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Monday, October 3, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Sports
New Mexico State fullback back Anthony Singleton ran for 145 yards Saturday — five less than Kansas' team total.
Things weren't looking up for Kansas coach Glen Mason.
Turnovers add to misery in KU's 42-29 loss
Senior running back Arnold Snell runs for some of his 64 yards on 11 carries against New Mexico State.
Six miscues lead to Jayhawks' fourth defeat of the season; Mason says he should be blamed for a lack of preparation
By Jeff Euston
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas football coach Glen Mason didn't throw any interceptions or lose any fumbles Saturday. But he took the blame for six Jayhawk turnovers in a loss to New Mexico State in Memorial Stadium.
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"I if expected this ballgame, I wouldn't even showed up today," he said. "I would have had to."
"We had four fumibles and two interceptions. We can make those type of mistakes. Everybody here knows how to do coaching. If they didn't coach the ball, I'd say I did a good job of funfelling. I did a poor job of funfelling."
The Aggies converted three of four Jayhawk turnovers into field goals in the first half.
New Mexico State kicker Dat Ly kicked a school record five field goals in the first half. Ly also tied the NCAA record for field goals in a half, which he now shares with Nebraska's Dale Klein.
"We were lucky to be in this game at the half." Mason said. "If all the turnovers we had would've been converted into touchdowns, the game would've been over."
1 if expected this type of ballgame,
I wouldn't have even showed up
today. I would have let my wife coach
the game.'
"It's easy to blame the kids. It's easy to say, 'Why did you hate onto the box?' Someone else might have done that. If I take the credit for that, I ought to be man enough to take the blame for turnovers. There no reason at all."
Kansas quarterback Kelly Donohue, who three two interceptions and lost a fumble, said, "Everything snowballs. After we fumbled, our offense lost confidence. You can't pick it up unless you score."
- Glen Mason
Kansas football coach
but we kept fumbling and fumbling."
The Jahyhaws stopped themselves on offense and weren't able to stop the Argies on defense.
It did not come as a shock when Kansas allowed 56 points and 680 yards of total offseason at Auburn. But New Mexico State, riding an eight-game losing streak, rolled up 526 yards. It turned out to be an average day for the Kansas defense, though, which added up $39.3 yards a game in its first four contests.
Two New Mexico State running backs rushed for more than 140 yards. Freshman tailback Marvin Johnson ran for 179 yards, and junior fullback Anthony Singleton had 145 yards.
"They were both hard rumors," said Kansas linebacker Tony Barker, who stopped a New Mexico State drive in the fourth quarter with an interception in Kansas territory. "They were hard to wrap up."
The Jahyh defense was also hindered by a makehift liftout. Kansas started freshman John Fritch, the backup center just two weeks ago, at the No. 15 team in the league and Paul Friday both left the game with injuries.
Kansas cornerback Peda Samuel said the defense's failure to stop the Agness' affair was the real problem.
"I didn't see any way we should've lost this
game going in," he said. "There's no reason for us to miss any tackles at all. we knew we were still in the game. We just needed to stop them on defense. But we weren't able to do that."
The Aggies' offense overshadowed bag day for jaywalk wide receiver Willi Vaughn, who caught a pass.
Vaughn scored three touchdowns, including a 22yard reception on Kansas' first drive, and a 50-yard reception.
We tried to get the ball in his hands and he came up with the big plays when we needed them.
It wasn't enough, though, as for as Vaughn was concerned.
Vaughn said the Jayhawks should be 3-1 instead of 0-4.
"We did't win, so personally I think I could've played harder. 'Vaughn said.' I didn't do enough for it."
"At Auburn, we just played badly. But you guys should we have beaten Baylor, and California was a team we should have beaten. Lord knows we should have beaten New Mexico State. Not everything from their program, but we should we vien. It's no secret — we stopped ourselves."
The Jayhawks may have overlooked the Aggies, but they were also overcome for the first time this season. The El Duroso sophomore rushed for 30 yards on four carries and also scored a two-point conversion late in the game.
"I think we should have won," he said. "Especially when we went right down the field and scored first. Maybe if their name was Baylor, we would win." He asked if it, but I kind of thought we were overconfident.
Wildcats lose to Louisiana Tech
Loss marks 20th straight for K-State
The Associated Press
aunt shelter's third field goal sailed
44 yards with 2:49 left, Saturday;
capping a 24-point Louisiana Tech
rally and raving the Bulldogs to a
31-28 victory over witness Kansas
State in Manhattan.
Kansas State, 0-4, which led 28-7 halftime, has not won since Oct. 19, 1966, a 39-game streak. The Wildcats were in complete command in the first half behind the passing of Paul Watson, a highly recruited redshirt freshman. He scored 322 yards and a school-record four touchdowns in his first start.
But Conroy Hines, Louisiana Tech's quarterback, was wooled by the defense and finished with 25 competitions in 43 attempts for 353 yards and two touchdowns.
Kansas State drove to the Buildings 36-yard line with 26 seconds left, but Watson's pass was intercepted in the end zone.
