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Picker Win Over Wildcats Would Bring Bowl Offers Before Sundown Cornhuskers Hoping to Put Holiday Plans in Order A good miler depends upon a good for a winning finish. The old forecaster could use a good himself to boost his .744 season prediction mark up to the .750 mark. Maybe catching a couple of Notre Dame highlight films will help. It appears that Ara Parseghian is a master of the fast finish. Statistics from the Notre Dame camp reveal that the Irish been scored upon in the last quarter this year.

A clean sweep like that would do wonders for the forecasting average. Who knows, it might he enough to make him No. 1. This outlook; Big Eight Nebraska 30, Kansas State 14 Cornhuskers have scored just 10 points on Wildcats in two years. But 10 points be enough to win this one.

Colorado 28, Oklahoma State 14 Buffaloes are getting things put together and a big win here might help them attract some bowl interest. Missouri 21, Iowa State 14 Cyclones the best losing team in America Missouri is. Oklahoma 28, Kansas 21 Sooners picking up steam as season progresses. East Oregon over Army, Dartmouth over Cornell, Harvard over Brown, Navy over Villanova, Pennsylvania over Columbia, Penn State over Ohio Pittsburgh over Boston College, Rutgers over Holy Cross, Yale over Princeton, West Virginia over Syracuse. Midwest West Texas State over Bowling Green, Cincinnati over Louisville, Wisconsin over Illinois, Northwestern over Indiana, Miami, Ohio, over Kent State, Michigan over Iowa, Minnesota over Michigan State, Notre Dame over Georgia Tech, Ohio State Purdue, Toledo over Dayton.

South Auburn over Georgia, North Carolina over Clemson, Davidson over William Marshall over East Carolina, Florida over Kentucky, Florida State over Virginia Tech, LSU over Mississippi State, Alabama over Miami, Mississippi over Chattanooga. Richmond over VMI, South Carolina over Duke, Virginia over Colgate. Southwest Arizona State over Utah, Arkansas over SMU, Texas Tech over Baylor, Houston over Wyoming. New Mexico over Brigham Young. Texas over Rice, Texas over TCU, Arizona over Texas-El Pa.so.

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A new anti-trust suit has been filed over the transfer of Seattle Pilots to Milwaukee. Danny Murtaugh has decided to return in 197! as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Basketball The Los Angeles Lakers traded forward John Tresvaut to the Baltimore Bullets for a draft choice. Joe Belmont was fired as head coach of the ABA Denver Rockets and Stan Albeck, an assistant, moved up. (590), KFAB (1110), KFOR (1240), KLIN (1400).

Big 8 Cage Race Has No Favorite Kansas City Kansas State, the defending champion, and Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado shape up as the big guns in the forthcoming Big Eight Conference basketball race. All teams except Oklahoma State open their Dec. 1. The coaches saying much about their team's chances. None will come right out and predict his club Is the one to beat.

Kansas State has a new in Jack Hartman, who came from Southern Illinois. Hartman inherits two starters, Bob Zender and David Hall, from the 1970 team. In addition, he has two outstanding sophomores, Steve Mitchell and Kusnyer, But the Wildcats may not have the depth to win another championship. They have only a 10-man squad. Kansas has the leading scorer back in Dave Robisch, who averaged 26.5 points a game.

The other Icttermen are Bud Stallworth. Pierre Russell, Roger Brown, Greg Douglas, Hoi) Kivisto, Neal Mathews and Aubrey Nash. Six lettermen return to Creighton, Freddie Shell, Terry Jameson, Ron Maulsby, Dudley Mitchell and Cliff Mcely. Sooners Oklahoma appears in pretty fair shape with four starter.s back, Charles Hardin, Scott Martin, Bobby Jack and Clifford Ray. The other letterman is John Yule.

Four starters are settled at Nebraska. They are L-eroy Chalk, Chuck Jura, Marvin Stewart and A1 Nissen. Mike Petereen is the other returning letterman. Missouri, a team that split even in conference play last vear, has four lettermen, Henry Smith, Barry Maurer, Bob Xllen and Greg Flaker, but lost the major portion of its offense. Sam Aubrey takes over coaching chores at Oklahoma State from retired Hank Iba.

The Cowboy lettermen are Donnie Wheeler, Scott Alford, Bob Buck, John Robinson, Jerry Redo, Jerry Clack, Mike Jeffries and Paul Mullen. Iowa State coach Glen Anderson probably has the biggest rebuilding task. He lost over three-fourths of his scoring attack and has three lettermen Gene Mack, Jack DeVilder and Rick Engle. Carr Forecasts Ruiiip for Colts The rampaging Baltimore Colts are prohibitive favorites to continue their winning ways in the National Football League this week. Journal forecaster Don Carr makes the Colts a 21-pojnt choice over Buffalo, biggest point spread of his weekly pro By DON FORSYTHE What are you doing New- New Eve? unbeaten and fourth-ranked Cornhuskers just might be able to put their holiday plans in order by sundown Saturday.

