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Prevails Sooners 35 ver Cornhuskers Shuf Off Sooners' Greg Pruitt, Exfend Streak to 29 Alabama Win May Set State For Title Clash By ALEX SACHARE Associated Press Sports Writer Will there be a national college football championship game on New Year's Day? If so, it will take place in homa has a fine; ground game but ours was certainly great today." "We beat them physically the second half," said quarterback Jerry Tagge. "One play, a power play off tackle, was going very well. When they lined up strong to one side, we just ran it to the other side. I called quite a few audibles." The nation's 1-2 teams took turns thrilling a sellout crowd of 61,826 and a national audence. Nebraska's Johnny Rodgers zipped 72 yards on a punt return with only 3 minutes gone and, following a 30-yard field goal by Oklahoma's John Carroll, the Cornhuskers took a 14-3 lead early in the second quarter on the first of Kinney's four short touchdown plunges.

That's when Oklahoma M.uevaney, called it "as tine a when Nebraska and Abbama job of carrying the footbaU as clash in the Orange Bowl. ive ever Nebraska maintained its posi-! tion on top of the hea by de-1 Both quarterbacks, Jerry feating second-ranked Okla- Tagge of Nebraska and Jack homa 35-31 Thursday. Fullback Mildren of Oklahoma, dis-Jeff Kinney, who scored four tinguished themselves. Tagge touchdowns for the Corn-; maintained his poise throughout huskers, climaxed a 74-yard, the game, coolly leading his Header on the left when he plays his left cornerback spot, switches to the more elaborate facemask when playing safety. Minnesota Vikings' Charlie West holds the two helmets he uses depending on the position he plays with the National Football Conference division leaders.

West used the helmet Topple Mystics march in the closing moments of the fourth quarter with a two-yard touchdown plunge to give unbeaten Nebraska its 11th victory of the season. Alabama, 10-0 and ranked third, could move up a notch Saturday. But the Crimson Tide has to get past fifth-ranked Auburn, and its Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Pat Sullivan, in their battle at Birmingham, Ala. In Thursday's other big games, No. 12 Texas 8-2, clinched the Southwest Con-erence champioaship and a berth in the Cotton Bowl against Penn State by scoring four first half touchdowns and going on to defeat Texas 34-14.

Mississippi. 9-2, ranked 18th and head for the Peach Bowl against Georgia Tech, exploded for six touchdowns the sec ond period three of them scored on runs by tailback Gregg Ainsworth and whipped Mississippi State 48-0. In Thursday night's top game, seventh-ranked Georgia, 10-1, came from behind to defeat Georgia Tech 28-24. Georgia's sophomore quarterback, Andy Johnson, led his team on a 65-yard scoring drive in the final 1:2, Jimmy Poulos scoring the winning touchdown from one yard out with 14 sec onds left on the clock But the bieeest came of the day was played in Norman, Okla. The Sooners' vaunted Wishbone-T proved it could move the ball against the Nebraska defense which had been rated first in the nation but Nebraska showed that its Agency guard Al Lick bombed the Mystics from the outside to close with 26.

BJC will return to action in search of its first win against Jamestown College Friday in the opening round of the Bismarck Classic cage tourney. The Mystics and Jimmies will clash in the 7 p.m. opener, with Mary College and South Dakota Tech lock-, ing horns in the 9 p.m. game. Saturday night the losers will battle for consolation honors at 7, with the championship game following at 9.

The tourney will be staged at the Bismarck Armory. By HERSCIIEL NISSENSON Associated Press Sports Writer NORMAN. Okla. (AP) Nebraska beat Oklahoma at its own game. Not only did the Cornhuskers defuse Oklahoma's volatile Wishbone attack, but they out-rushed the nation's best rushing team 297 yards to 279, and they did it on five fewer carries.

