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I 4 Vx4 "I1-. 4 1 '5 "T1 J-i A i kit tf It -tit, STAFF C0L0RPHOT0 BY HARALD DREIMANIS What Randy Borg (19) missed, Dave Mason (25) makes sure of as Mike Staclian (33), Is stopped after an Iowa State gain. Nebraska's Big Mei Balloon Goes Psst mm kicker Rich Sanger suffered the same fate Goedjen was to experience at the end pf the game when his attempt went wide right. The lead was to change hands a couple of more times. ISU quarterback George Amundson rallied his club back in front, 17-13, late in the third frame, then Humm found Rodgers again midway through the final period get the Huskers on top, 20-17.

When Sanger added a 36-yard field goal with just 1:03 left, it appeared the Big Red, had survived the Cyclone. But Iowa State stormed back once more, moving 74 yards on six Amundson pass completions to knot the score and The Big Red boss said he couldn't begin to explain the sloppy, careless play of his charges. "I haven't been so disgusted with a Nebraska team in a long time," he said of six lost fumbles and two pass interceptions suffered by Nebraska. "I don't want to 'take anything away from Iowa State they were a fine team that was well prepared bnt I sure as hell can't condone the damn foolish mistakes we made. That's the most mistake-prone game I can remember us Devaney added, "and you can't make mistakes like that against a fine team and hope to win." Devaney said Iowa State Bob Churchich and Tagge.

Those facts didn't cheer up the Las Vegas lefty any. "It just seemed like UCLA all over again," he said. "The mistakes, the fumbles. There were just too many errors, both physical and mental." Humm went over to Rodgers in the dressing room to confer. "I just told him that he's still going to get the trophy (Heisman)," he said.

"We're all pulling for him." Humm added that the team will now be after victories in the final two games more than ever. "We're working for that Big Eight championship and the best possible finish (ratings) now." Continued: Page 4E, Col. 5 shut off the Husker running game "and turned it into a passing contest." Humm's .42 aerial attemps broke the school record of 40 set by Frank Patrick against Oklahoma in 1967 and his 23 completions tied a Jerry Tagge record set against Kansas in On the brighter side was the fact that his two TD tosses to Rodgers gave' Nebraska 20 scoring passes for the season which ties a Big Eight record set in 1969 by Missouri. On the personal ledger Humm though just, a sophomore passed Dennis Claridge and Patrick and now has the third best career totals with 1,874 yards. He trails only Rodgers observed.

The all-Americafl slotback and one of the leading Heisman Trophy candidates in the nation, pulled the hamstring muscle in his right leg late in the first half. "A lot of things went down the tube today," Rodgers added. "We had finally worked our way up in the polls to where we had a shot at No. 1 again. This ends those hopes just as much as if we had Nebraska fought back from a 10-7 deficit to take a 13-10 halftime lead on a pass from quarterback David Humm to Rodgers with just eight seconds remaining before intermission.

But Husker extra-point By VIRGIL PARKER Ames, la. Iowa State's Cyclones blew up a storm more ferocious than their nickname here Saturday afternoon. Left in damage of the wake of the storm was a bewildered and befuddled Nebraska football team which had been harboring hopes of an unprecedented third straight national championship. Though coach Bob Devaney's two-time titlists escaped with a 23-23 tie when ISU's Tom Goedjen missed a crucial extra point try with just 23 seconds remaining, the Big Red coaches and players reacted as though they had lost. "We might as well have lost," a limping Johnny Nov.

12, 1972 set the stage for the nail-biting extra point miss. "As it turned out we were probably, lucky to. get a tie," a disgusted Devflney admitted. "Any time you, let a team go the length of the field on you in the final minute you deserve to lose." Davis Paces Tide's Wishbone lew Alabama Rolls Past LSU, 35-21 i'liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin iiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiitiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiu Inside 1 Sports Isu Ala 20 24 44129 54-335 242 197 13 86 1932-2 10-19-1 .7 2-2 4-3 338 2-43 First downs Rushes-yards Pessino vardj Return vards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards Rodgers Gets TD Game Photo Pajrcs 4-5 its second straight Southeastern Conference championship and extended its regular season winning streak to 20 games, nine this year. It also probably left the Tide in the enviable position of taking the pick of a Cotton, Orange or Sugar Bowl bid.

