Monday, Nov. 9, 1964
University Daily Kansan
Page 3
Tables Finally Turn on Jayhawks
By Bob Jones (Assistant Managing Editor)
(Assistant Managing Editor)
KU's normal good luck in Big Eight Conference football games turned sour Saturday and the Nebraska Cornhuskers staved off a strong second half bid by the Jayhawks to win 14-7.
Three times during the second half, the Jayhawks had a touchdown "made," and three times something wrong.
The first chance came when George Harvey hit NU quarterback Bob Churchich, causing him to fumble on the KU 42-yard line. Bob Robben recovered for Kansas, and the Hawks then drove to the one-yardline.
WITH FOURTH down and goal-
to-go on the one, a Nebraska lineman broke through the KU forward wall and hit quarterback Bob Skahan, causing him to fumble a pitch-out to Mike Johnson.
Johnson picked up the fumble, but was stopped short of the touchdown by the Nebraska line.
Kansas held Nebraska on the next series of downs, forcing them to punt. Gale Sayers received the punt and returned it to the Nebraska 40-yard line.
On the first play in this series, Sayers threw a pass intended for George Hornung, who was 10 yards behind the Nebraska defenders. The pass was overthrown.
ON THIRD down in this same series came the play when maybe just
Skahan threw a pass to Sayers who was running full speed behind the Nebraska defenders. Sayers caught the ball, but as he did his left knee irarred it out of his hands.
Speculation after the game was that if Sayers had been bringing his right knee up instead of his left, he would have easily made a touchdown reception.
However, the dropped pass forced KU to punt, and the Jayhawks never regained possession as Nebraska ran out the clock with power sweeps.
a different step would have meant another KU touchdown.
AFTER THE game, KU coach Jack Mitchell cited the 92-yard touchdown pass play from NU quarterback Churchich to end Freeman White as the key to the game.
"You just can't compete in this caliber of football and have the long pass completed on you like that," he said.
"This is the third or fourth time this season we've had one thrown over us, but fortunately we had been able to run the guy down before he scored."
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As the team broke its huddle, one could see several of the players and coaches frantically waving at the fans trying to quiet them down so the team could hear the signals called.
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Nebraska coach Bob Devaney said Kansas' passing attack caught the Cornhuskers by surprise.
The KU cross country team won its 16th Big Eight conference title in the last 18 years by capturing top team honors in the conference championships at Manhattan Saturday.
"We were concentrating on their running game and probably under-estimated their passing. So when Kansas elected to go more with passes, we couldn't contain them like we wanted to," Devaney said.
ONE OF the more unusual aspects of the game was the KU coaches and bench spent some time trying to quiet the student body.
The Jayhawks, hampered by injuries, upset favored Oklahoma State. 31-68. Other team scores were Colorado. 72; Kansas State, Nebraska. 133; Iowa State, 156; Missouri. 161; and Oklahoma. 175.
Dave Wighton of Colorado came on strong in the last mile for a surprising win. He edged KU's Bill
KU won only one conference championship meet prior to 1947, but since then has lost only to Oklahoma State in 1960, and to Colorado in 1962.
Wighton passed both Silverberg and defending champion Robin Lingle of Missouri in the last half mile.
Herold Hadley, 9th; and Ken Holm, 11th.
Silverberg, the meet favorite, by eight seconds in finishing with a tim of 14:12
Silverberg was followed by teammate John Lawson, giving KU second and third places. Conrad Nightengale of Kansas State was fourth and Lingle was fifth, 24 seconds off the winning pace.
Half of Top Ten Suffer Upsets
Other Jayhawk finishes in the scoring were Tom Yergovich, 6th;
(By United Press International) The big time pressures of college football were never more evident than in last Saturday afternoon's contests. Five of the nation's top 10 teams cracked under the strain of their rugged schedules and three more were nearly knocked from the ranks of the elite.
Ohio State, Georgia Tech, Louisiana State, Purdue and Florida were casualities, the first three suffering their initial setbacks of the season. Notre Dame, Nebraska and Texas, three other members of college football's select group, barely managed to escape scathed.
The win was Penn State's fourth in four tries against Ohio State.
The Buckeyes, loss was the most shocking. They were ranked second in the nation and had a 6-0 record but were humiliated in a 27-0 loss to Penn State.
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Owens Says Cage Squad Faces Molding Process
Although he was a trifle disappointed in his squad's team effort and "lack of fire" in the varsity-freshman game Friday night, KU basketball coach Ted Owens is still optimistic about the Jayhawks' upcoming season.
"There is no question that we can have a fine team." Owens said after the varsity's 51-34 victory in the annual homecoming event.
"But we will have to mold it, because we didn't look too good tonight."
PERHAPS the reason for the lack of fire was the fact that the varsity, led by 6-11 Walt Wesley's 21 points, was never in danger of losing the contest. The winners jumped off to a
fast start, then slowed down, and led,
30-17 at the half.
George Unseld, 6-7 all-conference center last year, played at forward the entire evening, contributing six points and nine rebounds. Unseld was the only player Owens singled out for a good effort, especially on defense.
The high scorer for the freshman squad was 6-2 Rodger Bohnentiehl, the Collinsville, Ill., All-American, who got 10 points and three rebounds. He had a perfect night at the free throw line with eight-for-eight.
One encouraging factor was Wesley's offensive play under the basket, and his nine-for-ten accuracy at the free throw line.
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