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i 1 i I It I i i 6 I 1 i i "-I'll I A 7 A Bill Kosch Jeff Kinney Jerry Tagge Willie Harper Rich Glover Carl Johnson Larry Jacobson Dick Rupert Johnny Rodgers Buskers, Sooners Grab 17 of 22 All-Big 8 Spots Kansas City Topranked TIT-I I i i All-Big8 Choices First Team 1 Offense 7 TEWohn Schroll, Kansas WR Johnny Rodgers, Nebraska Tom Brahaney, Oklahoma IrDick Rupert, Nebraska Ken Jones, Oklahoma Carl Johnson, Nebraska Marion Latimore, Kansas St, Greg Pruitt, Oklahoma Jack Mildren, Oklahoma Jerry Tagge, Nebraska Jeff Kinney, Nebraska 7 Defense 7. Willie Harper, Nebraska Raymond Hamilton, Okla. Rich Glover, Nebraska Larry Jacobson, Nebraska Herb Orvis, Colorado Derland Moore, Oklahoma LB Steve Aycock, Oklahoma LB Keith Schroeder, Iowa St. LB Kenny Page, Kansas I Bill Kosch, Nebraska John Shelley, Oklahoma 7 Second Team i Offense TE-Albert Chandler, Oklahoma 1 1 WR-Cliff Branch, Colorado Doug Dumler, Nebraska ft Bill Kralicek, Colorado L-Jake Zumbach, Colorado Dean Unruh, Oklahoma Geary Murdock, Iowa St George Amundson, Iowa St, Charles Davis, Colorado Leon Crosswhite, Oklahoma Bill Butler, Kansas St. Defense Eddie Sheats, Kansas 7 John Brown, Missouri -v-L Bud Magrum, Colorado John Cowan, Missouri Barry Price, Oklahoma L-Carl Taibi, Colorado LB Dave Mason, Nebraska LB Bob Terrio, Nebraska LB Matt Blair, Iowa State B-Joe Blahak, Nebraska Tom Carraway, Oklahoma St Honorable Mention LINCOLN, TUESDAY, NOV.

23, PAGE 15 Oklahoma and Kenny Page of Kansas are the linebackers. All are seniors. Each has consistently shouldered a big load in his team's defense. The defensive backs are John Shelley, who passed up a rich pro baseball offer from the Oakland Athletics to go to Oklahoma, and Bill Kosch of the Cornhuskers. Shelley has five interceptions.

Kosch has three and has returned them for 134 yards. Both are Special mention should be given Cliff Branch of Colorado and George Amundson of Iowa State. Branch, a specialist, came awfully close in the vote race with Rodgers. Amundson, first Cyclone ever to rush for 1,000 "yards in a season, was the No. 5 back and not far off the pace.

five juniors Schroll, Rodgers, Brahaney, Jones and Pruitt. The others are Willie Harper of the Cornhuskers and Raymond "Sugar Bear" Hamilton of the Sooners are the defensive ends. Both are quick, tough juniors who will be around another -year to harrass enemy The interior defensive line, averaging nearly 242 pounds, has juniors Rich Glover of Nebraska land Derland Moore of Oklahoma and seniors Herb Orvis of Colorado and Larry. Jacobson of Nebraska. Orvis and Jacobson are expected to be high pro draft choices in the next draft.

Keith Schroeder of Iowa State, Steve Aycock The honor backfield. un-. doubtedly is one of the most "explosive in Big Eight history. It includes Nebraska's Jerry Tagge and Jeff Kinney and Oklahoma's Greg Pruitt and Tagge is the premier 'passer who has a 62 per cent completion average and leads the conference with aerial yards. Kinney provides the battering ram type power and has averaged 4.6 yards on 17S thrusts.

Pruitt, known as the "Wicked Midget," tops all league rushers with 1,423 yards and an average of 158.1 yards a game and a fancy 9.5 yards per play. Mildren, a quarterback like Tagge but far more potent as a runner, is the No. 4 rusher and needs only 32 yards to become Oklahoma grabbed nine of the 4 11 offensive berths Tuesday on 7, -the 1971 all-Big Eight Confer-; ence football team of The As- sociated Press. The Cornhuskers placed five and Oklahoma four. The remaining two spots went to Kansas and Kansas State.