The bowl-wise Cornhuskers, bidding for their seventh postseason trip in nine campaigns under Bob Devaney, can assure a little more sunshine for their season by defeating Kansas State in a 1:30 p.m. confrontation in Memorial Stadium. Kansas State has never been to a bowl game, and be going for at least three years because of the stipulations of recent Big Eight and NCAA probation action, but the Wildcats do have plenty at stake in their final conference game. At 5-1, Vince club can assure itself no worse than a tie for the Big Eight title by whipping Nebraska (5-0). A championship is something a Kansas State team had since 1934 when Lynn Waldorf coached the Wildcats to a 5-0 sea'son which interrupted a Royal Expects Worst Jerry Tagge To (iet Call? Six seven-year rule of the Big by Nebraska.

Winning seasons since that time in Manhattan. loom like oases in a desert of defeats. The Wildcats have been winners only three times since then in 1936 (4-3-2), 1953 (6-3-1) and 1954 (7-3). But when Gibson came four years ago his battle cry was goiina The Wildcats went 1-9, 4-6 and almost made Lynn Dickey Peak Performance? it last year before fading with four straight losses to finish 5-5. Now' they're 6-3 with Nebraska and Florida State left to play.

Gibson moved mountains to get the K-State program going. The Wildcats have a new athletic dorm and a new 43.000 scat stadium with an AstroTurf surface. The Big Eight and NCAA last month said he had moved too aggressively and slapped on a three-year proba- Van Brownson Hits 64 Per Cent tion which will keep the Wildcats out of a bowl and off the NCAA television series. The latter part of the penalty hits home this week. The title game would have most likely been included as one of the four games televised regionally this week.

Despite the TV ban be plenty of exposure. Cornbusker ticket boss Jim Pitteriger anticipates a crowd Dempsey Believes 63-Yarder, Blit Not Newly-Gained Fame Foolball Kent State University football coach Dave Paddington will resign in December. Texas regular quarterback Steve Judy, will not start Saturday against Texas because of an ankle sprain. Pittsburgh Steelers acquired defensive back Kenuy Graham from the Cincinnati Bengals. A black cheerleader at West Virginia University was expelled from the squad for raising the black power salute during the playing of the national anthem.

Other SporUi Joanne Hull, wife of Chicago Black Hawks hockey star Bobby Hull, has filed for divorce. Dick Wetzel and Francisco Lopez shot first round 68s in the national PGA Club Pro Tournament. The one-two finish of Joya G. and Bridgehead in the sixth race at Aqueduct Thursday provided a $1,869.20 exacta payoff, a record in New York State. forecast.

Margin Opponent Atlanta 1 Philadelphia Baltimore 21 Buffalo Cleveland 3Cincinnati Green Bay 7 Chicago Kansas City 7 Pittsburgh Los Angeles 17N.Y. Jets Miami 7 New Orleans Minnesota 10 Detroit N.Y. Giants 1 Washington Oakland 1 Denver San Diego 7 Boston San Francisco 3 Houston Dallas 3St. Louis All evenU frae unkM tqr all tinea bi ualan faced for p.m. Friilay Local Prep Football Lincoln High V.

Northeast at Seacrest Field, 75th and A. (KLIN-KFOR). By Associated Press ganging up on Texas lately. Baylor dM last weekend, holding the mighty Ijonghorns to a hard-earned 2114 victory. Then the pollsters dropped Texas from first to second and coach Darrell Royal expects more of the same from Texas Christian on Saturday in Fort Worth.

just go running roughshod over people when they put up a stubborn Royal said of the Baylor game, in which Texas was a lopsided favorite. piaved defense better than we Royal predicted Texas Christian would bunch up on the line of scrimmage, as Baylor did, to stop wishbone-T running attack. But, he added, still basically try to move the ball by Revenge is on side, though. Last year, Texas scored the most points in Southwest Conference history with a 69-7 rout. said before the season that there would be several games that would be Royal reminded, had two of them.

You can take a gun and put one bullet in it, spin the chamber and the odds are good it go off. But you sure get nervous knowing up there Notre Dame, the team that replaced Texas at the top of the Associated Press poll, entertains Georgia Tech, while No. 3 Ohio State, No. 4 Nebraska and No. 5 Michigan all have big games on tap.

