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Mike Fmk dressed quickly and
wasn't available for a lengthiy
post- game discussion.
Quarterback Chuck Roper
laughed when he heard
Missouri iotaled only nine net
yards rushing and then he left
for a relative's wedding.
Defensive end John Brown was
one of the last Missouri players
to leve the dressing room and
he wasn't laughing.
The Missouri Tigers, off to
their worst start since
were a dejected group
folic. mg a 36-0 loss to No. 1
ra'd Nebraska here Saturdav.
"WE COULDN'T RUN
against Nebraska so we tried
beating them with finesse."
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said Roper who may have lost
his starling job to sophomore
Ed Jondrow. "But we don't
have any finesse so we couldn't
do a thing."
"Did we really only have
nine yards rushing?" laughed
Roper.
Fink, Missouri's outspoken
slot back who earlier in the"
week said Missouri could beat
Nebraska, only said "1 guess I
was wronc" aller the came.
BROWN, THE TIGERS'
all-American candidate at
defensive end. isn't the type to
make predications or laugh al a
36-0 loss. The 230-pound
senior quietly answered
questions about Nebraska's
offensive attack that
accumulated 603 yards total
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'Their nass protection is
incredible." said Brown.
"Nebraska has so much depth
on pass protection. 11 you
break loose from one guy you
hit another just as tough."
Broun spent most of his
time Saturday stopping
Nebraska's wide running game.
Brown pressured Nebraska
fullback Bill Olds and
prevented quarterback Jerry
Tagge from pitching to Olds
for lhe outside attack.
THIS GAVE Tagge his
running option. And the senior
from Green By. Wis.,
responded with 85 yards
rushing.
"We knew how Nebraska's
offense executed," said BrOwn.
"It was my job to slop the
pitch and I was satisfied with
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lhe iob 1 did. But we felt if we
stopped Nebraska's pitch it
might break up the momentum
in their backfield."
Brown, however, learned
different.
"Tagge is a much better
quarterback than he was his
sophomore y ear." said Brown,
who has given Tagge problems
the last two years. "Nothing
shakes him anymore. When we
stopped the outside game,
Tagge took advantage of his
running space."
TAGGE combined his S5
yards rushing with 234 yards
through the air to break his
own Nebraska single game total
offense record. His 319 yards
was IS yards more than his
169 record set against
Minnesota.
Tagge, who broke loose for
runs of 25, 35 and 16 yards,
was particularly happy to set
the record against Missouri.
"Missouri has really given
me problems the last two
years." said Tagge. "They didn't
do anything ditferent on
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defense this vear, and I didn't
think my keeping on the
option would work that good."
BUT TAGGE explained that
the Missouri pass defenders
went to single coverage and so
the Nebraska receivers went
deep leaving the defensive end
alone to watch Olds and Tagge.
"The pitch is designed to
put pressure on the defensive
end." explained Tagge. "When
he had to watch both of us it
gave me an open opportunity.
We've run this offense long
enough that things are more
automatic to me and it was
easier to find the open space
this time."
Nebraska went scoreless in
the first quarter for the first
time this season. The
Cornhuskers penetraled inside
the Missouri 20-yard-line twice
in the initial period, but
couldn't reach the endone.
"IT WAS discouraging not
to score early," said Tagge.
"but we never quit. We knew
we could come back strong and
score."
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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1971