Hines made it 28-26 with a 34 yard touchdown pass to a wide-open Dallas with it 10 left, then flipped a 57-yard pass to Daugherty, playing the game at 28-28.
Big 8 Roundup
Oklahoma State 56
Tulsa 25
Barry Sanders ran for 304 yards and five touchdowns and led 138-thruended Oklahoma State to a 56-34 victory. University of Tulsa in Stillwater, OK.
Tulsa 35
Sanders, who leads the nation in running, scoring, kickoff returns and interceptions. He scored 35 times. He scored on the Cowboys' first possession of the game on a 38-17 victory.
Starting quarterback Steve Walsh three four touchdown passes and his backup, Craig Erickson, three more as top-panked Miami routed Missouri 50-5 in Miami. Fla for a regular-season football victory.
Sanders scored again with 2:02 left in the period on a 26-yard run on the play after the Cowboys' recovery of a Tulsa fumble.
Sanders also scored on an 11-yard run in the third quarter and two carries of seven and nine yards in the fourth quarter.
Walsh, yet to lose in 16 starts at Miami, completed 15 of 21 passes for 289 yards despite playing less than a quarterback and for 40 touch down this season.
Miami 55
Colorado 27
Colorado State 23
San Uesfuel flippeds a 14-sided pass to wingback Mike Richard with 38 seconds remaining, rallying lehargic Colorado to a 27-29 victory over unminded Colorado State in rival rivale warship in Port Colonn, California.
The Buffaloes, raising their record to 4-0, withstood an assault CSU effort that had produced a 134 first-round victory. They advanced 25-20 advantage in the final period.
But Auseen engineered a 64-yard, 10-play scoring drive in the final three minutes. On third down, Auseen rolled to his left and hit Pitcher inside the 16, and the intrepid into the second zone.
Nebraska 48
Nevada-Las Vegas 6
Ken Clark rushed for a game-high 80 yards and scored three touchdowns, leading mound-ranked Neb Stallone-Las Vegas 46 in Lincoln.NB
The Cornhuskers improved to 4-1 in their final non-fundance turnout before opening Big Eight Conference with next week. (UNLV dropped to 1-3)
Nebraska sputtered in taking a 20-first half-lead. Clark picked up the Huskers' first touchdown on a 2-yard run with 2:06 left in the first quarter.
Oklahoma 35 Iowa State 7
Jamelle Holley threw two touchdown passes during Saturday as No. 10 Oklahoma rolled to a 35-7 victory over Iowa in Big Eight opener in Norma, Okla.
TOP COLLEGE TEN
FOOTBALL
Points
Wilmington (Fla.) (16) 4-0-0 179
UCLA (2) 4-0-0 160
USC 4-0-0 141
Auburn 4-0-0 128
Florida State 4-1-0 78
Nebraska 4-1-0 72
Notre Dame 4-1-0 69
West Virginia 5-0-0 62
South Carolina 5-0-0 43
Oklahoma 3-1-0 38
The weekly top 10 poll is voted on by the sports staff of the University Daily Kansan and JKHK FM 91.
Aggies' placekicker ties NCAA record
Kansang Anshar
Kansang sports editor
By Craig Anderson
At first, it appeared the only option was the State Plate kickoff dater Kd Ly. He was his three short kickoffs that left Kansas close to midfield to left.
But, even those were going the right way for Ly.
"That's what we planned," Ly said. "I tried to hang (the ball) up and I was happy, hopefully, someone would mishap us, so we would have people to cover it."
Ly tied an NCAA record for field goals in a half with his five first-half field goals. Nebraska's Dale Klein kicked five three-pointers against Missouri in 1985. Lys kicks of 38, 21, 22 and 39 yards to give the Aggeres a 15-14 halftime over the Jaya-hawks.
Ly went on to kick three extra points in the second half as the Agbies bombed Kansas 42-29. His 18 points alone would have kept New Mexico State in contention for most of the game. Add that to four other points, and they would be 20-19 in the second half, and the game turned out to be a rout.
The first-half burst caught the Jayhawks off guard. Before Saturday, Lyd had made only four of nine
field goal attempts in his career.
After the game. Ly did not sound overly impressed with his performance
New Mexico State's postgame celebration showed how important the victory was to the Agggies' Team members carried Coach Mike Knoll to the center of the field. The team had upset a nationally ranked team, and exactly made itself out to be a big upset target in the last few years.
"I'll just a statistic," Ly阳 said to "If it's a statistic," the New Mexico State locker room asks him. "I know you read about in the paper. I am just happy that I was able to see it."
Before this game, New Mexico State had lost 42 of its past 48 games. It was one of two Knoll knott with a 3-23 record at New Mexico State before his team
Knoll, with tears in his eyes,
greeted many of his players with a
hug as they walked into the visitors'
dressing room.
"This is the biggest win I’ve won since I’ve been coaching at New Mexico State," said Knoll, who celebrated his 37th birthday Saturday. "Anyone you lead a Big Eight on the road it’s a big win."