On defense, the two unbeaten and untied powerhouses, now wfnding up preparation' for -their head-on collision at Norman, Thursday, filled eight Despite Nebraska's over-; whelming superiority in the defensive statistics, the Sooners matched the Cornhuskers with four selections in the voting of sportswriters and sportscast-; ers. Kansas, Colorado and Iowa State each gained one berth. Rodgers with 40 receptions. i Tom Brahaney, the Oklahoma center and star blocker, ran away with the voting for the Rivot post. Four giants make up the in-1 terior of the line on offense, Oklahoma's Ken Jones, 236 pounds; Nebraska's Dick Rupert, 221, and Carl Johnson, 252, and Kansas State's Mo Latimore, 244.

The offensive unit includes the first Big Eight quarterback ever to rush for 1,000 yards. The team has two crack receivers in Johnny Rodgers of Nebraska and John Schroll of -Kansas. Rodgers heads the conference in pass receptions with 45 and in punt and kickoff returns and, like Pruitt, has scored 90 points, including 60 on passes. Schroll, who didn't catch a single pass in 1970, is second to 0 i 1 "I I. -I, 4 i I Derland Moore Steve Aycock John Shelley Jack Mildren Ken Jones Greg Pruitt Tom Brahaney Offense Tight ids Jerry List, Nebraska) Reuben Gant, Oklahoma State) Henry Ids, Kansas State.

Wide receivers Ike Harris, Iowa State. Linemen Keith Wortman, Nebraskai Darvl White, Nebraskai Bobby Child, Kansas. Backs Delvln Williams, Kansasi Jerome Nelloms, Kansas; Dean Carlson, Iowa state; Joe Wylie, Oklahoma; John Tarver, Colorado; Ken Johnson, Colorado; Dick Graham, Oklahoma 'State; Dennis Morrison, Kansas State. i Defense Ends John Stavely, Colorado; Harold Bassett, Iowa State; John Adklns, Nebraska. Interior linemen Bill Jansseitt Nebraska.

Linebackers Keith Best, Kansas State; Mark Driscoll, Oklahoma. Backs Jim, Anderson, Nebraskai Johnny Robertson, Kansas State. Overshadowed by Prolific Offense Sooner Defense Better Each Week Michigan iRelegated To Fifth Compiled from News Wires College footbaE's greatest regular season weekend became a little bit bigger Tuesday when Alabama and Johnson Status Doubtful AUDum vauitea past Micnigan -into the No. 3 and No. 4 positions in the United Press International poll; "Aycock is a tough linebacker and Quails has a lot of speed," says Selmer.

"They seem to be pretty knowledgable," says Osborne of the OU linebackers' work against opposing passing games. The Sooners play primarily a zone pass defense. Osborne has been impressed with safety John Shelley, another all-conference Sooner. "He covers a lot of iground and is a good tackier," he says. 1 Osborne recalls that the Sooners weren't a bad defensive team in 1970.

"They gave us trouble last year. We had difficulty running straight at them," he says. they've improved a lot since then. You can see them get better every week." In the Sooner camp, Lacewell echoed the Nebraska analysis of his defense as he talked about the "other game" with Volney Meece of the Oklahoma Times. "I think we're a great deal better on defense than we were a year ago.

And, it's sad but true, they're a lot better on offense! I had hoped they wouldn't be, but they are. "I really didn't think they could be better. It stunned me when I watched the films," Lacewell said. Who knows? It could all boil down to how the Nebraska offense functions against the Sooner defense not how the Cornhuskers do against the Oklahoma offense. in all of their games.

When the issue is in doubt they've been pretty tough." Osborne agress, noting that it's difficult to assess the relative strength of the Sooner been able to execute a game plan against Oklahoma. Everybody has had to try to play catch-up. Sometimes Oklahoma has given up points when its 3540 points ahead. "You don't concentrate as well when the game is that one-sided," he says. The Sooners have employed a basic 6-man front during the season, using multiple alignments.

