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Cornhuskers Look for Scoring Button Again Saturday Offensive Explosion Started One Year Ago IT Guy Ingles at; Bill Bomberger Bob ft HUSKER SENIORS like the one in 1966 when the' Sooners upset Nebraska, 10-9, in Norman. We were undefeated, and had accepted a Sugar Bowl bid," he recalls. One difference, however, is that the 1966 team also had the Big Eight title wrapped up even if it lost at Oklahoma. That's not the case now. Still in range for the Cornhuskers is an' undefeated season.

Only once before in Devaney's nine-year reign (1965) have the Cornhuskers gone through the regular season without a. loss. That record was blemished in the Orange Bowl by Alabama. The 16 Cornhusker seniors who are bowing out before the home folks (another crowd topping 67,000 is expected) will be bidding to bolster Devaney's record against Oklahoma. Devaney is just 3-5 against the Sooners and 1-2 against Fairbanks, his former pupil at Michigan State.

The senior list includes 10 starters some of whom have compiled impressive season and career credentials They; include Guy Ingles, the all-time Nebraska pass catching ieader; Jerry Murtaugh, the all-time tackling leader; Joe Orduna, the top rusher in the Devaney era; Paul Rogers, the most productive kicker the school has known and starters Dave Morock, Donnie McGhee, Bob Newton, Ed Periard, Dan Schneiss, Dave Walline and Wally Winter. completing their home ap-, pearances are John Decker, Bob Grenfell, Frank Vactor, Rex Lowe and Bill Bomberger. Bomberger had to bypass his last season because of surgery, but he's been on hand daily during the season' to assist in directing the "Commandos," the Cornhusker reserves who help prepare the varsity for each week's game. NEBRASKA NOV. 20, PAGE 21 By DON FORSYTHE It was just a year ago that Nebraska found the scoring button on its new offensive machine.

Punching it has been a Saturday delight for the Cornhusker footballers ever since. Starting with a 44-14 rout of Oklahoma in the last regnlar. season game in 1969 the Cornhuskers have averaged an amazing 39.2 points a game In 12 outings. When Oklahoma comes calling Saturday I the Cornhuskers hope to find the scoring often enough to (1) claim an lin- I disputed. Big Eight championship and (2), retain or improve their position in the battle for the nation's No.

1 football ranking. The unbeaten Cornhuskers have already tucked away an Orange Bowl invitation. They I accepted it after hiking their season mark to 9-0-1 with a 51-13 romp past Kansas, State i. last week. "One of the prime reasons we accepted a bid Sunday was so that we'd be able l' to fully concentrate on Oklahoma," says Nebraska coach Bob Devaney.

"We don't want to share the Oklahoma, of course, does. The Sooners, relying heavily on talented underclassmen, carry a 4-1 Big Eight record into Lincoln and can tie for the title with wins over Nebraska and Oklahoma State. Oklahoma also has some1 designs on a post-season game. Coach Chuck Fairbanks has indicated that four bowls have expressed interest in his team, which enters the game with a three-game winning streak. The Sooners would be a natural attraction should they upset the Cornhuskers and a good choice if they play Nebraska tough.

Nebraska assistant coach John Melton claims that the game this year is. much Grenfell Bob Newton Walline John Decker 1J iMvavtiMMvJ if Wally Jerry Murtaugh Donnie McGhee Rex Lone Forecaster Statistics 1 r43 1 Paul Rogers --mm. 1 Stretching Dave Morock Ed Periard Dan Schneiss Mackie Premier Gymnast 1 LINCOLN, ....1 1 7- Frank Vactor Dave Winter All- Staters Defy THE LINEUPS NT 1 SfU Offense In IVlakinff LlaSS NEBRASKA (9-0-1) Wt. Ht. Name No.

