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f CNIVFRSITY OF NEBR. 2 IW3 Ibrary mi Mil By Herb Probasco They said it couldn't be done. But 34,000 loyal Nebraska Homecoming fans saw it done Saturday as the come-from-behind Cornhuskers top pled the mighty machine from Soonerland, 25-21. The fieldhouse was re sounding with one big, "Ya hoo, ve did it." First Since 1942 ' Not since 1946 had a Big Eight team defeated the mighty Oakies. Not since Bud Wilkinson has been at the Sooner helm has a Confer ence team been on the long end of a score. Not since 1942, when the Scarlet and Cream edged Oklahoma 7-0 . ' - Vol. 34 No.-26 K Sig, in House Display Honors W Weeks of work, worry and fun were climaxed Saturday evening when the winners of house displays and floats were announced before the 2,900 attending the Home coming dance. Delta Delta Delta and Kap pa Sigma were selected to receive the traveling trophies for the men and women's di visions. The Tri Delts' pink ani mated elephant crushing a Sooner under its toot titled "Victory Is No Fantasy" was rated by the judges as car rying out the best idea of dis play objectives. The Old Lfj Kappa Sigma'; "The Old Loc Rocks ihi Sooners," Game Notes: Sooner (Or Later) Records Are Broken By Doug McCartney Notes: Memorial Stadium seats got little use Saturday. The crowd spent much of . its time surging to its feet and jumping up and down. This was due to the alert Huskers and the wide open, slashing Oklahoma attack. Many persons near the stadium were amazed at the tremendous amount of noise that issued from the stadium that afternoon. Not only was it loud but continuous. When Sooner coach Bud Wilkinson got off the plane Friday he told reporters he had lost his coat. When he got back on Saturday he had lost his shirt also, me wit com mented. Speaking of coats, someone else lost theirs. During sev eral of the more exuberant moments of the game, even coats were observed flying through the air in the stu dent section. , One national newscacster was giving scores that evening. He came to the words, "Ne b r a s k a-25, Oklahoma-21." There was a pause, then a querious voice asked," "A r e you sure that's right?" Stoned-faced Sooners had trouble fighting their way to the locker rooms after the game. They had to contend with the goal post-minded crowd surging on the field. The roar from the packed. stadium was so great even the Husker bind was drowned out. Referees probably have the most changeable personali ties in the world, at least ac cording to Husker fans. First they were soundly booed for not calling intentional ground ing of the ball against Okla homa, tien a few . minutes later received an ovation as they paced off a long penalty when the Sooners tried to run a "fair catch" ball. Seniors of this year can A WS Joins In AWS joined in celebration festivities Sunday and grant ed women students an extra hour. Closing hour for soror ities and women's residence halls was midnight rather than the usual 11 p.m. has Nebraska beaten the Sooners. But Saturday the day of reckoning was at hand. The Huskers not only accom plished the unbelievable, they won their first conference game in three .starts. A madhouse of husky red shirts were shaking the raft ers loose in Schulte Memorial Fieldhouse with the biggest celebration in many a decade of Cornhusker grid history. Into The Showers "Let's s h d w e r the coaches," the cry went up. ' And in they went Don Strasheim, Don Sctrborough, Bill Jennings, LeRoy Pearce, Jack Braley. "Where's Schneider? Get LINCOLN, SAM, which consisted of animated locomotive that overturned a covered wagon while a Soon er was tossed into the air, was chosen as the overall best in the men's division. First place in the men's small house division was Sig ma Alpha Mu's "It's a Sure iei. A unanimous decision by the judges called for a trophy of originality to be awarded to Phi Kappa Psi who took the idea similar to the scrap campaign of the war years and said "dump em" and de picted a junk yard. Other women's division winners were Kappa Kappa Gamma's "Peanuts to Okla- reminisce in the future that they were in school when Nebraska was known for its big upsets. Two years ago we upset two great Kansas basketball teams. Then last year the football team became "Champion of Pennsylvania," dumping Pittsburg and Penn State. Some teams make a repu taion, building winning streaks. Others make theirs breaking same. In, 3 SOONERS ROCKET) Kappa SIgma's prophetic "Old Loc Rocks the Sooners" won top honors among male houses in Homecoming display competition. The K Sig display showed an NU train bearing PINK ELEPHANT Delta topped sorority Homecoming aispiays. ine in Lieirs pro claimed in their sign that "Victory is No Fantasy" and turned fence fend gate posts into candy canes to go along with the fantasy theme, Sullivan," the players shout ed as they headed for the Husker trainers. But nobody had any com plaints about the wet clothes. All of the coaches would have probably jumped in on their own. Fricke Modest A modest Don Fricke was accepting congratula tions from well-wishers in the training room. "It was a good game, I guess," the Husker fullback smiled. He still had that "Did we really do it?" look on his face. Assistant Coach Don Stras heim, dripping wet, grinned and yelled, "I think it was the greatest thing that has NEBRASKA Tri Belts, homa," second