Lincoln Journal Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 66

NU Seams Weak, But Prods Pokes For 28-20 Victory Terry Miller (43) eyes the Nebraska goal line but Husker defenders Dave Butterfield (34) and Jerry Wied (93) close in on the Cowboy running back. Soon, other Huskers arrived to STAFF PHOTO EY WEB RAY First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles lost Penalties-yards Missouri Colorado 21 17 54-167 54-282 264 24 15 88 14-20-2 544 6-3 7-75 Season's Records 4-13-1 6-45 6-2 0-0 By Dave Sittler Boulder, Colo If Nebraska fans thought the Cornhuskers faced a fired up opponent in Stillwater Saturday, well as the saying goes--they ain't seen nothin' yet. Coming off a rousing 31-20 comeback win over Missouri here Saturday, the Colorado Buffaloes will roll into Lincoln this weekend higher then the mile-high state they come from. Trailing 17-3 midway through the third quarter and all but given up for dead, Coach Bill Mallory's No. 12 rated Buffaloes came to life thanks to three Missouri mistakes to upend the 10th rated Tigers before a sellout, vocal crowd of 50,239.

A three-yard Steve Pisarkiewicz touchdown pass to Missouri tight end Charley Douglass with 11:06 left in the third period, appeared to be the final nail in the coffin for the listless Buffaloes. Especially after Missouri held Colorado on downs on the ensuing kickoff and started marching toward another score. Turnover Big Play With third and two yards to go on the Colorado 37, Pisarkiewicz's pitchout to tailback Curtis Brown was wide, and Colorado linebacker Gary Campbell recovered on the 50-yard for the Buffs. "Gary Campbell played his heart out for us today," Mallory said. "The whole team fought like a bunch of alley cats." The break ignited the Buffs, who needed only six plays to march to their first touchdown of the afternoon.

Quarterback David Williams, who had been suffering through an unusually poor day passing, found tight end Don Hasselbeck over the middle with a nine- yard scoring toss. That was only the beginning of what had MISSOURI (4-2) 20 Alabama 30 Illinois 27 Wisconsin 7 Michigan 41 Okia St 20 Colorado 0 25 Kansas St. 1 Nebraska 3 at Iowa St 15 Oklahoma 22 at Kansas COLORADO (5-4) 7 34 California 20 27 Wyoming 21 52 Wichita 31 20 Oklahoma 14 23 Miami, Fla 31 31 Missouri 0 25 at Nebraska 1 at Iowa St 8 Okla St 15 at Kansas 22 Kansas St 27 10 0 21 10 20 to be one the more amazing turnabouts in the history of Colorado's Folsom Field. Missouri's Rich Dansdill fumbled the kickoff after Hasselbeck's touchdown, and Colorado defensive back Mike Cilento pounced on the ball on the Tigers' 16-yard line. Before the crowd could settle back in its seats, Colorado tailback Tony Reed ripped 8-yards off right guard, to knot the score at 17-17 with 4:41 still remaining in the third quarter, Coach Al Onofiro's Missouri club appeared to curb the Buffaloes charge when Tim Gibbons booted a 32-yard field goal with 1:56 left in the third period, to put the Tigers back up at 20-17.

But Colorado, fighting for its Big Eight Conference life, took advantage of another Missouri error to finally gain the lead. With Mizzou driving early in the fourth quarter, Colorado defensive back Jim Tesone intercepted a pass by Missouri halfback Tony Galbreath on the Colorado 18. Continued: Page 6D, Col.l Missouri 3 7 10 0--20 Colorado 3 3 14 14--31 MU-FG Gibbons 29 MU Marshall 39 pass from Pisarkiewicz Gibbons kick Colo FG Mackenzie 29 MU Douglass 3 pass from Pisarkiewicz Gibbons kick Colo Hasselbeck 9 pass from Williams Macknezie. kick Colo Reed 8 run Mackenzie kick MU-FG Gibbons 32 Colo Williams 1 run Mackenzie kick Colo Reed 42 run Mackenzie kick A 50,349 INDIVIDUAL LEADERS RUSHING Missouri Galbreath 20-86, Brown 14-60, Blakeman 10-47, Colorado Reed 22-153, Williams 13-74, Kelleher 12-41 RECEIVING --Missouri Marshall 6-159, Brown 162, Colorado Waddy 1-14, Hasselbeck 1-9 PASSING Missouri Pisarklewlsz 14-28-2- Colorado Williams 4-13-1. Turnovers Prove NWU's Downfall First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Passes Return yards Punts-ave Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards Concordla 52-149 18 3-9-1 53 8-282 1 6-40 NWU 16 41-101 123 12-30-3 6 6-352 5-5 3-25 Ey Ken Hambleton State College Writer Nebraska Wesleyan football coach Harold Chaffee had his team practice on just about every aspect of the game in preparation for a homecoming contest with Concordia College Saturday at O.N.

