The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 218

'jj p- ty 4S THE KANSAS CITY STAR v-a OU Fights Off Stanford Rally Kimball for a touchdown in the second quarter The quarterback ran 19 yards for another second-quarter touchdown Dils threw two touchdown passes to Margerum and one to Gordon Banks Ken Naber kicked two field goals from 43 and 49 yards and three extra points for Stanford which went down to its sixth consecutive loss in a season opener Oklahoma winner of 10 straight openers got its flrrst touchdown before the game was old Banks fumbled on the before the game was 14 minutes opening kickoff when he was tackled by STANFORD Calif (AP)-Quar-terback Thomas Lott produced four one on a 70-yard pass for the Oklahoma Sooners who needed a last-second end zone interception to beat Stanford 39-29 Saturday The fourth-ranked Sooners fumbled eight times and lost four of them including two in the third period when Stanford capitalized to score 10 points cutting lead to 28-20 Quarterback Steve DUs of Stanford who completed 32 passes for 299 yards and three touchdowns suffered his second interception when safety Sherwood Taylor picked off a pass at midfield early in the final quarter The Sooners then drove 45 yards for their final touchdown a one-yard sneak by Lott The Sooners gave Stanford two points on an intentional safety in the final minutes after Taylor made another interception at 3 and Dils passed 11 yards to Ken Margerum for a touchdown with eight seconds remaining The Cardinals then recovered their on-side kickoff at 31 and the game ended when cor-nerback Darrol Ray made his third key defensive play by intercepting a Dils pass in the end zone Lott hit Steve Rhodes on a 70-yard touchdown pass in the first period and threw 17 yards to Bobby Ray Jay Jimerson recovered at the Stanford is and the Sooners scored four plays later on Billy 2-yard run The Sooners made the score 14-0 as Lott the wishbone offense quarterback became a drop-back passer for one play and hit Rhodes on the long pass play that covered 70 yards The Sooners led 14-10 in the second quarter when Ray made his first interception setting up a 54-yard touchdown drive which ended with 19-yard run That touchdown came with 2:50 left in the half and the touchdown pass to Kimball came with just seven seconds remaining A light rain fell off and on during the game but seem to bother either offense as the two teams combined for 897 net yards with Oklahoma accounting for 496 Associated Press (78) of Colorado appears to have touched the ball with his hand Colorado defeated Oregon 24-7 Wai it th thin air or what? Kickar Pat English of Oregon and offensive tackle Bill Hoffman (73) watch as Colorado blocks a 40-yard field-goal attempt George Viser Rocky Mountain Blahs Huskers Erupt Late to Dump Cal Big8 Affordable Fence! 72-yard bomb to Holden Smith But Nebraska got those points back quickly Andra Franklin going over from the two on the end of a 12-play 66-yard drive at the 5: 18 juncture Cal got final points on a two-yard run by Allen Blackmon with 1:06 to play but by then it was too late "We kept coming back and the mark of a good said Osborne just imagine such gigantic mistakes time after time we were pleased to win We still feel we con have a fine team and happy about the improvement But we sUU have a long way to Anthony Washington cornerback for California was pretty put out by the whole affair think our backs are better than theirs Hipp and Berns as good as all the papers and television say they That of course the question that was answered yesterday The big answer to the big question was Nebraska isn't that Any team that can roll up 492 yards total offense (302 rushing and 190 passing to 76 rushing 271 passing-total 347) be bad In fact Saturday for 15 awesome minutes the Cornhuskers looked downright By Mike DeArmond A AAmmber of the Sports Staff LINCOLN For a solid week the question had been hanging around the Nebraska locker room like the smell of sweat socks and 1 inament Oh sure nobody in the Nebraska family of coaches and players verbalized it too much But it was there: "Were the Cornhuskers really as bad as they appeared to be in losing to Alabama For Three quarters Saturday afternoon before 75996 fans at Memorial Stadium it appeared that answer no matter how much it hurt would have to be in the affirmative Hien in the final 15 minutes Nebraska became the team it and most observers around the Big Eight thought it would be Blitzing to 22 fourth-quarter points the Cornhuskers rolled to a 36-26 victory over California that evened the Husker record at 1-1 