Show Nineteen Records Broken During Skyline Play Brigham Young edged Wyoming for the team forward pass defense leadership to account for the only change in statistical leaderships as the 1961 Skyline conference football season drew to a close with New Mexico's victory over BYU in One individual leadership was decided in the final week's That was in where the season-long Bill Wright of held onto his lead by a narrow margin over two Wright averaged yards on 46 punts to edge last year's Dick Fitzsimmons of New who had a Roy Schubert of was a close third with a Not counting individual career which still must be 16 team and three individual records were broken during the 1961 In two more were Tom with a yard average on 12 punt and Paul Allen of with a yard average on kickoff set new individual records of importance SIGNIFICANT team records include Utah State's continuing streak of 91 games without being Utah State's total offense of yards and yards per and its record rushing defensive mark of yards yield per rush and yards per game |