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Call 52 U501 Sports Information Call 52U500 For Sports Scores Page One Section Salt Lake Citj, Utah Sunday Corning Octolier 3, 1971 Nebraska Wallops Utah State; WSU Pins Utes rrrr fu Utah Bows Sports Mirror By 34-12 John jh Wss. A I i Mooney By John Mooney Tribune Sports Editor Washington State had a Paine for the whole ball game, but Utah and 15,000 fans suffered as the Cougars humiliated the Redskin football team, 34-12, Saturday afternoon in the stadium. Ty Paine, the Cougar junior quarterback, scampered for three touchdowns as WSU won its second game in a row but only its second in the last 13 games at the expense of the Utes, who absorbed their third straight loss. The weather looked luUSy but WaSu that bad. The Utes looked pretty horrible and were.

Q. vvi 3r 'if Xi 5 University of Utahs Scooter Longmire is i Saturday while Washington State defender i Conway (34) and Bruce Cousin (rear). Cou-rolling to pass (he set record of 40 tries) Rod Anderson (84) is cut down by Mickey gars roiled to 34-12 nonconference win. Mostly Through Air jf nf V. rl -which came on two draw plays in the second half.

Tagge, a soft-spoken senior from Green Bay, playing a little more than one-half of the game, accounted for almost half of the Husker offensive by passing and rushing. He now ranks third among all-time Big Eight passers and is seventh for total career offense in the conference. I am really not all that impressed by my statistics, he said later. To me, it is important that I have a complete game. Statistics Utah State Nebraska First Downs 11 F.ushes-Yards 40-89 Passing Yardage 136 Return Yardage 14 Passes 10-17-2 Punts 8-37-0 Fumbles Lost 0 Yards Penalized 42 23 53-230 239 134 13-23-0 3-39-0 1 91 "1 if Huge Huskers Trample Aggies, 42 to 6 H.

Y4s- j0 'r rO I want to call a good game and be able to read defenses- These are the things I consider important, Tagge said. Tagge admitted that Green Bay Packer quarterback Bart Starr was something of a hero to him. I used to go to their practices and I tried to learn from them, Tagge said. But actually, I think Jim Anderson, our defensive back, was more of a hero to me. We played together in high school.

Bob Devaney, Nebraska coach who ranks as the winningest coach among active mentors in the game today, observed from the Husker locker room: Utah State surpised us by playing an eight-man front. This hurt our running. So w'e figured we had to throw' the bail more. We do have a tine passing game. Our game today was much better than the one we played last week against Texas A Devaney continued.

Devaney concluded by saying that the only comparison he would make over the 'w Associated Press Wirephcto score touchdown against Utah State. ushers won gnnie. Poorest Showing Coach Bill Meek admitted this was the poorest showing by a Utah team in his four years at Utah. Few Utah showed an offense that piled up yardage totals that didnt tell a true story in the statistics. The Utes couldn't put it all together when they had count-.

less opportunities. Defensively, after the first quarter, Utah was awful. Paine scored on runs of nine, 62 and 45 yards, which was 26 yards more than Utahs runners could net all afternoon. Utah had 236 yards in the air, but only two touchdowns to show for all the throwing and churning on a blustery af- temoon. Utah put the ball in the air 45 times, which is a school record.

Except for Paines running and the 73-yard touchdown run by Bernard Jack-son, it was a dull football game. Utes Steal Pass Utahs first score was set up on a pass interception by Mark Taylor on the -30 and rushed back to the 19. Cal Poulson I swept the right flank on first down for the score. Fleming Jensen missed his first extra point of the year and that may have been a tipoff as later, the soccer-style booter 1 missed on field goal attempts from the 45-, 33-and 23-yard stripes. Scooter Longmire scored for the Utes -on a yard surge in the first two seconds I of the fourth quarter.

That was all of Utahs scoring. Utahs defense was so slick in the; I first quarter the Cougars only totaled 24-; yards. Meanwhile the Utes were threatening all over the field. The first drive fiz zjed when Fred Graves caught a pass; on the 17 and flipped it away as he tried -to spin. The second drive ended when- Longmires pass was intercepted in the-end zone and the third died with the long-1 field goal attempt.

