The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 39

October 16. 1960 LINCOLN SU! Fischer Frolic-Pat Scats 64 Yards MyCOLN SUNDAY JOURNAL NU quarterback Pat Fischer fakes Spins away from Cadets Runs into trouble nuns inio Yes, Dillard Can Catch the Pass But makes his getaway By Don Bryant Bill Jennings supplied the answer to a pre-game question shortly after the conclusion of spine-tingling 14-9 victory over at Memorial Stadium. It was one of the briefest answers on record, and was accompanied with a grin and a wink of the eye: This writer asked Jennings Friday if Bennie Dillard has potential as a pass receiver, and Bil! had replied: going to find out tomorrow. We re going to shoot him down the middle as fast as he can go, and throw the ball as far as we can and hope Bennie can grab While the perfect 57-yard touchdown strike from Pat Fischer to Dillard had been practiced, Jennings gave full credit to his quarterback for calling the plav course, Pat knows pretty much to use Dillard wnen we send him in, but the play was his Bill said. fact, Pat called all the offense.

he ran that long bootleg, 1 have any idea it was coming, but I was glad it did. Pat played a great game, and check the time he played, lie must been in there almost the entire Jennings said the entire team made a tremendous effort against the Cadets, don't like to single anyone out because you can't help but forget some things that happen out there. But we did have some fine individual efforts, loo. like Dennis Steuwe, who played a great defensive game Larry rush on the my passer that caused that last fumble the pass play the bootleg they were all great. those boys in the interior line played great, too, but you see them as much.

It was just a case of a whole lot of individual effort going together to make a tremendous overall team Jennings called a fine football team that was very effective against us. We knew it would take 60 minutes of all out effort to beat them, and our boys hung in there and hung in Trying to unwind a little bit after the hectic finish, Bill said: was another of those long 4th quarters, wasn't it? got fooled there at the end, trying to run out the clock. Ron wiio ran around on the last play trying to eat up the remaining 10 seconds) told me he thought the clock had run out when he went down. He said he could have stayed up longer, but he thought it was over. knew they had to hit the long one on the last Bill added.

we left John Falman at safety, in place of Fischer, because we wanted hbn to get experience, and because we had confidence The coach thought second half play had considerable bearing on the outcome. was another fine second half job, the 5th in a Bill said. kids just quit. The thing i especially like about the game w'as the fact that we gel a lot of We actually passed up some ones tiic sL half a dropped pass ii- lerception, missing the recovery of a punt fumble because of ovor-hiistle and things like Some other Jennings observations: were satisfied with our pass defense. They hit some when our halfbacks slipped on the turf.

has a fine passer in that Blanda boy. won the flip and chose to kick off because we wanted the wind. Me had watched the punting in warm up, and thorght we could gain quite a bit from our kicking game. We were playing the percentages. still scored on our defense.

We gave them the ball on the 9. We tell our receivers not to field a punt inside the 10, but that's real lough on the safely because he watch the mai'k- eis and the ball. too. only a general rule had a little 0 height and tough. We used him for the first time against a good team, and he plajed a tine game.

We used some other boys like A1 Wellman and Duain Carlson who played much, and they did a good job, too. spent a lot of time defensing the and I guess it was worth Football Fiiolos llol) (ftirbain an Sicklf Vi eh Kay Boh McKay (ice, a whole army ot guys But they miss Fischer again Well, you win all And Fischer is stopped on Army 14. Nebraska Gets Navy's It Helps Aerial photo shows how Tom Blanda made pass patterns Nebraska got an from the Navy in beating Army Saturday. Prior to the game, a float drove in front of the East Stadium bearing a huge sign which read; Then Navy. Riding on the float were 3 cadets and the Naval Academy mascot, imported by Nebraska NROTC especially for the game During the half some my Cadets swiped blue and gold coat and tried to get their players to run through it when they returned to the field.

But the Kaydet dodged, and and their rooters settled for.