The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 37

Why They Call Him The I. -sj, 1111 Dennis Claricige has ball and The Menace spins away with blockers out in front. Robertstin, Brown help out NU Worrying Despite Victory and Claridge ends 16 -yard run. 4f i Carlson gets his man Huskers Please Fans C7 By DON BBVVNT No one was turning cartwheels or backflips the Nebraska dressing room after the 53-0 victory over South Dakota in the inaugural While the score was there were too worries in the Cornhusker camp to permit much celebrating. Most concern about the CiUidition of Jim Huge, No.

1 right end, who suftei'ed a when he collided head-on with left end Larry Donovan while tackling a Coyote pasNer. Another worry wa.s the Nehra ka running game which was overshadowed by the llusker aerial game, a new twist but real And to a man, the from head Bob Devaney to the student manager were realistic. South Dakota, while game, wa-n't a severe teM and the Michigan Wolverines loom in the immediate tutiire. Huge Okay Dr Flank helped some of the concern over Huge, i)Ut other ju'oblems will have to woiked out on prarJice tield thi: is in satisfacturv eonditioii at this time," Dr. Slone reported from Student Health where Huge was taken during the game.

have checked his head and his neck and everything is very good. Jim definitely suffered a concussion, but he has snapped out of it all right. We are still going to conduct additional checks, but resting fine now and we will wait a while before making further Nebraska air attack, including tliis 11 -yard pas.s fioni hall'baek to halfback, delighted the crowd. Dcvanev is suffering a whah a eld and while he indicated he still didn't feel very good he conceded leel better than if wt had lost The Husker coach who was making his nnd successful debut as a head coach he beat Kan Stat-. 12-7, his Wyoming opener overjtiyed with the Nebraska South Dakota tired we do anything tre- Pjob observed.

pass receivers were open in the first half and 1 think we could have passed quite well, but our running game bogged down. ran a little better in the second a combination of us doing better and them tiring." Dcvanev paid tribute to the out-classed Coyotes by saving. kept hitting ir. at lirst. And when they W(ue hitting we didn't do tfxj mie to them J'he Scarlet coach war- most pleased about the woik of his one of the big tall camp thoucht all the did a good enough job." Bob said Flaridge threw well the first half and his running helped, too Husker to cat li Devaney's eve was Dave Theisen, making his debut alter transferring Marquette.

is turning into a pretty good defensive hack and 1 hope he stays healthy," Devaney said. It was sensational pass interception-TD jaunt which put the Scarlets out 25-0 at the start of the second half. Devaney was just as realistic as his players, observing, hard to analyze a game like this 1 just hope we pick up any serious injuries." Asked about the early gamble which saw the Huskers go for a fiivst down with a 4th and 2 situation near midlield. Devaney said: told them to go, just see what they could do when they had to. It a smart and 2 is too much to gamble we do that much anymore.

late in the game if we have to, but it be Bob said, "Willie Ross did a pretty good job of running at times" and observed that center Jim Baffico, a junior college transfer, may have won the PAT kicking job. fiddled around in that department," Bob said. "But tell you something, that Jim Baffico could be a great player. But he still needs to get into real good shape when he does, he can really go." Df'vaney explained one jAr 'A' sideline mixiip by saying, tried to keej) our (piar- terbacks out on open fieUl plays, where the chance of injury is greater and one time I goofed, so we had to change our substitutions." All hands saw action in the game with the and 4th units playing the entire final quai'ler. "We used the 3rd unit for 6 minutes and the 4lh for 9," Devaney said.

As the Huskers were walking off the field after the game, a mean looking police dog was straining at his leash and barking at recognizing the Nebraskans as guys." the handler did. Officer Darrell is a 111 line- in Tucker llaiulles 2 Drives; Baliieu Kieks Well Continued from Page ID its initial march stalled by a fumble in the first quarter, got down to work in the second quarter. Quarterback Dennis Claridge marched them 48 yards in just 8 plays and scored on a 16-yard quarterback keeper which fooled Coyotes completely. Quarterback Doug Tucker got into the act, too, marching the first team 49 yards in 5 plays to beat the halftime gun. The drive tiook just 31 seconds and sophomore fullback Joe McNulty of Wymore crashed it over from yards out.

The game was all over as' far as being any kind of contest on the second play of the second half. South Dakota tried a pass from its own 25 but halfback Dave Theisen of Milwaukee made a sensational steal from the Coyote receivei- a legged It 27 yards for another marker. It was all downhill from then on. Kent McCloughan, d-hot sophomore halfback from Broken Bow, got into the scoring act, taking a pitchout from Claridge and flying i around the left side for 20! yards and a touchdown. Thisj drive was 27 yards in 3 plays after Theisen had legged a South Dakota punt back ,30 yards.

it another touchdown run of 15 yards by lialfback Willie Ross which was called back by an offside penalty. Faiman quarterback a 3rd unit to the 6th touchdown, still in the 3rd period, with Gene Young of Cleveland, 0., and Willie Paschall of San Antonio, doing the lugging. The touchdown came on a 14-yard strike from Faiman to halfback John Vujevich of Clairton, Pa. Little Tucker began to get bis feet on the ground in the second half and he engineered the final two scores. The Davenpoit.

scrapper. scored himself on a one- vard quarterback sneak to highlight a i33-yard drive which included a 23-yard run by Paschall, and the final score came on a one-yard plunge by veteran Noel Martin. Tucker hit passes of 29 yards to Curtis Bryan Ooj )s! V-4 A 4- spelling dass for Husker rooters card section was to honor ex-NU Chancellor and Comptxoller John Selleck, not and 14 to Martin in the drive. While all the scoring was going on, Devaney was still looking for a place kicker. He apparently found him in center Baffico, the 261- pounder irom San Francisco Junior College Big Jim deliglited crowd with a couple of kickoffs into the end zone a also booted 3 extra points.

Faiman also helped by booting two extra points. Top ball carriers for the Huskers were Paschall with 50 yards in 5 tries, McCloughan 42 in 4, and Ross 39 in 6 Tucker hit a perfect 3-for-3 in passing for 46 yards, Faiman had 4-for-5 for 55 yards and Ctaridjc 3-for-7 for 27 Scott. Ilie little gamecock, had 73 yaids riishtng, a mag nificeiit But the Husker defenders were just too much. They murdered most of the South Dakota attempts, using sev eral different innoxation for Husker fans The game may have been costly with end Jim Huge suffering a oncussion Tackle B.oh Join's didn't even suit up and will be lost toi tlv' with a ar.ilion But thert' is still hope that 'Thornton will he ready tor duty when the Huskers jump into real competition against Michigan at Ann Arbor next Husker Jim dented helmet..