vision every day. It's a chance to show a lot of people what you can do.

Today it just didn't work out our way. "They just beat us. They played a real good game. I didn't think we played such a bad game. They just played a little better." For Ben and many of the, Cornhuskers the holiday will be a lonesome affair, "I dont like to drive that far and I don't have the money to fly," he said, when asked if thought about going home to Uniontown, Pa.

It was in Uniontown where he has suffered 60 per cent of all of those setbacks. His junior high teams blew a whole game in three years. And in three high school years, they couldn't hack it twice. And now there have been two at Nebraskato Alabama and to Oklahoma. Nebraska -V -v I I "Touchdownr' A 4 il 1 f.

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i VI- i i 111' l- 4 -1, i 5Barfet ft- V-! .1" 'A i 5 1 Now Ben shakes off one tackle (2) and then another (3) before Oklahomans close in (4) to stop Gregory after a 24-yard run to the five-yard line in the third quarter. 1.