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University Daily Kansau Monday, Nov. 23, 1964
KU Closes Season on Frigid Note
By Russ Corbitt (Sports Editor)
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Coach Jack Mitchell's KU Jayhawks closed out the 1964 football season on a cold note here Saturday.
The Jayhawks took a 7-6 advantage over the Missouri Tigers to the dressing room at halftime. But the sub-freezing second-half winds seemed to propel the victory-hungry Tigers and freeze the helpless
Jayhawks as MU exploded for 28 points and a 34-14 triumph.
It was the first time in the last seven years of the long rivalry that the home team was victorious. It was also a marked departure from the customary KU-MU encounters of the past decade which have been decided in the last few minutes.
THE JAYHAWKS came back to notch a 14-14 tie late in the third quarter, but from then on it was all Missouri, as the Tigers
tallied 20 points in the final frame.
About the only bright spot of the game for KU fans were the two extra point kicks by defensive halfback. Garv Duff.
The two boots raised the Salina senior's career PAT kicks to 50, breaking the former school record of 49 held by KU's offensive line coach, Don Fambrough.
Duff also finished his college career with six field goals. This
mark is only one short of the varsity record held by John Suder, KU's kicking specialist of 1958-60.
IN ADDITION to his kicking performance, Duff, who led the Jayhawks in tackles this season, also prevented another probable MU touchdown by recovering one of Missouri's two lost fumbles.
Huskers Win Title Anyway
OU Breaks Nebraska Streak
Duff hit Gus Otto, senior Tiger fullback, in the second quarter as the MU captain drove to the KU six-yard line.
By United Press International
Oklahoma dropped a bomb on Cotton Bowlbound Nebraska Saturday and smashed the nation's longest major collegiate winning streak.
Despite the loss, the Huskers took their second straight Big Eight football title—thanks to some timely help from rugged Missouri.
The Sooners blasted fourth-ranked Nebraska, 17-7, and Missouri, which eliminated Oklahoma the week before with a 14-14 deadlock, crushed Kansas, 34-14. The Jayhawkers could have tied for the Big Eight crown with a victory over Missouri.
IN OTHER GAMES, Kansas State upset Oklahoma State, 17-14, to wrap up its finest conference season since 1955. In a pair of non-league scraps, Colorado out-dueled Air Force, 28-23, and Iowa State concluded its worst grid campaign in 35 years with a scoreless deadlock at Arizona.
Except for Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Kansas State, Big Eight teams put the lid on the 1964 season with Saturday's encounters. Nebraska will take some time off before it begins
preparations for the Cotton Bowl clash with Arkansas on New Year's Day.
Missouri, as of late Sunday, was still toying with the idea of accepting a possible bowl bid from either the Gator, Sun or Liberty classics.
Oklahoma and Oklahoma State close out the conference season next Saturday at Stillwater. Oklahoma must win to take the runner-up spot behind Nebraska while the Cowboys need a victory for undisputed fifth place. Kansas State battles New Mexico in its season finale at Albuquerque.
The Sooners marched 88 yards in 24 plays for the go-ahead touchdown and fullback Larry Brown charged 48 yards for the icer. Oklahoma dominated the game with a crushing ground attack—268 to Nebraska's 86.
OKLAHOMA, PLAYING TO NEAR perfection, came from behind to erase a 7-3 Nebraska lead with a pair of fourth quarter touchdowns and handed Nebraska its first setback in 17 games. The loss also smashed Nebraska's bid for its first unbeaten and untied season since 1915.
"I tackled him head-on and saw the ball fly loose," Duff said. "I saw the loose ball and I just rolled over on it."
MAKING the defeat even more distasteful for the Jayhawks was the fact that a victory would have given them a share of the conference title. Oklahoma upset previously unbeaten Nebraska. 17-7.
The loss also cost KU a possible trip to a post-season bowl game.
Gale Sayers, KU's All-American, closed his college career with his worst rushing day of his three years. The Omaha senior continued his season's second-half slump by picking up only 19 yards.
SAYERS SCORED KU's first touchdown, as the Jayhawks scored on its first series of plays after holding MU on three plays.
KU was held on downs and Wally Hinshaw got off a punt to the MU 34. But Denny fumbled
the kick and Jayhawk end
George Hormung recovered.
The Jayhawks drove to the five-yard line on seven plays. Sayers then went around right end untouched for the touchdown. Duff's kick gave KU a 7-0 margin with the game only eight minutes old, and the Jayhawks appeared to be prime for another offensive performance.
BUT IT was late in the third quarter before the Jayhawks were again able to cross the goal of the stubborn Missouri defenders.
On a third and four situation on his own 19, KU quarterback, Bob Skahan, threw a strike to end Sandy Buda at the KU 25. Buda eluded two Tiger defenders who tried to break up the pass, and chugged to the MU 16 before he was brought down from behind by Gary Grossnickle.
Six plays later, Skahan dove into the end zone from the one for KU's only other touchdown. Duff's kick knotted the score at 14-14, and gave him the new school record.
BUT THEN the fired-up Tigers began their fourth-quarter "at-will" scoring and it was all over for the Jayhawks except the crying.
"We've been getting away all year with one of the weakest defenses in the conference, and it finally caught up with us," Mitchell said.
"Missouri just took the ball and drove it down our throats," he said.
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