"They have good size up front," says Selmer, who has been impressed with the front four of ends Raymond Hamilton and Lionell Day and tackles Derland Moore and Lueious Selinon. "Hamilton (6-1, 237) is strong, quick and rushes the passer well. Moore (6-4, 252) is just a tough lineman. Selmon (6-1, 221) is quick and agile," says Selmer. Hamilton and Moore were named to the Associated Press all-Big Eight team Tuesday, indicating Selmer isn't in his evalua-; tion.

V'l Linebacking is another Sooner strength. Middle linebacker Steve Aycock, a two-time all-Big Eight choice, is flanked by Albert Quails and Mark Driscoll. ByDONFORSYTHE Thursday's Nebraska-Oklahoma game has been described as a classic-matchup between the Sooners' prolific offense and the Cornhuskers' awesome defense. It's the obvious attraction the nation's leading offense against the nation's leading defense. But the Thanksgiving Day spectacle is much more than just the Oklahoma offense against the Nebraska defense.

The unbeaten Cornhuskers boast an offense which ranks high nationally and Oklahoma's defense, ranked second in, the Big Eight in points allowed, is vastly underrated. Sooner defensive coordinator Larry Lacewell added to the myth that the Sooners have no defense when he mused, "I wonder if a bowl ever took just an offense?" after a mid-season game in which the opposition put enough points on the board to win a game against an ordinary Nebraska offensive coaches Carl Selmer and Tom Osborne, who have studied reel after reel of game film on the Sooners, claim Oklahoma may have the best defense the Cornhuskers have faced this season. "They've gotten progressively better," declares Selmer. "They've had fine first halves Their Saturday collision, following Thursday's matchup of No. 1 Nebraska and No.

2 Oklahoma, could produce college football's own "Super Bowl" Jan. 1. Nebraska and Alabama have Signed to play in the Orange Bowl and Auburn and Oklahoma are matched in the Sugar Bowl. Nebraska enters Thursday's game in Norman as a solid No. choice, having collected 40 of 55 first place votes in the Associated Press poll, of sportswriters and sportscasters and 28 of 34 No.

1 ballots in the Press International poll of coaches. The status of all-conference offensive tackle Carl Johnson remained in doubt Monday as Nebraska conducted a brisk workout in near-freezing "It was cold out there, but we had a pretty good practice. It was a more spirited workout," said Cornhusker coach Bob Devaney. Devaney indicated Johnson "showed a lot of improvement" as he gave his ailing knee a good test Monday, but that his status was still doubtful. The Cornhusker coach pointed to sophomores Al Austin and Bob Wolfe as the tackles who would carry the load if Johnson did not make the trip to Oklahoma.

"Austin doesn't make too many mistakes. He's a sharp kid," said Devaney of the 6-5, 222-pound former Lincoln Southeast athlete who turned in a good effort as Johnson's replacement in the Kansas State game. Wolfe, the alternate left tackle behind Daryl White, has been given schooling on the right tackle assignments this week. Other than Johnson, the Cornhuskers will enter the Oklahoma game in excellent physical condition. Baylor Coaching Post to Majors? Sports Briefs Raymond Hamilton Jensen Second In Chicago Chicago, 111.

(UPI)-Teata Semiz, veteran righthander from River Edge, N.J., had the hot hand Monday as 192 bowlers shot their first eight-game qualifying block in the $85,000 Brunswick World Open Tournament. 1- The 37-year-old Semiz, who has captured two titles in a nine-year career, rolled games of 222, 275, 199, 242, 256, 188, 229 and 207 to show 1818 pins for the day, four better than the total registered by rookie Max Jensen, Lincoln, Neb. Jensen, seeking his first PBA crown, had a high game of 268 and a pair of 246s in his fine effort which was only slightly less than the 227 average Semiz rang up. Jim Godman, a six-time champion from Lorain, Ohio, who has won twice this year, was next in line, a 1777 effort putting him 37 in arrears of Jensen. 'Typical9 Fall Weather Seen For Big Game Kansas City MP) Allen Pearson of the National Weather Service in Kansas City agreed, with some hesitation, to provide his own prognostication for Thursday's Nebraska-Oklahoma game.

