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1 wmmmiS'Ms&mis Tuesday, November 27, 1956 THE NEBRASKAN Page 3 Gordy Stars Again: 0D cusli n n IKIsp DTD IF,!? IP n n n IP II cay Speed All Over: By BOB WffiZ Staff Sporti Writer Saturday was just another day for Bud Wilkinson's mighty Soon er as they rolled to their fifty- ninth straight conference game Without a loss. This time the Sooners gained gome 650 yards in whipping Ne braska 54-6. It also was Oklahoma's thirty ninth straight victory over all op ponents. This ties a record set by Washington University many years ego. The Washington string includ ed several games against high school and small college teams, Last year Oklahoma defeated Ne braska 41-0 by using only straight split-! plays but this time they culled off a lot ; of trick plays which at times completely confused the Husker defense. Besides trickery on ground plays the Sooners took to the air quite often gaining 150 yards by this means. However not everything was lost for the Huskers in their final game of the season. Six of the eight Sooner touchdowns were scored by the number one unit and this tal ented eleven never left the field for the last time until midway in the final period. Oklahoma went 78-yards after re ceiving the opening kick-off in nine plays to reach paydirt for the first time. Halfback Clendon Thomas made the largest gain during this drive as he went 23 yards on the fifth play. Then the Nebraska defense be gan to tighten and it looked like they were about to pull of one of their goal line stands but Ail American Tommy McDonald went around end for seven yards raid the score on fourth down. After the kick-off the two teams exchangtd fumbles and then the nation's number one team struck for TD number two. This time Carl Dodd did the damage with his passing and running. Dodd scored from 32 yards out. Dodd also converted and the score was 14-0 with 5:29 left in the first period. . Although down two touchdowns the Huskers did. not quit. They came charging back with a 74-yard scoring drive. Gordie Englert, sen ior from Sioux Falls, South Dako tal led Pete Elliott's crew to the TD. He did a fine job of calling the plays in addition to completing three passes fend gaining 22 yards himself in two tries. The vital plays were a 19-yard tain by Larry Naviaux, two pass es to Frank Nappi, some hard run ning by Jerry Brown and, of course, the payoff pass to big Clar ence Cook. Cook was guarded closely by Jerry Tubbs and Thom as but he made a fine catch for' the six points. Naviaux'i conversion attempt was wide. The remainder of the afternoon the 46,000 fans in the stadium watched as the Sooners scored six more times while holding the Husk ers fairly welt intact. Otfier Sooner touchdowns came en a 46-yard pass from Jim Harris to McDonald. Dave Baker passed 12 yards to Dodd. Harris got credit for two TD's himself on runs of 5 end 31 yards. Bill Brown scored from 59 yards out and Dale Sher rod went two yards for the final score. Wilkinson cleaned his bench in the final quarter to give more boys a chance for experience. Although outscored and outgained in yardage the Huskers fared as well as mct cf the Sooner op ponents to date and much better than some. This closes out Elliott's first sea son as bead coach at Nebraska with four win six loss record. Next year the prospects should be good for a much better season because only eight members of the present squad will be lost by grad uation. The middle of the line will be hardest hit by graudatlon. It loses tri-captaln Jim Murphy, LaVsrne Torczon, and Bob Berguin plus big right tackle Jack Fleming., These boys have all been outstanding this season. Also graduating are Willie Green law, who was slowed this season by a weak ankle; Gordie Englert, who played fine ball at quarter back; Max Kitzelman who returned after a service stint; nd Larry Jones, a guard from Sidney. BB Season Opens First action In the Intramural basketball season got underway Monday night. There- are 14 leagues with 109 teams slated for action ftis year. Ku Delta Theta, 1955-56 Fraternity A champions, opened with the Sig Eps. The Big Eps fresh from an AlUJniverslty title In football are expected to give the Phi Delta a rough time. Independent game played Mon day were: Canfield vs. Selleck, Mannett vs. Hitchcock, and Avery vs. Andrews. The Chemists, defending All University champs, open their sea son November 28 with the Dsntal College, The other champions of the '55-56 season are: Delta Tau Delta Fraternity B, Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity C, and Avtry House--Selleck Quadrangle. Complete f iilBiiw liliil mmm9msm Siflliiiii liw! ' - lit sir . 9:im:Ki;:m ism mamg 'i - ; ammmm NO-Cook (E) OU-McDotial(l.