Magee Stadium. A little work on the "greased pig" though, would have helped the Plainsmen as they fumbled four times and gave up three interceptions to hand the Concordia Bulldogs a 21-6 Nebraska Intercollegiate Athletic Conference win. Mike Beta intercepted a Bulldog pass that halted a Concordia drive at the NWU 20 yard line in the opening quarter. But on the first play, Plainsmen fullback Paul Cramer fumbled giving the Bulldogs a first down on the NWU 21. After the Plainsmen held, Concordia was forced to attempt a 40-yard field goal that went wide and the damage to NWU was minimal.

But on their next possession, the Plainsmen coughed up the ball again on their own 27. Three plays, and one facemask penalty later, halfback Tim Warneke hit Larry Lisnick from the 10 to give Concordia a 7-0 lead. After trading punts the Plainsmen fumbled again, this time on their own 22. Bulldog fullback Don Baker crashed for 14 yards to the eight in two plays. Baker got the ball on the next play and danced untouched through the middle of the line to boost the score to 13-0.

Late in the second quarter NWU quarterback Dan Klaus hit runningback Paul Cramer on a 36-yard aerial to the Bulldog five but Cramer lost the ball as he was hit and Concordia's Brian Logan recovered in ther endzone. Concordia defensive back Loren Otte intercepted a Klaus pass and returned it to the NWU five to set up the next score, a five yard sprint by Baker. Baker, who gained 95 yards for the game, also ran the PAT to give the Bulldogs a 21-0 lead. Klaus finally got the Plainsmen rolling on the next drive, and with two completions to Gene Lessman and Bob Blake, NWU reached the Concordia eight. Klaus hit Blake again for the score, but a two- point conversion attempt failed and the score stood 21-6.

Wesleyan had some golden opportunities in the fourth quarter as the Plainsmen defense held the Bulldogs to minus yardage but four straight incomplete passes at the Concordia 14 and two interceptions by Mark Mekelburg held the score in check. Continued: Page 6D, Col. 5 Concordia 7 6 8 0--21 Nebraska Wesleyan 0 0 6 0 6 -Con Lesnlck 10 pass from Warneke. (welmer Kick) Baker 8 run. (kick failed) Cm Baker 5 run.

(Baker run) NWU a pan from Kalut. (run failed) help stop Miller short of a touchdown on the crucial fourth down play. The defensive gem capped a last ditch, goal line stand for the Black Shirts and preserved a 28-20 victory. Nebraska Okla. St.

First downs 20 14 Rushes-yards 61-254 56-249 Passing yards 140 70 Return yards 21 24 Passes 10-18-0 3-8-2 Punts 7-35 7-43 Fumbles-lost 5-1 3-2 Penalties-yards 6-71 4-20 By Bob Owens Stillwater, Okla. The Stillwater jinx i to a a a Cornhuskers, but they avoided disaster against Oklahoma State once more here Saturday afternoon. The Huskers fell apart at the seams in the two areas where they have been strongest this season the kicking game and defense but still managed to walk away from Lewis Field with a 28-20 victory. The shaky verdict left Coach Tom Osborne's football team undefeated in six games and kept them in a tie for first place in the Big Eight Conference race. It has been tough for Nebraska to win.

here ever since the Cowboys joined the Big Eight in 1960. The Huskers lost their first try in 1961, won the next three games by a total of nine points and played to a 17-17 tie in 1973. Only 1971 was it easy a 41-13 breeze. And it was tough Saturday as a belligerent crowd of 48,500 third largest in OSU history booed and yelled obscen- tities throughout most of the last half The home team partisans didn't have much to say during the first half when 20 Twenty Fared 1 Ohio St. (6-0) def.

