1975 Statistics

1975 Roster

Western Athletic Conference Standings
		WAC Games				All Games
School	Coach	W-L-T	Pct.	Pts.	Opp.	W-L-T	Pct.	Pts.	Opp.
Arizona St.	Frank Kush	7-0-0	1.000	178	74	12-0-0	1.000	347	127
Arizona	Jim Young	5-2-0	.714	210	111	9-2-0	.818	330	169
Colorado St.	Sark Arslanian	4-2-0	.667	84	114	6-5-0	.545	172	234
Brigham Young	LaVell Edwards	4-3-0	.571	157	142	6-5-0	.545	244	228
New Mexico	Bill Mondt	4-3-0	.571	173	151	6-5-0	.545	291	232
Utah	Tom Lovat	1-4-0	.200	87	169	1-10-0	.091	132	332
Wyoming	Fred Akers	1-6-0	.143	116	139	2-9-0	.181	174	219
UTEP	Gil Bartosh	0-6-0	.000	50	155	1-10-0	.091	109	281

Results

Date Opponent Score

9/13 Bowling Green 21-23 L

9/20 at Colorado St. 17-21 L

9/27 at Arizona St. 0-20 L

10/3 New Mexico 16-15 W

10/11 Air Force (H) 20-36 L

10/25 at Wyoming 33-20 W

11/1 Arizona 20-36 L

11/8 at Utah St. 24-7 W

11/15 Utah 51-20 W

11/22 at UTEP 20-10 L

11/29 at Southern Miss. 14-42 L

Coaching Staff

LaVell Edwards: Head Coach
Dave Kragthorpe: Offensive Coordinator/Offensive Line
Dick Felt: Defensive Coordinator/Backs
Norm Chow: Freshmen
Garth Hall: Running Backs
Mel Jay Olson: Receivers
Dwain Painter: Quarterbacks
Tom Ramage: Defensive Line
Fred Whittingham: Linebackers

SCORE BY QUARTERS

1 2 3 4 Total

BYU 40 73 73 58 244

OPP 81 40 31 76 228

ATTENDANCE

Bowling Green at Provo 29,718

Colorado St. at Fort Collins 27,491

Arizona St. at Tempe 50,944

New Mexico at Provo 25,140

Air Force at Provo 30,226

Wyoming at Laramie 16,297

Arizona at Provo 25,287

Utah St. at Logan 21,594

Utah at Provo 28,265

Texas-El Paso at El Paso 7,350

S. Miss. at Jackson 9,262

Total: 271,571

Avg: 24,688

Home: 138,633

Avg: 27,727

Road: 132,938

Avg: 22,156

BYU TEAM STATISTICS OPP

244 Points 228

22.2 Points per game 20.7

215 First Downs 197

19.5 First Downs per game 17.9

1,967 Rushing Yardage 2,010

178.8 Rushing per game 182.7

1,954 Passing Yardage 1,639

177.6 Passing per game 149.0

3,921 Total Yardage 3,649

356.4 Yardage per game 331.7

796 Yards Penalized 803

72.4 Penalized per game 73.0

26-21 Fumbles-Lost 31-17

1.9 Fumbles Lost per game 1.5

RUSHING

Player, Pos. Carries Gain Loss Net TD Long Avg.

Jeff Blanc, TB 216 1,009 25 984 9 30 4.56

Charley Ah You, TB 79 332 23 309 5 36 3.91

Todd Christensen, FB 59 278 5 273 1 54 4.63

Dave Lowry, FB 41 206 7 199 0 57 4.85

Mark Giles, QB 39 219 76 143 O 21 3.67

Roger Gourley, FB 34 116 1 115 0 13 3.38

Jeff Duva, QB 11 50 16 34 0 19 3.09

Pisa Finai, TB 8 32 0 32 0 7 4

John VanDerWouden, 2 15 1 14 O 15 7

Clay Blackwell, TB 5 17 4 13 1 8 2.6

Danny Hartwig, QB 1 10 1 0 1 1

George Harris, SE 1 0 6 -6 0 -6 -

Gifford Nielsen, OB 57 90 234 -144 2 11 -

BYU TOTALS: 553 2,365 398 1,967 18 57 3.56

OPP TOTALS: 536 2,264 254 2,010 17 72 3.75

PASSING

Player Att. Comp % Int. Yards TD Avg.

Gifford Nielsen 180 110 .611 7 1,471 10 13.37

Mark GIles 75 39 .520 8 396 3 10.15

Jeff Duva 25 6 .240 3 84 0 14.00

Danny Hartwig 1 1 1.000 0 3 0 3.00

Marc Wilson 0 0 .000 0 0 0 --

BYU TOTALS: 281 156 .555 18 1,954 13 12.53

OPP TOTALS: 214 98 .458 16 1,639 10 16.72

TOTAL OFFENSE

Player, Pos. Plays Rush Pass Total TDR Avg.

Gifford Nielsen, QB 237 -144 1,471 1,327 12 5.60

Jeff Blanc, TB 216 984 -- 984 11 4.56

Mark Giles, QB 114 143 396 539 3 4.73

BYU TOTALS: 834 1,967 1,954 3,921 31 4.70

OPP TOTALS: 750 2,010 1,639 3,649 2T 4.87

SCORING

Player, Pos. TD XPt 2Pt FG Games Pts.

