University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 16, 1988
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Mason, players looking ahead to Auburn game
'Hawks try to forget last meeting
By Jeff Euston
Kansan sportswrite
Last year, the Kansas football team openers with a 40-9 loss at Albuquerque. Tomorrow, the Jaycees will shoot at the sixth-ranked Tigers.
"I try to forget about last year, especially that game," quarterback Kelly Donohoe said.
Kansas players who made the long trip back to Kansas last year have tried to put last year's game out of their minds.
Kansas coach Glen Mason said he wasn't concerned about last year's loss.
"I don't have any idea what happened here last year," he said. "I just thank God I wasn't here to see it." The only thing I know is we have to play better as a team this time ground."
Auburn coach Pat Dye has told his team the same thing after a narrow victory in its opening game.
7. The Tigers, 15-point favorites last week, struggled in the rain to defeat the Kentucky Wildcats 20-10. Kentucky had several opportunities to tie the game at 17 in the fourth quarter. They faced the game with a 4.1 field goal.
"We didn't play very well as a team." Dye said. "I was a big game for us, but right now I'd say we're a medicore football team."
"We turned the ball over four times, but Kentucky turned it over five times, so we were lucky. It is a long time since we played so poorly on the offensive line and on the defensive line, we weren't dominant. We had a lot of problems, but they were more mental problems than
'Are we afraid? Afraid of
**are we afraid?** Afraid of what? Of failure? No. We're going to go out and play our best. That's all we can do.
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Kansas football coach
physical."
what despite Dye says. Mason knows the Jayhawks face an uphill struggle. The Jayhawks have not won on the road on the first game of the 1985 season when they defeated Hawaii 33-27.
"They're a superior team," he said. "They're a national champion-ship-caller team. We still have a long way to go."
"Are we afraid? Afraid of what?
failure? We're going to go out
and play our best. That's all we can
don't want to apologize to anyone."
Mason said strong safety Jason Priest, who sprained his ankle in the first quarter of last week's game, would make the trip. Freshman Deral Boykin will start at strong safety, however.
Kansas has concentrated on special teams' play this week, especially the field goal unit, in preparing for the game. Mason hopes to avoid breakouts such as the shocked food jumper in a bayray touchdown last week.
Starting left tackle Chris Nielsen remains out of the lineup with a sprained knee. He will be replaced by freshman Chris Perez.
"We we've worked on field goals every day," Mason said. "When something goes wrong, you don't want it to go wrong again."
Frank Hatchett, who did not play against Baylor after quitting and returning to the team two weeks ago, may see action at Auburn.
Under Dye, Auburn has established itself as a perennial power in college football. He has led the Tigers to basketball in six of his seven
Auburn has finished in the top 20 of five the last six years, and the first player selected in the NLA draft has been from Auburn two times. Three of them were the top 16 and Auburn Bruce was the selected first last season.
Eleven Auburn starters return from last year's Sugar Bowl team that tied undefeated Syracuse. Eight of those starters were taken in the NFL draft, however.
Aukern kicker Win Lyle, who did not play last week because he missed a team meeting, will play tomorrow. Lyle was selected as the kicker on the All-Southeastern Conference team last season.
years at Auburn.
Another Auburn offensive threat is Lawyer Tillman, a presaeson All-American at UCLA. He also lives in Lawyer Tillman had 32 cases for 600 touchdowns and two touchdowns.
One bright spot in Auburn's victory over Kentucky was sophomore tailback James Joseph, who ran for 110 yards and two touchdowns on both legs.
"Bayley's a good solid football team, and Kansas had them beat. As far as last year's game weather they have a new coach and new schemes on offense and defense. If we make mistakes better, it can happen."
Runners ready for cross country meet
last season.
Dye, however, is worried despite his team's lofty ranking.
"The Kentucky game) indicated we're not a humorous football team," he said. "It hasn't been visible on the field, but it does that doesn't change we are in trouble."
Kansas wide receiver Quintin Smith is one Kansas player who hasn't forgotten last year's 49-0 blow-out.
"That's the revenge factor," he said. "When you'll beat g4-10, it's not fun at all. You go back down and play hard. I'm not going to say we won't like that again, but if I don't the once will be the same this time."
"We're trying to find out who'll be pur top seven runners," Schwartz said.
Kansan sportswriter
After tomorrow's Jayhawk invitational, Kansas cross country coach Gary Schwartz said he hoped to have a better idea where the men and women's teams stood heading into the tough part of their schedules.
Tomorrow at 10 a.m., the men's team will compete against UMKC, Missouri-Rolla, North Texas State, Pittsburg State and Tabor College. The women's team will face Emporia State, UMKC, North Texas State
and labor College.
North Texas State will be the favorite to win the men's eight-kilometer race. Schwartz said.
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"They did well last year and have a lot of kids back," Schwartz said. "The first real test for Kansas will be the Minnesota Invitational on Oct. 18."
he said. "There will be some Big 10 teams there and several Big Eight schools."