Wisconsin, 56-0. 2. Oklahoma (6-0) def. Kansas 25-3. 3.

USC (6-0) def. Oregon, 17-3. 4. Nebraska (6-0) def. Oklahoma 28- 0 5.

Texas AM (6-0) def. TCU, 14-6. 6. Alabama (5-1) def. Tennessee, 30-7.

7. Michigan (4-0-2) def. Northwestern, 69- 8 Texas (5-1) def. Arkansas, 24-18. 9 Penn St.

(6-1) def. Syracuse, 19-7. 10. Missouri (4-2) lost to Colorado, 31-20. 11.

Arizona St. (6-0) def. Colorado 33-3. 12 Colorado (5-1) def. Missouri, 31-20.

13. Arizona (4-0) played Texas Tech Saturday night. 14. Florida (5-1) def. Florida 34-8.

15 Notre Dame (5-1) def Ajr Force, 31-30 16. Tennessee (3-2) lost to Alabama, 30-7. 17. Michigan St. (4-2) def.

Minnesota, 3815. 18. UCLA (4-1-1) def. Washington 3723 19. Maryland (5-1-1) def.

Wake Forest, 270. 20 Arkansas (4-2) lost to Texas, 24-18. Rain Predicted For World Series Boston (AP) The National Weather Service predicted a 70 per cent chance of rain for Sunday's World Series game between Cincinnati and Boston. Rain washed out the sixth game of the series Saturday. Sunday's game is to be broadcast at 11:45 a.m.

(CDT) on channels three and cable five. For more on the World Series see Page 11D. mnday Baseball World Series, Cincinnati at Boston, 11:45 a.m., B05. Pro Football Chicago v. Pittsburgh, noon, OOD; Oakland v.

Cincinnati, Detroit v. Minnesota, 3 p.m. 0QD. College Football Tom Osborne Show, 10:30 p.m., By Virgil Parker Stillwater, Okla. Monte Kiffm called the play, yet came up with the Impossible Result Oklahoma State had the ball on the Nebraska five-yard line.

It was fourth down. Just 30 seconds remained in the game "On the previous down I called for the same defense we used on that fourth-and- one situation against Flonda in the Sugar Bowl," Kiffm recalled after the heart- stopping finish. "Chuck Jones came up to make a super play, just like Jimmy Burrow did in New Orleans. We were in our standard goal line defense. "On fourth down," Kiffin continued, "Oklahoma State didn't go into a huddle.

I flashed out the sign for our Black Shirts to get into what we call our "tiger" defense. But that's impossible with the goal line personnel in there. That shows that sometimes plain old hustle and desire will win out." Kiffin was quick to credit the Nebraska offensive unit with the victory. Defense Was Worse "Our defense just didn't play as well," he admitted, "until the chips were down. Then they really came through.

I couldn't be prouder of them. The last 30 seconds of play and the last ten yards is what football's all about. "The game down here two years ago ended in a tie," Kiffin recalled "We're thinking championship and you don't do that with a tie. We gambled on those last two plays. We figured they'd try to sweep and fortunately that's what they did.

We didn't have anybody in the end zone for pass protection." After Jones made the big third-down play, cornerback Dave Butterfield blew through on fourth down and Wonder Monds was right behind to actually make the game-saving tackle. "I don't know what defense the line was playing," Monds said of the mixup, "but October 19, 1975 we (the defensive backs) just guessed sweep. It turned out to be a lucky guess. We were determined they wouldn't get into the end zone We sure didn't want it to get down to a two-point play and a possible tie." NU Blows Chance Cornhusker coach Tom Osborne said he felt Nebraska was in a position "to put them away" after gaining a 21-7 halfame advantage "I thought if we could score again at the outset of the third quarter we'd have them on the ropes," Osborne said "We kicked off and stopped them in three plays and forced a punt. But then came what I think was the real turning point of the game when Bobby (Thomas) dropped the punt.

