Official recap  More | Hide Coming off its loss to Wisconsin, Nebraska gained sweet revenge over Big 10 opponent Northwestern as the Huskers demolished the Wildcats 49-7. With Dave Humm at the controls, back from a hip injury, NU scored the third time it had the ball. Wingback Don Westbrook ran around left end for a five-yard touchdown. Nebraska scored four more times in the first half and twice in the second half. NWU managed only one score, that coming in the fourth quarter. Freshman running back Monte Anthony set modern-day freshman Nebraska varsity records by rushing for 111 yards on 14 carries and scoring one touchdown. Nebraska totally dominated the team stats, garnering 30 first downs to Northwestern's 11 and getting 563 total offensive yards to the Wildcats' 181. SERIES HISTORY SEASON STATS | NU ROSTER

Nebraska 49
Northwestern 7

Northwestern       0     0     0     7 —  7
Nebraska          14    21     7     7 — 49

First quarter
NEB — Don Westbrook (5, run; Mike Coyle kick), 5:33
NEB — Jeff Moran (3, run; Coyle kick), 3:07
Second quarter
NEB — Dave Gillespie (1, run; Coyle kick), 12:07
NEB — Monte Anthony (3, run; Coyle kick), 6:08
NEB — Earl Everett (1, run; Coyle kick), 3:04
Third quarter
NEB — Gillespie (3, run; Coyle kick), 8:00
Fourth quarter
NEB — Everett (5, run; Coyle kick), 9:22
NWU — Rich Boothe (1, run; Jim Blazevich kick), 14:47

                              NU     NWU
First Downs ................. 30      11
Rushing, Net ............... 391     134
Passes, Comp-Att-Int ... 11-19-0  4-15-2
Total Offense .............. 563     181