1972 BYU Cougars football team


The 1972 BYU Cougars football team represented Brigham Young University for the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. It was their first year under head coach LaVell Edwards and the Cougars finished over.500 for the first time since 1969.

Schedule

Preseason

was promoted to head coach in January to take over for the departed Tommy Hudspeth, who ended up as the head coach at by season's end.
BYU was returning 28 players from the previous year but Golden Richards would not be one of them. Richards claimed it was because the Cougars were still a run-oriented offense while BYU and Edwards said it was because Richards had trouble keeping with his academics.

Roster

Starters

Offense

Defense

Coaching staff

Results

Long Beach State

Statistics

Passing

PlayerCompAttYardsTDINT
Bill August6914489155
Dave Terry62122742210
Pete Van Valkenburg25321
John Betham01

Rushing

PlayerAttYardsTD
Pete Van Valkenburg2321,38612
Steve Stratton783283
Wayne Bower432711
Dan Taylor461611
Dave Terry611202
Gil Gillenwater356
Bill August5022
Bryce Johnson10
John Betham4-15

Receiving

PlayerRecYardsTD
Logan Hunter495552
John Betham193452
Mike Pistorius163142
Pete Van Valkenburg10981
Lynn Zwahlen5951
Jay Miller630
Dennis Doman759
Steve Stratton855
Dan Taylor445
Wayne Bower436
Dave Affleck315
Dave Terry110
Bryce Johnson18

Awards

All-WAC: Dave Atkinson, Dan Hansen, Paul Howard, Paul Linford, Ron Tree, Pete Van Valkenburg
WAC Coach of the Year: LaVell Edwards