Omaha World-Herald from Omaha, Nebraska • 59

nndaij WorlOndi OMAHA NOV 17 SECTION 15 PAGES MJZH 1 Z'A 1 1 JSjpwte Hunting Is un Story Page 14 NU Th(OU)ghts Turn Red With Cats Securely Bagged 1m IM Rath 7' Sooners Awaken for 45 to 14 Triumph 4 NU Already Preparing for Sooners Buffalo Defense Stampedes OSU 4 Wf Big Eight That biggest game in celebrating the victory Osborne See Magazine of the Midlands cover story on Nebraska offen sive tackle Marvin Crenshaw brook free for the easy recep tion Chambliss left the game but later returned coaches said The athletes have not been involved directly un til today heard the coaches al ready have our plays and stuff run off in a defensive lineman Jerry Wied said "I seen any but been the Osborne said or three more Oklahoma films are com ing in We already have some pretty good tendencies on them It will be a matter of being able to stop or team to be in a perfect frame of mind for Kansas State with so much rid ing on the Oklahoma game Os borne said it was pulling teeth It was hard for them not to think ahead be no problem with that for Okla homa If nothing else be some real hitting in that Kiffin expects everyone to show up today in answer to his come with a winning attitude challenge kids want to play foot he said "These are tough kids what it takes to beat Oklahoma I think a pinched nerve will keep John Lee out of the Oklahoma game I think anything will keep anybody out of that game all be ready at 1:30 Saturday been waiting for a long time for this Kiffin said Defensive Capt Tom Ruud said practices "generally will be the same as been having Practices will be a little more intense We know what we have to do sure it will be a good Most of the Huskers appeared Oklahoma Nebraska Missouri Okla State Colorado Iowa St Kansas Kansas St all rushers with 129 yards on 29 attempts and tossing touchdown passes of 72 yards to Billy Brooks and 14 yards to Tinker both in the first'half Davis also sneaked one yard for a score to keep Oklahoma on top at intermission 21 14 His strong option running offered convincing evidence of the offensive versatility Usual star Joe Washington was held to 63 yards on 21 at tempts but the Sooners did man age 380 yards on the ground ullback Jim Littrell Big Eight back of the Week collected 70 yards on 12 carries Kansas middle guard Mike Lemon (15 tackles 11 unas sisted) safety Nolan Cromwell (11 9) Dean Zook (10 6) and linebacker Steve Towle (10 4) gave Oklahoma a somewhat tougher than usual afternoon got to congratulate said Sooner Coach Barry Switzer "They played well and they played hard all day Switzer said the Sooners felt ers would suddenly appear In the State defensive line Purple would turn to Sooner red Back to business Nebraska 14 0 21 0 Oklahoma 21 Kansas 14 Nebraska 28 0 Oklahoma 31 14 Sweet Bailey did it to take some press ure off the Gib son said He was 'referring to freshman Arthur Bailey who was a day long pest for Ne defenders with his sprint outs and scrambling on pass plays well added But he said1 it was difficult to tell for sure If that was the problem Actually run upset Lacewell nearly as much as the 78 yard march that kept KU within 21 14 at the half That drive which required nine palys culminated with 14 yard touchdown pass to split end Emmett Ed wards But it also included a 24 Stillwater Okla (AP) much maligned de fense turned the tables on the defense minded Oklahoma State Cowboys in a 37 20 Big Eight football upset before a regional television audience Saturday The Buffs were ranked last in total defense in the Big Eight going into the game while the Cowboys were second only to No 1 rated Oklahoma But on this cool football afternoon it was the Colorado defenders who stood out while the Cowboy de fense buckled under a relentless Buff ground attack led by full back Terry Kunz and quarter back David Williams Kunz a junior smashed for three touchdowns and Williams yard gain by Bill Campfield on a reverse and a 24 yard pass from McMichael to Edwards Such defensive lapses will rankle a team such as Okla homa which is leading the Big Eight in total defense sure pleased with that first Lacewell said their drive we had a couple of real critical er rors in the second half I don't think we allowed them past the 50 yard