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Haase Powers Rockets By KEN HAMBLETON Star Sports Writer MiUard Three touchdowns by Lincoln Northeast fullback Virgil Haase and a powerful defense helped the third-ranked Rockets breeze to a 37-7 win over Millard here Friday night. The ohly mistake by Rocket defense came with just 50 seconds left when reserve Indian quarterback Steve Story hit Cliff Faust on an eight-yard touchdown pass. Otherwise, it was all game. Mike Ayars got the Rockets moving when he recovered a fumble on the Indian 49-yard hne early in the first quarter. Northeast dominated the game thereafter.

hurt when they fumbled at that point, and I think we had THE LINCOLN STAR Sports Saturday, September 20, 1975 13 the game from that point said Northeast coach Bob Els. The Rockets drove to the Millard one in seven plays, hitting halfbacks Steve Eliker and Mike Sales on quick openers. Plunges In Haase then plunged in on the connected on four of five PATs, then made the score 7-0. On the second play following the kickoff, the Indians fumbled again, and Rocket Kirby Monahan recovered on the Millard 29. The Rockets stalled on the 11, forcing Els to send in Bulling, who split the uprights, making the score Following a punt, the Rockets got the ball on their 32 and promptly went to the air with quarterback Doug Berka hitting Matt Farrens on passes of 18 and 27 yards to set the ball up at the Millard 26.

Then, with first and 10. Sales next play, and Ted Bulling, who Field Goal Propels Friend Past Wilber By RANDY YORK Prep Sports Editor Friend They christen the new stadium here Friday night, but there was a dedication ceremony anyway. The official dedication of new $105,000 football field will wait until mid-October, so the Bulldogs dedicated the Wilber game to two injured teammates. The result was a 17-8 win for second-rated Class C-2 team over the sixth-rated Class C-1 Wolverines. were almost too Friend coach Gary Junker said.

were so intent on winning this game for those two, that we almost get the job Mission Accomplished 'The mission was finally accomplished when junior Rex Eberspacher kicked a 29-yard field goal with 4:03 remaining to give Friend a 10-8 advantage. Craig 38-pass interception touchdown as time ran out was merely extra excitement as he from three would-be tacklers at the 20-yard line. The game was dedicated to junior linebacker Lee Kinsman and sophomore end Jim Winter. Both were starters on right defensive side. Kinsman broke an arm and Winter broke a leg in last practice.

can see why Wilber kept going to our right Junker said. our replacements played well Wilber struggled offensively all night. The Wolverines managed only four first downs, 51 yards rushing and 50 yards passing. Despite offensive inconsistency, Wilber assumed control with 5:41 remaining in the third quarter when Mark Horacek ran three yards for a touchdown and quarterback Dana Altman went wide around the right end for the two-point conversion. A 12-yard punt had given Wilber ideal field position at the Friend 33-yard line and the Wolverines needed eight plays to cover the distance.

The most crucial play was a fourth-down screen pass from Altman to Horacek, giving Wilber a first down on the six. Friend Misses Chances Friend frittered away a couple opportunities to retake the lead. One chance evaporated with 9:32 remaining in the fourth quarter when Eberspacher fumbled the snap on a first-and-goal situation from the one. Wilber, however, was unable to generate a counter threat. Forced to punt.

Friend received good position on the Wilber 45- yard Une after a 22-yard kick. When offense stalled at the Wilber 12, Eberspacher made up for his earlier miscue on the one-yard line, by kicking the 29-yard, game-winning field goal. Friend finished with 10 first downs, 73 yards rushing and 167 yards passing. Friend, now 3-0, will host Tecumseh next Friday night, while Wilber, now 2-1, will host Tri-County, also next Friday. scampered around the left end to boost LNE to a 17-0 lead.

Two minutes later, the Rockets started on their 36, and one play later Eliker, who gained 77 yards in the first half, scooted 57 yards off left tackle for another Northeast score. Indians Move The Indians finally got moving, driving 40 yards to the Rocket 37, but a pass bounced out of Millard receiver Gary hands and into those of Rocket defender Jim Gaden. A 49-yard pass from Berka to Eliker moved LNE to the Indian 26, and two plays later. Haase zipped around his right tackle untouched, giving Northeast a 31-6 advantage going into the second half. Two sacks by Monahan and Doug Dell pushed the Indians deep into their territory in the third quarter.

After a poor punt. Northeast set up at the Millard 35, and Haase got the call once again. This time he went around the left tackle for the score. was surprised with the ease with which we said Els, whose team is now 3-6. was the reason we scored on those long said Els.

what comes from everyday center Rick Morton got off the ball awful quick tonight, and that made the defense has a lot of pride and would have liked to shut out Millard, but we got beat on a play we have, and that gives us something to work Els added. Lincoln Northeast will face Lincoln High next week, while Millard, now 0-2-1, will travel to Columbus. Northeast ........................10 21 6 0-37 0 0 6 7-7 Norttwast Haase run (Bulling kick). Northeast Bulling FG 21. Northeast Sales 26 run (Bulling kick).