"I've had no time to think about bowls," said Bryant, "but if there is a choice we'll let the players decide." Bryant called LSU's Bert Jones the best passer Alabama has faced in some time, but added, "Terry did a good job of passing and also picked his little feet up and put them down real good several times." Bryant also said Heisman Trophy consideration should be given Davis, who rifled scoring strikes of 25 and 29 yards to Wayne Wheeler and scored on a 25-yard run. Davis, turning in one of fcde fintst efforts of his career, hit on 10 of 18 passes for 157 yards and was the game's leading rusher with 15 carries for 92 yards, much of it in clutch situations on options to the outside. Jones, enduring a tremendous rush from Alabama's massive front four, still managed to complete 18 of 32 passes for 242 yards. He had two passes intercepted, each on tips off the fingers of his receivers. Alabama surged to the victory in what has become traditional fashion a furious second half charge.

Davis moved the Tide 83-yards to the go-ahead score following the second half kickoff, connecting on three passes for 57-yards along the way. Four minutes later Davis skirted the right side on his 25-yard touchdown run after LSU had bobbled a fair catch on a punt, with Steve Dean recovering at the Tiger 25. LSU never recovered and virtually lost all hope when the fourth down pass from Jones at the six-yard line fell incomplete, giving Alabama the ball with a 28-14 lead and only 10 minutes to play. Louisiana State 7 0 7 721 Alabama 0 7 1414-35 LSU Ledoux 21 pass from Jones (Jackson Kick) Ala Wheeler 25 pass from T. Davis (B.

Davis kick) Ala Wheeler 29 pass from T. Davis (B. Davis kick) Ala T. Davis 25 run (B, Davis kick) LSU Williamson 5 pass from Jones (Jackson kick) Ala Bisceglia 1 run (B. Davis kick) Ala Labue 52 run (B.

Davis kick) LSU Jones 3 run (Jackson kick) Alabama twice built 14-point leads in the second half and applied the clincher after stopping LSU at the Tide six when Joe LaBue erupted on a 52-yard scoring play. LSU's Bert Jones also hurled a pair of touchdown passes, the first to Jimmy LeDoux on a 21yard play that gave the Tigers an early 7-0 lead. The other came on a five-yard toss to Chuck Williamson in the third quarter. Jones scored LSU's final touchdown on a three-yard run in the final minute following a 51-yard interference penalty against the Tide. Steve Bisceglia scored Alabama's other touchdown on a one-yard plunge shortly after Davis broke clear for 37 yards to the six and then carried to the one on the following play.

Tom Vint Sez: Birmingham, Ala. UP) "I think we're better than we were last year," said Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant Saturday after his second-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide roie the magic of Wishbone quarterback Terry Davis to a 35-21 nationally televised football victory over No. 6 Louisiana State. Davis, a Louisiana native who said he could "go home with a smile now," fired two touchdown passes, scored a touchdown and set up another in leading the Crimson Tide assault that ended LSU's 11-game winning streak, longest the nation. The victory earned Alabama Like UCLA Game Page 3 Johnny Majors Sez: 1 Best Game Ever Page 5 i jiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiittiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiififiiiiiiiifitiiiiiittiiiiiiiriiiiif 'Passless' Oklahoma Hits Missouri, 17-6 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis Mllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Top 20 Results Missouri Oklahoma 7 28 32-40 17-422 57 51 30 -II 5-15-1 3-11-1 First downs Rushes vards Passlnq yards Return vards Passes Punts Fumbles lost Penalties vards 2-1 4.

1-21 3-35 1. USC (9-0) did not play. 2. Alabama (9-0) def. LSU, 35-21.

I 3. Nebraska (7-1-1) tied ISU, 23-23. 4. Michigan (9-0) def. Iowa, 31-0.

