The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 33

Sports i Journal October 23, 1977 SECTION Nebraska buffaloes Colorado again, 33-15 wins 10th straight; 15th out of last 16 tilts Colo First Downs 13 Passing 44 Return yards 8 7-30 4-3 5-4S Third down conversions 3-13 Fourth down conversions The students in the Nebraska card section threw placards in the air like Buffalo chips at Memorial Stadium Saturday. Their Cornhuskers had overcome a 15-3 deficit to take a commanding lead. The celebration started before Nebraska added another insurance touchdown on the way to a convincing 3315 victory over Colorado. The Husker triumph was the 10th in a row for Nebraska over the Buffalos and the 15th in the last 16 meetings between the two schools. The win was especially sweet for Cornhusker coach T'om Osborne, who saw his club bounce back from a disappointing loss to Iowa State.

players feel they have a good chance to go all the way now," Osborne observed, so do Pandemonium broke out in the Nebraska dressing room. The players hoisted Osborne to their shoulders, then defensive coordinator Lance Van Zandt got a similar ride around the room in the air amid wild cheering. The players gave the game ball to the coaches. "The defense caught a lot of flak after the Iowa State game." Osborne noted. They did a great job today and deserve the credit." Colorado's two touchdowns came on By Virgil Parker a 98-yard punt return and a short 20-yard drive following a Nebraska fumble which Season's records NEBRASKA COLORADO (S-l-l) Detense is the name of the game as George (96) grabs Colorado wingback Howard Ballage (22) as teammates Larry SIAPF PHOTO BY WEB RAY Valasek (4), Jeff Carpenter (37), Oudious Lee (65) and Jeff Pullen (66) move in to give assistance.

Wasn St, Aidbama Baylor Indiana Kansas St Iowa St Colorado 29 at Okia St 5 at Wissourt 17 Kansas 25 at Oklahoma 10-19 Stanford 31 24 Kent St .1110 3113 Anny 26 9 Okia St 2t 24 Kansas 33-U Nebraska 0 29 Missouri 5 at Iowa Sia'e 12 al Oklahoma 19 Kansas State I 42 7 return peps Sooners to victory Positive attitude sparks NIJ Perry condition serious I'oni Perry, a linebacker lor the University of Colorado football team, was reported "in serious to critical Saturday evening after suffering an injury during the Colorado-Nebraska game. Perry collapsed in the Colorado locker room and was taken by ambulance to Bryan Hospital where emergency medical was performed to relieve pressure on his brain, a spokesman said. He was taken to the University of Nebraska Center in Omaha tor further treatment. It was learned that surgery was being performed on Perry at the Omaha Mc'dical Center late Saturday night. One hospital source said he was expected to be in surgery four hours, which extended into early Sunday morning.

full status of his condition has not vet been determined." a nurse on the surgery floor said. other information on his condition can be released at this time." Perry, a 6-6, 245-pound senior from Colorado Springs, was helped from the playing field in the fourth Perry, 22. is married. His brother, (leorge. is a running back at Slate Universitv.

Iowa St. iCSl PASSiriij Rpi ii ya-d ips P.i’ltS I- i-nDlPi-IOSt Per.a't.es ysrai. 16 58-205 7-19 2 9 50 2-1 6.10 Oklahoma 17 59-285 74 112 3-50 6-38 3-1 9 70 Season's records OKLAHOMA (6-1) NORMAN. Okla. (AP) Fullback Kenny King returned to the Oklahoma lineup Saturday and led the Sooners to a 35-16 victory over Iowa State as the Sooners took over sole possession of the Big Eight Conference lead.

