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-1 I II Then Another may By DON FORSYTHE "We have backs with speed rather than power, some talented young eceivers and our offensive linemen are better suited for protecting the passer," he analyzed. On paper it looked great, but on the field it wasn't all that good. After a 28-11 win over SMU, a 21-7 win over Wisconsin ard a 23-14 loss to Oregon State Fairbanks junked the Veer-T and switched to the Wishbone-T popularized by Texas'. That was two, weeks, before the Texas game, when the Sooners had an extra week to prepare for the; Longhorns. The switch was something less than sensational against Texas as the mistake-laden, Sooners dropped a 41-9 decision.

Needless to say, Fairbanks couldn't have been elected mayor of Norman the next week. Chuck patiently told his' critics that the i move wasn't inspired just by the Texas "We did it with the rest of the schedule in mind," he claimed. As the weeks have passed the criticism has faded with the Mildren, a better runner than passer, is well-suited for directing the Wishbone-T; which has as its basis the option play. The running of sophomore halfback Joe Wylie has been no surprise. He was advertised as a great one and has lived up to the' promise with a 6.3-yard average per carry and 754 yards in nine games.

Fullback Leon Crosswhite, who came to fall camp as a defensive back, and halfback Greg Pruitt, who started the season as a split end, round out the youthful backfield. Mildren is a junior and the others are rookies. -v. been simiiar1 personnel switching up front with sophomores claiming four of the seven line positions. The Sooners are going with the youth movement on defense, too, with end Raymond Hamilton, tackle Derland Moore, linebacker Gary Baccus and cornerback Larry Roach entrenched as sophomore starters.

There's a little more heft than usual n.the defensive platoon as Fairbanks is going with the trend established by his old Michigan State end coach, Bob Devaney. In Moore (245) and veteran Kevin Grady (240) "the Sooners have as much size at the tackle spots as anybody. Grady, a California junior college import, ranks as one of the top defensive lineman in the conference. He, end Rick Mason and i safety Monty Johnson are the only seniors in the starting defensive lineup. Johnson leads an improved secondary which ranks second only to Nebraska in intercepting enemy passes.

The Sooners have had 20 thefts with Johnson getting five and standout middle linebacker Steve Aycock four. i While the Sooners are young and unpredictable, they have displayed great poise, rallying for wins on the road at Iowa State and Kansas. They trailed Iowa State, 21-0, in the first quarter and came back to win, 29-28. At Kansas they trailed, 24-14, heading in to the final period and won, 28-24. Oklahoma football coach Chuck Fairbanks is making a mockery, of the old bromide about not changing horses in the middle of the stream.

7 i He's not only changed horses but the carriage as well. Specifically, the Sooner boss will be starting only nine players Saturday who opened the season in the starting lineup against Southern Methodist. Most of the switches have involved sophomores moving lip as the season has progressed. With a young team, it's a normal sort of happening. What's unusual about i-the Sooner season is that Oklahoma has a different offense now than it did back in "This' team is kind of green, yet kind of talented, too," Fairbanks observed in September.

At that, time the Sooners were busy polishing the Veer-T offense Fairbanks had installed to replace the I formation which went so well with Steve Owens at I-back. LINCOLN, NOV. 19, 1 PAGE 13 Sooners carrying a 4-1 record Big Eight record into Nebraska Fairbanks says the change as much of a change in the system as it was in explaining that the switch produced more power in the running attack. "We were having to run with a spread-out offense against a bunched-up defense and that's hard to do." There were two problems. First, the young offensive line wasn't giving quarterback Jack Mildren the best protection in the world and second, Mildren wasn't throwing the ball like Joe les injur TT No Bowl For Sun Devils? niiprmnr Knicks bkd .1 1 a CI CK i Greg Pruitt 'S0r' Kevin Grady Jack tf t- 'v k' 41i v' By Associated Press While reports from the deep South continue to match up teams for lesser known bowl games, Frank Kush, coach of unbeaten and ninth ranked Arizona State began to show displeasure over -the apparent snubbing of his Sun Devils for post-season play.