Northeast Eliker 57 run (Bulling kick). Northeast Haase 26 run (Bulling kick). Northeast Haase35run (kickfailed). Millard Faust 8 pass from Story (Paasch kick). NEBRASKA INDIANA Go Big Red The Lineups Offense NEBRASKA INDIANA Defense No.

Name Ht. Wt. Yr.Pos Yr. Wt. Ht.

NameNo. 80 Phillips 6-4 225 Jr. LE Sr. 210 64) Doming47 88 Mushinskit 6-2217 Sr. TE So.

214 6-4 Edgar 84 93 Wiod 6-2228 Sr. LT Sr. 270 6-3 McGuire 72 70 Lingenfetter 6-7 282 Jr. LT Jr. 240 6-3 Doggett 65 69 Lee 6-1 248 Sr.

MG 51 Schmidt 6-2 222 Jr. LG Sr. 221 6-2 Schanz 59 72 Fultz 6-5 275 Jr. RT Sr. 241 6-4 Hoffman 78 54 Bonness 64- 223 Sr.

Sr. 230 6-2Shuck70 87 Martin 6-1 208 Sr.RE So. 212 5-11 Smith 55 77 Costanzo6-4 255 Sr. RG So. 227 6-2Compton76 61 Pillen 6-1 207 Jr.

LB Sr. 249 6-2 Thomas 53 78 Hoins6-3246 Jr. RT Jr. 245 6-6 Knowlos 77 LB So. 224 6-2 Brinkman 57 8 Thomas5-8162 Jr.

SE Sr. 205 6-5Smock 81 46 Wightman 6-3213 So. LB Sr. 208 6-2 Buck 54 11 Luck 6-3 212 Sr. QB Jr.

175 5-11 Jones 12 34 Butterfield 5-10 182 Jr. CB SO. 163 6-1 Wilson 48 14 O'Leary6-1 210 Sr. IBJr. 190 6-2Snydor 43 35 Jones 64)183 Sr.

CB Sr. 176 6-1 Waterhouse 41 25 Davis 5-11214 Sr. FBSo. 205 64) Enis 44 26 Monds 6-2 204 Sr. Mon.

So. 178 5-11 McVay 49 33 Craig5-10 185 So. WB So. 170 5-9Calvin22 2 Burrow 5-11 170 Sr. SO.

197 6-2Grump 13 Kickoff 1:30 p.m., Memorial Stadium, Lincoln. Broadcasts KLIN, KFOR, KFAB, WOW, KRNU. Knights Convert Errors Into Win Wilber ..........................0 0 8 0 0 0 8 10-17 Wilber Horacek 3 run. PAT Altman run. Friend Thuis 44 pass from Eborspachar; Yochim 31 pass Intarctp- tlon; ibarspachar 29 goal.

PAT Ebarspacbar 2. First downs Rushes-yardage Passing yardage Passes Return yardage Punts Fumbles-lost Yards-penalties NE Millard 15 9 41-245 36-64 110 46 4-8-0 3-16-2 0 65 3-373 5H) 5-2 6-69 5-30 By TOM VINT Star Sports Staff For the past two weeks, Lincoln Southeast has been letting opponents take advantage of mistakes and a questionable defense. Friday night it was different. The 0-2 Knights finally got in the win column with a 13-7 bruising of unbeaten Ralston. A swarming defense and six Ralston turnovers gave Southeast all the pluses it needed at Seacrest Field.

In the first quarter, however, it looked like neither team wanted the football. Ralston took the kickoff but failed to generate a drive. Forced to punt from their own 37, Dick Meginnis got a hand on the punt. The Knights took the ball on the Ralston 41 and two plays later quarterback Eddie Davis skirted left end on an option play. As Davis broke past the line of scrimmage, end Perry Krogmeier took out two Ralston players, giving Davis a clear shot on a quick 39-yard touchdown run.

With Southeast ahead 7-0 following the extra point kick by Howard Misle, Ralston returned the kickoff to its own 31. Three Pius Routs McCook, 39-0 McCook The power running of senior Tom Doggett sparked Lincoln Pius to a 39-0 non- conference victory over Class A McCook here Friday night. Doggett, who gamed 128 yards in 18 carries, scored the second touchdown to give the Capital City club a 12-0 lead after one quarter. Doggett was an all- state 1-back last year as a The Class Lincoln school scored on its first possession, in a 17-play drive, culminated by Steve one- yard sweep around the left end for the touchdown. That early score with 4:17 to play in the first quarter proved to be all the offensive attack the Class school of coach Vince Aldrich needed.

