The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 121

THE KANSAS CITY STAR Shorts The Outdoors KANSAS CITY SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15 1970 SECTION Huskers Cats near the goal The pass was knocked away but Montgomery thought the Nebraska player was guilty of interference He ran up to Wayne Cooley the back judge and shoved him hard from behind Cooley stumbled recovered his balance and immediately ejected Montgomery The defeat was a bitter one for the Wildcats who have experienced a strange season of highs and lows K-State rallied for spectacular victories over Oklahoma and Missouri but was upset by Kansas and then yesterday was demolished in its biggest game of the year Nebraska had averaged almost 50 points a game in its last three starts and it was apparent the Wildcats would have to hold their errors to a minimum if they were to compete with the Huskers Instead the Wildcats had one of their worst days in regard to turnovers The combination of their mistakes and i the versatile offense resulted in the astonishing rout A crowd of 67894 jammed Memorial stadium for the game despite numbing winds and a temperature in the 30s Kansas State put the ball in play at the 31 following the opening kick-off and moved out to the 47 on four running plays Dickey facing a third-and-5 situation tried to pass He was rushed and got off a wobbly throw that Murtaugh grabbed at the Nebraska 45 I Murtaugh was run out of bounds at the K-State 30 The Huskers immediately hit the Wildcats with an inside reverse With the flow of the play pulling the defense to I he left Rodgers cut inside his right guard and went all the way Paul Rogers kicked the extra point and Nebraska was ahead to stay with only two minutes and 12 seconds elapsed Kansas State was unable to get a first down on its next three possessions an ominous development considering the Nebraska defense had shown some weaknesses in pass defense The Wildcats still stayed mostly on the ground Near the end of the first quarter Nebraska set off on a drive that produced one of the two touchdowns on which Kansas State did not lend a helping hand The Huskers started on the K-State 48 were set back to the Nebraska 37 by a penalty and still were able to score in See Nebraska Page2S Orange Bowl Bid To Nebraska Miami Fla The Orange bowl said last night it has extended an invitation to powertiouse Nebraska to be one of the teams in the New night post-season football classic Bob Devaney says he will let his players vote on bowl bids today and will announce his decision late this an Orange bowl spokesman said The fourth-ranked Cornhusk-ers with only Oklahoma left on their schedule polished off Kansas State 51-13 yesterday to push their over-all record to 9-0-1 and clinch a tie for the Big Eight conference title By Joe McGuff The Star' Sports Editor Lincoln Yesterday's game between Kansas State and Nebraska was only a little more than two minutes old when Jerry Murtaugh intercepted a pass thrown by Lynn Dickey and returned it 25 yards to the Wildcat 30 Johnny Rodgers ran an inside reverse on the first play from scrimmage and scored Thus began an afternoon of unrelenting horror for the Wildcats who were routed 51-13 Dickey was intercepted seven times The Wildcats gave up the ball once on a fumble and fought a losing battle against poor field position They had to start inside their own 34-yard line on 15 of their 18 possessions Nebraska led 21-7 at the half and put the decision completely out of reach with a 16-point third quarter The third-quarter touchdowns came after interceptions gave them the ball at the Kansas State 30 and again at the 12 Joe Orduna scored four times for the Huskers and was the leading rusher with 105 yards on 27 carries His touchdowns came on runs of three 16 one and two yards The victory enabled the Huskers to clinch at least a tie for the Big Eight championship and moved them into position for bids from the Orange and Cotton bowls Nebraska has a 6-0 conference record and will conclude its regular season next Saturday against Oklahoma which is 4-1 Bowl committees were able to begin negotiations with Nebraska as of 6 last night but the Huskers are not expected to make any immediate commitments Nebraska is ranked fourth nationally and has gone 17 games without a loss The only smudge on the record this season is a 21-21 tie with Southern California Nebraska has won or shared the Big Eight title in six of the last eight years Nebraska was a 9-point favorite going into game but the Wildcats were regarded as a threat to the Huskers Kansas State was weakened by the loss of linebacker Oscar Gibson who suffered a sprained knee against Oklahoma State The Wildcats suffered another key personnel loss when fullback Mike Montgomery pushed an official and was ejected in the second quarter Montgomery and a Nebraska defender went up for a pass too K-State on Nebraska 'Cals Mike It is much Joe Orduna and not enough th's play as it was all day with the speedster breaking out of a crowd i Kolich (15) Paul Hudson (55) and Leo Brouhard Joe on Go (Again) Paradise for Runners Late Charge Tips 28-24 Ron Dickerson gives chase as Orduna opens up Nothing Dan Devine gets in a sideline conference wit! quarterback Chuck Roper with Missouri ahead in the first quarter and Conley netted only two yards and on third down Dan Heck pass for Turner was intercepted by Steve in the end zone Only 2:24 remained and although Kansas got the ball back at midfield with 45 seconds remaining that was it On their last possession pass for Steve Natsues was intercepted by Monty Johnson and Oklahoma ran out the clock This game was an excellent demonstration of power football Only 16 passes were five in the closing moments when Kansas made a desperate