The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 24

Huskers Shatter ML By HAL BROWN a unbeaten Cornhuskers knocked the bottom out of the tranquilizer market at Memorial Stadium Saturday and slapped Missouri with i worst beating since 1958 in a 35-0 rout of the Tigers. Bob a y-coached teams' at Nebraska have gained a reputation for their heart-stopping antics that have made Husker fans the leading consumers of stomach-settling drugs, but there was none of that Saturday as the Huskers put on the most perfect four quarters of football in many years at Memorial Stadium. The perfect execution on both offense and defense was as good as any NU team has operated since the first three quarters against Oklahoma in Lincoln in 1963. And it led to the worst beating suffered by Missouri since Oklahoma defeated the Tigers, 39-0, in 1958, Dan first year as coach at Columbia. It was the worst hammering a Husker team had administered on a Missouri 11 since a 48-0 rout in 1922.

So perfect was the Nil execution that they commit a fumble until midway in the third quar- Statistics NU MU First downs 19 10 Rushing yards 271 59 Passes 3-19 Passing yards 65 48 Passes intercept, by 2 0 Punts 5-36 7-38 Fumbles lost 0 1 Yards penalized 68 19 ter when Pete Tatman fumbled as the Huskers were en route to their third touchdown. And Kelly Petersen saved that bobble by falling on the stray football. NU quarterbacks completed five of 12 passes without an interception against what is considered by most Big Eight observers as one of the top defensive secondaries in the league. Meanwhile, pass defense, which came into the game ranked seventh in the. Big Eight, allowed Missouri quarterbacks only three completions in 19 attempts and intercepted two aerials.

Nebraska drove for its five touchdowns with most of the yardage coming on the ground against a Missouri team that is always noted for its tough rushing defense. defensive unit 35-0 had blanked three foes this season and had given up more than two touchdowns only to third-ranked UCLA in a 24-15 loss. But the only blanking to take place Saturday at Memorial Stadium was administered by the Husker Black Shirts, who had been tainted slightly last week in giving up 19 points to Colorado. Saturday, the Black Shirts, led by All-American candidates Wayne Meylan and Larry Wachholtz, witii help from Carel i Jerry Patton, Jim McCord, Langston Coleman and any other gridder wearing the Continued on Page 3C, Col. 4 r', V.

'a-. Kaye Carstens leaps for a Missouri pass at the 50-yard line, gets a precarious grip (1) but hangs on to the ball (2) and is off and running (3) 3ournal anii Buffs Nip ou Outdoor News 77 NU evaney: Burns ur Brightly By CURT MOvSHER Every boy scout knows the way to build a fire is to rub two sticks, together. But Nebraska football, coach Bob Devaney, not particularly concerned with winning merit badges, figures the best way to do it is with little scraps of paper. He used some Saturday and the result was a bonfire which blazed for two hours and left Missouri in 35-0 ashes. So bright was it all, that Devaney said: think this game, overall, was probably the best played since been A mouthful it was, too, for that includes 44 other victories for Comhusk- And speaking of mouthfuls, where the little scrap of paper comes in.

Devaney read to his squad Saturday morning a clipping he received from an alumnus in Redondo Beach, which quoted UCLA coach Tommy Prothro as saying of football ratings: In some instances I agree with the wire services, but I must admit got Nebraska down about to quote NU halfback Larry Wachholtz, us off pretty Devaney said he was not going to make an issue of it noting that Prothro might have been misquoted. But he left the impression he thought it might have happened when he said that Prothro had never got- en over the time his Oregon State team, a 20-point favorite, was led down the path of humility, 28-0, by Wyoming team. There was more to the victory than clippings, of course, and perhaps a more tangible item was the momentum gained from the second half last week at Colorado when the Huskers had to get off the deck to win. Devaney agreed. think coming back as they did at Colorado when things looked so bad might have given us a lift as a football There was no way, the coach said, to single out anybody is a game of such precision as this.

The offense stayed primarily on the ground, which was evidence enough of the way the offensive line was moving out the always hard-hitting Tigers. And the backs knew where the holes were. Furious Husker charge throws Tiger quarterback for a loss. defense was super, too. defense played like it was mad Devaney said, they wanted to get to people.

the way you like to see the defense Nebraska ran predominately to the strong side of the unbalanced line and Devaney told why, first explaining the reasons for relying primarly on the ground game. week we try to move the ball the way we move it the the coach said. we could move it better on the As for running to the strong side, Devaney said that when teams try to fen se an unbalanced line they have to protect against the quick hitting plays to the short side. have to give up the coach said. gave it up to the long side, figuring to make up for it with pursuit.

