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.71 0 ears nsii an I. Lti 'Notre v. -sCuts 777-0 ante Bo JUP Hobbles Soonei ID was cutoff by an intercepted aerial, the crowd rce as one and sud-. denly gave the Notre team a rousing cheer." It was a far cry. from" last year when the.

Sooners ran over 40-0. The victcry gave the Irish a 3-1 edge in the five years old series dating back to 19j2. The smashing, rocking Notre Dame line didn't permit the Sooners to get started either on the ground or in the air. The Sooners were able to make only 98 yards on the ground and in tb air just 47. Notre Dame, paced by its brilliant 210-pound full-bak Nick Pietrosante rolled up'169.

In the air, the Irish gained 79 yards hitting 9 of 20 passes, with Bob Williams doing most of the pass- Notre Dame's lone touchdown drive, biting off short but consistrnt yardage against the Sooners alternate team, carried from the 20 after an Oklahoma punt went into the end zone. Pietrosante Cains Yardage Time after time, Pietrosante picked up the necessary yard when needed as the Irish smashed through the Oklahoma line. Notre Dame moved to the 8 and the Sooner first team came in to try to make the third Sooner goal line stand of the day. Pietrosante smashed four yards through center and Dick Lynch NORMA.V, Okla. iTu-Okiahoma's a'J-tirne record of 47 "straight victories was shatiered Saturday by an underdcg Notre Dame team that marched 80-yards in the closing minutes for the all-important touchdown and a 7-0 triumph.

Four years ago, in the opening game of the 1953 season, this ame Notre Dame was the last team to beat Oklahoma. Oklahoma, No. 2 ranked in the nation and an 18-point favorite. couldn't move against the rock wall Notre Dame line and the Sooners saw another of its national records broken scoring ia 123 consecutive games. The defeat was onljr the 9th for Oklahoma coach Bud Wilkinson since he became head coach at Oklahoma in 1947 and virtually ended any chance forthe Sooners getting a third straight national championship.

Although the partisan, sellout crowd of 62,000 came out (or a Roman-holiday, they were stunned into silence as the Sooners were unable to pull their usual last-quarter winning touchdowns a Wilkinson team trademark. Crowd Cheers Irish As the game ended when Oklahoma's desperation passing drive. was stopped for no dfwn, Williams werit a yard threugh center. Then Lynch crossed up the Sconers and rolled around his right end to score starring up. Monty Stickles converted to'give Nctre Dame the upset and end collegiate football's longest winning streak.

Sooners Threaten Onee The closest Oklahoma could get (o Notre Dame's goal was in the first quarter when he Sooners alternate team moved to the 13 before being held on In the third period, briHiant punting by first string halfback tlen-" don Thomas and alternate quarterback David Baker kept Notre Dame back on its own goal line but the Sooners couldn't cHpitaliie. Thomas- set punls down on the Notre Dame J5 and 4 and Baker put them on the 3 and 7 and waited for the breaks that have come the Sooners' way in the past to help them keep up their streak through 47 games. This time there were no breaks as Notre Dame shook off last week's jitters that saw the Irish fumble away the ball five times to let Michigan State have an easy 34-6 victory, i. Pietrosante scored almost a third of Notre Dame's rushing yrd- -age as he made 56 yards on 17 carries. Lynch was Just two yards behind wilh 54 in 17 carries while the best an Oklahoma player could muslcr was 38 yards in 10 hies by Thomas.

Williams completed 8 of 19 for 70 yards. In Oklahoma's last min ute desperation drive, third string quarterback Bennett Watts made 2 cf 3 for 31 yards Irish Last to Beat OU Notre Dame was the last team to beat Oklahoma, at the start of the 1353 season on the same field that it smothered the Sooners Saturday. Then coach Frank Leahy's Irish beat Oklahoma 23-21. The next Sme, Oklahoma and Pittsburgh tied 7-7. The Sooners set sail through the next 47 games until Terry Brennan's Irish stopped the string Saturday.

WilkinSon, the nation's winninge st, active coach, had, amassed 101 victories- in his 10 years at Oklahoma. Thee were 3 ties. Oklahoma started out as if it would stretch its win to 48 at' the expense of the Irian. It marched the first, time it got its hands on the ball from the Sooner 42 down to the Irish 13 tut the big Notre Dame line stiffened on the 13. Okjahoma continued to play in Notre Dame territory the fest Continued Page Col.

4) '1 1 SB Deserved To Win Bud Says 'They Buna toes spaiiK ah ka 27 0 9" Better By DON BRYANT i standably irked must create may-! ajmost nil svnd Husker tacklerv Sun Sports Writer fncM 'W Colorado's Golden Buffalo Herd re8ain los' PftK- It should bej Colorado's convincing point mar-found Memorial Stadium a Utopian an tasJf or tnem if tne Husk-' gin was reflected even more start- grazing ground Saturday after- wllu 1MV" hngly the staUstics, last two games, play no better noon. Pastures could have been no greener anywhere else than they were this gloomy afternoon. The Buffs didn't even, need their sec Brennan Credits Team Effort, than they did against Colorado. Fullback Jerry Brown was Nebraska's only bright spot, matching Buff aee Bob Stransky's ground-gaining total of 99 yards for a 7.8 average. ond wind to mow.

down the Ne braska Cornhuskers, 27-0, before 1 IT. I I i 1 -f- -xr-. v. ff v. A The Buffs out-downed Nebraska, 27-9 and out-yarded the Huskers, 479 to 164.

