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Show Denver Tops Rivals In Yardage By Associated Pre Denver university leads th Skyline Sky-line Six conference In total yardage yard-age gained so far In this season's football games. Commissioner E. L. Romney, in official statistics for conference teams' performance through Oct 1, reported Denver ran up a net total of 1246 yards this sesaoh. Wyoming Wyo-ming wa second with 1064. Denver also led In passing yardage, yard-age, with 723 yards gained by aerials to 350 for second-place Brigham Young. Wyoming was first In rushing, with 812 total yards, and Colorado A. M. was second with 531. Eddis Talboom of Wyoming hung on to Individual scoring honors hon-ors although h did not score last week. He has mad three touchdowns touch-downs and nin one-point conversions conver-sions for a total of 27 points. Sonny Jones of Wyoming 1 second with 24 points, followed by Mike Peterson of Denver and Lyle Roller Rol-ler of Brigham Young, who have 18 points each. Frank Faucett of Colorado A. M. again led In individual ground gaining, with a net gain of 243 yards in 50 attempts. Sonny Jones of Wyoming again was second sec-ond with 219 yards picked up on 22 plsys. Sam Etcheverry of Denver completed com-pleted 28 of 57 pass attempts for a net gain of 437 yards to lead the individual passers. |