Crouch Shares Big 12 Offensive Honor

Dallas - For the first time in 2000, co-Offensive and co-Defensive student-athletes have been selected as SBC Big 12 Conference Football Players of the Week by a select panel of media covering Big 12 football for games played on Sept. 23, 2000-the final week of Big 12 non-conference competition.

Co-Offensive Players of the Week are Kansas State senior quarterback Jonathan Beasley of Glendale, Calif., and Nebraska junior quarterback Eric Crouch of Omaha, Neb. SBC co-Defensive Players of the Week are Oklahoma junior linebacker Rocky Calmus of Jenks, Okla., and Texas junior cornerback Quentin Jammer of Angleton, Texas. Special Teams Player of the Week is Texas junior wide receiver and coverage specialist Michael Ungar of Fort Worth, Texas.

Beasley set a K-State school record with five rushing touchdowns in the Wildcats' 55-10 victory over North Texas while he also established individual school records for touchdowns in a game (five) and individual points in a game (30). He scored on touchdowns of one, one, two, one, and 16 yards, and he finished with 60 yards on 12 carries rushing. Beasley completed 12-of-15 passes for 202 yards without being intercepted. Crouch put up solid numbers with 12 carries for 93 yards and a school- and Big 12-record-tying five touchdowns while going 10-for-13 for 159 yards in a 42-13 win over Iowa of the Big Ten Conference. His five TD tosses represented a career high (topping three against KSU in 1998) and tied the NU single-game mark set by Steve Taylor vs. UCLA on Sept. 12, 1987. Crouch's TD passes also equaled the conference record held by Oklahoma's Josh Heupel (twice in 1999) and Colorado's Koy Detmer (in 1996).

Calmus had a season-best 14 tackles, including five solo, as the Sooners clamped down on Rice's Wishbone offense attack in a 42-14 triumph. He also had a fumble recovery and a pass deflection as OU limited the Owls to 262 yards of total offense and two TDs. Jammer posted five tackles, caused two fumbles and broke up two passes in Texas' 48-0 win over Houston. He forced a fumble on a punt return that was recovered for a TD and caused a second fumble that was eventually converted into a score. While playing man-to-man coverage throughout the game, he held Houston Brian Robinson, the nation's leading receiver (10.3 catches per game) prior to Sept. 23 games, to zero catches during the game.

Special Teams Player of the Week Ungar, a Longhorns' walkon who has become a star on special teams, recovered a fumbled punt in the end zone for a touchdown in the third quarter and downed a pair of punts inside the 10 yard-line. His recovery of the Jammer-forced fumble helped Texas jump ahead of the Houston Cougars 27-0 with 8:29 left in the third quarter and virtually to ice the game.