Last week, the Jayhawks won their first meet of the season, defeating Southern University 24-36. Junior Steve Hefferan led Kansas taking second place with a time of 27 minutes and second-second with a time of 27 minutes. Heater Watcke finished fourth and fifth with times of 27:27 and 27:44, respectively.
Schwartz said. "It will be extremely competitive."
speak by Watchel said he was pleased with the way the team had been running going into the meet.
"We're all kind of nerves since we our first meet," sophomore Tony Gundy said. "We've all been training hard and are ready to play." The rain
we nud a really good practice, (last night)," he said. "We've been running really close together in a pack and working well together as a pack.
team.
For the women's team, tomorrow's five-kilometer race will be the first meet of the season.
Schwartz said yesterday's rain would probably help the runners.
How to get there
"If it doesn't rain too much, it
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should make the running conditions better," Schwartz said.
different route on the road. Watke said he preferred to run in adverse conditions.
However, Schwartz said, too much rain could force the runners to use a different route on the course.
"I'll probably make for slower times," Watchee said. "But it's a lot more fun to run in the rain and the mud."
Auburn Tigers
Coach Pat Dye
Record 1/0-1/0
Kansas Jayhawks
Coach Glen Mason
Record 0-1/0-0
WR-7 Quintin Smith, 5-11, 180, Jr.
WR-7 Chris Peer, 6-5, 275, Jr.
LG-56 Rush Bussen, 6-3, 245, Fr.
C-51 Chip Budez, 6-2, 195, Fr.
L-56 Budez, 6-2, 250, Jr.
RT-76 Bill Hundel, 6-2, 195,
TE-86 John Baker, 6-3, 235,
GB-5 Kelly Donohoe, 6-0, 180, Jr.
RB-34 Rob Hoger Broken, 6-0, 185,
GB-5 Kelly Donohoe, 6-0, 185,
WR-9 Vaughn Willett, 6-0, 190,
PK-93 Kard Feleman, 5-11, 170, Jr.
Probable Starters:
Offense
SOLB,Lance Flambachh, 6-5, 235, Fr.
ST-Mark 69K命, 6-4, 260, Fr.
MG-57 Might, 6-1, 235, So.
RT-82 David Gordon, 6-1, 235, Fr.
RT-82 David Gordon, 6-1, 235, Fr.
RL-97 Tony Barker, 6-3, 235, So.
SL-19 Curtis Moore, 6-1, 225, So.
WC-80 Roding Harris, 5-9, 190, Fr.
CC-7 Peda Samuel, 5-9, 190, Fr.
SS-14 Daniel Boykin, 5-10, 180, Fr.
P-97 J.B. Lohen, 6-2, 215, Fr.
Probable Starters:
Defense
Series:
W14-Fredy Weygand, 6-0, 192, 17-
L54-Jim Thompson, 6-2, 68, 281,
LG52 Brad Johnson, 6-2, 68, 211,
OC-51 Mark Rose, 6-2, 68, 211,
OL-61 Mark Rose, 6-2, 68, 260,
RT-78 Rob Selly, 6-5, 254, So,
TB-88 Walter Wearley, 6-4, 251, Br/
GB-17 Reggie Slack, 6-2, 211, Jr.
BF-21 Vincent Harris, 6-2, 211, Jr.
RW-24 Kenneth Davis, 6-2, 200, Rs-
WR-85 Lawry Tillman, 6-4, 233, Jr.
PK-6 Win Lyle, 5-9, 172, Rs.
BL-48 Albyn Mitchell, 6-0, 230, Sr.
LT-74 Tracy Rocker, 6-3, 278, Sr.
RT-92 Ron Stallworth, 6-5, 258, Sr.
NG-66忍仁 Roland, 6-3, 270, Sr.
LR-90 Brian Smith, 6-6, 244, Sr.
SLB-41 Quinnigri Rustin, 5-11, 210, Sr.
ML-Blee Brown, 6-4, 233, Sc.
LC-9 John Wiley, 6-0, 178, Sc.
RC-13 Dominick Anderson, 6-0, 190, Sr.
SS-45 Greg Staples, 6-0, 203, Sr.
FS-29 Frank Stankums, 6-2, 198, Fr.
P-1 Brian Shulman, 5-10, 189, Sr.
The Jayhawks lost their opener to Baylor 27-14. Auburn opened its season at home with a 20-10 victory over Kentucky. Auburn is ranked sixth in the country.
Last week:
Auburn and Kansas have met only once before. Auburn defeated Kansas 49-0 in the Jayhawks first game last season.
Coverage:
The Kansas-Auburn game will be carried locally by the Kansas Jayhawk Network. The game can be heard in Lawrence on KLZR(106FM) and KLWN(1320AM). Kickoff time is scheduled for 6 p.m.
