University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 8, 1989
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Kansas tailback worries Louisville coaching staff
By Gene King
Kanean sportswrite
Kansas tailback Tony Sands enters tomorrow's game against the Louisville Cardinals a marked man
"He is certainly an important part of their offense," Louisville coach Howard Schnellenberd said. "We aren't going anywhere aren't going to change our defense."
The Jayhawks will take to the field at 1 p.m. tomorrow to play the University of Louisville Cardinals at Memorial Stadium.
Schnellenberger said that Sands, who rushed for 102 yards against Montana State, had been on the minds of the Cardinal coaching staff.
Schnellenberger said he was impressed with the Jayhawk's victory against Montana State last week.
"They have made some real progress," Schnellenberger said. "We have great respect for them and what they're doing."
Schnellenberger said he was looking for the victory.
"It is an important step towards progress for us and for playing football on the national level." he said.
Louisville, like Kansas, is 1-going to tomorrow's game. Last week the Gamecock team beat
Including the victory at Wyoming, the Cardinals have won 10 of their last 11 games, dating back to last season when they were 8-3.
Louisville's last loss was against Southern Mississippi, 30-23.
Against Wyoming, Cardinal quarterback Browning Nagle was 11 of 25
for 196 yards with one interception.
He threw for a Louisville record of
four touchdowns in a single game.
He's first two receptions were for
peppers.
"I was very pleased with his performance as a first year player," Schnellenberger said.
Nagle transferred from West Virginia, where he was back-up to Major Harris. The game against Wyoming was his first start assignment since 1966 high school football.
Kansas coach Glenn Mason said he was concerned about Nagle.
"He is a big kid. He runs well and scrambles well." Mason said. "We are going to have a problem containing him." He is a hard kid to bring down."
"Obviously, Louisville is a very good team and is underrated. We have our hands full." he said.
They have the mark of a Miamtype offense, Mason said. It is an attack that is mostly through the air, as evident from Louville's 25 pass attempts compared to 15 for Kansas. Louisville gained 53 percent of their total yards against Wyoming through the air.
"They will run the ball, too," Mason said. "It is a pretty good offensive unit."
The Cardinal offense gained 367 yards against Wyoming, who managed to gain only 272 during the game. However, both teams were down in the fourth quarter until then broke the tie and won.
ger said. "We usually have to win it in the fourth quarter."
"We have always had to win with effort and hard work." Schnellenber-
Jayhawk quarterback Kelly Donohue will try to improve his record as a starter. Donohoe passed for 165 yards last week and completed 10 of 15 with one interception. Donohoe connected on two scoring passes to wide receivers Kenny Drayton and Quintin Smith.
On the ground, tailback Frank Hatchett gained 46 yards on 12 carries while fullback Maurice Hooks rushed for 75 yards, averaging 5.7 yards per carry.
Kansas is led defensively by strong safety Deral Boykin. He was named the Big Eight defensive player of the week for his efforts against Montana State. Boykin had nine tackles and two interceptions for a touchdown. It was the third longest interception return in Jayhawk history.
Linebackers Roger Robben and Wes Swinford, who started on defense in their first game, combined for 12 tackles. Robben was second on the team with seven tackles. Along with bringing down ball carriers, Robben intercepted a Bobcat pass, his first career interception.
One change in the starring defensive secondary will be Hassan Bailey. He will start in place of regular corner back Doug Terry, missed most of the week's practices because of a death in the family.
This will be the first meeting between the two coaches but the second time Louisville and Kansas will meet.
Kansas Jayhawks
Coach Glen Mason
1-0
Game 2
WB-6 Jim New, 6,10,185, So.
-L7 Lilly Chirra Pee, 6,283, So.
-LG-6 Marino Viddo, 6,245, So.
-CG-1 Budice, 6,284, Jrs.
-RG-68 Scott Inwalle, 6,280, Fr-Fr.
-RG-78 Hill Baldett, 6,801, Sr.
 TE-88 John Baker, 6,245, Sr.
-BK-5 Della Koyonho, 6,080, Iro-
FB-4 Maurio Hooks, 5,11,205, Jr.
-BT-2 Tony Sands, 6,175, So.
Louisville Cardinals
Coach
Howard
Schnellenberger
1-0
3 Frank Hatchett, 5-10, 192, Jr.
WR-2 Quentin Smith, 5-11, 175, Sr.
PK-93 Brad Fleeman, 5-8, 172, Sr.
SOB-17 Lance Flaschbain, 6-5, 235, Sr.
ST-86 Markon Kcz., 8-4, 268, Sr.
MG-72 Gilbert Brown, 6-2, 322, Fr.
RT-82 David Gordon, 6-3, 250, Fr.
RIL-84 Dan Newbrough, 6-1, 225, Fr.
RIL-34 Roger Robben, 6-0, 223, Fr.
RIL-38 Was Swinford, 6-1, 220, Fr.
CC-8 Tim Hill, 5-8, 160, Su.
WC-10 Doug Terry, 5-11, 177, Su.
WS-23 Jason Priest, 6-0, 190, Su.