King sat out last week's game against Missouri with a bruised shoulder but was healthy Saturday, and his presence made the difference in the Oklahoma wishbone attack. He rushed for 141 yards on 22 carries and continually got the Sooners out of deep holes with his slashing runs. King sat out last game against Missouri with a bruised shoulder but was healthy Saturday, and his presence made the difference in the Oklahoma wishbone attack. He rushed for 146 yards on 23 carries and continually got the Sooners out of deep holes with his slashing runs. The Sooners elected to kick off to open the game, figuring they could stop the Cvclones and get good field position.

what happened, but the Sooners were unable to move and on the next possession Iowa State scored on a 44- yard run by Dexter Green. On the next jwssession, with King leading the way, the Sooners went 71 yards in seven plays for the tying V.indOfb'lt Ohio 51 SI Kansas Texas Missouri Iowa SI 0 29 at Kansas St 5 at Okla St 12 Colorado 25 Nebraska 25-23 62 24 29 28 24 9 6 13 21 17 35 16 IOWA STATE (5-2) Wiihita St Iowa Bowling Green Dayton Missouri Oklahoma 29 Kansas 5 Colorado 12 at Kansas St 19 Okla St 35-9 10 12 35 21 17 13 70 16 35 touchdown. King gained 65 of those yards, but the score came on a six-yard run by David Overstreet. From then until the middle of the third quarter it was a close see-saw battle as the two teams traded touchdowns, a five- yard run by Oklahoma quarterback Thomas Lott and a 12-yard pass by Cyclone quarterback Terry Rubley to Guy Preston. The Cyclones also had a safety when Oklahoma kicker Uwe von Schamann was tackled in the end zone while trying to punt.

l.iA.j 51 IKlflhri. I SU 1.1 OkI.i I SU 16 14 35 9 0 2 7 Grnnn 44 rur, kirk) i.lvPf 6 nm Ciin kirki Sdipt '5 (kiin btnaii'diiii far Kind end lone L'itt run ivon Schamann Kuk Preston 12 pas'- from RuOley kr'k Peai Of 23 pa-s from Loft ivon Schdmann Okla Nunn 8 p. nf ret fir vi Okl.i N'lnii 8S int retun Si hamann kick xyn Sthamaim individual leaders RUSHING Iowa State Green 29 1977 Cummins 10 OKi.thoma King 2 146 Loss 9 62 l.iwa Rubley 197-2, Cumiri-s 10(J ijKialioma King 23-146 Lott 962 PASSING I Slate, Rubley 19 7 2, 1 74 RELtlVINi. Iowa st.iti' Prestf-n 2-24 Oklahoma, p. 1 19 iniDall I 21, RhuUi M4 With Colorado whipped for what seems like the zillionth straight time, one basic theme was prevelent in a joyous Nebraska lockerroom Saturday po.sitive practices make perfect.

Shredded to ribbons by Iowa State and ripped to bits by the fans and press a week ago, the Cornhusker defensive unit to a man. preached the positive practice idea after derailing No. 9 ranked Colorado for the 10th consecutive year. 33-15. of the Husker Black Shirts who made a couple of the game's more crucial plays, linebacker Jeff Carpenter and monsterback Jim Pillen, pointed to tlie team's new frame of mind this past week as the major reason Colorado scored just once from the line of scrimmage.

The lone touchdown against the defensive unit came after a turnover deep in Nebraska territory. The other Buffalo score was on a kickotf return as Nebraska happily reverted to the bend- but-don't-break theory, giving up 266 total yards. Carpenter, the senior co-captain who was hospitalized with an infected elbow (luring the Iowa State loss, said "when we had our private team meeting last Monday it came out that some of the players hud had some doubts at halftime lust week it they could play with Iowa Stale. decided the only way something like that wasn't going to happen again was by having positive, go all the way at- By qvg Sittler Miller sets record; Okla. St.

wins, 21-0 How top 20 fared Iowa tech duA W.i-.tlf'“-, P.JSKtllg v.tGI' yrtld- Riiuts 4 kGl Okla. St. Kanui 17 13 63 29t 50 208 73 68 --3 30 39 17 12 2 9 40 8 50 1 1 4 3 6 50 3 25 (AP) Terry Miller, Oklahoma State halfback, became the all-time rushing champion of the Big Eight and scored a touchdown on a 34-yard romp as the Cowboys blanked Kansas 21-0 on a wet. slippery field Saturday. Miller, a senior All-American from Colorado Springs, skirted right end in 10:12 of the fourth period for six vards, pushing his four-year total to 4,075, eclipsing the record of 4,071 set by Joe Washington of Oklahoma in 1972-75.