"That gave them a real Mft," Osborne continued. "You gotta give OSU credit They came fighting back when they got the chance. They are without a doubt the strongest team we've played to date. They had a lot of things go bad for them at Missouri. I don't think that game was indicative of their true strength." Osborne observed that the lucking game, which had been a strong point in previous games, was nearly Nebraska's downfall.

Husker center-snapper Tom Thomas skidded several snaps on punts and field goal tries before finally sailing one over punter Randy Lessman's head in the closing minute to set up the Cowboys' final bid for a tie. Continued: Page 6D, Col.7 Nebraska played as well offensively as it has all season to assume a 21-7 lead. Tfcomas Play Crucial "At the aalf I thought we had them put away," Osborne said as he savored the hard'-earned victory. "Then we came out in the third quarter and held them on their first possession, but the turning point came when Bobby Thomas fumbled the punt. We had them on the ropes, but the fumble changed that." Thomas' fumble which Peter Coppola recovered for OSU at the 14, was converted into a touchdown three plays later Then after the Huskers capitalized on a lost Cowboy fumble to take a 28-14 edge, the Black Shirts capitulated for a brief time on defense.

Oklahoma State, thanks to a brilliant 52- yard keeper by quarterback Scott Burk and a 23-yard touchdown run through right tackle by Terry Miller, pulled to within 2820 with five minutes left in the third quarter. Then. Gary Inons, filling in for Abby Daigle, missed the extra point try wide to the left. It was Daigle's injury on his successful try earlier that made it 21-14 that put the OSU partisans in a hostile mood They thought end Ray Phillips had taken a 'cheap shot' at him when he actually was trying to block the attempt and hit him at the ankles on the play. The play that really set off a chorus of boos came early in the fourth quarter when tight end Ricky Taylor pushed off Husker safetymsn Jimmy Burrow in the end zone and caught an apparent 22-yard touchdown pass from halfback Terry Miller.

Automatic Touehback Offensive interference in the end zone calls for an automatic touchback, which gave Nebraska the ball on its own 20-yard line Since it was a first-down play, it was doubly tough for Cowboy fans to accept. And they booed lustily the rest of the way Nebraska, however, still wasn't out of the woods The kicking game was still having problems, but Oklahoma State couldn't take advantage of them. "Yes, that offensive pass interference might have taken the wind out of us." Cowboy coach Jim Stanley said "Still, I certainly thought we'd score at the end I didn't think they could stop us, but they did You can't take that away from Nebraska The Huskers settled down and moved the ball to a pair of first downs on I-back Monte Anthony's good running to run the clock down to a little more than two minutes to play Then near-disaster struck when center Tom Thomas centered the ball high to punter Randy Lessman, who covered it at the Nebraska 23 with an even two minutes to play That's when the Black Shirts stood up and were counted Defense Comes Through After grudgingly giving up a first down at the NU 11, they stiffened for their best goal-line stand of the game. They yielded seven yards to Taylor on first down and two more to Miller on second down, but the Huskers really came up with a pair of key plays. The first one saw Chuck Jones meeting Miller on a pitch at left end for a three yard loss.

The second one saw Dave Butterfield force Miller to change directions and Wonder Monds come in for a jarring tackle after a one-yard gain to end the threat with 25 seconds left Quarterback Vince Ferragamo fell on the ball on the last play of the game to insure victory. The kicking game problems and the inability to halt OSU's scrambling Burk came as somewhat of a surprise because of Husker performances in previous games. Mike Coyle had been near perfect in place-kicking chores, but was far short on 47 and 46 yard field goal tries and failed to Continued: Page 6D, Col. 4 Nebraska Wesleyan defensive lineman Larry Coufal grabs Concordia's Jody Timms before he can hand off the ball, but Concordia prevailed, 21-6, in NWU's homecoming game. SPAPEM.