The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 43

Was Too Good To Be It Was True, Toogood This 4th-quarter play electrified the crowd. Husker Guard Gary Toogood grabbed a bobbled pass by Sandy Stephens and headed goahvard. A Stephens followed ToogotMl and tackled him, but the Husker slipped away to a slap on the backside from Darrell and handshakes from other teammates. This Play The Cornhuskers Corniiiiskers Have No Alibis; Fans Know IVliid Fit Plans Gopher Bill Munsey picked off Pat pass. By Dick Becker You get it out of Bill Jennings or his players.

They going to alibi. Hut the estimated 38.000 fans at Stadium knew It and one football authority said lousy, gooey, slippery mud ruined us they intended to run the ball right down our throat and what they did. The conditions were ideal for Nebraska, depending on a quick charge and speed offset Minnesota's ponderous lire, just get going in the mud. mud that was present despite the fact the field had been down since Thursday. Jennings, however, put too much stock in that appraisal.

whipped he NlPs Oii-Ceuler Lineup Care Coahers Advantaiie By Jim Ha din In that haven the winning team's locker room both Tom Brown and Francil Brixius looked like nothing more than a pair of jolly fat boys. To their of opponents these two tremendous Minnesota linemen must seemed like nothing less than a muscle men. Brixius, a BToot-4. 250- pound tackle, took hi.s time toweling olf his ample avoirdupois. So did Brown, a mere 6-foot, 243-pound guard.

Neither looked the worse for wear after almost two hours of big league head banging. Quite calm and collected, the dynamic duo discussed the game. defense seemed to line up a bit off of the ball. That gave us an said Brown. started slow', but seemed to catch our wind and started to he added.

center Tingle- hoff got a plug from Brown as tough just big was the tion of from the huge Bnxiiis. He lauded Thunder Thornton as a good job for a guy not too Thornton weighs a solid 185, but that seemed small to the Gopher 250-pounder. Coach Murray Warmath, obviously elated, hold his enthusiasm in check. played a good deal better than we did a year ago against he stated with conviction. teams were better than a Warmath added.

a coach who has felt ever-increasing alumni heat, Warmath played it cool when appraising his team. But he gave back pats. played well spirited tackled nard blocked hard wouldn't quit in bettei condition, since it was their second said the Gopher leader. Penalties plagued visitors and hard Murray worrying. i Southern drawl showing strain, he said: very anxious to see the films.

I never saw so many penalities for an ineligible i down- Warmath praised Fischer and Thornton, said Archie Cobb of NU was excellent and singled out some of his players for These included first Munsey dashed past lluskers Be rnie lay, Tv rone Robertson. guard Brown, quarterback Sanford Stephens good for his first crack at and halfback Judge Dickson. last quarter interception by Larson look the last gasp out of the coach conluded. Larson is Greg Larson, Gopher game captain and 218-pounds of hustling center, was both lucky and happy to be said Larson of his key theft of a Ron Meade aerial. saw him in trouble and thought run.

When he threw, I went for the What happened Husker Gary Toogood went for the ball against sota, got it, then scooted for a second NU tally? happened against our alternate said Frustrated Huskers Munsey and he made it 26-0. said quite simply. doubt that we could beat them. They are a darned good football team. wet on both sides of the the I ceach sahl magnanimously as he tried to keep back his obvious disappointment.

Then he took the parade of reporters into the NU meeting room in the field- house which was littered with mattresses and pop bottles. This was where the Huskers went right after the game. Before the meeting could beein. Bat Fischer, almost CO lo'-V' ty px- hausted, had to niff so amonia and Ix' heljx'd to the training room. be all Jennings said sympathetically.

just all Then he began to parry those embarrassing s- tions, ones he knew he must answer, true to the code of (he coaches. How' did Minnesota compare with reallv no wav to What about are a fine ball club. They played a fine ball game and deserved to win. They helped m- selves and we helped them. I thought they matched our What was the turning point? dang passing game of theirs in the early part of the game.

We get adjusted to it and it hurt us pretty bad. didn't think would play as wide open as they did. We think they would throw much either, or be as effective as they w-ere was a beautiful pass they threw for their second tone lido wn. was their second touchdown that really broke our backs. 11 that we started to gamble and it hurt us.

got two touchdowns and we gave them two they gave us one What pleased him about the game? Footlmll hy Boh Buy Frank thought our boys really stuck in there. They came back strong but you just get that far behind. We and it bae' fir 'd. That second half Kic' ofl fumble and then another fuiiT hortlv aft- erwatds hurl us What else besides the Minnesota defense hurt? kicking game was terrific. So was ours.

kickoffs put us in the hole, too. They kicked that thing to the goal line and that alwavs makes it tOlcd'l re the bi- thought if we Wi.jld nave hit tliat pa il DRESSING ROOM have been different How about the Husker pa.sr ing gam not satisfied with the pass mg game hen it results in those interceptions but those, of course, were because they had 3 terrific rush on our passer all How about the use of Pat Fischer at halfback late in the game? It was ju a dejvpera- 011 move Pat knew the at halfback and w'' were hoping we could hit him and break something loose How about the fumble midway the 4th quarter that iNudocl the Huskers? It was ju.d a ca-c of two ol our boys being so eager that when they that loose ball they roally went for it and knocked each other off Jump right into the midiile of the Big 8 now and have to get back to the practice field and go to work. We must get down to work because we know Iowa State had a real good team. There are no pushovers in our Witfi that the press se.s- sion closed. Jenmng.s wenf back to the sijcnl coav.lies’ dressing too 111 and silently began to (Jres.s.

He the -ast to leave the quiet fieldhouse on a sombor afternoon..