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gb 4 '44 '1 14 1 1 '44 Na Friday Morning November 26 1971 ID Fort Worth STAR-TELEGRAM ID Fort WI i I 41 Mebraska Overcame Met Two Staubach TD Passes Spark 28-21 Dallas Victory Mistakes to Mis (From Page 1) to Hayes" Landry stressed vent' defense and Charlie gave us a lift gave us ters' muff The pass bounced hope If we don't make that off Waters' hands into the we go in at the half behind grasp of Howley who re14-7 and not much going for turned 12 yards to the LA 31 us" St aubach bootlegged 13 Howley's interception carno yards then threw to Alworth early in the third period and for the TD was the product of the 'pre- "The play worked like it's drawn up" said Alwortli RAM-COWBOY "They were in a zone and once I was past the short men INDIVIDUAL LEADERS (linebackers) I was open be-RUSHING cause Bob (Hayes) cleared 13-20 Smith 7-25 nAllAc--ThnrnAc 1A-40 StatihAth 6 them out RUSHING 13-20 Smith 7-25 14-49 Staubach 6- 4 7144 i 1 'r- li et 1 6 9-1P: IV 7 7 IP- -r-- 1 ve- --ii0- e-A'A 400---- 117 0 44) a 444 I i 1'''''''1 -f1 tr boo 0''-'--- tA 71:14 i'' i'7 0 I ii 0i4 Wi 00''''''''''''''' -4 44 1' -'14 33 Garrison 1333 PASSING 20-35-1 234 8-14-0 176 RECEIVING 5-71 Josephson 5-35 Smith 4-32 3-71 Alworth 2-34 Thomas 2-20 one hand slap to mar the return "We'd planned it up the middle" he said "The ball was short and I caught it on the run I was already in gear and just turned it on" WITH GABRIEL on a streak that would extend through eight straight completions the Rams retaliated quickly A 41-yard pass to Rentzel to the Cowboys' 15 was the big advance when free safety Cliff Harris went for an interception and missed allowing Rentzel to make a remarkable catch between him and Herb Adder ley Larry Smith belted across from the one and after failing on Ray's field goal the Rams went back to work on their next possession This was a 55-yard drive capped by a third-and-two pass to Klein from 32 yards exact strategy the Cowboys had been warned about Now it was 14-7 and the Rams suddenly were back on the Dallas 26 by virtue of Les Josephson's 15-yard run and 2 personal foul penalties It was here that Lilly kayoed the reverse 6 i l''''01 1 1 ''''i4 1 i i 71 4 Olttiq i't al5U 1 -ii: 1 1 t'' :3 1741::: 7444-44-: It "yr77 th :6 "'1: 4 It 4 oe4 fs 4 tf111 i "kti 14t i i I irc4 V1' A 40 0' "A AP 1 :4 44'37 i ":) Alio i 4 it Aff444 lik- 0 yr' A i iro'l'Ao 0r-- 4 t- '''''''Z: i 4'' 'iit7 joe 1' ''''z0 o4 zt :4 i "tri): y''''' i41 ft tn 4 ee 1:: i i 11e-14g44: -4 1 11 64:44 3 Pro Cage Chart AMERICAN LEAGUE East nest Kentucky 14 5 Utah Virginia 12 9 Indiana New York 9 11 Memphis Floridians 911 Uallas Pittsburgh 10130enver Carolina 8 11 14 7 le 9 9 11 811 78 Photo RAMS Rams' Larry Smith cracks through the line from one foot out to score a first-quarter touchdown Cowboy linebacker Lee Roy Jordan 55 is trying to stop the charging Ram THURSDAY'S RESULTS Kentucky 133 New York 117 Virginia 131 Pittsburgh 118 FRIDAY'S SCHEDULE Dallas at New York Floridians at Memphis Denver at indlana Utah vs Carolina at Greensboro NC NATIONAL LEAGUE (Does not include Thursday's results) ATLANTIC MIDWEST Boston 13 7 Milwaukee 19 3 New York 11 9 Chicago 13 5 Philadelphia 9 11 Detroit 9 10 Buffalo 8 12 Phoenix 8 11 CENTRAL PACIFIC Cincinnati 7 10 Los Angeles 17 3 Baltimore 8 12 Golden St 14 7 Atlanta 5 13 Seattle 13 7 Cleveland 5 14 Houston 5 17 Portland 3 16 THURSDAY'S RESULTS Detroit at Phoenix late Los Angeles at Seattle late Philadelphia vs Golden Stae at Oak land late FRIDAY'S SCHEDULE New York at Boston Portland at Milwaukee Golden State at Chicago Cincinnati at Cleveland Baltimore at Atlanta Detroit at Los Angeles OU NOT UNHAPPY 'Huskers Called 'True Champil ns' "All I WAS thinking about was 'Don't drop it' And it'd been so long since I'd scored I wasn't even thinking about that only a first down Then when I did I thought 'I'll be (lamed I scored' Now I feel like I'm a Cowboy" But Gabriel had some shots to fire Almost personally he took the Rams 62 yards for the tying TD which Curran got on a two-yard third down pass The drive took 13 plays five of them completions from Gabriel who ducked and dodged the Dallas defensive line which made contact with him every time Then the Cowboys countered with a 77-yard counter punch once more with a crucial completion to Walt Garrison Staubaeh scrambled threw to