That was the story of Thursday's see-saw showdown, which wound up with top-ranked Nebraska's defending national champions turning back runner-up Oklahoma 35-31 on Jeff Kinney's fourth, touchdown of the game, a two-yard thrust off left tackle with 1:38 left to play, capping a 74-yard, 5-minute drive. Nebraska's top rated defense, although it was stretched for 467 yards by the nation's most offensive-minded team, never snanDed. and. in fact, took away the fuse that ignites the Sooner attack the end sweeps by, speedy Greg Pruitt. Meanwhile, the Nebraska of fense discovered the Oklahoma defenders were vulnerable to a power play off tackle and the Cornhuskers sent Kinney smashing for 154 yards in the second halt.

"The onlv thing they took away from our defense was that we didn't break any 70-yarders," said quarterback Jack Mildren, Oklahoma's star performer with 30 carries for 130 yards and two touchdowns and five of 10 passes for 137 yards and two more scores. "Thev kept us from going wide with Pruitt." "They just weren't giving us the pitchout," said Pruitt, who gained 53 yards on 10 carries, only twice running the feared pitchout-sweep that made him the most explosive running back in the country. In effect, the only thing Nebraska took away from Oklahoma's offense was the spark plug. It was enough. Nebraska's defensive ends, Willie Harper and John Adkins, played wide to shut off Oklahoma's pitchouts.

"We knew they had to," said Coach Bob Devaney. "They were turning the play back into our other people. The way the defensive ends played the pitch-out we copied from Missouri, which defensed Oklahoma very well. We also copied some things that Southern Cal did well against them. We looked at eight or nine different game films and tried to incorporate the best of them.

"But we were very cautious to get our defensive ends wide enough. You might not have no ticed them as the ones doing tne jod, but they were. I talked to John McKay of Southern Cal and he said their defensive ends probably underestimated Oklahoma's speed. So we plaved it wider." The Cornhusker offense, which had planned to run wide but managed onlv 67 yards in the first half, took the fight directly to Oklahoma after trailing. 17-14 at the half.

"In the first half, we kind of had to figure out where we could move the ball," explained Devanev. "In the second half, we decided to go right at them. We found we ciu'd move the ball on the ground and we relied a little more on our ground game in the second half. Okla- Dallas Win Puts West Into 3-Way Scramble nothing to Kinney, who carried the ball 22 times for 154 yards in the second half, scored on touchdown runs of one, three, one and two yards. His coach, Bob I team down the field in the final period, come-from-behind drive.

Mildren was the heart of the Oklahoma attack, com pleting six of 11 passes for 188 yards and two touchdowns and running the Sooner offense for 279 yards on the ground, run- nmg for two touchdowns and over 100 yards himself. The victory, Nebraska's 21st in succession, extended its string of games without defeat to 30. The Cornhuskers travel to Hawaii for their final game of the regular season next Saturday, then prepare for their Orange Bowl date against Bear Bryant's Alabama squad, led by running back Johnny Musso. The Alabama-Auburn clash is the highlight of Saturday's program. Alabama, with Musso Sheading a flock of outstanding running backs, likes to stick to the ground, while Auburn, with one of the nation's top passing combinations in Sullivan and Terry Beasley, takes to the air more often.

Also on Saturday's schedule is the traditional inter-scrvice battle between Army and Navy in. Philadelphia. Both the Army-Navy game, at 1 p.m. (EST), and the Alabama-Auburn clash, at 4 p.m. (EST), will be nationally televised by ABC.

In other traditional rivalries Saturday, Arizona is at No. 9 Arizona State, Tulane plays at No. 10 Louisiana State, Van- derbilt visits No. 11 Tennessee 'and Florida plays at Miami In other major games, Utah visits No. 15 Houston, Iowa State journeys to San Diego State and Morgan State plays at Rutgers.

and Baltimore at Oakland. On Monday night, Chicago visits Miami. "I feel sore but happy," Cowboys quarterback Roger Stau-bach said after scrambling for 33 yards and passing for 176 more. "We won it and it was a win. wasn't anxious to run a lot, though," he said.