It was a 0-0 quarter! and you could say that again. Swept to Score WSU still was polluting the air in the -second quarter and a poor punt set up the Ute interception, which gave the 6-0 lead. Utah was guilty of a stupid (out-! where everyone could see it) personal! foul which started the first WSU touch- -down drive. Tne foul put the ball the Utah 46, first time across midfield for -the Cats. Paine completed passes of 14 yards to Tony Lomax and 20 yards to Bob Red-.

mond and then swept in to score his first; -touchdown from the nine. Don Sweets-; kick put the visitors ahead to stay. Longmire was driven back to two-yard line in the next Utah series and -Marv Batemans kick was run back to the Utah 36. Paine lateraled to Jackson for 14, handed off to Ken Grandberry for nine and then pitched out to Grandoerry for thp score and a 14-6 halftime edge. Utah made a belated drive in the final minute of the half; until that surge against the prevent defense, Utah had totaled 17 yards for the second quarter offensively.

Cougars Pad Lead Utah had the ball for 37 plays in the third period to WSUs nine plays, but the Cougars padded their lead to 21-6 with Jackson breaking over left tackle and skipping 73 yards to score. Utah followed with its only good drive of the afternoon and marched 79 yards with Longmire going over on the first play of the fourth quarter. Paine followed with a great fake into the line and then outran the Ute secondary tor his 62-yard suitie and then came back for 45 yards for his nine punts, but he complained of a sore leg and his performance may have been costly. Meek said after the game he could feel the mpntal apathy in the dressing room before the game. We had been up for two good opponents ard I guess you cant expect a team to be up week alter-week," he said.

Pretty soon, though, fans are going to wonder if a team has to be down week after week, also. Tribune Sports Editor An amateur, the cynic aigued, is any athlete who wont accept a check. Defining an amateur athlete in the true sense of the word is ail but impossible on the international level. Even John B. Kelly the president pf the Amateur A letic Union, was forced to admit perhaps Avery Brundage is thp only true amateur in athletics in the world.

John Mooney Brundage, of course, is the stormy petrel of international and Olympic competition whose continuing battle to keep the athletics true amateurs is a source of much controversy. Brundage is an amateur in all his thinking, probably because as a millionaire several times over, he can afford to be concerned with the ideals of athletic competition rather than crass commercialization which plagues the individual athlete forced to earn a living outside the stadium, There are two athletic philosophies up for grabs in the international arena, which leads to most of the hassles. In the Iron Curtain countries, we are told, the athletes are subsidized by the government or the military, which to our way of thinking, makes them professionals and ineligible to compete. The European bloc retorts that when an athlete in the United States accepts an athletic grant-in-aid of room, board and tuition, plus fringe benefits for competing on a college team, he receives much more money than the European whom we call a pro. Hopefully, a Change The Amateur Athletic Union, now in convention in Lake Placid, N.Y., is discussing a proposal with the International Amateur Athletic Federation which would allow professionals one sport to compete as amateurs in another sport.

Now, once a man or woman signs a professional athletic contract, that person is through as an amateur athlete. Under the new thinking, a professional basketball player couldnt compete in the Olympics in basketball, but he could in volleyball, for example. This might be ideal for Wilt (the Stilt) Chamberlain, the great basketball center, wha has talked of fighting professionally. Chamberlain could compete in the Olympic heavyw eight boxing competition and perhaps show whether he could fight a lick or not. More pertinent might be the case of the track sprinters who attempt to capitalize on their fleetness pro football.

Under the new rules, they could still compete in the Olympic track meets, en though professional football players. Rational Approach The AAU is trying to rationalize its thinking with the modern trend in athletics. It pretty much stands to reason that a man who has been housed and fed pamperec a collegian will not keep competing at his own expense, for a bit of glory and tinsel. You face that problem of the professional amateur, the prototype of the tennis bum of a few jears ago, who lives on his paddl'd expense aecounts. Actually, several sports have diffeient interpretations of their own amateur regulations.

Once, no amateur could capitalize on his athletic fame in any way, and su unmet who played Tarzan in the films became protessionals. in some sports, a man who is paid a teacher, coach or instructor becomes a professional athlete. In other sports, Uue amateurs may lie employed as swimming, tennis or ski coaches. The AAU is trying to straighten out a sei ics of complex lnterpretat-ons. But Its doubtful if any compromise will satisfy Bitiiid.ige, who still helietes amateur spoits must be conducted under the stiict rules of the Bi.tish code, where a piofessional is not a gentleman.

A Kelly told our group last summer In Miami Beach, My father could not row at Oxford because he was the son of a bncklayer and not a gentleman. The elder Kelly did row eventually in the Olympics and wound up a multimillionaire, which may mver some of his early lack of breeding. OWrxation Ward A columnist must envy oar waterfowl, which may be Wil-shotted only during Serbia seasons and specific, hours. Tribune Staff Photos by Lynn Johnson 1971 Huskers to last years national champions was, We pass better this year but our running game has not yet caught up with last years. But I expect it will soon.