Miller, who also became the first Big Eight back to record three straight yard seasons on the same play, finished with 149 vards for the day and a career total of yards with four games remaining. The wet turf and prodigious punting by Oklahoma David Hanna and Mike Hubach of Kansas kept both teams at bay throughout most of the day. The game began under a heavy downpour but skies midway through the first period leaving the artificial turf wet and treactwrous. Season's records OKLAHOMA STATE (4-3) KANSAS (1-S-l) Tulsa 34 17 6 28 UCLA 0 17 2S OKiahoma 13 29 Miami Fla 2 14 Colorado 2 i 0 OK la St 29 at Iowa St 5 Kansas Si 12 at NcbrasKa 19 Missouri Arkan-as UTEP Florida St Colorado Kansas St Kansas 29 Nebraska 5 Oklaboma 12 at Missouri 19 at Iowa St 14 28 '7 14 12 9 7 14 17 0 next week's opponent 1. Mii biyan lost to iMinnesold, 160 2 loxas (6-0) dot.

SAAU, 30-14 3 Aldbamd (5-1) det. Louisville, St. 4 Ohio St. i6-l) det. Northwestern, 35-15 5 (5-2) lost to Notre Dame, 49-19 Cat 6 Oklahoma det Iowa St 35-16 Kansas St 7 Colorado (5-M! lost to Nebraska, 33-15 Missouri 8 Kentucky (6-1) det, Georgia, 33-0 9 Arkansas det.

Houston, 34-( 10 Penn St (6-1) det Va 49-28 titude. And that attitude had to start in Pillen. the hard-hitting junior from Monroe, said did a lot of soul searching during that team meeting. We decided it was just a matter of believing in ourselves. The coaches were really behind us in practice and everyone was yelling more, helping each other, complimenting one another.

It was all very A starter against Colorado after losing his job for the first time this season against Iowa State, Pillen saved the day for the Cornhuskers early in the fourth quarter. Clinging to a precarious 19-15 lead, the Cornhuskers were battling to halt a Buff drive which had moved to the Nebraska 32-yard line. Colorado quarterback Jelf Knapple spotted tight end Bob Niziolek, who had worked his way free on the Nebraska two-yard line. Pillen, who had dropped deep in the middle of Nebraska zone coverage, won a footrace with Knapple's pass which was headed dead center for Niziulek's fingers. The scrappy Pillen dove, barely knocking the ball loose from Niziolek who is the Big leading just ran like hell and dove." reealkKl Pillen of the clutch effort.

"I just nicked the ball by a hair and then slid out of bounds. I wasn't sure if he (Niziolek) had caught it or not. 1 was sure happy when I looked back and saw the referee's decision. 1 guess that was a key play, huh?" ilh-huh. Niziolek knew it was a biggie too.

as he dropped to his knees and pleaded in vain with the referee to rule it a eatch instead of a trapped ball. Carpenter, the gutty Council Bluffs, native who was playing with stitches still remaining in his tender elbow, brought the entire Colorado team to its knees and the major portion of the crowd ot 76,486 fans to their feet with a vicious tackle late in the second quarter. Trailing 15-3 and struggling, Nebraska was in the midst of its bending act. when Carpenter lowered the boom on Buff fullback Mike Holmes at the Nebraska line. The rugged tackle forced Holmes to cough up the ball which Husker defensive end Larry Young curled around with 3:24 left in the first half.

