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Section THE SUNDAY OKLAHCMAN October 13, 1985 Huskers' Clayton Passes Test; Williams Doesn't yards in 4.56 and burned Oklahoma deep aW couple of times last year. Saturday night, Schnitzler beat, veteran cornerback Demise Williams down the right 2t sideline for a 38-yard touchdown pass from Clayton with 4:13 left in the half. Then he outran freshman cornerback Melvin Gilliair down the left sideline for 34-yard completion to set up the first of two 40-yard field goals by VI Dale Klein with 23 seconds left before inter- From Page 1C rieaced quarterback. He's very gifted and I've probably made too much of that" Qddsmakers and the media probably have made too much of Nebraska's tradition, but evidently it's there. Oklahoma State, now 4-1 and 0-1 in the Big Eight Conference, entered the game with the higher ranking (fifth versus ninth) and had the home-field advantage, but; Nebraska was made a 5-point favorite and played like it Nebraska, 4-1 and 1-0 in the conference, has now won 12 straight from OSU and is unbeaten in the last 24 games of the series dating back to a Cowboy win in 1961.

The loss was only the third in 17 games for OSlTs Jones. "I didn't like the other two (last year against Nebraska and Oklahoma) and I like it less now," Jones said. It's unfair, however, to give the impression that -Oklahoma State gave away the game. Nebraska's defense, which always seems to be underrated, limited OSU tailback Thurman Thomas to a season-low 71 yards on 22 car- O'Donnell kicked a 28-yard field goal on the fourth play of the second quarter. Oklahoma State wasted its first possession, a 55-yard march highlighted by five Williams completions, when Thomas lost a fumble from the OSU 15.

Williams had just hit tight end JJt. Dillard for 22 yards, over the middle to give the Cowboys first down at the Nebraska 15 when Thomas was hit just as he hurdled a blocker. Husker tackle Chris Spachman recovered in the open field. Mike Hudson grabbed the ball from Dubose after a five-yard gain to the OSU 31, giving the ball back to the Cowboys. Riley beat NU cornerback; Dennis Watkins on a fly pattern for a 46-yard pass from Williams to the Husker 35, but the drive stalled at the 11 when Williams threw three consecutive incomple-tions, his first of the game after straight.

O'Donnell then kicked the field goal. But Nebraska came back with an eight-play, 67-yard touchdown drive highlighted by sneaky 50-yard run by Dubose to the OSU three. The junior tailback faked a reverse handoff to wingback Von Sheppard to freeze the Cowboy linebackers and then sprinted around right end before being caught from Thomas, who entered the game as the nation's second-leading rusher, did become the first Oklahoma State player to score a rushing touchdown against Nebraska- since 1978, indicating that Nebraska's dominance in the series is no fluke. Bobby Riley nabbed five Williams passes for 131 yards, but was kept out of the end zone. Meanwhile, Nebraska's offense moved the ball for 417 total yards, three fewer than gained by The Huskers, nullifying OSU's pursuit with misdirection plays, fullback dives and draws, got 139 yards rushing from Doug Dubose and a career-best 161 yards passing from sophomore, quarterback McCa-thorn Clayton, who completed eight of 16.

"I thought OSU gave great effort and I'm really pleased to get by them," said Nebraska head coach Tom Osborne. "I thought this was one of our better games played in two or three years." Williams' 363 yards broke the OSU record of 329 yards by Tony Pounds in 1970 against Nebraska. Williams" connected on eight of eight passes for 121 yards in the first quarter, but Oklahoma State failed to score until Joey behind by safety Mark Moorev OSU's goal-line defense stopped Paul Miles for no gain: and Dubose for two dives of one yard, but Clayton followed a punishing block by fullback Tom Rathman to score on' a fourth-and-goal keeper off right tackle for Nebraska's first rushing against the Cowboys since 1982. Dale Klein kicked the extra point for a 7-3 Nebraska lead with 11:31 left-in the second quarter, but the Huskers had just warmed up. When the halftime horn sounded, the scoreboard showed Nebraska 17, Oklahoma" State 3 the final score of last year's game in Lincoln.

