The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 197

BIG EIGHT BASKETBALL KANSAS STATE COLLEGE FOOTBALL Preaching parity Missouri Coach Norm Stewart says the conference is balanced from top to bottom Page 16 Wildcats sink to 0-10-1 Colorado keeps K-State winless taking a 41-0 victory as the Wildcats end a long dreary season Page 10 9MSP0KIS Sunday November 22 1987 Page 1 SPORTS Sooners lower the boom Gib Twyman Sooners quarterback Charles Thompson tried to elude Cornhuskers defensive tackle Neil Smith in the first quarter Thompson starting his second game for the Sooners rushed 21 times for 126 yards and completed two of nine passes for 25 yards He was intercepted once (staff photo by Rich Sugg) Oklahoma dominates battle for No 1 crushes Orange Bowl hopes By Tom Shatel sportswriter position it held for 10 weeks until being replaced by Nebraska last week Now the Sooners will go to the Orange Bowl to play the University of Miami which was ranked third last week The Hurricane should move up to No and stay that way for Jan 1 if it can beat Notre Dame and South Carolina the next two weeks Nebraska 9-1 grudgingly accepted a bid to play Florida State in the Fiesta Bowl Somehow Nebraska players had talked themselves into thinking this was going to be the year they would defeat Oklahoma and go to the Orange Bowl Osborne had let them And now there was some egg to be wiped off a lot of Big Red faces still feel we are the best Nebraska defensive end Broderick Thomas said although it was obvious they just had some Their biggest came before the game Oh Nebraska had reason to be confident: The Sooners had freshman quarterback Charles Thompson and junior fullback Rotnei Anderson on stage for the injured Jamelle Holieway and Ly-dell Carr What they had forgotten in their careless predictions was the defense which had held Nebraska to four touchdowns in their last three meetings Now make it five in the last four were saying 35-10 See Oklahoma pg 10 col 1 1 for the first time since the real Game of the Century in 1971 That is what a record Nebraska crowd of 76663 had come to witness What they got was an old Saturday afternoon a fourth straight Oklahoma victory over Nebraska and Coach Tom 12th loss in 16 games to Oklahoma Coach Barry Switzer often talk about Sooner magic and comebacks in the fourth Switzer said need it today We dominated from start to finish This was a dominating win I love playing as the No 2 team I thought we played better that They were No 2 for a week Oklahoma 11-0 surely will regain the No 1 Lincoln This time there was no Sooner Magic about it Unless you consider that defense made Nebraska disappear So too will the No 1 ranking after a startling 17-7 loss to No 2 Oklahoma on Saturday in a game that had been billed as of the Century In the end that hype held as much weight as the promises from Nebraska players that died so hard They were buried in a sea of white Oklahoma jerseys chasing pounding and batting away Nebraska's dreams to finish No part of schedule ends today for Chiefs Husker QB eats words after loss Lincoln a fairly large foot actually for a man Steve size Takes an 11 shoe A white shoe with black soles A red stripe and star and uniform number on the sides Today Taylor has that shoe in his mouth cleats laces and all And though he is 6 feet 195 pounds at least 190 of that must seem like foot Taylor the Nebraska quarterback is eating that sneaker sandwich after No 2 17-7 crushing of the top-ranked Huskers here Saturday It was Taylor who had said before the game "We will beat Oklahoma and it even be Of course anyone who saw the game here or on television knows that exactly the opposite happened The Sooners totally dominated the Huskers Their huge offensive line shoved the proud Nebraska defense halfway to Cornhusker Highway more the Big Red Machine ran over them with spare parts Supposedly the Sooners were wheezing with starting quarterback Jamelle Holieway and starting fullback Ly-dell Carr out because of injuries But they just pulled the thing into the Barry Switzer Speed Shop tossed a couple of more turbochargers back in that baby and out they went tearing up the road The replacement quarterback Charles Thompson ran for 126 yards in 21 carries and the substitute fullback Rotnei Anderson had 119 in 24 They paced a 419-yard ground attack and nearly doubled the total yardage (444 to 235) So what did Taylor feel like after the game? He took his medicine very well which is tough swallowing when already got a mouthful of filet of shoesole disappointing got to eat my words now I he said evenly "But I have no regrets I said some bold things But I meant them I went out not hoping win I knew we would win If we went out tomorrow and played still say the same thing caught me at a time when I was pretty fired up and I was feeling confident I thought we needed for me to say the things I did as players as coaches as fans It come out as tactful as I might have wanted it to under different circumstances "But I feel bad about it I say it to degrade anybody or to start a personal war or to raise false hopes on our part what I truly believed "It came from the heart so never take it back somebody asked me tomorrow say the same thing I still think man for man talent for talent we are capable of playing better football than better than anybody really just happen today If we played tomorrow it might be completely different I can't say why we play well We just make the plays We clicking Something Taylor said he feel his remarks got the Sooners fired up despite the fact his remarks were posted on every Sooners locker don't think they were any more emotional on the field