Statistics Summary for 1983 
 

  Date Opponent   Score   Attend   Site Notes
9/3/1983 MANKATO STATE W 21-14 3,087 Brookings, S.D.
9/10/1983 at Drake W 20-3 7,250 Des Moines, Iowa
* 9/17/1983 at Morningside W 17-10 5,642 Sioux City, Iowa
* 9/24/1983 at North Dakota W 28-27 6,800 Grand Forks, N.D.
* 10/1/1983 ST. CLOUD STATE L 22-28 5,119 Brookings, S.D. Beef Bowl
* 10/8/1983 at Nebraska-Omaha L 16-44 6,400 Omaha, Neb.
* 10/15/1983 NORTH DAKOTA STATE L 12-24 9,308 Brookings, S.D. Hobo Day
* 10/22/1983 AUGUSTANA W 13-9 3,739 Brookings, S.D.
* 10/29/1983 SOUTH DAKOTA L 23-48 5,482 Brookings, S.D.
* 11/5/1983 at Mankato State L 27-30 2,375 Mankato, Minn.
* 11/12/1983 NORTHERN COLORADO L 14-21 562 Brookings, S.D.
 
Overall: 5-6
Conference: 3-6
Home: 2-4
Away: 3-2
Neutral: 0-0


Rushing g att gain loss net avg td long avg/g
Rick Wegher 11 130 729 44 685 5.3 6 80 62.3
Mike Law 11 117 522 167 355 3.0 5 22 32.3
Paul Prout 11 74 275 5 270 3.6 0 12 24.5
Kevin Skalla 11 51 187 9 178 3.5 3 21 16.2
Steve Sundet 7 46 184 13 171 3.7 1 21 24.4
Al Molitor 11 32 115 2 113 3.5 1 25 10.3
Rod Riehl 9 16 38 5 33 2.1 2 11 3.7
Gary Poland 6 12 39 12 27 2.2 0 10 4.5
Team totals 11 479 2090 257 1833 3.8 18 80 166.6
Opp totals 11 503 2406 253 2153 4.3 26 61 195.7
 


Passing g comp-att-int pct yds td long avg/g effic
Mike Law 11 125-229-24 54.6 1627 7 58 147.9 103.39
Gary Poland 6 27-59-7 45.8 385 2 68 64.2 88.03
Team totals 11 152-288-31 52.8 2012 9 68 182.9 100.25
Opp totals 11 124-250-18 49.6 1663 9 57 151.2 102.96
 
Receiving g no. yds avg td long avg/g
Mike Ethier 0 41 785 19.1 5 68 0.0
Rick Wegher 11 35 288 8.2 1 57 26.2
Dennis Thomas 0 33 332 10.1 1 22 0.0
Kevin Skalla 11 11 106 9.6 0 17 9.6
Matt Hippe 0 10 150 15.0 1 25 0.0
Steve Sundet 7 10 113 11.3 0 29 16.1
J. Tiefenthaler 0 4 125 31.2 1 58 0.0
Scott Schaefer 0 4 83 20.8 0 30 0.0
Paul Prout 11 2 5 2.5 0 3 0.5
Rod Riehl 9 1 17 17.0 0 17 1.9
Al Molitor 11 1 8 8.0 0 8 0.7
Team totals 11 152 2012 13.2 9 68 182.9
Opp totals 11 124 1663 13.4 9 57 151.2
 
Scoring g td fg k-pat 2xp dxp saf pts
Ken Jensen 0 0 8-13 21-23 0 0 0 45
Rick Wegher 11 7 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 42
Mike Law 11 5 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 30
Mike Ethier 0 5 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 30
Kevin Skalla 11 3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 18
Rod Riehl 9 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 12
J. Tiefenthaler 0 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 6
Matt Hippe 0 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 6
Steve Sundet 7 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 6
Dennis Thomas 0 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 6
Randy Pirner 0 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 6
Al Molitor 11 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 6
Team totals 11 28 8-13 21-23 0 0 0 213
Opp totals 11 35 4-11 30-31 1 0 0 254
 
Total offense g rush pass total avg/g
Mike Law 11 355 1627 1982 180.2
Rick Wegher 11 685 0 685 62.3
Gary Poland 6 27 385 412 68.7
Paul Prout 11 270 0 270 24.5
Kevin Skalla 11 178 0 178 16.2
Steve Sundet 7 171 0 171 24.4
Al Molitor 11 113 0 113 10.3
Rod Riehl 9 33 0 33 3.7
Team totals 11 1833 2012 3845 349.5
Opp totals 11 2153 1663 3816 346.9
 
Punt returns no. yards td long avg
Randy Pirner 8 87 1 50 10.9
Wade Rasmussen 19 61 0 23 3.2
Gary Fisher 1 4 0 4 4.0
Team totals 28 152 1 50 5.4
Opp totals 15 74 0 39 4.9
 
Kick returns no. yards td long avg
Rick Wegher 22 490 0 44 22.3
Gary Fisher 5 55 0 18 11.0
Al Molitor 2 45 0 25 22.5
Rod Riehl 1 23 0 23 23.0
Steve Sundet 1 15 0 15 15.0
Scott Schaefer 1 7 0 7 7.0
Dennis Thomas 1 6 0 6 6.0
Paul Prout 2 3 0 3 1.5
Team totals 35 644 0 44 18.4
Opp totals 36 490 0 23 13.6
 
Interceptions no. yards td long avg
Jim Smith 7 100 0 43 0.1
Randy Pirner 5 18 0 18 0.3
Gary Sorenson 2 6 0 6 0.3
Dave Bidinger 1 55 0 55 0.0
Wade Rasmussen 1 20 0 20 0.1
Todd Yackley 1 1 0 1 1.0
Kevin Murray 1 -2 0 254 -0.5
Team totals 18 198 0 43 0.1
Opp totals 31 257 0 39 0.1
 