Page 6E. 5. Ohio State (7-1) lost to Mich. 19-12. Page 6E.

6. LSU (7-1) lost to Alabama, 35-21. 7. Oklahoma (7-1) def. Missouri, 17-6.

8. UCLA (8-2) lost to Washington, 30-21. Page 7E. I 9. Texas (7-1) def.

Baylor, 17-3. Page 6E. 10. Penn St. (8-1) def.

N. Caro. 37-22. Page 7E. 11.

Auburn (7-1) did not play. 12. Notre Dame (7-1) def. Air Force, 21-7. Page 6E.

13. Tennessee (5-2) did not play. 14. Missouri (5-4) lost to Oklahoma, 17-6. 15.

Texas Tech (7-2) lost to TCU, 31-7. Page 6E. 16. Colorado (7-3) def. Kansas, 33-8.

Page 3E. 17. Iowa State (5-2-1) tied Nobraska, 23-23. 18. No.

Carolina (7-1) def. Virginia, 23-3. Page 6E. 1 19. Arizona St.

(7-2) def. New Mexico, 60-7. Page 7E. 20. Stanford (5-4) lost to Wash.

27-13. Page 7E. I Vale (5-2) lost to Penn, 48-30. Page 6E. pointed about it as wee are.

"But one of these games, we're going to put it all together and somebody's going to be sorry." If Brahaney prediction comes true, that somebody will have to be either Kansas, Nebraska, or Oklahoma State, the only three remaining foes on the Sooners' regular season schedule. And Brahaney made no bones about who he hopes they would come against. "I'd like for It to be against Nebraska," he pointed out referring to the Thanksgiving Day showdown betweeen be Sooners and Huskers in Din-coin. The big thing that was missing from the Oklahoma offense here again Saturday was the same thing that was missing in their 20-14 loss to Colorado the Sooners showed no semblance of a passing attack in either game. Sooner quarterback Dave Robertson was able to hit only 3 of 9 passes for 51 yards and the number two signal-caller freshman Kerry Jackson, was 0-2.

But the Sooners weren't the only team on the Owen Fieid AstroTurf Saturday that didn't have a passing attack. Neither did Missouri hitting on 1 of 5 for 3 yards in the first half and for the game the Tigers were only for IS for 67 yards. "We wanted to throw the bail more," OU coach Chuck Fairbanks pointed out. "But we Just couldn't do it. We had some breakdown in our pass protection which we've got to straighten out." With neither team being able to throw the ball, the game turned into a brusing ground game between two wishbone offenses and at that kind of game, Oklahoma Is far superior, The Sooners rolled 422 yards on the ground while Missouri could manage only 40 agairU an Oklahoma defense that yielded only its third touchdown of the season and the Tigers had to-lgo onlj 11 yards to get that one in the second quarter.

"We should have scored two or three more touchdowns the first half," Brahaney believed. "And more in the second half but we kept killing The Sooners fumbled the ball four times and lost three of them to the Tigers all of them stopping scoring threats. Cont. on Page 3E, Col. 7 Missouri 0 i 0 0- I Oklahoma 0 10 0 7-17 OU-Carroll 22 pass from Robertson (Fulcher kicked) MU-Bvpe 7 run (kick (ailed) OU-FO Fulcher 39 OU-Pruitt 3 run (Fulcher kick) A -41, 826 uol 11-11 03:22 pes 1st add aplre dame-air tore Unlver7v Park add 11-11-7J.

WJIpcs su Alabama 162S 11 semes" By HAL BROWN Norman, Okla. Oklahoma's defense won another game for the seventh-ranted Sooners here Saturday with a 17-6 victory over giant killer Missouri, and OU center Tom Brahaney issued a warning to future Sooner foes about the sputtering Oklahoma offense. "I know we haven't been as effective on offense as we were a year ago," the Sooner co-captain admitted. "And I know people are disappointed "pointed about it as we are. tiiiitMiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiuit JMiuiiii ri uit iiiuiiitiiiui jiiimimi iiititj iiii 1 1 itrmiritirniMiiirt Mill rit in 1 1 ltimiii V'.