than they usually he said said nice things to me They helped me up You can tell if people are out to get you but there were no four or five guys hitting me at one time no hitting me when I was down no cheap shots I really expect any because the type of players they are "Maybe I was a factor but tell you one thing They beat us because they were any more motivated impossible that that By Randy Covitz sportswriter fiitcatifps Green Bay 3-5-1 closes out the November trifecta in a noon game today at Arrowhead Stadium and by now the Chiefs have learned nothing automatic about playing at home a Chiefs Coach Frank Gansz said of the perceived homefield advantage So far this season home teams have won just 56 percent of the time (70-55-1) which is up from last season mark of 53 percent (118-104-2) play in the NFL and every week is a dog Gansz said ready to win going to And after losing the last three games by a total of 11 points Gansz despite a myriad of problems on defense said he senses his team is ready to win He compared the situation to 1982 when the Chiefs lost their four straight after the strike before winning two of the last three 1982 we as close (to winning) as we are said Gansz an assistant that year came back in the last game of the season we were flowing We played a very very good Jets team and beat them The feelings I have are similar had the lead in the fourth quarter for the last three games That's not easy to do I know a lot of teams would love to have a lead in the fourth See Chiefs pg 19 col 1 EIGHT AND COUNTINC TODAY: Chiefs vs Green Bay Packers WHENWHERE: Noon today at Arrowhead Stadium A crowd ot 38000 la expected RECORDS: The Chiefs are 1-8 The Packers are 3-5-1 AT STAKE: The Chiefs are out to avoid Increasing their franchise-record los- ing streak to nine WEATHER: Mostly sunny mild and warm High In the 60s TVRAOIO No TV KCMO(BIOAM) NEXT GAME: 11:30 am Thursday against the Detroit Lions In Pontiac Mich Compete roster tatiittcs on Pago IS This is the portion of the schedule that once seemed so alluring Three straight home games A time to get well When the season began the November home stretch against Pittsburgh the New York Jets and Green Bay represented an opportunity to make a playoff run And even in the aftermath of a 1-6 start the homestand offered a chance to regain respectability It worked out that way The Chiefs now 1-8 were beaten by Pittsburgh and the Jets in extending their losing streak to a club-record eight Strong MU ground game grinds up Kansas Stowers stars for Tigers in season-ending 19-7 victory ByJackEtkin sportswriter MfMouriHKanas7 Panel Oklahoma 1 7 Nebraska 7 Page1 Cotorado41 Kansas State 0 Page 10 Oklahoma Stats 41 Iowa Stale 27 Page 12 Standing! on Pag 1 2 The Jayhawks responded to field goal with a 60-yard kickoff return by Peda Samuel to the Missouri 38 When tailback Mike Rogers was thrown for a 1-yard loss on third and 2 at the 19 KU went for a game-tying field goal The 37-yard attempt by Louis Klemp sailed to the right After the first of two fumbles by KU running back Arnold Snell the Tigers took over on the KU 20 Five running plays later Missouri scored its first touchdown on Darrell Wallace's 1-yard run with 9:25 left in the first half and went ahead 10-0 The game had the makings of a Missouri rout when fullback Tommy Stowers scored on a 1-yard run with 5:41 left in the half Stowers a sophomore from Hickman Mills High School rushed for a season-high 130 yards in 22 carries He set up his first touchdown of the season with a 34-yard burst over left his longest run of the to the KU 1 "Right when I saw the end zone my eyes got about as big as Stowers said "My mind said but my feet said I came up half a yard short of the goal line" See Missouri pg 11 col 1 Missouri saw its 19-7 victory as a corner-turning step-pingstone a vital part of a steady climb Kansas viewed its defeat Saturday as a sad end to its season not some consolation prize for putting up the good fight The reactions may have been predictable even though the result was a little wide of the mark The Tigers statistically manhandled the Jayhawks in front of a crowd of only 32202 at Faurot Field even though they come close to covering the spread of 27 points Missouri outrushed KU 321 yards to 116 and piled up 20 first downs to the nine The final game of the season for both teams left Missouri 5-6 and 3-4 in the Big Eight Conference There was no resolution of KU Coach Bob status after the long autumn ended at 1-9-1 overall and 0-6-1 in the conference loss is a Kansas sophomore quarterback Kelly Donohoe said improved a little bit but what matters is wins and losses We wanted to taste winning and able to do so There was a lot of pain in a season like this Maybe be better next Having finished his third season and watched his victory total rise from one to three to five Missouri Coach Woody Widenhofer is also hopeful of brighter days stayed in all but two Widenhofer said referring to defeats of 42-7 to Nebraska and 27-10 to Colorado this improvement continues as it has have a terrific team next The Tigers took "a 3-0 lead on a 29-yard field goal by Tom Whelihan with 1 minute 50 seconds left in the first quarter That kick capped a nine-play 39-yard drive in which the Tigers ran the ball eight straight times The key carry was Robert 10-yard run on third and 1 from the KU 42 When Jayhawks free safety Marvin Mattox grabbed face mask on the tackle five more yards were tacked on giving the Tigers a first down on the KU 27 Tigers fullback Tommie Stowers leaped past a Jayhawks defender and into the end zone for a touchdown (staff photo by Joe Ledford) See Twyman pg 10 col I -y.