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nryyywyyt Tr 4D PES MOIXES SUNDAY REGISTER Oct. 26, 1975 fewest. (D-Cil Colorado Sunday RSGiTen fntiTOS 5.t,.n.ni,i mi', ii MM. Statistics plays to tie it, 7-7, and 4 minutes later the Huskers had another score and the lead. The Huskers rushed for 350 yards and passed for 165 in cruising to the widest victory margin ever against Colorado.

The. worst previous lashing handed the Buffs was 41-6 in 1963. It was the most, points Nebraska had scored since a 77-7 whipping of Army in 1972. Vmce Ferragamo, who No. 10, lost six fumbles and had two passes intercepted.

Nebraska Coach Tom. Osborne said he was amazed at the ease with which his troops dismantled the Buffs, "It was a. great effort for us, but the ball also bounced our way a lot," he said. "I think we got more turnovers than we ever have and the thing just snowballed. We're probably not that much better than Colorado." This matchup, most observers felt, would be won by the team making the fewer mistakes.

Nebraska lost only one fumble. The loss -dropped Colorado to 1-2 in the league and' 5-2 overall before 76,509 fans on a sunny afternoon. Colorado stung the Huskers with a touchdown on the 8 turnovers fuel 63-21 rout By JIM MOACKLER Sunday Knisltr stiH Wrtttr LINCOLN, NEB. football fans exhausted their supply of red balloons long before the game ended Saturday as the unbeaten Cornhuskers crushed Colorado, for their seventh straight victory and third in the Big Eight Conference. h-rated Nebraska apparently took to heart a sign at one end of the stadium.

It read: "Kick the chips outta the Buffs." There was considerable aid from the enemy. Colorado, a seven-point underdog going into the contest and ranked Nebraska's Tony Davis is stopped as Buffalo hurdles action Colorado 20 1B6 13-35? 3-38 7-a 1-73 Mtbraski First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Pumbles-lost paflalties-yardt 2 77-350 1M 10-16-0 1-70 5C0HIN0 11 Colorado Nebraska 5i 43 rAmims 74 run (Mackenzie kick) Thomas 42 pass from Ferragamo (Coyle kick) O'Leary 10 run (Coyle kick) Anthony run (Coyle kick) Davis 1 run (Coyle kick) O'Leary 1 run (Covle kick) Jenkins pass from Ferragamo (Covle kick) Anthony 1 run (Coyle kick) Hiqgs run (Coyle kick) Gillespie 14 run Coyle kick) Williams 6 run (Mackenzie kick) Kelleher 3 run (Mackenzie kick) Attendance 76,509. i game's third play and that might have been a mistake. "After they went down and scored early, we all really got up," said Husker I-back Monte Anthony. "They made us mad." It took Nebraska only five returned it 51 yards to esr-tablish a 21-3 Missouri lead.

Pisarkiewicz rolled out for three yards and Brown sprinted to his second touchdown following a short Kansas State punt in the opening 5 minutes of the final half. Gains 141 Yards Missouri's victory, spearheaded by Brown's 141 yards in 21 carries, boosted the Tigers' season record to 5-2 and their Big Eight mark to 2-1. Bill Sinovic spared the Wildcats a shutout by booting a 49-yard field goal in the opening 5'i minutes as Kansas State, 3-4 overall, fell to 0-3 in the conference. at. the, Colorado 23 and the next a yard from the goal.

Ferragamo passed five yards to Brad Jenkins for the touchdown made it 35-7, then Mike Coyle booted his fifth of nine extra points. O'Leary sailed a yard for the other tally. Asked about the Colorado fumbles, Nebraska middle guard John Lee said: "We were, going at them very hard and somebody was always hitting the ball and it was popping away. Our guys were coming up and really closing-" Jones Intercepts Colorado fumbles and outstanding field position for Nebraska continued as the third quarter started. A pass interference call on Ferragamo's toss to Thomas in -the end zone gave Nebraska a 32-yard penalty to the one and Anthony cracked over from there.

