Memories from K-State 1989

Harry · August 6, 2014

MANHATTAN — As far as celebrations go, the one Saturday at KSU Stadium might have been good enough to erase three years of frustration.

“Gosh, I thought we’d won the damn Super Bowl,” Kansas State defensive end Maurice Henry exclaimed. “Little kids were tackling me and biting me on the ankle.”

Bigger kids were pulling down both goal posts in KSU Stadium, and one of the biggest kids of all — K-State’s 280-pound center Paul Yniguez — was atop the victory bell, furiously clanging it back and forth.

Yes, for the first time since Oct. 18, 1986, the victory bell tolled for K-State, which ended its hated 16-game losing streak, not to mention an equally unpleasant 30-game winless streak, with a That’s Incredible-style 20-17 victory over previously unbeaten North Texas.

What was incredible wasn’t so much that K-State won – although that in itself is noteworthy when a team owns the nation’s longest losing streak — but the way the Wildcats won.

They won it a minute and a half, give or take a few seconds, after they appeared to have lost it.

Read more: http://cjonline.com/sports/2014-08-05/top-25-bill-ing-no-3-goering-coverage-sept-30-1989

untjim1995 · August 6, 2014

I still think the loss at SMU later in that season was worse than this loss. KSU had a full allotment of scholarship players while we only had 60 or whatever was alloweed back then for i-aa schools. And they won on the last play of the game. The SMU game was a blowout and they didn't have a full allotment of scholarship players yet, since this was their first year back from the Death Penalty. We got whipped 35-19, IIRC, at Ownby Very pathetic effort.

Edited August 6, 2014 by untjim1995