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Vince: They're No. I ornhuskers mbi TBSDBCt Bute ByBILLFELBER Mercury Sports Writer LINCOLN, Nebr. Vince Gibson was suitably impressed by the Nebraska team that ripped his Kansas State Wildcats 51-13 here Saturday. Speaking to a gathering of in a subdued K-State dressing room 15 minutes after the stunningly one-sided scrap for a Big Eight championship had been concluded on the cold Memorial stadium Astroturf Gibson lavished praise upon the conquering Cornhuskers. "You saw a great team today-Nebraska," the coach opened.

"Certainly they were the best team we've played since I've been here." "Nebraska's defense played superb," he noted of the famed Black Shirt unit that intercepted seven of Wildcat quarterback Lynn Dickey's passes, setting up three of the seven Husker touchdowns. "You don't make mistakes against a great team and stay in the game, and they are a great team. They are superbly coached, and they don't make mistakes." Gibson was asked about two first half plays on which Kansas State fans felt pass interference penalties should have been called against the Huskers. On one, fullback Mike Montgomery was thrown out of the game after apparently pushing a referee who declined to call the penalty. "It hurt us when we lost Montgomery," he noted, "any time you lose your best football player it hurts.

But I'll have to look at the films before commenting on the plays. I really don't know." Gibson said Montgomery told him he did not push the official, "But losing Mike didn't change the outcome," he continued. "The great play by Nebraska is what determined the outcome. "How many interceptions did we he asked. "Seven? Except for the first one, which was a badly thrown pass, all the others were simply good plays by Nebraska.

The losing coach said his team needed its best showing to beat the Huskers. "We had to play our best, and I don't think we did," he allowed. "Nebraska has got a great football team, perhaps the best in the United States." Praising his team's effort, Gibson refused to alibi behind the cold weather, strong winds or pressure. "I thought our kids fought back real hard," he said. "I'm proud of them all, they never quit.

Nebraska just had good position, plus (again) they're just a good football team." "I told bur kids at halftime (when the Cats trailed 21-7) that we had to keep fighting and quit making mistakes. Well, we kept fighting, but we kept making mistakes, too." The Husker defense offered a four-man rush at' Dickey, and applied the rest of its pressure at defending in the secondary. Gibson originally hoped to run against such a setup, but the Cats could never get their (Continued on page Bl) Cuts JUL Hilii ill ywy-- 11 nhattaie Be i 1970 FIRST Mercmry IN KANSAS 32 Pages Five Sections 10 Cents No. 240 SIXTIETH YEAR MANHATTAN, KANSAS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1970 From Marshall U'; 75 dead Airliner crash kills grid team 'v NO that," Young said. Albert Rich, whose house also is about a half mile from the scene, said he first thought the loud noise was Ughtning.

He went out to see. "I heard this one bang and a minute later there was this terrific bang which shook the whole house. I ran outside to see if there was a storm, and I saw this flash over the hill," Rich said. He said the plane skimmed the top of an abandoned house just before it crashed. A light rain hampered rescue efforts, where the site was accessible only by a narrow, dirt road which had turned mostly into mud.

Only a few emergency vehicles had made it to the scene, including See back page this section were counted outside the burning craft, but flames were too intense to probe the interior of the plane. This was the second plane in less than two months which crashed carrying a football team. On Oct. 2, one of two chartered planes carrying the Wichita State University football team, coaches, boosters and others, crashed in the mountains in Colorado, killing 31 persons-including 14 football players. Witnesses said they were "rocked" out of their chairs from the concussion of the explosion.

John Young, who lives about a half mile from the crash site, said he "heard this loud noise I ran out to see what it was and all I saw was a big ball of fire." "Nobody could have survived KENOVA, W.Va. (AP) A twin-jet Southern Airways DC9 carrying Marshall University's football team, rooters and crew crashed and exploded in flames near here Saturday night, with no apparent survivors, according to State Police and Federal Aviation Agency spokesmen. A spokesman for Southern Airways in Atlanta, said the $3.5 million craft was carrying 70 passengers and a crew of five. They said it was the only plane Marshall had chartered. Witnesses at the scene near this southwestern state community said the plane slammed into the side of a small hill at about 7:40 p.m.

and exploded into "a giant ball of fire." State Police said at least 15 bodies CHARRED HULK OF AIRLINER 75 persons in- crashed Saturday night near the Huntington Tri-State eluding 37 members of the Marshall Huntington, airport. The team was returning from Greenville, W.Va., football team, coaches, rooters and crew were N.C. where it was defeated Saturday by East Carolina killed when this Southern Airways charter plane 17-14. (AP Wirephoto) Internal turmoil caused coup Huskers cream Cats 51-13; kill championship chances gained independence from France in 1946, this government turnover lacked the usual tank rumblings in the streets and the presence of military power. In fact, most inhabitants of Damascus awoke Saturday morning unaware that Assad had seized power and that the old leaders were in jail.

In its broadcasts, Radio Damascus made no mention of the coup. The capital was calm. Shoppers thronged the bazaars as usual and government ministries were open for business. According to the Arab diplomats, (See back pRe this section) September. It is known that Assad refused to provide air support for the tanks lest Israel's jets launch retaliatory strikes.

Assad was described as a moderate. Arab diplomats said that while the basic cause of the coup was internal politics there was a possibility that Syria now would abandon its go-it-alone attitude in the fight against Israel and cooperate more closely with the rest of the Arab world. Syria refused to sign the U.S.-initiated Middle East cease-fire last August along with Egypt and Jordan. Unlike the previous coups and the dozen minor revolts in Syria since it DAMASCUS (AP) Syria's eighth coup in 24 years of independence was described here Saturday as a battle for internal political survival by groups of the Baath Socialist party, with foreign policies not an immediate factor. The winner was Gen.