HARRIS TRANFERS TO MASS:
Keith Harris, a 6-5 basketball forward from Inglewood, Calif., has transferred to the University of Massachusetts, Kaisersville, for Kansas, officials said yesterday.
Massachusetts coach John Calipari, a former Kansas assistant, has also added two formations to his staff. Dave Glover to his staff. Calipari spent four years as an assistant and three years as the Massachusetts host this job. Massachusetts job this summer.
Harris spent two years at Kansas and was a front-line reserve on this NCA4 champion team. He remains still reminding after sitting out this season.
The Jayhawks' first game of the tournament will be today at 4:30 p.m. against Northeast Louisville and play Pusa at 1:12 p.m. and Wichita State at 7 a.m.
p.m. and Wichita State in I p.m.
Kansas coach Frankie Alitz said
It is a round-robin tournament which, besides Kansas, will feature Northeast Louisiana, Wichita State and Northeast Louisiana.
WICHITA VOLEYBLE TOURNAMENT: In search of its first visitor, in 2013 the group play in the Pizza Hut Shucker Invitation this weekend in Wichita.
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the Jayhawks had a chance to win at the tournament.
**in practice) we went fairly well this week and we covered everything through the book.** We saw a chance down there, although it's still fairly early for us.
SKIERS COMPETE IN LAWRENCE
Kansas, Kansas State, Ohio, Iowa State, Ohio State, Wichita State and Purdue will compete in the tournament.
Men's and women's slalom will begin at 7 a.m. tomorrow. In the afternoon, men's and women's trick sking will be performed on Monday's jumping competition on Sunday, beginning at 7:30 a.m. and lasting until 5 p.m.
The University of Kansas Waterski Club will compete in a seven team waterski tournament this weekend at the Lakewood ski resort east of Lawrence on Highway K-10.
GUBERT DOESN'T STOP WILD CATS; Tulane and Kansas State agreed yesterday to go on with their football game tomorrow. The Wildcats will be arriving shortly before Hurricane Gilbert is expected to hit land.
somewhere around Brownville,
Texas, this afternoon, but the outer
edge of the storm was already getting
so thick that with rain in mid-morning
vesterday.
Gibber is expected to hit
the hurricane is expected to hit
"Based on the forecasts as they stand now, we are going to play," Tulane spokesman Jason Greenleaf will watch to watch the storm and if it changes."
NORWAY GETS '94 WINNER GAMES: The Norwegian ski resort of Lillehammer scored a stunning upset of sports and tradition over money and politics yesterday when it hosted to stage the 1994 Winter Olympics.
Anchorage, Alaska, finished third in the balloting,归建 Lilahene's Scandanavian neighbor of Ostersun, Sweden苏西, Bulgaria, the favorite at the start of the week, was the first city eliminated and said it was umped at not getting more support from its East bloc allies.
DENT SUSPENSION DENT and Richard Dent, fighting a 30-day NFL suspension for refusing to take drug test, has reached an agreement with the league and had the suspension lifted.
Crunch time
The Kansas football team, led by junior quarterback Kyle Donohue (above), travels to Auburn, Ala., to play the Tigers at 6 p.m. tomorrow. The Tigers have one of the nation's toughest defenses, led by potent All-America defensive tackle Tracy Rocker (right).
NCAA to review KU case at end of month
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The NCAA Infractions Committee will review the case against the national champion Kansas basketball program during the weekend of Sept. 30, it was learned yesterday.
The Associated Press
learning yearly. Kansas athletic director Bob Friedman expected to learn today the exact date of the hearing. He said a final decision on possible penalties could be announced within two weeks after the hearing.
Sources close to the investigation have indicated the program would not come under penalty.
Freckel confirmed that he; Chancellor Gene A. Budig. Del Brinkman, faculty representative; and Vickie Thomas, University general counsel, would represent KU at the hearings.
the hearing, I confirmed that University officials would attend a pre-bearing conference at the NCAA headquarters in Kansas City on Sept. 22.
Frederick revealed on July 11 that
Thomas said the conference was "an opportunity for us and the (NCAA) staff to clarify and verify information in the response. It also gives us a chance to add any additional information we may have."
the NCAA was looking into the Jayhawk program. Three days earlier, Roy Williams, an assistant at North Carolina, was named to replace head coach Larry Brown, who resigned after losing to the NSA's San Antonio franchise.
Thomas said she had met the Sept. 2 deadline for responding to the reported 14 allegations, at least eight of which the University reported
The alleged letter of inquiry received by NCAA letters of inquiry received by Frederick on June 20 include buying an airline ticket for a recruit, lending a recruiter's family money to pay a bill and giving a recruit $200.
The alleged violations occurred between June 1986 and April 1987, during which time Gary Hunter, former associate athletic director, and Thomas worked with the NCAA in reporting them.
None of the alleged violations involve the eligibility of any players on the 1988 national championship team, nor can the allegations seep-dize that championship, Frederick said.
Kansan sportwriter Arvin Donley contributed information to this story.
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