Monday. Sept. 30, 1963 University Daily Kansam
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KU Line Fools Orangemen
By Russ Corbitt (Assistant Sports Editor)
Nobody thought the small, inexperienced KU line had a chance against the massive Syracuse front line Saturday-that is, nobody except the small, inexperienced KU line.
The Jayhawk defense, supposedly the weak point of this year's team, was at its best in Memorial Stadium Saturday when the underdog Jayhawks turned back a nationally-rated Syracuse team. 10-0.
"It was as fine a defensive effort as I have ever been associated with against a good team," Coach Jack Mitchell said.
MITCHELL, who has as many different attitudes as there are possible scores for a game, was all smiles in the KU dressing room after this game.
Friends, alumni and ex-KU football players all stormed the dressing room to congratulate the happy coach and team.
After the first wave of wellwishers left, Coach Mitchell, in a relatively quiet corner near the rear of the dressing room, found time to answer a few questions.
"I've never had a bunch of boys so high for a game," he said. "They were so dedicated, they made mistakes and still didn't get discouraged."
Mitchell also attributed the excessive KU fumbles to the "highness" of the team.
"GOSH, OUR backs were so jittery they couldn't hold on to the ball. How many times did we fumble?" Mitchell asked no one in particular.
"We had two times to score when we just gave it away," Mitchell said, still smiling but obviously unhappy about the fumbles.
One fumble in particular cost the Jayhawks. Armand Baughman, No. 2 fullback who lost the first yard of his collegiate career in the game, fumbled on third down and goal-to-go on the Syracuse 3-yard line in the second quarter.
"You have to look at every game like you got beat so you can see your mistakes," Mitchell said. "Think how we would feel if we had lost this one," he said, remembering the mistakes his team made.
"YOU CANT make that many mistakes in the backfield and win unless you shut the other team out." The KU offense, despite the fumbles gained 209 yards rushing against the heavier Orangemen.
"They were playing us loose up the middle because they knew Sayers could move wide if the inside bogged down," Mitchell said.
Fullbacks Ken Coleman and Baughman took advantage of the situation and went up the middle for several important gains. Sayers also used the loose interior to advantage, as time-after-time he swung out as if to go wide and then cut back to the middle of the field. "I wasn't a bit surprised we could move the ball," Mitchell said. "I
"I wasn't a bit surprised we could move the ball," Mitchell said. "I was just surprised we could contain them."
MITCHELL attributed some of the defensive success to a slight change made to aid the KU guards.
"Since our guards are small, we made a little adjustment that we thought might make it a little easier for them," he said. "We hoped they would be able to move into the cracks quicker and tie up their big men.
"We went into an odd defensive line-up at times. It's really a five-man line with five linebackers," Mitchell said.
"Our defense and our kicking game were probably the two biggest factors in the win."
TONY LEIKER averaged 53 yards on his three punts, including a 65- yard quick kick.
Mitchell singled out Coleman for his "great game." The big senior fullback was a hard-hitting stand-out both on offense and defense, and as Mitchell said, "was about the only
back who didn't fumble."
Comparing the Syracuse team with the loss to Texas Christian last week, Mitchell said his team looked better offensively against TCU.
"I think the TCU line was definitely quicker than Syracuse's," Mitchell said. "But that one game of experience for our guards really helped us." he said.
"NOW WE ARE going to have to work hard on backfield finesse." Mitchell said, looking ahead to next week's game at Wyoming.
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"There's bound to be some leveling off, and the boys might even be way down when they play Wyoming!" Mitchell said. "Being this high can hurt you later because there's no way a team can stay that high every week."
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"We can't take any credit today," he said. "Just give them all the credit. I don't really think it was their excellence as much as it was our inability to do anything. I just hope they're that good so we won't appear so bad.
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