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I ______- - . ^iiMMiii ■ n 1 ' * ’ Michelle Paulman/DN Iowa State defenders celebrate after dropping Nebraska quarterback Tommie Frazier for a loss during the Cyclones’ 19-10 win over the Cornhuskers. U proves better than record By Tim Pearson Staff Reporter___ Iowa Stale football coach Jim Walden said all season that his team was better than its record indicated. Walden and the Cyclones proved it Saturday. The 4-6 Cyclones upset No. 7 Ne braska 19-10 at Cyclone Stadium in Ames. “This is not a bad football team. It was a marvelous effort by a kickcd around football team,’’ Walden said. “People look at me kind of strange when I say that this team has a chance tobeasixorscvcn-winfootball team.” Walden said the fact that the Cornhuskcrs were comingofftwobig wins against Colorado and Kansas may have helped his team. “We had a major upset today on a football team that’s had two tremen dously positive emotional up weeks,” j he said. “We knew, and I knew in my heart, that they were not going to come in here and play as emotionally inspired in the fashion of which they’ve had to play the last two weeks.” Even with the w in, Walden said he wouldn’t want to play the Huskers again this season. “I wouldn’t want to play them 10 limesand figure out who’s going to be the best team,” he said. The Cyclones scored on their first possession. Ty Stewart kicked a 37 yard field goal, one of four on the day, to put Iowa State ahead. Stewart hit three more field goals in the first half to give the Cyclones a 12-10 lead going into the loekerroom at halftime. The Cyclones kicked off to start the second half and Walden said that , was where he thought Nebraska would “come alter us with everything they had.” ”Wc did talk about the first six minutes (oflhc second half),” he said. “I sensed that it was coming, and we told our defense that if they could take what they were going to throw at them that they’ve got a chance.” The Iowa State defense rose to the challenge, forcing the Huskers to punt after three plays. The Cyclone defense held the Huskers 158 yards below their rush ing average of 351.1 yards per game. The Cyclones held the “we-back” combination of Derek Brown and Calvin Jones to 64 and 28 yards, re spectively. “We played well on defense. We had to,” Walden said. “(The second half) was the finest half of football against a quality opponent that we’ve played since I’ve been here.” The Iowa State wishbone offense accounted for 373 yards rushing. The Cyclones only attempted four passes all day, with three being shovel passes. “We knew we couldn’t pass on them,” Walden said. “(Cyclone quar terback) Marvin (Seiler) is not ex actly Dan Marino in terms of throw ing the ball.” Seiler, who led all rushers with 144 yards, put the nail in Nebraska’s cof fin with a 78-yard with 11:08 left in the game to set up Iowa State’s lone touchdown. “Overall, Marvin Seiler has to be a very big hero in my heart,” Walden said. “I thought he was sprinting down that field faster than any quarterback I’ve ever seen, until he got to the 4.” Seiler said he was waiting for some body to catch him during his 78-yard run. “I’ve never seen that much green field in my life,” he said.‘‘I’ll remem ber this for the rest of my life.” Walden said the victory ranked up at the lop compared with other wins in his career. “I just wish it was for a bowl bid, or _I wish it would have been more sig nificant for the seniors on this team,” he said. Nebraska l-back Derek Brown is brought down by Iowa °N State’s Dan Milner. - 44 We were just going through the motions, you noticed that before kickoff. We were in the lockerroom and no one was really saying much. —Frazier NU quarterback -9f w w 't set leaves Huskers spinning Iowa State stuns NU, clouds race for Big Eight title By Nick Hytrek Senior Reporter AMES, Iowa— An hour had passed since the Iasi seconds had ticked off the clock. The goal posts were gone and a few people were milling around on the playing field. And on both scoreboards at Cy clone Stadium, evidence of the im probable — and in many people’s pregame opinion, impossible — up set still beamed the news for ail to see: Iowa Slate 19, Nebraska 10 — the first Cyclone win over Nebraska since 1977. “When you’re not prepared, any thing can happen,” Nebraska safety Tyrone Byrd said. “Offensively and defensively we weren’t prepared to day.” “You always worry, no matter how good your kids arc, how much they want to try,” Comhusker coach Tom Osborne said. “They may be a little emotionally drained at some point and then also I just don’t think the seriousness of the situation ever quite sank into them until it was too late.” In beating the No. 7 Huskers, the Cyclones, 4-6, 2-4 in the Big Eight, took a few pages out of Nebraska’s usual game plan. •The Cyclones ran for 373 yards, the most against 7-2, 4-1 Nebraska this year, while holding the Huskers to 192. • Iowa State piled up 399 yards in total offense compared with Nebraska’s 246, a season low for the Huskers. • The Cyclones kept the ball for 37:15 to Nebraska’s 22:45. •And Iowa State players played on an emotional high the whole game. “Probably the big