SS-9 Deral Boykin, 5-10, 190, Su.
P-97.8 J. Losen, 6-3, 218, Su.
Probable Starters:
Offense
Probable Starters: Defense
SE-30 David Moyler, 5-8, 198, Jr.
LT-77 Lerry Jack, 6-5, 325, Jr.
LG-59 Mike McKinney, 6-3, 287, Sr.
C-61 Allen Douglas, 8-3, 242, Sr.
RG-78 Scott McCallen, 6-3, 288, Jr.
RT-73 Pat Burky, 6-4, 272, Jr.
TE-81 Chad Fountain, 5-8, 237, Fort.
FL-5 Anthony Cummings, 5-8, 178, Jr.
DB-7 Carwling Nagle, 6-2, 221, Jr.
FB-31 Bowring Gardner 6-2, 220, Jr.
TB-33 Lalret Ware, 6-1, 212, Jr.
RP-38 Kon Rell, 6-1, 221, Jr.
LE-53 Deron Williams, 6, 2-14, So. Lt.
RN-Dan Gangwer, 6, 2-24, Jr.
RT-99 Ted Washington, 8, 500, So.
RE-98 Mike Florez, 6, 3-23, Jr.
RB-Learson Gibbon, 6, 302, Srs.
The Cardinals defeated the Jayhawks 17-9 in the teams' last meeting in 1980.
47 Pat Fitzgerald, 6-4, 121, Jr.
FJ-F37 Joe Smith, S-9, 181, Jr.
SS-39 Rick McFadden, 5-11, 199, So.
JS-25 John Gale, 5-9, 178, Sr.
OC-22 Art Alexander, 5-10, 173, Sr.
P-Klaus Wimmerman, 6-2, 202.
Miscellaneous:
Cardinal quarterback Browning Nagle threw a Louisville record four touchdowns last week against Womong.
Sports briefs
KANSAN Graphic
NC STATE BASKETBALL: The NCAA's preliminary report on possible rules violations committed by the North Carolina State basketball program contains serious allegations but does not support claims of drug abuse or grade changing, the school's chancellor said yesterday.
from athletic boosters.
The report, released to reporters with players' names blacked out, focuses on claims that players sold complimentary basketball tickets and athletic shoes, received discounts not available to other students and accepted free food and lodging
Basketball coach Jim Valvano said he did not know players were selling tickets and shoes but said he could understand why they would. He also indicated he was ready to suffer any penalties the NCAA handed down.
JOHNSON TO RETAIN MEDALS:
Ben Johnson, to lose his world records and titles for steroid use, can keep his medals from the 1984 Olympics, the head of the International Olympic Committee said.
IOC president Juan Antonio
Samaranch said accomplishments at the Games were outside the scop of the revolutionary decision by track's governing body this week to erase Johnson's world records and championships in the 100 meters and indoor 60 meters for admitted drug use.
The IOC stripped Johnson of his gold medal in the 100 at last summer's Olympics after he tested positive for steroids.
STUDENT TICKETS AVAILABLE:
About 1,000 student all-sports tickets still are available, KU ticket manager Diana Miller said.
The ticket package includes tickets for home football and basketball games and the Kansas Relays. Students wishing to purchase tickets should go to the ticket office in Allen Field House with their KUID. Tickets cost $75.
JOCKEYS STRIKE: Officials at Will Rogers Downs said yesterday that they would seek a grand jury investigation that shut down the track Wednesday.
Jockeys refused to ride in the last eight races because of what they said were dangerous track conditions.
Tomas Stargardter/KANSAN
Rob Bletcher, Abilene sophomore, gets crazy with his tuba during a KU Band practice in the football stadium. The band will play "That's
Heavy Metal
Entertainment" for the 1 p.m. Saturday football game against the Louville Cardinals.
Cross country teams to race in Illinois meet
By Paula Parrish Kansan sportswriter
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas men's and women's cross country teams will begin their seasons tomorrow, and Coach Gary Schwartz is looking forward to facing the competition.
"The druggery of practice is not a lot of fun," Schwartz said. "It (the competition) is fun, and that's why we're all in it."
Tomorrow, the team will travel to Carbondale, Illinois, to compete in the Southern Illinois Invitational. The men will compete in an eight-kilometer run against Southern Illinois University. The women will compete in a five-kilometer run against Southern Illinois and Purdue.
Kansas beat Southern Illinois last year. A victory, although nice, is not what Schwartz is looking for this year, he said.
"We're not as fit as we're going to be, we're not as good as we're going to be," Schwartz said. "The athletes have to remember that it's the competition that's important and that's
what we'll be looking for."
The men's team took sixth place in the Big Eight Championship last year and the women finished last.
Schwartz said he expected this meet to bring the best members of both teams to the surface.
"My philosophy for competing this early in the season is to look at it as a shake-down process," Schwartz said. "You use it to evaluate what you've done, and then make an evaluation on what changes, or modifications you need to do in order to improve the athletes' performances."
Schwartz said senior Steve Heffernan would be the top athlete among the men. Heffernan, Kearney, Neb., placed tenth in the Big Eight meet last year. Heffernan and Mike Spielman, Sabeth senior, will co-captain the team.
