Sports
University Daily Kansan / Monday. October 29, 1990
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KU holds off Wildcats 27-24
Kansas quarterback Chip Hillary, center, is tackled by K-State free safety C.J. Masters, left, and K-State cornerback Rogerick Green
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Eichloff kick makes history
By Rob Wheat
Kansan sportswriter
With 14-49 remaining in the fourth quarter, Eichlöck kicked the longest field goal in school history, ending the final score drive for Kansas in a 27-24 victory. Saturday against Kansas State.
Kansas coach Glen Mason looked at kicker E丹ichoff and asked him what he thought about kicking a 58-vard field goal.
Eichloff nodded, and that was all Mason needed.
Football
The Jawhaws had the chance to score in the final seconds of the game when they had second-and-goal from the t'ard line, but they chose not to
Mason had been worried about the offense earlier in the week, but his questions may have been answered as the Jayhawks' yards in a game came from the first quartz.
That was more offensive yardage than Kansas gained in the entire game against Miami.
An excited Mason was smiling after a game for the first time in more than a month.
"I think it's great," Mason said. "We had a full stadium, a whole bunch of people on the hill, and these kids played their hearts out. They weren't playing for a bowl game but because it was Kansas Koussas State."
Quarterback Chip Hilley led the return of the offense, which gained a season-high 604 yards. Hilley had his best day, passing and rushing.
Hilary completed 13 of 29 passes for 221 yards and had 12 carries for 102 yards. In the final minutes of the game, he had a 40-yard run that out run and preserved the Jaya-hawks' victory.
"I think we started back in the direction we needed to be," Hilleary said. "We could have scored again, and with K-State everybody was thinking no mercy and all. But we knew we won, and they knew also."
Eichloch, in addition to his long field goal, also contributed some passing to the game when, in the first quarter, he gave the nod to a take punt and lost a pass to receiver Kenny Drayton, who gained 90 yards.
Drayton had a career-high seven receptions for 96 yards. He has caught at least one pass in 19 consecutive games.
Receiver Bob Licurus] had the biggest day among the receivers after he gained 116 yards on four receptions.
Running back Tony Sands scored two of the dayhawks' three touchdowns with a 2-yard run in the first quarter and 2-yard run in the second quarter.
Running back George White scored
the last touchdown for the Jayhawks with a 2 yard run with 4:33 remaining in the third quarter.
The leading scorer for the Wildcats was quarterback Carl Straw, who had two touchdowns and 325 yards rassine.
Straw brought K State back from a 27.10 deficit at the end of the third quarter and engineered two touch down drives late in the fourth quarter to bring the Wildcats, within three points.
Defensive Lineman Dana Stubble
field said the Wildcats were able to come back because the Kansas defense got too relaxed.
"There was some miscommunication in the secondary which contributed to their rally. "Stubblefield said. "But the defense on the whole did pretty well. That makes three times in a row (that Kansas has won the Governor's Cup), and we want to keep that tradition going."
Linebacker Curtis Moore, who had not played since the Iowa State game because of a broken thumb, was two
stops away from being the team's leading tackler.
Moore, who had 12 tackles and two passes broken up, said his thumb held up well with the player he played in. He said he was glad he could play with the ball.
"When people ask me how my senior year went, I would have hated saying that was when we lost to KState. Moore said "We needed to be competitive." We think we can be competitive with OSU and the rest of our schedule."
Men take fourth in meet
By Juli Watkins
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas men's cross country team was predicted to place second in last weekend's Big Eight Championships but finished fourth.
Defending NCAA champion Iowa State won the meet with 28 points. Kansas State finished second with 52 points, Minnesota finished fourth with 10 points, and Kansas finished fourth with 102 points. Oklahoma State, Colorado, and Missouri finished fifth, sixth and seventh, respectively, because of injuries and illness.
Cross country results are tabulated according to place finishes. The team with the lowest score is the winning team.
On the women's side, Kansas was expected to place last but had a seventh place finish, edging out Oklahoma by 13 points. But she won the women's race with 48 points.
