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Friday, October 20, 1967 The Daily Nebraskan Page 5 I i !1 yum iiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiii intiiiiiiiMiiiiiiutmitit iiittiuiiiiutii iifit!fiiHiiiiiiniffiiiiiitiiiiiiitttiiiirifititiitirutiiiiitiftiiriiiiiiiiiiitijiiiiiiinijiu F A. C. I Colorado Number Four . . . By ED ICENOGLE Since the sun is now setting on an other Friday afternoon and since you are still just plain sitting on another Friday afternoon, it is time for the weekly (and or weakly) FAC. One good thing about any FAC is the chance to forget last week's football gams or, in the case of this Saturday, the chance to forget this week's game. MISSPELLED STICKERS Although this is not to say that Nebras ka cannot defeat Colorado, the first inkling of what is to come may have shown up when the spirit stickers came out mis spelled (Buffaloes was spelled with out an"e"). But a few losses on a season record should bother no one. Not too many years ago, a few wins was the cause for consid erable enthusiasm. Speaking of enthusiasm, the highlight of this week may be the great display of enthusiasm at rallies on the dear old NU campi. For instance, the student body poured forth en masse the other night for a street rally. BLOCKED TRAFFIC Oh, you had not heard about that? Well, there must have been at least 150 people (amonst one whole per cent of the student populaton) effectively blocking traffic on some of the streets. Supposedly the rally stirred up super enthusiasm among the footballers, none of whom were there or ever heard of the rally. But Friday's "Yell Like Hell" rally promises to be a little better. If not, rumor has it, the Student Sen ate may establish an Ad Hoc Committee on the Ad Hoc Committee to study the report of the Standing Committee's inves tigation of the football rallies. This will lend official ASUN sanction to the rallies and make rallies a Univer sity organization. Since organizations naturally have officers, the rallies will be opened to lead ership from various gunners, who will make more loud noise than all the rest of the ralliers previously combined. SPECIAL COMMITTEE If this fails to stir enthusiasm, a spe cial Chancellor's committee may be in the offing. This would be made up of two average students, two average football players and two interpreters so that the other four can communicate. And speaking of communication, our Daily Nebraskan East Coast Mystery Cor respondent relates that due to labor ne gotiations news blackout, information on Slippery Rock, Muhlenberg and other Eastern grid powers will be sparse and sketchy. In fact, sparse and sketchy is an apt description of most of the teams, he re lates. PLUMMETED PERCENTAGE Slippery Rock, for instance, which has plummeted the ECMC's prediction per centage well below 100 per cent, appears to be King Midas in reverse. Sort of the NU of the East. That is actually an exaggeration, be cause looking over the remaining Corn husker schedule, Nebraska will undoubt edly snarf up some wins? namely Okla homa State, Iowa State and Texas Chris tian University. They also have an excellent shot at Oklahoma and Missouri, although these two games will be especially rough. Incidentally, there were no takes on the question required for membership in Social Dropout Society (SDS), an FAC exclusive organization. (The question dealt with the secret powers of comic book character Flash Junior.) Since this lack of response reflects the FAC philosophy of none involvement, the readers and writer of FAC have proved their worth by dropping out of dropping out. Can Nebraska Come Back? By MARK GORDON Sports Editor Can Nebraska, after los ing to a Kansas squad that hadn't won a game before upsetting the Huskers 10-0, come back to defeat the na tion's fourth rated football team? That's the question Hus ker fans have been asking all week since the stunning loss to the Jayhawks last Saturday at Lawrence and it's the same question that will be answered beginning at 2 p.m. Saturday at Me morial Stadium when Ne braska meets the Colorado Buffalos. Colorado's strong solid squad is undefeated in four matches this year. They 1t WILLIAM HARRIS . . . Tailback bombed Baylor 27-7. squeak ed by Oregon 17-13 and downed conference foes Iowa State 34-0 and Missou ri 23-9. PRE-GAME FAVORITE Colorado is obviously a pre-game favorite to defeat Nebraska and knock the Huskers from Big Eight ti tle contention. The winning fair-weather fans have been saying all week that Nebraska has a poor team that lacks spirit and will lose handily to Col orado. It seems that last week's , loss has brought out the worst in the Nebraska fol lowers. Notice I said fol lowers, not fans, because true fans will support De vaney's boys whether they are fighting for a national rating or the conference's first division. One person even suggest ed to me this week that since Nebraska lost last week to a supposedly weak er crew and showed little enthusiasm, all the players should lose their scholar ships. CONFIDENCE In lieu of the season's most crucial contest. Ne braska fans and followers should try to give their team confidence rather than degrading them simp ly because of an upset loss. While I have never felt that Nebraska fans showed an overt loyalty to their team, I didn't expect such abusive comments simply because they will be unable to show a 10-0 record in 1967. Nebraska isn't quite as helpless as the Colorado bandwagon might think. Defensively Colorado and Nebraska are about even, although the Huskers led the Big Eight in total de fense with Colorado third. Offensively, the edge ob viously goes to the Buffa los as they are averating 53 yards per game more than the'fumble-happy Hus kcrs STRONG OFFENSE Colorado is strong offen sively with a 25.3 scoring average, and sophomore quarterback Bob Anderson is leading the league or is near the league leaders in four different categories. . Nebraska has sputtered along in winning three of their four games by scor ing only five touchdowns in four matches. v National predicters favor Colorado from two to ten points to overthrow Nebras ka, but the national experts (?) are overlooking one thing: Nebraska has the home field and the home spirit that will upset Colo rado Saturday. The Huskers will be out to show an anticipated 65. 000 fans that, despite its loss to Kansas, they still deserve to be among the top teams in the nation. Granted, Nebraska may not be as strong as South ern California's number one rated Trojans, but they also aren't the quitters, the lackadaisical and weak Nebraskans that the disbe lievers on campus have made them out to be. And to prove it. they will defeat the Nation's number four Colorado Buffalos and move back into the Top Ten rated clubs in the land. INTRA-LEAGUE GAMES After losing two upset contests last week to give us a 76 per centage, let's try the first week of entire ly intra-league games. Missouri over Iowa State Although the Tigers lost their top ten rating after a 23-9 loss to Colorado, Mis souri will reappear in title contention by blasting the Cyclones. Quarterback Gary Kombrink, who scored on a 75 yard run against the Buf falos should get back on the competition trial at Ames. Oklahoma over Kansas State The Wildcats can be come wildcats as Nebraska discovered two weeks ago, but they can also be kit tens like last week when Iowa State slammed the door on them 17-0. Okla homa is first in defensive scoring and second in of fensive scoring, with Colo rado switching places with them in both categories while K-State is near the bottom of the pack. The Sooners. with Eddie Hinton, Ron Shotts and Bob War mack in the backfield. are definite title contenders that should open their confer . ence slate impressively over a determined but un dogged Kansas State squad. Oklahoma State over Kansas As Nebraska knows only too well, Kansas is capable of upsetting any team on a given Saturday, but they aren't as strong a team as they appeared in Lawrence last week. The Nebraska win was their first victory after losing to three weak non-conference foes and they meet a Cow boy crew that holds an up set victory over an Arkan sas team that was among the nation's best when they faced them at Little Rock. Despite all the talk about Saturday's Colorado clash, don't overlook Nebraska's Texas Christian University meeting in Ft. Worth next Saturday. 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