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.
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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.
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VACEK (left) defends Vanderbilt’s Laura Koemer
Nebraska’s double-overtime win.
Vacek paces NU
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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.”
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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