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The Manhattan Mercury from Manhattan, Kansas • 12

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H4 The Manhattan Mercury Sunday, November 16, 1975 Craig ignites I ft Red rampage to score the only third quarter touchdown. Dave Gillespie scored on a two-yard run after a 25-yard pass from Terry Luck to Rich Panneton on fourth down. Gillespie scored another touchdown on a two-yard run to make it 52-0. Buddy Hardeman, the Cyclones' first string quarterback, went out of the game with a dislocated thumb. Iowa State's only sustained drive against the first string NU defense was ended when a Mike Tryon pass was intercepted by Kent Smith at the Nebraska 17.

fin. rvv Cyclone Cornhusker facts 'n figures Iowa Slate Ntbraaka 33 318 249 13 19 0 51 3 50 0 5 55 0 y- 0 7 1452 First Downs Yards Rushing Yards Passing Passing Return Yardage Punting Fumbles Lost Penalties 150 52 4 15 1 3 840 ,1 7 80 Iowa State Nebraska Neb Craig 8 run iCoyle kick) Neb Craig 10 pass from Ferragamo (Coyle kick) Neb Ferragamo 1 run (Coyle kick) Neb Coyle (39 field goal) Neb Thomas 26 pass from Ferragamo (Coyle kick) Neb Anthony 5 run (Coyle kick) Neb Gillespie 2 run (Coyle kick) Neb Gillespie 2 run (Coyle kick) A 76.131 9 mmmmmimmmmmmmmmmmim W-A day, rushing for 303 yards, as Pitt upset ninth-ranked Notre Dame, 34- 20. iPorsett cliarffes ntt LOCKER gggjj I tailback Tony Dorsett is mobbed by and Elliot Wlaker (34) after scoring afternoon. Dorsett had a record-breaking ircnwires COLUMBUS. Ohio (AP)-Tod- COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)-Top ranked Ohio State, fired by the record running of Archie Griffin and Pete Johnson, clinched a trip to either the Rose or the Orange Bowl with a 38-6 Big Ten football victory Saturday over Minnesota.

The unbeaten Buckeyes will play Michigan at Ann Arbor, Mich, next week to decide the conference championship and accompanying Rose Bowl berth for the eighth traight season. The loser' will go to the Orange Bowl. After extending his national record to 31 straight regular season games of over 100 yards, Griffin was accorded standing ovation by the crowd of nearly 88,000, the 44th sellout in a row for Ohio Stadium. Griffin- who scored on a 19-yard run and wound up with 124 yards in 23 rushes, left the game with more than 10 minutes to play. Later, he returned for one play and was given another standing ovation.

Johnson thundered eight yards for a Big Ten record 22nd touchdown this 243-pound junior fullback had shared the mark with former teammate Champ Henson. (AP Wirephoto) and he rushed for a record 209 yards against the Irish two years ago as a freshman. Notre Dame fell behind 7-0 just 57 seconds into the game when Pitt quarterback Matt Cavanaugh swept three yards for a touchdown after Dorsett had broken a 57-yard run. Dave Reeve kicked a 48-yard field goaon Notre Dame's first series, and quarterback Rick Slager dove for a touchdown midway through the first quarter to give the Irish a 10-7 lead. However, Dorsett rambled 71 yards for a touchdown on Pitt's next series to put the Panthers ahead to stay with just 7:49 elapsed in the game before a sell-out crowd of 56,000..

Kittens nip Kearney The Kansas Stte girls' swimming team defeated Kearney State of Nebraska. 74-57. Saturdadv at the KSU pools. In winning, K-State took nine out of the 15 possible first places. Leading the girls were Clare Thorn with four first places, and Marilyn Zwego and Judy Streeter with two apeice.

PITTSBURGH MP)-Tony Dorsett slashed through Notre Dame's defense for a record-breaking 303 yards rushing and scored a pair of long first-half touchdowns to lead unranked Pittsburgh to a 34-20 upset victory Saturday over the ninth-ranked Irish. It was Pitt's first victory since 1963 over Notre Dame, which fell to 7-3 and was knocked from major bowl consideration as officials of the Sugar and Cotton bowls looked on. Dorsett rambled 71 yards for one first-half touchdown and carried a short pass 49 yards for another to help Pitt raise its record to 7-3 and secure' an expected Sun Bowl bid. Notre Dame had allowed an average of just 11 points per game, but Pitt took a 24-13 halftime edge with the help of 161 yards rushing by Dorsett. His total ground yardage, which came on just 23 carries, surpassed two of his own records.

