September 06, 1999
Three standout student-athletes have been named as Big 12 Conference Southwestern Bell Players of the Week as superlative performers in media balloting for games of Sept. 2-4.
Texas sophomore quarterback Major Applewhite of Baton Rouge, La., is Southwestern Bell Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week. Nebraska senior rover Mike Brown of Scottsdale, Ariz., is Defensive Player of the Week while Big 12 Specialty Player of the Week is Texas A&M junior kicking specialist Terence Kitchens of Lumberton, Texas.
Applewhite was 17-for-27 passing for 353 yards and three TDs against Stanford while becoming the second Longhorns' quarterback ever to pass for more than 300 yards in back-to-back games. He joins James Brown (300-plus passing yards consecutively twice in both 1995 and '96) with this distinction and had a personal-high 232 yards on 6-for-8 passing in the first quarter of the 69-17 Texas win. The sophomore, who was 30-for-42 with 316 yards against nationally-ranked North Carolina State in the Longhorns' opener, moved into sixth place on the Texas career passing list with 3,122 yards in 12 games.
Brown notched a team-best eight tackles as the Huskers downed Iowa of the Big Ten Conference 42-7 at Iowa City. He sparked a defensive effort that limited the Hawkeyes to 169 net yards-57 rushing and 112 passing-while Iowa was 11-for-30 passing as a team. Brown had three solo tackles, five assists and was a leader in the effort that kept Iowa without a first down for the first 27 minutes of the game and allowed the Hawkeyes just 2-of-15 third down conversions. He also was credited with a key block for PR Keyuo Craver on a 15-yard punt runback.
Kitchens made the most of his first complete game in three seasons of kicking for the Aggies. After having made one extra point kick against North Texas in his previous career, Kitchens boomed through 50- and 51-yard field goals in the first quarter and added a 26-yard field goal as time ran out at halftime. Kitchens was 7-for-7 with four PATs and a trio of three-pointers while also handling kickoff duties.