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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Oct. 1, 1956
KU's Offense Clicks; Ties Tough COP 27-27
A crowd of over 17,000 witnessed one of the most exciting football games ever played in Memorial Stadium Saturday as Kansas fought back from seven, fourteen, and seven point deficits to tie College of Pacific. 27-27.
The score was tied, 20-20 midway through the fourth period and the Jayhawkers appeared to be on their way to a winning touchdown when a fumble was recovered by COP on its own 37 yeard line.
It took only seven plays for COP to score on a pass from quarterback Tom Flores to end Farrell Funston. The conversion was successful and with only 3:16 remaining in the contest, Kansas seemed destined for their second defeat of the young season.
On the ensuing kickoff, KU moved to the COP 30 yard line, aided by a 15 yard penalty. But its offensive attack staled momentarily as two passes fell incomplete. On third down, fullback Homer Floyd ran around left end and weaved his way through the COP secondary to a touchdown to pull Kansas within one point of a tie.
Wahmeter Conde Through Capt-center Galen Wahlmeier split the uprights with his conversion and Kansas successfully thwarted a last minute COP drive to preserve a tie in its first game with the Pacific Coast school.
Wahlneier Comes Through
Kansas' leaky pass defense allowed COP 237 yards and it took a potent running attack by the Jayhawkers to offset the pinpoint passing of Jim Reynosa and Flores. Their No.1 target all afternoon was Funston who caught five passes for a total of 130 yards and two touchdowns.
Line Play Tough
Kansas allowed its opponents only a total of 91 yards on the ground. 60 of these by the highly-publicized sophomore halfback Dick Bass.
Bass averaged only 3.7 yards per carry, well below his usual
average of over 12. He was contained by the KU defense for the bigger part of the game although he scored COP's third touchdown on an 18 yard run in the third period.
Halfback John Francisco was the Jayhawkers' leading ground gainer with 77 yards on 15 carries. Floyd was a close second with 64 yards.
Kansas failed to move the ball on its first series of offensive plays and Dave Preston punted to the COP 20 yard line. A Reynosa to Funston pass was good on 80 yard touchdown on Pacific's first play from scrimmage. Tom Green converted.
(Daily Kansan photo, John Battin)
The Jayhawkers were aided by a high pass from COP center Jack O'Rouke in scoring their first touchdown. Early in the second period Bob Denton dropped back to punt but could not get his kick off because of a poor center and was tackled by KU's Bruce Brenner on the eight yard line.
Floyd Scores
After two plays, Kansas was pushed back to the 12 yard line. Floyd then circled left end, as he did in the closing minutes of the game, for a touchdown. However, he huffed in the end zone and tackle Jim Hull recovered for the score. Wally Strauch, making his first appearance of the year, missed the extra point attempt.
Flores spotted Denton alone in the end zone late in the second period and passed for a COP touchdown from seven yards away. Green failed to convert. Halftime score 6-13.
COP elected to kick to Kansas as the second half began. A short punt by Preston after four downs gave the ball to the Tigers on their own 41 yard line. Seven plays later Bass went over and Green converted
DOWNED TOO LATE—KU halfback John Francisco is pulled down but too late to stop the Jayhawker from racking up a first and ten. Francisco was the top ground gainer in Saturday's game against COP. Other players are unidentified.
giving COP a commanding 20-6 lead.
Kansas took the kickoff and advanced from its own 29 yard line to the COP 36 but were forced to punt. The Jayhawkers recovered a Bass fumble on the COP 40, however, and after five running plays, Charlie McCue dove over from the one and Wahlmeier added the point.
KU Ties Game
COP could not move the ball against the spirited Kansas defense and punted. A 70-yard downfield drive, highlighted by a 26 yard pass play from Preston to McCue tied the score early in the fourth quarter. Preston capped the drive by sneaking over from the one and Wahlmeier converted. Score tied 27-27.
of the game took place in the final minute of the contest with the score tied at 27 to 27. An onside kickoff by Wahlmeier gave COP the ball on the Kansas 48 yard line.
Some of the most exciting action
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Flores' accurate passing moved COP to the 25 yard line but his next pass was intercepted by Francisco who returned it to the Kansas 40 with only seconds remaining in the game.
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Preston threw a long pass in a desperate attempt to score, but it was intercepted by Bass. He was caught by several Kansas tacklers on the KU 36 yard line to end the game.
When Oregon blanked Colorado, it was only the second time in 80 games that a Dal Ward-coached team had been blanked.
OU Beats N.C.; Football Pickers Come Through
By UNITED PRESS
The football experts who were so badly battered in the first week of the college season are somewhat revived now and able to take nourishment, thanks to old reliable Oklahoma and some strong teams from the Big Ten.
National champion Oklahoma, the naton's top-ranked team, set the pace for a return to the form sheet during the past weekend with its 31st straight victory, 36-0, over North Carolina. The only two high-ranked team to lose—seventh-rated Southern Methodist and 10th-ranked Syracuse—bowed to higher-ranked squads.
Easy OU Win
Oklahoma was hardly extended in beating North Carolina, coached by the same Jim Tatum who sent Maryland against the Sooners in last season's Orange Bowl game.
Not all the favorites won easily, however. Third-ranked Georgia Tech napped eighth-ranked S. M. U., conqueror or Notre Dame, 9-7. Pittsburgh outbatted 10th-ranked Syracuse, 14-7, by holding Jimmy Brown to 52 yards gained; and southwest power Texas A. & M., rated 11th, beat Louisiana State, 9-6, with the help of another safety.
Georgia Has Trouble
The surprises were in the margins of victory rather than in the winner that Ivy League power Yale could only down Connecticut, 19-14; that Tennessee crushed Auburn, 35-7, in an "even money" game; that Minnesota was able to pound Washington, 34-14, in another supposed squeaker, and that Georgia was held to 3-0 by Florida State
Looming as perhaps the top clash on the program Saturday is the arch-rival battle of Michigan State ranked no. 2 in the nation, and eight-ranked Michigan, at Ann Arbor.
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