Lincoln Journal Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 37

Big Plays Boost Huskers In Key Game With MU Neb 18 55-237 28 8-17-0 2-2 5-29 MU 14 47-71 151 7 12-29-1 3-1 5-54 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards By Bob Owens Columbia, Mo Nebraska used its kicking game and the 'big play' to defeat Missouri 30-7 Saturday afternoon before 68,195 fans at Faurot Field It was a reversal of the matchup here two years ago when the Tigers won because of a superior kicking game It also stole a page from Missouri's performances this season which have been marked by 'big play' victories and excellent kicking game efforts The victory, viewed by countless millions on national television, insured the Cornhuskers a bid to play in a major bowl game and kept alive their march toward the Big Eight Conference championship Results of games involving the two teams ranked ahead of the Huskers in the wire service polls also kindled hopes of a possible national championship Top-ranked Ohio State struggled to defeat inept Indiana 24-14 while No 2 Oklahoma defeated Oklahoma State 27-7 All of Nebraska scoring came as a result of either the kicking game or the 'big play combination of quarterback Vmce Ferragamo and split end Bobby Thomas Garbage Works I don't think that anybody can say ve won on remarked Nebraska coach TomOsborne "We came up with some big plajs and every time we threw some garbage at them it worked The 'garbage' he referred to was the fake punt on which I-back John O'Leary ran 40 Season's Records NEBRASKA M) '0 LSU 45 Indiana 56 TCU 31 Miami Fla 16 Kansas 28 Okla St 63 Colorado 30 Missouri 8 at Kansas St 15 Iowa State 22 at Oklahoma MISSOURI (5-3) 7 20 Alabama 0 30 Illinois 14 27 Wisconsin 16 7 Michigan 0 41 Oklahoma St 20 20 Colorado 21 35 Kansas St 7 7 Nebraska 8 Iowa State 15 Oklahoma 22 at Kansas 7 20 21 31 14 31 3 30 yards for a touchdown just 1 46 before the end of the first half to give the Huskers a breathing room 16-7 lead "The fake punt came at a time when we were beginning to lose our momentum," Osborne said It sure saved the first half for us The other turning point came when we hit Thomas with the first touchdown pass "We weren't out of the woods yet, but I think it sealed it for us Then Vmce threw the ball real big on the second one to Thomas He just laid it there The first TD aerial to Thomas came on the first play after Missouri Leo Lewis fumbled a Randy Lessman punt and Husker Greg Jorgensen recovered at the Missouri 37-yard line with 15 seconds to play in the third quarter The second one, with 7 38 left in the game, covered 61 yards to put the game out of reach of the Tigers Unique Score It was the oniy Husker touchdown that didn result from a play involving the kicking game The Huskers, now 8-0 with only Kansas State at Manhattan Kan, next Saturday, Iowa State 15 at Lincoln, and Oklahoma at Norman Nov 22 remaining to be played capitalized on a short Mizzou punt to take a 3-0 lead with 4 57 left the opening quarter Jim Goble, MU punter who went in the Continued: Page 3D, Col 1 Mizzou The heart of Nebraska's destroyer force stalks a Missouri Tiger. Quarterback Steve Pisarkiewicz (15) pitches off just in time as tackles Jerry Wied (93) and Mike Fultz (72) and middle STAFF COLORPHOTO BY WEB guard John Lee (69) close in. Fultz is fighting through the block of Joel Yearian (77). Crushes Season's Records KANSAS ST (3 SI 17 Tulsa 32 chita 17 Forest 0 Texas A8.M 7 Iowa oto'e 3 Oklahoma Missouri 0 Kansas 8 NeorasKa 15 at Onla St 22 at Colorado downs snes a Pa ng a a ReTLfi yards Parses Fumbles lost Penalties yards 16 0 16 10 17 25 35 28 14 14 20 41 0 21 19 28 KANSAS 5 3 Wash St Kentucky Oregon St Wisconsin Nebraska Iowa State Oklahoma St Kansas State 18 10 0 7 16 10 35 0 8 at Oklahoma 15 Colorado 22 ssoun Kansas St 8 38-45 37 18 2 133 8-43 2 1 5-62 Kansas 30 80-420 96 86 7 14-0 430 6 3 677 LAWRENCE, Kan (AP) Nolan Cromwell blitzed Kansas State for all the scoring Kansas needed in the first half, then let the Jayhawk defense crush the Wildcats' hapless offense for a 28-0 Big Eight