Teams know we have much speed so they give it up to the long Bob also credited Bob Ohurchich with rummnig the option well which helped the ground attack go. The coach said he got in about everyone he intended to play, noting that in platoon football you go to 44 in a hurry just by getting in the first and second teams. And, he noted, too, the reserves looked pretty good on the one drive although they were stopped at other times. Bob missed seeing Devine after the game, but Devine had come looking for him late although in the Big Eight the formality is usually foregone. was a real fine gesture on his part.

But why as fine a coach as he Is and as fine a person as he Devaney said. was tough today. There is a small line sometimes between a team popping a game wide open and it being a tight The small lien went for NU Saturday, and the coach, referring to the 49th listing by UCLA, conceded with a twinkle. I think we were a better Wildcats, KU Settle For Draw Statistics downs Rushing yardago Passing yardage Passes Passes intM-ccpted Punt Fumbles lost Yards penabzod Kanas K-Ststs 16 11 134 30 33 Ml 1-9 2 2 3-45 840 2 i 48 Manhattan, Kan. halfback Thermus Butler kicked a 38-yard field goal with eight seconds left in the game giving Kansas a 3-3 tie, and spoiling Kansas bid for its first victory over the Jayhawks since 1955.

With 50 seconds left in the game Kansas defensive back Bill Hunt recovered a i 11 Nossek fumble at the K-State 27. On fourth-and-one, Butler, a sophomore from Columbus, kicked the first field goal of Us college career. Until the Jayhawks pulled out a tie, K-State seemed certain to shatter a 17-game losing streak, among the major colleges. As it was, the Wildcats avoided defeat, but their last victory was Nov. 21, 1964, over Oklahoma State, 17-14, in Manhattan.

K-State jumped ahead 3-0 in the first period on a 36- yard field goal by Tom Barnes, and stayed on with inspired defensive play led by linebacker Danny Lankas. Kansas threatened repeatedly in the last half, but K-State, time after time, came up with the big defensive play. With fourtb-and4wo at the K-State 7, and three and one- half minutes left, Kansas coach Jack Mitchell passed up a chance for a field-goal and sent little Don Shanklin on a sweep of his left end. Defensive back Henry Howard knocked Shanklin out of bounds at the six. The tie gave both 0-3-1 rec ords in Big Eight play while Kansas is 2-5-1 for all games, and K-State 0-6-1.

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(6). By DON FORSYTHE want to try to phrase it so it sound like the end of the world, but this is the farthest ever been outclassed in my 19 years of we lost some games pretty good in reflected Missouri coach Dan Devine after his Tigers were trampled, 35-0, by Nebraska Saturday. Nebraska was much better than UCI.A was and we thought they were he praised. The Tigers dropped a 25-14 decision to the unbeaten and third ranked Bruins four weeks ago. All but a few of the rec- cord 65,095 fans had departed when Devine opened the door of the tomblike Missouri dressing room to the press.

I can handle this real he quietly said. was a better football team than us. I thought they played a great game. We stop them and we move the that happens in trouble! That was the story of the he analyzed. The personable boss of the Tigers went on to ela- Tiger Pudding Time left NU MU How Scored SectMid Quarter 6-0 Tatman, 1 run 14:30 7-0 Wachholtz, placement 13-0 Gregory, 16 run 9:47 14-0 Wachholtz.

placement Third Quarter 20-0 Churchich, 1 run 5:08 21-0 Wachholtz, placement 27-0 Gregory, 7 run 28-0 Wachholtz, placement Fourth Quarter 34-0 Smith, 5 pasM from Weber 11:34 35-0 Wachholtz, placement Nebra.ska .........0 14 14 Missouri 0 0 0 iiiiitiiuiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiitiiiiiDiiiiiiuik borate about the problems the Cornhuskers caused for his club, held scoreless for the first time in 17 games. tried to establish some semblance of a game plan, but it suit being behind 14-0 so we abandoned what we were trying to do it working well he wryly grinned. The Tigers had hoped to spread out the big Nebraska defensive line with a split line offense featuring traps. only hope of catching up was passing which we did very be continued. Devine emphasized that there certainly were no turning points in the game, but a couple of plays early in the game were instrumental in the not being able to make a game of it.

dropped the ball on a third and two bootleg pass the first time we had the ball. Then a little later, on third and 12, Nebraska completed that long pass to he said. to point these out as significant isn't he observed, just illustrating what we had to do and played a near perfect gam he continued as he studied a copy of the game statistics. fumbles and zero interceptions when they do that tough to he said of the Huskers. inevitable would have at tome time.

Nebraska Just simply had us outclassed today. They were bigger, stronger and he pointed out. liave never seen a college football team with as many big, strong running he concluded..