Kush, silent on the subject through two straight 8-2 seasons, said Wednesday his club deserves a bowl game. Kush commented after local press reports, quoting bowl officials, indicated that only the Astro-Bluebonnet and Peach Bowls were giving Arizona State much consideration. "This team wants a bowl game and it's played well enough to earn one and it deserves one," said Kush, who had not publicly commented in the previous two years when ASU received no invitations. The Sun Devils are riding a 14-game winning streak. Meanwhile, Alabama, which has played in bowl games 12 straight years, will accept an invitation for a return trip to the Liberty Bowl in Memphis on Dec.

12, says an Atlanta newspaper. Alabama, 64, lost to Colorado in last year's Liberty Bowl match. The newspaper said Alabama would receive the invitation contingent on it either winning or playing a close game with archrival Auburn on Nov. 28. The paper also said that Auburn will play in the Gator Bowl Jan.

2 with Mississippi expected to be the opponent. In Birmingham, it was reported that Auburn's ace signal caller, Pat Sullivan and Mississippi's Heisman Trophy Archie Manning, would collide in the Gator Bowl. A source close to the Gator Bowl said the two Southeastern teams would be issued invitations at 6 p.m. the legal signing time under NCAA rules. Auburn and Ole Miss officials 'could not be reached for comment.

However, Gator Bowl executive secretary, George Olsen, said invitations have not yet been issued. Ole Miss has two games to play, against rival Mississippi State Thanksgiving afternoon and against Louisiana State Dec. 5. Auburn faces Alabama Nov. 28 in its last scheduled match.

Ole Miss is 7-1, the Tigers are 7-2. By Associated Press Injuries to Cazzie Russell and Willis Reed have the New York Knicks in double trouble. And the Philadelphia 76ers are taking advantage with Billy Cunningham in double figures. With Russell and Reed on the shelf, Cunningham splintered New York with a 29-point performance to lead the 76ers to a 113-106 National Basketball Association victory Wednesday night. Russell, the team's super sub, is out for several weeks with a fractured wrist.

Reed, their powerhouse center who led them to the NBA title last year, didn't make the current road trip. He's sidelined with a bad left knee and may miss two more games. Elsewhere in the NBA Wednesday night, Baltimore handed Cleveland its- 19th defeat in 20 games, 111-98; Chicago spanked Cincinnati 128-107; San Francisco tripped Boston 90-89; Portland hammered Atlanta 146-131, and Milwaukee humbled San Diego 117-111, 1 In the American Basketball Association, it was Memphis beating Pittsburgh 114-111; the Floridians topping Virginia 128-115; Kentucky over Carolina 122-112 and Indiana edging Denver 119-114. New York and Philadelphia were locked in a close duel then Cunningham's field goal oh a drive up the middle with 4:32 left gave the 76ers a 101-100 lead they never relinquished. Hal Greer had 19 points and Bailey Howell, who scored 12 points in the fourth quarter, had 15 to assist Billy The Kid.

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIII I Racing I Schedule I 5 By Associated Press Nebraska horse racing buffs and pari-mutuel bettors will be offered 172 days of racing next year, or 12 more than this year. J. Morton Porter, administrative secretary of the Nebraska, state racing commission, announced Thursday the schedule of 1971 racing dates as approved by the com- mission. iThe' new schedule, in comparison with the 1970 schedule, adds four days to the Fonner Park meet at Grand Island, adds two days to the Ak-Sar-Ben meet in Omaha, adds two days to the1 Columbus Race: meet and adds four days to the Atokad meet at South Sioux City. The 1971 schedule: Fonner Park, Grand lalandr 34 days, March 1 to April 2B; Mondays through Saturdays Inclusive, but no Goo Anvil 0 i Kinney Dog Show Fraz ier Finishes Foster in Two Returns Marathon Saturday As Clay Matchup Looms Larger To Pads Nebraska I-back Jeff Kinney was back in pads Wednesday as the Cornhuskers continued preparations for their Saturday test against Oklahoma.