After recovering the McCook fumbled kickoff on the 38-yard line, the needed only three plays to score as tallied his touchdown with 2:57 to play in the first quarter. While the Thunderbolts were rolling to a 33-0 halftime advantage, the Lincolnites dominated the offensive and defensive statistics. McCook was held without a first down in the first half and gained a net six yards rushing on 14 plays. Pius gained 182 yards in the half. The Bison took the second-half kickoff and drove to the Pius 20 but the held in four plays, taking over on the 25, but had to punt.

McCook again drove to the Pius 20, aided by a few penalties, a pass interference call and one of the two passes completed by the Bison, but Tom Peterson, a Pius comer- back the drive when he picked off a pass on the 11. The rushed for 259 yards on 59 carries while holding McCook to just 48 yards on 22 carries. Although Pius led all categories in the stats, one area might have hurt them had they not had such a lead. Pius was penalized 11 times for 105 yards, although seven penalties for 60 yards was not far behind. McCook lost three fumbles, while the Thunderbolts lost just one.

Pius ............................12 21 0 6-39 McCooK 0 0 0 0-0 Plus Steve Rohren, 1 run (KicK failed). Plus Tom Doggett, 10 run (kick failed). Plus Jerry Kobze, 5 run (Doggett, run). Plus Rohren, 49 pass from Pat Fuller (kick failed). Plus Jim Althonsin, 6 pass from Pat Heng (Dave Egge, run).

Pius Mark Cooper, 23 pass interception (run failed). First downs Rushes-yards Passes Passing yards Punts Penalties McC 6 18 22-48 59-259 2-20 8-11 27 138 2-42 3-35 7-60 11-105 3-3 2-1 plays and a clipping penalty later, Steve Michaelson was hit hard by Doug Roehrs. TTie ball popped loose and the Bill Moody was there to pounce on it at the 21. Two plays later Davis was hit hard and fumbled back to Ralston. Ralston move the ball and punted to Southeast again four plays later but Davis then threw an interception to give the Rams the ball once more on the 31.

The quarterbacks continued to have their problems. Two plays later, Michaelson fumbled back to Roehrs and Southeast at the 35 to end the tradeoffs of the first quarter. It until just over two minutes remained in the first quarter that the football even saw the Southeast side of the field. That followed a Ralston punt to the Knight 44. defense and turnovers continued to keep the ball in Ram territory through most of the game, game.

The second half opened with the Knights putting a controlled offensive drive. Starting on its own 29 after the kickoff, Southeast used up seven minutes of the quarter and marched to the Ram 32 before the drive bogged down. The Knights, who rushed for a season high 247 yards for the game, continued with their ground game from that point. The attack nearly put six more points on the board halfway through the final period when a drive pushed the ball all the way to the Ram one. Three plays at the goal line were pushed back by Ralston, however.

The next threat by Southeast as friendly. Following runs of 16 yards by Jim Bolin and 19 by Greg Prochaska, Davis popped a pass over the middle to Mark Lanik for the second Southeast score from five yards out. The kick was blocked but with only 1:12 left to play, the Knights were in the drivers seat on the scoreboard. After throwing four interceptions during the game, the Rams come back in the final minute to deprive Southeast of a shutout. Michaelson connected on a screen pass to Terry Shannon who out-manuevered the Knights for 53 yards and a touchdown.

With 34 seconds remaining, Tim Conway booted the extra point for the final 13-7 difference. Ralston 0 0 0 0 Southeast Davis, 39 run (Misle kick). Southeast Lanik, 5 pass trom pavis (kick failed). Ralston Shannon, 53 pass from Michaelson (Conway kick). Ralston Southeast First downs 13 58-247 Passing 12 Return 4-8 5-25 2-2 4-40 East Dumps Hastings, 12-6 STAFF PHOTO BY DAVE KENNEDY Lincoln Southeast defensive back Ron Rech, left, knocks away a pass intended for Dave Kadel.

Eckert Score Boosts Waverly Past Crete, 6-0 By DAVE SITTLER Waverly In a contest marred by controversy, Waverly won the battle of the unbeatens here Friday night by upending Crete, 64). The only touchdown in the contest between Class No. 9 ranked Crete and No. 10 Waverly, came with only 3:03 left in the fourth quarter when Waverly fullback, Cory Eckert bulled up the middle of the Crete defensive line for the score. touchdown came on a crucial fourth and inches situation with the ball resting just outside the Oete goal It was second crack at the score from less than one yard away after the Crete line hand stiffened and held on a third and inches play.

The tone touchdown of the contest set off a Waverly celebration, and left Crete fans shaking their heads in disbelief as they were convinced Eckert had been stopped short on his scoring bid. was tough for me to walk in our room and look my kids in the eye when they felt to a man that Waverly had not Crete first-year coach Mark Ward said. Naturally, Waverly coach Randy Hash saw the play in a different light. can 1 Hash said. thought be But I felt he scored on the third down play The touchdown by the rugged, 6-1, 195 pound Eckert, ended a long evening of sccaing firustra- tion for both teams, in the contest which two basically different offenses.