Lacewell said 73 yard run was more a credit to the running ability than defensive fail ure went back on pass de fense then he got loose and it looked like we were trying to tackle a ghost out Lacewell said forgotten what a long run against the Sooners looked like "I remem ber now and I like he chuckled Outside of the early Kansas heroics most of the offensive show was provided by Okla homa Quarterback Steve Davis played the leading role topping (Bailey) Is going to be a honey before Gib son said so much pressure on the quarterback on the veer option because the de fensive end blocked and he las to read the end In the pow er I you can run the same play and the end is Gibson whose future has been the subject of extensive specula tion in the Big Eight area was smiling and almost pleased with the outcome still play with those guys Nebraska just has an out standing football team out standing he said But his team controlled the ball the first half The Wildcats were held on downs at the Ne braska 31 and lost a fumble to Blackshirt Capt Tom Ruud at the Nebraska 17 But It was back upfield at the Kansas State 30 that the out come was probably decided When it was over the Huskers marched routinely to their dressing quarters Then some body mentioned Oklahoma Chaos It was all fight then They could concentrate fully on the Sooners really think we played a real good football game We had a problem all week getting them up for this Nebraska Coach Tom Osborne said record spectacular but we could tell looking at the films that they played about as well as Iowa State and they were better than they were last Nebraska 23 13 260 177 9 12 22 2 2 43 2 1 7 61 28 1 15 0 4 38 4 2 3 29 some extra pressure since ad vancing to first in the ratings pressure to win You not only have to win but you have to look he said Switzer said that pressure kept his team on the offensive until it had scored the what people had After the shaky' first half and a scoreless third quarter Okla homa exploded for 24 fourth quarter points They scored on all but one possession Halfback Grant three yard run and Tony Di 33 yard field goal gave Oklahoma breathing room with a 31 14 edge and 9:04 left in the game But the contest become a route until cornerback Tony Peters raced 59 yards with an interception of a McMichael pass Reserves drove 67 yards for the final Sooner score a nine yard pass from freshman Dean Blevins to Brooks two Please turn to Page 6 Col 1 Stanford Quarterback Leads 17 0 Victory Eugene Ore (AP) Quarter back Mike Cordova fired touch down passes to Ron Inge and Bill Singler as Stanford defeated Oregon 17 0 in Pacific 8 Confer ence football Saturday After a scoreless first quarter the offense began clicking sparked by fullback Scott Laidlaw who broke his season high rushing mark in the first half Laidlaw carried 21 times for 142 total yards By Conde Sargent World Herald Saortj Writer Lincoln Within three min utes' after 35 7 victo ry over Kansas State Ne football players got their first pep talk for Okla homa The Sooners are due in Lin coln this Saturday with the Big Eight Conference football cham pionship at stake Defensive Coordinator Monte Kiffin said: who believe we can beat Ok lahoma show up for films Head Coach Tom Osborne re ferred to a rather error filled performance against Kansas State as calm before the Actually Osborne said the countdown for Oklahoma started some time ago ootball staffers mostly grad uate assistants already have seven films of Oklahoma games studied and plays sorted for game plan strategy The fulltime Husker coaches including Osborne also have studied film and had meetings regarding Oklahoma strategy as early as last Tuesday Osborne said Normally such film study and meetings would not start until later in a week maybe Thurs day and always by riday "Everybody was Osborne said "Once we got our plays set for Kansas State we go back to this in the meetings "This was one week we decided have to get The Oklahoma preparation did not stretch to the playing field eager to see the game plan for Oklahoma tfoth offensively and defensively curious what Coach Kiffin has up his sleeve I think have some surprises looking forward to de fensive end Tom Pate said Senior offensive guard Mark Doak looked across the locker room