They were followed by Kansas State with 85 points. Coloradofin State with 94 points. Nebraska placed fourth with 94 points. Missouri placed fifth with 127
points, and Oklahoma finished sixth with 132.
Couch Gary Schwartz said the team was disappointed with the results.
"It was one of those things," he said. "We had what I thought were realistic expectations. We were predicted to get second, and we could get third if we didn't have our best race. It was absolutely our worst race. It was absolutely our worst race."
However, the Kansas women placed higher than the conference coaches had predicted.
Junior Cathy Palacies was the first Kansas finisher. She placed 15th overall with a time of 18.25 on the five-kilometer course. Senior Patty Roichford finished second for Kansas and 24th overall with a time of 18.56. Third for Kansas and 30th overall for Julia Howerton with a time of 19.10.
"At no time did the girls or I ever consider them last place in the conference." Schwartz said, "the best people to elude us, but they raid a strong race."
Anderson was the first Kansas finisher, earning All-Big-Eight status by placing 10th overall with a time of 25.23 on the eight-kilometer course.
Anderson said that he was pleased to make the All Big Eight team but that he was not pleased with his race.
On the men's side junior Donnie
"I don't think I ran that well," he said. "It was just kind of disappointing with the way the whole thing went. I want I can hear some of the things I remember, like sixth, seventh and eight, so it disappointing in that respect."
Anderson said the team had decided to put the weekend's disap pointment behind them and not try to figure out what went wrong and concentrate instead on the District V Championships.
Schwartz said that the team's loss could be beneficial to their performance in the District meet.
"Adversity can be a great teacher if you use it the right way," Schwartz said. "If they use it to get more ready and focused for districts, they will need to go from there, take another step and get ready for the next meet."
Committee gives KUAC ideas for improvements
By Derek Simmons
Kansan sportswriter
Lighting for night football games and other improvements for Memorial Stadium are among six long-term funding priorities of the KU Athletic Corp., a report accepted Friday by the KUAC board states.
The report from the Long Range Planning Committee also suggested seating improvements, expansion of the press box and a general upgrade of the stadium's interior appearance to increase gate revenues from football.
Such an increase, the report said, is the clearest avenue to an increase in KUAC revenues.
The other priorities are:
- Renovation and construction in Allen Field House and Parrott Athletic Center. Nearly ever coach with an office in the building requested more office and locker room space. The report said completion of projects already begun in the field house would also help to alleviate the problem.
Expansion of the sports medicine program to include, among other items, the services of a specialist/physician to head the department and a physician and orthopedist for all sports.
Expansion of the Student Support System for athletes'
- Expansion of wooden floorspace in Allen Field House to accommodate practice needs.
- Increase in monetary support of sports with the potential to generate revenue: baseball, women's basketball and volleyball.
Other sections of the report addressed finances, academics and sports medicine, compliance with NCAA and Big Eight Conference regulations and the status and goals of each sport.
The compliance section listed current programs designed to ensure continued compliance with regulations concerning recruiting, finances, and conduct of coaches, staff and administrators.
Jayhawks finally feel satisfaction
Yahoo.
After too many games where we came close but couldn't pull out a win, we finally got some satisfaction for our efforts.
by CHIP BUDDE
Any time you work hard for something and don't see results, it's disheartening. That's why we really needed a win against Kansas State. The Wildcats came into the game looking to prove that the weak teams they had scheduled weren't the only reason for their 4-3 record. We wanted that we were better with our record or ourselves as well as the fans.
In the end, I think both teams proved their points. But we won.
And in the end, that's really all that matters. We didn't play well at times. We fumbled. We committed penalties. We did just about everything we could make to a better game than it needed to be. But we
For the past several weeks, our offense has been struggling. This week, although it wasn't always pretty, we produced. A big factor had to be our success on the ground. It seems that whenever we can establish the running game, we have a good day both offensively and defensively. By running the ball, we open up gaps in the defense's offense stays on the field, the other team can't score. Pretty simple, buh?
On defense, it was about the same story. After several games when it was under a lot of pressure because of the tight defense, the defense showed its true colors.
