The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 35

HUSKERS TWIST TAIL, 13-12 fiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiniHiiiiiMm nimiiittiiiiiiiiiimtimniiiwiiitifiiniiiiitiiiiiiiiniifif'fr Bruce Smith Stops Mizzou Do-Or-Die Try uk' McCloughan, Smith Save It Statistics Missouri Neh. First Downs 12 19 Rushing Yardage 81 299 Passing Yardage 143 82 Passes 8-20 6-14 Passes Intercepted By 0 1 Punts and Average Distance Fumbles Lost 1 0 Yards Penalized 27 92 Missouri, trailing 13-12, tried a Gary Lane-to-James Waller pass for two extra points in the fourth quarter By HAL BROWN Columbia. Mo. Nebraska kept its Orange Bowl hopes alive here Saturday afternoon with a 13-12 victory over Missouri in a contest packed with pleasure, frustration, tension, rhubarbs and plenty of fans. The pleasure went to the Bob Devaney-guided Buskers and to the 5,000 NU fans who followed their Scarlet and Cream heroes here.

The frustration was Missouri's as the Tigers saw place kick specialist Bill Leistritz miss only the second extra point kick of the season and later watched a two- point play fail that would have given the Tigers a 14-13 edge. ImI Kent McCloughan But Bruce Smith broke up the pass in the end zone to preserve the victory. Ttvo Good Latherii Best Read is the SPORT RED Brown Cut Missouri Beard SEC. LINCOLN 1, NEBRASKA. NOVEMBER 3, 1963 Plainsmen Rip Dana, 34-13 Statistics NW First downs Rushing yardage Passing yardage Passes Intercepted by ----Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalized 55 15 16 173 167 149 73 11-19 7-17 2 0 3-38 3-21 0 2 55 30 caught the two Slatinsky TD aerials.

The game was played in By DAVE WOHLFARTH Blair Nebraska Wesleyan demonstrated its best offensive form of the season and racked up the most wins for a NWU team since 1948 by whipping Dana College, 3413, here Saturday afternoon. The 34 points eclipsed last total of 33 and the victory gave the Plainsmen a 6-2 season record with one game remaining. Nebraska Wesleyan last won six games in 1948. The game was an offensive show all the wav and the Vikings emerged with a 1615 edge in first downs, but came out short on the score. versatile attack accounted for 173 yards rushing and 149 passing.

Mike Slatinsky, senior quarterback, led the NWU attack-rushing for 48 yards in six carries and completing 9 of 17 passes for 156 yards. He also scored two touchdowns on runs and passed for two others. Bill Rohrig turned in a four for four performance in the extra point department and Dwight Tietjen Dana caught the favored Plainsmen by surprise with an early first quarter touch- when Bryce Olson scored from three yards out with 8:30 left in the first quarter. Maynard Kellerman kicked the extra point. Coach Ray crew came back by scoring two touchdowns on long drives to take a 13-7 halftime edge.

The first was a 72-yard drive in six plays and Slatinsky fired a five yard pass to Tietjen, who made a jumping catch in the end zone, for the score. Wesleyan went ahead when it drove 62 yards in six tries with Slatinsky sweeping right end untouched for the score with eight minutes left in the half. The key play in the drive was a 19-yard Slatinsky to Gary Muehlhausen flat pass on a fourth down situation. NWU broke open the game in the third quarter when it turned two fumble recoveries into touchdowns. Tackle Ron a pounced on a Viking fumble on the Dana 37 and, despite a 15-yard clipping penalty, the Plainsmen scored nine By CURT MOSHER Columbia, Mo.

Bob Brown shaved Saturday. And it took two good lather- ings to do it. The last one, the shaving cream, was applied by Nebraska teammate Tony Jeter in a jubilant dressing room. But the first one, the one worked up by Brown and every member of the Husker team while turning back stubborn Missouri, was the big one. Brown, the all- America candidate at guard had grown a He had vowed earlier to shave if the Huskers won.

The reason, Brown said, was that he had a beard last year and shaved it off before the Missouri game. In that one, remember, the Tigers swept into Lincoln and knocked off un- to beaten Nebraska in a nationally televised game. The Huskers wanted this one ttadly. But it came hard. And it took a bundle of heroes.

The list was long, but a start might be the entire line which eventually whipped a typically tough band of Missouri forwards. From there you could go Rudy Johnson, a great fullback here Saturday. And for key plays in tight situations you Chuck Doepke or Bruce Smith or Kent McCloughan or the generalship authored by Dennis Claridge at quarterback. Johnson gained 126 yards in 19 carries, and many of them were big ones, third down situations which had to go. He did it on a bad leg.

leg is killing Rudy said. guess I hurt first it when Asked how he managed to come up with his best game against Missouri, Rudy said: know. But Brown and those guys up front were really opening up big holes Rudy said that Missouri was tough but interestingly enough, he still remembered Kansas State has the hardest hitting team he had played against. The big plays turned in were a pass deflection by ipiiMHMIIIillHltllliiUmmU fitllHlllllllllilHttltttlllHHIt Lather AFTER Close Continued On Page 2D, Col. 6 I Football Fare Inside I Creighton Prep Rolls, 2D Navy Whips Irish, 2D Huskies Clip USC, 2D Oklahoma Breezes, 4D Cyclones Escape, 4D Texas Tips SMU, Page 4D Army Edges Falcons, 5D Spartans Rap 7D I Michigan Shocks 7D Bucks, Illini Stay on 7D i Hoosiers Shoot a 7D Bruce Smith when Missouri went for the two-p i which would have given the Tigers a 14-13 lead; a recovered fumble by end Chuck Doepke, and a pass interception by McCloughan.