Conference football victory Saturday The game, witnessed by a Kansas 53,480 fans, gave the Jayhawks a 2-2 conference record and 5-3 over-all mark Kansas State slumped to its fifth straight defeat, including four conference losses Cromwell engineered the Jayhawks' 94 yards in 14 plays for a touchdown the first time Kansas got the ball, then passed 11 yards to Laverne Smith for another score just before halftone Kansas capitalized on John O'Rear's 42- yard return of a pass interception to score a third quarter touchdown and then completed the scoring by marching 55 yards in the fourth period In the meantime, the helpless Kansas State offense never generated a single threat The Wildcats punched into Kansas territory just four fames, but never got closer than the 44 Twice Kansas intercepted passes when the Wildcats poked their nose into the Jayhawk side of the field, and on a third occasion, the quarterback got thrown for an llyard loss trying to pass Kansas, which has dominated the cross- state series by winning 17 and tying one game in the past 20 years, lost two other near-touchdowns by fumbling inside the Kansas State five Cromwell fumbled the ball into the end zone in the second quarter and Charlie Kilgore recovered for a K-State touchback Cromwell fumbled again early in the fourth quarter at the Wildcat three, and Kilgore fell on it once again to stave off a Jayhawk score Kilgore got a third recovery in the closing minutes of the game, pushing the Wildcats into Jayhawk territory for only the fourth time. However, Kansas State again couldn't move past the KU 46, and the Wildcats gave final confirmation of the ineptness of their attack when they punted the ball away to Kansas from that point with time running out.

Cromwell, who finished with. 107 yards rushing on 23 carries, had 106 yards in the first half but lost one in the second half before turning things over to his backup, Scott McMichael, for much of the second half Kansas led 16-4 in first downs and 228-56 in total offense the first half rst do vns Ru Pass 13 3rds 'u i Passes i Fu" ties lost jxnalt os a Oklahoma 16 60304 37 1 1 4-0 640 4-0 8 3 1 Okla State 14 47 140 125 4 10 192 8-45 4 3 230 Miscues Aid 27-7 Oklahoma Victory .1. i i Tfcrflf fJ Season's Records STILLWATER, Okla (AP)- ranked Oklahoma turned in its usual superior defensive effort and took out some kinks on offense Saturday afternoon to defeat arch-rival Oklahoma State, 27-7 in a hard-hitting Big Eight football fray A week ago, the Sooners fumbled a school record 13 times a win over Iowa State, but it was a different story against the Cowboys as they fumbled only four times, retaining possession in each instance 0-State, meanwhile, lost three of four fumbles and suffered two interceptions Three of the 'Poke miscues led to Sooner scores 'Over-all, we played a great said Oklahoma coach Barry Switzer "Our offense captalized on their errors and that certainly helped us I don really think it would have made any difference in the outcome of the game, though OKLAHOMA (8-0) 62 Oregon 46 20 am Fla 21 Colorado 24 Texas 25 Kansas St 39 Iowa State 27 Okla St 8 Karras 15 ssoun 22 Nebraska OKLA ST 3 7 34 Wichita 10 20 Arkansas 17 61 Tex St 20 '7 Texas Tech 17 14 ssoun 3 20 Nebraska 7 35 Kansas 7 7 Oklahoma 8 at Colorado 15 Kansas State 22 at Iowa State 0 13 7 16 41 28 19 27 Stong-legged fullback Horace Ivory crushed for tough yardage up the middle and gutty senior quarterback Steve Davis scored two touchdowns as the Sooners pushed college football longest winning streak to 28 and moved Oklahoma a crucial step closer to a third-straight undefeated season and a possible second consecutive national championship WP did play a sound offensive game We certainly didn set any records for fumbles," Switzer said "When we bear down and concentrate on carrying the football correctly, there is nothing to worry about The game was a tremendous defensive struggle "Our defense played super throughout the ball said Switzer, who also called the Cowboys "a fine defen- Kansas State Kansas 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 