Show The Utah Statesman Monday October 151979 Page 28094 witness Aggie massacre Although the Cougars were in control of the game much of the The Brigham Young University time there were instances when the Cougars proved without a doubt momentum changed hands The that they are the best team in the Ags never seemed to be completely state by convincingly downing out of striking range until late in before the final quarter Utah State's Aggies48-2"I thought the big play of the the largest crowd ever to witness an event in Cache Valley 28094 game was Dave Smith's fumble on the punt" said EdBYU's offense was unstoppable recovery wards The Cougar coach was referas it racked up 536 yards and ring to a third quarter Clay Brown scored almost at will USU's Agpunt which was dropped by USU's gies collected 336 total offensive Stacy Colbert and recovered by yards (which is not a bad effort) but Smith could not put enough points on the The Ags had stopped BYU's ofboard to overpower the Cougars fense early in the third quarter “Our initial defensive game plan During the first BYU series of that was to defend Wilson (Marc quarter the Aggie defense came to Wilson BYU quarterback) not life sacking Wilson twice The Ags pressure him In the past he has then carried the momentum into Rick been brothered more when the the end zone on a defense sat back rather than Parros run to pull to within 11 rushing hard Today was different points of the Cougars he was just great" said USU's The Ag defense on the ensuing Bruce Snyder senes again forced a punt out of Indeed Wilson was superb hit- BYU but this time they would not ting on 19 of 25 pass attempts for be so fortunate 372 yards and two touchdowns Colbert took the punt at the USU The Cougar receivers made 20 and before he had a chance to several diving catches to complireturn it up field the ball fell from ment the passing of his grasp and BYU's Smith Wilson The most prominent of recovered these was Lloyd Jones Jones grab“The punt was a factor but that bed seven passes for a whopping one play did not lose the game for 153 yards In four previous games to Jones had only sue total receptions us" said Snyder "You can point many different plays that could for 161 yards have turned the game in our ran 81 favor” The Ags offensively plays from scrimmage compared to The dropped punt did however only 66 for BYU put an abrubt stop to the Ags’ earUSU's Eric Hippie completed 19 ly third quarter surge BYU quickof 30 passes for 182 yards and one ly converted on the Aggie miscue TD Backup quarterback Craig and went ahead Bradshaw went five for 14 through USU showed a lot of poise as it the air to end up with 68 yards bounced back to put another seven board on the next "Offensively we played as well points on the five minutes as we ever have" said BYU Head series of plays only Ken Brown Coach LaVell Edwards"I thought later The Hippie to was to be the final we were flawless" The Cougars did pass of one yard score of the day play near perfect football only giv- Aggie in the game "The guys showed a lot of pride ing up one turnover Their execution was excellent fin- when they came back to score ding holes in the Aggie secondary there" said Snyder “I was very most the afternoon proud of them” The Aggies now look ahead to "Utah State is an excellent offensive team but our defense kept next weekend's encounter with them out of the end rone most of PCAA foe Pacific Kickoff is set for the time which is what we had to 8:30 Mountain Time Saturday do” said Edwards night by Malley Hialop 4 one-yar- d 28-1- 7 pin-poi- 35-1- 7 How they scored BYU 14 14 14 6 48 USU 0 10 14 0 24 BYU— Eric Lane 1 run (Brent Johnson kick) BYU— Bill Davis 20 pass from Wilson (Johnson kick) USU— Ken Thompson 6 pass from Bradshaw (Steve Steinke kick) BYU— Lane 3 run (Johnson kick) BYU— Lane 1 run (Johnson kick) USU— Steinke 40 field goal USU— Parros run (Steinke kick) BYU— Lane 3 run (Johnson kick) USU— Ken Brown 1 pass from Hippie (Steinke kick) BYU— Lane 5 run (Johnson kick) BYU— Scott Phillips 35 pass bom Wilson (kick failed) 1 1 1 |