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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Oct. 22, 1963
Rushing Battle Grows Tighter
That two-way race for the Big Eight Conference rushing lead between Iowa State's Tom Vaughn and Kansas' Gale Sayers is even closer, there's a five-way scramble for total offense honors and a new leader has emerged in passing as Big Eight foot-ball hit the midway mark this past week.
Conference football statistics released today show Vaughn and Sayers a scant nine yards apart in individual rushing with the Cyclone fullback ahead, 460 to 451 yards. Their performances Saturday were the best among Big Eight runners, Sayers gaining 110 on 16 carries (including a 61-yard touchdown dash) against Oklahoma and Vaughn 96 on 25 in his team's triumph over Colorado.
Vaughn, the Conference's busiest ball-carrier with 97 rushes, has averaged 4.7 per carry and Sayers has averaged 6.1, but the best per-carry production has been by the No. 3 runner in the league, Colorado's Bill Harris.
Harris. Included a 78-yard touchdown run in his 90-yard effort against Iowa State Saturday to run his total to 371 and average to 8.1 in moving ahead of Nebraska's Willie Ross in the Conference rankings. Ross is fourth with 360 and a 6.7 average and his teammate Rudy Johnson is fifth with 310 and a 7.4 standard.
KANSAS STATE senior quarterback Larry Corrigan his 16 of 32 passes for 174 yards against Nebraska to hike his season passing
total to 460 and post a 92-yard margin over last week's leader, Steve Renko of Kansas, in that department. Renko, however, ran and passed for 102 against Oklahoma to gain the total offense lead from Missouri's Gary Lane with a 494 total—a yard ahead of Corrigan—while Lane dropped to third with 480. Vaughn and Sayers are tied for fourth in total offense with 460 yards.
Corrigan's performance produced the most notable shift in Conference rankings. He moved from fifth to second in total offense with a yard separating him from the top spot in that department and overcame a 48-yard deficit in passing to run his lead there to nearly 100 yards—460 to Renko's 368.
It was his second straight day over the 125-vard mark as he had connected on 15 of 34 for 146 against Missouri the previous week after sitting out most of the Wildcat's conference opener against Colorado with injuries.
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DAVE LIMERICK of Iowa State is the league's only double leader. Limerick booted a 41-yard field goal—his fourth of the season—caught a touchdown pass and place-kicked two extra points to wrest the scoring leadership from Colorado's Bill Harris with 38 points.
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Mitchell, it must be explained, is one of the nation's severest critics of the present substitution rule. The KU coach recently called it injurious to players and proposed it be scrapped at the mid-season mark.
Col. Earl (Red) Blaik, long-time Army coach, predicted today that colleges would return to two-platoon football in 1964.
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WRITING IN the current issue of Look Magazine, Blaik declared:
"When the rules committee (of the National Collegiate Athletic Association) meets at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., next January, they will very likely legislate for free substitution. This will open the way to two platoons and the caliber and tempo of play that the college game deserves."
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Blaik noted that in the period between 1949 and 1952 when colleges played separate units for offense and defense, this two-platoon football "proved to be the most effective, most exciting and safest football in the history of the college game."
Blaik characterized the present substitution rule as "merely another in a series of complex, ineffectual, tedious compromises."
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IN HIS ARTICLE. Blak based his prediction about the return of the free-substitution rule to college football on three developments:
- A growing conviction among the members of the rules committee that continued opposition to the free-substitution rule in the face of the strong wishes of 75 per cent of the coaches would intensify discontent and antagonism, and almost certainly hurt the game.
- The request of the Ivy League for a free-substitution rule . . . The about-face of the Ivy League will influence faculty people everywhere.
- Increasing realization among coaches that they probably can help their chances of gaining free substitution with the approval of professors by also proposing safe-guards for current ceilings on player recruitment. One of the principal, and invalid, arguments of the anti-platoon group is that the two-platoon game requires more players, more recruiting, more coaches and inflated budgets.
Five of the eight NCAA district representatives on the 18-man rules committee who have been against two platoon football, as listed by Blaik, are:
Norm Daniels of Wesleyan, Rip Engle of Penn State, Abe Martin of
Texas Christian, Fritz Brennecke of Colorado Mines and Tom Hamilton, ex-Navy and Pittsburgh coach and now commissioner of the Athletic Association of Western Universities.
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