1978 Statistics

1978 Roster

Western Athletic Conference Standings
		WAC Games				All Games
School	Coach	W-L-T	Pct.	Pts.	Opp.	W-L-T	Pct.	Pts.	Opp.
Brigham Young	LaVell Edwards	5-1-0	.833	194	69	9-4-0	.750	304	176
Utah	Wayne Howard	4-2-0	.667	144	104	8-3-0	.727	291	182
Wyoming	Bill Lewis	4-2-0	.667	158	134	5-7-0	.417	253	245
New Mexico	Bill Mondt	3-3-0	.500	126	107	7-5-0	.583	284	205
Colorado St.	Sark Arslanian	2-4-0	.333	111	153	5-6-0	.454	238	247
San Diego St.	Claude Gilbert	2-4-0	.333	128	158	4-7-0	.364	242	257
UTEP	Bill Michael	1-5-0	.167	81	217	1-11-0	.083	151	424

Results

9/9 at Oregon St. 10-6 W

9/16 at Arizona St. 16-24 L

9/23 Colorado St. 32-6 W

9/30 at New Mexico 27-23 W

10/7 Utah St. (H) 7-24 W

10/14 at Oregon 17-16 W

10/21 UTEP 44-0 W

11/4 Wyoming 48-14 W

11/11 San Diego St. 21-3 W

11/18 at Utah 22-23 L

11/25 at Hawaii 31-13 W

12/2 UNLV
at Yokohama, Japan 28-24 W

12/22 Navy
(Holiday Bowl) 16-23 L

Coaching Staff

LaVell Edwards: Head Coach
Dave Kragthorpe: Assistant Head Coach/Offensive Line
Wally English: Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks
Dick Felt: Defensive Coordinator/Backs
Norm Chow: Running Backs
Garth Hall: Receivers
Mel Olson: JV Coordinator
Tom Ramage: Defensive Line
Fred Whittingham: Linebackers

