University Daily Kansan Monday, Oct. 31, 1953
Nebraska Edges KU 19-14, In Thriller
LINCOLN—Too much Willie for sixty minutes and not quite enough Wally in the final $ 2 \frac{1}{2} $ minutes gave Nebraska a hard fought 19-14 victory over the Kansas Jayhawks here Saturday before a parents day crowd of 31.000. The victory gave the Cornhuskers a tie with Oklahoma in Big Seven play. Both teams have three wins and no losses.
Wille Greenlaw, 192 pound junior, right halfback continually ground out yardage all afternoon, and was the key figure of the Nebraska attack in the offensive thriller. Green-law ground out 141 yards on 24 carries for an average take of 5.8 yards per play; scored one NU tally, and helped set up the other two.
Trailing by 19-14 in the fourth quarter Kansas put the arm of sophomore quarterback Wally Strach to work in a fütle final two and a half minute comeback attempt that stopped a throng in its tracks which had begun to leave the stadium early.
Strauch-Smith Clicks
Strauch misired twice but on a fourth down situation on the KU 31 hit end Paul Smith with an aerial good for 18 yards. After two more unsuccessful tosses the Strauch to Smith combination clicked for 19 more yards putting the Hawks in threatening position on the NU 30 with barely a half a minute left in the game. After another Strauch misfire and a loss of 8 yards, George Cifla, 203 pound NU fullback put the damper on the ill-fated last ditch stand by grabbing Strauch's pass on the NU 30 and returning it three yards. By that time the clock had run out.
First sign of the Nebraska ball control tactics that spelled the KU defensest came after the opening kick-off, when the Huskers got in gear offensively and scored after holding the ball 8 minutes and 50 seconds. Greenlaw plunged over from 2 feet out after the drive that started on theNU twenty. The big right half contributed 48 yards on six carries in the touchdown drive.
KU Bounces Back
RE BOWNES' back Then it was Kansas' turn. Handley returned the kickoff to the NU 41 after skirting down the sidelines from his own sixteen. A combination run-fumble by Bev Buller, KU quarterback set the ball up on the NU 20. As he was tackled the ball squirted from his hand, but George Remsberg, seeing his first action since before the Colorado game, pounced on the loose ball for an additional 4 yards. Buller plunged over after Ralph Moody, left half cut up the middle for 11 yards placing the ball on the NU 1 yard line.
Rex Fischer, NU left half added the second counter for the Huskers on the next series of plays after the kickoff as the TD trading continued. Fischer went around right end from the KU 15 after he and Greenlaw supplied most of the manpower for the drive, which started on the NU 43 on Fischer's own good return of Bill Bell's kickoff.
NU Clinches It
NU scored the clincher touchdown, putting them ahead 19-7 with a little less than five minutes remaining in the third quarter. Fischer went around right end from the three capping a drive that started on the NU 31. Fischer and Greenlaw both added 30 yards to that drive. Quarterback Don Erway kicked the extra point.
With seven and a half minutes remaining in the game, KU took over on downs on its own 13 yard line and went the distance of the field in 12 plays. Joe Held, normally rated as the fourth string KU quarterback, went over the left side of the line for 21 yards and a touchdown dragging two NU men on his back.
Handley made both conversions for KU. John Francisco, fancy KU left half was the big gun on that
STOPPED ON THE FOUR—Willie Greenlaw, No. 47, Nebraska's big gun last Saturday, is stopped by KU's Bev Buller on the KU four yard line after a six yard run by Greenlaw. Nebraska won the game, 19-14. —(Kansas Photo)
Harriers Down MU,16-21
The University of Kansas cross-country team met its stiffest competition of the year Saturday but managed to extend its Big Seven victory string to 24 by edging Missouri, 16 to 21. Al Frame, Jayhawk captain, finished first, running the three-mile Mt. Oread course in 15:14.
Keith Bacon of Missouri finished second, 75 yards behind Frame, and was followed by Bob Nicholson, KU, and Lynn Romann, Missouri, in that order. Jerry McNeal, Bernie Gay and Jan Howell, all of Kansas, finished in fifth, seventh and eighth places respectively.
In a high school runoff before the KU-MU meet, Shawnee Mission outdistanced the field, although Haskell's Bill Mills was the individual winner. His time for the two miles was 9:29.8.
Intramural Schedule
A total of 897 high school football teams will compete for championships in six divisions in Texas this year.
Fraternity A
ATO vs. SAE, Field 3
Fraternity, B
Beta vs. Kappa Sig. Field 6
Acacia vs. ATO. Field 7
Independent A
Sigma Gamma Epsilon vs. AF-
BOTC Field 2
Stephenson vs. YMCA, Field 4 (Friday's Games Rained Out)
drive with 57 yards in six carriers.
He initiated the drive with a 29 yard run up the middle from the 10 after KU took possession of the ball.
Fischer posted the second best individual rushing total with 83 yards
Notre Dame entered its 67th football season with a record of 424 victories, 8F losses and 34 ties.
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