Jeff Blanc,TB 11 0-0 O-0 0-0 11 66

Charley Ah You, TB 5 0-0 0-0 0-0 9 30

Todd Christensen, FB 4 0-0 1-1 0-0 11 26

Dave Taylor, K 0 13-14 0-0 4-11 7 25

Mark Useiman, K 0 9-12 0-0 4-13 5 21

John VanDerWouden, FL 3 0-0 0-0 0-0 10 18

Gifford Nielsen, QB 2 0-0 0-2 0-0 9 12

Jeff Nusson, SE 2 0-0 0-0 0-0 11 12

Brian Billick, TE 1 0-0 1-1 0-0 11 8

Bob Biddy, FL *1 0-0 0-0 0-0 7 6

Clay Blackwell, TB 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 6

Tom Dignan, SE 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 8 6

Dave Lowry, FB 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 10 6

Mark Glles, QB 0 0-0 1-1 0-0 11 2

TOTALS: 32 22-26 3-5 8-24 -- 244

*Fumble Recovery

RECEIVING

Player No. Yards TD Avg.

Christensen 30 319 3 10.63

VanDerWouden 29 621 3 21.41

Billick 19 207 1 10.89

NIsson 18 236 1 13.11

Blanc 15 158 2 10.53

Dignan 13 135 1 10.38

Gourley 8 35 0 4.3.8

Lowry 5 117 1 23;40

Allen 5 30 0 6.00

House 3 38 0 12.66

Tanner 3 36 0 12.00

Biddy 2 20 0 10.00

Harris 1 11 0 11.00

Oates 1 4 0 4.00

BYU TOTALS: 156 1,954 13 12.53

OPP TOTALS: 98 1,639 10 16.72

PUNT RETURNS

Player No. Yards Avg.

Finai 19 90 4.74

Halverson 9 21 2.33

McCluskey 1 16 16.00

Blanc 1 15 15.00

BYU TOTALS: 30 142 4.73

OPP TOTALS: 21 187 8.90

KICKOFF RETURNS

Player No. Yards Avg.

Terranova 11 272 24.7

Finai 5 109 21.8

Biddy 4 97 24.3

VanDerWouden 4 79 19.8

Christensen 3 71 23.7

BYU TOTALS: 28 649 23.18

OPP TOTALS: 27 637 23.59

PUNTING

Player Punts Yards Avg.

Giles 43 1,707 39.70

Lowry 6 235 39.20

BYU TOTALS: 49 1,942 39.63

OPP TOTALS: 54 2,189 40.54

DEFENSIVE STATISTICS

(1) (2) (3) (3) (5) (5) (2) (5) (1) (3)

Player AT UT TFL FR FC PI PD BK HURRY SAK TOTAL

Sid Smith, LB 125 24 - 3 3 - - - 5 3 211

Bill Rice, DT 113 15 - 1 - - - - 10 5 174

Stan Varner, DE 87 16 - 3 2 2 - - 9 5 112

Marcus Kanahele, DE 85 14 - 3 2 - - - 13 4 157

Mekeli leremla, DT 99 11 - 2 1 - - - 9 5 156

Blake Murdock, LB 68 24 2 2 1 1 2 - 3 1 148

Dana Wilgar, S 71 22 - - 1 3 1 - - - 137

Phil Jensen, LB 61 18 - 1 - - 1 1 5 5 127

Gary Shaw, S 53 16 - - 2 3 - 3 - - 125

Clark Carison, LB 48 17 - 2 1 - - - 1 3 103

Craig Jensen, CB 27 25 - - - 1 2 - - - 86

Tim Halverson, CB 16 14 - 2 - 3 7 - - - 79

Steve Dewey, DE 39 7 - - 2 - - - 3 - 66

Mark McCluskey, CB 20 13 - - - 2 2 - - - 60

Mat Mendenhall, DE 9 2 - - 1 - - - - 1 21

Mark Terranova, CB 8 5 - - - - 1 - - - 20

Dave Campos, S 11 4 - - - - - - - - 19

Rory Rauschenbach, LB 13 2 - - - - - - 1 - 18

Gary Peterson, DT 14 - - - - - - - - 1 17

Mark Bernsten, LB 12 1 - - - - - - - - 14

Gary Kama, LB 10 2 - - - - - - - - 14

Chuck Carison, C 6 2 - 1 - - - - - - 13

Chris Crowe, T 1 1 - 1 - - - 1 - - 11

Larry Miller, LB 1 1 - - - 1 1 - - - 10

Dave Lowry, FB 2 3 - - - - - - - - 8

Gary Bouck, DE - 1 - - - - - - 1 1 6

Randy Muckolls, DT 3 1 - - - - - - - - 5

Orrin Olsen, C 2 1 - - - - - - - - 4

Bob Biddy, FL 1 1 - - - - - - - - 3

Jason Coloma, S - 1 - - - - - - - - 2

Roger Gourley, FB 1 - - - - - - - - - 1

Mike Lacey, LB 1 - - - - - - - - - 1

Mark Swenson, CB 1 - - - - - - - - - 1

Gary Weight, S 1 - - - - - - - - - 0

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