Huskers blow past Cyclones
HUSKERS from page 10
go out and do this,” said Alexander,
who led all rushers with 135 yards on
10 carries. “This game was a good
game for us, and it helps (the running,
backs) out a lot.”
With Alexander seeing a fair
amount of time at fullback and
Buckhalter in support at I-back, the two
found themselves abandoning the
usual war of attrition NU wages against
opponents and broke away on several
long jaunts downfield.
Alexander made a career-high run
with a 44-yard sprint to end the first
half, only to take die first handoff of the
second half 54 yards from the Huskers’
20-yard line to the Cyclone 26. The run
set up a touchdown pass from Eric
Crouch to Bobby Newcombe to put
Nebraska on top 35-0.
“The holes were just huge out
there,” Alexander said. “When I saw
that, I first said, ‘Praise the Lord,’ and
then it was all up to me to take advan
tage of the situation.”
Buckhalter also proved his mettle
with a stretch of long runs in the third.
On three of four plays from scrimmage,
he rushed for 13,27 and 12 yards.
, “I think it’s back,” Buckhalter said
of the Husker rushing game, following
a 127-yard, 14-carry effort. “We come
out every week and show that we want
to be the best team in the nation, and
today we proved it.”
Buckhalter and Alexander finished
with a touchdown apiece before fresh
man Diedrick, NU’s No. 3 I-back,
came in late in the third quarter to fin
ish the day, picking up 99 yards on 16
carries.
“I think they’re going to have trou
ble,” Buckhalter said of the double
threat posed to other teams by
Alexander and himself. “We just want
to keep it going for the rest of the sea
son.”
Crouch also got in on the action,
churning up 58 yards on the ground
with a long of 26 and a 20-yard touch
down dash.
The sophomore quarterback also
threw for 85 yards and two touch
downs, including a 47-yard bomb to
Matt Davison in the first quarter, while
keeping up a balanced attack that used
the option sparingly and pummeled the
Cyclones with big runs through big
holes.
“In terms of offensive execution,
this was the best game we’ve had all
season,” Crouch said. “We were able to
play our power game. We’re really
bonding as an offense, and we’re play
ing more consistent.”
And if the offense was just coming
together with their A-game, the defense
put up another stellar performance,
scoring on a blocked punt and a fumble
return.
Ralph Brown’s recovery of the
blocked kick and Demoine Adams’ 37
yard fumble return raised to 30 points
the total scored by the Nebraska
defense this season.
The Blackshirts also held Cyclone
tailback and national rushing leader
Darren Davis to 107 yards, his lowest
total of the season. At the end of the
third quarter against the No. 1 and No.
2 defenses, Davis had just 40 yards on
the ground.
“I think we played tremendous,”
Husker rover Mike Brown said. “We
focused on stopping the run and domi
nating them up front, and we did it.”
And with the two halves of Solich’s
squad clicking their tumblers in harmo
ny, Saturday’s win was right where
NU’s head coach wanted to see his
team.
“It was a pleasing game for us,” he
said. “A lot of congratulations goes out
to this whole football team.”
Penalties, mental errors hurt ISU
PENALTY from page 10
yards on 22 carries and two fourth-quar
ter touchdowns.
The Cyclones, now 3-2, had started
fast in their first four games - but NU
opened up quickly on them for a
change.
“They started fast,” defensive end
Kevin DeRonde said. “We tried to
recover and come back, but we kept
fighting; we never gave up.”
Penalties (12 for 99 yards) killed
any momentum the Cyclones had and
forced them to play catch-up from the
start.
“A lot of penalties were just inex
cusable,” McCamey said. “When you
have that many holding calls - one
offensive lineman had three, another
had two - we were getting beat up
front.”
The Cyclones came into the game
averaging 328 yards per game on the
ground. They did not reach half of that
total Saturday, gaining 146 yards.
Davis said the NU defense was
aggressive on the snap and tackled well.
“They don’t let too many guys get
yards on them,” Davis said. “I was the
No. 1 rusher in the nation, and they were
out to prove I wasn’t.
“I wish I could have got a victory
out of it, but 100 yards; I will settle with
it. It wasn’t the prettiest 100 yards I have
ever got, but I got them.”
Rosenfells said his team lost not
because of what they didn’t do but
because of what Nebraska did.
“They really disrupted it,”
Rosenfells said. “They out-toughed us.
They had a lot of guys in the back, and
they did not give Darren any room. Any
time he got room, he put on his move
that usually works, and they were mak
ing tackles.”
Iowa State allowed Nebraska a sea
son-high 439 rushing yards. NU was 1
yard shy of having three backs with
more than 100 yards - Dahrran
Diedrick finished with 99 yards.
DcRonde said that the Huskers’
backs were the “real deal.”
ISU also surrendered its first pass
ing touchdown of the season when NU
quarterback Eric Crouch hit Matt
Davison on an out pattern for a 47-yard
score.
ISU did escape Lincoln without sur
rendering 70 points to NU - something
it hasn’t done in its past two trips.
Offensive lineman Bill Marsau may
have summed up the feelings of
Cyclone players when he kicked the
locker room door and said, “I hate this
place.”
Woman wins
boxing battle
of the sexes
SEATTLE (AP) - Margaret
MacGregor and Loi Chow made
pugilistic history and proved that a
woman who can box a little can beat a
man who can’t box at all.
MacGregor won all four rounds on
all three judges’ cards Saturday night,
then left it to others to assess whether
her waltz in the ring with Chow will be
remembered as a landmark in sports, a
stride for women or yet another punch
in the nose for boxing.
The”matchup pitted a 36-year-old
female landscaper and a 33-year-old'
male jockey, who earned $ 1,500 apiece
in boxing’s first sanctioned battle of the
sexes.
Chow, who weighed 128 and wore a
welt on his forehead following the beat- -
ing, said, “It proves a woman cannot
hurt a man.”
MacGregor showed she had the
moxie to stand up to a man, flicking
light jabs, and landing a few combina
tions to the head and body. In other
words, she didn’t stink up the joint.
Chow, on the other hand, did.
The jumpy little jockey - he’s listed
as 5-foot-2 but barely came up to the 5
4 MacGregor’s chin - bounced around
the ring as if he were looking for an exit.
When the judges’ cards were
announced - each scored it 40-36 for
MacGregor - and Chow fled with a
final wave, the crowd showered him
with boos.
“He looked scared out of his wits,”
said Bob Jarvis, a former fighter.
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