attempt to pull out the victory There were only 25 yards of penalties and after the first couple of minutes the game was free of fumbles It was very much like a classic boxing match in which the two principals stand toe-to-toe and slug it out Kansas delivered the first staggering blow by putting together a 56-yard touchdown march midway in the first period Riggins who scored on a 22-yard run had 34 yards on the drives but he received good support from Jerome Nelloms and an 11-yard pass from Heck to Ron Jessie Stung by the show of strength Oklahoma retaliated with a 66-yard touchdown march climaxed See Page 3S Star photos from Lawroneo Kas by John Vawtar By Fritz Kreisler A Member of The Star's Sports Staff LawTence Kas Hard-pressed Oklahoma shook off the numbing effects of the slashing running of big John Riggins and rallied from a 10-point deficit in the last quarter to defeat Kansas 28-24 in a bruising Big Eight conference? football game here yesterday Tlie victo-y kep the Soon-ers in contc tion for a share of the conference title and sends them into next game against Nebraska with a 4-1 Big Eight record The loss third straight leveled the Jayhawks at 5-5 for the season and 2-4 in the conference The 1 -up crowd which looked smaller than the announced 38200 saw Oklahoma strike for two fourth-period touchdowns after Riggins had sparked the Jayhawks to a 24-14 lead Playing his last home game the blockbusting Riggins scored two touchdowns and ran for 178 yards the second biggest yardage total of his 3-year career One of his jaunts just before the half covered 65 yards But Oklahoma had the answer with its own devastating ground game on the outside running of Joe Wvlie and the inside work of Leon Crosswhite Wylie long-legged and nimble romped for 132 yards and Crosswhite a tough 190-pounder gouged out 127 yards Wylie who scored two touchdowns was especially effective on a pitch around end off the wishbone-T offense Greg Pruitt the kev blocker on all of end sprints scored both fourth quarter touchdowns on runs of 14 and 11 yards The last one with 8:49 remaining looked stunningly easy as Wylie reciprocated with a block that wiped out two Kansas defenders and Dickerson gets his shot but comes up empty as next it's a talk with Hank Kuhlmann and Jack Bastable but no matter which way he turns Devine is headed for his first losing season in 13 years as head coach as Iowa State puts it in the books on a 31-19 upset Helps Star photos from Columbia Mo by Kenneth Paik Star photos from Lincoln Neb by A Crank and Rick Solberg r- 1-State Pins MU the 'Cats now 0-for-2 get one last chance from the diving Clarence Scott (26) before With Losing Kansas had the ball three times alter the last Oklahoma touchdown and threatened once A tremendous 65-yard punt by Keith Lieppman and a diving down of the ball at the 3-yard line by Lucius Turner backed the Sooners up against their goal and forced them to punt against the stiff 15-mile-an-hou- wind Still on fourth down from the 11 Wylie got off a good boot that carried out to the 43 On the first play Hi?" ins roared around left end behind a good block by Turner ran over one man completely and bolted to the l-yard line Two cracks into the line by Steve Year feeling that it was in for deep deep trouble was widespread Three times in the second quarter it had failed deep in Cyclone country That apprehension among the well-blanketed old grads quickly became grim reality Four plays after the second-half Jdck-off State lined up second -and-5 on its 23 Amundson drifted left on what shaped uo as a deep pitch to tailback Mike Palmer But he faked the pitch cut back over left tackle and found himself in the open Only George Fountain the defensive back on that side who had raced forward to support against the sweep had a run at Amundson And he make up the 20-yard headstart Amunason changed directions at the 15 to shake off the pursuit When Reggie Shoemake who got State on the board first and last kicked goal the See Page 48 By Dick Wade Associate Sports Editor ot The Star Columbia At 4:17 yesterday afternoon football team reached the point of no return in its battle against a losing season the first in Coach Dan 13 years at the helm At that precise moment in early-winter gloom as heavy as the disappointment the home-coming crowd of 56000 took with it from chilled Memorial stadium Iowa State clamped the lid on a well-earned 31-19 its first over Missouri since 1955 its first in Columbia since 1938 and naturally its first ever ove Devine It was fitting that George Amundson ran a keeper good for eight yards on the final play Amundson who came on in relief of quarterback Dean Carlson in the third quarter was the game-breaker Twice he drifted ghost-like through the I for touchdown runs of 77 and 33 yards on beautifully executed option plays in the second-half rally- And that was the ticket to Coach Johnny third conference triumph in three seasons at the Iowa State helm And it was sixth loss of the campaign against four with finale here with Kansas ail left It took a combination of Amundson Iowa State's defensive backbone and five blown opportunities by the Tigers to forge this outcome Five times during this game Missouri surged inside 20 and came out with nothing And the 461 yards of total offense they moved the ball some of the time But when Missouri went off the field at half-time with only a 12-10 lead to show for its thunder-then-fizzle efforts the Inside Chiefs 2 -State Dressing Room 2 Dressing Room 3 Colorado 30 O-State 6 3 Blues 5 Tula 1 4 Dressing Room 4 Air Force 31 Stanford 14 5 Texas 58 5 Ohio State 19 Purdue 7 6 Notre Dame 10 Georgia Tech 7 Football Scores 9 Orduna makes the final dive count into the end zone to complete 16-yard run Georgia 31 Auburn 17 11.