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Manhattan prepares for Big Red
no. 2 Kansas State can
make a serious statement
to the rest of the Big 12
against No. 11 Nebraska
By Doug Tucker
Associated Press
MANHATTAN, Kan. — On
opening day of the football season,
a headline in Kansas State’s
school newspaper proclaimed,
“70 Days Until the Nebraska
Game.”
The next Saturday, the headline
read, “63 Days Until the Nebraska
Game.”
Week by week, day by day, this
town and this school have been
sitting atop a rumbling Vesuvius
of emotion, waiting for the biggest
game in Kansas States football his
tory and hoping to put the finish
ing touches on one of the great
turnarounds in all of college foot
ball.
Now, as Saturday’s kickoff be
tween the surging Wildcats and a
Nebraska program that’s beaten
them 29 straight years draws near,
the anticipation thickens by the
hour.
“Basically, this place is getting
ready to go bonkers,” said Ned
Seaton, news editor of the Man
hattan Mercury.
Ranked No. 2 in The Associated
Press media poll and co-No. 1 in
the coaches' poll, the once-woeful
Wildcats (9-0) are looking far be
yond simple vengeance over No.
11 Nebraska (8-2).
This school that hasn’t won a
football title of any kind since
1934 and was first among all major
programs to reach 500 losses is
taking aim at nothing short of —
dare they breathe these words? —
a national championship.
“There's an excitement ap
proaching euphoria all over
town,” said Ann Christian, a real
tor who credits the resurgence of
the football program with helping
keep real estate values on the rise.
Another entrepreneur doing a
thriving business is Bob Leetch.
“Just try,” said the owner of a
popular downtown tavern, “to
have a conversation this week
that’s not about football.”
Seemingly every business from
the Bob Evans restaurant to Wild
cat Used Furniture displays “Go
Cats” signs outside and football
memorabilia inside.
The patented Powercat logo,
that modernistic profde of a fear
some feline that coach Bill Snyder
himself helped design, seems
pasted to about half the mailbox
es and almost every automobile
bumper in town.
At one house on Laramie Street,
the likeness of a Nebraska football
player hangs from a noose.
“It's not a real Nebraska football
player,” Seaton said. “Under the
circumstances, we thought we’d
better check. Aside from the flood
in 1993, I’m not sure there’s ever
been a bigger event in Manhat
tan.”
There's an excitement
approaching euphoria
all over town. ^
Ann Christian
Manhattan resident
In normal times, Manhattan is a
typical Midwestern college town,
nestled amid the scenic Flint Hills
about 2 1/2 hours west of Kansas
City and good-naturedly billed as
“The Little Apple.”
But these are times that hardly
anybody associated with Kansas
State ever thought they’d live to
see.
For decades the losingest foot
ball program in the NCAA’s upper
division, Kansas State has experi
enced a turn of fortune in Snyder’s
10 seasons that almost defies be
lief.
This is a school that between
1954 and 1991 had more NCAA
probations (three) than winning
seasons (two). They’ve played 82
games against Nebraska and won
10.
On the eve of homecoming in
years past, students would take a
paint brush to the highway marker
outside town, and below Interstate
70 write, “Kansas State 0.”
Reporters in all press boxes are
routinely warned not to cheer.
More than once, those covering
“the Mildcats” were asked not to
chuckle.
“I remember one game when it
was tied 0-0 in the fourth quarter
and we had a field goal blocked,”
said Trade Dittemore, a 1980
Kansas State grad. "Somebody got
on the public address microphone
and threatened to kick everybody
out if they didn’t stop laughing.”
They're not laughing now.
In the four years before 1989,
when Kansas State president Jon
Wefald approved the hiring of
Iowa coach Hayden Fry’s little
known offensive coordinator, the
Wildcats were a combined 3-40.
Administrators at many rival
schools wanted them kicked out
of the Big Eight.
But they’ve won 76 games in
nine-plus seasons under Snyder,
a bookish, soft-spoken workaholic
who may one day be judged a foot
ball genius. In the 28 seasons be
fore Snyder, they won 74.
They’ve got a run-pass quarter
back named Michael Bishop
who’s 44-1 as a starter at junior
college and Kansas State, with his
only loss since high school being
to Nebraska. They’ve got a fero
cious, quick-hitting unit that’s first
in Division I-A in scoring defense
and second in total defense and
rushing defense.
And now before a sold-out
home crowd they’ve got a shot at
the only conference rival they’ve
yet to beat during this grand and
improbable revival.
Ask a room full of Oklahomans
or Alabamians what was the
biggest game in their history and
you’d likely get a room full of dif
ferent answers. But K-Staters
know the biggest game since they
took up football 103 years ago
kicks off at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in
KSU Stadium.
A victory would silence critics
of their supposedly soft schedule.
Then win the next week at Mis
souri and beat either Texas or
Texas A&M in the Big 12 title
game, and the Mildcats people
used to laugh at could be on their
way to play for the national cham
pionship in the Fiesta Bowl.
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right now.”
That drive first manifested it
self at Los Alamitos High School,
where Hartley put up better num
bers than his teammate, Stanley
Guyness, but received less-than
equal attention from recruiters.
That slight, along with being
the less-heralded receiving re
cruit to LaCorey Collins in Ore
gon’s freshman class of 1995, has
helped motivate Hartley even
further, Bellotti said.
“I think there’s no question,”
Bellotti says. “Tony has always
been compared to someone else.
In high school he was compared
to Stan Guyness, and I think a lot
of recruiters felt that Stanley
Guyness was the better player.
But Tony just had better num
bers, made more plays, and I
think that motivated him.
“Tony has done a great job,
and it’s no surprise to anyone in
our program that he is putting up
the numbers he has. He’s made
plays ever since he was a fresh
man.”
Hence, The Playmaker.
It should be noted, too, that the
other holder of that nickname,
Irvin, has played nine games this
season as well. Irvin has three
more receptions but 225 less
yards.
And, perhaps even more
tellingly, Irvin has just one
touchdown, six fewer than Hart
ley.
So who is The Playmaker
now?
Hartley File
NAME:
Tony Hartley
HEIGHT: 6-0
WEIGHT: 190
YEAR IN SCHOOL:
HONORS: Set Oregon record with
242 receiving yards against Wash
ington last week... also had nine
catches and two touchdowns
against Huskies... leads Ducks with
41 receptions for 858 yards and
seven touchdowns this season...
has grabbed 97 passes for 16
touchdowns in collegiate career...
named second-team all-America by
USA Today as a senior defensive
back at Los Alamitos High School
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