Fumble returns no. yards td long avg
Team totals 0 0 0 0 0.0
Opp totals 0 0 0 0 0.0
 
All purpose g rush rcv pr kr ir total avg/g
Rick Wegher 11 685 288 0 490 0 1463 133.0
Mike Ethier 0 0 785 0 0 0 785 0.0
Mike Law 11 355 0 0 0 0 355 32.3
Dennis Thomas 0 0 332 0 6 0 338 0.0
Steve Sundet 7 171 113 0 15 0 299 42.7
Kevin Skalla 11 178 106 0 0 0 284 25.8
Paul Prout 11 270 5 0 3 0 278 25.3
Al Molitor 11 113 8 0 45 0 166 15.1
Matt Hippe 0 0 150 0 0 0 150 0.0
J. Tiefenthaler 0 0 125 0 0 0 125 0.0
Randy Pirner 0 0 0 87 0 18 105 0.0
Jim Smith 0 0 0 0 0 100 100 0.0
Scott Schaefer 0 0 83 0 7 0 90 0.0
Wade Rasmussen 0 0 0 61 0 20 81 0.0
Rod Riehl 9 33 17 0 23 0 73 8.1
Gary Fisher 0 0 0 4 55 0 59 0.0
Dave Bidinger 0 0 0 0 0 55 55 0.0
Gary Poland 6 27 0 0 0 0 27 4.5
Gary Sorenson 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.0
Todd Yackley 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
Kevin Murray 0 0 0 0 0 -2 -2 0.0
Team totals 11 1833 2012 152 644 198 4839 439.9
Opp totals 11 2153 1663 74 490 257 4637 421.5
 
Punting no. yds avg lg tb fc i20 50+ blk
Dave Bidinger 45 1597 35.5 63 0 0 0 0 0
Joey Hartford 3 78 26.0 31 0 0 0 0 0
Gary Poland 2 65 32.5 35 0 0 0 0 0
Rod Riehl 1 52 52.0 52 0 0 0 0 0
Team totals 51 1792 35.1 63 0 0 0 0 0
Opp totals 54 2069 38.3 66 0 0 0 0 0
 
Field goals made att pct long blkd
Ken Jensen 8 13 61.5 0 0
Team totals 8 13 61.5 0 0
Opp totals 4 11 36.4 0 0
 
Defensive Statistics g ua a tot tfl-yds sack-yds int-yds brup qbh fr-yds ff blk saf
Dave Fremark 0 50 38 88 8.0 - 0 1.5 - 0 - 2 - 1 - 0 2 - -
Wade Rasmussen 0 44 29 73 2.0 - 0 - 1 - 20 5 - 2 - 0 4 - -
Todd Yackley 0 37 33 70 6.0 - 0 3.5 - 0 1 - 1 3 - 4 - 0 1 - -
Randy Pirner 0 40 27 67 1.0 - 0 - 5 - 18 3 - - - - -
Greg Dralle 0 34 28 62 2.0 - 0 - - - - 1 - 0 1 - -
Jim Smith 0 38 13 51 - - 7 - 100 4 - 1 - 0 - - -
John Lewis 0 28 17 45 1.0 - 0 1.5 - 0 - - - - 1 - -
Ken Jensen 0 26 9 35 4.0 - 0 3.5 - 0 - 1 - - 1 - -
Kevin Cade 0 18 14 32 - 1.0 - 0 - - - - 1 - -
Todd Roberts 0 14 12 26 - - - - - 1 - 0 - - -
Ed Wilkins 0 19 6 25 1.0 - 0 2.5 - 0 - - - 1 - 0 - - -
Gary Sorenson 0 17 8 25 1.0 - 0 2.0 - 0 2 - 6 1 - 2 - 0 - - -
Ross Brockshus 0 16 9 25 2.0 - 0 1.0 - 0 - 1 - - - - -
Gary Fisher 0 17 4 21 - - - 4 - 1 - 0 - - -
Jim Gray 0 9 11 20 4.0 - 0 4.5 - 0 - - - - - - -
Kevin Murray 0 10 4 14 1.0 - 0 - 1 - -2 1 - - - - -
Dave Bidinger 0 8 3 11 - 1.0 - 0 1 - 55 1 - - 2 - -
Jay Sohler 0 5 6 11 1.0 - 0 2.0 - 0 - 1 - - 1 - -
Jim Kaufman 0 7 2 9 - - - - - - 1 - -
Steve Barrick 0 6 2 8 - - - - - - - - -
Rick Wirtjes 0 3 3 6 - - - - - - - - -
Rod Riehl 9 5 0 5 - - - - - - - - -
Lee Schmidt 0 3 2 5 - - - - - - - - -
Rick Wegher 11 2 0 2 - - - - - - - - -
Mike Law 11 2 0 2 - - - - - - - - -
J. Tiefenthaler 0 1 0 1 - - - - - - - - -
Mike Ethier 0 1 0 1 - - - - - - - - -
Mike Orr 0 0 0 0 - - - - - 1 - 0 - - -
Team totals 11 0 0 0 - - 18 - 198 - - - - - -
Opp totals 11 0 0 0 - - 31 - 257 - - - - - -
 
Team statistics Team totals Opponent
1st downs rushing 99 113
1st downs passing 80 77
1st downs penalty 8 7
1st downs total 187 197
Penalties against 68 51
Penalty yards 529 398
Fumbles 22 29
Fumbles lost 7 16
3rd-down convert 0-0 0-0
4th-down convert 0-0 0-0
Time of possession 0:00 0:00
Misc yards 0 0