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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
University Daily Kansan
Monday, November 25.1974
5
JERSEY
SPORTS
Coaching during Saturday's 27-3 loss to Missouri wasn't an easy task, as KU coaches discovered both during and after the game. At the left, KU offensive coordinator Bobby Bobby received the glasses) and receiver coaxing (the shoulder) to inspire KU's offensive unit during the second half. But with starting quarterback Scott McMichael on the bench with a knee injury, KU's offense needed more than inspiration. KU's only score came on a second field goal and the Hawks could manage only 239 yards of total offense.
At the right, a disappointed KU Head Couch Don Fambrough talks with reporters in the locker room after the game. Fambrough said that he had seen one of the most frustrating he'd ever experienced associated with, either as a coach or a player, and that his staff would begin work immediately to see that KU didn't repeat the performance the season with a 47 overall record for last place in the Big Eight with a record of 1-6.
Final loss plunges KU into cellar
By MARK ZELIGMAN
Sports Editor
Center John Morgan probably said it best:
"I'm just glad this nightmare's over."
The nightmare Morgan was referring to was the 1974 University of Kansas football season, which ended Saturday with a sixth straight loss, this time to Missouri. 27-3
“It’s been one of the toughest seasons I’ve been through, either as a player or coach.” Coach Don Fambrouch said. “But it’s over, and we’ve got to go forward and start recruiting, go out and get some better players and fill some gaps.”
The Missouri game was a particular disappointment because of the lack of sustained effort from the Jayhawks. Although they lost the last three games, the 'Hawks fought and hustled throughout each game. Saturday was a different story.
"I was very disappointed," Mambroub said. "Some people gave tremendous effort, but we didn't have it from the entire team, and that's what you've not to have."
"We weren't emotionally ready," Morgan said, having lost five straight, maybe that was the reason.
Whatever the reason, with the exception of a few players, the Jayhawks looked like a team that is not ready to play.
don't need much explanation because this loss was typical of all the other losses;
—A KEY OFFENSIVE PLAYER WAS INJURED EARLY. This time it was again quarterback Scott McMichael, who, on a third down play midway in the first quarter, dropped back to pass, caught his cheats in the turf and crumpled to the ground.
"When that happened," Fambrough said, smooth
eyes. "It was all this year because he
wanted to all just laugh."
Originally feared to have injury ligament dislocation and a knee injury diagnosis as a cartilage injury in his arm, he will undergo surgery tomorrow. Fambro says the injury should not affect McClure's right ankle.
-AFTER THE KEY OFFENSIVE PLAYER GOT HURT, the offense stopped men on the wing. Michael, did lead the Jayhawks on a 9-yard drive that culminated in a field goal by Mike Love. Except for some individual efforts by the defense offside did nothing the rest of the day.
WHEN MECMICHAEL GOT HURT, SMITH was the whole Jayhawk offense. Smith gained 79 yards on 15 carries on a slippery natural grass turf. He finished the season with 1,181 yards, a single season record for KU.
—KRATTLI REPLACED McMICHAEL
and promptly bobbled the snap from center.
He usually does it on his first play.
However, Saturday he waited until his third ploy.
- BECAUSE OF THE OFFENSE' INPETNESS, the Jawahrawkes defense was on the field most of the day. Playing tough at first, the defense eventually wore down at
★ ★ ★ ★
MU 18 MU 18
First downs 12 12 59-221
Pasting yards 6e-10e 10 e
Pasting yards 1.0 1.0
Planes 9-19.4 19.4
Planes 1.8-10 10-8
Pumples-loot 2.1 2.1
Pumples-loot 2.1 1.0
Pumples-loot 2.1 0.7
Kaneans 0 2 0 3 0
Missouri  6   5   4   3   2
MU- Galilean 9 run (Gibbons kick)  6
10
MU–Muse 5 pass from Plankierker (Gibbons kitch)
MU–Muse 4 pass from Galerbeath (Gibbons kitch)
MU–Muse 4 pass from Galerbeath
Individual
Ku-Smith BJ, 15-79. Milne JP, 14-86. Hirsch PJ, 11-84. MMcHenley JM, 10-83. Smith JP, 10-83. Milne JP, 10-83. Hirsch PJ, 11-84. MMcHenley JM, 10-83. Milne JP, 10-83. Hirsch PJ, 11-84. MMcHenley JM, 10-83. Milne JP, 10-83. Hirsch PJ, 11-84. MMcHenley JM, 10-83. Milne JP, 10-83. Hirsch PJ, 11-84. MMcHenley JM, 10-83. Milne JP, 10-83. Hirsch PJ, 11-84. M
Ku-Kryst 4-11-7-6 3 Interaction, M; Michael 3-14-0-9
M; Michael 3-14-0-9 3 Interaction, M; Michael 3-14-0-9
M; Mu-Kryst 2-8-0-8 4,8 Interaction, Gathrarch 2-8-0-
8 M; Mu-Kryst 2-8-0-8 4,8 Interaction, Gathrarch 2-8-0-
8 M
K- Eubanks 40,5; Smith 744,5; Sassath 29,1; Miller 7,1
U- Kubowski 40,6; Smith 744,2; Zimmer 2,1; Muson 3,2;
Galbraeth 14,6
**Rights:** © 2013 John W. Clarke and University Press.
Punting
KU—Swift 7-43.1.
MU—Goble 8-43.2
the end and allowed two fourth quarter touchdowns.
