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STAFF COLORPHOTOS BY WEB RAY AND RANDY HAMPTON ictory Mixture A stingy defense and a powerful offense were winning ingredients for the Cornhuskers Saturday as they buried the Minnesota Gophers. Typical of the balanced assault were defensive stalwart Rich Glover (79), left photo, ready to converge on quarterback Bob Morgan (8), and Gary Dixon (22), breaking through defenders for his third touchdown of the game. Huskers Ready to 'Gopher' Big 8 Laurels How They Scored NU Minn. How Scored Time Left QLOR 1 Sept. 30 that we win every one of ou remaining games.

That's the big key." Continuing along that line, Rodgers observed, "Right now, it looks like that loss to UCLA might be the best thing that ever happened to us. f. "Coming in the first game, gave us a chance to get back on our marks and it means that we have to gel Minn. Neb. First downs 7 Rushes yards 46 93 Passing yards 51 Return yards 28 Passes 3 13 0 Punts 10 39 Fumbles lost 2 1 Penalties yards 4 53 30 62 293 249 139 13 23 2 3 45 2 0 5 55 By HAL BROWN Nebraska has just completed it's third straight breather.

A 49 0 blanking of Minnesota came on the heels of a 77 7 win over Army and a 37 7 triumph over Texas A M. But to a man late Saturday the Cornhuskers agreed things were about to get tougher and soon. Offensive guard Mike Beran bad a ready answer to the question of whether the Huskers were as good as the last three games would "We'll start finding out how good we are in a couple of weeks when we start playing the Big Eight' he offered. "And you can start right off with that Missouri game. "They will be the toughest team we've played.

They're always tough physically." The Tigers scored a 34 27 win over California Saturday and the Huskers will open the Big Eight season on Oct. 14 in Memorial Stadium against Missouri after an open date this Saturday. Slotback Johnny Rodgers, who set a Big Eight career record for pass reception yardage, agreed on Missouri, noting, "Missouri's going to be tough," and added, "I think Iowa State is going to be tough too." He then pointed to Oklahoma State's 31 6 upset over third up tor every team we play just like they get up for us." NU head coach Bob Devaney pointed out, "There's nothing real good that (Mfnes out of getting beat, but if you have to lose one it's better to do it early as far as having a chance to regain prestige Is concerned." And Devaney agreed with his players that the tough part is to come. "Missouri scoring 34 points in beating California shows they're going to be good," he noted. Colorado scored only 20 against California.

"And Oklahoma State appears to have a fine team," he added. "They've got a lot of enthusiasm and by the time we play, them, they'll have picked cm a lot of experience in running the wishbone. They've got a great First Quarter 6 0 Dixon, 4 run 11:44 7 0 Sanger placement Second Quarter 13 0 Dixon, 2 run 12:48 14 0 Sanger placement 20 0 Goeller, 8 pass 7:00 from Humm 21 0 Sanger placement 27 0 Dixon, 6 run 2:58 28 0 Sanger placement Third Quarter 31 0 Rodgers, 64 punt 10:30 return 35 0 Sanger placement 41 0 Rodgers, 2 run 6:21 42 0 Sanger placement Fourth Quarter 48 0 Moran, 1 run 14:16 49 0 Sanger placement quarterback to run it with that Brent Blackman." Rodgers feels the Huskers are in good shape to head into the meat of the schedule. "We've got better personnel than anyone else," he says and he includes Oklahoma in that, giving a pat on the back to the Husker coaching staff as a part of that personnel. "I'm astounded at times at how smart our coaches are," he says.

"I watch some of the things the pros do wrong and I think to myself, 'our coaches would never make that Saturday's 49 0 stomping of Minnesota came with what Devaney considers synonymous with winning a thing called balance. "We had good balance," Devaney said as he looked at Continued: Page 4C, Col. 1 3JUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIII 5: ify. Sports ranked Colorado. "That ust goes to show you how tough the Big Eight is." Rodgers had been quoted earlier in the season, while discussing the Husker chances of coming back to claim.

a third straight national championship despite the opening 20 17 loss to UCLA, that one factor favoring the Huskers was that both Oklahoma and Colorado would be rated high when Nebraska played them. He doesn't feel that Colorado's loss to Oklahoma State will hurt that ladder climbing that much. "As long as one of them, either Colorado or Oklahoma is up there, we'll be all right," he observed. "As long as one of them is up there things will work out just the way we've planned it. "But we've got to be sure Angels on Colorado Okla Statt 12 .49 205 72 30? 49 62 35 5 17 1 4 6 1 3 39 4 41 10 3 1 1 2 20 0 40 and a is Cowboys Side? C20Ililti Colorado Upset 1.