CU gained a whopping 404 yards on the ground to NU's 132 of which were supplied by Brown. So superior were the Buffi that the Huskers couldn't get their third first down. until the fourth quarter. They got only two In the first half, both in the second quarter. Colorado, running mostly from the single wing, jumped off to 13-0 lead In the first quarter as some 28,000 chilly fans.

Nebraska partisans had nary 4 "uc' el3C in me thing to yell about until after the Tw ay Blocking -wat final gun. Then, those who had remained until the bitter end, un-' corked a few yips when it was! announced that Notre Dame had Suniiag Journal the Buffs out rushed the Huskers, 139 yards to a measly two. By Superb Scouting i Compiled from News Wires 'ORMAN, Okla may have called Notre Dame's upset 7-0 decision over Oklahoma Saturday, "the luck of the Irish," but victorious coach Terry Brennan said simply "We just played 60 minutes of good football against a great team." Brennan and the entire Notre Dame squad emphasized ttiat the triumph was the result of a great team effort combined with superb scouting. Wilkinson Sober Coach Bud Wilkinson in his usual sober tone said it was a tough job to accept defeat in the face of his' team's brilliant 47-game winning streak. "They were just better than halfttme, CU had a yardage bulge Siiii finally beaten Oklahoma.

But they yelled without gusto. Nebraska, which now has a 1-8 record, must meet the Sooners next Saturday in the finale of what no doubt will be Cbrnhuskerland's most dismal autumn. Adding to Nebraska's miseries was the that Kansas State whipped Missouri, thus assigning ole ownership of the Big Eight cellar to. the Huskers who can of 208 to 44. Just A Picnle Colorado backs had a picnic, romping wide and ripping the middle of the Husker line for huge Buff backs skipped for over 60 yards Ind a fifth got 53: Stransky 99, Howard Cook 76, Continued on Page 2-B, Col.

2.. Seetlw November 17, 1957 CAN'T GET BY IRISH Back Brewster Hobby (32) of Oklahoma takes a sidewise glance but can't duck Notre Dame's ace fullback Nick Pietrosante (49) on a short OU gain in first quarter Saturday. (AP Wirephoto) 5 have little hope of escape, The Sooners who will be under-j we were today," he said. "They deserved to win." What There Talking About fc.BreranU..,smi1esv.Addect;7.f 'J i I I .3 I. 5 -lt-ieeis -gooa oca- a giwu team.

Today was the first time we 'have- played -60- minates'1' of real football all year. "I think it is really hard to pick out any one player for "Quarterback Bob Williams called every play in our winning drive (80 yards in 20 plays)." Brennan said that at halftime he told his player to "forget the bad limlsTh'irefiatr'ahtf'tJeaT' "if 4 V. down the last 30 minutes." He. added: "I told them: 'this is the big, half change the plays and keep mixing them "AH in all, we just played like hell for 60 even if-we i VM- Fearful Of Sooners Most "of the fan-- wfoo trudged rwhat'H Oklahoma -do -to was out of Memorial Stadium following standard remark. Sooners-are- notoriously-hard Saturday were sympathetic wards 'the Cornhuskers.

deal lth Wtowm difficult It wasn't that they felt particular- fame; Lof'nK hasn 1 P1 ly sorry about what had just trans-' le fo them 'n recent but pired, though. They' were about what could happen on exPlode hydrogen bomb same turf next Saturday when the orc- Oklahoma Soonerrcome to town. What will be the effect-after a -Unbeaten in 47 straight contests, defeat? That was the $64 question the Sooners were finally halted, Saturday evening. And even Husk-7-0, by Notre Dame. er coach Bill Jennings was wonder- If we're that easy for Colorado ing.

Extra Point Club To Aid NU Athletics With Bucks The ExtraPoint Club has been incorporated to help the athletic program at the University of Nebraska. This new organization, the second such group, will be for fans wishing to contribute $1. The Touchdown Club, formed earlier, has $25 and $100 memberships. 1 -All money 'will be handled by the NU athletic department and will be legal according to NCAA and Big Eight Conference rules. Organizers of the group said they wanted to have a group for fans not- able to contribute $25 but: having a desire to chip in more athletic scholarships at Nebraska.

Listed as incorporators are Joseph G. Yetman, Roqert D. Wag- ner, Tom Lawrie, Jack D. Campbell, Richard Gustafson and Maur- ice -Niebaum, all of Lincoln. (11 Jowlerf played over our Williams said: Oklahoma has a fine club.

You can't deny that. But we really knew what they were going to do. We should have won by three touchdowns. VOn "that scoring play, they were in tight real tight, just waiting for to give the ball to Pietrosante, or 'Nick the Greek as we call him. Well, I "just tossed out to Dick Lynch and then faked to Nicltinto the line and, it worked like a charm.

There we had it (the touchdown). We never worried." Players Speak Most of the players said simply: "We did it for Our Lady." JJut Pietrosante cud 4t for all the Catholics ire Oklahoma." The Oklahoma dressing, room Continued on Page 2-B, CtH. 3, Here the Huskers click Naviaux to Martz pass good for 10 yards in third quarter. One Quick Burst By A Notre Dame Back Arid A Dynasty Is Crumbled f. 1 TOUCHDOVWr -1 1 4 HA i i.

it I 1 i I 4 1 I -e, NDY.Nick Pietresante spills Notre Dame's Lynch gets away, For winning touchdown Dick Lynch heads down the 1.