Ohio State visits Purdue and Michigan hosts Iowa with the Big Ten showdown game one week off. Nebraska is at home against Kansas State with the Big Eight lead and a probable Orange Bowl bid for the Cornlruskers at stake. Georgia Tech hopes to give Notre Dame a battle, but coach Bud Carson says the Fighting Irish are the team in the seen films on Ohio State and Texas, but 1 feel that be playing the best there is this weekend. in a class by themselves. They present all the problems a football team can present.

Joe Theismann is one of the great quarterbacks in the and an Rounding out the Top 10, sixth-ranked Stanford visits No. 13 Air Force, Southern Methodist is at seventh-rated Arkansas, No. 8 Auburn entertains Georgia and Mississippi State goes against ninth- ranked Louisiana State under the lights in Baton Rouge. New Orleans (yp Big Tom Dempsey, the New Orleans crippled kicker who stunned the sports world with a 63-yard field goal, just happens to believe that possible. Dempsey, born with only half a right foot and without a right hand, became a football byword last Sunday when he booted the record 63-yardcr in the last two seconds as the Saints beat the powerful Detroit Lions 19-17.

The 240-pound Dempsey is a quiet, modest man and the thought of being a football cclelDrity will take some getting used to. really hard to he replied when asked if he knew a national sports figure. guess people keep telling me that, but just trying to play Though national notoriety is only now coming to the 23-year- old Dempsey, far from being a newcomer to professional football. He handled placekicking duties for the Saints last year and, in fact, had a 55-yarder to his credit last season. What swirled through his mind when J.

D. Roberts, making his debut as coach of the Saints, called on him for the kick Sunday? Did he feel Jflunial LINCOLN, NEBRASKA FRL, NOV. 13, PAGE 23 he could do it, something no one else had done, and perhaps no one had even tried? I guess I Dempsey said in an interview, with his now famous shoe silting on the table in front of him. went out there with just one thing in mind. knew it was a long field goal, but I went out there trying to concentrate on kicking the ball hard, trying to keep my head down and following through.

was a great moment. 1 still 'Sit at home at night by myself and think about he said. know, I walked out on the field Tuesday, 63 yards and looked. It scared me. It really scared me.

Dempsey shied away from getting into controversy with general manager Tex Schramm of the Dallas Cowboys, who said he believed shoe does not conform to NFL rules and indicated the record field goal is slightly tainted. really want to comment about he said. any comments come, come from our office or Mr. general manager Vic Schwenk fired right back at the statement Schramm made Wednesday in Dallas. Schramm called the shoe which covers abbreviated foot Dempsey has very little, if any.

instep, and no toes on his right foot. Schwenk recalled that Mark Duncan of commissioner Pete office examined the shoe before the 1969 season, the shoe out and its the same shoe today, although Tom got a new one constructed exactly the same Schwenk said he talked with NFL headquarters in New York Thursday and said Rozelle the fact the shoe had been approved by the league. think J. D. Roberts put it as plainly as Schwenk said.

shoe an issue before the kick, why should it be an issue nearing 68,000. Scouts from the Orange, Cotton and Sugar Bowls will be in attendance, the Armed Forces Radio network will carry the broadcast and Sports Illustrated is taking another look at the team many Nebraska fans feel is worthy of a national championship tag. The highest scoring team in Cornhusker history, co-piloted by Jerry Tagge and Van Brownson, will be tackling the Big leading defensive team Saturday. defense will likely be the toughest we've faced this says Nebraska coach Bob Devaney. The Wildcats have eight seniors on a veteran defensive unit, most of whom have played major roles in limiting the Cornhuskers to just 10 points in their last two meetings.

The Wildcats stunned Nebraska, 12-0, in a Homecoming contest here two years ago. was one of the few disappointing games our teams have played in nine Devaney says. Last year was another defensive duel with Nebraska prevailing, 10-7, by holding off a late K-State drive engineered by the Big all-time passing leader, Lynn Dickey. Dickey, rounding back into peak performance level after being hampered by a rib injury early in the year, has thrown for 1,683 yards in the eight games played in. Tagge and Brownson throwing as often for as yardage, but far and away the most accurate passers in the conference.

completion mark of .647 and .621 rank as two of the best in the nation. Devaney remains uncommitted on his starter for Saturday but says that Brownson is ready to piay again after being limited to extra point holding chores last week at Iowa State because of an ailing elbow. Tagge worked with the No. I offense the first three days of the week and Brownson with the top unit Thursday. It is believed that a Nebraska win would net the Cornhusker.s an invitation from each of the bowls represented Saturday.

The bids can officially be tendered Nebraska at 6 p.m. Saturday. A decision would not likely be made immediately by the Cornhuskers. Controversial shoe of Dallas kicker Tom Dempsey UPI TELEPHOTO Grasinick Demoted By BOB MUNGER Sam Grasmick of North Platte, a conservation officer for 23 years and a district 16 supervisor, was removed from that post Friday by the Game and Parks Commission. Grasmick was demoted to senior conservation officer and will be transferred out of the North Platte district, with a loss in pay of $150 per month.