There was some doubt about the. passing ability of Clayton entering the game, especially by skeptics in Nebraska, but the sophomore from Orlando, must have made ex-NU passers David Humni and Vince Ferragamo proud in the first Clayton entered the game with only a 40.7-percent completion rate but capitalized on single coverage by.OSU cornerbacks to Robb Schnitzler to put Nebraska in command. Schnitzler, from rural Battle Creek, doesn't look like a sprinter, but he has run 40 "Nebraska's real good a lulling you to sleep, -then throwing the; deep' pass," -Demise- Wil-j Hams said. Nebraska took advantage of a Bobby RileySS fumble after a seven-yard reception to go up2K 20-3 oq Klein's second field goal with 8:33 left in the third quarter. Riley lost the ball in front of the Cowboy bench as.

he tried for extra yardage with a spin move and Pat Jones, in full view of the play, pleaded with officials that the play dead before the fumble. The OSU coach didn't put up much of-aiy argument. He turned around and threw his hands up in frustration, familiar sight iriSSS this one-sided series. -it'JZS: Jones Warned Pokes To Avoid Turnovers HJU Threw Everything At Cowboys that thrill was taken away by the results. "I J' wouldn't have minded if I'd caught just one or two passes, if we'd had a victory," he said.

Riley remembered the fatal pass inter-. ception on the goal as being- "a screen pass to SI the tight end. But Ron- nie got into a little trou- ble." Maybe tbe under- safetyiMark Moore confessed to some surprise at Nebraska' 161 aerial yards. "What we were worried about was the running game," Moore said. "We didn't expect him to throw the ball well enough to get behind us.

We maybe cheated up too much. "I'm going to take the blame for what happened back 5n the secondary. We executed the blitz. We just didn't get to the QB." Split end Bobby Riley caught five of Williams' passes for 131 but he admitted statement of the weeK. A DECADE 0E EXCELLENCE CONTINUES SUPER HORSE RETURNS handle on that -football, argues the point.

"I don't think it was a fumble," he said, "because my knee had already hit the ground. The ground can't cause a fumble." The 14-point rally in he third quarter showed Jones the character he knew his squad possessed. "Even at halftime I though we could come back and win the football game. We had been moving the football," The fact that Oklahoma State passed so much was not a surprise to Jones. Nor was he caught completely off guard that Husker quar-terback McCathorn Clayton passed so effectively.

"We went into the game intending to throw it 35 to 40 times," Jones said. The Cowboys actually launched 44 and hit 27. "Clayton gives them (the Huskers) a dimension they haven't had since Turner Gill. He threw the ball well and with telling effect." However, Cowboy free NOVEMBER 16-23 IF "KANSAS JAYHAWK PREVIEW" ByMacBentley STILLWATER Nebraska played its usual game Saturday night and Oklahoma State may have helped a little bit with its agressive defensive play against the running game. At least that was the consensus in the Cornhuskers' dressing room after their 34-24 victory over the before a sellout crowd at Lewis Field.

"We played our kind of game, we ran the ball well and hit some long passes to keep people off our backs," Nebraska coach Tom Osborne said. "Most of the passes we hit were run-action passes, after getting people pushed out of shape. Mac (quarterback McCathorn Clayton) throws the ball deep very well." Clayton came into the game with just 11 completions in 27 attempts in the Huskers' first four games of the season, but against the Pokesihe hit eight of 16 for -161 yards and two touchdowns. His' two biggest were thrown to Robb Schnitzler in the second quarter, one for a 38-yard touchdown and the other, a 34-yarder, to set up a 40-yard Dale Klein field goal, as Nebraska was building a 17-3 halftime lead, "It seemed like everything we threw was open," said Eod Smith, who caught two for 23 yards. "I think they were trying to concentrate on our running game.

could probably say -our passing game hasn't been setting the world on fire, but it's coming around." Both of Schnitzler's receptions were designed to take advantage of the Cowboys' concern with the Nebraska's rushing game, which had averaged over 400 yards in the first four games. The -second-quarter TD pass, Clayton's first of the season and first of his career, came on what the Huskers call a 44 turnout with one takeoff. "He'll fake to the I-back and just sit back there like he handed the ball off, hiding it for THURSDAY OCT. 17 7:30 PM OSU TECHNICAL INSTITUTE'S ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY AUDITORIUM FEATURED SPEAKER: Defensive End Coach Recruiting Coordinator WILLIE ANDERSON All Alumni, Former Students and Friends Welcome. By Bay Soldan STILLWATER week, while preparing his team for the Nebraska Cornhuskers, coach Pat Jones told his Oklahoma State Cowboys the way it was.

"Coach told us, 'You can't turn the ball over and expect to Cowboy tailback Thurman Thomas said after the Cowboys turned the -ball over four times and lost 34-24 to the Husk-' ers Saturday night. "I don't mind not getting any lucky breaks, we've just got to stop giving them," said offensive tackle Paul Blair. The game's turning point, after the Cowboys rallied from a 20-3 deficit to a threatening position at 20-17 came on the biggest of all the turnovers, a pass interception on the OSD nine and a two-yard advancement to the seven. "It was at busted play," said quarterback Ronnie Williams. "After I was chased back toward the goal, I saw Thurman was floating out wide open." But the little flick of about seven yards never reached Thomas.

