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Lincoln Journal Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • 28

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2C iXov. 12, 1967 Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star Sooners yn.HOi Sport 'T 1 Signals i vyXJ? wiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiBitmriianiitBiini A By This coming weekend, another Big Eight city-Colum-bia to be exact-will be hit by approximately the 57th coming of the Redcoats and a typical interview with one of these red-clothed persons might go like this: Q-Wno invented football? A Well, I think It was some guy named Jumbo' Steam or something like that, but the sport wasn't real-ly perfected until a lew years by an Irishman, who came from out of the mountains. qHow long have you been wearing those red duds? A Ever since they resumed playing football at Nebraska after having given up the sport for a few years in the late 40s and through the 50s. An Attention-Getter i i Missouri Staggers K-State Statistics iuu Klta MliMiri I -XI tTt 4S 111 t-vn 4-t-o 11-41 t-x 0 4 First down Rushing yardage Parsing yardage Return yardage Punu Fumbles loit Yard, aeaaliitd Columbia, Mo. (AP) Missouri overcame fumbling start and beat Kansas State 28-6 Saturday with tough, defensive play, led by-linebacker-.

John Douglas and a dazzling 50-yard touchdown run. by Jon Staggers. The victory kept alive Missouri Jiopes for a share of the Big Eight football title. The Tigers stand 3-2 in league play and 6-2 for the season. Kansas State is 0-5 in the conference and 1-7-for all games.

With-. Missouri clinging to a 7-6 lead late in the third period, Douglas intercepted a Bill Nossek pass and Missouri needed just four plays to move-i4jiyardsior-14-6 lead. V- it- What caused them to resume football after all those years? a Tiaif ifuxMiui fu state wasn't settinf enough at- IJVV4UVW ww tentlon in places like New 1: .1 1, halfback Thermus Butler HlVl.t Phoenix, JJew Orleans ana mexicu. Were there any other reasons? A-The school noticed, a lot of colleges were getting their names in the paper for. being investigated by the NCAA and Nebraska officials decided they should do something to reapa bit of this free -w What was their first step in that direction? A They brought this smiling Irishman in and as soon as lie hit the state, he told the people that he didnt plan on winning every game, just enough to be.

investigated. ir 0 Kansas iQr-Did he succeed?" ifou bet, Di nrnuari ha is tin miracle man. I think we could three yards figures Kansas Colorado 12 TT lUt. 11 have gotten someone else, who could have gotten us investigated sooner than that. Successful Traveler How has this cunning Irishman done at getting you attention in those faraway places you mentioned i iiimn, 1 It's a tough way to get earlier? Colorado middle guard Ron Scott (68).

the only team that ever trained in the rain for a week in Phoenix to play a game In sunny Miami. 4-How did that gamecome-outt- 1 Buffs Bounce Back, Bump- A What eame? rin nannla lilra umi on Quarterback Gary Kom-. brink passed 10 yards to split end Chuck Webber on the second play. Kombrink got the TD qn. an eight-yard, sweep, Missouri rushed over two more touchdowns in the clos- ing minutes.

Missouri stopped -K-State's with, a fierce rushrrled- by tackles Rocky Wallace and Roger Boyd, and ends Elmer Benhardt and Bill-rSchmitt. Nossek was tackled nine times for 75 in losses. In the first quarter K-State tackled Bill Salat smashed Into Kombrink knocking him loose from the ball and Salat recovered at the Missouri 10. On third down, Nossek flipped back Larry Brown. The kick was wide, but K-State.

still led 6-0 when Stag-. gers started to his left on a halfback pass, decided to run, reversed his field and yards to score. Mis A About 10 to 15 thousand of us do and more of us Kansas Out of Leadrl 2-8 would, but they haven't yet come up with a stadium in places like Boulder, and Doesn't that-get rather expensive following your football team? i felt IMrfe JgCsTeviTniTtcali'ft the point sp: three or four times in the past No, no, I don't mean that. I mean isn'tit siv6 trflvclin? A Oh, yes! But we have some very friendly bankers and loan companies in town. My bank has gone a third mortgage on my house and the bank doesn't know it, but a loan company has a second mortgage on the same" house.

