Big Eight Roundup : Nebraska Joins 600 Club, 41-3

Tom Rathman scored two touchdowns in a 41-3 romp over Kansas State Saturday at Manhattan, Kan., and No. 5 Nebraska became the sixth major college football team to record 600 victories.

Nebraska joined Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas, Alabama and Penn State as the only Division I-A schools to win 600 football games.

The Cornhuskers are 7-1 this year and 4-0 in the Big Eight. Kansas State is 1-7 overall and 1-2 in the conference.

Rathman scored on a 37-yard scoring run midway through the first quarter and added a five-yard touchdown run with 5:52 left in the half.

Nebraska put the game away with 17 points in the second quarter. Paul Miles started the spree with a 21-yard run about left end, and Dale Klein gave the Cornhuskers a 24-3 halftime edge with a 39-yard field goal.

Klein also kicked a 50-yard field goal in the third quarter to tie a Nebraska school record of 12 field goals in a season.

Doug DuBose led the Cornhuskers with 86 yards in 18 carries, and Rathman and Miles each gained 84 yards in 11 carries.

Oklahoma 48, Kansas 6--Freshman Jamelle Holieway rushed for 162 yards and one touchdown and threw a 42-yard scoring pass to lead the No. 9-ranked Sooners to victory at Norman, Okla.

Holieway had runs of 18, 25, 15, 14 and 23 yards in the first half, then tacked on a 40-yarder on the first play of the third quarter.

The 162 yards by Holieway, who played less than three quarters, is the most ever by an Oklahoma freshman quarterback. It broke the record of 135 set a week ago by Eric Mitchel.

Holieway averaged more than eight yards per carry and also threw for 82 yards and a touchdown.

Oklahoma trailed, 3-0, early but broke the game open with 20 straight second-quarter points.

Oklahoma improved to 5-1 overall, 3-0 in the conference. The loss dropped Kansas to 5-4 and 1-3.

Oklahoma St. 14, Colorado 11--In two previous games, Thurman Thomas, hobbled by a nagging ankle injury, had failed to top 100 yards. Still, the Oklahoma State tailback came to Boulder, Colo., as the nation’s fourth-leading rusher.

The Cowboys’ sophomore rushed for 201 yards and scored on a 1-yard run in the second quarter and a 60-yard run in the third quarter.

Oklahoma State’s defense did the rest as it was able to withstand a Colorado rally in the fourth quarter.

Oklahoma State is 6-1 overall and 2-1 in Big Eight play. Colorado is 5-3 and 2-2.

Missouri 28, Iowa State 27--Darrell Wallace scored from one yard out, and Herbert Johnson caught a two-point conversion pass from Warren Seitz with 1:11 left at Ames, Iowa, to give Missouri its first victory of the season.

Wallace rushed for 91 yards and two touchdowns for the Tigers, 1-7 overall and 1-3 in the Big Eight. The loss dropped Iowa State to 3-5 and 1-3.