1977 Statistics

1977 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	6-1-0	.857	264	91	9-3-0	.750	369	154
Brigham Young	LaVell Edwards	6-1-0	.857	280	108	9-2-0	.818	433	165
Colorado St.	Sark Arslanian	5-2-0	.714	188	163	9-2-1	.792	310	223
Wyoming	Bill Lewis	4-3-0	.571	112	141	4-6-1	.409	166	173
Arizona	Tony Mason	3-4-0	.428	148	159	5-7-0	.417	256	250
New Mexico	Bill Mondt	2-5-0	.286	160	192	5-7-0	.417	273	212
Utah	Wayne Howard	2-5-0	.286	123	245	3-8-0	.273	212	379
UTEP	Bill Michael	0-7-0	.000	128	304	1-10-0	.091	166	469

Results

Date Opponent Score

9/10 Kansas St. 39-0 W

9/24 at Utah St. 65-6 W

9/30 New Mexico 54-19 W

10/8 at Oregon St. 19-24 L

10/15 at Colorado St. 63-17 W

10/22 at Wyoming 10-7 W

10/29 Arizona (H) 34-14 W

11/5 Utah 38-8 W

11/12 at Arizona St. 13-24 L

11/19 Long Beach St. 30-27 W

11/26 at UTEP 68-19 W

Coaching Staff

LaVell Edwards: Head Coach
Norm Chow
Dick Felt
Garth Hall
Dave Kragthorpe
Mel Olson
Tom Ramage
Doug Scovil
Fred Whittingham

SCORE BY QUARTERS

1 2 3 4 Total

BYU 154 109 102 68 433

OPP 30 26 67 42 165

ATTENDANCE

Kansas St. at Provo 35,196

Utah St. at Logan 20,103

New Mexico at Provo 33,352

Oregon St. at Corvallis 33,965

Colorado St. at Ft. Collins 29,110

Wyoming at Laramie 25,398

Arizona at Provo 33,621

Utah at Provo 34,208

Arizona St. at Tempe 58,295

Long Beach St at Provo 21,322

Texas-El Paso at El Paso 7,800

Home Average 31,540

Overall Average 30,215

BYU Team Statistics OPP

433 Points 165

39.4 Points per game 15.0

262 First downs 203

24.0 First downs per game 18.5

1,414 Rushing yardage 1,769

128.5 Rushing per game 160.9

3,758 Passing yardage 1,901

341.6 Passing per game 172.8

5,172 Total yardage 3,670

470.2 Yardage per game 333.6

993 Yards penalized 958

90.3 Penalized per game 87.1

32-19 Fumbles-lost 51-36

1.7 Fumbles lost per game 3.3

RUSHING

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

Phillips, TB 47 349 24 325 5 32 6.9

Gourley, TB 76 325 31 294 2 15 4.3

Christensen, FB 79 298 8 290 3 15 3.7

Ring, FB 58 267 5 262 1 32 4.5

Wingard, TB 33 211 19 192 1 45 5.8

Chronister, FL 3 58 0 58 0 29 19.3

Reber, FB 6 26 1 25 0 11 4.2

Wilson, QB 81 232 212 20 2 19 0.2

Hartwig, QB 1 6 0 6 0 6 6

McEwen, QB 5 6 24 -18 0 6 -

McMahon, QB 7 18 38 -20 0 15 -

Nielsen, QB 29 88 113 -25 0 15 -

Team 0 5 0 5 0 5 -

BYU TOTALS: 425 1,889 475 1,414 14 45 3.3

OPP TOTALS: 572 2,236 467 1,769 8 39 3.1

PASSING

Player Comp. Att. Int. % Yards TD CPG

Nielsen 98 156 3 .628 1,167 16 24.5

Wilson 164 277 18 .592 2,418 24 14.9

McEwen 3 3 0 1.000 32 0 3.0

McMahon 10 16 1 .625 103 1 2.0

Hartwig 1 2 0 .500 9 0 1.0

Phillips 1 2 1 .500 29 0 0.5

VanDerWouden 1 0 0 .000 0 0 0.0

BYU TOTALS: 277 457 23 .606 3,758 41 25.2

OPP TOTALS: 144 327 20 .440 1,901 11 13.1

TOTAL OFFENSE

Player, Pos. Plays Rush Pass Total TDR APP APG

Nielsen, QB 185 -25 1,167 1142 16 6.2 285.5

Wilson, QB 358 20 2,418 2438 26 6.8 221.6

BYU TOTALS: 882 1,414 3,758 5,172 56 5.9 470.2

OPP TOTALS: 859 1,769 1,901 3,670 19 4.3 333.6

SCORING

Player, Pos. TD PAT 2 pt. FG Pts.

