6 Mondav. November 1. 1976 University Daily Kansan Jayhawks collapse early, smothered, 31-3 Class photo by JAY KORLZ KU linebacker Tom Dinkel (93) tells the officials that the Jayhawks have recovered a first-quarter fumble. Dinkel loses the argument and on the next play Vince Ferragamo (15) scores on a one-yard run. Nebraska takes victory in stride By GARY VICE Assistant Sports Edito After the game Saturday, excitement did not erupt from the winning Nebraska Cornhuskers. In fact, it was barely detectable. They had done what was expected of them, the Jayhawks with ease for a 31-3 triumph. And so the all-too-teen-triumphant Cornhuskers, as far as Kansas is concerned, staged what could be called a non-celebration. No one was turning cartwheels or acting at all exuberant in Nebraska's locker at the rally. A spoken between Humble players occurred a game, which they began to control early in the first quarter. Conversation was directed at more important things, like the bus ride WHEATHER THE JAYHAWKS, now long forgot, were on NU's list of important subjects last week seemed somewhat doubtful. NU coach Tom Osborne, speaking in a slow monotone, had little to say about his team or its talented quarterback—Vince Ferraggio. "We thought it could be a very close, very tough game," Gosborne said. "But it didn't turn out to be. We played real fine today and everything went pretty well. "Vince—he had just about a normal day. He always throws pretty well." FERRAGAMO, A SENIOR from Carson, clifft, blighted KU's defense secondary all day. The secondary tried to confuse Ferraberg by jumping around a lot before each snap to conceal its chosen pass. He succeeded, but Golub said, "Obviously it didn't work." 强 safety Tom Fitch said, "We just tried to disguise what we were doing but Ferragano was really good at reading us. He's the best I ever seen." "He'd just analyze our defense and throw right at its weakness. He knows so much about it." FERRAGAMO, HOWEVER, would claim he called audibles only 40 per cent of the time, calmly saying, "You just walk up to the line and look the situation over." "They were doing a lot of moving around on defense. But we watched them on film a lot last week and had good scouting reports and just took it to them." "I just don't know what you could say about our pass rush," defensive tackle Mike Butler said. "I just don't know. We're not doing anything one." They were doing the job blocking us. The absence of an effective pass rush also contributed greatly to Ferragamo's success. KU's defense failed to sack Ferragamo even once. "I GOT BACK there twice and just didn't get him. I just couldn't wrap him up." Ferragama credited his offensive line for a nearly flawless performance and said he expected KU's defense to blitz more than it did. But little did it concern Osborne, who said, "I think we are averaging only one sack per game. Our offensive line protects Vince real well. But he helps himself a lot also. He recognizes blitzing situations and audibles real well." And several of those audibles turned into touchdowns as the Jayhawk's weren't able to find a victory against NU and assure themselves of their first back-to-back winning seasons since 1961-62. Kansas, now 5-3, was 7-5 last year. IT'S THE Cornhuskers, rather than the Jayhawks, who are most adept at fashioning winning football seasons. Nebraska, now 6-1 on the season—its 15th consecutive winning campaign—has dominated nearly every under ones It was NU's 59th victory over KU in 83 meetings and its eight straight. Nebraska has also amassed a 224-12 eye in scoring over the Jihawks in the last six matchups. Momentum—that's something the Nebraska Cornhoppers had and kept in their game Saturday against the Kansas as the result was a 31-3 thumping of KU "Nebraska has better personnel than we have," Moore said, "at least right now. They've had a top program going for umpteen years and it's hard to take the momentum away from them. That's the key." "The score was 14-0 and we had only run 11 offensive plays," KU coach Bud Moore said yesterday. "We gave Nebraska the momentum and never recovered, and we had a fine football team, but I don't think they are good as we allowed them to look." "We're still building. They have talent to do that use other teams would love to bat." By BRENT ANDERSON Associate Sports Editor The Jayhawks will have to recover if they don't want to end the season sixth in the Big Eight. That's where they sit right now, and their best chance of moving up is against State here next Saturday. The Cyclones are 2-2 in conference play and 4-2 overall. THE *HUUSERKS* kept KU in the hole from almost the beginning of the game, and two first-half fumbles lost by KU in its own territory made the hole deuser. The Hawks' first two possessions started on their own three-yard line, making it difficult for KU's offense to get going. In all, KU was held to 170 yards rushing and 14 yards passing, its second lowest offensive total of the season. "It's extremely tough to mount 97- or 98- runs, but I'm going to mount them like Nebraska quarterback Scott Cash said after the game. "They're so good, they're really great," he noted to have field position to run away the ball. Such was not the case. McMichael completed only one pass in eight attempts "My timing wasn't good at all," McCormick said. "I would have made my pickers