and Pi Beta Phi's, "Dinner Will be Sooner Tonight," third. Beta Sigma Psi won second in . t h e men's small house division with "Husker Type Yogi." In the men's large house division Beta Theta Pi won second with "Boil 'Em In Their Own Oil," and Theta Xi was third with "Sooners Fall Prey to Huskers." Judges considered original ity, attractiveness, construc tion and general identification with opponents on an equal basis in making their deci sion, according to Innocents, sponsors of the events. Float Honors Farm House, Fedde Hall and Varsity Dairy Club took home the first place trophies from the float entries in the parade Saturday morning. FarmHouse had the theme, "Put the Sooners Into Or bit," and second went to Sea ton I with "Happy Hunting Ground." In the women's division, Fedde Hall's "Recipe for Oakie Stew" was the winner while Terrace hall took sec ond with "Make Those Soon ers Crawl." Varsity Dairy Club's theme was "It's In the Bag" and Red Cross received second with "You-Beat 'Urn, We'll Fix 'Um." After the announcement of the winners by Dave Godbey president of Innocents and down on an Delta Delta's pink elephant ever happened since I've hpen machine.' "I kinda thought we'd play well, today," a snower soaked, unusually calm Bill Jennings said as he sat in the fieldhouse with the mem bers of the press. , The Husker coach had just seen his team defeat his al ma mater. He had also ac complished the dream that many a coach has had for more than 13 years. Intense "This means a lot to the squad and a lot to the coaches," he smiled. "It was so intense," Jen nings said, "and then all of a sudden it was over. "It was just a bunch of Monday, November 2, 1959 Lexy Lou Bell, chairman of the Student Union dance com mittee, Fred Bliss, vice pres ident of Corn Cobs, presented the queen while Eddy Had dad provided the background music of "Dear Old Nebras ka U." Cheers arose from dancers as Harry Tolly, quarterback of the "most talked about" football team escorted Home coming Queen Skip Harris to the stage. Skip and her two attend ants, Kay Hirschbach and Judie Williams, were pre sented bracelets by their es corts Tolly, Brent Chambers, Yell King, and Don Binder, president of Corn Cobs. The royal party then .was hon ored by a special number while students and alums viewed the dancing royalty. The Hi'Lo's came on stage next to present what they called a "second fiddle show" after what the football play ers had done during the aft ernoon. Tired feet welcomed the hour show of favorite popu lar, jazz, barbershop and sen timental numbers. Imperson ations by the four brought cheers from the crowd. Later the four compliment ed the tremendous spirit shown by the group and es pecially the pep organiza tions Tassels and Corn Cobs for what they determined was a "real spirited" home coming. Oklahoma prairie schooner. When the locomotive hit the covered wag on, an "Okie" flew up and away as the covered wagon tipped on its side. Goalposts Are Spoils Of Victory To the victor goes the spoils and to the NU fans went the Cornhusker goalposts. Laid in cement, the posts were as matchsticks to the crowd.' Waving wildly with one student anchored pre cariously to the crossbar, the north end post was the first to fall. Scuffles marked the carry ing of the posts home as fans jealously guarded their hard fought prize. Portions were finally found in the Alpha Tau Omega, Sig ma Phi Epsilon, Phi Gamma Delta and Phi Delta Theta h o u s e s and the governor's mansion. The poles stood firm last year after NU's victory over Pittsburg. guys who wanted to win," he pointed out. "Those two great kicks by Meade (a pair of field goals) and Tolly's kick into the wind (a fourth quarter punt that stopped on the four-yard line," he cited as major plays in the game. Big Decision "Harry (Tolly) played just like he always does, as hard and as well as 'he can. But the whole team did that," he added. "It was a big decision to go for the field goal in the fourth quarter and make them win by two touch downs," the Norman, Okla. native pointed out. Governor Gets Goalpost pill o ' (j GOVERNOR'S GIFT The Huskers pre sented the students a win ever Oklahoma Saturday and these happy students then presented a goalpost to Gov. Ralph Brooks. The Governor promptly got in the mood and presented Admiralships in the Nebraska Navy to the football team and pencils to his visitors. With the governor are students (from left) Jim Hayward, Promise Made Two Years Ago Fulfilled by Chancellor A promise made two years ago was fulfilled Saturday when Chancellor Clifford Kardin called off Monday classes in celebration of the Husker's 25-21 upset over Oklahoma. It was during basketball season two springs back when Jerry Bush's boys whipped What They're Writing Amazed Sportswriters Write Frenzied Leads The gallant Husker victory over Oklahoma Saturday sent the nation's sportswriters into a frenzy. The Sunday Journal and Star quoted some of the following leads: Daily Oklahoman Lincoln, Neb.' The mil lenium in Oklahoma's fabled football fortunes was record- Bud Still Looked Like A Winner You couldn't tell by looking at Charles "Bud" Wilkinson that he was a losing coach Saturday. He was smiling and shak ing hands. One Nebraska student man ager was getting autographs on his arms. As Wilkinson signed his name to the grow ing list he grinned and said. "Tell your