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The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa • 33

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n- i his Moivrs M'MHY Prosit ft 5S SB Busker husukC hcjN flfcfcft iJ 711 Larry Wachholtz of Nebraska takes lane set up by blockers and bolts past Iowa State tackier as he nullifies 42-yard punt tyfe-'S S'tfH siiA rc iJfcZ? fferd f'riK Uv'- MX-' -r, f.l'.tl CHOtO Br CV! Ml Mil. by Cyclones Steve Balkovec, who grabs jersey and needs help from Willie Robinson to force Wachholtz out near goal. 2 Husker Scores 23 Seconds! I KENNEDY IN US y5v JS'jl s. bounds four yards shy of the covered it In the air. Hut the 55 yards rushing (that was goal lino.

sophomore retreated more than the tram'i net of CYCLONES- Continued from Page One The Cyclones dug in once into the end zone and was nailed 4t), hohhled the ball away to deemed himself lalrr by hitting seven of 1.1 for 95 yards. The nwd Huskcrs, sweeping to their third straight victory, had four runners who picked up pregnable, forcing five Iowa more and tossed Nebraska back for a safety. Nebraska's Ivan Zimmrr on State fumbles, one pass inter- ,0 the seven on two running The third quarter turned the Cyclone 26. ception and permitting a net Duda Ihfn connected on a into a n.ghtmare for The fornhuskcrs didn't cash between 4fi and r9 yards. Little gain of just 74 yards.

Only once t0 I mn that opportunity, reaching 15 pound Solid, gained 4fi Wn- and Wilson the seven before surrendering t-rs 50, Tatnum t-2 could the Cyclones put together, wachholtz, wno had misscd a ACDrasKa took me second hall the ball on downs. iwo consecutive nrsi aowns. i22.vflrrf fiPIH mat trv follnwinn uj Iowa Slate, now 21 for the Iowa State, which never fumb- adcJe'd lne con, Iowa State quarterback Tim played before a crowd of this and was 7,0 wifh I nt0" Van Galdcr. who completed only yards to S(af Tim Wilson con- i. season after this demoralizing setback, goes to Kansas next o.v, ii's minutes to go in lne nan.

-I 1 1 I- .1.. .4 I I tackle and Duda darted tl)e final Saturday. entertains auuut everyuiing uiai nappeiiai Next time the Huskers got four yards. intercented bv Wisconsin, in after a scoreless first quarter. inings went irom Dad to AI a non-conference game, worse for Iowa State after that.

AcDrasKa hum- NEBrsk a-m Just 23 seconds later Nebraska Winters Again l. E. Jew, Casey. Hauu. Grc, had another touchdown because( That ive ba Nc.

Brich.cek. co. mc the Cyclones' Willie Robinson' i Murphy, sfron- fumbled the next kickoff and braska 00 Iowa stirn. Bill Johnson recovered for the Winters again led the 10-play the ball, fullback Pete Tat-man burst off right tackle and rambled 47 yards to the Iowa State 18, where Cyclone end Dennis Esselmann made a touchdown-saving tackle. But Nebraska bustled it Nebraska poured across 37 points in the second and third periods and turned the rout over to reserves for the final quarter, building a 44-point total that matched Iowa State's worst previous loss of the past nine years a 44-0 defeat at Oklahoma in 1956.

across in three running plavs. Frank Solich sprinted 13 yards ,0 storing from llie lwo- In (ha fr.n on1 Iln.r Dlltl.T then firprf A 57varH Vri I "ilrm -ii: M. Kirk land, Biunck, WachholtJ. 1 iianj iiiiuii Morf 0n Oddly, Iowa Stale's most punched through left guard for touchdown pass to rangy end outstanding in Nebraska's bril- 1 ettective weapon-tne ternlic the score. rreeman unite anu it was jo-o d(rcnsive ffo state punting of Steve Balkovec-, A motion penalty nullified with not even five minutes gone "tensive emn.

ery iiuk i backfired on the Cyclones early Wachholtz's conversion kick but 'mlhc last half. ground was gained in his tcr- i Evans, lurk in the second quarter and, he made it again from five The Cyclones, who managed rifory and he also pounced on' started Nebraska off to its 16-0 yards farther back. only six scrimmage plays dur-one of the five Iowa State Femkemi, Kennedy, halftime lead. The Cornhuskers, ranked third tag the third period, soon had to! fumblcs. ze rt.

After surviving two first-; in the country as they start mit'Punt again. time Nebraska period fumbles by Tony Baker: quest of a third straight Big ove 73 yards in 11 plays with nL I EiX Conference rhamnionSl Charles Winters, a 217-pound was Balkovec punt- LATE SCORE WINS Tim Van Galder gains 5 of 44 Cyclone yards. CYCLONES MISMATCHED WITH NEBRASKA Stapleton Says: 'Outclassed7 marched from their own four io sophomore tank at a.cm.or lrom umaV BLACKSBURG. VA. (AP) Individual Statistics ai-- ii i Dlowinu across from the two.

"a- D(Klea nine imcs- once lor Quarterback Bobby Owens RUSHING and was out for the season, inside the 10 instead of picking Nirsk. Atf. a. i 2 -6 Van GaldM 4 -I'1 after the As if the 37-0 score wasn't bad 64 yards- score was 14-0. guided Virginia Tech 80 yards in the final Iwo minutes of play marched the Huskers to their it up.