(B)& t i ". -V OU-rTubhs (C) Cook Snags Touchdown Pass 4. v Wffltr Corn-tear Sunday Journal and Star Oklahoma Finishes First; Colorado To Orange Bowl By BILL WILSON Staff Sports Reporter While Oklahoma was registering their 59th consecutive win without a loss to a Big Seven Conference rival, there were three other non- conference games being played. A crowd of 34,115 watched a heavily-favored Michigan State team finally come through in the third quarter with four touchdowns to dump Kansas State 38-17 .in a game which was marred by fum bles by both teams. The Spartans committed a dozen fumbles and lost the ball eight times. Kansas State had nine fumbles and lost four. Michigan State had only a 6-3 half-time lead. Their touchdown came on a fourth-down pass from the five-yard line by Mike Panitch to Larry Harding. The Wildcats three points came on a 30-yard field goal by Ben Grosse. The touchdowns in the third quarter came on a 39-yard pass run play from Don Gilbert to Sam my Williams, a two-yard plunge by Gilbert, a six-yard run by Den nis Mendyk, and a 41-yard pass- run play from Panith to Harold Dukes. Mendyk scored from t'e one- yard line for the final MU score in the fourth quarter. The two Kansas State touch downs were made in the last min utes of the game when the Spart ans, enjoying a comfortable lead, emptied their bench. With less than four minutes left, Quarter back Dick Corbin passed to Gene Keady for one Wildcat touchdown and Ralph Pfeifer added another on a plunge from the four. Two of the Spartan touchdowns were made after Kansas State fumbled and one followed a pass interception. One of the best Wildcat drives was the one that stalled in the sec ond quarter and resulted in Grosse kicking a field goal which was a 40-yard boot in actual yardage. The fumbles set a modern rec ord for Michigan State, the pre vious high being eight each in two previous games. Michigan State picked up 313 yards rushing to 121 yards for Kansas State. The Spartans com piled 169 yards through the air -ssrpared to 86 for the Wild cats, i Villanova's stout forward wall, coupled together with the passing of sophomore quarterback Jim Grazione and the running of junior half-back Rick Sapienza, complete ly overpowered the Iowa State Cyclones 26-0. The Wildcats scored the first three times they had the ball with the first touchdown coming after a 66-yard drive on 17 plays with Sa pienza going over from the one. Starting quarterback Bill Magee added the next six points, sneak ing over from the one to cap a 14-play, 60-yard drive in the early minutes of the second period. Grazione took over and directed the team 62 yards, completing it with a spectacular 28-yard N pass which Sapienza took over his shoul der in the end zone between two Iowa State defenders. This touch down completed the scoring for the first half and the Villanova Wildcats rested with a 20-0 lead. The last Villanova touchdown came in the third period when Grazione flipped"" t6 junior" half back Billy Halligan on the Iowa State 20, who grabbed the ball over his head, juggled it, then scampered into the end zone to complete a 55-yard scoring play. With the exception of senior half back Fred Rippel, a speedster from Galesburg, Illinois; Iowa State had hardly any luck at all against the mamoutn Wildcat line. Rippel stood out both on offense and defense for the Cyclones. He nearly turned back the first Wild cat touchdown drive single-handedly, throwing Villanova's John Fer rulo for a six-yard loss after the home club had marched inside the On a Magee pass Into the end zone on fourth down, a Cyclone defender pushed the Villanova re ceiver and the officials awarded it to the Wildcats on the one. Sa pienza went over on the next play. The Cyclones deepest threat came in the second period. After sophmore quarterback Phil Hill had four of his first six passes mishandled by receiver in the numbing cold, he completed a screen pass to half-back Paul Shupe for 10 yards. He again threw to Shupe for 29 yards, but Villanova's line prove! too much for the battered Cyc nes. By GEORGE MOYER Staff Sports Writer Gordon Englert, the hard work ing senior quarterback who final ly made it big against Oklahoma, is this week's Star of The Week. Englert, a standout high school player at Sioux Falls, South Dako'ta High School, spent his first two years in the shadow of Don Er way, rated as the second best quarterback in the conference last year. When Erway failed to recover from a knee operation, Englert was still figured as the only the Husker's third best quarterback be hind George Harshman and Roy Stinnett, but Englert, whose per serverance is an example to any athlete, shunted both of these gen tlemen to' the bench.. He did it by being a rugged half back on defense, a quick thinking signal caller on offense, and an all-round sparkplug. He was prob ably the most Improved player on the squad, making up for early failures as a ball handler by be coming the steadiest and surest hand the Huskers could muster at this' difficult art. Last week, Gordy ended his play ing career with one of the most efficient performances that rough, tough Oklahoma has witnessed this year. He engineered one 74 yd. touchdown march and came within a foot of putting Nebraska over for another in the fourth quarter. The 74-yd. drive was the lonr est against Oklahoma's stout de fense v this year. The drive was marked by superb selection of i i I:; Wk ,:f v J V mm f s, ..' i A 1 ENGLERT Nebraska fkot Basketball Tonight: Rush Shies For varsity By BOB MARTEL Staff Sports Writer Coach Jerry Bush, having the athletic limelight all to himself, will unveil his 1956-57 basketball squad tonight at the Coliseum. Cornhusker. basketball fans will be given a preview of what is to come when the varsity and the freshman tip off at 8 p.m. Coach Bush has named one sen ior, three juniors and one sopho more to his starting lineup. Rex Ekwall, team captain and senior from Holmesville, will start at left forward. Ekwall, a great re bounder and good shooter, was All Big-Seven and Honorable Men tion All American last