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The Daily Nebroskon Friday, November 15, 1957 in ITS P94 Skin yil" V1 Cellar Dwellers Clash In Saturday Contest By GEORGE MOVER Copy Editor Nebraska's oft defeated Co.m huskers will open a new bag of tricks in Memorial Stadium Sat urday in an effort to escape their first Big Eight cellar finish. The Husker's opponents for the fray, Colorado's hard running Buf faloes, are not likely to be coopera- Stransky , All America Candidal Sooners Face Irish; Risk Victory String Notre Dame, standing 4-2 over savage schedule, guns for Okla homa's fabulous sequence of 47 straight victories here Saturday in a football battle falling 50 years to the day after Oklahoma became a slate. Kickoff of this state semicenten nial climax is 2 p.m. CST at Owen Field. Sold out since last May, the crowd may slightly surpass the 1.700 that saw Coach Bud Wilkin son's Sooners pushed to the hilt three weeks go while nudging fired-up Colorado 14-13 on Oendon Thomas eight-yard touchdown sweep in the fourth quarter and Carl Dodd's clutch conversion boot. Game Televized Millions of others will see and Tnear NBC's national telecast of the battle beamed coast-to-coast with lindsey Nelson and Red Grange miking the action. Oklahoma's Big Red Network -ith Bill Bryan do ing the play-by-play and Mutual's naticarwide radio web featuring Joe Soland and Harry W'ismer wiE ra diocast the game. Oklahoma, fresh from a 39-14 overwhelming of Missouri last veek at Columbia, was only a seven-point early week favorite, a tribute to the hard-nosac" football Notre Dame plays. Last year, Ter ry Brennan's sophomori- Irish held the Sooners' national champions to 17 net yards rushing. Oklahoma's lowest ground total the last four seasons. Oklahoma's red-jersied gladia tors go into battle trailing two long strings of consecutives behind them like streamers of ticker tape. Wil kinson's proud, swift-striking le gions have won 47 straight and cored in 123 straight, both unbrok en all-time national records. Irish Hope For I pset Brennan's Irish, a fighting clan that whirled from behind a 7-21 deficit to lick Army 23-21, lone loss this year for the Cadets, will draw from an upset tradition that has been college football's finest as they try to scissor a Crimson and Cream victory string that started after the 28-21 loss to Frank leahy'i Irish here in the 3953 op ener and the 7-7 tie with Pitt the following week. Building its attack around Full-1 back Nick Pietrosante's inside : drives and Quarterback Bob Wil liams lropback forward passes, Fullback Nick Pietrosante, a 210 pound junior who leads the Irish with 3S8 net yards rushing and was awarded the Grantland Rice tro phy as the outstanding player of the Notre Dame-Army game, and Q3 Bob Williams, a tall, 190-pound junior who has completed 29 of 39 aerials for 326 yards and a high completion average of 49 2 per cent, are other Rambler stars. Bolh Clubs la Top Shape Both teams are generally in good physical trim although Notre Dame has two centers bekw par with leg hurts. Bob Scholtz, 225-pound Tulsan. and Co-captain Ed Sulli van, senior center. Oklahoma near ly lost Fullback Dennit Morris, who is their "nd best rusher, from a knee b :n a freak acci dent Monday an s Saturday sta tus is still undetermined. RT Doyle Jennings also has a sprained ankle and LT Gilmer Lewis is out with a crippled knee. Aubrey Lewis. Notre Dame's halfback speedster who was quoted by SPORTS ILLUSTRATED as saying after the Army triumph. '"We wanted f) win this one but the one we really want is Okla homa. We're gonna stop them. too. We can do it, you'll see." will be used as a spot player only, says Charles Callahan. L-ish pubicist. 4"If Lewis is in shape, he's the best track well meet all year," Wilkinson asserts. Co-captain Clendon Themes. Ok lahoma's leader in scoring (42 1, in rushing 343. in punt runbacks '26.2-yard average, in kickoff run backs 21 average and in punt ing 39.8. has burst every de fensive dam he has met this year. ' usually for the Sooners' bread and butter touchdown, des-rite the fact every opponent builds its defease to stop him. sacrificing strength , in other specs to contain Oklah ma's most dangerous running threat. Cyclones To Host So. Dakofa An even dcaen seniors bow out of home football action in A me.? Saturday when Iowa Satte facts South Dakota of the North Central K-State Faces Tigers Truly a victim of '"ohidgeoniiiss of chance," Kansas State's football squad takes a 1-4 Big Eight record against Missouri U. at Columbia Saturday in the Wildcats' last ditch try to escape the loop cellar. Kickoff is at 1:30 p.m. The Wildcats have utrushed all opponents save Colorado and Okla homa, rolling up an impressive 219-yard-per-game rushing total, only lo salvage two wins and a tie in eight games. Among confer ence teams, only Colorado and Oklahoma ran show more offense to date than K-Sute's 2.225 yards. 