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The Iowa State football team re bounded from a loss to Iowa last week with a 42-23 win over Divi sion I-AA Northern Iowa Saturday. Leading the way was sophomore tailback Troy Davis. Davis carried the ball a Cyclone-record 53 times for 241 yards and four touchdowns. His performance earned him the Big 12 offensive-player-of-the-week award. “He is a ftemendous physi cal specimen,” ISU Coach Dan McCarney said. “We asked him se riously how he felt, and he said he could go another 20 carries.” “I have to help the team,” Davis said. “Give me the ball and I can turn a game around. I guarantee it.” Kansas State’s Chris Canty was named the league’s defensive player of the week. The junior comerback had one interception, which he returned 44 yards, three solo tackles and one pass breakup in KSU’s 34-7 win over Rice Sat urday. - - - —■ - - — — Texas Coach John Mackovic said his team’s 27-24 loss to Notre Dame on Saturday will be one to remember. “We really laid it on the line,” Mackovic said. “We are dis appointed, (£» know lot of hard work into this game. . The game ends a two-game Texas series with the Fighting Irish, who kicked ® field goal to win in the final seconds. ■* Notre Dante beat UT 55-27 *a year ago in South Bend, Ind., but Mackovic said he’s in favor of play! ing the Irish again. “Our fans had a lot of fun going up there, and I think their fans had fun coming down here.” Texas Tech also lost its game to Georgia in the fourth quarter. The Red Raiders had the lead with 10 minutes remaining in the fourth quarter but lost 15-12. “We let that game get away from us,” Tech Coach Spike Dykes said. “We thought we played by the book, but they obviously didn’t read the book in Georgia.” Missouri won its first game Sat urday night against Clemson. MU Coach Larry Smith said the 38-23 win in Columbia, Mo., was a big step for his team. “It is a matter of playing hard, and we did,” Smith said. “The big thing we did was pre pare for Clemson, and we hit the field with a lot of enthusiasm and fire” Smith said his team needs to stay focused so it can continue to win games. ‘We need to keep get ting better and not worry about games we should or, could win,” Smith said. * Oklahoma State’s 31-17 win over Utah State marks the first time since 1990that the Cowboys scored 30 or more points in two consecu In other Big 12 games, Okla homa fell to 0-2 with a 51-31 loss to San Diego State; Baylor beat Oregon State 42-10 and Texas A&M shut out North Texas 55-0, Big 12 Notebook is compiled by staff reporter Jay Saunders. STEP] Matt Miller/DN VACEK (left) defends Vanderbilt’s Laura Koemer Nebraska’s double-overtime win. Vacek paces NU * * ^ JL defensive attack 3&*-~ : ***.. By Vince IVAdamo Staff Reporter i If three serious knee operations frustrated Nebraska defender Stephanie Vacek, she could not be blamed. But Vacek has handled the ad versity of tearing an anterior cruci ate ligament three times since her freshman season, and has returned to anchor the Comhusker defense. Initially disappointed, Vacek has displayed resilience in helping the 13th-ranked Comhuskers to a 7-0 record. She had a solid spring and has not looked back since. Vacek suffered a bruised ankle in Sunday’s 3-2 double-overtime win over Vanderbilt. However, she is expected to be in the lineup for a pair of games this weekend. “It was a little frustrating at first,” Vacek said. “But I had a lot of team support. I just wanted to come back and play. I didn’t want to let them down.” Most of all, Vacek, a 5-foot-8 junior from Papillion, said she loved the game and did not want her career to end. “I just have a love for the sport,” Vacek said. “I just wanted to play. There’s nothing to it.” Please see VACEK on 8 Farley to Join Comhusker recovery bid NU EXPERIENCES LIFE after a loss for the first time in two years. By Trevor Parks Senior Reporter * For the first time since Nov. 16, 1992, the Nebraska football team has begun preparations for a regular-sea son game after a loss. And as the Comhuskers (1-1) welcome Colo rado State (2-2) to Memorial Sta dium Saturday at 11:30 a.m., NU will more than likely have the ser vices of Will line backer Terrell Farley Farley. Farley, an All-America and Butkus Award candidate, was suspended for die first two-games nfter being tick eted for suspicion of drunken driving Aug. 30. Coach Tom Osborne said he will talk to Farley’s counselors and doctors to see if Farley has completed every thing asked of him. “He’ll play if everything is up to snuff,” Osborne said Monday. “As far as I’m concerned, from what I’ve seen, Terrell has responded positively.” Now the team needs to respond positively, Osborne said, after losing for the first time in 27 games, 19-0 to Arizona State Saturday night in Tempe, Ariz. “They don’t feel good about this,” Osborne said. “The thing I’m con cerned about is playing well. I can understand getting beat. We just need to play well, and we didn’t play well — so that goes down a little harder. “They have enough pride in what they are doing here to not want to let that happen again.” NUJid not play well enough t& will in*the regular Season wjjs Nov. 14,< 1992,, when the Please see FOOTBALL on 8 10/23/90 1/1/91 (Citrus Bowl) Oklahoma 45 Georgia Tech 45 Nebraska : 10 Nebraska 21 Comhuskers lost 19-10 to Iowa State. “We needed to prepare better the last two weeks,” Osborne said. “There is no question about it. Hopefully, we’ll be a better football team. We’ll just have to see what happens.” Almost half of NU’s practices lead ing up to the ASU disaster did not go well, Osborne said. Defensive Coordinator Charlie McBride said MojHylrat the expec tations put on thi^BardHeam may be set too high right “A lot of people thought—and the players sometimes think — we are better than we are,” McBride said. “We’re not as good a football team right now as we were last year.” Four players were held out of Monday’s practice on. the grass fields northeast of Memorial Stadium. Comerback Mike Fullxhan (groin), I back Damon Benning (bruised ribs), rush end Grant Wistrom Xneck strain) 9/19/92 9/26/92 Washington 29 * Nebraska 45 Nebraska 14 Arizona St 24 By Vince IKAdamo Staff Reporter The Nebraska football team, ex pected to be the class of the Big 12, shocked the conference Saturday. By losing 19-0 to Arizona State, the Comhuskers proved that any team can be beaten any week, Texas A&M Coach R.C. Slocum said. Slocum, whose Aggies lost to Southwest Loui siana earlier this month, said no coach ever doubts that. “Most coaches that I know live in fear of (hat happening to their team,” Slocum said. “But just because Ne braska lost a football game, that doesn’t mean they’re going todrop off die map.” Lack of execution, turnovers and penalties contributed mightily to the if -m ^ frs I heard the score anct thougntu was a misquqle.” * Coach *'V .■**&** *r Comhuskers loss. Nebraska still has the respect of its Big 12 peers, but Kansas Coach Glen Mason said Ne braska had to lose sometime. “They had such a great run,” said Mason, whose Jayhawks are one of three undefeated Big 12 teams. Kan sas State and Baylor are the others. “You don’t see them make the type of mistakes they made. But anymore, I’m not shocked by anything.” In losing for the first time in 27 8*k1.“Istill know