Throughout the week, our defense kept talking about pressuring the quarterback. Saturday, they didn't need to talk. They just did it.
The defensive line made life unbeatable for Carl Straw, the Wildcat quarterback. Last year, it hit him so hard he had to leave the game. He said t that i f he h ad the ball. He would have made this. This year, Straw was put out early, and the line kept coming after him when he returned. You may have noticed how slowly he was getting up late in the game.
I give him this, though, he was a tough guy, hanging in there with more than a thousand pounds of money when men coming at him every play.
We also had some bright spots on the special teams. With his passing game as dangerous as his kicking game, Dan Eichloch is going to put the "like I like (Eich?)" button people back in business. He really gave me something to cheer about. And there were a lot of people to cheer.
When I came out of the locker room before the game and looked up at the huge crowd on the hill, I thought I might have been at an Elvis Presley concert instead of a Kansas football game. It was great to see so much better than we had done down the previous weeks. We really do appreciate it.
This week, we travel to Oklahoma State for our last road game of the year.
▶ Chip Budge is a Lawrence senior majoring in English and journalism. Budge is co-captain of the football team.
Kicker does it all for Kansas
Bv Derek Simmons
Kansan sportswriter
The man with the trigger finger for Kansas' second longest pass of the day in the Jayhawks' 27-14 victory against Kansas State had never before thrown a pass in a college game.
For the day, however, Dan Eichhorn was Kansas' second leading passer, completing 100 percent of his passes for 30 yards and no interceptions.
Actually, Elench迅勇 one pass — only about 8 yards in the air and somewhat wobbly — and wide receiver Keenny Drayton did the rest.
Not bad for a kicker.
Acutally, Fischaff throws on
Not bad for a kicker.
When the ball was hiked, 10 Wildats crashed into the backfield. Drayton brushed his man off, Eichlof lofted the ball over the left end, and Drayton and two blockers went for a baseline for 39 yards and a first down.
Kansas was faced with fourth down and 10 yards to go on its 28-yard line in the first quarter, and Coach Glen Mason sent in the punt team.
week when he saw the possibility in a K-State game film.
"I was really surprised it didn't score. Drayton had about nine guys leading him down the field." Mason said. "I vacillated back and forth, and I decided to go with it. If you want to stick your muscles you have to stick your neck out."
Mason said he added the fake punt to the Kansas playbook early last
As the third quarter ended, the Jayhawks had third down and nine to go on the K State 42-yard line. Musson helped Eichloe get ready, but Eichloe had an idea.
His second field goal, which provided the Jayhawks' margin of victory, traveled a school-record 38 yards.
Eichloch had quite a day as a kicker, too. He scored nine points on two field goals and three extra points.
"Sometimes you get it chopped off, and other times it works."
"I'd been thinking about the record," he said, "and I thought, why not? I said to (special team coach) Tim Phillips. 'Why don't we try the field goal?' We had just changed directions, so why not try it?"
Mason said Eichloh had been kicking well in practice all week, and with the 15 to 20 mph wind at Kansas' back, he decided to try it.
"I said. What do you think, Dan?"
He nodded. "Mason said. 'If he would have shrugged his shoulders, I would have reconsidered, but he just nudged."
Eichloff had every confidence until the ball was in the air.
"It looked like it was going to be short," Eichloh said, "but when the rets signed it was good, that was cool. 'I'm feeling I'd ever had in football.'"
For the year, Eichloh leads Kansas in scoring with 50 points. He's hit 11 of 13 field goal attempts and each of 17 extra point kicks.
He also punted well for the day, averaging more than 43 yards a punt. In the two games before, Eichloh averaged 45 4 yards a punt.
Having punted, passed and kicked in pout situations, did Eichlof know of any plans for a fake punt on which he would run the ball?
"Not that I know of. I'm not too fast," he said.
Heave ho
Keith Thorpe/KANSAN
Jubilant students and alumni toss the goalpost into Potter Lake during a victory celebration. The Jawhaws beat Kansas State 27-24 in Saturday's football game.