difference is they played with a lot of emotion and it looked likeourtank wasa little bitdry today,” Osborne said. “I don’t think we had the same intensity about us that we needed to have to win the game.” An emotional Ifctdown from big wins over Colorado and Kansas in the two previous weeks had been a con cern entering the Iowa State game, Osborne said. “We talked a lot this week about the dangcrousness of this situation, the fact that we had to play well, that Iowa State was a good football team,” Osborne said. “I don’t know really how much it sunk in. I think the players listed but I know that some times emotionally it docsnT quite take effect.” Quarterback Tommie Frazier said he could tell before the game the Huskers weren’t going to be on top of their game. “We were just going through the motions; you noticed that before kick off,” Frazier said. “We were in the locker room and no one was really saying much.” Osborne said Iowa Suite’s wish bone offense kept the Husker defense off balance because it was the first time Nebraska had seen such an of fense this season. “Obviously we didn’t do a very good job on making that transition,” he said. “We tried to adjust as the game went along but we never did quite seem to get in synch.” Cyclone senior quarterback Marv Seiler, who made his first career start, ran for 144 yards and fullback Chris Ulrich rushed for 105 as Iowa State kept the ball away from the Husker offense. The Cydoncs look the opening kickoff and moved the ball 60 yards ir 5:14 before settling for a 37-yard fielc goal by Omaha native by Ty Stewar to take a 3-0 lead. Nebraska responded with a five minutedriveofitsownbutcouldonlj get a 33-yard field goal by Byror Bennett to tie the score at 3-3. Iowa State responded with anothei long drive. This time the Cyclone: kept the ball for 5:54 and 12 plays ant scored on another Stewart field goa — this one a 32-yarder. On their next possession, tnc husk ers scored their only touchdown of tht day. On third down, Frazier rollct left, scrambled back to his right ant was able to get off a 15-yard touch down pass to fullback Lance Lewi: while being tackled. Bennett’s extn point gave the Huskers a 10-6 lead. But field goals of 45 and 27 yard: by Stewart gave the Cyclones a 12-1 ( lead at halftime. At the half, Ne braska had had the ball only foui times and the Cyclones had doublet up the time of possession on the Husk ers. That lack of ball control hur Nebraska, Frazier said. “When you have the ball four sc rics in the first half, you can’t rcallj get anything done,” he said. “Yot don’t know what’s going to worl because you haven’t had the ball.” Also hurling Nebraska was ; bruised knee Frazier suffered on th< Huskers’ last offensive play of tht first half, Osborne said. Frazier rar for 98 yards in the first half, but hat minus 6 in the second half. “I think that limited us a little bi offensively in terms on not running too many options, but again Iowt State did a great job defensively,’ Osborne said. Iowa State held the Huskcr I-bacl duo of Derek Brown and Calvin Jonc: to 64 and 28 yards, respectively. Frazier, who completed 3 of \1 passes for 54 yards, agreed that tht Cyclones played a great defensivt game. “They just shut it down in all circles,” he said. “The took our opior away, they look our inside running away, they took our passing game away. We just couldn’t run the play? that we normally run.” Frazier also said the injury didn’i bother him. Iowa State halfback Sherman Williams takes a pitch with I Nebraska linebacker Travis Hill in pursuit. * N “It didn’t really hamper me,” he said. “But I knew it was there.” In the second half, the Cyclones j picked up the pressure on defense. ; The Huskers ventured into Iowa Slate territory only twice and got no deeper x than the Cyclone 22. i But the defense still couldn’t get ; the ball away from Iowa Stale’s of i fense. The Cyclones held the ball for I another 17 minutes and rolled up 213 yards in offense in the second half. Ulrich scored on a 2-yard touch ■ down run with 10:50 left in the game | to put the Cyclones up 19-10. Nebraska tried to come back, but a Frazier pass to Abdul Muhammed on fourth down was incomplete. Iowa State ran out the rest of the clock and many of the 42,008 fans in attendance rushed the field to claim the goal posts. Despite the loss, Osborne said the Huskers will have to bounce back the rest of the season. “I think we still have an opportu nity to be Big Eight champions or at least tie for it,” he said. “So I’m hoping that they’ll go after it. But they’re going to have to play awfully well here the next two weeks to get the job done.” Nebraska-lowa State Scoring Summary Z ISU-Stewart, 37 yd. field goal NU-Bennett, 33 yd. field goal m UMISU—Stewart, 32 yd. field goal NU—Lewis, 15 yd. pass from Frazier (Bennett kick) ISU—Stewart, 45 yd. field goal ISU—Stewart, 30 yd. field goal ^ISU-Ulrich, 2 yd. run (Stewart kick) Daily Nebraskan Michelle Paulman/DN Iowa State defender Ben Harvey pulls down Nebraska’s Tyrone Hughes. * f ---- Jen Haller/uN Iowa State kicker and Omaha native Ty Stewart celebrates the Cyclone upset after the game. Stewart kicked four field goals in the game.