On play the Huskers had been unable to move from deep in their territory and Claridge got off a poor kick to Missouri. But the Tiger dropped it and Doepke dropped on it. he kicked it, I couid teM by the crowd it was a short Doepke said. signaled for a fair catch. But I knew the sun was in his eyes and I anticipated he might drop it and he On the interception which came with a minute to go, McCloughn said: was just in between two guys and I jumped up to get it.

He (MU quarterback Gary Lane) threw a soft pass, kinda like that guy (Monte Deere) from Oklahoma did last year, and I knew we had to get one pretty Halfback Bobby Hohn, who had been a question mark because of headaches, saw a lot of duty. He said a new helmet seemed to help. Hohn used a different type, similar to the kind Oklahoma wears. But the one he used was one backfield coach Mike Corgan got from Wyoming. They also had a couple from Oklahoma.

The tension was here all day and in both the Husker and Tiger camps all week as both teams knew the importance of the contest in their quest to unseat Oklahoma as the league champ. The rhubarbs came frequently as both Devaney and Missouri coach Dan Devine spent more time on the field than Lippy Leo Durocher in his best days of umpire-baiting. And the fans jammed the stadium here to an overcapacity crowd of 59.500. a record for a Missouri gate. The Huskers scored win, their first here since 1955 when Bill NU gridders rolled past the Tigers, 18-12, using basically the some tactics that have won for them all punishing ground game that has them No.

1 nationaUy in rushing. And for the third straight week the Husker forces surpassed their per game rushing average that has put them at the top of the nation in ground success. The Huskers, who averaged 287.3 yards per game rushing before Saturday, ran for 299 yards most of it through the middle of the Missouri line. Rudy Johnson was the key to the NU ground success as came through with key bursts of ei'iht to 15 yards on occasions while amassing a 123-yard total. Many individual plays vie for the top spot in game playbacks, including: Bruce defensive effort that broke up a two- point conversion attempt by Missouri in the fourth quarter after the Tigers had pulled within one point at 13-12.

Going for the win rather than the tie, Gary Lane tried a pass to Jim Waller that Smith managed to deflect in the end zone to preserve the slim Husker margin. i ace place kicker Bill Leistritz missing Bruce Sinilh the PAT boot after the first Tiger touchdown, a factor that forced Missouri to go for the two points late in the game. A 15-yard holding penalty against Nebraska on the extra-point kick after the second TD. The penalty forced Dave Theisen to try the placement kick from the 24-yard line. It was wide and gave Missouri a shot at a 14-13 win had they been able to hit the two point conversion attempt.

A Missouri fumble on a Dennis Claridge quick kick that led to the second NU tally. Vince Turner fumbled the kick and Chuck Doepke fell on the ball, keeping the pigskin in Husker hands. An interception of a Gary Continued on Page 4-D, Col. 1 Tigers Tamed In Sweet Win NU MU How Scored Time Left First Quarter 6 0 Claridge, 5 run 10:08 7 0 Johnson, placement Second Quarter 7 6 Boston, fumble Recovery in end zone 14:54 7 6 Leistritz placement kick fails Fourth Quarter 6 Johnson, 1 plunge 9:13 6 Theisen placement kick no good 13 12 Boston, 53 pass from Lane 8:30 13 12 Lane to Waller PAT pass fails Nebraska 7 0 0 Missouri 0 6 0 13 13 Aerial Defense Lifts KU, 34-0 An interesting sidelight to this victory was Claridge, who as a co-captain, went to a Bob Devaney earlier this week and said the team could use some more running. seemed to be a little tired in the earlier ball games and I talked to the Claridge said.

I guess lie Kansas 7 7 20 Kansas State 0 0 0 0 63 punt return (Dutf kick) Coleman 1 run (Duff Kick) 4 run (run failed) 17 run (Buzzi pass from Micek) 27 pass interception (kick failed) Attendance: 30,000 And Brown, at the end of a silent prayer in the Husker dressing room said: want to interrupt anything but those wind sprints sure got us in With that the Husker dressing room exploded for the first time this year. Spanish Champ Tony Jeter (left) lathers up Bob Brown for a shave in the dressing room after win over Missouri. Brown vowed to shave his heavy beard only if the Comhuskers beat Missouri. They did and he did. Barcelona, Spain Ramon Sota of Spain won the three-day Spanish Open Golf Tournament at the Prat De Llobregat course Saturday with a 72-hole score of 287.

By JACK ANDERSEN Lawrence, Kan. The practice preparations against an aerial bombardment paid big dividends here Saturday for coach ack MitcheU and his University of Kansas Jay- hawks. After KU had blitzed intra- state rival Kansas State, 34-0, Mitchell allowed that his pass defense was the most pleasing aspect of the one-sided battle. All last week Mitchell drilled his gridders long and hard against pass plays to be offered by the leading flinger, K-State Larry Corrigan. But Saturday Corrigan was able to complete just seven of 22 tosses for 88 yards.

The lack of completions, was at- tributed to a strong rush by the Jayhawk line according to Mitchell. And so the thing that worried Mitchell most before the game turned out to be his biggest asset. Later during his press corps conference, Mitchell refused to be drawn into conversation concerning next Big Eight headliner in Nebraska When asked what he planned in the wa ui practice repara i for the Cam- huskers, Mitchell moaned, will just have to work on everything and hope some of our injuries heal in time for a top effort against One of those injuries is a big one. Transplanted Oma- han Gayle Sayers, leading All-America candidate, sat on a training table after the game with his left leg in an ice pack. The not too healthy Sayers, still nursing a charley horse suffered against Oklahoma State a week earlier, had his Continued on Page 4-D, CoL 7.