Lost: Something in Albuquerque, N.M.
By STEVE SHRIVER Kansan Sports Writer
All week Coach Pepper Rodgers told Jayhawk fans that New Mexico was no pushover. Rodgers said the score would be much closer than last year when KU slaughtered the Lobos 68-7.
It was. New Mexico won 16-7.
That brings the running two year point totals to 75-23. Oh well,
we're still ahead.
This was supposed to have been just a scrimmage, just a tune-up for the K-State game this week. The game didn't really even need to be played, because everyone knew that KU would win and the only question was the score.
But the Lobos showed up after all. And the game was played. That is, New Mexico played.
Knowing that this was just a "scrimmage," Rodgers handled it like any other practice. New Mexico played an all-out football game while KU had a "controlled scrimmage."
KU carried no special protective devices onto the field, no special blocking pads. But they wouldn't have needed them because not enough people made any blocks or tackles anyway.
New Mexico had lost 21 games in a row, over half their starting unit was made up of sophomores and they were facing mighty Kansas. But they had the courage to play a fine football game. No one is really sure if they actually won the game, or if KU just lost it.
Of course KU has a lot of good excuses for losing. It was a night game and everyone knows that KU never wins under the lights, no matter who they're playing.
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The Lobos were "up" for the game, hoping to avenge last year's humiliation. And KU could have been slightly overconfident, especially after last week's fine showing against Syracuse.
And the team could have been looking past this game to Saturday's encounter with K-State. Rodgers once told his players not to think about girls, but they did anyway. So he didn't bother to tell them not to think about K-State and to concentrate on playing New Mexico.
Maybe Rodgers can't make his players think about the right things. But it seems like he could help to improve the team's poor attitude. After all, that's what a coach is for. It's a weak argument to say that New Mexico is physically a better football team than KU. However, they apparently held quite a psychological advantage.
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They were emotionally ready for this game and they proved it. They gave their best effort and KU did not.
That is all a coach can ask from his players—to give their best effort, to try their hardest.
Obviously, Rodgers can ask more from his team.
Now we're all beginning to wonder if KU will show up for the K-State game. If they don't, they'll be embarrassed and if they do, and play as they did Saturday night, they'll be humiliated.
Let's just hope the K-State players come into town with fat heads. Maybe, they'll be looking past the "contest" with KU to their next game, with Iowa State on October 18.
Athletes aren't all that fragile or, at least they're not supposed to be, especially football players. Maybe he could yell at them, run them through a few more conditioning drills and get them in shape. Either that or a certain few of the players might trade
their bar stools for seats on the sidelines.
It is still possible KU could field a team against K-State that might be able to hold the score down. They haven't beaten us since 1955, but then New Mexico had lost 21 straight.
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hustle and effort from his players. He could ask for a few more fundamental things, like Pride, something that a certain other team exudes this year. Essentials like blocking, tackling, running and thinking could also be stressed.
No coach is better than the "Monday morning armchair quarterback," but it seems like Rodgers could ask for a little more
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (UPI) — Kentucky plans dust quality testing in coal mines in an effort health and mine officials hope will lead to control of black lung and other respiratory diseases.
Conducting the program will be the State Department of Health and the Department of Mines and Minerals. Kentucky is the first state to initiate extensive research on black lung.
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