"There is a fairly sharp cold front across Montana which is forecast to be over Norman sometime late Tuesday," he said. "We're expecting the front to penetrate and skies to clear by Thursday, with temperatures in the upper 40s and lower There were signs it would be "fairly typical" fall weather, he said, but it would be difficult this early to assess wind direction or velocity. I My Apologies, Ulef, But Still COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)-Ohio State coach Woody Hayes says he was "very sorry" for his emotional outburst over a controversial Michigan interception before he saw films of the game won by the Wolverines 10-7. "Now I'd have been ashamed if I wouldn't have gone out there," he told a team football banquet Monday night. "It was the worst called play the history of college football," maintains Hayes, dean of the Big Ten coaches in his 21st season with the Buckeyes.

Hayes was referring to an interception Michigan safety Tom Daren made over Ohio State split end Dick Wakefield at the Wolverine 31-yard line. wtes in the AP poll and three first place votes in the UPI poll, was a solid second with Alabama third. Michigan was fourth and Auburn fifth in the AP poll, the inly variance in the two top tens. Colorado, the Big Eight's No. 3 team, climbed to No.

following the tumble of Notre Dame. The Irish feU to 13th in the AP poll and 14th in UPI after losing to LSU. I Tniirn Clnfrt Ywiitvfl fV fVlA ClTM '-ft i- 1 IWd tj Ld.LC 1AJU1IU 1UI bllC UUlt Bowl, cracked the UPI top 20 at the No. 17 spot. The Cyclones, 7-3 on the season, meet 10th ranked LSU in their first bowl appearance in history.

The Associated Press Sooners Not Awed 1,024 974 Sugar Bowl's Katz Likes OU 'By 10' Kansas City, Mo. (UPI) Joe Katz, executive director of the Sugar Bowl, is sure his committee selected the right team from the Big Eight for, the Jan. 1 game in New Orleans. "Oklahoma will win by at least 10 points," Katz told the Big Eight briefings Monday, predicting Thursday's decisive match with Nebraska at Norman, Okla. Katz, admittedly, "is prejudiced.

He would hardly choose Nebraska to win after lining up Oklahoma to play Auburn in the Sugar Bowl. 7 OU Winner 'No Matter What' 7 ''No matter what happens Thursday, though, we have a winner here," Katz said by telephone from New Orleans. Colorado coach Eddie Crowder, who guided his own team into the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, said, "I just wish they (Nebraska and Oklahoma) would hurry up and play so everybody would calm down. It sure has stirred up a lot of conversation. That game has gotten as much public attention as any in the last 10 years." Big Eight commissioner Chuck Neinas announced Monday that five conference teams Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado, Oklahoma State and Iowa State had set new home attendance records this season.

"7 Thursday's big game, said Neinas, "certainly enhances the prestige of our conference. It will give us the opportunity to expose our football to the nation, not only through television but by the large coverage of all media." Crowder: Big Eight Strongest The fact that the Big Eight garnered four bowl berths, which will mean a gross of about $1.1 million to the conference, caused Crowder to say, "I think around the country the con-: sensus has been that the Big Eight probably was the strongest football conference. But after this year, I think now It's become a clear-cut choice. 7. ,7 7 1 "7 7.

"When you think that our four bowl teams have a total -of five losses and all of the losses have been to each other, it's apparent the conference is the strongest that it's ever been." -v, 7 With teams in the Orange, Sugar, Astro-Bluebonnet and Sun Bowls, each Big Eight school figures to receive about $60,000 from bowl receipts. t. 10-0 1(H) 11-0 -0 -I 9-1 7-2 11-0 8-2 8 1. Nebraska (40) 2. Oklahoma (8) 3.

Alabama (1) 4. Michigan (3) 5. Auburn (1) I. Penn St. (2) 7.

Georgia 8. Colorado 9. Arizona St. 10. Louisiana St.

II. Tennessee 12. Texas 13. Notre Dame 14. Toledo 15.

Houston 14. Stanford 17. Arkansas Football Iowa State tailback George Amundson has named Big Eight Conference Back of the Week by the Associated Press for his 146 rushing yards and four touchdowns and one touchdown pass against Oklahoma State. Colorado's Cliff Branch was named Lineman of the Week. The Associated Press has learned that William and Mary coach Lou Holtz told school officials he is leaving and may be named coach at North Carolina State.

