ffriday, november 13, 1981
daily nebraskan
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Three of nation's top running backs gi000,?000
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fight for yards, not honors Saturday
By Ward Triplett and Cindy Gardner
Three of the nation's outstanding running backs will be
on the Memorial Stadium Astroturf Saturday. One is a
senior, one is a junior and one is a sophomore. They rank,
respective to age first, second and fourth in Big Eight
rushing statistics. Each has had at least two 100-yard
games this year.
Having three backs the caliber of Dwayne Crutchfield
of Iowa State and Roger Craig and Mike Rozier of Nebras
ka in one stadium would make an entertaining package in
itself, even if the two teams involved were not fighting to
keep bowl berths alive. But there will be at least three
men Saturday who won't be observing the I-back battle as
an added attraction to the game. "I really don't know
anything about Dwayne Crutchfield," Rozier said. "I
won't be too concerned with what he does. That's for the
defense to worry about."
"That can kind of screw up your concentration if you
worry too much about outdoing their running back,"
Craig said.
"Then you never know about things like that. Their de
fense may not allow us to do anything, and our defense
may not allow Dwayne to do anything. I just plan to go
out and give my 100 percent, and let that (I-back battle)
take care of itself," Craig said.
"There's a lot of similarity between the two offenses.
But when you start breaking it down personnel-wise,
there's a lot of differences," Crutchfield said.
Ankle injury
Crutchfield suffered an ankle injury in the Cyclones'
game against San Diego State which has caused him to car
ry the ball less and may be the cause of Iowa State's back-to-back
losses against Kansas and Kansas State, ISU Coach
Donnie Duncan said.
"I'd say Dwayne was about 70 percent for the Kansas
game," Duncan said. The low yardage and few carries
were due mostly to this, because Crutchfield has done well
against tough defenses before, Duncan said. -
"I'm healthy .. . . I'm ready to go this week," Crutch
field said. The ankle will be at about 90 percent this Sat
urday, he added. "It was a big disappointment to me,"
Crutchfield said of the injury. "It would be in any season.
Any time we're in a loss situation, it's also a disappoint
ment." After Iowa State's 5-1-1 start and subsequent downfall
the last two weeks Crutchfield is thankful the Cyclones
can still redeem, themselves. "ICs nice to have a little life
left at this point of the season. But I think it's going to
come down to Nebraska and Oklahoma again. I think
Oklahoma will win the Big Eight," Crutchfield said.
Any other team
"We haven't been preparing extra for Nebraska at all,"
Crutchfield said. "I don't mean to cut them down, but
they're just like any other football team."
While Crutchfield will give the Nebraska defense some
thing to think about, Craig said the tandem he and Rozier
have should, create twice as much trouble for Iowa State.
"He (Rozier) can run outside hard, and inside hard too.
Same here. When there are two of us like that, it's harder
for the other team to key on either one of us," Craig said.
"Nebraska hasn't had the one running back system for
a long time. You look at teams like Southern Cal, and
Iowa State, and you see one guy doing all the running.
Crutch is all banged up right now (because of it)," he said.
Duncan said Crutchfield may be bigger than either of
Nebraska's hacks, but both Huskers are as strong, and ex
tremely fast.
"I don't know yet what we'll have to do to stop them,
but it will obviously have to be something very good,"
Duncan said.
ISU lineman. . .
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"Anytime you beat or tie three of the top-ranked
schools in Nebraska, Oklahoma and Missouri, that team
should go to a bowl game," he said. "I would obviously
like to go to the Orange Bowl, but if that's impossible I
would pick the Tangerine Bowl because I love the city of
Orlando, Fla., so much."
Because Boskey said he takes one game at a time, and
doesn't look to the future, he said he hasn't thought
much about playing in the NFL.
"It would be a great honor if I was drafted and I would
jump on the occasion," he said.
What kind of an outcome does Boskey expect in Satur
day's game?
"I think the game will probably end 62-0 Iowa State,
no make that 72-0." Seriously, I think the game will be a
lot like the Nebraska-Missouri game, only that we have a
better offense than Missouri," he said. "I bet the score
will be about 10-6, Iowa State, of course."
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