more time to open and get the job done." But McMichael rarely had time to wait. Nebraska's defensive line poured in on him, making it hard for him to even see his receivers. Nebraska, on the other hand, riddled the KU pass defense. Its quarterback, Vince Ferragamo, completed 14 of 27 passes for NIL in five games and ran one yard for NIU's first touchdown. **THAT TOUCHDOWN came after NU recovered a Norris Banks fumble on KU's 37. On the ensuing kick, halfback Mike Higgins fumbled and Nebraska recovered three plays later Ferragamo completed his first touchdown pass, making the score 14-0. Then, after an exchange of punts that put NU at its own seven-yard line, Ferragga completed four passes in a seven-play touchdown drive capped by a three-yard pass. The 21-0 NU halffire lead made a KU comeback unlikely. The passing game enabled Nebraksa a running game, which had been slowed somewhat by injuries, to unwind. The "huskers" rushed for 284 yards on 55 carries and were led by fulback Dode Donnel, half-back Monte Anthony, who had 65 yards on 14 carries. NU finished the game with 483 yards in total offseason. "ONE OF THE main reasons for our success was the line," said Ferragno. He only blitzed us a few times, and we were able to pick it up and hit our hot receiver." Nebraska coach Tom Osborne agreed with Moore about turnovers being impatient. "I think when we scored after that (KU's second) turnover and it was 14-0, well, I don't think they quit, but they knew it would be hard to win." Osborne said. Nebraska had built a 31-10 lead before Kansas was able to make a scoring drive, the Nebraskans were unable to stop Mike Hubach. That drive was only the third time that Nebraska penetrated Mike Hubach in the 4th round. MOORE SAID Nebraska's defense was the best KU had faced this year, and, overall, NU was the best team KU had plaved. "They were tough in every way," Moore said. "They were able to move the ball at will sometimes, and prevented our offense from ever getting going." Moore said he knew of only a few slight injuries to KU players. Linebacker Terry McAuliffe was killed when he lead the KU defense, was "pretty brushed up" after the game, Moore said, and halfback Bill Campfield's sprained ankle might keep him out of practice again this season. The loss made KU's season record 5-3 and dropped them to 1-3 in the Big Eight. Nebraska remains tied for the Big Eight with 1-1 record. The Huskers are now 6-1 overall. SCORING KANSAS 0 0 0 0-1 NEBRAKSHA 0 14 7 10 - Spatha 3 gets from Ferreira (Kielkirk) - Steiner 1 gets from Ferreira (Kielkirk) - Steiner 1 gets from Kielkirk - Steiner 1 gets from Kielkirk STATISTICS First downs NU KU 10 rows down 65-284 94-384 Passing yards 199 14 Return yards 94 14 Return yards 142-51 9 Points 5-4 9-36 Penalties-lost 2-1 9-36 Penalties-less 5-5 9-35 INDIVIDUAL Netschak-Donna 167. 157. Anthony 144s, 188s Davis-Thompson 140. 139. Anthony 120s, Craig 23. Evertel 19. McMichael 144s, 188s. Bush 17. McMichael 144s, 188s. Kiraa-Smith - 1647, McMahon 1442, Banks 7.85 *Lightweight* 4.19, Eighteen 3.22, Lissauer 3.22 **Passing** Fussing Nebraska - Ferragamo 14-27-1, Garcia 0-1-0, Kansas. Nebraska - Shamblin 4.2, Malloy 3.37, Thome 2.73, Craig 3.57, Stein 1.9, Berns 1.0, Dimmel 1.1). Funting Nebraska—Lessman 5-43.0. Kansas—Wuhan 0-21.6 Weekend Sports Roundup Runners finish 3rd The KU women's cross country ran in the rain and rain in springfield, Mo., and came fifth. KU totaled 71 points to trail Southern Illinois University's 73 and Kansas State's 26. Behind the Jayhawks were Northwest Missouri State, 96, Southwest Missouri State, 123, Murray State, 121, College of the Ozarks, 190, and Memphis State. 240. Once again Michelle Brewed the KU队, finishing sixth over the three-mile race. KU's Sena Frame was 15th, Lariy Murdy, 24th, Bissell, 21st, Wallace, 21st, and Wallace, 21st. "We're really starting to get fit." coach Tom Lionale said yesterday. "It's a shame we don't have any weights." Lioniale had words of praise for Morley, no has made a dramatic improvement this far. "She's come out of nowhere for us," he said. "At the start of the year she was our No. 8 runner and at Springfield she was No. 3. She has really come around." Kansas football against Nebraska got off to a good start for the Jayhawks Friday when KU's junior varsity defeated the Cornhuskers' freshman team. 19,18 Lionale said he would be take three runners who have run faster than the AIAW qualifying standard of 19:00 minutes, the Bown, Sena Frame and Nancy Bissell. The last meet for the women will be the AWN national championship Nov. 13 in Mason. Time didn't expire and Nebraska had an opportunity to win, only to waste it as a 23-yard field goal attempt went off to the right, ending the game. KU, now 1-2, almost gave the game away in the almost seconds as coach Jack White chose to try to run out the clock on a running play instead of punting on fourth down. JVs stun 'Huskers It was the first loss for the Big Red freshmen since a 1973 loss to Missouri, and the team lost its third consecutive game. The amount of time remaining in the game was rather confusing to everyone except the officials, because no scoreboard was present. The Field House, where the game was played. That miss wasn't the only time Jayhawk fans breathed a sigh of relief. Moments earlier, a two-point conversion attempt by Nebraska