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November 23, 1987 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 87 No. 63
Oklahoma offensive tackle Jon Phillips holds up the Soon
ers’ keys to the “Husker House” at the end of Saturday's
game. No. 2 Oklahoma upset top-ranked Nebraska 17-7
Saturday.
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
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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
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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
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