The Carpenter-caused fumble ignited one ot the wildest final three minutes in Nebraska first half, or any half history. The Cornhuskers proceeded to strike tor two lightning-quick touchdowns and almost unbelievably a 16-15 advantage at intermi.ssion, my, that was some hit Jeff laid on that young man," defensive coordinator Lance Van Zandt said of the vital tur- was aided by a half-the-distance-to-the- goal penalty. nover. As he gingerly removed some gauze Irom his bloody elbow, Carpenter said, guess that has to be the biggest tackle 1 ve made this year or maybe any year I (liiin't even know there was a fumble until 1 saw everyone jumping around Carpenter, who did not start the game hut replaced James Wightman who reinjured his knee on the third play ot the game, was playing in front of his lather, Ted Carpenter, tor the first time this year. A brother and sister-in-law from Idaho also for their first glimpse of the tough, 6-1, 218-pounder this season wanted to redeem ourselves so badly this week, Carpenter said, in reference to last week's game which luwa State won 24-21.

"We knew we had to cut down on our mistakes and cause turnovers and we had to be positive. think practice this week was the most positive one I've seen around here tor a long, long The other Black Shirts agreed with DEFENSE. Continued, page 2D turnover (the tumble) and the lung kickoff return really had us in a hole." Osborne admitted. "They were then driving for what might have been a 22-3 lead. But Larry) Valasek came up witii a big interception Without that, we'd have had a tough time making a comeback Valasek thett ot a pass from CU quarterback Jetf Knapple was just one of several big' plays by the Nebraska detenders.

The next came when linebacker Jeff Carpenter met Buff fullback Mike Holmes headon with a vicious tackle. Holmes coughed up the ball and end Larry Young recovered. Two plays later, NU sophomore sensation isaiah Hipp zipped 28 yards lor a touchdown to put the Huskers within five points at 15-10. Hipp. who finished with 172 yards rushing, went over the century mark tor the tilth game in a row.

The Husker otfense also provided its share of the plays. The biggest came with just seven seconds left in the lirst half. (Quarterback Tom Sorley, who had taken over tor NU starter Randy Garcia, jiassed 22 yards to wingback Kenny Brown for a touchdown which gave Nebraska a 16-15 intermission advantage "We found that Colorado was in a zone against our spread formation, Osborne recalled. "That meant we could send lour receivers down field and they'd only have three defenders to cover them. We took out the I-back and put Brown in as the extra receiver, that play really gave us the momentum going into the second The partisan Big Red crowd of 76,486 the 93rd consecutive Memorial stadium sellout let a light drizzle dampen their spirits as the Huskers padded the narrow margin with 17 HUSKERS: Continued, page 2D Rice Fla.

Oklahoma Mike Robinson pounced on a Jayhawk fumble at the Kansas 47 and 10 plays later Vince Orange plowed over from the three-year line to give the Cowboys a 7-0 lead. After a scoreless second period, Oklahoma State's defensive end Mike Edwards tipped a fling pass aimed at Bill Campfield, juggled the ball momentarily, then danced 19 yards into the end zone for the second touchdown. Miller, breaking free for his only long run of the day, burst over right tackle lor 34 yards and clinching touchdown late in the fourth period. 7 7 21 0 0 Navy Texas Tulane use 11 Notre Dame (5-t) del. use, 49-19 12 Texas A8.M (5-1) def.

Rice, 28-14 13. Tex lech idle 14 Pitt (5-11) det. Syracuse, 15. Cat (5-2) lost to UCLA, 16. Iowa St.

(5-2) lost to OKIatioma, 35-16 17 BYU (5-1) def. Wyoming, 10-7 Arizona 18 NeOrasKa (5-2) def. Colorado, St. 19 Florida (3-M) det. 27-17 Auburn 20 Clemson (6 1) det.