Then Chuck Jones- inter cepted a Williams pass and returned it 20 yards to the 10. Two plays later, Gary Higgs churned in for the score from the one and Osborne gave his No. 1 units a rest. Another Colorado fumble, this one 14 yards from its goal, gave Nebraska another chance. Gillespie threaded his way for the final Husker touchdown.

Colorado put together a 67-yard drive shortly after that, Williams reeling off a 48-yard gain and then scoring from the six. With replacements playing for both teams, Colorado then went 89 yards after Terry Luck fumbled at the Buffs' 11. Jim. Kelleh.er's 48-yard romp and Jeff Austin's 20-yard pass to' Steve Gaunty helped put the ball on the three and then Kelleher scored, Nebraska plays at Missouri next Saturday and Colorado meets Iowa State in Ames. yards with less than a minute gone.

"Somebody missed an assignment," said defensive end Rob Martin. Williams Home Free That was obvious for Williams was home free once he got past the line of scrimmage. Ferragamo got the matching touchdown five plays later. Anthony zipped for 15 yards to put the ball on the Colorado 42 on the fourth play and then Ferragamo connected with split end Bobby Thomas for the touchdown. Colorado couldn't move, punted and Ferragamo guided the Huskers 56 yards jn six plays for the go-ahead touchdown.

He threw to Thomas and John O'Leary to cover 42 yards and then O'Leary swept in from 10 yards out. Williams fumbled away the football on the First play after that and cornerback Dave Butterfield made the first of his two recoveries at the Colorado 21. Seven plays later, Nebraska owned a 21-7 lead, Anthony scoring from the two after gaining 21 yards in three previous rushes. Colorado probed to the Nebraska 31 early in the second period, but stalled there and Tom Mackenzie missed a '48-yard field goal attempt. Davis Scores Nebraska roared back, going 80 yards in 17 plays, the chief ingredients being a 25-yard romp by O'Leary and a 12-yarder by Tony Davis, who got the final yard for the score.

Nebraska, which had scored its three touchdowns in a 6:46 span in the first quarter, then beat that production scoring three in a 3:56 period. Fumbles led to the Huskers' next two touchdowns, the first guided the Huskers to' eight of their nine touchdowns before leaving with about 3:00 gone in the third quarter, said the offense truly had put it all together. "When your line's blocking and Wants to play and you've got good running backs, it's pretty hard to a game away from a team," he said. "After that first touchdown (by Colorado) I said to myself, it's going to be a long afternoon. But we hadn't touched the ball yet and I knew we had to stick it to them with a sustained drive.

"The key to a good passing game is to have a good running attack. My receivers knew how to beat a zone. If they know what to do, you can pick a zone apart." Ferragamo Sharp Ferragamo picked the zone apart with eight completions in 10 attempts and two touchdowns. Anthony led the first-unit rushers with 69 yards in 15 carries while No. 3 I-back Dave Gillespie romped for 106 yards in 22 carries.

Colorado, which entered the game owning the Big Eight's best offense (a 406-yard average) carved out 454 yards, but couldn't score after its early success until 8:44 remained in (he third quarter. The Buffs were missing tail back Tony Reed, who was left home with linebacker Gary Campbell for disciplinary reasons. Reed, who had averaged 81 yards, was charged with shoplifting in Boulder and Campbell was suspended after being involved in barroom Colorado Coach Bill Mallory said it didn't matter that the players were absent. 'Bottom Fell Out" "Good Lord, -when you get beat that bad, they wouldn't have made any difference," he said. "Let's face it, we just got our butts kicked.

Everything in. the world happened. The bottom just fell out. "That last half was long," he added. "Tom Osborne was a real gentleman about the game." Asked what Osborne said to him afterward, he replied: "He said he couldn't believe what happened and I said I couldn't I just told him we out-coached and out: played.

