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Pago 6 Daily Nebraskan Monday, September 24, 1034 1 n i) 1j X The Husker romp over UCLA brought anguish to the Bruins, typified above by scpbor.icre Derek Tennell after missing an easy catch, and brought added glory to the Nebraska defense. Eelow, Scott Etrasburger was one or the ends who kept UCIA quarterback David Ncrria busy. iilmsiiiers mm mmm hy'myMMg' Margin A1' v V iff X, V.. r : U v xfe t ... . v v .. , .'V "ft" 'X ( L , 1 ; J 2 singles player Jill Pis&rdk lines op a shot against a Kansas State opponent dining raska's dual Friday. The Hnskers won both of their season-opening matches this weekend No. Ne2 and be the host of Dra&a Friday at the East Campus courts. By Kcrizi Dsyiey The Big Red Machine rolled right into the Rose Bowl and right over UCLA as Nebraska thorough ' ly roughed up the Bruins in a 42-3 victory before 71,355, including 14,000 Nebraska fans. Whether it was tailback Jeff Smith in the first half or Doug DuBose in the second half, UCLA had a tough time answering the husker offenisve attack, which just seems to wear down the opponent. "I WHS a little surprised by the outcome today," said Nebra ska coach Tom Osborne, whose team romped for 468 total yards while holding UCLA to 206. "I thought it would be a close game. I thought we would win by about seven points." points." Smith led the Huskers to a 2 1 -0 lead at the half, rushing for 123 yards on 20 carries. Smith left the game in the second quarter with a slightly sprained ankle after he returned a-punt 46 yards. How ever, the injury is not expected to keep Smith., who has gained 478 yards in three games, out of next week's game at Syracuse. . Without their ace back in the second half, the Huskers kept rol ling. DuBose did his Smith imper sonation with a 64-yard scoring run in the fourth quarter to in crease the lead to 35-3. DuBose finished the afternoon with 104 yards on just eight carries, while the No. 3 running back, Paul Miles, added 43 yards on eight attempts and one touchdown. "Tfccre'o no slack off when they bring in guys from the bench," said UCLA linebacker Neal Dello cono: "When you see guys going down, that's their type of game. They hit you hard, and they're clean shots." All told, UCLA had nine players leave the game with an assorted number of wounds. But excuses aside, it would have been ex tremely tough to top the expe rienced Husker squad that has a starting lineup averaging 22 years of age. Without the services of quar trhnrk Steve Bono, who sprained an ankle the week before, UCLA went with Matt Stevens (13 of 28, 119 yards and one interception), a sophomore who had taken only a few snaps in his career. The Nebraska defense did little to accommodate Stevens, throwing him to the turf with seven sacks in his three-quarter stint. Leadng the way was defensive end Scott Strasburger, who had two sacks, made seven tackles, forced a fum ble and recovered another. Nebraska quarterback Craig SundberfJ had an easy time picking apart the UCIA defense with an assortment of rollout passes, connecting on 10 of 17 for 104 yards. Sundberg also had a four-yard TD run and a -two-point conversion throw. Wingback Shane Swanson played a fine game catching three passes for 33 yards and scoring one 19 yard touchdown run in the third quarter to give the Huskers a 29-3 lead. UCLA's only score came on the first possession of the second half, as John Lee booted a 34 yard field oaL It was Lee's 10th straight this year. Nebraska's defense finished with eight sacks, the most since the 1 930 total again st Penn State. One of those sacks may have been the game's b!5cst play. Willi Nebraska leading 6 0 in the first quarter, UCLA's Kevin Alexander crashed through the line and blocked a Scott Liv ingston punt. The Bruins were in business at the Nebraska six-yard line. But second-team defensive tackle Jim Ekow hit Stevens be hind the line on the next play, forcing a fumble that Strasburger recovered at the eight. From then on, it was all Nebraska. "We were beaten quite badly by a superior football team," UCLA coach Terry Donahue said. "We had a couple of opportunities early to make it interesting, but we couldn't caoitaliie." The defeat was UCLA's worst since Washington drubbed the Bruins 61-20 in 1970. The game was Nebraska's first in Pasadena since the 1941 Rose Bowl when Stanford took a 2 1 -1 3 victory. The Huskers had never before won a game in California.