Garrison on the flat and he turned it into a 32- yard gain to the LA 30 STAUBACII then threw 13 v3rds to Alworth ran another 13 ard slightly reinjured his shoulder Craig Morton came on to a comforting wave of anolnuse and two plays later Pitched out to Thomas for the winning score "When we had to do it we did" said Lilly "This win boosts us to No 1 in our division and now everyone else has r-tch us That's a good feeling" Los Angeles 14 0 7 0-21 Dallas 7 7 7 7-28 Thomas 89 kickoff return (Clark kick) 1 run (Ray kick) 33 pass from Gabriel (Ray kick) 51 pass from Staubach (Clark kick) 21 pass from Staubach (Clark kick) 2 pass from Gabriel (Ray kick) Thomas 5 run (C)ark kick) A-66595 Triumph Tagge Sparked Winning Drive In Last Moments NORMAN Okla 'Even "bad coaching" and an unsuccessful game plan couldn't stop Nebr a sk a 's drive for a second consecutive national championship The poised and confident Cornhuskers recovered from their only offensive mistake of the game-Jerry Tagge's fumble-and went on a 12-play 74-yard touchdown drive that ate up almost five and a half of the final seven minutes to V41 edge the second-ranked Okla44 homa 35-31 and maintain their standing at the top of the college football world TH4 trv WHEN OKLAHOMA forged 41 '''1144 ahead 31-28 with 7:10 remain- 04 4 ing on Jack Mildren's second touchdown pass off the game 46 110 to Jon Harrison it marked 44 only the second time in this 11-0 season that Nebraska 10z000t0 found itself trailing The first time came with five seconds left in the first half when Mildren took the 1 Sooners 73 yards in four plays and 46 seconds pitching a 24- yard strike to Harrison for a 17-14 lead "We changed very little in 1u41 our defense" said coach Bob Devaney "but we did change our pass defense a little We o- switched for a zone to the man-to-man and if 1 had to do i it over again I sure as hell wouldn't have "On Oklahoma's last possession we went back to a three-deep zone We should have done that before the end of the first half so they couldn't go the length of the field in 45 seconds That was bad coaching "OKLAHOMA threw the ball better than I thought they would I didn't expect quite that good passing Mildren threw the ball like a pro guar-bat- terback and we were unable to cover Harrison one on one" Nebraska's offensive game plan didn't pan out either But like the champions they are the Cornhuskers came up with what they needed to win "Our game plan was to go wide against them' Devaney said "but in the second half we decided to run right at them" Tagge in the verge of being the goat when he fumtines bled a dipsy-doodle behindiska's the-back fake at the Oklaut homa 32 and set up the fourth period touchdown that put the Sooners in front for a spell cooly directed the Cornhuscngi- hers to the winning score A 3 A A ti 41(" 4 4' erj gi0441 0'404 1 Vfr Press Wirephlto UP AND OVER Nebraska's Jeff Kinney goes over the line to score the second touchdowns for the Corn-huskers Thursday against Oklahoma No 43 is the Sooner's Steve Aycock a linebacker h-ao ve rn- he UP the bus Soo NORMAN Okla you're No 2 you talk to the President second Coach Chuck Fairbanks got his condolences from the top Saturday after his secondrankei Oklahomans lost 35-31 tu top-ranked Nebraska then lauded the Cornhuskers as "true champions" "I am obviously disappointed but I am not at all disappointed in our football team played their hearts out" Fairbanks said "They have no reason to hang their heads" "WHEN TIIE guard pulls I go with him in the flex defense I saw the reverse coming there was nothing else I must have hit them at the time Gabriel was trying to hand off" he said Exactly the way it happened Late in the second period the Rams set up for what looked like a 52-yard field goal try for Ray Instead Rhome took the snap and passed over the head of an uncovered receiver Sudden the Cowboys were back in a tie when Staubach speared IIayes with a 51-yard pass "It was a fake turn-in and go" said Hayes "Ile just put it up there and I ran under it Thank goodness I caught it" "The real key was the pass Nebraska Outlasts Oklahoma 1305-31 Amor 11 by 13 461 NE 01 Pro Hockey Chart CENThAL LEAGUE (Does not Include Thursday's results) 1 PtsGFGA Dallas 10 3 3 23 57 44 Tulsa 10 6 0 20 58 48 Kansas City 7 7 1 15 54 46 Oklahoma City 6 7 2 14 57 68 Omaha 6 9 2 14 47 58 Fort Worth 4 11 2 10 47 68 THURSDAY'S