Wednesday, October 18, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Momentum plays a big role
By Don Steffens Kansan Sports Editor
Momentum. It's a key factor in football.
Momentum is something KU wasn't able to generate much of before the victory over Nebraska last weekend.
The Hawks again started slowly against NU.
But the Cornhuskers couldn't get their steam-roller offense of Ben Gregory and Dick Davis moving, either.
Kansas coughed up some momentum late in the first period with an 11-play drive of 62 yards for a score. But the bolstering experience came with only seconds left in the first half when NU was
looking tough on the Hawk three- yard line.
Then the Hawks defense dug in and held the Huskers.
"That play gave us the momentum to keep us going in the second half," Coach Pepper Rodgers said.
And the schedule ahead appears to be downhill just enough to offer the Hawks a chance to keep moving.
Now the secret is to keep the ball of momentum rolling.
closes the season at home with Missouri.
Kansas meets three of the Big Eight's lower division clubs on successive weekends: Oklahoma
State at Stillwater, and Iowa State and Kansas State at Lawrence.
Momentum again enters the picture, but this time to the disadvantage of KU's foes.
The OSU Cowboys resume play following a two-week layoff that may have dulled some of the sharpness necessary for a 7-6 victory over Texas.
I-State and K-State face two of the league's best in Missouri and Oklahoma, respectively, on the weekend prior to meeting KU.
Then the schedule slopes sharply upward as KU is hosted by Oklahoma and Colorado and then
But by that time, the Hawks should be an experienced bunch, capable of giving them as tough a game as they put up against NU.
Oklahoma leads in offense
Oklahoma is rolling along with a total offense of better than 380 yards a game—a mark surpassed only once in the last 10 years by any Big Eight football team.
The Sooners, with tailbacks Ron Shotts and Steve Owens producing most of the yardage, also lead the conference in rushing with an average of 257.7 yards in three games.
Shotts and Owens have rushed for 560 of Oklahoma's 773 yards on the ground.
Colorado is second in both categories.
Kansas State leads in passing
offense, averaging 140.8 yards,
with Nebraska 136.8, Colorado
135.0 and Kansas 135.0 in close
pursuit.
Nebraska dominates the defensive charts, yielding only 57.3 yards per game and a total of only 158.8 per game—the latter figure representing the best in the Big Eight in the past 21 years.
Oklahoma State leads in passing defense, limiting three opponents to an average of 68.3 yards per game.
Colorado (25.3) is the scoring offense leader and Oklahoma (3.0) the scoring defense leader.
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