season. He scored 312 points for a 14.8 ave rage and snagged 224 rebounds to lead the club hi both scoring and rebounding. Starting at right forward will be Don Smidt, 6'4" junior from Hele na, Montana. Smidt proved him self last season scoring 247 points for a 10.7 average. He is one of the most important hoopsters in coach Bush's plans. Sophmore Ron Parsons will open at center for the Cornhuskers. A 6'8", 210 pounder, Parsons size and potential rebounding ability should bolster the team's board strength. The guard positions will be handled by the two mighty mites, Jim Kubacki and Gary Reimers. Both are lettermen, good play- makers and set-up men. Kubacb, a 5'10" junior, did a fine job as a sophmore and is extremely ac curate with two hand set and jump shots. Reimers, who is only 5'9V4" tall, is extremely fast, quick and accurate. Reserve duties will be handled by lettermen Jim Arwood, Dudley Doebele, Lyle Nannen, Bill Wells and newcomers Bob Finn, Bob Harry, Terry Howard, Charles McAfee, George Swank and Larry White. Howard isn't actually a newcomer having played a little last year. The 6'7" junior is one of the hardest workers on the If f ; It I At i 4 I M$uce j V- iti m GROQ.M 1 1 C - PLASTIC! Grooms your hair whil it treats your scalp. Contrc! loot dandruff. 1.09 4m Urn SHULTON Nv Yerk Torenta t-Mitvmm j?iiawfl-ti ww--y Smmmug freshmen squad and his size and desire should help the team. The freshman will start the same five men who have been giving the varsity the most trouble in pre-season scrimmages. Bill Fitzpatrick and Herschel Turner will be at the forwards, Big Bob Mayo at center with Bill Lundholm and . Wayne Hester at the guards. . Fitzpatrick, who was formerly stationed at Lincoln Air Force Base, is the big gun of coach Tony Sharpe's young crew. The J o p 1 i n, Missouri sharpshooter scored 35 points in the last scrim mage against the varsity. Turner, from Indianapolis, In diana, was one of the top players in that area a year ago and works very well up front with Fitzpat rick. Mayo has two years of service ball plus a great high school rec ord at Brooklyn, New York. With a little more polish, this boy could be very dangerous. Lundholm from Mt. Morris, Il linois, possesses an accurate jump shot that has been dropping in regularly, while Hester, former Lincoln Northeast star, has been improving tremendously during re cent workouts. Other freshmen who will see considerable action include Jack Johnson of Loup City, Ron Raver of Craig, Rod Borders of Gordon and Dennis "Moon" Mullins from Omaha Centrals. plays that kept Oklahoma's sec- stuck with the team through hard endary jittery and their line off balance. It takes courage to run the op tion time after time with the knowl edge ever present that the next time one turns downfield he may be face to face with the likes of Jerry Tubbs or Billy Pricer. Yet the option, as executed by Eng lert, finally was the deadly, dan gerous weapon that it was sup posed to be but wasn't for most of the season. If coach Pete Elliott can contin ue to fill his quarterback slot with the kind of player that Gordy Eng lert has become, he may yet have the satisfaction of giving his teach er, Bud Wilkinson, a lesson of the kind that was administered to Ne braska last Saturday. Englert first captured the start ing quarterback position with a rugged performance against Colo rado. Husker Englert was the 'one bright spot in the 16-0 tromping ad ministered by the Buffs that day. Gordy is not especially big for a split T quarterback. He is 6'1" ad- 172-lbs., but when he turns upfield on the option he runs like a fullback bucking the line. Eight seniors played their last football for Nebraska Saturday and six of these eight were on the start ing eleven. All of these men have work and defeat. They all devel oped a good deal of proficiency at their positions before they fin ished. A couple even reached tht all-conference level in their abil ity. However, the one who showed the most improvement and per serverance is without a doubt Englert. Wrestling Anyone interested in freshman or varsity wrestling is invited to attend a meeting that will be held in the basement of the Coliseum at 5 p.m. Wednesday. RENTALS SALES SERVICE BLOOM TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE 323 N. 13th 2-5258 Block And Bridle Initiates Twelve Twelve students were Initiated Thursday into Block and Bridle Club. They Include: Gary E. Briggs, Raymond G. DeBower, Carolyn Jean Hall, Roger D. Hild, Donald E. Kasbohm, Byron C. Kort, Donald- H. Kuhl, Elwin L. Mosier, Larry A. Paul, K. Robohm, Daniel E. Stilwell, and Robert G. Volk. Delbert Xuhlman was selected to represent the animal husbandry departmental club on the College Agricultural Executive board. University of Nebraska 1 C5S-S7 hm Basketball Schsuab DEC. 3 IOWA a MICHIGAN 10 WISCONSIN JAN. 7 COLORADO FEB. ' 9 KANSAS , 1I-MISSOURI 18 EAN. STATE MAR. 6 OKLAHOMA ' S ICWA STATE Student and Fa Jty All Sports Tickets on sale Now, University Coliseum Ticket Office. Student Ticket. .$3.00 Faculty & Employe Ticket. .$4.00 m, woman, mmmmmmtfnm K.fli w-w.. , """-"----iirS'r"!'! --mimiijiiar''itiifl PHILOSOPHY TOR TODAY "You ak ma why I unfile," h said, "When H-Bcmbs hang above my head, My car's a wreck . . . my gal has fled My money's gone . . Vm iu the red . Why do I smile? . . . You ask me why? CHESTERFIELDS! 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