Husker. defender Marc Mum-ford, with both arms extended, wrapped the ball up for himself. "I never saw him," Williams said of Mumford, who was directly between Williams and Thomas. Three plays later, the Husker were on top 27-17 and, with 13 minutes left, over the hump. "You can't give up crucial turnovers and big plays and beat a good, football team," Jones said.

"We did both. We helped them and they didn't help us at all." Oklahoma State's first fumble ended its opening possession on the Husker 19 after the Cowboys had rolled up four first downs and marched 51 yards. Thomas, who lost the Stiff Photo by Doug Hole OSU's Bobby Riley grabs pass as Nebraska's Dennis Watkins closes in. NOW IS THE TIME! UPGRADE YOUR OFFICE TYPEWRITER to the IBM WHEELWRITER 5 froze the corner on that one," Schnitzler said. "Mac threw it right over the defensive guy and into my hands." The Cowboys came back in the third period to pull within 20-17, driving 80 yards for one touchdown and 65 for the other.

Their, surge ended with an interception by linebacker Marc Munford, which set up a TD, at the Cowboy seven-yard line early in the fourth quarter. OSU quarterback Ronnie Williams com awhile, and I'm supposed to stop on the corner and then release," said Schnitzler. "I was supposed to play it like a running play, and the corner just sat there and once I got going I knew I had a chance to score. There was a lot of one-on-one coverage tonight and when that happens you're going to have a lot of big plays." The second long pass was a slant pattern, "but this time it was a slant and go, we kind of pleted five passes oh the first TD drive and one, a 49-yarder to, Bobby Riley, on the four-play second drive. "Oh yeah, that usually happens, especially when! you get big plays like thati" Nebraska defensive lineman Jim Skow said.

"They're a big-play' offense anyway; they show those quick, passes and then, throw it long. "But I don't really know what happens when a team starts to break down." Automatic Correction 7 Memory Automatic Centering Automatic Underlining Caps Lock Feature OPTIONS: Spell Check Scoreboard Nebraska 34, Oklahoma State 24 Nebraska 0 17 3 14 Oklahoma State. 0 3 14 7 NUOSU How They Scared TJn SECOND QUARTER Printer Display NOWI! WHILE QUANTITIES LAST 0-3 Joey O'Donnell 28 PG Drive: 63 yards in 13 plays to the Nebraska 11. Big Play: Bobby Riley 46 pass from Jtonnie Williams. 795 typewriter Make or Model You Wish To Trade Typowrtiors I Call For A Quote On Another Supplies aM Game in Figures learn Statistics "J-3 McCathorn Clayton 1 run (Dale Klein kick) 11:30 Drive: 67 yards In eight plays.

Big Play: Doug DuBose 50 run to the OSU 3 on a fake reverse. 14-3 Robb Schnitzler 38 pass from Clayton (Klein kick) 4:13 Drive: 80 yards in nine plays. 17-3 Klein 41 PO 00:23 Drive: 42 yards in seven plays to the OSU 23. Big Play: Schnitzler 34 pass from Clayton. THIRD QUARTER 2t3 Klein 41 po 8:33 Drive: 4 yards In seven plays after a tumble recovery at the OSU 27.

Zt-lf! JlJfc DHIard 5 yard pass front Williams (O'Donnell kick) 5:32 Drive: 80 yards in 11 plays. Big Plays: Scrambles of 12 and 16 yards, pass completions of 16, 13 and 16 yards by Williams, Kelloy Fraln Rmnino RusMni' A'lio'rnpli Yrl Huihlnn Yurctt Loit Ruihlno Nol Yard Rushing. Net Yard Patting Paitot AMamptad Pattet Computed NU OSU i 58 31 S77 1 13 SI 56 256 57 161 363 16 44 8 7 0 2 74 75 417 430 5.6 5.6 21 0 2-1 3-2 6-53 3-20 2-J0, 0-0 34:18 25:42 Total Net Yardt Awwaoa Qaln Par Play Return Yarfli. Fumblet, l.oit Panalltoi, YareH jnierceptoriii Vardt Punrt, Vardt Punt "Yardt' KlcUcff Raturna, Vardt PotMtilon Time Sack, Yardt WHIami Mlllor Individual Statistics Nebraska Play: Riley 49 yard pass from Wll jJj AUTO NW.I "Mil 1 Kg POLYURETHANE s19w I Atl. Com.

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