Q-Isn't that sort of risky Ud Brown York City, Miami, Dallas, until this fall fLoit jUieen farauav nlapps? couple of years. Presents 1st Loss the victory with a touchdown" in the fourth quarter. Lee Jacobsen scored 1.1 points to become Kearney's leading season scorer for the fourth consecutive year. lie finished with 72. Jacobsen scored Kearney's first touch- down on a seven-yard run.

kicked' a. 29-yard field goal and added three extra points. Kearney set a school season scoring record with 388 points. Kearney 7 Northern 0 7L-T 7-21 O-lt Kea Lee Jacobsen run (Jacob? kick) Nor Vince Johnson 9 pass from Mick Wysupb (Mick Goodrich kick) KBAJacobsen 2a FG KEA Dave Aspergrea 1 run (Jacob-sen kick) Nor Chester Jones 3 pass from Wysupk (Goodrich kick) Kea lannie Shelmad I run (Jacob-en kick) UUL S' flepfti tnd a out guarpntM 00 tUt fax nt! fir ff four car All tixif I salt pricti Untwist Statistics OKIJL' -364 170 13-21-1 127 1-37 1 UV 13 141 13-11-3 123 t-U 1 First Rushing, yardage rsssing yaroaga Passes Raturm yardatt Punta Fumbles lost Yards penalized Ames, Iowa (AP) 1-minded Oklahoma turned loose its awesome offense and Iowa State 52-14 Saturday to take over the undisputed lead irr the- torrid Big Eight football race The Sooners lctory, coupled with Kansas 12-8 loss to Colorado, gave Oklahoma a one-half game lead over the Jayhawks. Oklahoma's point total was the largest ever rolled up against a Clay Stapleton-coached team In a conference a e- Texas Tech also scored 52 points against Iowa State in a non-conference game this year.

Iowa State became the first team to score two touchdowns against ninth-ranked Oklahoma this season Oklahoma's-offense-sener aled a tolul39yards -269 on the ground and 270 in the air despite the fact that the second, and: third string players were in action through most of the second half. HalfbacksRonJShoftsand Steve Owens scored two touchdowns each for the SoonersTartrMjatBiTf Warmack ran 25 yards- for a touchdown and connected on a 76-yard pass play to end Steve Zabel foranother score; Defensive halfback Bob Stephenson ran 2r yards with an intercepted pass for an other Sooner touchdown, nun less than two minutes to go, third 1 ti auarterback Mickey Ripley threw a 14- yard pass to Bo Deaton for the booncrs' eignth ana tin touchdown. Defensive halfback Jerry Fiat scored the Cyclones' first touchdown when, he blocked a punt and ran 50 yards with the ball. John Warder hit Tom Busch on an eight-yard' scoring pass for Iowa State other touchdown, Oklahoma 20 14 -5j Iowa State 0 7 714 Okia Owens 1 run (kick lailedi Okls -Warmack 24 run (Vachon kick) Okla Stephenson 21 pass interception (Vacnon nek) Okia Owens 1 run (Vachon kick) Okla Shotts 1 run (Vachon kick) Okia Zabel 76 pass from Warmack (kick (ailed) Iowa-Fiat SO blocked return punt (Skrlpsky kick) Okia Statu 1 run (kick (ailed) lowa-TTrBiurl) Met Ifggl W8ri1f (Sknpsky kick) Okla Denton 14 pan from Ripley (kick (ailed) Attendance 14.000. Wayne Tips Midland SlaUsticSz Wayne 21 SIS 121 48 10-10-2 4-38 0 67 Midland First 1 113 1 74 120-0 4-3S 2 Rushing yardaRS passing yaraage Return yardage Passes Punta Fumbles lost Yarda penalised Fremont A powerful Wayne State Wildcat ta1 took the opening kickoff and rammed over, a touchdown in 19 plays covering 80 yards to set the tempo for a 28-0 football victory over Midland Saturday.

The powerful Wayne team threw only one pass en route to its first touchdown. Wayne scored again before the half ended and went into the intermission leading 21-0. Wyi 7 14 7-28 Midland 9000 Way Marian 1 run (Grubaueli kick) Way-Parr 27 pas from Gray (Cro- baugh kick) Way Trickier 1 run (Grubaugh kick) Way Trautweih run (Grubaugk kick) NO MONEY DOWN SIX MONTHS NO INTEREST Cyclones if) lit i A It sure is, but we Huskers go all out. Let me tell you about the time we gambled with a fourth and one from our 29... Do you take your wife to all the games with you? A Generally, although one time I told her I was going hunting, but instead I went to the Colorado eame atBoul- when I left the house.

That one of the great advantages of wearing red people don't know whether you're going fox-hunting or to a football game. souri lost two other fumbles in the first 21 minutes but K- State couldn't cash in. A 'crowdrof out for the Tiger homecomr ing game, which was played in perfect football weatner. K-State linebacker Danny Lankas had an outstanding dayith them unassisted, ana tne Wildcats managed to stay in the game with their defense until the interception by Douglas opened the gates. After Kombrink's touch down, a roughing the kicker penalty gave Missouri a first down on the K-State 37 and the Tigers" moved" in: for a 21-16 lead with Ron McBride getting 28 of the yards, including the TD on a 13-yard burst.