'We feel that most of the breaks have gone against us this season." comments Bus Mertes. Kansas State coach. "And at the same time we realize thai it's possible to make a lot of your own breaks. It's the other kind the crazy bounces that a football takesthat we have missed out on. "We don't mean this in any sense as an a'.ibi. I just feel that a squad which tries . as hard as this one. has earns more then they have received. Sure, we may have been a little short on manpower at times we have a small squad. But overall we've played well enough to win several that went the other way. "I know the squad feel that way. and our big hope is thai we ran make op Saturday for some of the missed chances. We know bow ruged Missouri Is. The rec ord shows that all too well (hey have lost only to Oklahoma and Texas AIM. and those are the na tion's top two teams. Well have to be beuer than we have showed all season and we'll have some breaks. But we may get the job done stranger things have hap pened in football." Mrrtes added. K-State took a 21-0 w:n from the Tigers at Columbia in 1935. break ing a 17-year drouth ajamst Mis souri. Last previous win before that was in 1938 when the Wild cats won. 21-13. Last year the game went to Missouri. 20-6. to give the Tigers 26 wins in the series dat ing from 19. K-State has won 12. Four hare ended in ties. AH of the men who figured In scoring last year w ill be back in action in this game. Keith Wilson. K-State 't starting rignt half, scored the 'Cats' only touchdown a year ago. Charley James and Hank Knhlmaan, halfbacks then, tallied Missouri's three TD's ith James getting a pair. Charles Rash, jun ior guard who basal missed a con version in K kicks this season, toed the two PAT's last year. : tive about a Nebraska victory. So i far, the Buffs have had great sue-! cess in gaining ground against seven foes this season, but their point production has not b e en 1 , commensurate with their total yards gained output. The Buffs will be spoiling to prove they can also score. Huskers To Spread Nebraska will be aiming at an offense that will spread an un-, expected massed Colorado defense. In the past, Husker foes have been ' able to mass their defenses up ' front without fear of a Big Red passing attack. In seven games, : the Huskers have passed 80 times but have connected on only 26 tor an anemic .325 percentage ana 326 yards gained. Earlier in the week, coach B :l Jennings promised that Nebraska will diversify its offense m o . e against Colorado. "We are work ing on some new thing." Jennings stated. Stransky Trouhlesomr Whatever new things Jennings has in mind, at least some of them will have to be directed towatxi stopping Bob Strans'iy. the nation's leading ground gainer. Stransky L the principle reason for Buffs' seventh national ranking in ' total offense statistics. The s:x foot senior from Yankton South Dakota has galloped 8S1 yards this j year, scoring ten touchdowits and passing for two more. Stransky has j runs of 45 and 41 yards agau.st i Kansas State. 37 against Arizona, j 20 against Utah and 22 against j three schools including the mighty , Oklahoma Sooners. It was largely because of Stransky's running that Colorado ouigained Oklahoma a:;d almost beat the Sooners in a late j October contest Woolen, Key Blocker Another major H.isker problem will be 238 pound g-jard Join Wooten. On the single wing which I Colorado uses, Wooten is the mail i who pulls out of the line to le?a the interference. How much 28 pounds can interfere with an up posing defense has already been illustrated by he Colorado sta-is-; tics column. Earlier in the year. Stransky reportedly said, "It's easy to run behind Big John."' It certainly must be. Providing an offensive threat be hind Stransky will be a hard run ning trio composed of Boyd Doi er. a 6-5. 9 pound quarterback. Eddie Dove, a hard running, h.n scoring halfback and Gene War don. 196 pound fullback who is making Colorado fans ftrget about John Bayuk. In the light of jsuch overwhelming statistics, one might ask. why hae they lost three games and tied one. The answer is found in an other department where the Buffs also lead Nebraska fumoles. Colo rado has lost the ball 13 times this year by fte fjmbie ro-ite. ap parently never at a time when it wasn't crucial. Manager Needed Anyone interested in becoming the assistant manager of the Corn hu&ker basketball squad is urzed to contact Jerry Bush in the Col iseum. Duties will involve working with both tne Freshman and Varsity teams. Brown Carries Hunker Hopes On the Nebraska t.de of tiu ledger, the Buffs will luve a le v worries of their own. The big one is expected to be Jerry Brown, all-Big Seven fullback lust year. Brown has carried 75 times for a 3.6 yards per carry average. The 203 pounder really comes i;uo his own though, on dcfoiise. Last week, at Iowa Stii'.c. he ami center D! k McCasliland accounted for abo.:t half ot Nebraska's tackles. Boih lads play li.iebacker, a s vt wiui plenty cf opportunities far you;. 