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Haskell's Daniel Jones breaks through the Westminster College defense for five yards.

By Chuck Woodling

October 4, 2009

Haskell football falls to Westminster

The Haskell football team was trounced Saturday by Westminster College. Enlarge video

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Westminster College 47, at Haskell 14

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Daniel Eidson is not considered an NFL prospect. He sure looked like one Saturday, though.

Eidson threw for 311 yards and six touchdowns as Westminster College dropped a 47-14 anvil on Haskell Indian Nations University.

“Sometimes you have to give credit where credit is due,” HINU coach Eric Brock said.

Brock threw everything except the Haskell Stadium concession stand at Eidson, a 6-foot-2, 202-pound senior quarterback from Camdenton, Mo., but sack attack after sack attack failed. Eidson was never tackled behind the line.

“It’s pretty frustrating,” said linebacker Trevor Rouse, Haskell’s leader in tackles for losses. “They knew we blitzed a lot, so they used three-step drops. But we still should have gotten back there more than we did.”

Three of Eidson’s TD tosses went to Carl Givens, including one just before halftime in which Eidson tossed a Hail Mary into the end zone and the 6-2 junior outleaped HINU defenders to give the Blue Jays a 33-14 lead at the break.

“That was a killer,” Rouse said.

So was losing quarterback Dwayne Butler midway through the third quarter.

Butler, who had guided the Fightin’ Indians to back-to-back road victories, was tackled from behind while running up the middle, and twisted his right knee while going down awkwardly.

“We don’t know how serious it is,” Brock said, “but it doesn’t look good.”

With Ryan Alden, who started the first three games still ailing, the Indians are now down to one quarterback, junior Victor Ramos who played the last quarter and a half.

If Ramos had been injured, Brock probably would have had to run the Wildcat formation with tailbacks taking direct snaps from center.

“We may have to train a second quarterback in case something happens to Ramos next week,” Brock said.

Haskell (3-3) passed the mid-point of its season Saturday and has already lost four key skill players to injury — Alden (shoulder), wide receiver Casey Wilson (broken leg), running back Quentin Haynes (broken collarbone) and now Butler. Nevertheless, Brock wasn’t using injuries as an excuse for Saturday’s lopsided defeat to an NCAA Div. III team with a 2-2 record.

“We played very poorly on both sides of the ball,” the HINU coach said. “We had no passion on the field, or on the sideline.”

Haskell, still winless at home (0-3) but unbeaten on the road (3-0), will play host to Kansas Wesleyan at 2 p.m. next Saturday.