It was the most ever by a Pitt back and the most ever against a Notre Dame team. Dorsett set his previous Pitt record of 268 yards against Army this season, Drake downs Shocks LINCOLN, Neb. AP)-Sophomore wingback Curtis Craig scored two first quarter touchdowns to lead the No. 2 ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers to a 52-0 Big Eight college football victory over the unranked Iowa state Cyclones Saturday. Quarterback Vince Ferragamo hit seven of nine for 163 yards passing.

In the first half, the Cornhuskers piled up 306 yards of offense and punted only once. Craig, a Davenport, Iowa, high school graduate, went over on an eight-yard run two plays after the Cyclones fumbled away the opening kickoff on their own 21. A Ferragamo pass to Craig scored the second touchdown after an 11 play, 73-yard ddrive on Nebraska's third possession. Early in. the second quarter, Ferragamo went over from the one, ending a 60-yard drive on NU's next possession.

A Ferragamo to Bobby Thomas pass for 46 yards set up a Mike Coyle 39 yard field goal to move the Cornhuskers ahead 24-0. Ferragamo hit Thomas for a 26-yard touchdown pass to end the first half 31-0. Monte Anthony ran in from the five TANK McNAMARA THEN) r3Y MAJORITY IT'S AGROT? A5 A OF TEAM 5aiPAeiTy; wemill All J0IMHANP IN THE College scores By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Dickinson Col 29, Johns-Hopkins 22 Gettysburg 42. Georgetown. DC 14 Williams 25, Amherst 6 Howard 41, No Caro Cent 10 De Pauw 14.

Wabash 8 Drake 27, Wichita St 23 Oklahoma 28, Missouri 27 Oklahoma St 56, Kansas St 3 Tulsa 62. Indiana St 7 Arizona 31. Colorado St 9 Delaware 35. Chester 7 Rochester 31, Tufts 28 Hampden-Sydney 23. Randolph-Macon 19 Tennessee St 31.

Petersburg St 14 Bowling Green 48. So Illinois 6 So Dakota 34. Mankato St 30 So Dakota St 38, Youngstown 21 Texas 27. TCU 11 Texas 33. Rice 14 Texas Lutheran 21, Midland 20 Brigham Young 51.

Utah 20 California 31, Air Force 14 New Mexico 38, Wyoming 32 NaTexas St 24. New Mexico St 20 Utah St 42. Boise St 19 New Mexico 16. No Colorado 14 Western, Colo 16, Colo Mines 7 Southern Colorado 31, Fort Hays 27 Bucknell 32, Lehigh 25 Coast Guard 26. Wash Lee 3 Columbia 28.

Perm 25 Pitt 34. Notre Dame 20 Wesley an 14, Trinity Col 11 Alabama 27. So Mississippi 6 Colgate 21. William Mary 17 Mississippi 23, Tennessee 6 Vanderbilt 23. Army 14 Ball St 46.

Illinois St 7 Cincinnati 6. Ohio 5 Colorado 24. Kansas 21 Michigan 21. Illinois 15 Muskingum 9, Wittenberg 0 Nebraska 52. Iowa St 0 Michigan 24.

Michigan 14 Arkansas 35. SMU 7 Texas Tech 33. Baylor 10 Connecticut 21. Rhode Island 10 C. W.

Post 21, American Intl 0 Dartmouth 33, Cornell 10 Hamilton 13, Union, Y. 7 Harvard 45. Brown 26 Kings Point 41, Seton Hall 0 Lafayette 31, Davidson 3 Maine 2. Northeastern 0 New Hampshire 14, Massachusetts 11 Rutgers 41. Boston 3 Villanova 13.