3 men with tiie urge to 111 li n. ALsj expected to be ready (or the Buffs are a pair of fine hali backs, Larry Naviaux and Doug Thomas. Naviaux leads the team with an averaje of four yards a carry while Thomas is close be hind at 3 8. Thomas has speed and is Nebraska's breakaway threat while Naviaux is solid 011 defense. Huskers Lead Series The series between Nebraska and Colorado has been a dill. Fifteen meetings of the two clubs have produced eight Nebraska wins, six losses and a t:e. Tie game has always been a big one for Nebraska and has a way oi going against the favorite. NU Globe Completes By nOl C. W ATKINS Special Writer Soever made its initial appear ance on the University sports scene this year. The University Globe Trotters made up of uni versity students completed play in the t team Nebraska-Kansas league last Sunday. They finished the se.ison with a 3-1-1 record. Martin Carranceoo started t h e idea of soccer team marie up Husker N Club Initiates 18 New Members The N Club held its formal in itiation at the Lincoln Hotel Thurs day evening. The new n embers included Eill Jennings. Others imti w e r e Clark. G i 1 ba-ie-K e i t a Gardner. track ; Bob Hans, student manager: Mar Lin Hilding. football Don Houe, track' Rictl-Cwns? Linclr Jturn! ard ' J a h r, Kcl,a -n track: Dale Knotek. track: Charies Kress, tennis; Art Lew,s. stud.-nl manager; Larry Lewis, baseball: Mike McCuistion, golf: Ken Pol lard, trsrk; Dwight Siebkr, base ball: Bruce Skinner, track : Gei.e Torczjn. DaseDali; Charles Woilis ton, track. i J I' Worden Top Buff Blocker Trotter Soccer Squad First Season Of Play of university students. He put I notice in the Daily Nebraska! and in Selieck Quad asking for soccer players. Twenty-five players re sponded and the soccer team was on its way. Giobe Laundry bought the team shirts and they opened their reason with a 2-1 win. This team is more internation Coach a ted Jack tennis; Dunne, ball: 1! than the Nebraska track squad. There are players from Spain, Mexico. Canada. Colombia, Etho pia. United States, Czechoslovakia, British West Indies. England. Ar gentina and Hungary on the squad. A! Arrigunaga. promising Ne braska tennis prospect, was the leading scorer with 3 goals. Other starting players include: Martin &3rraiicedo. captain, Manul Tar rogrosa. Fernando Lagos. Bob Bone. B. Lanin. Marlyn Bowden. W. Mekasha. Les Heatheote, M. Taforadi and J Bednar. The Glebe Trotters played their games in Peter Pan park here in Lincoln or else in Omaha. Soccer is played with II ran on a team on the same size field as a football field. It takes a lot of endurance to play this game. There are 2 45-minute halfs with no time outs permitted. Soccer resembles hockey in that it has an offensive line to advance the ball and Defensemen to ease the pressure on the Goalie. Tne ball may be kicked or hit with any part of the body except the hands. When one team commits a personal foul or handles the ball with hit hands the other team is awarded a direct free kick at the goal. THE RANGE Safe Pistol A Rifle Shooting 1036 ' P" St. 10: A.M. 12:0t r3l. DANCING OPEN TO THE PUBLIC TOMMY TOMLIN Orchestra On 70th Between A A South Phone t-arly for Reservation 4-2R25 Sat. Nov. 1C Adm. 90c Dancing 9-1 A new idea in smoking... ret rsifas yoiQir Hotre Dame has come bach hard After defecting Purdue, Indiana, j conference. Army and Pitt, the Irish finally fell j Coach Jim Myers could have to Navy -20 and to powerful seven of that list of a dozen in Michigan State 6-34 although Bren- 1 the starting line, depending upon nan said afterwards of the Spartan ; whether Jmi Stuelke or Gale Gib tifl, "We didn't play too badly, son gets the nod at right end. Take out four fumbles and we ! Other starting seniors will be would have lost 21-14 or 28-34." , Cbuck Latting, left end: Bob Bird, Notre Dame's second team can left guard; Capt. Jack Falter, oen- atep -ith Oklahoma's. After his loss to the Irish. Earl Blaik, Army coach, said. "We couldn't cope with Kotre Dame's .second eleven." The Emerald shirt, if they play off the form of their Army game, could fashion a globe-shattering up ei. Ectryer Outstanding Among Notre Dame's outstand ing players is Linebacker Allen Ecuyer, No. 60, a 195-pound junior ; who made 15 tackles against Michi-' Can State. RE Monty Stickles. No. ! 0, a 215-pounder, caught eight passes against the Spartans and ' kicked She field goal that heat 1 Army, the first placement boot of . fcisliie. tert Lyle Carlson, right tackle; Frank Powell, blocking back; and ; Jack Hansen, wing back. Other seniors who will see ac-' tion will include guard Jack Tilles and ends Eill Fogarty and Al Rickert. 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