and said: is not one guy In this room who work his hard est this week This is our last stepping stone After the Mis souri game we could have gone either way to a 5 4 season or win every game and play Okla homa for the title time is here to do it not talk about Doak said Quarterback David Humm the offensive captain said an Oklahoma game is a time when football players find out much you believe in each other has a great of Humm said "Our de fensewill have a lot of responsl bilitiesIOur defensive players and Coach Kiffin have been waiting for this game for a long time (since OU won last year 27 Humm said the Sooner game has been building "all down to that week now going to be my last game here in this Humm said "It will be the last time play against Oklahoma my last game the makes it the my Instead of Kansas State watched football films Saturday night all on Oklahoma of course Rare Interceptions 4 Humm whose passing typified inconsistency hit 12 of 21 passes for 177 yards and had a rare two interception af ternoon He balanced those with two touchdown passes raising his Big Eight career record to 41 The second was to reserve tight end Brad Jenkins for 37 yards in the third quarter Unlike it went ex actly as designed put that particular pat tern in this said Jenkins who bobbled the ball and car Please turn to Page 4 Col 6 Veer Abandoned And Vince Gibson the State coach pulled out a new trick abandoning his normal veer offense for a power I formation for the first time something been seeing a lot of lately (Iowa State and Colorado used it the last two Osborne said "but we had trouble with it We made some adjustment at the half and did better the second Kansas State actually out yarded Nebraska 172 148 the first half while trailing 14 0 Mark Doak for a five yard touchdown Less than four minutes ear lier the Huskers had opened scoring with a 69 yard touch down drive ending on an 18 yard pass from Dave Humm to wingback Don Westbrook The play go exactly as designed Humm rolled out to his left but Westbrook was cov ered by Wildcat safety Gordon Chambliss "It was supposed to be a quick pass but Dave throw Westbrook said had run out my pattern so I just looked for an open As he turned and headed for the end zone Chambliss twisted his knee and fell leaving West 1 By Tom Ash World Herald Sport Writer Lincoln As hard as they tried to concentrate football players kept getting dis tracted Saturday About the time they were go ing a touchdown up on Kansas State the Memorial Stadium public address announcer would tell them Kansas was leading Oklahoma 7 0 in the first quar Then Wildcat halfback Edwards would start looking something like Joe Washington and Selmon broth 76188 Watch So it went before 76188 on a gorgeous fall afternoon which was perfect for football and d'ay dreaming Nebraska played its favorite three quarter time tune while winning its fifth straight game 35 7 and keeping one ear cocked for scores from Lawrence Kan where Oklahoma finally won 45 14 Kansas State supposed to provide much more than com pany until unbeaten Oklahoma comes to Lincoln Saturday to settle the Big Eight champion ship And Nebraska when it tended to current business was ob viously sending Kansas State on its way to a seventh straight de feat cial third down situations as the Buffs evened their record at 5 5 over all The win gave the Buffs a chance to finish in the first division of the conference under freshman coach Bill Mallory The Buffs are 3 2 in the Big Eight with one conference game left against Kansas State The iesta Bowl bound Cowboys fell to 5 4 and 3 2 Cowboy coach Jim Stanley had no excuses for the upset got our tails he said played hard got to give them credit I thought we were ready but they were more ready than we As evidenced by the came through on numerous cru third down conversions the estate 14 buchdown Westbrook (N) Big Eight Standings Conference All Gomes Pts OP Pts OP 5 0 0 222 38 9 0 401 66 5 1 0 162 59 8 2 0 346 94 1 iv i ia ft a i via 3 2 0 107 69 5 4 0 219 121 3 3 0 141 153 5 5 0 207 274 2 4 0 82 119 4 6 0 174 184 1 5 0 69 177 4 6 0 154 220 0 6 0 58 222 3 7 0 160 264 No Easing Up Kansai Stat 0 0 0 Nebraska 7 7 14 35 Weitbrook II pass from Humm Xnthpnv I run (Covl kick) Jenkins 17 pass from Humm (Covl kick) Doak