7 7-28 KU-L Smithy run (Swiff kick) KU -I- Smith pasi rom Cromwell kick) KU-Banks6 run (Swift kick) KU-McMlchael I run (Swift kick) California Shocks -14 rst dCMns Rushes yards Passing yards i yards Passes Punts Tumbles lost Penalties vdrds Calif California 20 24 55 252 40 233 44 4 3 il 1 4 4 1 Season's Records 244 4-0 1931 1 233 2 1 12100 BERKELEY, Calif (AP) Quarterback Joe Roth passed for two touchdowns, Chuck Muncie accounted for more than.200 yards and Steve Rivera caught nine passes for the University of California Saturday as the Bears shocked fourth-ranked Southern California 28-14 A sophomore cornerback, Jeff Moye, made the key defensive play in the upset which broke the Trojans' 18-game unbeaten streak one day after Coach John McKay had announced this season would be his last at the collegiate level California never trailed in the regionally televised Pacific-8 game Moye's tackle of Southern Cal quarterback Vmce Evans just short of the Bears' goal line in the final minute of the first half kept the score at 7-7, stopping a Trojan drive which went 45 yards Roth, a junior, passed for 244 yards and two touchdowns--to Wes Walker in the second quarter and George Freitas in the third Muncie ran for 143 yards and caught five passes for 62 yards, while Rivera made nine receptions for 131 yards An 87-yard drive early the fourth period made the difference It ended when Roth bulled into the end zone on a quarterback sneak. The touchdown broke a 1414 tie, and fullback Tom Newton scored late in the game after the Trojans gave up the football at their own 16-yard line when they fumbled on a fourth down play The loss was the first for Southern Cal since the opening game last season, when Arkansas defeated the Trojans They were unbeaten in their last 28 conference games, since a 1971 loss to Stanford It was only the 37th loss McKay's 16- year stay, which ends after this season when he takes over the Tampa franchise in the National Football League. Cal, which tied the Trojans last season, made its Pac-fl record 4-1 and its over-all mark 5-3 with the victory before a Memorial Stadium crowd of 58,871.

The Trojans, still very much in the running for USC (7-1) 35 Duke It Oregon St 19 Purdue 27 Iowa 28 Wash St 17 Oregon 24 Notre Dame 14 California 8 Stanford 15 at Washington 28 UCLA CAL (5-3) 7 27 Colorado 7 10 West Va 6 33 Wash St 16 27 San Jose St 10 34 Oregon 3 5' Oregon St 17 14 UCLA 28 28 USC 8 Washington 15 at Air Force 22 at Stanford 34 28 21 24 7 24 v8 14 a fourth consecutive conference title, are 31 in the Pac-8, 7-1 overall Ricky Bell, the nation's leading rusher, ran 12 yards for a USC touchdown which tied the score at 7-7 in the second period. He rushed for 122 yards California took a 14-7 lead early in the third period on Roth's four-yard touchdown pass to tight end Freitas Muncie caught a pass for a gain of 20 yards, setting up the touchdown, and left the game with a twisted ankle But he returned to action quickly Evans scored on a quarterback draw play which went 29 yards, fooling California's defense with 1 57 left in the third quarter and tying the score again On the tie-breaking touchdown drive that followed, Muncie rushed for 32 yards and caught one pass for 13 yards Rivera caught two passes for 25 yards But it was a pass interference call, on a second-down play from the Trojans' 14, which gave Cal a first down at the four Paul Jones ran three yards before Roth went the final yard to score Bell carried 27 times and raised his season yardage total to 1,354 Muncie earned 18 times and now has J.063 yards for the season. Southern California 0 7 7 0--14 California 0 7 7 14--28 fal-Walker 16 pass from Roth (Breech kick) USC-Boll 12 run (Walker kick) Cal-Freitas4 pass from Roth (Breech kick) USC--Evans 29 run (Walker kick) Cal-Roth 1 run (Breech kick) Cal-Newton 11 run (Breech kick) A-58871 INDIVIDUAL LEADERS RUSHING-Southern Cal Bell 27-121 Evans 16-60 Tatupu 11-67 California Muncie 18 143 Newton 8 58 Jones 5 21 RECEIVING-Southern Cal Thurman 233 Sinmrln 1 11 California 9131 Muncie Walker 