Nebraska at Missouri

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  Evening star, November 1, 1951, page 64

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  Freshman, Almost Overlooked By Missouri, Threat to 7erps Tony Scardlno, the freshman passer who makes Missouri’s new spread formation work, wasn’t even issued a varsity uniform until after the Tigers first two games this year. The schools publicity man has only one picture of him. and that not very good one. Yet Scardino was largely responsible for Missouri’s 35–⁠19 victory over Nebraska last week and he’s the reason Coach Jim Tatum of Maryland is spending a lot more time than usual on his defenses this week. Missouri and Maryland tangle in Maryland’s homecoming game Saturday at College Park. The Terrapins probably will be favored by two touchdowns or so, but the fact that Missouri has Scardino and the spread is causing con- Germ at College Park. Takes Valuable Time. There isn’t even any guarantee that Coach Don Faurot of Missouri will use the spread Saturday, but the fact Mlat he might means that Tatum must have a defense ready. Time used in setting up such a defense must be taken from the time ordinarily spent on either offense or on defense against Faurot’s more familiar split T. Faurot generally is regarded as the daddy of the split T and he has even written a book about it. Coach Tatum, who uses the split IT at Maryland. learned it from Papa Faurot while he was Faurot’ S assistant at Iowa Preflight during the war. The fact that Faurot gradually is getting away from his own invention means that lean times certainly have come to

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Officially, Nebraska leads 65–⁠36–⁠3; as played, 60–⁠33–⁠3 in the 96 games on file; the official count covers all 104 meetings, counting the 59 since this game.