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Senior Tim McCrady snatched only two passes, hut a 55 yarder featured a circus catch on the sidelines and a 52-yarder wound up the end zone. Yes, the Bulldogs were just as atypical as Nebraska, relying on a relatively conservative offense instead of the usual flashy, explosive attack. Like Redwine. both MSU quarterback John Bond and wingback Mardye McDole fell short of their reputations. Bond struck out on eight passes in the first half, except for one completion to Nebraska's Ric Lindquist.

Bond finished whh seven completions in 19 attempt for 102 yards and one score. McDole, although impressive on four receptions for 69 yards in the second half, rushed for only seven yards on five carries, far short of his 7.7 pcr-csrry average. On two attempted punt returns the nation's No. 2 punt returner fumbled one, leading to Nebraska's first touchdown, and lost three yards on the other. Vastly more impressive for MSU was fullback Donald Ray King, who exemplified the Bulldogs' relatively conservative attack with an inside assault that netted 96 yards.

So it was King, not teammate McDole nor Redwine, who emerged as the game's leading rusher. Bulldog mistakes, not Cornhusker achievements, will no doubt durken memories of the 1980 Sun Bowl for MSU partisans. Six turnovers, including four lost fumbles, stifled the Mississipians throughout the contest: at least one turnover surfaced in each Bulldog quarter. "We flat out had too many mistakes offensively," confessed Bulldog boss Emory Bellard, whose team finished at 9- 3 after last year's 3-8. "Everybody in the stadium saw that.

We gave them easy opportunities. Our defense played good enough to win, but mistakes placed a tremendous burden on the defense. The offense played without spunk. We played awful tight, tense. "We'll be back in another year and stronger than we were this year.

Nebraska is as good a football team as there is in the country. We. really did help them, too." And those six mistakes don't include punter Dana Moore's fumble of a perfect snap on his first try, resulting In a 21-yard loss early in the game. The Comhuskers were shut off on that scoring bid, though, and Moore redeemed himself on his next punt with a 64-yarder that "stuck" on the Nebraska 5. It matched his career best and Moore eventually became one of the Bulldog stars with five punts for a 50.0 average and a 47-yard field goal Nebraska defensive end Jimmy Williams was accorded Most Valuable Lineman honors after his six tackles and two fumble recoveries.

Older brother Toby Williams also recovered a fumble and safety Russell Gary added nine tackles. Linebacker Johnie Cooks and and tackle Glen Collins led MSU's defense with a dozen stops apiece. Nebraska needed only one play to capitalize on MSU's first turnover. One play after Steve Davies recovered McDole's fumbled punt return, split end Todd Brown scored on a 23-yard reverse to the right side. Kevin Seibel's kick put the 'Huskers up 7-0 with 12:30 still to play in the first period.

Seibel booted a 22-yard field goal for a 10- 0 lead with 3:23 left in the second quarter. Earlier in the drive that was set up by Lindquist's theft, Quinn set up as apparent holder for a 44-yard field goal attempt, but instead completed a five-yard pass to Jim Kotera for a first down. Nebraska took a 17-0 lead Into halflime after Quinn hit tight end Jeff Finn for an eight-yard scoring pass. However, the most impressive play of that two-play drive was the first, a 55-yard bomb from Quinn to McCrady, who deftly planted both feet in bounds while stretching for the reception. Mississippi State found gusto at intermission and it was manifested in a 13-play drive on the Bulldogs' first series of the third quarter.

Moore capped the drive with his 47-yard field goal, but MSU still trailed 17-3 with about a quarter and a half remaining. Nebraska came back with a third touchdown, after a Bulldog bobble, and drove 25 yards on five plays with fullback Audra Franklin smashing over the right side for the final yard. Franklin finished as Nebraska's leading rusher with 67 yards. The fourth quarter, most offensive of the periods, saw MSU coming back with a 76-yard drive, longest by either team, and the 14-play series resulted in Bond's four-yard touchdown run on a crucial fourth down. Earlier in the drive, Bond hit McDole for 22 yards and tight end Jerry Price for 25 yards.

