Nebraska 31
Utah 0

Sept. 21, 1968 • 2 p.m. Central
Memorial Stadium •Lincoln, NE
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1968 Nebraska-Utah football photo, punt rushTom Linstroth, Sherwin Jarmon and Randy Reeves apply pressure as Utah’s Craig Smith gets a punt away. · Omaha World-Herald · Newspapers.com

First Quarter
  NU: Paul Rogers 28 field goal, 11:39
  NU: Mike Green 3 run (Rogers kick) 9:36
  NU: Joe Orduna 1 run (Rogers kick) 2:33
Second Quarter
  NU: Tom Penney 41 pass from Frank Patrick (Rogers kick) 4:25 
Fourth Quarter
  NU: Jim McFarland 6 pass from Ernie Sigler (Rogers kick) 11:16

                        UU        NU
First Downs ........... 11        24
  By rushing ........... 4        10
  By passing ........... 4        10
  By penalty ........... 3         0
Rushing Net ........ 38-46    61-204
Passing Net ..........  92       314
  Comp-Att-Int ... 10-29-0   19-32-2
Total Offense ..... 67-138    93-518
Fumbles-Lost ......... 4-3       5-3
Penalties-Yards ..... 4-28      6-60
Interceptions-Yds .... 2-0       0-0
Punts-Average ....... 8-45      5-35
Punt returns-Yds..... 3-25      6-54
Kickoff returns-Yds.. 5-98      2-27

RUSHING
  UU: Soulds 8-22, Molnar 4-11, Tyler 3-8, Collins 11-6, C.Poulson 3-4, Fowler 4-1, Groth 5-minus-6.
  NU: Orduna 18-67, Green 12-59, Schneiss 6-30, Frost 4-19, Davis 10-19, Vactor 4-8, Ziegler 2-4, Patrick 3-2, Sigler 2-minus-4.

PASSING
  UU: Collins 7-19-0 58; Groth 3-11-0 34.
  NU: Sigler 8-12-1 165; Patrick 8-18-1 122; Dvorsak 2-2-0 27.

RECEIVING
  UU: Thomas 3-36, Fowler 3-20, Andrews 2-18, Soulds 2-13, C.Poulson 1-5.
  NU: Penny 4-122, Frost 5-56, Ingles 3-47, Davis 1-46, Rogers 1-15, McFarland 3-11, Schneiss 1-9, Topliff 1-8.

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Attendance: 66,198

Coverage

Recap

Huskers start fast, clobber Utah

Nebraska’s Cornhuskers celebrated Band Day by jumping to a 17-0 first-quarter lead en route to a 31-0 win over Utah before 65,424 fans.

Paul Rogers, the soph hero of the Wyoming game, got the Huskers rolling with a 28-yard field goal the first time Nebraska got possession.

Utah fumbled the ensuing kickoff and Nebraska had the ball at the Redskin 18. Six plays later it was 10-0 as Mike Green plunged over with 9:36 left in the quarter and Rogers kicked the point.

Another Utah fumble at midfield set up a 53-yard Husker drive. An Ernie Sigler-to-Guy Ingles pass and a 19-yard run by Green were the big gains on the march, which was capped by Joe Orduna’s one-yard TD drive with 2:33 left in the opening quarter.

Frank Patrick came off the bench in the second quarter and tossed a 41-yard TD pass to end Tom Penney. It was Penney’s first Husker TD after two years of pass-catching stardom, and later in the game he was to suffer a fractured collarbone.

With a 24-0 halftime lead, the Husker defense kept Utah throttled. In the fourth quarter, Sigler wound up the scoring by hitting Jim McFarland with a six-yard TD pass.

The Huskers amassed 518 yards and the Scarlet defense held Utah to only 46 yards on the ground and a total of 138 yards.

Recap source: 1969 NU media guide

1968 Nebraska-Utah football photo Jim McFarlandNebraska’s Jim McFarland is stopped for a short gain by Utah safety Gary Barker. · The Salt Lake Tribune · Newspapers.com

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Pregame & team info
1968 schedule
05/11White 26, Red 24
09/14WyomingW 13-10
09/21UtahW 31-0
09/28@ MinnesotaW 17-14
10/12KansasL 13-23
10/19MissouriL 14-16
10/26@ Oklahoma St.W 21-20
11/02@ Iowa St.W 24-13
11/09Kansas St.L 0-12
11/16@ ColoradoW 22-6
11/23@ OklahomaL 0-47
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