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The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 11

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The Lincoln Stari
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Valiant Huskers Fall, 27 0 RV WAIT harrivc I leather on downs I fensive stand through three OU's triumph. It was the first later Bir Ton Boid they were finally stvmied on the with fourth down and 11 yards to o. Eddie Crowder gambled an Oklahoma cot a break ment later when Georee Clin Nod Monday game in the Huskers last 21 starts in its own territory, that NU failed to score. The Sooners marched 40 yards It was Oklahoma that last. for their second TD.

turned the trick in 1949 by wal A Crowder to IIeatly pass for loping another of Bill Glassford'sj 12 yards and Buck MeFhftil'a clubs, 48 0, right here on Huskerj off tackle thrusts put the ball on sod. the Nebraska 9 yard stripe. Nebraska ended up with a net Buddy Leake went over stand loss by rushing of 17 yards and ing i from eight yards out. was outdowned, 16 to 2. Weatherall converted to make it I 14 0.

The half ended without I OKLAHOMA scored fairly early further scoring, in the first period when Larry! Meanwhile, Nebraska was at Oklahoma's highly touted gridiron machine sputtered on two cylinders through three quarters out finally went into high gear the last period to mark up two ouchdowns and defeat our Nebraska Cornhuskcrs, 27 0, on: Memorial Stadium sod Saturday afternoon Slightly over 30,000 of the faithful were on hand to see Coach Bud Wilkinson's efficient, precision like OU squad romp off with its 26th consecutive conference triumph and salt away its fourth straight undisputed Big Seven conference championship. THE FINAL score doesnt tell He ele, ami. finding' fumbled on the (ninth down arw ir 18 yards ami a first down on llusker LM. Three plays later te Nebraska six Dick Heatlyhad a touch hwn Crowder set thiooeh the middle on up with a IH vaid gallop th. lust pla ioi the thud Sooner llusker left side Weatherall' mrhdoun third conversion ended the KOX Emmanuel blocked Weather ing for the afternoon.

11 attempted kick from place The tussle ended a few min ten but the Sooners were in utes later after Oklahoma ha periods while holding the husky young men from Norman to two touchdowns. Dennis Emanuel, Bob Mullen, Bill Schabacker, Jerry Minnick, Don Boll, Ed Husmann. Carl Brasee and Jim Yeisley all played brilliantly. They were in the Sooner backfield a rood share of the afternoon, often causing Quarterback Eddie Crowder to throw off balance. Several laterals went haywire but Sooner luck held up and the Oklahomans recovered a big majority of their fumbles.

I Actually it was Oklahoma's i tight defense with big Jim Weatherall in his usual role of giant killer, that paved the way for day night to have the match of final. Wilson sent telegrams to each of the ten Western conference I faculty representatives, asking Grigg, behind near perfect inter 'tempting an assault with Johnny ference, raced 72 yards to pay Bordogna and Ray Novak operat dirt on a punt return. He was hit ing at the tailback post, but got as he caught the ball but shook only as far as the Sooner 38 loose and then went all the way. the second period. The Huskers Weatherall converted to make it got exactly nowhere in the second 7 0.

The quarter ended a littlelcanto, although Bob Mullen's in the third period after for Nebraska mint which thrilled llusker turned by C.rlgg to the OC story of Nebraska's valiant Leake, neatly and Mcl Baylor Edges SMU Bears Want I Bowl Bid ffBStB iJW In JnMHj Slatislics Methodists razzle dazzle ind running attack, 14 13, if the roughest games ever that got its inspiration SM i .1 when flinging Freddie Benners was injured and removed from the game in the first quarter. Left Half Henry Stollen uerrk rnt the touchdown on a 1 yard plunge after setting the aflame with a 33 yard gallop through right guard. His little brother, Sam, kicked the tra point. the ich trv average. Heatlv.