Then Roger Wehrli's 15- yard punt return and 15-yard personal foul on K-State gave the Tigers the ball at the K- Statistics First down! Rushing yardasa Parsing yardaga Return yardaga Pmmg Punta Fumblea loat 12 IS 174 7 as 1-10 0 Hi 0 103 35 -24 2 1-35 0 Yarda pcnallttd JBoUIder, Colo, () Col-or'adOj with a healthy Wilmer Cooks starting at fullback, regained Jts early wseason form Saturday and 'knocked KansasTr6m the i lop ol the Big Eight Conference 12-8. The triumph snipped Kansas' four-game winning streak, all in the conference ania Escapes Baton Rouge, La. 10 Louisiana State's weakness on kicking points cost it another loss Saturday night and Alabama aided by a fast whistle on four fumbles shaded the. Tigers 7-6 in' a Southeastern Conference thriller. Roy Hurd, the LSU kicking specialist reinstated to the team after a week's suspension, missed an extra point boot midway through the fourth quarter which would have pulled the Tigers into a tie.

Quarterback Freddie Haynes, Kurd's holder, bob-bled the ball around before setting it up for the placement kick. But that wasn't all. With three seconds left, Hurd was back to try a 43-yard field goal but it turned into an eight-yard pass to end Tom-my Morelaathe Jinalbui-; zer sounded. AP WIREPHOTO he's hauled down by defense came when corner-BacK "Ike" "Howard" fendedoff a blocker and spilled Douglass as he tried to turn left end from a yard out. After its touchdown, Kansas added two points on a run by Dorinie Shanklin.

Colorado tried a run and a pass and both failed after1 its touchdowns. Colorado's goal line a that stopped Kansas on four downs inside the five was icredited by winning coach Eddie Crowder as opening the way for its victory. "That stand early In the wlnTThe game," Crowder said. The Buffaloes were behind 8-6 when they blocked the Jay hawks drive with the kickoff opening the second half. "The return of Wilmer Cooks and John Farler to our siarung uacKiieia maae a big difference in our attack." Crowder said.

Cooks missed the last Jwo games which Colorado lost to Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. Farler has been sidelined for three games. Both came through with critical yardage in the game against Kansas. Kansas Coach Pepper Rod-gers said "our inability to score when we were at the goal line hurt This was part ly aue io us ana partly flue to Colorado." Rodgers -said Kansas -did not try to run up the middle "very much because of Colo rado's size and because our style is to run wide more. Colorado stopped our wide game, though.

They have a fine team." Rodgers added, ''We're still a good football team. We dropped too many passes today. But that's something we can't KanM. Colo r.J. Kan Mosier past from Douglass (Shanklin run) Xolo Conka 1 ma iRus tailed) Coto Cookt 1 run (Fans (ailed) Attendance' 40.200.

Chadron Falls, 20-12 Golden, Colo. WV-Colorado Minesscored three thouch- downs in the second, quarter Saturday and then weathered a second half passing attack by Chadron for a 20-12 vie The three Mines touch downs "Were" scorediby.ob McKee. His first score came on a two-yard run followed by scoring pass receptions from quarterback Jay Lorn bardi for 61 and '20 yards. -The wind held down Chad' ron's passing game in the first half -as they had no completions in nine attempts. In the second half, however, quarterback Mike Winchell and Kim Truman completed five for 127 yards to set' up, their two scores.

State 20rThis timeihey-need' ed seven plays. Steve Kene Kearney Northern Statistics Kearney Northern 77 87 0 19-2 1 SO First downs Rushing yardage Passing yardaga Return yardaga 131 IS t-19-1 1 90 'tints assci Fumble lost Yards penalized AberdeenrS.D. Wi Kearney State College of Nebraska enhanced its chances for a NAIA playoff berth with a 24-14 victory over previously unbeaten Northern of South Dakota in a football game played in gusty winds and chilly temperatures Saturday night. The Antelopes, winning their ninth game in a perfect regular season, enjoyed a 17-7 half time margin and clinched yvwvwr key players for three weeks, gave'ICansaTa 55-yard touchdown pass from Bob Douglass to John Mosier before grinding out touchdown marches in the second and fourth periods. Both drives were capped by short yardage plunges by Cooks." Colorado turned the tide earlyln.

the-third quarter when the Buffalo defense stopped Kansas on four downs inside the Colorado five. The Jayhawks had moved for 75 yards before the Buffalo goal-line stand. The climax on the goal line O'Neill Gets Title, 147 Chadron O'Neill became the winningest football team among Nebraska high schools Saturday by claiming the Rangeland Conference championship, 14-7, in a playoff with Chadron here Saturday. O'Neill thus ends its season with an 11-0 record, one win more than any other prep carved out this year. They set-upbothioueh? downs with their only pass completions of the afternoon the first for 22 yards and the second for 34.