Kirkland 1 4 Webster 14 With only 21 seconds to go enough, Iowa State proceeded to Wilson Busch Solich 12 4 Robinson 1 Dcda 1 Kinq 4 Brunk 4 3 Baker 17 until intermission Tnnv iumDIe a kickolt one more. Duda's passing accounted for 112 yards on eight completions in 15 tries. Churchich, By Jim Moackler (Sunday Register Staff Writer) I INCOLN, NEB. Iowa State was strictly out of its class against Nebraska Saturday, the Big Eight Conference game being a mismatch, in the words Saturday for a touchdown and a 9-7 victory over William and Mary. "3 fumbled Dudas' pass near the; Webster, hard-running goalline and Esselmann re-! Omaha sophomore who gained first touchdown.

Again" 'Good Job' I it was just yng there "I didn't have any more and I thought I could just scoop incentive than for any other i it up. Then somebody hit me game," said Duda. "I don't from the back before I got a fiir off the marker early, re- Gregory 5 74 Tatman A t7 Winter 10 50 Webber 5 Haascn 5 18 Morrison 2 3 Korley 2 1 1 PASSING of Coach Clay Stapleton of the (hint ninfina tcr if gOOU HOld and It Was gone fowl State Alt. Comp. Int.

Yds. Picture Cyclones. just wanted to play. I hadn't "In the first quarter we looked li r-l van oaioer i i again, Baker Said. I Nebraska Att.

Comp. Int. Yds. Les Webster, who fumbled fetSf' I 8 PASS RECEIVING played too much in the first two like we might be a football team twice, saia mai ne was mi Neb no. Yds.

iowa state no. Yds games. I got in this one early 66 Kino but Nebraska was just out of our class," said Stapleton after Richnafsky Kirkland Solich White Jeter Gregory Brunk 15 Barney 17 Busch 52 12 31' 14 the 44-0 loss to the Big Eight hard by Huskers on one of the bobbles and that the other time he didn't have control of the football. Sophomore Dennis Esselmann, who showed well at de- fane lira anrl of firman J-J 4Unt and I just wanted to do a good job." He replaced Bob Churchich, who had taken over the helm against the Cyclones a year ago. Churchich wasn't hitting his targets and appeared to be a little shaky.

Coach Bob Devaney said that at his eight-yard line and Leslie Webster at midfield, Iowa State Conference champions. Too Long Asked if he saw hope after the way the Cyclone defense repulsed the first Nebraska threat, Stapleton said: "I've been in this business too w6 at times, sam uiai ju i after Nebraska got a few as i i -i ii vwica uamuvn. went uaun. iu breaks, "our spirit went down. kick out of danger on third Duda's performance doesn't "Nebraska was bigger and down.

BO 1. iUinIr ll.nl nmilrl urliin! lung to uuim uict wc give mm me io. i harder than the other i Steve who averaged 46 yards Tclonw' in the gloomy jDX Sdthfle he frac tCamS WC'Ve pla'ed'" he aW I his bmed t0 Ne" Jfinannm8' hLiisLh thpir I nmH llrwt hoi Esselmann was credited with'braska's Larry Wachholtz at the don't think about it." mistakes and Nebraska's power, PCW rfrS" JtJUi, 50 and he promptly tore free on a 4fi-yard return before Willie Robinson bounced him out of Ron Halda, Cyclone linebacker, said: "I can't believe it. They're not that good and we're a fumble recovery on a Nebraska pass play but said he thought it was an interception. The Huskers collected a safety on the play.

"I though I was in the end not that bad. It's just a lot of FLORIDA JARS L. S. 14-7 zone when I caught it but I guess I wasn't," he said. GAINESVILLE, FLA.

(AP) Defensive end Ernie Kennedy said that the Iowa State defen "I think Duda surprised them as much as he did us. He just couldn't do anything wrong after that first touchdown throw," said Tim Van Galder, the Iowa State quarterback. "We just couldn't get any momentum. We came here intending to throw and the whole first half we threw only three times," he said. "We couldn't get field position.

It wasn't their rush so much as the field position. You can't throw on your own four or 10." sive unit just didn't have the mistakes." Halda displayed a cut on the lip he said he suffered when he tried to tackle Frank Solich on the first play of the game. But Frankie didn't have the football. "I could have sworn he had it. He can really fake you into believing it and I tackled him." (The play was a 15-yard pass play).

If there was one individual! Steve Spurrier fired Florida back into the Southeastern Conference football race Saturday with deadly passing that carried the Gators to a 14-7 upset of Louisiana State. Louisiana State never led as resistance to stop Nebraska second scoring threat. "We had a letdown and then we got tired," he said. "They kept running in fresh people against us." Spurrier, junior quarterback, tossed a 22-yard touchdown He said he thought that the strike to open the scoring. He who seemed more responsible than any other for the rise of Five fumbles lost hurt the defense "kind of counted on also hit passes of 28, 14, 16 and the third-ranked Cornhuskers cyclones migntily.

Churchich throwing but when' nine yards in an 86-yard scoring and the fall of the Cyclones it How do you coach them not Duda came in it gave us; drive in the third period to fumble?" Stapleton inquired, The Gators, rebounding after was Fred Duda, the Nebraska breaking into a slight smile. Tony Baker, whose fumble gave Nebraska its first serious quarterback who was playing second string going into the game. another man to worry about running." Devaney was happy that his team "finally played four full quarters of football. Everybody played a very good game." being upset in their conference opener last week by Mississippi State, turned back three L. S.

U. thrusts in the fourth quarter to preserve the triumph. DUDA'S REVENGK Fred Duda, then No. 1 Nebraska quarterback, broko his leg against Iowa State a year ago at Ames. But Saturday at Lincoln he gained a measure of revenge and possibly his starting job back with two scoring passes and one touchdown run.

Duda flips here to Dennis Richnafsky for Nebraska's first touchdown after Huskers had faltered with Bob Churchich at quarterback. threat, said he thought momen- Duda, who suffered a broken leg against Iowa State last year Warily about falling on the ball.

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