Md'hail and fter Baylor zoomed 63 Crowder each averaged four yards i yards to the two on a pass from Larry Isbell to Harold Riley, with or oeuer per try to ieau me Sooner offensive. Hiiey running mosi oi me And so ends a disappointing Without doubt the Huskers are a better ball club than Left Half Don Carpenter crashed through left guard from the 1, and C. O. Brocato kicked the point. their record shows but teams were able to.

rash in on nearly every mistake. Injuries, especially to Reynolds and then BAYLOR nitOVL 51 yards and Fullback Richard Parma tallied Coach Glassford had switched to rcj om the six to send Baylor ahead. Bill Forester, last week's na the i Spread" were tional lineman of the week, scored S.M.U.' second touchdown, but To date the Huskers have Sam Stollenwerck try lor poini was wide. beaten only lowi State and tied Kansas State while losing seven Baylor helped U. to lt.s sec TeT' iT'i touchdown wl ushers their heel ic (' The chartfedltha Oklahoma ihad get the UUy up with an jn.

i hmwa. Kill terception, at Baylor's 3d. ki Jmm Wfihraii, itow The victory, Baylor's first SHOVEL PASS GOOD FOR TEN Ray Novak picked up ten yards after taking this ibovt past from John Bordogna. i Stall Photo by Ralph Fox.) liKJh, kept the Bears in con ik, Mi le.ion toi ma (aiiif.rcntt uue, fZmtsni Niudc lllinsic Field Goal Gives Illinois tiaylor musi Deal nice next week and rely on S.M.U. to beat Big Ten Crown, Bowl Trip I'aynich, Knunurl.

T.C.U. in order to become Cottor Mullen. Minnick. lUndnhy, Pro Bowl host. Krnnedy.

Cal Rips Indians By 20 7 PA LTD ALTO, Calif. (INS). Mihu nia's twiee deh ated (iolden EVANS 1 UN. III. Jllinois.i yards, then Norm Kragseth for Orange an Blur its first unde choking up completely deep in 22.

Finally, from the Illinois M. (rated rason siii. 1027. tourlidown territory, won the Big Bur son hurled to Kragseth. Illinois, ranked ivth nationally, jTen football title and the Rosei whose motor was running a step now got! to the Rofi Bowl for jBowl gratuity by squeezing past from the ffoal line.

Kragseth. the UWW Northwestern, 3 0, on Sam Rebec the rangy end. stretched for it. In 1944 the llhni troUDCbdd jca's 16 yard field goal in the sec Then, in bolted Al Rrosky to Northwestern, I'u to gain the rd period. snap it up for a touchdown bowl amt ill Which they defeated Playing as if they were with saving interception one foot H.CL.A., 4a M.

to ta.t 6fl the lout anti freeze in the 25 degree from the pay off zone. Big Ten fa il'ic oast conference temperature, the Illmi froze up The hard earned triumph was howl series. Stanford appeals to after rampaging beyond the Illinois' first over Northwestern lie the likely Illmi foe New Year's Lotim ftam WHttm at SJltft iM LndiTiduft Ststialiei UK HK Northwestern 8 yard line four, in live years and provided the day. Bears toppled the Stanford Indians from the ranks of the na REBEC'CA'S three ooints crew tion's undefeated I 'ball teams, to mammoth proportions as the game proceeded, and eventually 20 7. A canacitv crowd of 90.000 in Stanford stadium saw the 54th renewal of the annual "bii? game" Eliot Sings Nebraska College All Star Teams Standout players of the Nebraska College, Central hureh.

and 4 JC conferences are honored In this edition. See the Sunday Journal and Star All Star squads appearing on Pftft 11 between the old foobtll rivals In Shower I EVANSTON, 111. Pj. Rose Bowl talk had been so hush Tennessee Whams Kentucky, Parilli hush during Illinois' football campaign that the Big 10 champions waited a full 15 minutes in their dressing room before breaking loose with "California, Here I Come!" The strains of the song were sung with full lung strength by Coach Ray Eliot's players only after they had peeled off their uniforms and jumped under the showers. i Touchdown wll01i0 gridiron battling started be 0 I fore the turn of the century, It was an upset win for the (, olden Bears who had been tabbed at least a one touchdown rarch Ama underdog.

