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Sooners didn't need magic to upset No. 1 Nebraska, Switzer says defense was the key to 17-7 win By Tim Hartmann Senior Reporter Oklahoma’s 17-7 win against Nebraska Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium followed a differ ent script than the Sooners’ last four wins against the Comhuskers, Okla homa coach Barry Switzer said. “Talk about Sooner magic, we didn’t need it,” Switzer said, referring to fourth-quarter comebacks that Oklahoma has made famous against the Huskers. Last season, the Sooners scored 13 points in the fourth quarter to beat Nebraska 20-17. In Saturday’s game, the Sooners took control in the third quarter when they scored 14 points. “The second half was ours,” Switzer said. Three Sooners — quarterback Charles Thompson, fullback Rotnei Anderson and halfback Patrick Collins — rushed for more than 100 yards. As a team, the Sooners out rushed Nebraska 419-177. “This is a dominating win,” Switzer said. “I don’t think that there is any question that anybody who saw this game or watched it on television, (knew that) Oklahoma was the best football team.” Oklahoma began the game at its 20-yard line and drove down to the Nebraska 9. Thompson, who rushed for 126 yards and passed for 25 more, ran for 27 yards on the drive. Linebacker LcRoy Etienne, who led Nebraska with 15 tackles, ended the drive when he recovered an An derson fumble at the Nebraska 8-yard line. Oklahoma had eight fumbles in the game, three of which were recov ered by the Huskers. After two drives in which neither Nebraska nor Oklahomacould make a first down, the Huskers took over at their 16. Behind two 7-yard runs by I-back Keith Jones and a 16-yard run by quarterback Steve Taylor, the Husk ers moved the ball to the Oklahoma 41. Jones, who rushed for 94 yards, then carried for 16 yards to move the ball to the Oklahoma 25. On the next play, Jones gave the stadium-record crowd of 76,663 something to cheer about when he raced 25 yards to give the Huskers a 7 0 lead. Oklahoma was in Nebraska terri tory five times in the first half, but could not score. A 44-yard missed field goal by R.D. Lashar and three turnovers stopped the Sooners. In the first half, Oklahoma had 199 total yards, 91 more than Nebraska did, but did not score. Switzer said the Sooners’ inability to put points on the scoreboard was frustrating, but he was confide nt his team could come back. terback than Oklahoma’s Jamelle Holieway, who did not play because he injured his knee two weeks ago. “Steve Taylor said some things in the paper about Jamelle, who is one of my best friends,” Thompson said. “I got the chance to go out and show him up. I got the chance to say, 'Hey, Jamelle beat you last year and I beat you this year. Maybe you’re the third best quarterback in the Big Eight.’” With 4:29 left in the third quarter, Oklahoma got the ball back on its 20 yard line. The Sooners moved the ball 15 yards, and Collins took a pitch, went around left end, avoided four Nebraska defenders and ran 65 yards for a touchdown. He gave the Sooners a 14-7 lead. “I think it was just one of those plays where everything worked for us,” Collins said. “Everybody just went out and did their jobs. John Green just whipped his man outon the ‘This is a dominating win. I don't think that there is any question that anybody who saw this game or watched it on television, (knew that) Oklahoma was the best football team-’ -Switzer X And in the third quarter the Sooners did. Ricky Dixon intercepted a Taylor pass at the Nebraska 37 and returned it 24 yards. Two plays later, halfback Anthony Stafford took a pitch Irom Thompson and ran in from the 11 -yard line to tie the score. Thompson said he wanted to play a good game because of comments made by Taylor earlier in the season. Taylor had said he was a better quar block and then it’s my job to turn upficld.” A 27-yard Lashar field goal with 7:40 left in the fourth quarter ended the scoring — and Nebraska’s one week reign as the No. 1 -ranked team in the country. Switzer said the key to the Sooner win was the defense. Earlier in the See OU on 3 Regents pass engineering tuition surcharge By James M. Lillis Staff Reporter The University of Nebraska Board of Regents voted unanimously Friday to add a $9 per credit hour surcharge to engineering students’ tuition to buy new equipment for the college. The surcharge will be levied to buy $500,000 worth of equipment such as meters and gauges for undergraduate laboratories. About 2,500 students will have to pay the surcharge—a per student cost of about $270. The College of Engineering, on both Lincoln and Omaha campuses, was reviewed for accreditation this month. The new equipment will be bought to make up for deficiencies and to satisfy the reviewing commit tee. The surcharge will raise $350,000 \ to $360,(XX), and the rest of the money will come from university equipment funds and the NU Foundation. The surcharge was originally proposed as a 20 percent surcharge amounting to about $8.20 per credit hour. The re gents raised the surcharge to $9 per credit hour to keep non-resident stu dents’ tuition costs down. Engineering students from the two campuses told the board they didn't want the surcharge, but accepted it. Robert Furgason, UNL vice chan cellor for academic affairs, said the surcharge will be an inconvenience, but will be levied for only one year — beginning in fall 1988. All lab fees will be waived during the time of the surcharge. “We regret the idea,” Furgason said. University of Nebraska at Omaha engineering students requested that money collected from UNO students be used on the UNO campus. Furgason said students on both campuses will better benefit from the surcharge if the money goes into a single pool. In other business, the board heard a proposal that would allow the firing of tenured faculty members during con ditions of financial crisis. The proposal saidfiring could only be used in a “bona fide, imminent financial crisis of such magnitude, caused by financial circumstances beyond control of the Board of Re gents, that within a particular major administrative unit (campus) as a whole, normal operations cannot be maintained and programs of the (campus) must be significantly al tered.” Another change in the bylaws would permit only the regents to de clare a financial emergency based on the recommendation from the univer sity president. A public hearing on the proposal will be in January. During the meeting, the regents also advised NU President Ronald Roskens to set up a task force to carry out SRI International's report recom mendations on the state’s economy. Ted Lyman, SRI project director, presented a 3(X)-page report on the state’s economic future earlier this week. The report recommends that the university and other educational enti ties be leaders in changing the stale’s economy. Professor sees exciting Senate race By Bob N» Ison Staff Rcponci Bob Sittig, political science professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said he is ex pecting a “full fledged slam-bang race” for the U.S. Senate seat after former governor Bob Kerrey’s announcement that he will also run for the position. “Most Senate contests don’t develop along these lines,” Sittig said. “It will truly be an exciting campaign.” Sittig said incumbents win races 70 to 80 percent of the time. Because Sen. David Karnes was appointed to the Senate after the death of Edward Zorinsky, he can not be considered an incumbent, Sittig said. He said that without an incumbent, the race is “wide open.” Sittig said that Kerrey, who announced his candidacy at a democratic forum in Omaha on Friday, is the present front runner for the seat. He said Kerrey also has an advantage in the race because he has already won a state-wide cam paign when he was elected gover nor. Hal Daub, a Republican candi date, also has some advantage because he has won a race in one of Nebraska’s three districts, Sitlig said. Sittig said Daub is the front runner tor the Republican nomina tion. He said Karnes has had prob lems in generating support. “So far, Karnes has been unable to make a big splash in the elector ate,’’ Sittig said. Kerrey said in an interview Sunday he also believes the race should beexciting, but it is difficult to say which candidate has the See KERREY on 3