"It looks like we could probably use him Saturday said coach Bob Devaney. "But Willie Harper appears very doubtful." -'X Harper, a sophomor defensive end, has been slowed with a hip pointer. Doug Johnson, another rookie, has been working with the No. 1 defensive unit all week. Devaney characterized the Sooners as being "the first ball control team we've faced since Colorado." Oklahoma scored on four long marches against Kansas last week.

"Other teams throw the ball "I was ready for Foster as I would have been for Ma-Ma, a reference to Ali." "I want Joe Ali shouted after watching the bout on closed circuit television in Atlanta where he defeated Quarry last month in his first fight since he was first stripped of: the heavyweight title for refusing induction into the Army. Promoters feel that people want so much to see whether can take Frazier'? pressure or whether Frazier really is what his title says, that a fight between the two would be the most lucrative in history grossing up to $10 million; "One thing I can say about him is he has a good left hook," said Foster. It was three deadly hooks that smashed Foster senseless at 49 seconds of the second round. 1 The Foreman-Kirkman show one-sided right from the jstart. Foreman, the unbeaten Olympic champion from Hay ward, battered Kirkman at will in the opening round, dropping him with a left-right Foreman, who outweighed Kirkman by 13 pounds, 216203, charged' after Kirkman again in the second round, landing 'a barrage of rights that staggered the ex-AAU champ.

A stream, of 11 consecutive punches dropped Kirkman flat on his face and referee Arthur Mercante jumped in to end the fight. The time was 41 seconds of the second round. Detroit Wi Joe Frazier is a deadly puncher like such great heavyweights as Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano but until he' beats Muhammad Ali he will be. a pretender rather than a king to boxing fans Frazier put his skills on display Wednesday night and was impressive as he knocked out light heavyweight champion Bob Foster in two rounds in his first title defense since he knocked out Jimmy Ellis last February. But lacking was the daily increase in tension and the howling mob that usually makes attendance at a heavyweight championship fight a memorable experience Never did the fight excite the sporting public as did a fight like Marciano-Jersey Joe Walcott or Ali's return to the ring against Jerry Quarry.

And a Crowd of only 6,300 second to the Ali-Sonny Liston fight in Lewiston, Maine in 1965 as the smallest heavyweight title turnout in modern history showed up at Cobo Arena for the half-of the closed-circuit television doubleheader. Unbeaten heavyweight George Foreman stopped Boone Kirkman in two rounds in the opener in New York's Madison Square Garden. But the Frazier victory cleared another block to a fight that has surpassed, they boundaries of the sports world in catching the fancy of people a fight with Ali. When asked if he considered the Foster fight a tuneup for Ali, also known as Cassius Clay, Frazier said: By BOB MUNGER "We have 1,685 dogs entered," Comhusker Kennel Club member Ann White says. "The 1970 CKC Dog Show' Saturday is bound to be a success." Success or 'not, it is bound to be a marathon of sorts.

Judging of the dogs begins at 9 a.m. and will continue until 10 p.m. "It'll be a real three-ring circus," Mrs. White says, "only in our case it will be a 15-ring circus. We have 15 rings and we will have judging going on continuously in all of them." The 27th annual all-breed dog show and 20th annual obedience trial will be' held at the State Fairgrounds Coliseum and 4-H exhibition building.

"We will have everything entered from Basenjis to Welsh terriers," Mrs. White says, "and about any breed in between. "There will be all shapes and sizes as well." Sixty-three Afghan hounds are entered, 56 Basenjis and 61 St. Bernards, to give some idea of the variety. There are tiny Johnson, Madsen a lot and you have a chance to get it back by an interception, i ree but the nature of the Wishbone- tSOWling UlIlC' ers is running the ball and keep- Lincoln ine Lincoln team," said Devaney.

