The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 42

gmOAZ AWP i. I960 Ibillard Dandy in Husker Touchdown Vi i'--. i' Pimchless Attack Worries Players Inability to Move Ball Well Takes Joy Out of 2nd Victory vxl- 4- VAW 0 5 EBEE- Lewellen Watches Contest By Del Black about time a Nebraska boy played for the Green Bay Packers said Verne Lewellen Saturday. Lewellen, one of all-time great gridders, was a spectator at Memorial Stadium as the Huskers slipped by Kansas State. Lewellen, captain of the Cornhiiskeri and a member of the great NU teams that chalked up wins over Notre Dame, is now scouting for the National Fooiball League.

been 15 years since been back Lincoln and sure good to get said the personable Lewellen. manage to see a college game each week for scouting purposes. Last week I watched Iowa beat Northwestern and the week before it was the Illinois- Indiana game. Numerous ex-teammates and old friends poked their heads into the press box to say heUo to the Garland, native. After gaining AU-America honors as a Cornhusker, Lewellen went to the pro Packers for a long and star- studded career.

He was named all-pro 9 years and at one time held the pro field goal record of 54 yards. When Ron Meade attempted a 57-yard field goal Saturday, a press box occupant ut to 4IUW auuut uiat. Lewellen quickly replied: I kick the ball that Lewellen left immediately following the game in order to reach Green Bay in time for Green Bay-Baltimore contest. could be a real good said Verne. Colts are terrific, but we have a ball club capable of giving them all they visiting in Lincoln, pre-game rounds included a trip to Exeter to visit a brother.

NU Escap es Bad Hurts The Huskers came out of game with only bumps and bruises. BiU Thornton got his sore neck jammed again and it knocked him out but he returned to action later. Don Purcell got hit on the left shoulder on the last play of the game but it was not serious. Ron McDole opened up the burns on his back but said they aae slowly getting wnm' 1 Benny Dillard takes pitchout and cuts between tackle and end for first Nebraska touchdown in 3rd quarter. Statistics Kan.Statr Nebraska Flfft 4own (total) By rutbinff By pasiins 2 By oenaltira .0 RuihUii (nambrr of rashes) 40 Number yards Rained T7 Number yards lost 12 Net yards gained 5S Forward passing (number attempted) 14 Number completed Number bad intercepted 1 Net yards gained 38 Total plays (rosbea and passea) S4 Total net yards t1 Punts (number) 8 Arerage yards Number had blocked A Kirkoffa (number) Average yards Kick returns Number punt returng Yards punt retams Yards kickoff returaa 101 Interception returns (number) 1 Yards return 14 Fumbles (number) 1 Ball lost 1 Ball lost OB downs 3 Penalties (number) Yards penaliied) Field goals (number attempted) 0 Number snccetsful 0 SI 32 14 10 2 2 52 221 .14 187 3 1 58 5 M.O 1 4 47 3 IS 33 1 1 2 SO KANSAS STATE (7) Left Elder.

Bennv Cochrun. John Winchester, Jerry Kreskr Left Corrigan. Dave Nob- liU, Mike Beach Left Hardwick, Ralph Kenneth Brantley. Kouneski, Tom Dowell Right Ray. Ron Cw- booe.

John Kupka, Phil Barger. Right Sly ter, Tom Brett- sthneider, Ken Nash. Right Crenshaw, Ron McDonald. Steve WohJert. Heinz.

Ron Biav- lock. John Left Richardaon. Barold Haun. Gerald Jessen. Right Dave Laurie, Billy Rich, Larry O'Hara.

Finfrock, Dick NEBRASKA (17) Left CcHDftock, Larry Dcmo- van. Left Jones, George Haney. Left Bobertgon. Darrell Cooper. Tingelboff.

Don Fricke. Right Pon- Seigo. Dwain Carlson. Right McDole. Gary Toogood, Archie Cobb.

Right Purcell, Pat Salermo. a 1 a Pat Fischer, Ron Meade. Left Clare. Bern! a Clay, Gene Ward, Bennie Dillard. Right White.

Dennis Steaiwe, Warren Powers. Dallas Dyer. Refs Explain Officials explained the weird play that looked like Nebraska scored a safety in Archie Cobb punted to Kansas Dale Evans. Evans touched the ball as it sailed over his head and continued into the end zone. Evans raced back and picked up the ball and tried to run it out of the end zone, but he was spilled by the Huskers.