Duke,K 0 46-52 0-0 9-18 73

Chronister, FL 11 0-0 1-1 0-0 68

Thompson, TE 9 0-0 0-0 0-0 54

Christensen, FB 8 0-0 0-0 0-0 48

VanDerWouden, SE 7 0-0 1-3 0-0 44

Harris, SE 6 0-0 0-0 0-0 36

Phillips, TB 5 0-0 0-0 0-0 30

Gourley, TB 4 0-0 0-0 0-0 24

Wilson, QB 2 0-0 0-1 0-0 12

Younger, FL 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 6

Wingard, TB 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 6

Anderson, TE 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 6

Ring, FB 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 6

Miller, WLB 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 6

Velasco, WS 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 6

Swenson, SS 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 6

Team 0 0-0 0-0 (Safety) 2

BYU TOTALS: 59 46-52 2-6 9-18 433

OPP TOTALS: 22 14-16 1-5 5-12 165

RECEIVING

Player, Pos. No. Yards TD YPC CPG

Christensen 50 603 5 12.1 5.O

VanDerWouden 43 661 7 15.4 3.9

Chronister 38 649 11 17.1 3.5

Thompson 37 602 8 16.3 3.4

Gourley 27 330 2 12.2 3.0

Harris 23 313 6 13.6 2.1

Phillips 18 207 0 11.5 1.8

R. Jones 7 69 0 9.9 1.8

Younger 6 74 1 12.3 1.0

Reber 2 51 0 25.5 1.0

Ring 10 104 0 10.4 0.9

Zwahlen 5 32 0 6.4 0.8

Wingard 6 32 0 5.3 0.6

Anderson 2 16 1 8.0 0.4

BYU TOTALS: 277 3,758 41 13.6 25.2

OPP TOTALS: 144 1,9O1 11 13.2 13.1

PUNT RETURNS

Player No. Yards Avg.

Chronister 28 123 4.4

Coloma 2 13 6.5

BYU TOTALS: 30 136 4.5

OPP TOTALS: 15 53 3.5

KICKOFF RETURNS

Player No. Yards Avg.

Neal 10 231 23.1

Coloma 6 96 16.0

Wingard 5 92 18.4

Thompson 1 45 45.0

Christensen 1 25 25.0

Berntsen 1 3 3.0

BYU TOTALS: 24 492 20.5

OPP TOTALS: 44 779 17.7

PUNTING

Player No. Yards Avg.

McMahon 55 2,161 39.3

Team 1 -36 -

BYU TOTALS: 56 2,125 37.9

OPP TOTALS: 87 3,334 38.3

INTERCEPTION RETURNS

Player, Pos. No. Yards Avg.

Prested, LC 5 78 .5

Coloma, SS 3 9 .3

Velasco, WS 3 48 .3

Hernandez, RC 2 43 .2

Miller, WLB 2 36 .2

McKee, RC 1 0 .1

Wood, MLB 1 0 .1

Neal, WS 1 0 .1

Swenson, SS 1 92 .1

BYU TOTALS: 20 306 1.8

OPP TOTALS: 23 352 2.1

FUMBLE RECOVERIES No.

Coloma, Prested, Miller, Varner 3

Berntsen, Neal, Mendenhall, 2

Swenson, Stromberg 2

Ieremia, Corson, Hernandez, 1

Velasco, Ring, Team 1

BYU TOTALS: (Opp. Fum. 51) 36

OPP TOTALS: (BYU Fum. 32) 19

DEFENSIVE STATS

Name AT UT FTL FR FC PI PD BK Hurry Sack Total

Mendenhall 46 36 48 6 20 - 4 - 24 33 217

Wood 81 52 18 3 20 5 2 - 5 15 201

Peterson 74 32 27 3 15 - - - 21 21 193

Varner 50 32 21 12 15 - 6 - 28 12 176

Miller 61 62 18 9 5 10 8 - 2 - 175

Velasco 44 56 - 6 5 15 6 - - - 132

Prested 25 46 6 9 10 25 10 - - - 131

Ieremia 34 28 18 6 10 - - - 16 15 127

Berntsen 51 34 6 6 10 - 6 - 3 3 119

Coloma 38 44 6 9 - 15 4 - - - 116

Neal 47 38 6 6 10 5 4 - - - 116

Hernandez 20 48 6 - 5 10 10 - - - 99

Kama 30 28 3 5 - - 4 - 1 3 74

Stromberg 17 14 15 5 - - - - 10 6 70

Frazier 26 22 12 5 - - - - - - 68

Swenson 28 14 6 5 - 5 6 - - - 67

Enlow 28 20 6 - 5 - - - 2 - 61

Corson 19 14 - 3 5 - - - - - 41

McKee 14 18 - - - 5 - - - - 37

Campos 11 16 - 3 - - - - - - 30

Ring 6 8 - 3 - 5 - - - - 29

Harris, J. 9 4 - 3 5 - - - - - 24

Ramage 11 6 - - - - 2 - 1 - 20

Apostal 8 6 - - 5 - - - 1 - 20

Reber 5 2 - - - - - - - - 7

Simmerman 4 - - - - - - - - - 4

AT=1, UT=2, TFL=3, FR=3, FC=5, PI=5, PD=2, BK=5, Hurry=1, Sack=3

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