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by OS Joe Duenas started for Colorado and it was apparent that the Buff execution loft something to be desired as the Colorado ball carriers fumbled 10 times. "I think it's apparent why I started Duenas," said Crowder. "I won't discuss the quarterback situation. We had a consistency problem, and when you got behind 28 0, you've got to score on just about every possession after Junior quarterback Brent Blackman, ringleader of the smashing upset, said, "It was great, fantastic. Everyone is so happy.

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Colorado, with regular quarterback Ken Johnson playing sparingly because of the death of i father, simply couldn't come back in the second half against an inspired Cowboy defense. Buff linebacker Bud Magrum summed up the story the game. "They were so fired up it was evident that we were going to have to play a hell of a game to win. They've got a hell of a team; they just blew us out." Pint sized junior quarterback RoIgcrs tins Hack want for Tl) I Game PIiolo Pages 1 5 Virgil Parker Sez: Gophers Couldn't Find Hole To Hide In Page 3 Cal Stoll Sez: Kodgers Is The llest Back 5 I've Ever Seen Page 5 3 Full Pages on Huskers 1 Iiiiiiiiiiiiimiimiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim Okla. UP) Colorado Eddie Crowder his Oklahoma State that the Cowboys been on the side of Saturday.

(Dave) Smith told the game that the care of fchem today; he's right," Crowder had just watched ranked Buffaloes suffer embarrassing 31 6 the hands of the Cowboys from State. you're a three touchdown and you get beat it's hard to dismiss it as merely a fluke. Crowder 1 uiihL ounuay Channel in College Football Grambling Football. 9:30 a.m. (6); Notre Dame Highlights, 10:30 a.m.

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Red Sox Defeat Orioles Again Inside Eighteen seasons later, that player Roberto Clemente has reached baseball's exclusive 3,000 hit plateau, an achievement shared by only 10 other players in major league history. Many observers link the Pirate coup in acquiring Clemente from the Dodgers to the quota system which once restricted the entry to blacks into the big leagues. Clemente, born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, the son of a sugar cane plantation foreman, was signed to a free agent contract by the Dodgers in 1953 seven years after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier. Hitting is just one facet of the all around play that has made Clemente a Golden Glove winner 11 straight times and at age 38 still the best baserunner on the Pirate tetam. As Yaztremski's Bat Stays Hot Colorado Oklahoma St OSU eltes 14 pass 0 14 04 14 1 3 31 from Blackman (Garrett kick) OSU Gtrard 1 run (Garrett kick) OSU Gerard 1 run (Garrett kick) OSU rard 9 run (Garrett kick) Colo Matthews 2 run (run failed) A 38,500 defeated Kansas City, 10 5 and Cleveland at New York was rained out.

Ed Brinkman finished a six run first inning with a three run home run and Norm Cash batted in three runs i Detroit's romp over Milwaukee. Cash singled home two runs in the first and Jim Northrup singled home one before Brinkman un loaded his sixth homer of the season. Al Kaline raised his average to .305 with four hits in five trips, including his eighth home run of the season with a man aboard in the eighth. Jorge Arta singled in two runs in the top of the seventh inning to climax a five run rally and Chicago went oa to beat Texas for the Rangers 15th straight loss. Pat Kelly doubled in Jay Johnstone with the first run of the seventh and Andrews was hit by a pitch, fors ing in Tank Allen Lee Richard got an infield single to drive in Kelly, tying the game.

Orta's single drove in pinch hitters Carlos May and Mike Andrews to break a 3 3 tie. George Hendrick slammed i three run triple off the cen terfield wall in the seventh inning in Oakland's win over Kansas City. Rollie Singers led off the seventh with a single. Ted Kubiak bunted for a single and both runners moved up when Paul Schaal threw the ball away for an error. Mike Hegan was walked to load the bases before Hendrick's triple.

Hendrick also slapped a run scoring single in the ninth, In West Coast night action, Minnesota was at California. In another Saturday highlight, a one time obscure Puerto Rican who was worth $4,000 to the Pittsburgh Pirates in a draft from the Brooklyn Dodgers, achieved a baseball milestone. By United Press International Carl Yastrzemski hit his second homer in two nights and drove across another run with a single as the Boston Red Sox downed the Baltimore Orioles 3 1, Saturday night to maintain their 1 1 2 game lead in the American League East. Marty Pattin, with ninth inning relief help from Bob Veale, whipped the slumping Orioles for the fourth time this season after Yastrzemski singled home Tommy Harper in the first inning and homered off reliever Grant Jackson leading off the eighth. The Red Sox snapped, a lie in the fourth inning when Dwight Evans knocked, home a run by bouncing into a dou ble play with the bases loaded.

In other American League games, Detroit trounced Milwaukee, 13 4, Chicago topped Texas, 3, Oakland AP WIREPHOTO Detroit Tiger catcher Duke Sims (right) was already out as he barreled into Milwaukee shortstop John in the fo urth inning of their Saturday game. 1.