OKLAHOMA (6-3) No. Name Ht. 82 Chandler fi-3 60 Unruh 6-3 52 LaRosa 6-2 54 Brahaney 6-2 72 Jones 6-4 76 Watson 6-5 80 Franklin 6-2 11 Mildren 6-0 22 Wylie 6-1 30 Pruitt 5-9 17 Cross while 6-2 Wt. CI. 221 So.

234 So. 225 Sr. 218 So. 224 So. 237 Sr.

195 Jr. 196 Jr. 180 So. 177 So. 194 So.

FB Pos. TE LT LG RG RT SE QB HB HB CI. So. Sr. Jr.

So. Sr. Sr. Sr. Jr.

Sr. So. Defense Class All-State Football Team Pos. Player School Ht. Wt.

Yr. Bob Vering, Fremont Bergan 6-3 180 12 Don Johnson, Hebron 6 185 12 Rod Norrie, Geneva 232 12 Don Nitchie, Wilcox 195 12 Jon Reeves, North Loup-Scotia 6-1 195 12 Larry Dunbar, Elkhorn 5-11 175 11 C-Pat Donohoe, O'Neill St. Mary 6-0 225 12 QB Bob Rutan, Wymore Southern 6-1 203 12 HB-Jerry Gosch, Platteview 5-10 160 12 HB-Calvin Coffin, Osceola 5-11 170 12 FB Bob Martin, David City 6-1 175 11 Honor Roll Ends Bob Squires, Sandy Creek; Stan Welsch, Morrill; Tom Rohrig. Friend; Randy Koski, Pender; Jed Kroeker, Henderson; Rollie Bauer, Bayard; Rod Peterson, Nelson. i Linemen Sterling Barker, Pawnee City; Bill Bliefemich, Geneva; Eugene Emanuel, Dodge; Wayne Peterson, Medicine Valley; Rick Hughes, Geneva; Bob Krajicek, Platteview; Allen Halstead, Arnold; Kent Mann, Wymore Southern.

Backs Bob Kersenbrock, O'Neill St. Mary; John Winterburn, Elkhorn; Greg Pumphrey, Hebron; Tom Thierolf, Fremont Bergan; Bob Meyer, Scribner; Marlin Kalin, Coleridge; Ron Velder, Dorchester; John Dine, Friend; Lonnie Jergens, Gibbon; Randy Yeager, Bloomfield; Mike Offner, Red Cloud; Bob Oakley, Fullerton; Ray Schmidt, Elgin Pope John; Steve Anderson, Milford. No. Name 96 Hamilton 75 Grady Ht. Wt.

CL Pos. fi-1 6-3 230 So. 239 Sr. LE LT MG RT RE LB LB -LB 97 Moore 6-4 240 So. 55 Mason 6-2 210 Sr.

49 Milstead 6-1 205 So. 43 Aycock 6-2 210 Jr. 44 Casteel 6-3 201 Sr. 26 Roach 6-0 183 So. HB 18 O'Shaughnessy 5-11 180 Jr.

HB 33 Shelley 190 Jr. 25 Johnson 6-1 194 Sr. Kickoff 1:30 p.m., Memorial Stadium. Broadcasts-WOW (590), KFAB (1110), KFOR (1240), KLIN (1400) Joe Orduna Odds Ji 1 LlUD Fremont Bergan's Bob Vering joins Johnson at the other flank. The lanky 6-3 glue-fingered receiver snared 31 aerials this season.

He caught passes for 203 a in a single game this fall and totaled 561 yards. 1 Jon Reeves of North Loup-Scotia joins Dunbar at guard. Reeves, an excellent blocker and defensive standout averaged 16 tackles a game. "When we needed yardage we ran right his way and let Jon lead the blocking," cdach Keith Staehr says. O'Neill St.