On the women's side, Schwartz said Trisha Brown, Overland Park senior, was the team's top runner. Brown placed second in the Big Eight Outdoor Championships in the 3,200-meter. Brown will captain the women's team.
Follow a yellow bike road
By a Kansan reporter
Bicyclists from eastern Kansas will ride with Dorothy and Toto this weekend in the 10th Annual Flint Hills Classic 150 Bike Tour.
The two-day, 150-mile ride, with the theme Bike to Oz, will begin tomorrow in Topeka. The tour will wind through the Flint Hills to Council Grove and back to Topeka. Wizard of Oz characters will be stationed at various spots along the route.
Cyclists will be riding to raise money for the state Multiple Sclerosis chapter, said W. Scott Marshall, of the chapter in Topeka.
"Currently 166 people, each pledging to raise at least $150, are registered," Marshall said. "We had 33 people in our pre-registration with pledge averages of $280. We are having $100 over the minimum pledge."
Sean Jackson, Lawrence junior,
and president of the KU Cycling
Club, said he and two other club members would be participating in a similar tour this weekend in Missouri to raise money to fight multiple sclerosis.
"I didn't have any trouble finding sponsors, and I know of one club member who raised $100 in pledges in 14 hours," he said. "The Kansas race is up and coming, and I'll be there next year."
Rick Stein, owner of Rik's Bike Shop, 916 Massachusetts St., said his shop would be involved with the Kansas tour.
"We're providing a repair vehicle to make sure everyone stays in good mechanical shape," he said. "We are also one of the sources for prizes. We'll be providing a Fuji bicycle, a car rack, a pump and gloves."
Marshall said that the three previous tours raised an average of $20,000 to $25,000 but that this year's tour had the potential raise more because of a larger-than-normal registration.
Agassi vanquishes Connors in 5-set U.S. Open quarterfinal
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — He groans more now than he grunts, is hunted more often than he hunts, and the punk in Jimmy Connors just won't let him quit Ever.
His mother, a teaching pro named Gloria and the daughter of a tournament-caliber player, imparted the only lesson Jimmy needed on the subject early in life. She planted her young charge on the family's backyard court and pounded the ball down his throat every chance she got.
"See Jimmy," she would say,
"even your mother will do that to you."
Andre Agassi did that to Connors
again yesterday, pounding out a 6-1,
4-6, 0-8, 6-3, 6-4 quarterfinal victory in one of the most intense U.S. Open matches in recent memory.
And unlike Connors' mother, one presumes, Agassi didn't get off easy for administering this latest lesson.
Still gracious after all these years? "Hey," Connors went on the offensive, "they beat somebody 37 years old 4-1 in the fifth. And that's the game's future?"
"I don't think he swings from the hip like he used to." There are other things on his mind," Connors said. "But I'm sure he'll work it out, or someone around him will."
"Maybe the game isn't so far out of reach for some of us old guys."
Agassi beat Connors in the same court in straight sets last year in a match many viewed as the passing of the baton. This time, Connors clutched it tighter, as any good gang leader would, but there are no longer doubts that a new punk stands at the head of the American tennis pack.
But maybe it is.
Agassi stood up to the fighting words, the guttural snarls, a crafty and sometimes brilliant attack and trump of her own. The trums that might have rattled Job.
Agasit was booted, then reviled at turns by a tough New York crowd that treated Connors the same way in the mid-1970s, when he impolltely began dispairing polite leaders John
Newcombe, Rod Layer and Ken Rosewall.
Fifteen years ago, Connors was ridiculed for his Prince Vallant haircuts; yesterday, more than one New York matron nodded her head when someone dismissed Agassi's hairdo, a Las Vegas-showgirl style shag cut with dark roots showing, as "mangy."
But Agassi is learning to live with that. He was roundly amused when, at an important junction in the second set, a cateatle cascaded down from upper reaches of the steep-walled stadium:
After yesterday's baptism, Agassi,
"Cmon, Jim. Put some mustard on this hot dog."
By the second set, Connors was
That remains to be seen. But there is no denying that Agassi has started down the right path.
He started Connors down the wrong one yesterday, with a disrespectful drop shot between two aces on the same game on route to a 6-1 first-set victory.
who warmed up Connors as a 4-year-old curiosity on a Las Vegas court when the latter was the world's top-rated player in 1974, can be said to have glimpsed into the future.
"I just hope when my 37 — if I ever get to 37 and I'm still playing tennis All of the people who I pleased will stand by him, and those were standing by him," Agassai said.
plagued by diziness and nausea. He did not reveal its origin, but it could have been the unfamiliar feeling of sending a fast ball across the net and watching it come back faster.
Connors may be the Dick Clark of American tennis. He holds the best men's singles record of all time. He may, in his heart of hearts, eternally be a bunk, he may have even been right when he shot back at reporters who asked about retirement.
And yesterday, Connors didn't quit. He doesn't know how he got击
But in losing, he may have passed along a lesson about not quitting to a punk kid he should have recognized as one of his own.