"I wasn't looking for any holes to run through." His 11-yard fourth- quarter scamper set up Duane Thomas' game-winning five- yard touchdown run. Staubach also rifled touch down passes of 51 yards to Bob Hayes and 21 to Lance Alworth and Isaac Thomas steamed 89 yards with a kickoff return for the Cowboys' other scores. Roman Gabriel, the Rams' quarterback who struck for touchdown passes of 33 yards to Bob Klein and two yards to Pat Curran, passed 234 yards but suffered an injury. "It's my normal artificial turf knee," he sighed. "I'm three-for-three on it two hurt knees and a concussion." The Rams held a 14-7 lead heading toward halftime but, do-fuse that type attack.

Baltimore did just that in last year's Are championship. Miami 31, Chicago 20 There doen't seem to be any stopping the Dolphins with the best record in the NFL, a seven-game winning streak and all tliose weapons Bob Griese, Paul Warfield, Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick. Monday night TV. ABC, 9 p.m., EST. Minnesota 14, Atlanta 10 Former Minnesota Coach Norm Van Bmeklin returns to the land of the frigid north with his Falcons and the NFC Central leading Vikings should be ready for a cool reception with their awesome defense.

Washington 24, Philadelphia 21-The Redskins' Ovcr-The-Kill Gang is 1-3-1 in last five games and Eagles' Beardless Wonders are 3-1-1. Washington looking for NFC East tide, needs the victory more. San Francisco' 27, New York Jets 24 Assuming John Brodie stays mostly on the ground willi NFC Wi-sl c'nteildiim offense was ashamed of. of 6 17 for with the on ARMAN Limke Breuer Klrchoffnr Lick Lips Evanson Leifur Wendt Kram AGENCY B)C fg ft tp 8 3-7 19 Condo 4 3-3 11 Bratlien 6 5-7 17 Dlhle 10 26 Trydahl (9 ft II 7-14 29 4 33 11 9 2-3 20 6 3-6 15 3 7-9 13 Sander 0 0-0 0 Stoy DM 0 Peel 0 0-0 0 2 0-1 4 33 24-32 90 Totals 2 0-1 4 1 0 -0 2 2 0-0 4 Totad J5 15-27 85 Dkkinscn Central Names Mew Coach For Track and Field DICKINSON (AP) Larry Rafferty has been hired as the 1971 head track coach at Dickinson high school, Milo Dullum, athletic director of the Dickinson public school system announced Wednesday. Rafferty, a 1959 graduate of Dickinson State College, replaces last year's co-head coaches.

Willie Heinrich and Larry Bares who both resigned the post. Dullum also said that application for the Dickinson high football positinn, which was vacated by the resignation of Erv Kes-sel, are being accepted. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Friday, November 26, 1971 12 proved its own worth. Twice the Sooners battled back; from an 11-point deficit. This time they went 80 yards, with Mildren scoring on a three-yard keeper, and they exploded 78 yards in only four plays and 46 seconds just before halftime to nose ahead 17-14.

Behind for the First time in this 11-0 season, Nebraska wasn't about to be denied. Kinney capped drives of 53 and 62 yards with third-period touchdowns to make it 28-17. 'But again the Sooners tilted the roller coaster in their direction. Mildren scored on a two-yard run at the end of a 73-yard strike that featured a 51-yard bomb from Jon who grabbed Mildren's two touchdown passes, to Albert Chandler and Mildren lofted a 17-yarder to Harrison with 7:10 remaining. Threatened with having their 20-game winning streak and 29-game unbeaten skein broken, the Cornhuskers went 74 yards for the winner, with Kinney covering 50 yards on seven carries and Rodgers making a div ing catch of an 11-yard third-down Tagge pass at the.

Oklahoma 35. 1 "Nebraska is a true champion," said Oklahoma's Chuck Fairbanks. "They've gof a great football team, probably the most complete team I've ever seen. They can do so many things to win. "They can do everything.

