Rodgers now a prophet frustrated by "flukes"
Joy in Mudville
Pepper Rodgers said after the Oklahoma State game last week that everything had happened to his Jayhawks this season. Kansas had been beaten time and again on punt returns, kickoff returns, interceptions and freak plays of every variety.
But Rodgers later qualified his statement. "We haven't had a fumble recovered on us in mid-air yet. That's about the only thing that hasn't happened to us. Now that I've said it, it probably will happen."
And it did
Colorado defensive back Pete Jacobsen recovered a George Garrett garrille after the KU split end had caught a 28-yard pass. That's right, Jacobsen caught Garrett's fumble in mid-air.
That KU misee did not sink the Jayhawks Saturday, but it gave a freakish note to a 17-14 defeat—the same sort of fluke that has haunted Pepper's crew since the season's opener. Now 1-7, the 'Hawks must finish with Oklahoma and Missouri.
Rodgers summed up the frustration in the KU locker room.
"With all honesty, we're just not a very good football team. We've tried to win. We're in the game with everybody we play, we just don't win. This must be the most frustrating season in the history of anyplace. If anybody says they know how our team and I feel, they don't."
Defeat, though, has not snamed the Jayhawks.
"I am really proud of the kids," Rodgers said. "They keep hanging in there. It's easy to get 'em up when you win. It's really hard when you don't."
Colorado coach Eddie Crowder paid tribute to the KU team, saying, "This Big Eight conference is something else, and the balance is the best ever. The difference between Missouri on top of the league and Kansas on the bottom, is about 1/64th of an inch.
Linebacker Kenny Page (50) leaps joyfully, tugging at the sleeve of Emery Hicks, as KU scored its first touchdown. Hicks had just given the football the forbidden "spikeritis" in the end-zone after his six-yard run with the Colorado punt blocked by Al Jacobic.
"This Kansas team is just as good as last year's, except for two things," added Crowder. "They are playing against tougher opposition and they are inexperienced at key positions." Crowder
indicated the inexperience hurts most in the pressure situations. And with the balance of power and talent so evenly distributed in the conference, clutch errors can make the difference between winning and losing.
KU notches 6th straight title
Kansan Sports Writer
By DAN REEDER
MANHATTAN—KU's runners were bunched together, 9th through 13th Saturday, but the Jayhawks were all alone again as Big Eight cross country champions.
A real "team" effort in an individual sport carried KU to its
sixth consecutive title. The 55 points wrested the crown from challengers Nebraska (72), Missouri (79) and Kansas State (82).
KU's Jay Mason, knocked down early in the race and losing almost 30 yards on the pack, recovered to place ninth in 19:53 over the Old Stagg Hill golf course.
Placing 19.58, freshman Jon Callen clocked 10.58. Three KU harriers—Dave Anderson, Doug Smith and Rich Elliott—followed
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within one second of each other
with Anderson posting 20:02
Howe ranks No.1
In the medal chase, Kansas State sophomore Jerome Howe sprinted past Iowa State's Dennis McGuire on the final 150 yards for a course record 19:29.6 victory. Howe's time over the four-mile course bettered by 14.4 seconds the mark set by Colorado's Rick Trujillo one week earlier.
McGuire, Howe, Trujillo and
Douglass stars
CHICAGO (UPI) — Rookie quarterback Bobby Douglass fired touchdown passes of 25 and 12 yards, sparking the Chicago Bears to their first (1-7) victory of the season Sunday in a 38-7 rout of Pittsburgh's Steelers.
Gale Sayers plunged for TDs of two and one yards while rushing for 109 yards.
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