boys we're real proud of them." "We made a lot of bad plays," he remarked, "and you don't win ball games that way." ' Contrasted to the youthful looking mentor's expression were the stone-faced Sooner players. As they sat on the bus wait ing to ride back to the airport, not a word was said. They knew they were the first team to lose s Conference game since Wilkinson has been coaching at Norman. ' The only comment to come from the silent Sooners was an answer to the question, "Are you going to start an other win string next week?" "You're damn right," was the reply. Carroll (Papa) Zaruba stood grinning by the training room.. "Everybody's happy," he said. "Every man pjayed his heart out." Center Jim Moore, co-captain for the game along with LeRoy 2entic, jubilantly an nounced, "This is the biggest thrill of my life." Pat Fischer, who electrified the stands with his fourth quarter punt return that set up the Huskers' final touch down, was nursing a bruised leg. "How does it feel Pat?" he was asked. "Just a little sore," he responded. Kansas in one of those tight, tight hoop battles of 1958. After the game, students surged toward the Chancel lor's house to demand a day off to celebrate the victory. They were told then that the Chancellor was at bis of fice. He came out to confer with a delegation. Classes ed here this black afternoon when Nebraska, nothing more than a conference whipping boy up to this historic point, etched a miraculous 25-21 tri umph, the proud Sooners' first Big 8 loss since 1946 and the first ever under Bud Wilkinson, circa 1947-59. Defeating OU for the first time in 17 seasons, the Corn huskers in reality won going away with a roaring 10 point burst in the final quarter as two ancient rivals threw de fense to the wind in a ham-mer-and-tong orgy which both dumbfounded and de lighted a tea r-capacity homecoming crowd of 34, 000. Ron Meade, 18-year-old re serve quarterback, and Pat Fischer, junior halfback, were the giant killing Husk ers' co-heroes in this almost unbelievable outcome which found NU a two-to-three touchdown underdog. Associated Press Lincoln, Neb. The walls came tumbling down on Ok lahoma and Yale Saturday and Southern California just managed to climb out of the rubble unscathed. Oklahoma, which hadn't been beaten in the Big 8 in 74 games dating back 13 years, was shipped bv Nebraska, 23 21. Thus college football's longest conference victory streak in history was shat tered. United Press International Lincoln, Neb. Nebraska's fired up Cornhuskers snapped Oklahoma's 74-game unbeat en string in Big 8 play Sat urday with a come-from-be-hind 25-21 victory. The Huf kers chose to come up with their peak perform ance of the year before a wild homecoming crowd of 34j000. "How does it feel to win? came a rephrased question. "Great," he smiled. "I don't think there's a better feeling." ' Old Time Spirit Among the scores of con gratulators in the Husker training room was Link Ly man, a former line coach on Nebraska's Rose Bowl team, now living in Los Angeles. "You can tell your readers that 40,000 fans saw Nebras ka return to its old time spir it," Lyman quipped to the members of the press.' He was a little off on the attendance figure, but there was plenty of seconds to his statement. John Hildebrandt, Lowell Sauter, Bill Eastwood and Jim Laska. In front are Ne braska rooters Sharon Lou Hall and Patty Hill. The other goalpost was taken to the Administration Building to remind Chan cellor Hardin of his promised holiday and then disappeared towards the Alpha Tau Omega house. were dismissed on the condi tion that students would not ask for another victory holi day until we beat Oklahoma at football. Today is the fulfillment of that promise. By half-time the Chancel lor, sensing that this was to be the day, had alerted police that a victory celebration would probably be storming the town. A student delegation wait ing for the Chancellor after the game composed of Jack Nielson, president of Student Council, Dave Godbey, presi dent of Innocents, Gretehen Saeger, treasurer of Mortar Board and Diana Maxwell, editor of the Daily Nebras kan, was too late. Hardin had already made good his promise. Rally Cry On Sunday Attracts 200 Rally, rally This was the cry from the campus Sunday afternoon when more than 200 students leaped into their cars and headed for the home of Bill Jennings, victorious coach of Saturday's "spectacular." - Horns blasting and convert ible tops down, the crowd de scended on Jenning's home and called for the coach to come out. , ' He came forth in his usual quiet manner and thanked the students for their "wonderful support" during the game and especially when the team was in bad situations. He also said in an outstanding victory such as this, the coach is often", given too much of the credit for the win. 1 He contended the credit should go to the team rather than to him. Coach Jennings expressed the hope that the spirit and support shown at Saturday's game would con tinue throughout the season. The enthused rallyists- then ' sped to the governor's man sion to pay their respects to Governor Ralph Erooks. The cheer, "Go Big Ralph," set . the stage for several com ments from the governor. He said he was delighted ' with the goal post trophies but that it would require sev- -eral welders to repair them , in lime for the next Nebraska foe, Iowa State. - !