After 18 minutes of play Nebraska scored three touchdowns and it was obvious that Utah Siate was overmatched. Nebraska led, 21-0 at halftime. Utah State took the opening kickoff and ran off three straight first downs The Aggies looked sharp in moving from their 24 to the Comhuskers 39, eating up five and one-half minutes of the clock and looking as if they might be able to match muscle with the mighty Huskers. Forced to Punt However, once USU pounded to the Nebraska 39, the Husker defense stiffened and in the next three plays the Ags lost nine yards and were forced to punt. Tagge directed his team 74 yards in the next four minutes and Nebraska had its first touchdown.

Tagge passed the final 14 yards to Bill Olds who broke two tackles at the 10-yard line before scoring. Rich Sanger added the conversion and it was 70. Nebraska's first series the Huskers found it difficult to run against USU, so Tagge went to his passing game, repeatedly finding receivers 10 yards deep into the Ags secondary. The Huskers totaled 119 yards passing in the first half. Unlike their first possession, Utah State was denied yardage following the Nebraska kickoff and Mickey Doyle punted short to the Husker 84.

Huskrrs Ron Ball This time Nebraska showed its powerful running game and the Huskers rammed the ball downfield and scored in eight plays. Tagge took it in with 0:45 left in the first period. With the ball on the three. Tagge faked beautifully, draw ing the Ags to the left side. The irulti-talented quarterback then sneaked around the right side and his mission to the goal line was so easy he actually trotted those three yards.

Earlv in the second period Utah State was situated midfield. Adams fired a pass to Bob Wicks seven yards deep into the secondary. The ball bounced off Wicks chest into the hands of Dave Mason. The Cornhusker defensive back scampered down the left sideline 53 yards, outracing Ad-nis to the goal and giving Nebraska its third touchdovv n. Tagge kept his offense on the ground and following the second half kickoff the Huskers marohed 69 yards in a span of six minutes.

Tagge plunged over from the one and it as 28 0. Ttah States touchdown came two minutes later. A 31 yard draw play by Ed Giles USUs biggest gainer up to that point put Utah State in position at the Husker 39. Two pkivs later Adams connected with Wteks at tlic sideline and the Aggie split end broke free and scored on a 34 yard pass play. The conversion as missed.

is By Ray Herbat Tribune Sports Writer LINCOLN, NEB. Among an awesome horde of Huskers inside Memorial Stadium and in front of a mass of brash, howling red-clad football-mad fans here Saturday afternoon, Utah State was devastated, 42-fi, by a Nebraska machine which deserves to be called the nations No. 1 football team. The situation can be summed up pretty much with tne post game words of Aggie coach Chuck Mills, who uttered: We came, we saw and we were conquered. Thats a helluva football team.

They do everything. Two Draw Plays' Led by their brilliant all-America quarterback, Jerry Tagge, the Com-huskers shredded USUs defense to the tune of 469 yards, and the pursuing Nebraska defense limited the Aggies to just 89 yards on the ground half of The Bi" Ones Mad Saturday N. I). 14, Michigan Slate 2 In a formless, uninteresting struggle before a capacity crowd of 59,075 in South Bend Saturday, Notre Dame punched across two touchdowns in the first period and then held gamely on as Michigan State tried, ithout success, to make a comeback as Duffy Daugherty went bananas on the sidelines over what he termed, lousy officiating (See Story on Page D-4). Colorado 31, 21 Playing at home for the first time tins season, cheered on by an all-approving crowd, Colorados Buffaloes stomped all over Kansas State in a crucial Big Eight encounter ns mercurial Cliff Branch stung the TV ...1, In Dli SO i i ivl non) rotnrn I ui (nr i tur wull a jv for a touchdown and a 20-yard pass reception for another score (See Story on Page D8).

Michigan 46, Navy The nations second ranking football pow er utilized a variety of offensive ire-woiks Saturday and employed one of the strongest and stingiest defensec in the country to completely demoralize outclassed Navy. A 21-point scoring orgv in the final quarter by Michigan mopped up the Middies just to leave no doubt (See Story on Page D-4). Duke 9, Stanford 3 Stanford, a football power since Jim Plunlett enrolled there, and a power since he left after guiding the Indians to a Rose Bowl victory over Ohio State last yeai. returned home Satin day to entertain Duke, and the surprising Blue Devils took an early lead and then held on to seoie a major upset (See Story on Page D-2). V.4 1 a' A Nebnska quarterback Jerry Tagge (It) skirts left end to ki 1 ALifc sm.

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