From: maryb@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.college
Subject: Jayhawk Posting #23
Date: 13 Oct 92 23:17:10 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

This article is from the Monday, October 12, 1992 issue of the University
Daily Kansan.

KANSAS BLASTS PAST KANSAS STATE 31-7
by David Bartkoski, Kansan sportswriter

   The lights went out in the press area in Memorial Stadium at 4:03 p.m.
Saturday, just before Kansas coach Glen Mason appeared to field post-game
questions about Kansas' 31-7 victory against Kansas State. But the Jay-
hawks, 4-1, turned the lights out on the Wildcats, 3-1, long before that in
a contest played before an estimated 52,000 fans, thought to be the largest
crowd ever at a Kansas home game.
   The Kansas defense dominated K-State's offense, limiting the Wildcats to
69 yards of total offense and sacking junior quarterback Jason Smargiasso
nine times. Smargiasso said that the Jayhawks' front seven defenders came
hard off the ball and that the entire defense seemed to know K-State's
every move. "We'd run outside, and they'd be outside," he said. "We'd run
inside, and we knew they would be there."
   Kansas did not have much trouble with K-State's defense as it rushed for
289 yards and compiled 457 yards of total offense. Although the Jayhawks
dominated the Wildcats statistically, three Kansas turnovers in the first
half helped keep K-State in the ball game. Kansas fumbled and lost the ball
on its first two possessions.
   Kansas senior tailback Maurice Douglas, who rushed for two touchdowns
and a career-high 127 yards, fumbled on the fourth play of the game. The
ball was recovered by K-State senior Brent Venables on the Kansas 35-yard
line. Two plays later, Kansas junior cornerback Robert Vaughn intercepted a
pass by Smargiasso and returned it 19 yards to the Kansas 42-yard line. In
the next series, Kansas turned the ball over again when junior tight end
Dwayne Chandler fumbled, and Venables recovered the ball on the K-State
24-yard line.
   But Kansas broke its string of mistakes when Douglas scampered into the
end zone from 7 yards out, and the Jayhawks took a 7-0 lead near the end of
the first quarter.
   K-State again picked up momentum when junior free safety Jaime Mendez
blocked a 36-yard field goal attempt by Kansas junior kicker Dan Eichloff
early in the second quarter, and the Wildcats recovered the ball on their
own 22-yard line. Kansas later answered with a 58-yard drive, capped off by
a 2-yard touchdown run by senior fullback Monte Cozzens. The Jayhawks then
added a 22-yard field goal by Eichloff and led K-State 17-0.
   The 'Hawks were driving toward another score near the end of the half
when K-State senior strong safety C.J. Masters intercepted a pass by
Hilleary and returned it 80 yards for a touchdown. The extra point after
the touchdown made the score 17-7, the halftime score.
   Mason said the Kansas turnovers and mistakes in the first half concerned
him. "There are some things that shouldn't have happened there," he said.
"You shouldn't throw that interception. We had a couple of penalties that I
didn't think should have happened."
   Kansas began the second half the way it began the game, dominating the
Wildcats on both sides of the ball. Cozzens and Douglas scored on 4- and
6-yard touchdown runs, and Eichloff added two extra points to finish
Kansas' scoring for the day. The Jayhawk defense held the Wildcats to two
first downs through three quarters, and K-State had negative yards in total
offense until the fourth quarter, when both schools primarily played
second- and third-team players.
   K-State coach Bill Snyder said the Kansas defense was the best his team
had played against since he came to K-State. "Their front four was awesome
and gave us no room to operate," he said.
   Kansas junior defensive tackle Chris Maumalanga said he did not think
the K-State offensive line played like they did earlier this season. He
said that he thought the 16-day break between the California and K-State
games helped the Jayhawks. "We came ready to play and had extra rest," he
said. "K-State had only a few days. It will ease the pain from last year's
loss."

NOTES:
--The 69 yards of total offense by K-State are the fewest the Kansas
  defense has allowed since the 1961 game against the Wildcats, when K-State
  had 35 yards of total offense.
--Kansas' defense gave up no first downs in the first half and eight in the
  game. It was the fewest first downs by a Kansas opponent since the 1975
  game against K-State.
--Senior tailback Maurice Douglas scored his seventh and eighth rushing
  touchdowns of the year Saturday. He has scored at least one touchdown in
  every game this season.
--Senior fullback Monte Cozzens rushed for two touchdowns and a career-high
  83 yards.
--K-State had minus 56 yards rushing. That is the fewest rushing yards ever
  allowed by a Kansas defense, breaking the record of minus 23 yards against
  Denver in 1947.
--Junior kicker Dan Eichloff became the second player in Kansas history to
  amass 200 points in his career. He scored seven points Saturday and has 201
  career points. Bruce Kallmeyer, a kicker who played from 1980-83, owns the
  Kansas record of 233 points in a career.
--Kansas has won 11 consecutive games against K-State in Lawrence and has a
  61-24-5 all-time record against the Wildcats.

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