326 Freitas 2- PASSlNG-southernCal Evans 3-1M, yaras California, Roth 19-31 1 244 sive football team-- one of the finest we have played all year A dejected Cowboy coach Jim Stanley said his team did a good job in many phases, but we lost the game and that the phase that counts most "It meant more to them than it did to us I don't know why It was the biggest game of our lives "We had some turnovers that hurt and we didn have the kind of execution it takes to win they out-fought, out-hit and out-coached us Oklahoma is nowJW) on the season, but still must face Kansas, Missouri and third- ranked Nebraska in its bid for a third- straight Big Eight championship and an Orange Bowl berth Oklahoma State fell to 5-3 on the season and 1-3 in the conference The triumph over the 19th-ranked Low- bovs didn come easy The Sooners took 10-0 lead after the first quarter on a oneyard plunge by Davis and 56yard field goal by Tony DiRienzo Two Cowboy fumbles early in the third period set up an llyard TD scamper dy Davis and a 36-yard field goal by DiRienzo, 2, 1975 Lincoln Neb ID putting the Pokes in a 20-0 hole from which they could not recover Oklahoma final TD came on a 26-yard run by All-American Joe Washington after Sooner cornerback Jerrv Anderson had intercepted a Cowboy pass on the Oklahoma State 44 late in the final quarter Oklahoma State missed several scoring opportunities but finally tallied midway in the final period on an eight-yard pass from quarterback Scott Burk to split end Gerald Bain Both teams displayed their superior defensive speed and neither offense could get outside Ivory a redshirt junior with blazing speed, flashed for 99 yards mostly- through the heart of the Poke defensive wall is first touchdown capped a 58-vard drive featuring an 18-yard end around bv Tinker Owens a 37-yard pass from Davis to Washington and Ivon IQ-vard trek to the Cowboy one Oklahoma managed 304 yards rushing against the rugged Cowbov defenders who held Washington to only 58 vards on 12 carries and harassed him all day on punt returns O-vlahoma OWanoma State 10 0 10 7-27 0 0 0 7 7 OU-Davs eruo r.o) OU-FG e- OU a i OU-FG i 36 OSU-Ba i 3 pass BUTK Ir ors en RUSHING-O-, QI-V J99 Aa-. 1 56 Qn i i-d slate "une- j-e3 er 1643 bLr; Ij RECEIV NG--O aro-ia Wash rV 1 OK anoxia State Ba 7 1 3 NG-CN a 37 OUahoma State Burn 3 2 ore 4-s-O 49 Ferragamo, Butterfield Two-Pointer Fails, Get Honors Colorado Nips ISU fWI 11 Ki Mr.i..«_-.l Ttt "TM- Columbia, Mo National TV com mentator Keith Jackson, impressed by Nebraska handy 30-7 win over Missouri here Saturday said Nebraska was as good a team as any he seen this year Jackson noted it was too bad that Ohio State and Nebraska could not meet if both teams go undefeated Ohio State, would be Big Ten champ and a Rose Bowl participant and Nebraska would be Big Eight tithst and Orange Bowl entry, should they complete their schedule with victories ABC-TV awarded two Nebraska players with its offensive and defensive awards, and two $1,000 scholarships sponsored by Chevrolet Quarterback Vmce Fenragamo of Carson, Calif, won the offensive citation while Dave Butterfield of Kersey, Colo, the Big Eight defensive player of the week last week, won the defensive award How Top 20 Fared 1 Ohio State (8-0) def Indiana, 24 14 2 Oklahoma (8-0) def Oklahoma 27 7 3 Nebraska (8-0) def Missouri, 30 7 4 So Calif 7 1 lost to California, 28 14 5 Texas AM (7 0) did not play 6 Alabama 6 1 det Miss 21-10 7 Michigan (6-0-2) def Minnesota, 28-21 8 Texas (7 1) def SMU, 30-22 9 Penn State (8-1) def Maryland, 15-13 10 Arizona St (8 0) def Utah, 40-14 11 Florida (7-1) def Auburn, 31-14 12 Missouri (S 3) lost to Nebraska, 30-7 13 UCLA (5-2-1) lost to Washington, 17-13 14 Maryland (52-1) lost to Penn State, 15-13 IS. Notre Dame (6-2) def Navy, 31-10 16 Colorado (6-2) def Iowa State, 28-27 17 Arizona (6-1) def BYU, 36-20 18 San Diego St (7-0) played Pacific Sat night 19 (tie) Miami, Ohio (7-1) def Tulane, 35-21 20 Oklahoma St (5-3) lost to Oklahoma, 27-7 a yards Sta Season's Records 7 3 3 1 4 3, Monday Channel in Pro Foorball Los Angeles v.