fumbl recovery (Covie KICK) Scobv2 Scobey 2 run Nebr Moran 2 run 76188 irst downs Rushes vards Passing vards Return vards Passes Punts umbles losf Penaltles vards By Kent Savery World Herald Sportswriter Lawrence Kan Over confidence is often the greatest enemy of a winning football team particularly one that has not lost in 27 games In the case of Oklahoma that problem possibly was com pounded this week when the As sociated Press promoted OU to the No 1 position in the national college ratings So the Sooners who allowed a first half touchdown all year responded Saturday by surrendering a pair to a fired up Kansas team But if the Oklahomans were dozing at the start of the game they woke up abruptly to turn back Kansas 45 14 before 44500 at Memorial Stadium The victory boosted Okla record to 9 0 and likely assured the Sooners of keeping the No 1 rating heading into next showdown with Nebraska in Lincoln The Sooners may have been guilty of looking ahead to Ne braska when Kansas quarter back Scott McMichael found running room on a passing play and raced 73 yard on the third play of the game His score staked KU to a 7 0 lead It added fuel to whatever upset hopes existed among the Jayhawks who had lost their four previous games "Sometimes nothing you can do about looking said defen sive coordinator Larry Lace well He admitted the Sooners just might have been guilty we were looking ahead Kansas was nice enough to get our attention right Lace I Baylor Is Within Reach of Crown Waco Tex (AP) ullback Pat McNeil ran 20 yards for a touchdown and defensive back Ron Bums set up another score with an interception Saturday as Baylor beat Texas Tech 17 10 and advanced within reacn of its first Southwest Confer ence football title in 50 years Substitute quarterback Mark Jackson guided Baylor 55 yards to its winning score after Neal Jeffrey hurt his elbow in the fourth quarter The victory left Baylor with a 4 1 conference record and the Bears could claim their first crown since 1924 if they defeat Southern Methodist and Rice and Texas defeats Texas Nov 29 Season Records Oklahomo (9 0) Kansas (4 6) Savior 28 11 Wash St Utah St 72 3 Tenn waxe roresT oJ Texas 16 13 Colo 49 14 Kan St 63 0 Iowa St 28 10 Missouri 37 0 Kansas 45 14 Nov 23 at Neb '3 I 41 14 7 la St 40 9 Texas 28 10 Kan St 2013 Nebraska 0 56 Iowa St 6 22 Okla St 13 24 Colo 16 17 Okla 14 45 Nov 23 at Missouri World Herald Photo bv Rudv Smith The skin Don Westbrook loves to the pigskin as he takes Humm pass for first score Herald Photo ibv Ed At times NU had tour tackles on defense and here one of them towers frighteningly over Arthur Bailey The State frosh survived the Ron Pruitt charge on second quarter pass for seven yards Gamble ails Kansas State had fourth down with a few inches to make on the last play of the first quarter His team was trailing 7 0 "Any team should be able to make three Gibson rea soned It was a gdts call the kind made by a guy walking a plank or riding a six game los ing streak It was also unwise quarterback sneak was short of the first down although the Wildcats claimed the officials mismarked the ball Six plays later Monte Antho ny chugged around left end be hind blocks by Tom Alward and State defense come up with the big play all afternoon An example was five yard touchdown run in the sec ond period that gave Colorado a 20 0 halftime lead The score came on a third and three situation as Williams was trapped at the three but slipped out of the grasp of a Cowboy linebacker and skipped into the end zone very disappointed in our Stanley said hard to explain what happened You never intend to tackle poor Poor Position The Cowboys were plagued by incredibly poor field position ii Please turn to Page 10 Col 5 rt i ft jjK jHhR rzlllr W' 5 ffidKk QL WK1 4 I''' jdwJlk i A I 4 steiiaf Mt ktu "t' EMHHkit Bv til RBI it I I 6 i icx a vKqrSsB sb fa ma A el 1 Ae Xm Xf i 1 t'S PM tfl 4 7 laM RBHBBBiBiHBiRWaRtWsOflWsBHBSWPjK aHBRHRIRp 4 i 1'" PS JT Pzli JfL 1 4 sJi 8 wHMnMHnHBsaft jSbs 1 Inside: Alabama 28 Miami 7 Page 2 i Illinois 17 Minnesota 14 Page 8 Ohio St 35 Iowa 10 Page 8 Michigan 51 Purdue 0 Page 9 Missouri 10 Iowa St 7 Page 10 Notre Dame 14 Pitt 10 Page 13 Kentucky 41 lorida 24 Page 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