Show Crawford Sets New Mark As the Skyline Conference concluded its 1956 football University of Wyoming's powerful Jim Crawford set the only new grid mark of the campaign when he rolled up yards from The charging Cowboy tailback shattered the record set Montana's Dick Imer in 1954 of In the final statistics release today by the Mountain States Athletic Conference Commissioner's Office it will be noted that the conference amassed yards from rushing and allowed their opponents only The conference mark for team rushing was set by Utah in 1953 when the Utes rolled up Larry of Colorado winner of the punting inched his average up to yards per kick with three tremendous boots last Second spot among the punters goes to Utah Jack Hill whose 29 punts brought him a yard who captured the scoring honors with also finished second to in ball carrying with yards gained in the 10 Crawford was second to Hill in scoring with 96 The top passer for the season was Carroll Johnston who had 72 completions from tosses netting yards arid nosing out Bob Winters of Utah State who had 65 connections from heaves for In third spot among the passers is from Wyoming who connected 41 times from 96 throws for also hurled seven touchdown Gordon Oborn of Utah chalked up the best punt average with yard mark on six returns while Pat Monno of Montana ranked next with a average on six The two top kickoff return artists in the league were Hill and Lynn White of New Hill ran back for yards while White lugged 13 kickoffs back for A quick check of the statistics file shows that since 1949 Phil Spear of New Mexico is the only player in the league who has gained over yards from rushing without losing a single Spear carried the ball times picking up yards without a single loss for the TEAM STANDINGS Conference Games W T Wyoming 7 0 0 Utah 5 a 0 Denver 4 0 0 Utah State 4 3 0 Colorado 4 1 New Mexico 2 0 0 BYU 1 5 d Montana 1 6 0 |