They've got poise, they play offense, they play defense and they've got a superb kicking game. Other great teams; have been more dominant in one phase of the game than another." -r SPORTS SHORTS -MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) Will Carruthers, who has been general manager of the Texas Baseball League Memphis Blues for the past four years, has resigned from the club. Dr. Bernard Kraus, owner of the Blues, said Carruthers decided to quit in a contract dispute.

"Will asked for a contract that I could not agree to," said Kraus. Don't miss Tonight's Bosket-boll. Ploy-By-Play Action by Rog Higgins on KFYR-FM 92.9. BJC vs. Jamestown College, 7:00 P.M.

and Mary College vs. South Dakota Tech ot 9:00 P.M. D-20 Brave C-20 Brave Double continued to gnaw away at the deficit as the second half opened, finally gaining a 63-62 lead as the amateur quint turned the ball over seven times in the finit eight minutes. BJCs point-producing sophomore forward Rick Condo was the primary architect of the comeback effort, contributing 11 points to the BJC charge. Arman's regained control of the contest in tire waning minutes of the ballgame, but was unable to completely shake the Mystics who bounced back from deficits of 79-70 and 83-76 to make the score 85 83 at 17:39.

A free throw bv Dick Limke with 1:01 remaining snapped, an 80-second skein of scoreless, turnover-filled basketball to give Arman's some breathing room at 86-83. Condo's fielder with 30 seconds to play reduced the All Sports Pro Basketball NBA KnKtcrn ContrTfnre Atlnntlp nlililon W. L. Pet lioston 1.3 7 .650 Xovr York II (I .50 Philailnlphla 11 -1 Buffalo 12 AM Centrnl nivlxlnn Clnolntmtl 1 1 .412 IlHltlmore 8 40O Atlanta 5 13 .278 2 Cleveland 5 14 3 trn OtiifprpiMM-Mhlnent nivlxlnn Milwaukee 10 .1 .8114 rhicaeo in .752 1 I'll' troll. .474 Phodnix 8 11 .121 Pnrtfic IHvIkIoii Ixis Amrples 17 .850 Golden State 7 Sf-uttlc 111 7 Houston 5 17 .227 Portland 2 in .158 itrmton ins, rturmio mo Milwaukee 141.

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Carolina at CJrocnx horo NCAA Football Alburn Alabama 3:30 P.M. SATURDAY Cham pions Score 90-85 Victory mareur By STEVE THOMAS Tribune Sports Writer Bismarck Junior College wiped out a 23-point first half deficit before dropping a 90-85 decision to the Arman Agency Wednesday night at the Bismarck Civic Center. The tilt was BJCs regular season opener. Arman's, a 92-82 winner over the Minot State Jaycees Tuesday night, upped its record to 2-0. Arman Agency, with back-to-back runs of six, seven and eight points built a 28-12 lead midway through the first half.

A ten-point skein late in the session gave the Bismarck amateur quint a 46-23 bulge at the 15:34 mark. But the Mystics reeled off 17 points in the last four and one-half minutes of the period to cut the Arman Agency lead to 51-41 at the half, scoring the last 11 points of the session in the process. Bruce Meland's B.IC crew instead of increasing it, they blew it when a fake field goal backfired. "I've hit that play a million limes in practice," said holder Jerry Rhome, who overthrew a open receiver. On the next, play Staubach unleashed his scoring bomb to Hayes.

The Lions, clinging to hopes catching Minnesota in the NFC Central Division, moved within a game of the Vikings while dealing Kansas City a big setback as the thiols fell a lull game back of Oakland in the American Conference Wet But despite the loss, Chiefs Conch Hank Stram said: "We're still in good shape for the playoffs." Ed Podolak scored all three Kansas City touchdowns on runs of 2, 5 and yards. But the Chiefs couldn't down Lions quarterback Greg Landry, who passed for 225 yards, including touchdowns of five yards to Charlie Sanders and 17 to Earl McCulloucli. Steve Owens, who led all rushers with 79 yards, also bulled over from one yard out for a score and Errol Mann booted three field goals. 49ers and Joe Namalh stays mostly on the sidelines. Jets' defenses confusing passers.