RESULTS Fort Worth 2 Kansas City 1 Dallas at Tulsa late FR IDAY's SCHEDULE Omaha at Oklahoma City NATIONAL LEAGUE East West New 'York 14 2 4 Chicago 15 5 1 Boston 15 5 1 Mihnesota 4 3 Montreal 12 2 6 Pittsburgh 8 13 2 Toronto 8 6 Philadelphia 7 10 4 Detroit 512 4 California 7 12 3 Vancouver 5 14 4 St Louis 612 3 Buffalo 4 12 5 Los Angeles 5 16 1 THURSDAY'S RESULT Boston 4 Philadelphia 2 FRIDAY'S SCHEDULE Minnesota at California "DEVANEY AND the Corn-huskers are true champions" The Oklahoma players said Nebraska had by far the best defense they had played this season "But" Mildren said "we didn't on too badly moving the ball (From Page 1) EMI TIRES 1 EINI TIRES UNIROYAL UNIROYAL UNIROYAL 1 TIRES 1 Etat UNIROYAk 1 TIRES I LUNIROYAL "IF YOU played again Oklahoma would probably win" President Richard Nixon told a smiling Fairbanks by phone after the game But Fairbanks had to wait until the President stopped congratulating winning coach Bob Devaney before he got his call "Yes sir we did play well" Fairbanks told the President "I was very proud of our team today" Nebraska's heralded defense did not break Oklahoma's Wishbone attack but bent it up a hit Fairbanks was obviously emotionally drained after the "dream game" turned into a "nightmare" for him before a 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conversation lasted about five minutes When told that the President was trying to get hold of him Devaney smiled and quipped "Well he is still in office" NORMAN Okla (AP) After hulding at the phone for 30 motes President axon final got through to coach Bob Devaney in the Nebraska locke: room Thursday following the Cornhuskers' 35-31 vieLry over Oklahoma The phone rang in the press box seconds after the game ended iit1 the operator announce I that the kVestern White House was calling Attermys to make connections betwcen the press box phone and phones on the field were unsucccbsful Fitnry a member of the Oklahoma press crew took down the number of the West point deficit in the first half clawed Lind scraped back again in the final act Down four points they sailed 63 yards and finished the drive on a fourth (10W11 17 yard pass from Mddren to Jen Harrison that duo's second touchdown connection of the game The statistics of the game reflected the racking pace There were 41 first downs and 829 yards of offense The Sooners the fastest offensive guns in the country had their share 22 first downs and 467 yards Ironically how Nebraska shut clown the Sooners' sensational runner Greg Pruitt who came into this 10th game averaging more than nine yards a carry He couldn't turn the big mobile Nebraska ends this day however when they whittled him to 53 yards on 10 carries THAT AVENUE blocked Mildren attacked in a different fashion Ile himself carried 31 times mostly on self-draw plays outside Nebraska's fierce nose guard Rich Glover and made 150 yards "And then he threw Oh how he threw They were no piddling dump passes but long floaters on the 16-mile wind Ile completed five of them for 137 yards and the brace of touchdowns "A defensive man was in my face all day They always had two guys outside" Mddren said It was the pass a rare weapon for Oklahoma this season that provided OU the most spectacular touchdown of the game Tied 10-10 with 51 second left of the first half the Sooners went 78 yards on two running plays a rid two passes that covered 67 yards both to larrisen The second one was a 24-yard payoff shot that Harrision caught on the line with five seconds left That the Sooners could move on the world's best defense was apparent much earlier On their second possession they moved 72 yards for a field goal Then they put na two touchdowns in the second period on drives of 80 and 73 yards a score in the third period on a 73-yard march and a final six points on a 60-yard drive in the last quarter From the moment they ran on the field it was just as apparent that the Cornhuskers point 6 clawed again ir Down sailed I the driv yard Jen fla ond ton the gar The relleete There 829 yarr The fensive had till downs a Ironic brash crs' sen Pruitt 10th ga than nil couldn't Nebrask ever wl to 53 ya THAT Mild ren ent fag ried 31 I draw pi ka's fie Glover "And the he thro dling floaters lie corm 137 yar touchdo man wo They a outside' It wr weapon season most of the Tied left 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