Hcwever, it was ruled a touchback, not a safety and Kansas State got the ball on its own 20. Officials explained after the game that the only way a 2-point safety can be scored is when the team provides the impetus that carries the ball into the end zone. 'Die impetus in this case was supplied by the punter, not Evans. The ball was aUve after Evans touched it and had he not covered it, Nebraska could have grabbed it for a touchdown. But, regardless of whether Evans tried to run the ball out of the end zone or not he could not have been caught for a safety.

The same rule of impetus applies when a pass is in- kfoepted the Disappointed Not Giving Up By Bob McCoy i a ppointment, but something far short of despair, was the theme in Kansas dressing room Saturday afternoon. The K-Staters had just lost to Nebraska 17-7 and they patting themselves on the back. Neither was the atmosphere shrouded with gloom. the most part the Wildcats appeared to be thinking of things a million miles away thoughts like what might have been. Ron Blaylock, the stubby quarterback, was a prime example.

Asked why he ran on a 4th down and' 11 play from the K-State 26 in the 3rd quarter and missed to hand Late Spurt Gives NU 1st Big 8 Will Continued from Page ID. Wildcat center, draped around the ball. It took 10 plays against the dug-in Huskers, but Blaylock finally wedged in from the one and then kicked the point to put the Wildcats back in the game, 7-10. Nebraska launched a drive that carried to the KS 24, with the aid of a pass interference penalty, and then fizzled back to the 32 because of a holding penalty. An abrupt ending was supplied when Archie Cobb was ordered to punt on 3rd down and the ball went into the end zone, giving K-State a chance to still pull off an upset over the highly favored Huskers.

Nebraska its pass defense leaky most of the day was in luck since Blaylock missed his target on 3 passes, including a 4th down desperation hoavei The Huskers took over on the Wildcat 37 with 2:30 left in the game and Thunder Thornton got them in scoring range with a brilliant 19-yard bull-dozer that carried to the 14. Then, with a 4th and one situation on the Wildcat 4, and a mere 10 seconds left in the game, Jennings again waved Dillard in. Bennie took a Fischer pitch, sprinted to the one and just to make sure did a high dive into the end zone for the touchdown. Then he retired in favor of Meade who booted his 5th point. Nebraska was fortunate to escape an early deficit In the sloppily-played first half.

The first time Cobb tried to punt, Darrell Elder blocked it on the NU 31. K-State made it to the Husker 10 and had to settle for a field goal, booted by Blaylock from the 18. But an illegal procedure Don Purcell and Thornton saved the day. the former deflecting a Blaylock pass and the latter making a diving interception on the 4. The situation was reversed in the second quarter, with the Huskers blowing two excellent scoring opportunities.

The first came when Dick Rosier recovered a Finfrock fumble on the KS 24, but two plays later Finfrock fell on a Pat Clare bobble on the 17. An 18-yard John Faiman to White pass, plus a personal foul penalty got the Huskers a first down on the KS 15 with 50 seconds left in the half. But the soph quarterback was swamped for an 18-yard loss and NU wound up with Meade punting from field goal position on the 47. Nebraska, while ing the Wildcats by a large margin, still flash any rousing attack. Six 3 lost to NU bogged down, and, while 3 of 6 passes were completed (one intercepted), only 36 yards w'ere gained through the air.

The Huskers out-rushed the Wildcats 187-59 after 21-32 at halftime. The Huskers added 36-aerial yards to 38 for K- State, for a total bulge of 223-97. Fischer was the leading gainer for NU with 51 yards, while Clare got 34 and Thornton 32. In retrospect, a s- ka could be happy that: Wildcat passes were dropped, one in the end zone and one with the receiver in the clear. passing was largely ineffective because of a heavy rush, which was absent last year.

defense once again played very well. But, mainly, the Cornhusk- ers could celebrate because Coach Jennings decided to use wee Bennie Dillard. The victory penalty nullifed the effort and first against K-State at Lin- Husker fans breathed easier. Not for long, though, since Fischer pitched low and away from Bernie Clay on the first Husker play and Elder recovered on the 7. coin since 1952 evens the season record at 2-2 and their Big 8 mark at M.

Next week Army and then into the thick of the conference toughies. Nebraska its first touchdown, Blaylock said: Had was really supposed to be a punt, but 1 had trouble grabbing the center snap when I looked up, I saw about 3 red shirts (Nebraska) on my tail and decided better get moving I thought I could make it (a first down), but the way it goes 1 know Blaylock made 4 yards on the play, giving Nebraska the ball on the K-State 30. The Huskers promptly marcjied in for the winning touchdown. K-State coaches too shaken over the play or the gam but admitted they thought the deserved a better fate. Bob Hailey, normally a backfield coach, and line coach John Kadlec diiected K-Stale in the absence of head coach Doug Weaver, who stayed in a Manhattan hospital with back trouble.