Hafez al Assad, the defense minister and chief of the Soviet-equipped Syrian air force. The losers were Gen. Salah Jadid, leader of the party, President Noureddin Atassi and former Premier Yousscf Zayyen, all extreme Marxists. Diplomats said it was not clear if the postmidnight coup had anything to do with the defeat handed Syria's tank forces in Jordan's civil war in Seven plays later, Joe Orduna dived into the end zone from the one yard line. Rogers kicked the extra point and the Huskers led, 31-7, with 1:57 left in the third quarter.

On the first play after the kickoff, Dickey's pass to Hawthorne was again picked off by Blahak, and Nebraska was set up at the Cat 12 yard line. The Huskers took three plays to score. The clincher was a 12 yard pass from Jerry Tagge to Dan Schneiss who was wide open over the middle. Rogers kick was wide to the left, but Nebraska was In front, 37-7 with 58 seconds to go in the quarter. K-State had the ball for just two plays before tailback Bill Butler fumbled and the Huskers recovered at the Cat 36.

For K-State, the game was as good as over. Nebraska scored two more touchdowns, and Dickey engineered a 94 yard drive against the NU Continued on page Bl Little more than half of the big crowd of 67,894 was still on hand for the anti-climactic finish. The wind chill index was listed at three degrees above zero, but it must have seemed colder than that for the 5,000 K-Staters in Memorial Stadium. After taking a 21-7 lead in at halftime, the Cornhuskers used K-State's many mistakes to blow the game wide open midway through the third period. A 60 yard run on a swing pass by fleet Johnny Rodgers set up a 23 yard field goal by Paul Rogers that put the Huskers in front, 24-7, with 8:17 left.

A little later, the Wildcats were on the move. K-State moved from its own 20 to the Nebraska 27 in three plays. Dickey tried to hit John Gocrgcr at the 15, but Joe Blahak darted in front of Goerger for one of his four interceptions. Blahak returned it to the K-State 30. By DAVE WRIGHT Mercury Sports Editor LINCOLN, Nebr.

Friday the 13th came a day late for Kansas State. The Wildcats saw nearly everything they tried turn to disaster in the second half, and Nebraska walked away with a 51-13 victory that clinched at least a tie for the Big Eight championship for the Cornhuskers. The defeat was the worst for the Wildcats in Vince Gibson's four years as head coach. Lynn Dickey, trying to finish out hir Big Eight career in a blaze of glory, had one of those days you wouldn't believe In your wildest nightmares. The Osawatomie senior completed 22 of 47 for 255 yards but had seven of his passes Intercepted.

Four of those interceptions were turned into Nebraska scores. The seven thefts were a Nebraska school record. I F3l vat mmx-mrmjr9: 4A MM Weather Disaster death toll At midnight Saturday the unof- "1 1 Ci fifi iZTZ may climb to Of the ships, one that may be lost the Mahaiagmitra, an Indian freighter out of Calcutta on her way to Kuwait A shipping official In Calcutta said the last word from her was a message saying she was In the Bay of Bengal "in the promlmity of a cyclone." He added It waa feared she may have cape lied. She carried a crew of 49. The cyclone, with its 150 miles an hour winds and 20-foot waves, devastated about 250 miles of the coast Cyclone Is the Indian Ocean equivalent of the hurricane In the Atlantic and the typhoon In the Pacific.

The deputy commissioner at Barlsal, 70 miles south of Dacca, said a If man team from the World Bank, the United States Agency for International Development and engineering experts were In the area and had not been heard from. A rescue ship left for Dvibla Island, where 13,000 Htodua had assembled for a religious festival. There was no word on casualties there. the reading was 34 degrees, aunsei today at 512 p.m. Sunrise Monday DACCA, East Pakistan (AP) A at 7:10 a.m.; sunset at 5:11 p.m.

cycIanK LOCAL AREA-learing by early Pcrful blowJ l. this morning with diminishing Jtern ct may have taken (0 winds. Colder with a hard freeze Uv, Commission official Sunny and not so cold today. Fair tn and cold tonight. High today near 40.

After a flying trip to coast to Low tonight in lower 20s the havoc wrought by Friday The maximum temperature torm, nowever, hd of reading for the 24-hour period was 35 commission, A. M. Anizussman, jj. refused to make any estimates The minimum reading for the beyond saying the death toll "Is same period was 27 degrees. PrccipIUUon as recorded at KSU: The number of confirmed dead To 00 st00(1 including 300 on HaUa Total for November Wnd.

20 miles onshore In the Bay Deficit for November ...08 of Bengal, and 125 on the Uland I of Normal for November 1.24 Bhola, part of which was washed ToUlforWO 35.33 way by the raging sea A Deficit for year 4.92 magistrate on HaUa said be Jwrrf thousands drowned when the big You'll find wave Inundated the Island with 20 Obituaries A2 feet of water. Theaters A3 There were no reports from many Editorials A4 of the Islands dotting the sea off the Sports Bl, B2, B3, B4 coast. Nor were there any estimate XV Log B5 of the number of shlpa and small craft that may have been lost Society i nnTKTTni tttm fh b.ooo Kansas State bud- a lot less to shout about In the end. with the Huskers porttrs show thdr enthusiasm btfore the Cats took the romping to a 51-13 victory. (Mercury Staff photos by' fifMtnmr-lNfbrakaSaturday In Lincoln.

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