While CMe relied oo I its passing attack of quarterback Collin Braynad to end Scott Cress, Waverly stayed with its running game which was keyed by Eckert and I-back Dan Hill. Hill appeared to have the initial score of the game when he slashed off right guard for five yards and paydirt with 6:05 left in the second quarter. But an offside nullified the scoring effort and ended one of several Waverly scoring efforts. Hash saw his club blow several opportunities in the first half of fumbles or penalties. just told the kids at halftime that they had to go out there and blow them out the second Hash said.

have been saying a good defensive club but a poor offensive club. I think we showed we had an Crete suffered through its own I woes in the first half, as the Cardinals entered intermission with a minus 14 yards rushing. Cress helped offset that by grabbing four passes for 53 yaids. The Cardinals roared out the second half and appeared to take command as Braynard hooked up with Crees on four out of five passes for 65 yards. Crete is moved to three yard line, thanks to grabs, but four straight passes were broken up by the Viking defense to halt only serious scoring effort of the night.

Monter back Myron Leibel, who is also quarterback, dove in front of Crees to break up the final Crete pass to snuff out the drive. thought Leibel and Rod Wismer (linebacker and center) were super oo Hash said. is one of the finest players ever coached. our prime all-state On the final play of the third quarter, Oete was struck with another controversial call when middle guard and game captain Tim Kirkpatrick was ejected from the game on an sportsman like conduct call. Kirkpatrick had been playing havoc all evening with backfield before his ejection.

Kirkpatrick was brilliant for us and it really hurt not to have him in Ward said. "The officials said he was slugging. Tim said he was just trying to get his arm around the head to make the The loss of Kirkpatrick eventually took its toll on the Cardinals defense. Following interceptkn of a Braynard pass on the Crete 40-yard line with 6:01 left in the game, the Vikings started running over the middle guard vacated by Kirkpatrick In the seven play scoring drive, Eckert carried six times including runs of 23 and 11 yards and the eventual winning touchdown. do anything different the second half but just run right at Hash said of his offense which throw a single pass the final half.

rugged defense held Crete to a net gain of only (me yard rushing for the contest and the Vikings picked up 13 first downs to 9. Waverly kept its record cieao at 3-0, while Crete slipped to with its first defeat. ...................................0 8 0 8-0 0 0 Wvertf Cory BOumI, I run; (run By CHUCK SINCLAIR Prep Writer Hastings Lincoln East football coach Lee Zentic probably wished he would have stayed in bed Friday morning despite his Spartans earning a 12-6 Trans- Nebraska Conference win over Hastings here Friday night. Although the final score show the offensive and defensive domination, it looked like nothing was going to go right for East brfore the game even started. It in Lincoln when tic and his traveling squad of 45, coaches, players and managers got ready to board a bus that there.

Arriving at East 10 minutes late to pick up the team, the bus came with a bus to haul 45 persons. Need Rides had to find transportation for five people just to get them Zentic said, prior to the game. said we hoped it a preview of what was to It was. Before the tmi even ran on the field, one of the players noted he bad forgotten his jersey and, consequently, suit up. But Zentic aiui the defending state Class A defending Spartans got an early reprieve.

On offensive play from scrimmage, fullback Sam Yowell bolted 49 yards over left tackle for a touchdown and a 64) lead. But it was back to the bad experiences, as a Hastings defender jumped offsides to block the PAT. No flags were thrown despite the obvious rule infraction. The Tiger almost beat the baU to holder Dave Watters. East continued to gain yu- dage over the hosts of coach Norm Sheets as it mounted 367 total offensive yards to just 159 for Hastings.

But the visitors score when given the opportunity. East Stalls Twice East stalled inside the 15-yard-line, once when a pass to Brian Moreland lost six yards from the 12 on a fourth-down situation and again when Watters launched an aerial into the waiting arms of defender Mike Karloff at the four- yard-line. At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Spartans mounted their longest drive, covering 52 yards on 10 plays with Watters sneaking in from the one with 8:32 to play. Watters pass fell incomplete on the conversion attmpt and the score remained 124). The took the enusing kickoff 84 yards to avert a shutout with 2:02 to play.

Quarterback Ed Minnick hit Karloff with a 13-yard strike, but Moreiand blocked the conversion kick Ity Scott (Tiristensen. OiisideKick An onside kick was grabbed in midair after the score by Mike Alexander and East ran out the final two minutes. The fourth-rated Spartans hiked their record to while Hastings dropped to 1-2. East hosts Ralston at Seacrest Field next Saturday night. Lincoln Ent ...........................6 0 0 6-12 0 0 BMt Yowtll.

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