Mary center Pat Donohoe anchors the middle of the line at 6-0 and 225 pounds. The school's student council president would also handle the kicking chores for the all-state team after successfully booting 15 of 18 extra points attempts. Geneva tackle Rod Norrie is the biggest on the team at 6-3 and 232. The three-year starter, who averaged 20 tackles a game, Is paired with Don Nitchie, a 6-3, 195-pounder from Wilcox. Norrie was especially praised by opposing coaches for his agility and strength, while Nitchie's devastating offensive blocking was often mentioned.

1 By VIRGIL PARKER Prep Sports Writer The odds are stacked more heavily against a Class high school football player making the all-state team than in any other division. 4 Where there are only 32 teams from which to choose players for the Class A club, 61 in and about 75 each playing in Class and the eight-man ranks, 128 schools field teams competing in Class C. But 11 superb gridiron stars survived the percentages to earn positions on the 1970 Class all-state aggregation. Nine seniors and a pair of standout juniors were selected to the dream team after ballots were tabulated from coaches from across the state. David City fullback Bob Martin and guard Larry Dunbar of Elkhorn are the, underclassmen to crack the starting lineup.

Martin, playing in the East half of the tough Central Ten Conference, received votes from every opposing coach despite the fact that the other members of the loop were Class schools. A basketball starter and holder of the school's pole vault record as well, Martin averaged 6.7 yards on 140 carries and had a total offense of 1,331 yards. Dunbar, called "an excellent blocker and particularly good at pulling out to lead the downfield blocking" by coach Bill Patton, is the smallest lineman on the all-state team at 17S pounds. With good speed (:05.0 in the 40-yard dash), Dunbar averaged 13 tackles a game and had eight pass interceptions from his linebacking spot. Bob Rutan, quarterback of Southern High at Wymore, would direct the all-state team attack from the signal calling spot.

Southern tangled with five Class schools this season. Rutan scored 184 career points 1 on runs and passed for 31 more touchdowns. In 38 games, Rutan led Southern to Johnson Hebron End 1 Dunbar Elkhorn Guard Newton, Murtaugh Selected Detroit (UPI) Nebraska placed two players on the 1970 all-America team announced Friday by the Football News. They are tackle Bob Newton and linebacker Jerry -Murtaugh. The team: Ends Ernie Jennings, Air Force; Chuck Dicus, Arkansas; Terry Beasley, Auburn; Elmo Wright, Houston; Tom Gate wood, Notre Dame; Bill Atessis, Texas; Charlie Weaver, Southern California; and.

Jack Youngblood, Florida. 1 Tackles Dan Dierdorf, Michigan; Newton; Bobby Wuensch, Texas; and: Rock Perdonl, Georgia Tech. Guards Larry Dinardo, Notre Dame; Chip Kell, Ten- nessee; and Jim Stillwagon, Ohio State. Center Don Popplewell, Colorado. Quarterbacks Archie Man-ning.

Mississippl; Joe Theismann, Notre Dame; Jim Plunkett, Stanford; and Pat Sullivan, Auburn. Halfbacks Johnny Musso, 'Alabama; Ed Marinaro, Cornell; and Don McCauley, North Carolina. Fullbacks John Brockington, Ohio State; Steve Worster, Tex-as; and Mike Adam le, Northwestern. Linebackers Mike Anderson, Louisiana State; Murtaugh; Jack Ham, Penn State; and Jackie Walker, Tennessee. Defensive backs Larry Willingham, Auburn; Jack Tatum, Ohio State; and Dick Harris, South Carolina.

Feature Races At Aqueduct Jim French 3.00 Droll Not 3.80 1.40 Rough King Mo At Liberty Bell Unstoclc 11.SO S.TO 140 Globesona 4.40 Keepllfrom Georgt 2.20 Southeast's Scott Bloom 210 6-0 248 6-4 216 6-2 230 6-3 255 6-1 248 6-4 160 5-9 215 6-2 196 6-0 .171 5-10 List 85 Newton 74 Rupert 77 Dumler 54 McGhee 70 Winter 67 Ingles 88 Tagge 14 Orduna 31 Rodgers 20 Schneiss 22 Sr. 222 6-2 CI. Wt. Ht. Name No.

