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Tuesday, September 15, 1998
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Wildcat defense to receive visit from 1997's top scorer
DES MOINES. Iowa — Everywhere he looks in the Big 12, Kansas State coach Bill Snyder sees an outstanding running back
The Associated Press
ring back.
And of all those runners, Snyder feels the one he will see Saturday is the best.
Williams: Will be Texas' weapon against K-State.
Texas will bring Ricky Williams to Manhattan for the mid- September conference game but the
Longhorns will not have quarterback Richard Walton. Snyder feels badly about that, but not as badly as Texas coach Mack Brown.
Walton is sidelineled four to six weeks with a broken middle finger on his throwing hand. Redshift freshman Max Applewhite will replace Walton and face a Kansas State defense that has allowed fewer yards than anyone in the country — notättigative present.
player, let alone one so young.
"Richard really understood our offense," Brown said yesterday. "He's taken all the snaps with the first team since we got here. This isn't a good week for having to be conservative
Walton: Sidelined at least six weeks with an injury.
against this great defense."
Walton was injured when he was knocked down after completing a 16-yard pass in the fourth quarter of last Saturday's 49-31 loss to UCLA. He put his right hand down to brace himself, and the middle finger fractured.
Applewhite played the rest of that game, completing 3-of-5 passes for 35 yards and directing two scoring drives.
"He's very similar to Richard, just not as old and not as experienced." Brown said. "The problem that you have with a young quarterback is that sometimes it's easier to come off the bench and play, because you haven't had that build-up all week.
"My experience is that it's tough to play the No.1 defense in the country when you've had a week to watch it. I might not let him watch film this week."
More of the Longhorns' offensive load likely will fall on Williams, who led the nation in rushing and
scoring last season and has run for 375 yards in two games this fall. Snydler thinks Williams can handle it and joked that maybe the only way to stop him would be to put a 12th or 13th defender on the field.
Snyder: Looking for ways stop the Texas running game.
"We're facing
We're facing a marvelous athlete," Snyder said. "He's a young man who can do so many things — bounce the ball outside, run downhill, he's an inside guy, an outside guy, he has speed, he has power, he can do it all. I imagine he can probably throw it and punit as well if he had to.
I don't recall anybody that can play with the explosiveness and vision that Ricky seems to play with. There's been some great running backs we've played against, but ... this is a very special young guy."
Williams is not the only Big 12 back putting up good numbers this season. The league has the nation's top three rushers this week and four of the top eight.
Missouri's Devin West leads the nation with a 222-yard average after running for a school-record 319
yards in a 41-23 win against Kansas.
The other Ricky Williams, the one at Texas Tech, is second with a 210.5-yard average, and his Texas counterpart is third at 187.5.
Iowa State's Darren Davis moved
up to eighen after running for 244 yards in the Cyclones' upset of Iowa. He is averaging 156.5 yards a game.
"This might be as good a
year as any for running backs in the Big 12, or Big Eight Conference for that matter, at least in my tenure here," Snyder said.
Walton is among several Big 12 quarterbacks who are hurting. Colorado's Mike Moschetti bruised some ribs in last Saturday's 28-21 win against Fresno State, and coach Rick Neuheuis does not know if he will be ready for this week's game with Utah State.
“It’s a wait-and-see deal,” Neuheiisel said. “I’m told lots of guys play with this type of injury, so I’m going Mike.js.”
one of those guys."
Nebraska's
Bobby
Newcombe, who has
missed the last
two
games
because of a sore
knee, should benefit from the Cornhuskers' off week and should return for their Sept. 26 game with Washington, coach Frank Solich said. But No. 2 quarterback Eric Crouch aggravated a hamstring strain in Saturday's 24-3 win at Cal.
Oklahoma coach John Blake expects quarterback Brandon Daniels to return from a shoulder injury this week. But his replacement, Patrick Fletcher, injured an ankle in the Sooners' 10-9 victory against TCU.
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