Holy Cross 12 Wagner 48. Fordham 0 Yale 24. Princeton 13 Duke 21. No Carolina St 21 Florida 48, Kentucky 7 Georgia 28. Auburn 13 Georgia Tech it.

Navy 13 Maryland 22. Clemson 20 So Carolina 37, Wake Forest 26 Syracuse 37. Virginia 0 1 Virginia Tech 33. VMI 0 Virginia 31. Richmond 13 Indiana 9.

Wisconsin 9 Miami, Ohio 27, Kent St 8 Michigan St 47. Northwestern 14 Ohio St 38. Minnesota 6 Purdue 19, Iowa 18 Emory it Henry 21, Maryville 7 Montana 28. No Arizona 22 Stanford 33. Oregon 30 UCLA 31.

Oregon St 9 Washington 8. Southern Cal 7 ft Washington St 84. Idaho 27 NW Missouri 28. Rolla 7 Tabor 2r. McPherson 13 Kearney St.

Emporia St. Missouri Southern 25. Doane Neb. 13 Missouri Western 24. Cent.

Missouri 20 I 4 V. TONY GOES WILD Pittsburgh teammates John Hanhauser for the second time Saturday r(0ti TELEVISION). I'LL i hOLPJnG- UAWP5 WWMV1AN half. Adkins led Wichita State back in the second half and finished with spectacular statistics, rushing for 110 yards on 17 carries and passing for 329 yards on 21 completions in 41 at' tempts. Twice he hit Larry Martin on long scoring strikes, first from 47 yards out and then from 50 with Martin outracing Johnson both times.

Wichita State closed the gap to 20-15 in the fourth period before Jeff Martin scored from the five on a keeper. But Adkins followed that 23 seconds later with his 50-yard toss to Larry Martin, and later directed the Shockers' on a long, desperation drive from their own 12 that stalled with 'Johnson's deflection. Wichta State closed its season at 3-8 while Drake plays at Temple next week in its finale. place with a time of 20:15. The Wildkittens suffered a misfortune in the case of Joyce Urish.

Normally the No. 1 runner on the team, Urish fell twice dufing the course of the race. The second time she fell while still in fifth place in the race she was held down by an official wiwthought she was injured. By imesne was able to get up, her chances for finishing high had long diminished. Team Scoring Iowa State, 96; 2.

Penn State, 104i3. Michigan State. 116: 4, Oregon, 143; 5. Florida, 162; 6. K-State, 177; 7.

isconsin. 218; 8 Colorado State. 248; 9. Massachusetts, 252; 10. Kentucky.

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Bulldog -quarterback Jeff Martin opened the scoring when he found Tony Barnes on a post pattern for a 25-yard score to cap a 69-yard drive following the opening kickoff. Herndon rushed for 114 yards in the first half to set up three scores as Drake powered to a 20-3 lead at the half. Herndon finished with 142 yards in 27carries. Robert Forbes scored the second Drake TD from one-yard out and Barnes finished the first half scoring when he fell on a Herndon fumble in the end zone. John Blazek's 25-yard field goal was the only Shocker score in the first BBBBSmBmij.

Cyclones capture meet Mercury News Service AMES, Iowa For the second straight year, Iowa State won the Association of Intercollegiate Atletics for Women national championships. The Cyclones totaled 96 points to win the meet, while the Kansas State Wildkittens finished seventh with 177 points. Peg Neppel led the ISU winning tne race over tne uiree-mue, hilly course in 16:31. Runners placing in the race for K-State included Becky- Watts, who finished 15th with a personal best time of 18: 13 Terri Anderson, who finished 20th in Jane Wittmeyer, who placed 43rd in Renee Urish, who finished 44th with a 19:22 clocking; Joyce Urish, who placed 55th in Roselyn Fry, who finished 71st with a time of and Alice Wheat, who finished in 74th MEET BIG BUCK! WH ATI ANOTHER GREAT CHRISTMAS SAVINGS IDEA FROM BILL'S BIKE SHOP? What's more, our Pizza Hut pizza lC I will' sti 1 1 be "the best" when it reaches Cv. 1 yourcloor fresh and just Xv 1 the way you like it in a Pizza Hut DLJJjl I N)) restaurant.

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