But as the old grads i of both universities well know, anything can happen in the far west "biK came" traditional and did today NV a Stanford, with nine straight wins up until this crisp Novem 4 4 ber afternoon, will still get. the nod i 4 to represent the Pacific Coast con ference in the Rose Bowl on New lncom Y.rd years Day THAT WAS a foregone conclu 1 9 sion even before Saturday's game, hd since Stanford has only one blem ish on its PCC record its loss to the Bears. A couple of senior left halfbacks, ydrd Average Don Robinson and Johnny Pappa, 40 did the scoring this afternoon for the Kentuckians. who Van bowl talk so thoroughly by the aurl(ella. a halfback with I anxious Eliot that it took them wiggle to his hips and quite a timme to realize that v'somc blocking made a the subject no longer was for lh(' football bidden game with Kentucky, 28 0.

are booked for the Cotton Bowl come Jan. 1. The blue grass team Hwdy now has tried in vain since 1935 gf for a vutory over its arch rival. LAI KB 1 I 1 A a Mi BUO for Tennessee although he didn't Illinois began klckine "on "third Li. f.u:Wr downs in a close to the vest ef tV uh t(v tn hv re.

He receive) able aid from other backs as ha rt Reehi fort to nreservp thp har, Andy Ko.ar, and Bill Bar Northwestern, in the same luation as a year ago when it Kansan Makes All Star Team Robinson, on a 34 yard TD sprint, opened the scoring early in the first period. Pappa went 21 for the second TD two minutes after the second period opened. How Top Ton LOOK OUT Mullen grimaces as is 205 pounds head turfward after he swiped a msed the Illini. 14 7. nearh ed Kentucky passes.

Teams Fared ipeaiea a debacle which Ihave kept Coach Ray Eliot's servative outfit from the coi ence crown and the Pasadena These players starred, but they uld have played in rocking lairs, so Violent was the blocking id taekling of the Tennessee Standings Teeh Subs Beat Davidson, 34 7 jket. DRK. (INS) George Then in the fourth quarter rappa tanslK sruted again, this time from three ues a euard berth' an vanis out and on the 13th play of Set a 7H vard Bear drive, rica football team. Ces Richter, California's All was named on the American guard, booted two out even Jim Weatherall, of three conversion point tries. i That was enough to give Richter the 11 man defensive a new Golden Bear record of 40 out of 44 extra points, ites California and, Richter drew one of the greatest ia placed four nativeiovations ever given a football on the 22 man squad, player in this traditional game ATLANTA.

(UP). Undefeated Burson began a desperate North Georgia Tech tried to hide its western passing assault that car 1 power on the sidelines, but two WM.cafts 50 yards and across midfield for the first time ing lost Oklahoma ts. Dur a spot 1 Wild Iteam. 45 7. 3) Stanford bowe enough out of the bag to swamp He hit Dick Alban for 4 'Davidson, 34 7.

Facing a breather after going Lollegiate rOOtbal 'undefeated thus far this season i with only the grudge game against 1 HOliy UlDnght Duke Rallies Late To Best Tarheels DURHAM, N. C. (UP). Fresh man Quarterback Jerry Barger, I guided his Duke Blue Devils from behind to win their "big over North Carolina, 19 7, and. then, knocked out and was carried from the field in his moment of triumph late in the I game.

A capacity crowd of 50,000 watched Barger, wonder boy from 1 Salisbury, N.C., spark drives by the young Duke team that tabbed Coach Carl Snavely with his sixth; straight loss and heightened speculation that the "Grey Fox" will lose his job. I (4) Maryland shell i Ma. 54 7. (5) Princeton defe mouth, 13 0. 6) Illinois i KT 'h 11 was Rater's last game and the cheering bounced back and in.

forth from both sides of the M.uy Stanford's lone touchdown, tal mela. Southern la midway in the fourth period vi Kr.jnc.seo; Pu after the Bears had a 20 point lead, i came on a perfectly executed pass back Gary Kerkorian Dorow. i Georgia to go, Orange bowl bound WASHINGTON. (INS). Senator Tech fielded what probably will Fulbright Ark.) Saturday1 be next year's team against Da branded intercollegiate football vidson.

Coach Bobby Dodd's ele "phony" and charged it is "seri gant quarterback, Darrell Craw "SSonoe a fStballtar' ford, sat out the entire game but at the University of Arkansas and freshman signal caller Bill Brig later president of that school, man mowed right in to keep called upon education groups toi things hot with his passes. end commercialized football 1.

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