Not Enough Hailey, who called the shots from the K-State bench, said gave our best effort, but Nebraska has a fine team. We just have Hailey singled out th Wildcat line for a tremendous job, but said the offensive backfield do as well as he had hoped. Kadlec, who viewed the game from the press box wrote the game off as a the breaks and affair, but was high in praise of the Cornhusk- ers. Nebraska team is really gonna wallop somebody one of these Kadlec said. be surprised if they beat Army next Saturday and then knock off some of the Big 8 teams that are rolling Kadlec lauded line specially that big Roland McDole.

Fischer (Pat) is a fine athlete, he added. Team Effort As for K-State, both Hailey and Kadlec thought it was a great team effort with linemen Marian Ray, A1 Kouneski, Darrell Elder and Dave 1 i 11 outstanding. Hailey liked the ends (Don Purcell and Bill Comstock) on the Nebraska side. Only K-State casualty was guard Ron Carbone, who left the stadium in an ambulance with a leg injury. But several Wildcats had wounded pride.

Among them was halfback Dale Evans. The rangy Evans dropped 3 key passes iwo in the end zone and the other near midfield with open country ahead. His only catch was an interception of a Husker aerial in the 2nd quarter. Said Evans, thought I had but something happened at the last mln- ute I know it was so K-State players generally compared Nebraska harder hitting team than Colorado, but not quite up to Kansas in Colorado tripped the Wildcats 27-7 last week. Kansas won 41-0 two weeks ago.

Jly Dick Becker If wondering Nebraska looks so lousy on offense, got plenty of company. The Cornhuskers m- selves are shaking their over their inability to move the ball in fact, it was so noticeable in the Kansas State game That the players got very little joy out of the triumph. Is it faulty coaching strategy? Is it line blocking? Is it lack of plays? Is it because of a too conservative attack? There are those who believe in one or more of these ideas. There obviously has to be something wrong when a team is strong enough to limit the opposition to just 97 yaids, but sustain an attack any better than the Huskers did. In fact, the Huskers had to come up with one new thing Saturday to win the ball game.

It was a play called This little 162-pound dash- man was the difference. As he dressed quietly, Bennie had this to say: just got good help from the line. They blocked well for me. get going. I know it.

We just are making Asked about upcoming games, Bennie said, ready whenever they call Other players gave a lot more credit to Dillard. Tackles Bernie Haney and Ron McDole remarked nearly in unison: speed really came in handy. He got around the corner. We had run that play several times but he was the first guy who could get around He was gone before they could get to The two tackles were among those bewildered by the lack of an over-all attack. stunts are hurting us all the McDole explained.

Stunts are when linemen cross-charge and linebackers shoot through gaps. line is hurting the McDole continued. line blocking good sometimes we block with our heads down and you do that but they just seemed to know where we were going and they never made a mistake in their stunting but then we had them defensed real well, Bill Thornton, who played another fine game at fullback, declared: teems like every team has our offense. They seem to know where going every play. They stunted inside and outside and they never made a bad gamble.

in the game we had fumbles. I know why. They hitting that hard. It 'was just a case that we were not able to get out hands on the Quarterback Pat Fischer, who look another fearsome beating, quite get his thoughts into words. just seems like everyone knows what we going to the spunky Omaha veteran declared.

just want to say any more about it our defense saved us today, but you get hit just as hard when you win as when you lose. I really have been getting it. It seems like the first guy who hits me never makes a clean tackle then that pursuit closes in and they all land on Don Purcell, superb again at end, said, were up for this game. But this week we had the guts. We came back and going to come back next week, Coach Bill Jennings was no less perplexed than his players.

The Huskers worked hard all week on improving their attack. But once again it was a lifeless effort. The Huskers ere slow out of the huddle and just handle the Wildcats in the line. Some of the players felt that there was a tendency to let down after one score had been made most all of them felt the offense was adequate and ni- plete. But they figure out why it work.

There will be more work on the attack this-week with the schedule showing Army, Colorado, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma State and Oklahoma it will have to improve a grat deal. Scoring wmisanrt Time gone Scorn 3rd 11:45 S7-yard field goal 3. 3rd 14:00 kick good 10. KS 0 4tti 6:05 Kansas yard plunge) P.AT—Blaylock good 10. KS 4tb (5-vd.

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