Adkins 57. Jacobson 75 Periard 56 Walline 76 0. Johnson 64 Murtaugh 42- Terrio 45 Morock 43 Blahak 27 Anderson 18 Kosch 24 Jr. Jr. Sr.

Sr. So. Sr. Jr. Sr.

222 6-3 247 6-6- 201 5-9 238 6-2 210 6-4 212 6-3 208 6-2 199 5-10 175 5-10 180 6-0 So. Jr. Jr. 175 6-0 Carr Forecasts Minnesota Win Sports analyst Don Carr forecasts another big week for the Minnesota Vikings, pro football's winningest team, He's installed the Vikings as a 14-point choice over Green Bay in their meeting Sunday. The pro forecast: Favorite Margin Opponent Baltimore 7 Miami Chicago 7 Buffalo Cincinnati 1 Pittsburgh Cleveland' -14 Houston Denver 3 New Orleans Detroit 3 San Francisco Kansas City 3 St.

Louis Los Angeles 14 Atlanta Minnesota 14 Green Bay NY Jets Boston Oakland 1) San Diego Washington 1 Dallas NY Giants 3 Philadelphia bar in state gymnastics It's been said you can make statistics prove anything you want to. What do you do with a 364-122-6 season football forecasting record? No matter how you slice it, it comes up about .746. Maybe it would help to enroll in Kansas basketball coach Ted Owens' slide rule class. Two years ago Wichita prep Randy Canfield was listed as a 6-11 center. Last year with the KIT froshhe was 6-10.

Now, as a Owens has measured him at 6-9'A and will list him as 6-9. It prompts Missouri's Norm Stewart to retort, "I've got a guy named Henry Smith who's 6-7 and 220 pounds. But by Ted's measurements he's 5-10 and 130 pounds." Hopefully, the old forecaster will be able to stretch the statistics the other way. Good luck Buckeyes. Good luck Irish.

Nebraska 31, Oklahoma 14 This one won't come as easily as the Kansas State win. Sooners aren't likely to make that many mistakes. Colorado 28, Air Force 21 Buffs have a lot more to play for. Who knows, maybe they'll get another crack at Alabama in the Liberty Bowl? Missouri 24, Kansas 21 The only edge the Tigers have is playing the game at Columbia. It may be enough to make the difference.

Iowa State 28, Oklahoma State 24 Cyclones got a big -lift last week by beating Missouri. Cowboys got another physical battering from Colorado. Kansas 'State 35, Florida State 14 Wildcats bounce back with Lynn Dickey enjoy-ing much better afternoon than last Saturday. East- Columbia over Brown, Yale over Harvard, Connecticut over Holy Cross, Boston College over Massachusetts, Dartmouth over Pennsylvania, Penn State over Pittsburgh, Princeton over Cornell, Rutgers over Colgate, Syracuse over Miami, Fla. Midwest Illinois over Iowa, Kent State over Xavier, Louisville over Drake, Northwestern over Michigan State.

Notre Dame over LSU, Michigan over Ohio State, Purdue over Indiana, Toledo over Colorado State, Tulsa over Idaho, Minnesota over Wisconsin. South Citadel over Davidson. South Carolina over Clemson, Memphis State ovw Utah State, North Carolina over Duke, Richmond over William Mary, Tampa over Vanderbilt, Tennessee over Kentucky, Tulane over North Carolina State, Virginia over Maryland, Virginia Tech over VMI. Southwest Arizona over Wyoming, Arizona State over New Mexico, Houston over Wake Forest, Rice over TCU, SMU over Baylor, Arkansas over Texas Tech, Texas-El Paso over Trinity, West Texas State over Southern North Texas State over Wichita State. West Stanford over California, San Diego State over Long Beach State, Oregon over Oregon State, Southern Cal over UCLA, Utah over Brigham Young, Washington over Washington State.