I just can't figure out what the hell happened. I was wondering if I was having a nightmare or something." Colorado shocked the Big Red fans before the momentum changed when quarterback David Williams 'streaked 74 is 4, twit' ittAX'sKi. nidentiHed Nebraska fan stands to vote of ap- team is taking-against Colorado. "Voting FDTfpOR WORKING Sure, cure for OJfiet r3 IHlli REpi7iMe THEY'RE MADE I WJ. FOR THE WAY YOU WALK! WIDTHS: A-EEE SIZES: 6-15 IN SOME WIDTHS p-rm ONE OF proval to A KIND I action her OKLA.

STATE HITS KANSAS Statistics Okie. State 23 69-339 56 0 5-1 1 0 1 52 8-3 Kansas Plrst downs" -Rushes-yards Passinq yards Return yards Passes' Punts Fumbles-lost -Penalties-yards 15 60-237 60 49 5-111 4-35 1-0 8 60 1-5 SCORING) Okla. State 7 14 7 735 Kansas 7 0 0 12-19 OS Turner 1 run (irions kick) KAN Cromwell 1 run (Kerbel kick) OS Burk 8 run (Irions kick) Burk 7 run (Irions kick) Turner 2 run (Irions kick) KAN Camplield 12 pass from Cromwell (kick failed) KAN Sharp 7 run (pass tailed) OS Miller 3 run (Irions kick) A 44,860 LAWRENCE, KAN. (AP) -Scott Burk and Robert Turner each ran for two touchdowns to send Oklahoma State to a surprisingly easy 35-19 Big Eight victory Saturday over Kansas. Burk, who started the season as the Cowboys' No.

3 quarterback, romped eight yards early in the second quarter to put Oklahoma State ahead for good and added his other touchdown on a seven-yard run in the third period. Turner rammed one yard for the Cowboys' first touchdown early in the first period. Turner scored his second touchdown late in the third quarter with a two-yard burst. Terry Miller completed the Oklahoma State scoring with a three-yard run with 9 seconds remaining. Kansas managed to tie the score at 7-7 with an 18-play, 80-yard drive immediately after Oklahoma State's initial touchdown on Nolan Cromwell's one-yard plunge.

However, the Jayhawks couldn't score again until they were already out of it at 28-7. West Ham wins LONDON, ENGLAND (AP) West Ham toppled English Soccer League leader Manchester United, 2-1, Saturday. Sub leads Missouri's 35-3 surge Statistics Kan. State Missouri 23 66-318 78 57 8-13-0 5-38 3-2 8-73 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards 39-92 76 9 8-21-1 7-42 2-2 3-24 SCORING Kan. State Missouri 10 0 7 14 14 0- 0-35 KS-FG Sinovic 49 MO Brown 6 run (Gibbons kick) MO Douglass 10 pass from Pisar-kiewicz (Gibbons kick) MO Lewis 51 punt return (Gibbons kick) MO Pisarkiewicz 3 run (Gibbons kick) MO Brown 27 run (Gibbons kick) COLUMBIA, MO.

(AP) -Junior college transfer Curt Brown took advantage of his first starting assignment and galloped for two touchdowns, sparking fifteenth-ranked Missouri to a 35-3 rout of Kansas State in Big Eight Conference action Saturday. Brown, a transfer from Fort Scott Junior College in Kansas filling in for injured Tiger tailback Tony Galbreath, flashed six yards in the opening period to cap an 82-yard Missouri drive after Kansas State took a 3-0 lead. Sets Up Touchdown In the third quarter, after his third-down runs helped set up Missouri's second touchdown, Brown rambled 27 yards for his second score. Quarterback Steve, Pisarkiewicz, after a slow start, delivered a 10-yard pass to tight end Charley Douglass for Missouri's second touchdown late in the second period. Just 44 seconds freshman Leo Lewis gathered in a punt at his own 49, and Bald or Thinning? Why hav a head of heir when you can have a full, natural head of hair again.

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