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Go For Gophers Against NU, 7-0 Tigers Split, Stay Alive TwinSf Red Sox Share A.L. Lead Yaz Leads 64 Win By Boston By Associated Press Jim two-run single in the eighth inning climaxed a six-run explosion that carried the California Angels past Detroit 8-6 in the second game of a doubleheader Saturday and backed the Tigers into a dark comer in the frantic American League pennant race. Detroit won the first game 5-0 on Mickey three- hitter, bat stunning comeback victory in the nightcap dropped the Tigers one-half game behind both Minnesota and Boston going into the final day of the regular season. The Tigers now must sweep doubiehcader against the giant-killing Angels to gain a tie for the flag with either the Twins or Red Sox, who meet at Boston Sunday in a single game. The Red Sox beat Minnesota 64 Saturday, leaving each club with a 91-70 mark and the Tigers at 90-70.

The Red Sox, on the brink of elimination, swung back into the hectic pennant race with the help of Carl Yastr- four runs batted in on his 44th homer and a single. Boston ace Jim Lonborg will get the call to stop the Twins in the season finale. Asked about game, Trwins manager Cal Ermer replied: Dean Chance as pitcher. Who do you think going to be? Ermer? I want that monkey in there. I think of anyone rather have to pitch.

Elsewhere in the American League Washington handed another setback, as Frod Valentine and Cap Peterson homered to back Frank five-hit pitching. Baltimore struck for four runs in the eighth inning to stop Cleveland, 5-2, and New York scored three times in the eighth to nip Kansas City, 54. Chicago struck for eight runs in the first inning and coasted to a 94 win over Cincinnati as Ken Hottzman won his ninth game without a loss. The Giants clinched second place by nipping Philadelphia, 3-2 and 1-0, in a doubleheader. Houston registered a 4-3 win over Pittsburgh as Bob Watson hit his first major league home run.

Champion St. Louis scored two runs in the sixth inning en route to a 3-1 win over Atlanta. Orlando Cepeda drove in two of the three runs to take over the league lead at 111 New York beat Los Angeles for the second game in a row, 5-0, and kept Don Drysdale from setting a record. Drysdale has 190 lifetime victories for the Dodgers and needs one more for the all- time Dodger record. American Woa Uit Pet.

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Philadelphia (Bunning 17-15) at San Fraacisoa (McCormick 21-10). Dick Davis leaps to snare a pass in first half action. The junior fullback from Omaha accounted for 109 yards rush- JOURNAL AND STAR COLOR PHOTO BY JIM PALMER ing and 28 in passes caught in 7-0 victory over Minnesota Saturday. Could Do Us Lot of Devaney Hopes History Repeats Nebraska football coach Bob Devaney recalled earlier in the week that a come- from-behind win over Minnesota three years ago at Minneapolis had helped push his 1964 Husker team to a 9-1 season. He indicated hopefully Saturday that the 7-0 win over the might do the same for his 1967 squad.

pleased to he pointed out. is the kind of game that could do us a lot of good because Minnesota was a big, strong team. could profit a great deal from what happened out there he added. Encouraged by the victory, Devaney admitted he was a bit disappointed by the failure to capitalize on numerous scoring opportunities. feel bad about he said.

feel that when we get that many chances, got to take more advantage of them. But Minnesota was tough defensively and particularly so when we got in scoring In fact, Devaney thought rushing defense was tougher than statistics showed. surprised that we made 231 yards the Husker coach said, looking over the final statistics. seem like we were able to run that much against Statistics Minn. Neb.

First Downs 10 19 Rushing yardage 3 231 Passing 135 Passes 11-21 Passes Int. by 0 1 Punts Yards 10 Fumbles lost 4 NiiiiiiHtMiiiiiiiiiiiminiiiiiiNiiiiuuitniiiiiiNiiiiiMn Most of that rushing yardage came in the second half. fellows in the press box (Jim Ross, Carl Selmer and Cletus Fischer) did a good job of diagramming he explained. second half, we tried to concentrate on a few less plays and I think we ran them The defensive line which has been nearly lensation- ai in the first two games this season came in for praise again. defensive line did a fine Devaney lauded.

times our pass rush as good as like, but after we put a couple of new ends in, it got better. because the nqw ends were fresher, but with them, we were able to put more pressure on their However, the Husker pass defense was effective ia keeping Minnesota off the scoreboard. felt we could stop their running the Sunday Notre Dame a.m. (3). Bob Devaney noon (7-10-11).

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California Oct I (2). By DON FORSYTHE They handed out Centennial ties in the new Nebraska press box Saturday and it looked for a long time that it would be a Centennial tie on the Memorial Stadium turf as well. But Nebraska marshalled its offensive forces for an 11-play, 94-yard drive early in the second half to muscie past Minnesota, 7-0, in the game dedicated to the state's Centennial Year celebration. A record 65,361 fans watched the home opener. High-stepping sophomore Joe Orduna slashed over the left side, whirled through heavy traffic and skittered 25 yards into the end zone to cap the scoring drive which broke open a defensive standoff.

