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The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa • 35

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nnhau flegi CwnnM. it. ri wm liiiiKr n4 Trikun Pes Moines, Iowa, Sunday Morning, Xnvcm.KM 1, Last-Quarter Rally Erases 14-0 Deficit for 14-14 Tie, Then Long Field Goal Fails V) $le Pomes' mm Ink QyuuiyiJLi POUND MAN GOPHER LK FOR 369 YDS. Mitchell, Sullivan Lead Barrage Sliitislics Ptl.h I'l V-" "Mr i'Atnv Tim' YArri nn.il...r i 41 0 low II II I 0-M Mum kMutfilr 10 imv linm IMtry KUii k.c Mtnn. fiiTV I urn (( if Ioa Stillivdn I rim I Mriiivlf k'lli) tnw.i Sullivan 2 run V.iNrndi" diilil A 3 I i By Maury While i (Sunday Reqislir SMI! Wrilpr) 4 JLJINNKAP0I.1S.

MINN. A pair of boblnilcd birds rushed great dislanres over 4 i 1 -5 Stadium's artificial turf Saturday afternoon without 'being able to get off the ground except in very leaps. One was a dipped pheasuil, set loose by one nl Hir drenched US speetatois in attendance as underdog low; tied Minnesota. 14-14. The pheas- ant ran 83 yards before being recaptured in the first quarter.

The other was a Hawk, a brand of football player who 'hasn't been able to advance a football by much of any method in recent weeks, bid this time rammed 3(i!) net rushing yards 1 1 4. 8-Man Line This tremendous output of XL 1 rushing was done despite running into eight-man fronts as the Gophers virtually ignored an Iowa aerial threat that connected only three limes in 12 fries for 33 yards. "Damn, if we could only pass a little belter," sighed Coach Ray Nagcl shortly alter the annual battle for Floyd ol Rose-dale had ended, slamming the 'V 4 SUNDAY REGISTER PHOTO BY LARRY NEIBERGALL J()WA ricasc tvm to Parte. Five Jock Johnson looks like high diver as he vaults for vital first down on Iowa State's second scoring march I Leads by 21-0, Then Sprawls Before Oklahoma, 29-28 mmJ 3 IB 1 LlJUj t4 JV when we had to play almost! toward Oklahoma when Iowa Statistics By Buck Turnbull (Suntfsy Register Stuff Wrltsr) speedster Joe Wylie on a run around right end for the touch Okla. luwa S't perfect football to win.

It's no Male gave Hie their in hitting Albert Chandler on a 33-yarder to Iowa Stale's 15. Season Records down from fivt yards out. Then MES, 1A. Iowa Stale and longer that way now we re Dean Carlson hook up with Otto Sfowe on a 70-yard scoring pass play that produced pandemonium in an Iowa State homecoming crowd of 27,000. A nrsi points on a saiety in tne second quarter.

a wild 29-28 victory with 2l.n minutes left. Iowa Slate, suffering its fourth Rig Eight defeat of the year and eighth in a row over two seasons, had stunned the Mildren pitched to Greg Pruitt Oklahoma took turns shock First downs Rushing V4rrlfln Passing v'dage Return yardage Passes Punts Fumbles Insf Yards penalized 12 64 11-25-4 4,1. 0 60 down to beine just inches awav. in no 7-7 35 3 ISO going the other way to collect "Today we played upNo our Kalph Baracz went back to full capabilities and this was Punt with third down and 21 ing each other here Saturday in a football thriller the likes of which you seldom see. I IOWA STATE 1l'32 New Mexico 3 7' 37 Colorado SI.

i 2316 Utah 13 41 '10 Colorado 61 ISO Kansas State 17 19 10 Kansas 24 28 28 Oklahoma 29 SCORING i Oklahoma 0 9 Iowa State 21 0 I IS Palmer 38 pass from 1429 0 728 Carlson Sooners by scoring the first OKLAHOMA 1 29 So Methodist 21 Wisconsin I 14 Oregon St. 9 Texas 23 Colorado 14 Kansas St. i 29 Iowa St. N.7 Missouri(H) i N.14 Kansas N.21 Nebraska I (Shoemake kick) our best effort so far. Every yardsjo go on his 10, but he time we had scoring opportu- was rushed so hard by burly nities, we went in, and that's Oklahoma end Rick Mason that the first time we've done that, he had no chance to get the three times it had the ball for a the vital two points.

"We're the best losing football team in America but that's no consolation to us," said dejected Cyclone Coach Johnny Majors. "Best Effort" "We've had to overcome so much in the last two years iMeorasixatrij N.14 Missouri N.21 Okla. St. N.28 Diego SI(N) Just minutes remained when little Reggie Shoemake booted the point that made the score 28-21. Then the Sooners clicked on a key third-down reverse pass, split end Willie Franklin "This game was won and lost about six times by both teams," said Coach Chuck Fairbanks after his Sooners had rallied for a touchdown and N.28 Okla.