failed when tight end Junior Miller dropped a pass that was drilled into his midsection. Those two miscues preserved KU's lead, which was built by the running of quarterback Steve Mueller and halfback Jimmy Little. Mueller, a walk-on from Topek West High School, was substituting for Bill Lilis, who hyperextended his knee in practice Mueller ran for 123 yards and one touchdown. After things quieted down, the Blues held off a late Jayhawk attack to win, 1-7. TMc Grade scored a try and Dave Hay booted a penalty kick for the Jayhawks. Little, from Woodbridge Va., picked up yards rushing and returned k9 $$ of 56 yards. White said, "Little's like an H-bomb ready to go off when he has the ball. The Kansas Jayhawks gave Nebraska a rugby lesson Saturday in the form of a 2-0 win. And yesterday they visited the Kansas team who taught KU a few things about boxing. KU records were also set in the 200-yard breaststroke. 40- and 200-yard medley relay. Two Big Eight records were set Friday night by members of the KU women's swimming team in an untrassid meet at Naples. Several KU records were also broken. The top three butterfly swimmers each turned in times under the previous KU record. Jackie Kellog, Prairie Village freshman, had the fastest time 2:77.2 Ruggers win, lose Debbie Bunker, Chesterfield, Mo., freshman, set Big Eight records in the 100-yard freestyle (55.1) and 200-year freestyle (2.00.7). Three tikes yesterday, the Jayhawks traded fists with the highly favored Blues. The end result was that Rich Coulson left the game with a soliton. Women set marks In Saturday's game, Nebraska spent in the 19th round, freshman Bryan Wells run circle matches. Playing in only the second rugby game of his career, Wells scored three tries to lead the jayshaws. Fullback Rich Millard added a punt but none of the extra points were converted. Soccer splits two KU's first goal came when Roel Vandenzeen scored on a penalty kick. The remainder of KU's scores were made by Marcus Ridley, who scored Tahzeradeh, who each scored two goals. KU's soccer club came back to defeat Nebraska, 5-2, yesterday after suffering a disappointing 1-0 loss to Rockhurst Saturday. The Jayhawks jumped to a 3-4 lead in the game, and the Cormorants game to quickly down the Corcorners. Alt-Amure had a sprained ankle and Taterhadez was hit by an elbow in his stomach. Neither injury proved serious, but players returned to action yesterday. "We were all over them at the end, and it doom't really seem they beat us as much as we were behind when the clock ran out," he said. Malinin said his squad didn't play sharp early against Rockhurst but came back like that. KU to play Emporia Mulin said he was pleased with the performance of goaltender Rafael Perez, who scored in five games. $N_i$ soccer funnels last year, showed a defense that KU had trouble penetrating. Part of the Jayhawks' trouble was that Ariana Hernandez, Tejahudephe, Mullin calls his one-two punch, were forced to leave the game because of injuries. Rockhurst, which placed third in the NLA soccer finals last year, showed a clear improvement. "He played the best game I've ever seen him play. He made several near impossible plays." Friday's field hockey match between KU and Nebraska was canceled because of the rain. KU will travel to Emporia Kansas State College today for a conference match, when the team will compete. NU's Dodie Donnell spent most of the day diving over the KU defense Three sit atop Big Eight race KANSAS CITY, MO. (AP) — Colorado and Oklahoma State, which have captured only one Big Eight football championship bet, will play a final game familiar, intimidating figure of the Nebraska Cornhuskers, who have won or shared nine conference titles in the last 13 Can the Buffs and Cowboys keep pace with such heady company? One giant step toward answering that question will be taken this Saturday when Oklahoma State and Nebraska collide in Lincoln, Neb., Colorado will play Missouri. But the crazy, topsy-turvey chase for the Orange Bowl has never been more unpredictable or entertaining and the outcome is anybody's guess. Colorado and Oklahoma State overcame big leads by Oklahoma and Missouri Saturday while Nebraska easily manhandled Kansas. The Buffs, Cowboys and Huskies thus moved from a five-way game into one-way logjam with 34 conference marks. At 2-2 are two-time defending national champion Oklahoma, Hawaii and Iowa State, which easily vanquished Kansas State Saturation. Kansas, 1-3, and Kansas State, 0-4, are out of it. But nothing more is certain. Colorado soared past Oklahoma, 42-31. "Colorado proved they're a fine team," he said. "Although the Big Eight is still up for grabs, I'd had to say Colorado is in a fine position to win." "I worried all week long about just what happened in the second half," said handing the Sooners their second con-secutive loss, with three straight second-half touchdowns directed by second team quarterback Jeff Knable. Oklahoma, which has seen its entire defensive backfield obliterated by injuries, suffered another loss Saturday when a tackle by Oklahoma ended up being lost for the season with a knee injury. But much KU, N teams tha winne to pot Men' veste L It d tried, the m They couldl Bruce Tom forme and V nock Bet touch wome pionsh Foll ball or later How behind outsta Jocs. 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