in the most positive of fashions IM Hipp the Heisman Trophy candidate at running back wiped out the memory of a 54-yard showing against Alabama last week with 154 yards on 23 carries against the Golden Bears Rick Berns who did even less against the Tide rolled to 70 yards overland on 12 carries And auarterbactc Tom Sorley who bordered on the pathetic against Alabama warmed up for 10-for-l8 and 190 yards passing suddenly turning into the field general Coach Tom Osborne hoped he would be how it ended mind you It start that way by a long shot Cal held a 7-0 lead after one quarter and was tied at 14-14 after three periods we want to let it come to said Sorley way we played at Alabama bothered us I think in the back of our minds we were really questioning how good we really It showed because although NU could move between the 20s it kept breaking down just in time to keep it off the scoreboard early thought we might have one edge having played a game Coach Tom Osborne said it appear we had any edge at all" Indeed the Cornhuskers were lucky they go into the dressing room down at the half Joe Cooper the kicker had field goal attempts of 47 39 and 30 yards that sailed wide or short in the first half Cal took the lead with 6:30 left in the first quarter when quarterback Rich Campbell hit flanker Floyd Eddings with a 12-yard lob pass in the left corner of the end zone Nebraska got even with 7:46 to play in the second quarter as Sorley sneaked over from the one To get that far Nebraska had resorted to a little trickery Sorley handing off to Hipp then taking a return feed and hitting receiver Maurice McCloney for onds prior to the start of the final period on a 14-yard scamper around right end by Berns Sorley had appeared almost mentally lost in the closing seconds of the first half when he frittered away 21 precious seconds then used up his final time out before trying to run a pass play while the NU kicking team was on the field Todd (the NU kicker) came in with the kicking squad and everybody was yelling goal! Field Sorley recalled heard him except Sorley however was right on the beam in the Huskers awesome final period Driving behind sweeps and suddenly pinpoint passes the Huskers rammed over the goal with 13:22 to play for the go-ahead touchdown The scoring play came on 32-yard pass over the middle to McCloney McCloney hit at the 10 somehow shook off defender Ron Coc-cimiglio and bulled into the end zone The PAT made it 21-14 Nebraska Seconds later with Cal backed up inside its 10 Campbell faded into the end zone to pass Billy Barnett a defensive tackle hit Campbell and Lawrence Cole of NU fell on the wildly bouncing ball for a Nebraska touchdown Smelling victory the Huskers went for two points and got them Sorley handing off to Berns then floating into the left corner of the end zone to take the successful conversion pass Cal came back scoring again with 9:44 to go on magnificent At American you can buy an unassembled section of tall privacy fence for only $Of)25 mmm plus posts AMERICAN FENCE 361 -3550 Monday-Frlday 8:00 to 5:00 Saturday hours: 8 am until Noon a 56-yard pass play that kicked off the 70-yard drive and carried to the Cal 14 Paul two-yard dive put Cal back on top with 9:05 to play in period before the Huskers came back 49 sec WHO SAYS YOU CANT AFFORD A EUROPEAN PERFORMANCE SEDAN? Pass Thefts Boost Buffaloes dashed 2 yards for a touchdown giving Colorado a 17-0 lead with 6:26 left in the third quarter Later in the quarter Kennedy faced a hard rush and his short pass over the middle was intercepted by Visger who returned 6 yards to the Oregon 14 Four plays later Bill Solomon a reserve quarterback scored from one yard out Kozlowski The Buffs fumbled away the ball on the one-yard line following interception and 48-yard return to the Oregon nine-yard line in the second half However they regained possession in good field position when Oregon move on offense Fullback James Mayberry then BOULDER Colo Interceptions by linebacker Bill Roe and tackle George VLsger helped set up two second-half touchdowns as Colorado stunned Oregon 24-7 in a non-conference football game Saturday Oregon crossed midfield only four times and until the closing minutes its furthest penetration was to the Colorado 23-yard line That threat which came early in the game ended on a blocked field goal attempt 0 'Hie Ducks scorkl with 1 minute 54 seconds left on Mike Kennedy's 11-yard pass to split end Ken Page Colorado led 1(H) at halftime thanks to the running and receiving of Mike Can you believe it? 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