The action was taken, according to commission director Willard Barbee, because of setting an example and losing the respect of the officers under In response to the action, Grasmick said that a supervisor had responsibility but no real He said that he was not getting the backing in disciplinary actions that he should receive and did not agree that he has lost the respect of his men. Barbee said that as a supervisor he was supervising, and that he would be demoted from the position immediately and would be placed on probation. Gibsou Out Manhattan, Kan. (iP) Linebacker Oscar Gibson definitely will not play against Nebraska, coach Vince Gibson of Kansas State said Thursday. Ex-East Defensive Back Gets Wesleyan Quarterback Call PROBABLE NWU LINEUPS Offense Boals (209) Butler (225) G.

Bergt (226) M. Butler (230) Force (186) (240) McLaughlin (207) Ro. Stephenson (177) Pos. Defense (200) Peery (196) Kuzma (187) Kearns (188) Buchanan (194) Young (232) Caster (190) Coudeyras (158) R. Ellis (160) Re.

Stephenson Kemlirig (166) (175) Nannen J. Ellis (165) (175) Roffers Kickoff: 2 p.m., Saturday, Concordia College, Seward. By STEVE GUSS Ross who? Ross Stephenson, who. Before the football season opened at Nebraska Wesleyan this year, head coach Harold Chaffee was pleased to see a large crop of quarterbacks in camp. He hardly expected to use all f)f them, but here it is 10 weeks later and the Plainsmen are being guided by the backup to the backup signal caller in what may prove to be the most interesting game of the season.

Regular quarterback Steve McKelvey was injured two weeks ago as NWU lost to Doane, 29-6. His replacement, sophomore Dave McGrane, was hurt in a 32-14 defeat at Hastings last Saturday. Enter 177-pound freshman Ross Stephenson. The Lincoln East grad, who was a defensive back in high school, has thrown one intercepted pass for Wesleyan and shows one quarter of varsity action. He got it against the Broncos when McGrane banged up his right elbow after being tossed out of bounds.

McKelvey suffered a shoulder separation on a similar play and neither is expected to be ready this week. an important game, too. The Plainsmen journey to Seward to meet Nebraska Intercollegiate Athletic Conference leader Concordia at 2 p.m. Saturday. The Bulldogs, with a 4-0 NIAC mark and 7-1 overall, can win the first league title trophy ever offered and possibly post-season bowl consideration at the same time with a victory.

NWU is 2-2 in the conference and 6-3 overall, so a triumph by the Plainsmen would only throw the NIAC into a two-way tie at the top with Hastings and Concordia sharing the crown. Concordia, however, has already shut out Doane (35-0) and Hastings (28-0), the two teams Wesleyan scored only 20 points against combined. The Bulldog win over the Broncos was a little misleading. Hastings made six serious drives and score, while Concordia made five and tallied four times. If the Bulldogs win, it will be the first time the Seward club has won eight games since the 1951 team went 8-1.

The captain of that squad was a fellow by the name of John See vers, now head coach at There are Bulldog names sprinkled throughout the NIAC individjUal statistical charts and the team ranks first in scoring offense (30.6) and scoring defense (10.2). Still, Seevers sees a closer game than some think. really expect a good game. If I were a spectator looking for a good game to watch this week. come he noted.

know Wesleyan quit. They had fine second half efforts at Hastings and Missouri Valley and we have to respect them even though beat John added. Seevers has been somewhat amazed at his progress this year. kinda wonder how we keep on winning. The players watch their mistakes in the films and then say to me, thought we won that game The first-year mentor, however, notes that are a close knit group and we seem to make the big This is evidenced by the fact the team is last in passing defense, fifth in total defense and fourth in rushing defense, yet only 10 points a game.

only proves that you have to score on them from 30 yards says Chaffee. Concordia has a balanced attack. Sophomore running back Carl Abele, who has rushed for 1,213 yards in two years, was out most of three games with a rib injury this season, but has 556 yards. Quarterback Rod Giesselmann can take over the conference passing leadership with a good day against Wesleyan. He is 96-227 for 1,449 yards, an average of 181.1 a game and 13 touchdowns.

His lop receivers are Dan Danielczyck (40 for 558 yards), Brian Naber (31 for 551 yards) and Rod Frieling (24 for 320 yards). Naber has also 60 points and is the second best punter in the NIAC. There are other top Bulldogs like Steve Sirek with eight pass interceptions, Mike Heinz who has a school record 92-yard kickoff return and Warren Schmidt whose kicked 25 extra points, five more than old school standard..