SCORE BY QUARTERS

1 2 3 4 Total

BYU 44 84 84 91 304

OPP 40 51 45 40 176

ATTENDANCE

Oregon St. at Corvalis 19,651

Arizona St. at Tempe 70,311

Colorado St. at Provo 31,052

New Mexico at Albuquerque 24,892

Utah St. at Provo 32,668

Oregon at Eugene 24,500

Texas-El Paso at Provo 23,335

Wyoming at Provo 30,415

San Diego St. at Provo 22,682

Utah at Salt Lake City 29,326

Hawaii at Honolulu 35,678

Nevada-Las Vegas at Yokohama 27,500

Total 372,010

Average 31,000

BYU TEAM STATISTICS OPP

304 Points 176

25.3 Points per game 14.7

263 First downs 200

21.9 First downs per game 16.7

1,521 Rushing yardage 1,901

126.8 Rushing per game 158.4

2,858 Passing yardage 1,951

238.2 Passing per game 162.6

4,379 Total yardage 3,852

364.9 Yardage per game 321.0

1,005 Yards penalized 1,253

83.8 Penalized per game 104.4

37-15 Fumbles-lost 45-30

1.3 Fumbles lost per game 2.5

RUSHING

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

Ring, FB 116 555 35 520 8 48 4.5

Wingard, TB 82 344 19 325 4 29 4

McMahon, QB 99 444 196 248 4 56 2.5

PhilliDs, TB 69 212 31 181 2 21 2.6

Wilson QB 104 364 279 85 2 22 0.8

Williams, FB 24 56 7 49 2 7 2

Jones, FL 1 32 0 32 0 32 32

Blackwell, TB 10 44 15 29 1 12 2.9

Whittingham, FB 9 25 0 25 0 5 2.8

Bradford, FB 4 29 7 22 0 15 5.5

Younger, FL 1 7 0 7 0 7 7

Brown, TE 2 9 9 0 0 9 -

Tinaey, FL 1 0 0 0 0 0 -

Flammer, QB 3 7 9 -2 0 6 -

BYU TOTALS: 525 2,128 607 1,521 23 56 2.9

OPP TOTALS: 587 2,332 441 1,901 9 75 3.2

PASSING

Player Comp. Att. Int. % Yards TD CPG

Wilson 121 233 13 .519 1,499 8 11.0

McMahon 87 176 8 .494 1,307 6 7.9

Phillips 2 5 1 .400 52 0 0.2

Chronister 0 1 0 .000 0 0 -

BYU TOTALS: 210 415 22 .506 2,858 14 17.5

OPP TOTALS: 148 326 11 .454 1,951 13 12.3

TOTAL OFFENSE

Player, Pos. Plays Rush Pass Total TOR APP APG

Wilson, QB 337 85 1,499 1,584 10 4.7 144.0

McMahon, QB 275 248 1,307 1,555 10 5.7 141.4

BYU TOTALS: 940 1,521 2,858 4,379 37 4.7 364.9

OPP TOTALS: 768 1,901 1,951 3,852 23 5.0 21.0

SCORING

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

Ring, FB 11 0-0 0-0 0-0 66

Johnson, K 0 31-34 0-0 11-20 64

Thompson, TE 5 0-0 0-0 0-0 30

McMahon, QB 4 0-0 0-0 0-0 24

Wingard, TB 4 0-0 0-0 0-0 24

Chronister, SE 3 0-0 0-0 0-0 18

Phillips, TB 2 0-0 0-0 0-0 12

Williams, FB 2 0-0 0-0 0-0 12

Jones, FL 2 0-0 0-0 0-0 12

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

Tinqey, FL 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 6

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

Allen, LB 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 6

Francis, DB 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 6

Kitteil, K 0 2-2 0-0 1-4 5

Halverson, DB-K 0 1-1 0-0 0-0 1

BYU TOTALS: 39 34-37 0-2 12-24 304

OPP TOTALS: 23 15-19 1-4 7-13 176

FIELD GOALS

Player 1-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 +50

Johnson, BYU 0-0 3-4 4-6 4-8 1-2

BYU TOTALS: 0-0 3-4 4-6 4-8 1-2

OPP TOTALS: 1-1 1-1 4-7 0-4 0-0

RECEIVING

Player No. Yards TD YPC CPG

Chronister 48 850 3 17.7 4.0

Thompson 34 560 5 16.5 2.8

Ring 30 175 3 5.8 2.5

Tingey 20 280 1 14.0 1.8

Phillips 19 188 0 9.9 1.7

Wingard 14 129 0 9.2 1.3

Davis 10 148 0 14.8 0.9

Brown 9 184 0 20.4 0.8

Williams 9 110 0 12.2 0.8

Jones 7 148 2 21.1 0.7

Blackwell 2 22 0 11.0 0.2

Younger 1 45 0 45.0 0.1

Plater 1 17 0 17.0 0.1

McMahon 1 7 0 7.0 0.1

Wilson 1 -5 0 - 0.1

BYU TOTALS: 210 2,858 14 13.6 17.5

OPP TOTALS: 148 1,957 13 13.2 12.3

PUNT RETURNS

Player No. Yards Avg.

Francis 22 197 9.0

Coloma 23 196 8.5

Chronister 3 7 2.3

Swenson 1 3 3.0

BYU TOTALS: 49 403 8.2

OPP TOTALS: 23 177 7.7

KICKOFF RETURNS

Player No. Yards Avg.

Blackwell 22 450 20.5

Williams 1 11 11.0

Whittingham 1 9 9.0

Coloma 1 8 8.0

B. Hansen 1 3 3.0

BYU TOTALS: 26 481 18.5

OPP TOTALS: 48 854 17.8

PUNTING

Player No. Yards Avg.

McMahon 41 1,600 39.0

Brown 36 1,428 39.7

Team 2 15 7.5

BYU TOTALS: 79 3,043 38.5

OPP TOTALS: 89 3,353 37.7

FUMBLE RECOVERIES

Player, Pos. No.

Mendenhall (DE), Kormylo (DT) 4

Enlow (SLB), Velasco (WS) 3

Buchanan (DE) 3

Schoepflin (DB), Stromberg (DT) 2

L. Miller (WLB) 2

Francis (DB), B. Hansen (LB) 1

St. Pierre (LB), Prested (DB) 1

Redd (LB), Bell (OG) 1

BYU TOTALS: (Opp. Fum. 45) 29

OPP TOTALS: (BYU Fum. 37) 15

INTERCEPTION RETURNS

Player, Pos. No. Yards Avg.

Velasco, WS 3 30 0.3

Coloma, 55 2 35 0.2

Schoepflin, DB 2 12 0.2

Allen, LB 1 25 0.3

Francis, DB 1 20 0.1

Halverson, DB I 12 0.1

Wood, MLB 1 3 0.1

Swenson, SS 1 0 0.1

BYU TOTALS: 12 137 1.0

OPP TOTALS: 24 185 2.0

DEFENSIVE STATS

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

Rod Wood, MLB 131 26 6 - - 1 2 - 3 1 216

Ron Velasco, DB 97 23 2 2 2 3 10 - - - 200

Ross Varner, DE 81 11 9 - 6 - 3 - 12 7 199

Glenn Redd, MLB 98 12 5 1 5 - 8 1 4 2 196

John Kormylo, DE 87 11 6 4 2 - 3 - 11 2 172

Tom Enlow, SLB 94 15 7 2 1 - 1 - 2 2 166

Larry Miller, WLB 75 15 5 2 1 - 5 - 2 1 146

Bill Schoepflin, DB 45 19 3 2 4 2 4 2 - - 146

Jason Coloma, DB 52 17 7 - 2 2 4 - - - 135

Mat Mendenhall, DE 41 6 7 5 1 - 1 2 5 3 120

Dave Francis, DB 39 10 2 2 - 1 11 - - - 98

Doug Stromberg, DT 53 6 7 2 - - 3 - 3 4 94

Rob Buchanan, DE 32 6 4 3 - - 2 - 3 5 92

Dave McKee, DB 15 8 1 - - - 9 - - - 57

Jeff Harris, DE 7 - 1 - - - - - 4 - 54

Jim Jaramillo, DT 22 3 3 1 - - 2 - 1 - 41

Ed St. Pierre, WLB 17 5 - 1 - - - - - - 30

Brian Hansen, LB 15 2 1 - - - - - - - 22

Dennis Webb, DT 4 - - - - - - - - - 10

Totals are figured where AT 1, UT=2, TFL=3, FR=3, FC=5, PI=5, PD=2, BK 5, Sack=3

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