Monday, Oct. 6, 1958 University Daily Kansan
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d Stopped After Taking Pass
The Short Story
| | KU | CU |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| First Downs | 11 | 23 |
| Rushing Yards | 73 | 397 |
| Passing Yards | 64 | 83 |
| Fumbles | 7 | 2 |
| Fumbles Lost | 5 | 1 |
| Penalties | 6 | 12 |
| Yards Penalized | 60 | 116 |
Kansas Drought Has Been Worse
Long-time Jayhawkers may think things are at an all time low. But they are not quite that bad.
Kansas has now gone three games without scoring. The record for Kansas is five games beginning the third game of 1933 through the end of the season.
Better days have brightened up the football scene, though. The Jayhawkers shut out seven opponents in a row beginning with the last game of 1904 through the first six games of 1905.
The fewest points yielded by a Kansas team in any season was six by the 1923 team—no one crossed the goal line, two field goals made the total.
Team Slips Far Into Murk; 'Must Pull Out All Alone'
How far can a football team go down before it rebounds and starts back up?
Mitchell referred to the poor showing the Jayhawkers had made before the Parents' Day crowd of 22,000. The fumbling, stumbling team had bobbled the ball seven times and had lost it five times.
Coach Jack Mitchell searched for the answer in the dressing room Saturday after Kansas had lost to Colorado 31-0. The loss was the third in three starts this season. The game was also the third one in which KU failed to score.
The first few plays were an indication of the way the game would go. Colorado kicked off to the Jayhawkers. The ball was put in play on the 20-yard-line.
"Our boys are too good to be down in the filth and murk," Mitchell said. "Individually, they're just not that bad. But the team, somehow, is just deteriorated to the core."
A Bad Start
On the first play, Bill Crank fumbled the ball and John Wooten, the 228-pound Buffalo guard, dived in to recover for Colorado on the Kansas 17.
Howard Cook, Colorado halfback, sped around the KU right end for the touchdown on the first Buffalo play. Only 22 seconds of the game time had elapsed.
"We just handed them that touchdown on a platter." Mitchell said. "We gave them three that way. They had to earn only one.
"They turned two of our fumbles into touchdowns. Then they threw a pass—that man just jumped up and took the pass and then scored.
"They weren't even forcing those fumbles. We just dropped them. Podunk Junior High could have gotten those three touchdowns out there today. They were just that easy to get."
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No Answer to Problem
"They seemed to do better last year when the coach quit. By golly, I'll just quit dragging them. From now on we'll just tell them what to work on.
Mitchell said he didn't have the solution for the Jayhawker problems. He said that maybe he was putting too much pressure on the squad.
"You can't tell how good the team is when it's in a hole like that."
Mitchell said he still had no idea how good or bad the team really is. The team was behind two touchdowns before it could begin to play, he said.
"We'll just coach them like things were normal. We won't try to generate any fire. We'll just see what happens. They have to pull themselves out of this muck."
Buffs Quiet, But Happy
Boyd Dowler, quarterback, spoke up first:
Buffs Quiet, But Happy
Over in the Colorado dressing room, the players were quietly happy. The feeling was that they were up for the game and Kansas wasn't. It was just that simple.
"I thought it might be a little harder," began Boyd. Dowler caught two touchdowns passes from Howard Cook, on 43 and 25 yard connections.
"They told us it would be a tough game. Don't misunderstand—it was tough. But I thought it would be a lot tougher," commented Bill Eurich, tackle.
Dave Garvin, reserve tailback,
was a little more explicit:
was a little more explicit:
"We knew we had to keep after them. We did a lot better job today than we did against K-State last Saturday. It was a team victory out there today. I think KU's schedule has hurt them this year."
Too Many Fumbles
"We have a lot of work to do. Arizona next week is going to be tough, and we're not even thinking of the big one with Oklahoma coming up."
"They just fumble too much," added Head Coach Dal Ward.
Eddie Dove, Buffalo back seemed to summarize the team's attitude as he boarded the bus to head to the airport:
"We were ready for KU. We went in there, and kept after them. They have a good club, and will win their share of games. The game went real well for our boys, and we have a team that will go a long way."
Cadets, Middies Through Coasting
By United Press International
Army and Navy, two of the nation's major football teams, get a chance to prove how good they really are next Saturday when they play their first major opponents of the season.
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The fifth-ranked Cadets rolled to their second straight victory last Saturday by whipping Penn State, 26-0, and the previous week they had an equally easy time of it, routing South Carolina, 34-0. However, the big test comes Saturday when they take on sixth-ranked Notre Dame, which has won both of its starts, not in such startling fashion, but over considerably tougher opponents.
Navy, ranked 12th, opened its season with a victory over William and Mary and followed with a 28-14 decision over Boston University. Next comes Michigan, a team which held second-ranked Michigan State to a 12-12 tie in one of last weekend's biggest form reversals.
While the Fighting Irish were satisfied with a 14-6 victory over a stubborn Southern Methodist team, some of the nation's other ranked teams found the going a bit rough.
Michigan State, trailing 12-6 with less than four minutes to play, finally gained the equalizer against surprisingly tough Michigan, but missed the try for extra point. The Spartans meet ninth-ranked Pittsburgh, a 13-7 winner over Minnesota, Saturday.
The longest losing streak for Kansas was 17 games, beginning with the fifth game of the 1953 season to the second game of 1955.