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Spartan receiver is
Big Tfen’s best kickoff
return specialist.
By Mike Kluck
Senior Reporter
Michigan State wide receiver Der
_nck Mason will not soon forget last
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“It was a very
long game and
they did a lot of
running,” the
Spartan senior
wide receiver
and return 'spe
cialist said about
last year’s 50-10
loss to the .
Comhuskers. Mason
Nebraska
rolled up 552 yards rushing against the
Spartans and 666 yards of total offense.
But more disappointing to Mason
and the Spartan team was after Michi
gan State cut Nebraska’s lead to 23-10
with six minutes left in the third quar
ter. The Huskers then went on to score
27 straight points.
“This year, we want to be able to
stay in the game with them through four
quarters,” Mason said. “Last year, we
didn’t play four quarters, and it hurt us
in the end. We have prepared and
worked hard to stay in the game for
four quarters, and we feel if we do we
have a good shot at winning.”
The All-America candidate knows
that coming into Memorial Stadium
and knocking off the two-time defend
ing national champions — who cur
rently hold the nation’s longest win
streak at 25 games—will not be easy.
“It won’t surprise me if we win,”
Mason said. “We’re capable of beat
ing everybody on our schedule if we
do all the things we’re suppose to do.
“Our goal is just to play to the best
of our ability. We’re going to come to
Lincoln and give it our all.”
Last year against the Huskers, Ma
son had four receptions for 55 yards,
but he was not the featured receiver in
the Spartan offense.
However, this season with the ab
sence of Muhsin Muhammad, Mason
has become the Spartans primary re
ceiver.
Last week in MSU’s 52-14 win
over Purdue, he had three catches for
62 yards. Mason’s yard total included
a 45 yard catch in the second quarter.
But Mason—who is questionable
for Saturday’s game because of a wrist
injury—is also known as a dangerous
punt- and kickoff-return specialist.
Against Purdue, he returned five punts
for 48 yards and one kickoff for 14
yards.
He already is the Michigan State
and Big Ten leader in career kickoff
return yardage, and he needs just 746
yards this season to set a new NCAA
mark.
“I just want to go out and play, and
the rest will take care of itself,” Ma
son said.
I Huskers set to begin title defense
MSU from page 11 _
] first game. Irvin set a Michigan State
: freshman record by scoring four touch
: downs.
: The Spartans started a new quar
: terback, Todd Schultz, against the Boil
: ermakers. Schultz completed 19 of 27
: passes for 174 yards Saturday.
: The game will also mark the higjhly
: anticipated debut of Stanford transfer
: Scott Frost This fall, Frost said he has
; improved his knowledge of the Husker
■ offense.
I No matter what happens against
I Michigan State, Frost said, many will
1 still compare him to Tommie Frazier.
2 “The last thing I’m going to be
“ thinking about on the field is what
2 Tommie would have done with that
- situation,” Frost said.
In addition to Frost, seven other
j players are making their first start for
: NU.
I One of those players is freshman
] right comerback Ralph Brown. Brown
; may not be in that position if two mem
■ bers of the Michigan State secondary
: had chosen Nebraska over MSU.
Spartan comerback Amp Campbell
: verbally committed to NU three years
: before backing out on signing day, and
: free safety Sorie Kanu wanted to at
: tend Nebraska, but the Huskers didn’t
: offer him a scholarship.
J Two Nebraska players will miss the
Huskers’first game.
No. 1 Will linebacker Terrell Farley
is suspended for af least two games
after being ticketed for suspicion of
driving while intoxicated on Aug. 30.
Ryan Terwilliger, who started six times
last season—including the MSU game
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No. 2 wingback Lance Brown, who
missed the spring game mid has been
suspended fa* Saturday’s contest, will
return to the Nebraska lineup Sept. 21
against Arizona State, Osborne said.
For Tomich, this weekend’s game
has a special meaning. He grew up in
St. John, Ind., Big Tfen country, and
always had to listen about the Big Ten’s
prowess.
“I’m getting tired of hearing how
good die Big Ten is,” Tomich said.
“They get too much publicity.”
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