The Bulldogs' first touchdown narrowed the deficit to 24-10, but less than a quarter remained. At this point, one of two Mississippi state patrolmen assigned to protect Bellard might have considered whispering to the coach, "You in a heap o' trouble, boy." And more trouble surfaced when Nebraska put the lead even further beyond MSU's reach when Quinn hit McCrady with a 52-yard bomb with 3:21 remaining. The impact? For Nebraska, a 31-10 lead. For Mississippi State, curtains. MSU went out with one last shout as Bond hit Haddix with an 11-yard pass and run play for the final score, narrowing the gap to 31-17 with exactly one minute left.

That created the matchmaker's dream. The 31-17 final score. A two-touchdown margin of victory as predicted by most experts. What the experts did NOT predict, however, was that the end would NOT be justified by the anticipated means. Instead, the verdict was dictated by strange developments along both sidelines, in both playbooks and on the field.

Nebraska (Continued from Page ID) with Quinn throwing to Jim Kotera for a first down (Nebraska later settled for a 22-yard field goal). After Nebraska fans accused Osborne of being too conservative in the bitter 21-17 defeat to Oklahoma, he might be on the Moral Majority liberal hit list following Saturday's show. Quinn, who tearfully embraced his mother after the game, shrugged off the trickery, saying it "might be" the most the Comhuskers have employed in one game, "but it wasn't anything real unusual. They're just something in our offense. We weren't going to let anything get away from us today.

"We were just going to let everything go and run our whole offense, which is basically what we did." While Nebraska was liberal, Mississippi State was ultra-conservative in respect to its Wingbone triple option attack. Quarterback John Bond rarely pitched the ball on the option, maybe the biggest surprise of the game. "He's a good quarterback and he really had a good year, but I think he was a little nervous," said Nebraska defensive end Derrie Nelson. "That's just my opinion, but I think he was nervous. "You could tell it when he would run those option." A hook-and-ladder play, with Brown catching a pass upfield, then lateraling behind him to a trailing Redwine.

The play only worked for eight yards but produced a first down. A mini-flea flicker, with Quinn handing off to I-back Roger Craig, who handed the ball back to Quinn, who then pumped a pass downfield, incomplete. A behind-the-line pass to wingback Anthony Steels, who was supposed to pass the ball again downfield to Brown, "but he was covered, so I just had to run with it," Steels said. A fake field goal from the MSU 27, MSU "I feel great about the season," said Bond, one of two freshmen who started for rjKf3i I w3ri -1 VtSf jfi I Tubrtr Arrrptiihir S.ili- I Phil" A-aBSS i 1 123 aty whitman suu'umw pr, prh f.k.i. 1 "5 1 Sli kd SSn TLX Ipiumims ii rTftt TSAJW ART 1.1 T1 54.75 fflr l'irtfiWR smj 60 00 1 hi.

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the Bulldogs. "I'm looking forward to next year, the year after and the year after that. We have three great years ahead of us. "We can't go anywhere but up. With the talent we have, we can't go down." For Edwards, a senior, there are no (Continued from Page ID) "Up front, I felt we whipped them on the line," said starting left guard Matt Edwards, one of the team's captains.

"Certain parts of our game we played real well. We played the second half like we should have except that we still fumbled." Mississippi State's players felt they could come back from the 17-0 first-half deficit but as Coach Emory Bellard put it, "No matter how well you prepare for a game, things like this will happen in bowl situations." Early in the fourth quarter, Bond scored on a one-yard quarterback keeper to pull the Bulldogs to within two touchdowns of Nebraska 24-10 and keep MSU's hopes alive. Mississippi State's defense held Nebraska on the next series of downs and the Bulldogs had the ball and the chance to cut the Comhuskers' lead to seven points before losing their fourth fumble of the game. "We were still in the game until then," Bond said. "We had a chance to come back but we just couldn't hold on to the ball.

This is the kind of game you want to forget." One consolation, though, Is that Mississippi State appears to have a team of the future. Only four seniors started on the offense while five graduated from the defensive unit. The nucleus for a strong '81 team is returns. tomorrows. That in itself makes Saturday's loss especially hard for the 240-pounder to swallow.

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