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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, November 18, 1968
Crucial Dive
Photo by Jim Wneeier
KU's Junior Riggins dives to the K-State 3.
KU recovers, tips 'Cats
By BOB KEARNEY Assistant Sports Editor
For a few agonizing minutes Saturday, KU's chances of a major bowl invitation were once again muddled. The Jayhawks were staging an impromptu bowl of their own—the Charity Bowl—as Kansas State turned two KU fumbles into touchdowns and a 21-21 deadlock.
"Let me tell you," said Coach Pepper Rodgers, "I'm proud of our football team. They came back after that crowd roaged."
KU tuned-up its powerful offensive machinery, scored on its next three possessions, and dealt the Wildcats a 38-29 defeat before a full house of 36.000.
The Jayhawks eased in front, 24-21, when Bill Bell boomed a 41-yard field goal with just over two minutes remaining in the third quarter. It was the longest fielder ever for Bell, who re-writes his KU kicking records every time the ball splits the uprights.
But KU's situation was still ticklish moments later as the Jayhawks were backed to their 9-yard-line. The call went to 230-pound fullback John Riggins, and the sophomore bruiser charged 83 yards before being dragged down at the State 8.
"That big John Riggins busted the big one," said Rodgers, beaming. "He got us out of that hole."
Riggins' jaunt was followed two plays later by quarterback Bobby Douglass' 5-yard touchdown burst on the first play of the fourth period.
The 31-21 margin was fattened by a 79-yard scoring drive climaxed by a 9-yard Douglass rollout with just 8.04 left. Thirteen plays, exclusively on the ground, consumed much of the fourth-quarter clock.
Kansas State chopped the margin to respectability, pushing 50 yards following another KU fumble. The final 38-29 count
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It was the new locker room in Kansas State's recently built stadium, but the old taste of defeat remained. K-State had not won a game in the KU series since 1955. The story was no different in Manhattan Saturday as the Hawks prevailed 39-28.
"Got beat," K-State head coach Vince Gibson said. "We got beat by a real good team, I am real proud of my boys. They kept coming back."
After finding out how many times his quarterback Lynn Dickey threw the ball, Gibson whistled and said, "You don't see many sophomores throwing more than that."
"That Bobby Douglass is the difference between KU being a good team and the great team they are," said the head coach. "We'll be so glad to see him go it isn't even funny. KU will make a real good bowl representative."
Riggins' 83-yard run brought KU from their own 9-yard line to K-State's eight. It set up Douglass' five-yard touchdown scamper when KU was leading by only three. 24-21.
Asked if he had planned to pass that much, Gibson replied, "We got behind, and when you get behind you pass more. I was real pleased with Dickey's passing."
"I felt good about the season. We won some that I felt we might lose and lost some I thought we should have won," he said. He said that Iowa State was an example of one that K-State should have won and that Nebraska was one that he hadn't counted on at the beginning of the season.
was an all-time scoring high in the 66-game Sunflower rivalry.
The Kansas victory, coupled with Missouri's 28-14 loss to Oklahoma, left KU and Mizzou with identical 5-1 Big Eight marks heading into next Saturday's clash at Columbia.
"If I had any players who heard that score, I'd be disappointed in them. They're supposed to be concentrating on the game."
Rodgers was asked if the announcement of the Missouri defeat (during KU's winning spree) had had any effect on his squad.
But Pepper admitted he got an earful.
"Sure, I heard it. But I wasn't getting hit up the side of the head."
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A fake field goal enabled the Jayhawks to take an early 7-0 advantage. Don Shanklin, holding for Bell at the 20, darted around the oncoming Wildcats and was tackled just shy of the goal line. Douglass sneaked across on the next play with 5:24 showing in the first quarter.
"That was our secret practice play," Rodgers said with a chuckle, referring to K-State's two secret practices last week.
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