kick away. Mason tackled him lb Carlson 4 run (bnoemake Kick) IS Carlson 1 run (Shoemake Kick) Mason tackled Baracz for saletv Wlie run (Derr kick) Franklin 75 pass from Mildren (kick failed) Wvlie 9 run (kick failed) IS Stowe 70 pass from Carlson (Shoe-make kick) Wylie run (Pruitt run) Attendance 27,000. 21-0 lead. Big riay Oklahoma came back to gain a 21-21 tie, only to see Cyclone in three years." Majors said he felt the momentum began to swing CYCLONES- Please turn to Page Six Three plays later, quarterback Jack Mildren pitched to two-point conversion to pull out Ohio State Bow Irate Wins lips 0 Wins, 24-10 fl3 Slalislics Statistics throw out and after they get AbiienR Drake you loosened up they run that Nebraska Colorado 19 1st 7i anged draw play." Brownson's Role Vital, 29-13 By Ron Maly (Sunday Register Staff Writer) Tirsl downs Rushi yardiae Passing yardage Reiurn yardage Passes Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalized OF ALL SPORTS First downs Rushinq vardao Passing vardaoe Return yardaae i Passes Punts Fumble lost Yaros penalized Big Fullback 297 JO 56 5 18 2 35 2 33 1S3 13 1 11-19-2 6-36 1 29 50 62 27-57-3 11 32-4 2 1 165 41 eral times," said Bob Devaney, the Nebraska miracle worker who is the winningcsl coach in the nation. Scouts from the Orange Cotton, Sugar and Sun Bowls watched the Huskers move their over-all record to 7-0-1 and their Big Eight mark to 4-0 against a foe that closed the It was the "draw" which I 1 ii i i BOULDER, COLO.

Fashion nlU trr.n ol scoring jiieipcu speu uie ouuaogs aoom oJ-aki. I S'Jz" as 220-pound fullback Jim Leej a-j. wMiVamV'i rim'ikennv i Williams broke loose for scor-! Football GREATER DES MOINES Abilene Christian 33, Drake 13 Di-s Moines Vikings 43, Tvtin-Cities (III 0 Hoover 18, Eat 6 BIG TEN Iowa 14, Minnesota VGpass from Redmond IalIoPS 16 39 yards, (kick blocked) Tho firct amo flio inlficl A-Haibia. 16 oas (rnm I inrt.ev (kirk I 1 mofc nil, lllllloi HI 31 trJIIIC STOKY: PAGE 3S TIM SULLIVAN DOWNHEARTED STORY: PAGE IS ISU Safety Backfires STORY: PAGK 7S LEAFS LASH FLAGS, 5-1 i STORY: PAGE 8S riaic Tail Uiuniiwn ai- ready wearing his pink-and-blue striped shirt, polka-dot tie, flared slacks and two-tone shoes Saturday when someone icame around with a large quantity of gauze. A-KVnnedv -o fg I Abilene had the football A J.

L. Williams. 39 run (Kennedy'on a 402 Air Yards In 33-13 Show By Chuck Burdick Jack Wallace trudged up the stadium stairs for his post-game radio show Saturday and his first words pretty well summed up the day. "That's sure a long walk after you get beat. 33-13.

at homecoming," said Wallace, barely managing a smile. "But Abilene Christian was the best football team we've played in years. They do a lot of things well. i don't think we played well, but it was more a rase 1 of them jnst slicking it to ns." And stick it to (he Bulldogs, gloomy overcast day be- i D-McPhcrson 1 run (Chase kick 1 A Wallace ifi from 1 inriw i fore a crowdNrf 13.500. The sec- i cemented the victory early: In the final period.

i SCORING i Nebraska 7. 12 0 3 1429 Colorado 0 7 0 613 Neb Inqles 35 pass from Brownson (kick failed) Neb Inoles 39 pass from Brownson (pass failed) Col Branch 7 run (Haney kick) Neb FG Rogers 40 Col Braten 5 run (run failed) Neb Brownson I run (Rogers kick) Neb Kinney 7 run (Rogers kicP of old sore spots but passed for touchdowns and scored onei himself as the fourth-ranked Cornhuskers held off Colorado, 23-13, before a record crowd of 50.8SI in a crucial Big Eight Conference football came. "We could have lot it sev In between, it was just (on "We got fident." the back from said as he elbow being a little too con-Nebraska quarter-Shenandoah, watched his right wrapped. score to 15-13 with 11 minutes 22 seconds left in the game. "We could have thrown in I the towel," said Devaney, "but we were able to come back with a fine defensive effort on Colorado's try for the two-point conversion and then we jammed the ball down their throat twice." "I didn't Hunk it was one of NEBRASKA Please turn tn Page Seven Abilene Christian did.

The statistics were more one-sided than the score as record-setting Jim Lindsey threw for 402 of the Wildcats' 553 yards total much Lindsey and not enough I Bulldog offense. I Lindsey went into the game 1 1. ii i. n- i Illinois 23. Purdue 21 Michigan 29, VMtonsin 15 Siat? 32, Indiana 7 CHio Stale 24.

10 BIG EIGHT Stat" 17. Missouri 13 21, Coicv-ari, 13 Oklahoma 21 0a State OUanoma IT Kansa-. IOWA COHERENCE Ontral 40, PiiSiique 7 Please turn to Paqe f'gH Colorado rome "We let hwk. and offense while Drake managed! rnV jusj Jj)7 tional Collegiate small college just I hope it never us agaii." banged up a couple happens to Brown "-on "They're so hard to defense," added Wallace. "They throw in, DRAKE Please turn to Page Ten I.

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