Thursday, Oct. 23, 1958 University Daily Kansan
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Green Wave Meets Kansas After Upset
Upstart Tulane, fresh from an upset of heavily favored Navy. comes to Lawrence Saturday to inaugurate a series with the Jayhawkers.
Both teams have identical 1-4 records for the season. The Green Wave lost its first four games before astounding the nation with a 14-6 win over the Middies last week.
The effort on the part of his team won Tulane coach Andy Pilney the "coach of the week" award from United Press International.
Aside from the Navy game, Tulane fans have had little to cheer about this season. Tulane is at the bottom of, the Southeastern Conference standings with a 0-3 record. The Greenies have been outscored by their opponents 94-56 in five games.
Tulane was not supposed to be in the same league with previously-unbeaten Navy. But the Greenies took a 7-0 lead early in the first quarter and held on to hand the nationally ranked Middies a sound defeat.
Quarterback Richie Petitbon was the big man in both touchdown drives for the Greenies. He called a smart game, ran well and did most of his team's passing.
Petitibon crossed up the Middies, who were looking for a passing game, by sticking to the ground. Tulane gained 214 of its 238 yards on rushing plays. The Green Wave passed only five times and completed two.
Tulane outrushed and outdowned Navy. The only department in which the Middies were superior was in passing. They completed 10 of 19 passes for 165 yards and one touchdown.
Pilney said this week he felt the Navy victory is the turning point in the present football situation at Tulane.
"After Navy, we know we can win," he said. "The boys have confidence to go ahead and complete the season's schedule successfully, I hope."
Three Big Eight Conference matches are scheduled for this weekend. Oklahoma is expected to have no trouble against Kansas State, and undefeated Colorado should coast by Nebraska. The story will be different next week when the Sooners and Buffaloes clash at Boulder.
'Easy' Games Precede Big OU,CU Clash
The contest at Columbia, Mo., is picked to be the closest league game of the day. Missouri, which defeated Kansas State 32-8 last week, meets the Iowa State Cyclones, losers of their last three games.
In other games, Oklahoma State is favored slightly over Cincinnati while Kansas is underdog to visiting Tulane.
The Oklahoma-Kansas State game at Norman should give Bud Wilkinson another victory to add to his list of 64 straight conference triumphs.
Wildcats Stumped by MU
Kansas State looked impressive on paper before its loss to Missouri last week. The Wildcats had collected 326 total offensive yards against Colorado's 230 in a 3-13 loss early in the season. K-State averaged 219 yards rushing in its first four games.
But, against Missouri the rushing total dropped to only 47 yards.
K-State coach Bus Mertes looked for much better games the remainder of the season.
"We are a lot better team than we howed Saturday," he insists. "We'll come back and play good football. We stil have confidence in our offense and defense although neither looked good against Missouri."
A Close One Last Year The last Kansas State victory over Oklahoma was in 1934, when the
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The Wildeats, however, depend on running much more than passing. They have rushed 922 yards in five games. Passing yardage was 410 yards.
The Sooner rushing average has been 251 net yards. Forward passing vardage has been an average of 127 yards. Sooner passers have hit 31 completions in 66 attempts for a percentage of 46.9.
Oklahoma, after a 1-point loss to Texas two weeks ago, has a 3-1 record. In other games, it beat West Virginia 47-14, downed Oregon 6-0 and smashed Kansas 43-0.
Kansas State leads the conference in passing, having completed 39 of 71 forward toes for 54.9 per cent. Quarterback Les Kruil is the league's most accurate passer. He has completed 20 of 33 attempts.
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The game will feature the league's poorest pass defensive teams. Kansas State allowed its opponents to complete 53.7 per cent of their passing attempts, while Oklahoma yielded 51.7 per cent.
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Colorado, undefeated in four games this season, is in the worst physical condition of the year following its 20-0 victory over Iowa State.
Even more battered is its opponent, Nebraska, which fell to Syracuse Saturday 38-0. The Cornhuskusers have been bothered by a list of injuries so long that contact work has been hampered.
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thing to worry about in last Saturday's game with the Cyclones. In the second quarter, Colorado had the ball for only eight plays. Included in that quarter were a fumble, a dropped punt and an intercepted pass.
Cincinnati knocked off previously unbeaten College of the Pacific last week 12-6. The Bearcats mixed rushing and passing to add up a total offense of 331 yards.
Coach Dal Ward was given some-
Iowa State, still looking for its first Big Eight victory, goes to Columbia this weekend to meet the Missouri Tigers.
Cyclones Lack Big 8 Victory
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Cincinnati has lost only one game this season. That was a 13-34 loss to Houston. Oklahoma State, after dropping its only loss to Tulsa 16-24, beat Houston 7-0.
Iowa State, also under a new coach, Clay Stapleton, has undergone changes of its own this year. Some 62 position shifts have been made—and the moving has not yet ended.
Missouri, after having trouble with non-conference opponents, turned on Kansas State 32-8 last week. Under Coach Dan Devine, the Tigers have been running a multiple offense. They appear to have become used to the offense now.
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