Tony Galbreath of Missouri did gain 137 vards, but he needed 33 carries to win.
- STEVE TOWLE ROAMED FROM SIDELINE to sideline and tacked every Missouri Tiger he could get his hands on. He played well in the season with 154, a KU season record.
—Towle, Mike Lemon and Oddell Weddler played the game as if it were played for the national championship. Except for a few other games, couldn't be said about the rest of the team.
One of the few bright spots was the continued improvement of the much maligned kicking game. Punter Bob Swift boomed eight points for an average of 43 yards each, man-to-man so high that a runback prevented. Mr. White was perfect on his only field goal attempt.
MOST OF THE PLAYERS ARE GLAID the season's over, but some would welcome another chance to redeem themselves. Tight end Kai Saathoff, for one, would like a chance to play regularly a whole year. But he isn't ready for it, the first game of the year against Missouri.
"It's hard for me to understand that I'm too small to play tight end when I've been playing their two years before," Sastho said. "But I'm not coaching. That's the way
it goes. I just have to set other goals and hit the books."
Morgan, a junior, will be back next year to try to turn the 'Hawks' fortunes around. "Since I'm' junior, I can come back and do something about it," he said. "It's too embarrassing to end it this way. I feel bad for our seniors."
DEFENSIVE END DEAN ZOOK is one of those seniors who won't get another chance.
"The seniors this year were Coach Fambrough's first recruits," Zook said. "We took a lot of pride in that. I feel sorry for both ourselves and Coach Fambrough. He's a great coach, and we let him down. He deserved better."
AND SO THE JAYHAWK season ends, having lost the last six in a row. After going to the Liberty Bowl last year, they tied for place in the Big Eight with Kansas State.
Interestingly enough, the last time KU finished last in the Big Eight was in 1969, after the 1968 team went to the Orange Bowl.
"In a way, we kind of like to start all over again this Saturday." Farnbrough said. "I know we're a better football team than we showed. We've got to make decisions to prevent this from happening again.
Photos by
Kansan Photographers
DAVE PETERSON
JAN SEYMOUR
Big 8 standings
League All Games
Oklahoma 6 0 10 0
Nebraska 5 2 8 3
Missouri 5 2 7 4
Oklahoma State 4 2 6 4
Columbus 2 4 6 4
Iowa State 2 5 4 4
Kansas 1 6 4 7
Kansas State 1 6 4 7
Missouri 27, Kansas 3
Oklahoma 28, Nebraska 14
Kansas State 33, Colorado 19
Oklahoma State 14, Iowa State 12
Defense has long game in defeat by Tigers
By JIM SHELDON Associate Sports Editor
Just as it has so many times this year, the KU defense spent a lot of time on the football field during Saturday's 27-3 loss to Missouri.
The defense knew it would be in for a mo-
afternoon when the knee of KU's starti-
ning quarterback, Scott McMichael, buckled
under him on the Jayhawks' second off-
ense against his teammate, KU's
offense rarely managed to put together any
sort of time-consuming drive.
"I began to tire a little on their first long drive," senior co-captain and linebacker Steve Towle said after the game. "I was down there trying to get the team fired up. It takes a lot out of you, yelling and to stop their drive."
The defense gave another good effort, but as it spent more and more time on the field, the team was down.
KU's offense didn't help in the second half when two turnovers, a fumble and an interception, set up Missouri's final two scores.
"They really didn't do anything different offensively," defensive tackle Fedro Dillon said. "We'd watched films of them all year, and we knew they were mistakes, and they constellated them."
In that second quarter drive, which ended with the Tiger's second touchdown, he got one of four key carries, including a one-yard touchdown扑击. At that point, Galbreath had carried the ball 21 times for 113 yards and finished the day with 34 carries and 137 yards.
"He's one of the strongest backs I've ever confronted. He's a punishing runner." Runner.
Throughout the game, Missouri executed
well and, for the most part, beat KU with its basic offense.
"It was pretty much what we had prepared for," KU defensive coordinator Jim Dickey said. "They just executed well. Their backs ran well, they came off the line well and just played a good game. You have to give them credit."
"We thought we knew what they were going to do," he said. "We'd have a defense called in only one or two plays in Missouri's entire offensive scheme would work, but it seemed like they'd run that play."
According to Towle, Missouri's play selection also was a factor in the game.
Towle himself seemed to be all over the field. He made 17 tackles in the contest, seven of them unassisted. For Towle and the rest of KU's seniors, their hopes of winning note and beating Missouri for the fourth straight time never materialized.
"You always want to win the last game of the year." Towle said. "This was my last game, and that was why I wanted to win, not so much because it was against Missouri. I didn't care that much about the four in a row, but I just wanted to win this last one."
Offensively, there was little KU could take pride in, except for the play of tailback Laverne Smith. On his third carry of the game, Smith broke up the middle for 28 yards, which kept the past KU single season ruling record of 1,134 yards, set by John Riggins in 1970.
Smith finished the day with 15 carries for 79 yards, giving him 1,181 yards for the year. But even for Smith, the record was less insignificant, as KU dropped its sixth straight.
"It doesn't mean anything," Smith said. "Winning is the only thing that really matters."
Before...after
Biltzing Missouri linebacker Lym Evans hits KU quarterback Scott McMichael just after McMichael released a pass. The play came early in the first quarter of Saturday's loss at Columbia and, later in the same season, McMichael again dropped back to the bench. But the game was over when he hit McMichael sat on the rest of the game and will undergo knee surgery tomorrow.