Philadelphia, 8 College Football Notre highlights, 11.30 p.m., AMES, Iowa (AP) Quarterback David Williams threw for one touchdown and directed two 99-yard drives in the second half to give Colorado a come-from-behind 28-27 Big Eight Conference football victory over Iowa State here Saturday. The Buffaloes, now 2-2 in the conference, scored their go-ahead touchdown with two minutes, 11 seconds remaining in the game when fullback Terry Kunz gamed his second touchdown by plunging over from the three However, Cyclone quarterback Tom Mason responded with a 99-yard scoring drive, culminated when he ran around left end to bring Iowa State to within a point But a two-point conversion attempt failed and gave Iowa State its third straight loss Williams, the Big Eight's total offense leader, threw for 67 yards and rushed for another 46 yards Kunz, recovering from a bruised instep, added another 187 yards in 25 carries Iowa State scored on its third possession when Mason passed seven yards to tight end Glover Rodgers, who made a one- handed catch in the end zone Colorado tied the score at 7-7 just two minutes into the second period when Kunz ran three yards for a touchdown, capping a 74-yard 13-play march One minute later, starting Cyclone quarterback Buddy Hardeman galloped 71 yards to put Iowa State ahead 14-7, Hardeman, playing with a broken wrist, was relieved by Mason when he remjured his arm Iowa State led 21-7 at the half after freshman tailback Dexter Green plowed three yards for a score, ending 60-yard dnve Midway through the third period, the Buffs marched 72 yards for a score when Kunz went over from the one. Williams then directed two 99-yard scoring drives, including one which COLORADO 6 2 34 Cal torn a 27 Wyoming 32 ch ta 20 Oklanona 23 an Fla 31 Musoyr 21 Nebraska 28 Iowa State 8 Oklahoma St at Kansas 22 Kansas St IOWA STATE (4-)) 27 21 UCLA 10 7 A co'ce 0 10 Fla S' 2 31 Utah 10 17 Kansas St 20 10 Kansas 63 7 Oklahoma 27 T7 Colorado 8 SSOLTI li a' 22 OKla St 37 12 6 3 7 21 39 28 ended when he hit tight end Don Hasselbeck on a. 10-yard pass, and the jo- ahead score at 2 11 in the fourth with Kunz' three-yarder Colorado, 16th-ranked nationally, and Iowa State were a pair of wounded Big Eight teams hungry for victories after No 3 Nebraska defeated the Buffs 63-21 and No 2 Oklahoma stopped the Cyclones 39-7 last week The loss dropped Iowa State to 1-3 in the conference and 44 overall Iowa State twice appeared to regain momentum it lost in the second half The Cyclones led 21-14 when tailback Jim Wingender, who led Iowa State rushers with 13S yards in 17 carries, dashed 63 yards to the Colorado three. However, on the next play Colorado's Mike Spivey recovered fullback Mike Williams's fumble, and the Buffs marched 99 yards to tie the game Early in the fourth period, Cyclone freshman Ray Hardee returned a kickoff 100 yards for an apparent touchdown but saw it nullified when teammated Forry Smith was called for holding The game was played before a sellout crowd of 42,500 the new Iowa State stadium.

Iowa State hosts Missouri, and Colorado is home to Oklahoma State next week. Colorado Iowa Stale 0 7 7 14-28 7 14 0 6-27 CU-Kunz I run (Mackenzie kick) I CU- Oreen I run (Kollman kick) falled) ick; SF4PFR1.