Devaney expressed some concern about the squad's preparedness. "I wasn't especially pleased with today's practice," he said. Bowling Proprietors Committee, a newly-formed group, elected George Johnson chairman and Earl Madsen secretary. This committee will concern itself with public relations, promotions and other, matters as they may affect the Lincoln bowling proprietors. Chihuahuas and giant Great Omahit day.

Apr I nBD. rrialivriv nn. throuoh July5( no racing Momnyi Mav 31 nd July no racing near(l of breeds SUCh as Salukis. Keeshonden and Rottweilers Fairgrounds, Lincoln: 25 daysi July 7 through Aug. no Monday racing jcepi rougr I If (Mi it -I I Indoor Courts Now Available The East High indoor, tennis courts are available for free use on Monday nights for one-hour periods at 6:30, 7:30 and 8:30 p.m.

Reservations can be made beginning Friday at 1 p.m. by calling 423-2391. In sheer numbers German Shepherds lead the pacli, with 76 dogs entered, and in. second place in the numbers racket are the 63 Afghan hounds. Third place is shared by the 61 St.

Bernards and the 61 Shetland Sheepdogs. Both sporting dogs and pet breeds will be represented, with plenty of pointers, retrievers, setters and spaniels on hand for the big show. The obedience trials will run concurrently with the dog show, and will be conducted in rings 10-13. Only one caution. With 1,685 dogs on hand it would be a poor place to take a cat.

It would be definitely an underdog, Beaver City Receives Grant The State Game Commission has announced approval of a federal grant for Beaver City to buy some 14 acres of land for a baseball park. Cost of buying the land was estimated at $8,400 with 50 per cent being paid by the federal government from the land and water conservation fund, administered in Nebraska by. the commission. Knights Play-Pair at Home Omaha The first place Omaha Knights will play two home games at Ak-Sar-Ben Coliseum this weekend. Friday night the Knights face the Kansas City Blues and on Sunday night, the Tulsa Oilers will invade the Coliseum.

dolumbus! days, Aug. 10 through Sept. 6t no Monday racing except Aug. 23., and 30, and Labor Day Sept. i.

1 Madison Downs, Madison: 13 days, Sept. through 25; no Monday racing. Atokad, South Sioux City: I days, Sept through Nov, no Monday racing. Midland lo Lose Football Coach Fremont-Max Kitzelman, athletic director and head football coach at Midland College since 1964, announced his resignation Thursday ef- -fective June 1,1971. Midland posted only one winning season in Kitzelman tenure, going 15-40-3 overall and 5-34-3 during the past five years.

The grid sport at the college came under fire last year when some students demanded it be dropped. Administration officials backed the program, but there has been speculation lately that the school would not field a team in 1971. Scores fro M. km i i bo Saturday 1 1 NBA Philadelphia 113, Ne( York 104 San Francisco Boston 9 Chicago 128, Cincinnati 10 Portland U6. Atlanta 131 Milwaukee 117, San Oieqo'HI Baltimore 111, Cleveland 9s ABA Memphis 114, Pittsburgh 111 Floridians 127, Virginia US Kentucky 122, Carolina 112 Indiana ll, Denver 114 NHL Buffalo 7, Toronto 2 New York Los Angelej 1 Boston Minnesota 4 CHL Kansas City 4, AmarllloJ 1H UPI TELEPHOTO College Football Michigan v.

Ohio State, 12:15 p.m. Auto Racing Phoenix 150, 3:30 p.m. (7). College Football Southern Cal v. UCLA, 7 p.m.

(7). Heavyweight champ Joe Frazier connects with a knockout blow to Bob Foster in the second round of their fight. i-mr -iiii iaji'Wniiiwwfc''.