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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. Nov. 28, 1962
By Ben Marshall
Six-three-one. Four-two-one. Fourth place.
Translation: The Kansas Jayhawkers finished the 1962 football season with an overall record of six wins, three losses, and one tie. In Big Eight play, the Hawkers won four, lost two, and tied one.
Last year the Jayhawkers went to the Bluebonnet Bowl in Houston, Texas, with an identical overall record of 6-2-1, but this season Coach Jack Mitchell's charges had to settle for fourth-place in the Big Eight and no bowl bids.
SEVERAL FACTORS made the difference between the 1961 and 1962 seasons.
The first, of course, was the momentum which Oklahoma picked up after losing two of its first three games. The Sooner line toughened and jelled, while backs Joe Don Looney and Jim Grisham ripped up opponents on the ground. And finally, the underrated little Sooner quarterback, Monte Deere (5-10, 170), started dropping his aerial bombs on the opponents' secondaries.
Secondly. Nebraska was an unpleasant surprise.
Cornhusker halfback Willie Wood, who blandly stated the week before the KU-NU game (following the Nebraska loss to Missouri) that "Kansas will pay," turned out to be a better prophet than Mohammed.
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Last week's 3-3 tie with the Tigers at Columbia shot both Kansas and Missouri out of a three-way tie for the Big Eight's runner-up position, and possibly cost the Hawkers their second straight bowl berth.
In the record books, the tie with Missouri last Saturday was the only difference between the 1961- and 1962-model Jayhawkers.
Closer observation, however, reveals two other major factors in the Hawker slip this season—passing and defense.
IT TOOK COACH Jack Mitchell nine and three-fourths ball games to realize that he might possibly have a better passer than last season's All-American, John Hadl, sitting on the bench.
While Rodger McFarland proved to be a capable field general as long as the Hawkers stuck to the ground, Brian Palmer could have added some aerial wizardry to KU's offensive machine that would have taken some of the pressure off the No.1 signal-caller.
As soon as the first and second unit lines had been molded early in the season, the Hawkers lost starting guard Ken Tiger for four games, and second unit guards Duke Collins and Ron Marsh for the last five games, which weakened the interior line considerably.
BUT THERE WERE a few bright spots in the 1962 Jayhawker football season, too.
All-Conference halfback Gale Sayers was the principle reason why KU led the Big Eight in rushing. The sophomore flash racked up 1125 yards rushing, only four short of the KU record 1129 set by Wade Stinson in 1950.
Fullback Armand Baughman, runner-up to Sayers in the rushing department, carried his share of the offensive load, too—especially in the 33-21 win over California.
The season, however, is over. It can't be replayed, even though several different decisions might have altered the Jayhawkers' record for the better.
Goodbye bowl bids. Maybe next year.
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AFTER LOSING two of its first three games and looking like anything but the team that was supposed to be a national contender in another year, Oklahoma suddenly found itself. With an awesome blend of explosive offense and Herculean defense, Oklahoma shocked six straight foes — shutting out four in a row — and romped unruffled to the Big Eight Conference championship and the Orange Bowl.
This was certainly welcome news to dedicated Oklahoma football fans who had watched their Sooners tumble from a perennial power to obscurity within their own conference. But even they were not fully prepared for what happened.
NORMAN, Okla. — (UPI) — One day last summer Oklahoma football coach Bud Wilkinson surprised his army of followers by announcing that he was very optimistic about his team's chances this season.
"We have people on our squad with more ability than we've had in three or four years and I really feel our team has a chance to play well this season," he said. "I think we have a squad with a chance to improve rapidly as the season progresses."
OU Success Does Not Surprise Wilkinson
The man behind this amazing resurgence, capped by Saturday's 34-6 win over Nebraska was, of course, Bud Wilkinson, the 46-year-old greyhaired genius of the gridiron
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Kansas halfback Gale Sayers, with 1125 yards rushing, is No.3 in that department among the nation's college football players in final statistics released yesterday by the NCAA.
Sayers amassed his yardage on 158 carries, and averaged 7.1 yards a carry.
John Roland of Missouri is sixth in rushing and Dave Hoppmann of Iowa State is ninth. Hoppmann is also ninth in total offense with 1,477 yards. Roland is tied for eighth in scoring with 78 points.
Joe Don Looney of Oklahoma is the nation's best punter with an average of 43.8 yards a kick.
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Winning certainly is nothing new for Wilkinson, who has more victories to his credit than any other active college coach and set a national record by winning 47 consecutive games from 1953 to 1956 with three national champions to his credit, but expert coaching was never more evident than this season when Wilkinson and his staff had to practically rebuild from the ground up.
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BUT MODEST BUD, who never did hold too much stock in winning streaks, gives full credit to the team.
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Breaks, too, played a big part in the Sooner comeback.
He had just two starters back from the 1961 team that won its last five games after losing the first five. Though nine seniors played key roles, Wilkinson had to go with four sophomores on the first team and four more in the alternate unit. He also had to override a crippling rash of pre-season injuries and develop Monte Deere into a top-flight quarterback.
"We have had marvelous leadership from our seniors and a dedicated team effort," he said. "Morale is awfully good. Our sophomores are coming along, but we actually are a senior team."
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"There is a narrow dividing line between being good and being almost good." Wilkinson said. "You can always go back to one or two plays that could have gone either way and made the difference. They have been consistently going our way lately."
Baker Wins Heisman Cup
Baker, a six-foot, three-inch, 21- year-old senior from Portland, Ore., will be presented with the award by U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy at a dinner here on Dec. 5. The trophy is presented annually by the Downtown Athletic Club.
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Southpaw quarterback Terry Baker of Oregon State, the national leader in total offense, yesterday was named winner of the Heisman Memorial Trophy as the outstanding college football player in 1962.
Baker received a total of 707 points in the balloting by sports writers and broadcasters throughout the nation. Halfback Jerry Stovall of Louisiana State was second with 618 points and tackle Bob Bell of Minnesota third with 429.
Baker has gained 2.276 yards so far this season in 10 games and will lead Oregon State against Villanova in the annual Liberty Bowl game in Philadelphia on Dec. 15.
Baker received the first-place votes of 172 of the 1,109 electors, while Stovall received 112, and center Lee Roy Jordan of Alabama. 70. Jordan was fourth on total points in the overall balloting with 321.
Each elector voted for three players, and ballots were compiled on a basis of 3-2-1 points for votes from first to third.
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