Pittsburgh 34, Denver 14 Terry Bradshnw getting better every week: Broncos getting weaker every week. Cleveland 23, Houston 14--I-C-roy Kelly gallops through Oilers for another IPO-yard day as Browns remain in AFC Central race with Sleelers. Green Bay 21, New Orleans John Brockingtnn will do the Packers against the Saints what Kelly does for the Browns. New York Giants 28. St.

Louis 17 Fran Tarkenton passing extremely well. Cardinals playing poorlv. Cincinnati 28, San Diego 24--Bengals playing effectively since Virgil Carter's return. Chargers may be scrambled Sid Gillman's resignation. Buffalo 33, New England 30-The Patriots just squeezed by last time they met, but it's Buffalo's home grounds this time, Arman Agency edge to one point, but Evan Lips' pass interception and clutch free throw shooting by Al Breuer and Limke in bonus situations gave the winners their final 90-85 margin.

Dismal free throw shooting proved especially costly to the Mystics in the game, the collegians finishing with a 35-33 edge in field goals. At the line Arman's converted 24 of 33, while BJC sputtered to a 15-27 showing. Despite their free throw miseries the losers outshot their rivals from the field, meshing shots at a 49 per cent pace to 47 per cent for the winners. BJC, spearheaded by center Don Dihle, took a 43-34 rebounding advantage and committed 17 turnovers to 16 for the defending state amateur champs. Condo netted 29 points to top all scorers, while Arman Scoreboar Snturdny4 Games Florldians at Pittsburgh Indiana vs.

Carolina at Charlotte Memphis at Denver Dallas vs. Virginia at Norfolk Utah at Kentucky Sumlny's Gnmex Kentucky at New York Dallas at Florldians Only frames scheduled Pro Football COXFF.UE'VTrc KiiNlern Division Pet. ftn OP Miami 1 1 .889 2S8 117 Haiti. 7 221 102 Knff. 4 li 0 .400 157 255 NY Jets 4 fi 0 .400 133 20 Huff.

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Iuis h. Anff, 4 4 5 13 7 10. 7 12 12 5 18 2 IS BO US 4 18 47 3 17 73 3 15 70 1 11 46 91 Bv BRUCE LOWITT Associated Press Sports Writer The Dallas Cowboys have tightened their grasp on the National Conference East lead and, by doing so, have thrown the West into an even wilder three-way scramble. The Cowboys beat Los Angeles 28-21 in one of Thursday's National Football League games Detroit topped Kansas City 32-21 in the other to open a one-game edge over Washington in the NFC East. That also sent the Rams skidding back intn a virtual deadlock with San Francisco in the West and Atlanta is only half a game behind the front-runners.

The 49ers can take sole possession of first with a victory over the New York Jets Sunday and the Falcons can stay in the race by turning back Minnesota. Sunday's other games have Washington at Philadelphia, St. Louis at the New York Gianls, New Orleans against Green Bay at Milwaukee, New England at Buffalo, San Diego at Cincinnati, Denver at Pittsburgh, Cleveland at Houston miasm fbooooooo60odoodOS5ooi lOOOOOOOOOOQQOOOOOOOi Victory Will Keep Baltimore Division Title Hopes Alive GO THE WINNEBAGO ROUTE IN A D-20 MOTOR HOME By MIKE RATHET Associated Press Sports Writer XEW YORK (AP) The de-fending Super Bowl champion Baltimore Colls are in a precarious position, 1'4 games behind front-running Miami and facing the Oakland Raiders. But they will maintain their shot at overhauling the Dol-'phins in American Conference East by upsetting the Raiders in one of the key games on an Sunday-Monday pro-, gram That, at least, is the vicnv from here a view that also opens on a Buffalo vlctnrv over New England that will end the Bills' perfect record after 10 consecutive defeats. Here are all the picks, noting that last week's record was a best-of-thc season 9-4: Baltimore 21, Oakland 17-The AFC West leading Raiders lead the league in scoring and Lamonlca leads the i league in attempting to score via the bomb.

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