Images from the Kansas vs. Nebraska football game
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the university daily kansan
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10.19.98
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Nebraska safety Joe Walker intercepts a Zac Wegner pass attempt. The "Husker defense forced three turnovers that resulted in 14 points. Photo by Dan Elavsky/KANSAN
Above left: Nebraska fullback Joel Makivicka is met at the line of scrimmage by Kansas defenders. Photo by Dan Elavsky/KANSAN
Above right: Running back Mitch Bowles attempts to recover a fumble forced by Nebraska free safety Clint Finley. Nebraska safety Mike Brown recovered the fumble. Photo by Dan Elvsky/KANSAN
Above: Nebraska fullback Billy Legate goes head to head with Kansas' sophomore defensive back Greg Erb during a fourth-quarter Nebraska rushing play. Photo by Graham K. Johnson/KANSAN
night: Senior outside linebacker Hanson Casten hits Nebraska quarterback Bobby Newcombe during a pass play. Photo by Graham K. Johnson/KANSAN
'Husker backs run wild against Kansas defense
By Kevin C. Wilson Associate sports editor
Lincoln, Neb. — The high-powered Nebraska rushing attack gained a season-high 466 yards and scored five touchdowns in the Cornhuskers 41-0 steamrolling the Jayhawks on Saturday.
Led by Corell Buckhalter's 133 rushing yards and a career-high three touchdowns, Nebraska amassed a season-high 545 total yards against Kansas' porous defense.
Kansas coach Terry Allen said that the Cornhuskers were able to easily run the ball against Kansas.
"They had 500 some yards, and I would venture to say they had 350 to 400 yards between the tackles." Allen said. "The thing that killed us was we played really good perimeter defense, but they hurt us up the middle."
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After gaining 73 yards rushing yards two weeks ago and 141 last week, the Huskers raided themselves to noower football.
"We knew we were going to have to win the game between the tackles,"
we knew we were going.
Cormhusker center Josh Heskew said. "We went back to basic Nebraska football."
The Huskers practiced all week on improving their sputtering rushing attack.
Buckhalter said that the team knew all week that it was going to play power football against Kansas
"We went back to basic Nebraska football."
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"running straight at people is my type of football, and I was very effective today," Buckhalter said.
Buckhalter said that his lack of playing time has not been frustrating and that he has kept a positive attitude.
So was Nebraska quarterback Bobby Newcombe.
Buckhalter, starting in place of the injured DeAngelo Evans, rumbled for a 32-yard touchdown on the Huskers first drive and added scoring runs of six yards and three yards in three quarters of play.
"He played excellent," Newcombe said. "Buck played hard and went after every yard he could."
"My teammates know I can go out there and get the job done," he said. "I'm happy everything worked out well today."
However, Buckhalter was not the only Cornhusker to penetrate the Jayhawk defense. Third-string I-back Dan Alexander ran for a career-high 90 yards and two other Nebraska players gained more than 60 yards rushing
Nebraska head coach Frank Solich said that he was impressed with the production of his backfield.
"I thought each of our backs ran very, very hard," Solch said. "I thought Correll made very quick decisions and was a very slashing type runner that didn't waste any time. In our style of offense, we need that type of runner. When they had opportunities, all of our backs did well."
And when that happens Nebraska usually wins. The 'Huskers have won 88 consecutive games in which they have rushed for 300 or more vards.
KANSAS VS NEBRASKA STATISTICS
Kansas 0 0 0 0 — 0
Nebraska 10 7 14 10 — 41
First Quarter
Neb—Buckhalter 32 run (Brown kick), 10:45.
EGK—EGK, Brown, 4:00.
Second Quarter
Neb—Newcombe 1 run (Brown kick), : 13.
Neb— Buckhalter 6 run (Brown kick), 10:51.
Neb— Buckhalter 3 run (Brown kick), 3:58.
Fourth Quarter
Fourth Quarter
Neb.-FG K. Brown 28, 13:09.
Neb — GK, BR, KL, Neb
Neb — Lege 6 run (Brown kick), 6:53.
| | Kan | Neb |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| First downs | 11 | 28 |
| Rushes-yards | 31-99 | 79-466 |
| Passing | 121 | 79 |
| Return Yards | 4 | 69 |
| Comp-Att-Int | 8-25-1 | 5-9-0 |
| Punts | 7-37.1 | 2-42.5 |
| Fumbles-Lost | 2-2 | 4-2 |
| Penalties-Yards | 3-15 | 9-69 |
| Time of Possession | 20:13 | 39:47 |
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING — Kansas, Winbush 14-39, Bowles 3-21, Curry 6-19,
Bruce 5-12, Norris 3-8, Nebraska. Buckhalter 18-13, Alexander 15-
90, Christie 7-62, Makovicka 11-61, Newcombe 12-26, Runty 1-26,
Lepate 3-23, White 5-12, Miller 5-16, Kingston 2-6.
PASSING — Kansas, Wegner 8-25-1-121, Nebraska, Newcombe 5-8-0-79, Christo 1-0-1-0
RECEIVING — Kansas, Chandler 3-52, Bowies 1-26, Patterson 1-21, Childs 1-9, Hill 1-1, Gulley 1-5. Nebraska, Davison 2-30, Makovicka 1-2, Wistrom 1-1, Buckhater 1-3.
Attendence----76,174.
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