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Tuesday, September 5, 1995
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Big Eight goes undefeated
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — There is, after all, an up to scheduling down:
It's called winning. Just ask a quartet of unbeaters called Missouri, Kansas, Iowa State and Kansas State.
The idea is elegantly simple. Instead of hollering, "I can whip any man in the place," you pick an argument with the hat check girl
You almost always win more of these than you lose. Kansas State showed how it's done when Bill Snyder arrived seven years ago, dropping all the good-to-average non-conference opponents and replacing them with pushovers.
It helped the Wildcats from the very bottom of the college football cellar and put together back-to-back nine-win seasons in 1993 and 1994. It also made the Wildcats the envy of all the Big Eight's hawntots, who soon followed suit.
One week into the season, the only Big Eight teams without a victory are Alabama State, which opened against No. 2 Nebraska on
Thursday night, and No. 14 Oklahoma, which hasn't played yet.
Iowa State got its era under head coach Dan McCarney rolling in style Thursday night by beating Ohio, which didn't win a game last year.
The Kansas-Missouri-Kansas State trio once was dubbed the "Bermuda Triangle" because so many coaching careers went there and vanished. But for at least a week, there is not a loser in the bunch.
On Saturday, Missouri got its first home win in more than a year by beating North Texas 28-7, a team making its debut in Division I-A.
Kansas State, which is no longer a have-not by any definition of the term, still seems adicted to its patsy habit. In the debut of quarterback Matt Miller, the Wildcats looked impressive by dumping Temple 34-7 — and earning a spot in this week's rankings at No. 21.
emerged a lucky 23-18 winner over a Cincinnati team that won a grand total of two games the year before.
Kansas, after one of the most sluggish openers in Glen Mason's eight seasons as head coach,
It was up to No. 10 Colorado to prove a Big Eight team is capable of beating somebody who is somebody. The Buffs hardly seemed to miss coach Bill McCartney, quarterback Kordell Stewart and Heisman-winning tailback Rashaan Salaam.
A year after blitzing the Badgers by 88 points in Boulder, the newlook Buffs traveled to Madison, Wsls. and blitzed Wisconsin by 36.
It sounds as if somebody forgot to tell Colorado of the joys of scheduling down.
in the debut of coach Rick Neuheimer, quarterback Koy Detmer and several talented tuners, the Buffalooes scored on seven consecutive possessions en route to a 43-7 pasting of the Badgers.
In just the second night game in Camp Randall Stadium's 78-year history, Detmer completed 17 of 24 passes for 267 yards and three TDs.
Exceptions might be made to save streak
Rules for Ripken are confusing
The Associated Press
BALTIMORE — Imagine this: It's Wednesday night at Camden Yards, Mike Mussina throws the first pitch of the game and California's Tony Phillips lifts a pop foul behind third base.
Cal Ripken drifts toward the special row of box seats the Baltimore Orioles have built for the big day, trying to make the catch. He tumbles hard into the stands, misses the ball ... and breaks his right ankle!
So, on the night Ripen was set to break Lou Gehrig's record by playing his 2,131st straight game, does he get credit for continuing his streak?
"Somebody in baseball would have to make a ruling," said Seymour Siwoff of the Elias Sports Bureau, which compiles the official major league statistics.
"It would probably go to the Playing Rules Committee," he said. "The acting commissioner of baseball also would have author-
Here's the rub: Baseball rule 10.24 says a consecutive-game streak can be extended only if a player completes a time at bat or spends a half-inning in the field.
itv to rule on this."
That means that because Baltimore is the home team, Ripken has to be on the field for all three outs in the Angels' first inning. As in, a broken ankle, a bruised hand or even a bee sting could end the 13-year string by the Orioles shortstop.
Or could it?
"Well, it's far-fetched that something like that would happen," said Siwoff, a member of a subcommittee that oversees such things. "But if it did, my personal feeling is that the streak would continue."
The rules provide one exception — if a player is ejected before he can meet the requirements, his streak remains intact. Twice during Ripken's streak he has been ejected in the first inning for arguing called strikes: by Tim Welke on Sept. 25, 1987, and by Drew Coble on Aug. 7, 1989.
However, Siwoff said the rule was really just a guideline for governing streaks.
"Actually, those rules can be changed," he said.
Siwoff was a member of a committee that met in Colorado Springs, Colo., in 1957 to determine qualifications for things such as consecutive-game hitting and playing streaks. Among the rules still in place: a pinch-running appearance alone does not extend a playing string.
"We didn't want any chicanery," he said. "We wanted to eliminate a device for an injured player doing something merely to extend a streak. Otherwise, a team could announce a player as a pinch-runner, then pinch run for him."
Coincidentally, Ripken made his major league debut as a pinch-runner on Aug. 10, 1981, the season before his record streak began. He replaced Ken Singleton in the bottom of the 12th inning at Memorial Stadium and scored the winning run against Kansas City on John Lowenstein's single.
Officially, that was his first game in the big leagues. But according to the rule regarding pinch-runners, his consecutive-game streak — at that point — still stood at zero.
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