,7. Cotton Bowl-bound Penn State has been named a unanimous winner of the Lambert Trophy emblematic of college football supremacy, in the East. Boise State has accepted an-invitation to the meet Chico State Dec. 11 in the Camellia Bowl at Sacramento, Calif. Baseball The executive vice president and general manager of the Kansas City Royals, Cedric Tallis, has been named major league baseball's 1971 Executive of the Year by The Sporting News.

Cleveland Indian's first baseman Chris Chambliss has been named American League Rookie of the Year by the Baseball Writers Association of America. 7 WACO, Tex. (UPI)-Baylor athletic dirctor Jack Patterson denied published reports Tuesday that a select committee of trustees had already sacked head coach Bill Beall after his third losing season with the Bears and hired Iowa State coach Johnny Majors. The Houston Post reported the alleged coaching change in a story that did not reveal sources. The story said formal announcement of the change would be made after the Baylor -Rice game Saturday in Houston.

"That's not true," Patterson said. "We haven't made any positive decision. Mainly, we have had discussions of the situation. 1 "We're going to wait until a definite decision is made Bmcs' Murtaugh Decides to Quit -Virdon Named Pittsburgh (UPI) Danny Murtaugh, who twice has managed the Pittsburgh Pirates to World Series victories, announced his retirement Tuesday and 40-year-old batting coach Bill Virdon was named to succeed him. Murtaugh, 54, has a history of heart trouble that once before forced his retirement only to have him return again at the start of the 1970 season and Virdon had filled in during the past two seasons wheh Murtaugh was temporarily sidelined.

495 as 553 425 us 354 338 273 234 114 104'A 82 73 71 56 53 50 18. Mississippi 8-2 19. North Carolina 8-2 20. Washington 8-3 Johnny Majors Bound for Baylor? about our present coach before we talk to any coaches," he said. "I have already said we will have an announcement sometime next week." Sources in Des Moines, Iowa indicated reports of Majors' being hired by a Texas school were circulating through the Iowa State campus, but Majors and his team were in San Diego, for a game with San Diego State Saturday night.

Iowa State is 7-3 this year and will meet Louisiana State in the Sun Bowl December 18. The Post story said Majors has already negotiated a contract with Patterson and will officially succeed Beall after the Rice game. The story said Beall reportedly signed a five-year contract with Baylor in 1968 but the contract was subject to review after three years. Othen receiving votes (alphabetically): Boston Colleqe, Iowa State, Louisville. Ohio State, Northwestern, Southern Call fornia.

United Press International 1. Nebraska (28) (104) ...........334 J. Oklahoma (3) (9-0) 319 ,3. Alabama (1) (10-0) ...254 4. Auburn (9-0) 217 NORMAN, Okla.

(AP) The Oklahoma Sooners full of respect but not awed by No. 1' Nebraska will be put under wraps Tuesday as they attempt to head into Thursday's collision with the Cornhuskers in high gear emotionally. Some key Sooners appeared at a press conference Monday night and gamely predicted an Oklahoma victory. Halfback Greg Pruitt, the nation's number two rusher, told writers he expects the Cornhusker defense to key on him, but added: "If you know you're going to be keyed on, I think it helps you. I'm looking forward to it.

I think I'll have a good day." Quarterback Jack Mildren said, "I think we will win. I feel we are number one considering the teams we have played. I'm sure that Nebraska feels that they are number one too." 5. Michigan (2) u-0) 203 4. Penn State (100) .174 7.

Georgia (9-1) 91 I. Colorado (9-2) 77 9. Arizona State (9-1) 48 15. Louisiana Stale (7-3) 27 11. Tennessee (MJ 12.

Toledo (11-0) 14 12 10 13. Houston (8-2) 14. Notre Dame (8-2) 15. North Carolina (9-2) 14. Stanford (8-3) 17.

Iowa State (7-3) 18. (Tie) Arkansas (8-2-1) (Tie) Texas (7-2) 20. Florida State (7-3) 9 4 3 3 2.

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