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Huskers go Bear hunting,
IM. Hipp skins em alive
I-Back I.M. (Isaiah) Hipp had his finest end Frank Locke tt, inside the Husker 20
day as a Husker Saturday as he helped ,yard.line.' The Bears scored their only
UNL to a 31-10 win over the Baylor Uni- touchdown on the first mistake to make it
versity Bears before 76,231 fans at Memor- a 23-10 game,
ial Stadium. Turnovers hurt
Hipp, a sophomore from Chapin, S.C., "Turnovers deep like that almost turned
rushed for 122 yards on 18 carries and one the game around," Osborne said. "They
. touchdown after he replaced Rick Berns missed the field goal (after the second fum
in the first quarter. - ble recovery), and if they would have
Berns, the Huskers leading rusher this gotten it in there, it would 'have been a
year with 305 yards, gained only 26 yards bal game all - the way. I think that series .
before being sidelined with a hip pointer. of downs was the biggest of the game."
. Hipp said he did not know Berns was The Huskers capitalized on a Bear turn
injured until later in the ball game. Hipp over in the first quarter when defensive end .,
said, of Berns' injury, "I put in my mind Randy Rick blocked a Bear punt by Luke
that I had to do what he (Berns) had to Prestridge. Husker defensive end, Larry
do, and I think I did it." , Young; recovered the ball in the end zone
Even though the Huskers gained 414 for a touchdown,
yards in total offense, Husker head coach "It's pretty satisfying," Rick said. "It is
.Tom Osborne said losing Berns hurt UNL. one of my biggest thrills here.
Two-week injury "I 'didn't get blocked very well," he.
"We may not have him for next week," added. "I would like to think it was my
Osborne said. "His hip pointer might be quickness? but I didn't get blocked. I
a two or three week injury. We'll just have would like to thank Ricky Rand (the Bears
to wait and see." defensive end) the guy I was playing
Osborne said the Husker defense played j against."
: more consistently against the Bears than it Great play
did the week before against the University Young said Rick made a great play on
of Alabama. v the blocked punt.
"Things were kind of tense there for "Randy got the ball at its highest point
a while ," Osborne said. "Our defense which made it go over the kickers head "
played a lot better today, but I don't think Young said. "I haven't seen a lose ball like
we were playing a lot better today, but I that in along time; It's really nice to score,
don't think we were playing quite the team I haven't done that since, high school."
Alabama was." The Huskers scored on a 22-yard field
The tense situation occurred in the third goal and two extra points by Billy Todd,
quarter when the Bears recovered two fum- a 22-yard run by Curtis Craig, and a one-
bles, one by Hipp and. the other by split . yard pass from Randy Garcia to Ken
Spaeth. A two-point conversion on a pass