The margin loomed much larger than the seven points on the scoreboard as Cornhusker Black Shirts lived up to their defensive prowess by turning back the Gophers at every turn. The Cornhuskers gave up only 80 grudging yards to the Gophers in the first half and allowed just 63 after the intermission to complement the long scoring drive against a rugged Minnesota defense. Limited to ju.st four yards rushing in the fir.st quarter, the eager young Cornhuskers hinted they were ready to crack the Gopher defense late in the first half when they marched 75 yards only to see a 28-yard field goal attempt by Bill Bomberger go awry. The winning drive, coming on Nebraska's second possession after the intermission. started under less than favorable conditions.

Dave Baldridge, the No. 5 punter coming into the game, kicked from the Nebraska 40 to just inside the end zone and got a reverse bounce back to the Husker six. Dick Davis, whose 11- back play was exceptional all day, and Ben Gregory pushed the ball to the 12 on a pair of sorties over the right side. Then coach Bob Devaney sent kicker Dana Stephenson into the game and the Huskers came out in a short punt formation with quarterback Frank Patrick taking his usual position over the center. The snap went to Patrick, not Stephenson, and he handed to Gregory who powered over the right side for a first down at the 18.

The Huskers then capitalized on a Minnesota error to keep the drive alive. Patrick completed a first down pass to Richnafsky at the 40, but he had the ball shaken loose by the Gopher NU coach said. question was whether we could stop their The 233 yards his team gained rushing the only statistical item that surprised Devaney. thought (Dana) Stephenson did a good job of punting despite the figures that show his average as only he said. punt coverage also was very good.

Dennis Morrison did a good job of getting down uncler The Husker coach explained that Joe touchdown run came on a power play. was a fine effort by he said. line also did a fine job of of getting him past the line, then he did a good job from there. showed good judgment on the run, judgment than he showed on a later run when he should have stayed with his friends instead of trying to go to the outside, leaving his Hal Brown How They Scored Third Quarter NU MU Time left 6 0 Orduna, 25 run 4:45 7 0 Bomberger. placement Minnesota .............0 0 0 Nebraska ..............0 0 7 0-7 secondary and big Ed Duren recovered for Minnesota.

But the Gophers had been offside. Patrick came right back to Richnafsky who made a grab with defender Tom Sakai wrapped around him for a nine-yard gain to the Nebraska 46. A to Richnafsky missed connections, then Patrick, who finished with 11 completions in 20 attempts for 135 yards, lobbed a toss to Davis in the right flat. The Omaha junior rambled 18 yards to Gopher 36. Orduna hit the left side for four yards and Davis took a pitch around left end for seven to set up spectacular TD scamper.

Patrick faked first to Davis up the middle and then slipped the ball to Orduna, a marked man for the Gophers all afternoon. He had white-shirted company again just over the line of scrimmage but remarkably maintained his balance as he spun away and danced through the secondary for the tally. Bomberger, who missed on three field goal attempts, added the extra point with 4:45 left in the third quarter. The Gophers managed only two more first downs the rest of the way as the Black Shirts kept great pressure on passers Ray Stephens and Phil Hagen. The two signal callers and halfbacks Hubie Bryant and George Kemp wound up with minus rushing yardage as the Huskers held Minnesota to a net of three yards on the ground.

Stephens (8-20) and Hagen (1-4) combined for 140 yards through the air. The young Nebraska secondary contained the deep threats excellently, leaving Minnesota room for sporadic suc- Continued on Page 3C, Col. 4 Meylan Happy By HAL BROWN Most defensive linemen would be delighted at defensive rushing statistics against Minnesota Saturday with the Gophers gaining only three yards on the ground, but not Husker Wayne Meylan. many yards did did the Meylan asked writers as he soaked a sore ankle in the whirlpool in the dressing quarters. Told that Minnesota had only two yards the first quarter.

Meylan asked, get any the second half, did Quizzed on whether his goal was to some day hold a team to zero rushing yardage. the big middle guard explained that his goal was even loftier than that. goal is to hold everybody to zero he offered. While allowing the Gophers three yards rushing was a bit disappointing to Meylan, another Husker defender was enthusiastic about his first performance before the home fans. been waiting a long time to get in sophomore defensive end Frank Avolio pointed out in discussing his entrance into the contest midway in the game.

His happiest moment came when he threw quarterback Ray Stephens for a loss. just love playing defense and waited time to get my first quart a he explained. felt great. the best part about defense- getting yourself a quarter- bark and especially fun when vou can get him from Another sophomore, who a big hit in his home debut, was Joe Orduna, who went 25 yards in the third quarter for the only score of the game. even know what happened on the duna explained as he was leaving the hot locker room.

know I got a couple of great blocks from Dick Davis and Ben Gregory and the next thing I knew, there was the goal right in front of me and I sort of stumbled over Noting that and Davis did a fabulous job of blocking all duna. in the same breath, admitted he was not happy with his own blocking. wish I could have blocked for them as well as they blocked for he said. next week I can do better. I know gonna try because our coaches (backfield coach Mike Corgan in particular) care much for ball players who can just Another player sold on the Idea of blocking is Davis.

was getting some good, good he observed. easy to run when you have a good iine blocking because blocking is the key to this Sophomore quarterback Frank Patrick, calling Minnesota tougher defensively than Washington, noted that the Gophers' defense gave him more opportunities to run. knew they were going to use some double coverage on pass he said, we thought 1 might be able to run more, especially on the bootlegs. pretty much followed our game plan of working first to the outside, then coming back inside with our passing. I probably should have hit my receivers a little more than I Patrick have been much more accurate, how'ever, on the 94-yard touchdown drive, completing four of five passing attempts..