Big Red
by JIM JOHNSTON
Associate Sports Editor
Nebraska played it by the
book Saturday in rushing over
Missouri 21-7. It was a book
written by Cornhusker coach
Bob Devaney.
And the opening chapter had
several surprising scenes.
Nebraska, the Big Eight's top
passing outfit, used I-back Jeff
Kinney's running abilities in
the opening series instead of
testing Missouri's league-trailing
pass defense.
Kinney ran up the middle and
over right tackle for the first
seven Nebraska plays in
recording three first downs.
Jerry List's 21-yard end around
scant set up Nebrska's first
score.
Why didn't the Huskers test
the Missouri secondary in the
opening series? Devaney had
the answer.
"We have confidence in our
passing jame," explained
Devaney, "but we wanted to
establish our running game and
we were going against the wind
during the first quarter."
Missouri won the flip of the
coin and elected to defend the
south goal, forcing the Huskers
Co-op's Kroemer tabbed
player of the week
"It's a great honor to be
named the Intramural Player
of the Week," commented
Eldon Kroemer.
Kroemer is manager of the
Cornhusker Co-op and the
quarterback of the flag-football
team. Last week, Kroemer
guided his squad to a 68-0 romp
over Acacia. In the game,
Kroemer assisted in 1(
touchdown passes and made six
extra points.
"I faked it to the halfback, he
went down and out and I threw
it to him," Kroemer said as he
described one of his touchdown
passes. Pat Stephen, Dale
Dvorak and Jim Mallatt were
the receivers of three of
Kroemer's T.D. passes.
Another teammate, Roger
Swatzke, threw a 50 yard"
touchdown pass. "Swatzke
played a real good offensive
game," Kroemer said.
According to Kroemer, the
Acacia team wasn't much of a
match. "We varied our passing
and running plays and our
defense was real tough."
passes
to go against an 11-mile per
hour wind which reduced the
chances of a long bomb.
And the Huskers didn't go to
their passing game until
quarterback Jerry Tagge fired
a 12-yard scoring strike to
Kinney with 1:32 left in the
opening period.
Nebraska nsed its running
game to rush for 67 yards in its
first nine plays from scrim
mage. The Huskers, going with
Tagge at quarterback, passed
only three times in the first
quarter. !,
But when the second quarter
rolled around Nebraska was
enjoying a 7-0 lead and the
game-book author, Bob
Devaney, changed his style of
writing.
And the switch spelled im
mediate misfortunes. Nebraska
was faced with a first and ten
situation on its own ten-yard
line when Tagge's pass was
intercepted by Lorenzo
Brinkley on the first play of the
quarter.
Brinkley returned the in
terception to the one-yard line
before quarterback Mike
Farmer leaped over for the
score.
Prior to playing Acacia,
Kroemer's team had been
defeated by the Ag Men 28-10.
"If we had played Ag Men like
we played Acacia, we would
have beaten them," Kroemer
said
Kroemer is a junior in
agriculture at Nebraska from
Pawnee City. .
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So why did Nebraska start
passing in the second quarter
after establishing a potent
rushing attack in the opening
period? Devaney provided the
answer once again.
"We had the wind in the se
cond quarter so we tried our
passing," Devaney said. "But
we just couldn't protect our
passer."
Tagge, the Big Eight's
leading passer, completed only
four of 13 passes in the first
half for a mere 22 yards. So
Van Brownson got the call in
the second half.
"It just added up to the point
where after the first drive we
had trouble generating our of
fense," said Devaney. "I felt
that Brownson deserved an
opportunity to run the team."
But Brownson, trying
desperately to get the Huskers
offense moving again, didn't
have much luck La the third
quarter which finished
scoreless.
"We saw why we were hav
ing problems with our (pass)
protection," offered Devaney,
"and we felt we has to go back
to our running game."
And it was the running game
which eventually won it for the
Huskers as Joe Orduna's 41
yard run from scrimmage
setup the tiq-breaking score by
Brownson.
Nebraska rushed for 217
yards and passed for only 71.
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Key fumbles plague
M
issouri offense
by ROGER FIRE
Associate Sports Editor
The Missouri Tigers came to
Nebraska Saturday to play a
good game of football. Instead,
the Tigers played a good game
of fumbling football.
The usually error-free Tigers
fumbled three times in the
third quarter. The fumbles
were costly to Missouri as the
last fumble enabled Nebraska
to pull ahead and finally beat
the Tigers 21-7,
The key fumble was made
late in the third quarter by
Tiger safety Mike Fink. Deep
in their own territory,
Nebraska punted to Missouri.
Fink, back to receive the punt,
was 'unable to hold onto the ball
which was recovered by
Husker halfback Jeff Kinney.
The Huskers scored six plays
later.
Tiger coach Dan Devine
made no excuses for Missouri's
loss to Nebraska. "We were
beaten by a good football team
today," Devine said. "Our guys
played as good as they could,
but it wasn't good enough to
win. You can't fumble as much
as we did and still expect to
play good football."
Missouri halfback Joe Moore,
the Big Eight's leading rusher
with 604 yards going into
Satuday's game, had some
faVorable comments for the
Nebraska team. The 61" 198
lb. Moore said, "Nebraska
played with a lot of en-
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Moore left the field with an in
jury to his left shoulder. The
injury turned out to be a com
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shoulder is hurt pretty bad,"
Moore said. "I'm not sure yet
whether or not I will be able to
play anymore this year."
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1970
THE NEBRASKAN
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