NC State, Wake Forest Minnesota stuns Michigan Kansas First downs Rushes-yards Passini yards Baturn yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penatties-yards Minnasata 12 13 122 60 16 62 29-13-2 lOA-0 7-44 137 3-3 1-0 3-12 Season's records MICHIGAN (6-1) Cxlihomd St osu osu osu A 7 0 0 0 Orange 3 run (Anderson Kick Edwards timtercepied pass 'AnxersonKitx) Miller 34 run Kiik i 38 7M INOtVIOUAL LEADERS RUSHING OKIahoma St Miller 3t l49 Bailey 8- i 'Jtange 9 45 Kansas, Canpfieid 12 128 Bank II 31, massing Oklahoma St Stephenson 2-5-0 46, Miller I I 0-27 Kansas, Belhke 4 7 1-55. Hine; 3-4 I 13 RECEIVING Oklahoma St 8am 2 4i, Williams I- 27 Kansas, verser 3-27, Campneiu 2 27. 46 Football Notre Dame highlights, 8 a.m., (3); 30 a C5; Sron- cos Bengali, noon, NFL Today, 12:30 61101 Falcons v. Bears, 1 tenoj; College Football '77, Colts V. Patriots, 3 p.m., C5; Chiefs v.

Charters, IL. Tom Osborne, 10 30 p.m., unit, Bud Moore, 10 30 p.m., C2; Ellis Rainsbergtr, p.m., C2; Barry Switzer, 11:30 p.m., C2. Bowling Leisure Lanes, Hockey Northstars v. Sabres, 6 p.m.. Cl.

Minneapolis (UFI) "The spirit of Hronko Nagurski was out there on the lield coach Cal Stoll said after a young Minnesota team scored a 16-0 upset victory Saturday over top-ranked Michigan. Nagurski and 25 others on unbeaten 19'27 team were in the crowd of 44.165 in Memorial stadium that saw the Gophers perform like the great Minnesota teams of old which won half a dozen national championships and won or shared 16 Big Ten crowns. Two sophomores quarterback Mark starting tor the first time, and kicker Paul Hogind led the way for victory. "It was the greatest victory ever Illinois Ndvy AZM Mii'h St Minnesota 29 Iowa 5 Noxlhwnsterd 12 Purdue 19 Ohm S) J7 9 21 9 14 7 41-3 14 560 0 16 MINNESOTA (5-2) SliiO UT A Washington low.i ingan 29 Indiana 5 Mifh 12 at lllinfi-. 19 WtMuiisK 10-7 7 38 13 1917 6 IS 13 7 160 experienced," Stoll said.

"I had Butch Nash (assistant coach) talk to the players the night before the game about the Nagurskies and the Minnesota glories of old I think it was very important to us today. "Our players threw their heart out thfie oil the field and then went out and protected Frustrated Michigan coach Bo Schembechler said simply, "we played piKirly and they played well. It was the poorest offensive game ever played. They deserved to It was Michigan's first loss in seven games this season, the tirst shutout of in 113 games, the first shutout in career at and left the Wolverines with a 3-1 Big Ten record. Minnesota now has a 2-2 Big Ten and 5-2 overall.

After the Gophers held Michigan on its opening drive, Rogind kicked the first of his three field goals minutes and Minnesota kept up the pace all day before a surprised crowd of 44.165 in Memorial Stadium. 3 0 0 J-16 Michlftn Mlniwwta Minn-Rogmd FG 41 Minn at bar 3 Rug.ftd Minn-Rogind FG 37 Minn Rogind FG 32 A-44 165 INDIVIDUAL LEADERS HUSHtNG-Michigan, MucKlaby 13-52. Oavii 14-55 Minneiota, Kitimann 17-71, WHita 1566 Barbar 14 36 RECEIVING-Michigin, Clayton Oavis 3-30. Hucklaby 3-w Minnatota, Anborn 1 23, Braautt 3-29 PASSING-Mlcbigan, Laach 20 13 2 nlO Mtnnftioti, CarlMnTOA-O, 60.