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By Mitch Sherman
Senior Editor
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Finally, a challenge.
Forced to play its starters well into
the second half for the first time in
nine months, the Nebraska football
team responded well, pounding Wash
iiit ington State *for
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3/ / yards en route
to a 35-21 win Sat
urday before
I 75,777 fans at Me
morial Stadium.
“It’s nice to be
out there in the
%
fourth quarter and
still have to get af
ter it, Nebraska
outside linebacker
Jared Tomich said. “You don’t get
that lazy feeling.”
Second-ranked Nebraska, 5-0,
marched 74 yards on its first posses
sion, but lost a Jeff Makovicka fumble
at the Washington State 9-yard line,
one of three times the Huskers failed
to score from inside the Cougar 10
yard line.
Two plays later, Washington State
tailback Frank Madii slipped by a
Nebraska blitz and ran 87 yards for a
touchdown to give 2-2 Washington
State a 7-0 lead with 8:44 to play in the
- first quarter.
“We have given up some big plays
on blitzes,” Nebraska defensive coor
dinator Charlie McBride said. “TTiat’s
something that we are goingto have to
work pretty hard on if we are going to
get better.” * -
Nebraska’s next drive stalled after
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Nebraska quarterback Tommie Frazier is tackled by
Washington State’s Derek Henderson. Frazier ran for 70 yards
and two touchdowns and passed for 99 yards and one
touchdown. .
quarterback Tommie Frazier was hit
for ab-yard loss by Phillip Glover on
third-down-and-six from the Wash
ington State 38-yard line.
But after Husker linebacker Terrell
Farley partially blocked a George
Martin punt, fullback Brian Schuster
ran for 23- yards, and I-back Ahman
Green plunged over the right end for
24 yards to the Cougar 4-yard line.
Frazier took it from there, tying the
score at seven with a 4-yard dive, the
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first rushing touchdown allowed by
Washington State in 20 quarters.
Frazier said he was more moti
vated to play Saturday than he had
been for any regular-season game dur
ing his four-year career.
“For their team to go out and say
that they were going t o shock the world
and we were going to be their next
victim, I took that personally,” Frazier
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