Fullback Jim Booth ran in the first TD from a yard out after Chadron had taken a 7-0 lead in the second quarter and John Steinbeck, the game's leading rusher with 150 yards, rammed eight for the decisive touchdown. O'Neill ft- -M Chadron 0 7 0 7 O'Neill-Booth 1 funiSteuilieck-lflB. PAT-Booth Hcis. Chadron Lether lnia. PAT Kelly kick.

They again Improved on their defensive statistics as all-America middle guard Wayne Meylan led the way with 13 stops. a 53.1-yard aver age aginst rushing and 90.9-yard average against pass ing into the battle, the Black Shirts limited the Cowboys to 37 yards on the ground and 66 in the air -'-Winning their third Straight the Huskers carry a 6-2 overall mark and 3-2 Big Eight record into Saturday's Missouri Tigers boast identical marks. Again this week, both teams will be in a win" situation as time runs out in a bid to over take front running Oklahoma (4- 0) and runnerup Kansas (4- 1) The leaders will be meeting in 1 and, ended Colorado'! two loss string after winning five Oklahoma took over' first place by defeating Iowa State 52-14 to remain undefeated in conference play. The Buffaloes, hobbled by injuries to Cooks and other pilllllllHIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIl' Raiders I Shocked I Statistics First" ddwna Rushing yardage Passing yardage Return yardaga Passes Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalized Tee TCO 11 112 7( 101 141 61 8-24-25 10-1 Ml 7-45 3 3 30 30 Fort Worth, Tex. UP) Texas Christian's unpredictable Frogs struck down favored Texas Tech 16-0 Saturday, severely jeopardizing the Red Raiders' Southwest Conference title hopes.

An unruly TCU defense blunted the Tech running attack, ranked No. 1 nationally, while quarterbacks P. D. Shabay and Dan Carter directed an inspired offensive. Texas Tech Texas Christian.

SO) 7 IS TCU-Fergusoa 4 past from Shabay (kick failed) TTCU-Montomery 1 nn (Meritt kick) I'L'W-FGMeriuMS AiLcnaanreiitzs. Six plays later, the Hus-. kers picked up 23 yards on. the combination of a ID-yard Frank Patrick to Dennis Richnafsky pass to the O-State 18 and a holding -penalty on the Cowboys at the 10. -The penalty walkoff put the ball on the five.

Dick Davis, the leading Nebraska rusher who was corraled -well by the Cowboys, picked uplialf a -yard over the then a 1 k-rolled out and drilled a pass which Richnafsky scooped in for the touchdown. It was lhe 31st reception of the year for Richnafsky, who came back off the injured list this week. Spurred by the Gregory and Orduna efforts and a solid job up front, the Huskers ate up 230 yards on the ground, their best rush-ing total of the season. itS' more, scoring from the one on fourth down with 1:57 left in the game. Missouri controlled the ball with 69 rushing plays to K-Slate'a 35.

Staggers had 67 yards on six carries, McBride 56 on 8, Larry Moore 51 on 14 and Barry Llschncr 48 on 14. WehrU had 109 yards on 6 kickoff and punt returns, giving him a season's aver age to 108.4. "Their defense whipped us reaLiadr-idihce 3ibson7 K-Mate coach. "They-had a fantastic pass rush. Our de fense played 'em all four quarters and Lankas- was truly great." Everybodydid a-g Job," said Missouri coach Dan Devine.

"We were good hosts. We did eyerything we couia to give them momen tarn after they scored. But Bomberger Adds Field Goal ToroclriFUpolFTIiislcers ifil I fill we-have an-awfully stubborn team." Kansas Matt 7 tii-M from Nossek (kick Mohowk'i (Wallace Wrtrt Ml-Kombrink I ran 4allac kirk) lickl Iwnemore I rwr (Wempe kick) Attendance JCJ0O. ADl2.P!1 "4 full ply nylon cords, 7" Continued from Page 1 after. berger, who had missed the extra point in the first half, came in for the field goal try.

Ilis successful kick, from the 19, was his sixth of the year, a new all season record. He had shared the old mark for a week with Vic Halligan, who kicked five in 1914.: The Huskers had domin atecLfirst halLaction. but were unable to put er a serious scoring bid until late in the second a r- -S- Sophomore halfback Joe Orduna, who had most of his success in the first half, provided the big play in the touchdown march, rambling 21 yards, around left end to the 0-State 43 on the second play of the drive. Sooners Take Ton r-r Came WLT'WLT toii treoa "21 month wear 650x13 black regularly $18.02 Oklahomi 4 Kansas 4 Colonda Missouri in Nrbraska 1 I Oklahoma St. 1 Iowa Slala 1 5 Kansas State I i I 1 GAMES THIS WEEK Kansas at Oklahoma Nebraska at Missouri Colorado at Kansas State "U-SAYE" CAR CARE CENTER INC.

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