The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 2

Sparkler Daszled Crowd, Count Nebraska sophomore Kent McCloughan darted and cut back on 30-yard run But penalty nullified scoring effort and fine block by Dennis Claridge went for naught. Come-From-Behind Victory Proves Cornliuskcrs Will be to Beat I ..1 12 111 th(' officials By HAL BROWN Nebraska proved Saturday that it is going to be tough to beat, coach Bob Devaney opined as he removed aperspiration stained white shirt in the locker room. you can come back twice like we did, then going to be hard to he said. fact that we came back showed that the boys have plenty of courage. I was real pleased with their When North Carolina scored in the opening moments of the game, it was the first time this season that Nebraska had trailed, just kicked the hell out of us the first the Husker coach explained when asked to compare the two halves.

looked like they came ready to play that first half and we come quite as Devaney said he think over-confidence was a factor. think we underestimated them. But we may have overestimated he said. think maybe the fellows started believing all the nice things that have been written about The Husker coach plained that some changes Joy Jumj: Bob Hohn, J09 McNulty exult. were made at halftime.

tried to figure out what w-as wrong and then tried to correct he said. Whew! the sequence of plays in the last 2:45 of the Nebraska-N Carolina State game: Nebraska McCloughan, 2-yard run, 2:29 left, Claridge pass to Huge, pass interference called at North Carolina State 42. 2:24 left. McCloughan, 3-yard run, 2 20 left. Nebraska time out.

Claridge, run, one-yard loss, NU time out. Claridge pass to Donovon, 9 yards to NCS 31, NU time out, i 58 left. Claridge pass incomplete. 1:53 left. Claridge screen pass to Ross.

9 yards. Nebraska took last of 5 legal timeouts. 1:39 left. Stuewe 3 vards, out of bounds. 1:34 left.

Claridge pass to Huge, 6 yards to NCS 13, out of bounds, 1:28 left. Claridge pass incomplete, 1:14 left. Stuewe run left end, 13 yards for touchdown, 1:08 left. North Carolina State Baffico kickoff to Montgomery, return 7 yards to NCS 39, 1:02 left. Rossi pass incomplete, passed bojond line of scrimmage for 5-yard penalty, :57 left.

Rossi pass to Young, 41 yards to Nebraska 24, :41 left. Rossi pass incomplete, :38 left. Rossi pass to Montgomery for no gam, ,24 left. Rossi pa.ss incomplete, left smothered for 11-yard loss on 4th down. Nebraska took ball on downs but clock ran out before a play could be run.

There were 18 plays run in the final 2:45 along with a kickoff. Nebraska employed a pass defense in the final minute, willing to give up all gains but the touchdown play. The Huskers were rushing with only 2, 3 or 4 men with the rest on pass defense. I Football I Photos I h- I I Boh (rorhaiii I Frank ON eil I I Web Ray I Harald Dreimania ItiiiiiHitiiitiitiiiitiiHHiiiiiiiimimmuiHniiiinii tried to throw more passes in the intermediate zone the second half and not wait for long yardage plays to start he explained. also changed a couple of blocking Devaney gave credit to both North Carolina offense and defense.

are the hardest hitting team faced this he said. were areal smart and a real good team and managed to take our strong plays away from Devaney explained that the call on which Denni.s Stuewe scored the winning touchdown was called by quarterback Dennis Claridge. just pulled it out of his hat and it was a real smart the Husker boss said. had a 3rd down with 3 yards to go and a little more than a minute on the clock, so we had plenty of time if the run had failed. crossed their defense up and was just a real good Devaney singled out the pass that John Kirby knocked down when North Carolina State was trying to come back in the final seconds as a key play.

Young ran a lot harder today than he has run before ami our came through with great pass happy Husker coach added. refused to crili- Major hijuiMcs Nebraska escaped the North State game with no serious injuries, trainer Paul Schneider advised after the contest Stuewe and Dave Theisen, both of whom saw limited service Saturday, are to he ready to go against Kansas a tliem out bore running all week and they should be coach Bob Devaney said 11c so sure about Bill Tlu)inton, how- I'vcr wont know about Thornton until later the week, but we certainly he is the ioach the officials for their holding call which nullified a touchdown run by Kent McCloughan and for tluhr refusing to give Stuewe a touchdow near the goal line. officials were probably he said are' right on top of tiie play and call them the way they see was jileased with Me- work on the run that was nullified. (Jouglian reversed his field and used his speed on that Devaney stated. ran luarler today and is gr'tling hcltcr with exiK'ri- ence Claridge Squirms for First Dennis Claridge scored 1st Nebraska TD on 4-yard keeper..