Don Forsvthe Creighton Prep's Gene Mackie won his third straight all-around title when the state high school gymnastics meet opened at Lincoln i 's Johnson Gym Thursday. Ha became the first performer in Nebraska prep history to turn the trick. "It was awfully close when I was a sophomore," Mackie remembers. "After totaling the scores for all five events 1 edged Southeast's Hoppy Bat-' ton by just three-tenths of a point." To enter the all-around, a gymnast must perform in five of the seven events, all but tumbling and trampoline. The ail-around doesn't contribute points to the team totals, which Mackie thinks is a shame.

"Not just because I won and it would help Creighton Prep," he explains, "but because this is the only way you can score points in Olympic or international competition." The Prep senior says that "if Olympic points were scored on individual events, the USA would be an easy winner. Most of our gymnasts specialize in one or two events. And they're the best in the world. But when they have to perform in all events their average score drops and the Russians and Japanese, who devote equal practice time to all events, come out on top." Mackie says his strongest events are the horizontal bar, still rings and parallel bars. That was 0 1 0 In Thursday's opening action he scored better than anyone else in the state in all three.

"I really need to work on the side horse," he admits. "My goal is to become a good enough all-around performer to make the Olympics, but that is still a long way off." If Mackie can hold his place in each of the five events in which he qualified for Friday night's finals, he can earn Creighton Prep a third place team finish all by himself, i Defending champion Lincoln Northeast jumped into a commanding position for another team title after a 1-2-4 finish in the trampoline by returning state champ Dean Strough and teammates Larry West and Brad Heiliger. Duane West also gave the Rockets a first in tumbling, with Larry West tied for second and Mike Schuman fifth. Another defending champion, Southeast's Jim Daniels. on the side horse, was well out in front in his speciality, but a disappointing first-day' performance by several others on the favored Knights squad left Southeast a distant second.

The point total achieved by each performer Thursday will be averaged with the score he posts Friday IgTi in determining his final placing. Virgil Parker Results Page 22 30 wins, just seven losses and a tie. Platteview's Jerry Gosch and Calvin Coffin of Osceola get the call at the starting halfback slots. Gosch is the most prolific point producer of the group, dashmg for an amazing 80 touchdowns during his four-year career. After seven as a freshman he tallied 15 as a sophomore and 29 as a junior.

This fall Gosch had 28 TDs, despite playing 57 fewer minutes than during his junior season. He had 2,805 yards of offense his last two campaigns. Coffin, a unanimous Goldenrod Conference ajl-star, average 7.5 yards per carry this fall while gaining 1,259 yards and scoring 146 points. Coffin displayed exceptional speed with his power running. Last spring, as a junior, he was the winner of the state Class title in the 440-yard dash.

Five backs gamed such heavy support from the voting coaches that Hebron's Don Johnson was moved to an end spot. Johnson, in addition to being Hebron's leading rusher, also was the Bears' No. 1 receiver, thus qualifying him for the position change. 5. 1 X- Gosch Platteview Halfback Martin David City Fullback AH eventi frae unlets foDowsd'-by all tune a.m.

uiieei boldfaced for p.m. Friday Local Prep Gymnastics State High School Championships at Lincoln High, 7. State i Hockey Kansas City at Omaha, Ak-Sar-Ben Coliseum, 8. (E Saturday Pro Grid Highlights 11 a.m. (3).

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

College Football Southern Cal v. UCLA, 7 p.m. (7). performs on the horizontal meet Thursday. 1 I I I'yX -J? I 1 5 i IIMM-jwwiaiiriBiwiiiiiiii 1 111111 him hi 1 rnrin 11 7 i Coffin Osceola Halfback Vering Fremont Bergan End Nitchie WUcox Tackle Rutan Southern Quarterback Norrie Geneva Tackle Donohoe O'Neill SM Center 4:.