University Daily Kansan / Tuesday October 2, 1990
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'Hawks take some risks give Sooners a challenge
By Rob Wheat
Kansan sportswriter
Football
The Jayhawks were on their own 36-yard line, it was fourth-and-four and punter Brad Ramsey was in the formation to punt. It looked like Kansas had to kick on their first possession.
But the sap went straight back to backfullback Maurice Douglas, who lowered his helm and drove through the surprised Sooner defensive line.
Breaking through the line, Douglas gained the four yards the Jayhawks needed. If he had been short by one yard, he would have succeeded in possession, deep in Kansas territory.
That was one of three times Saturday when the Jayhawks got a first down in a fourth down situation.
o offensive coordinator Patt Ruel said fourth down situations were like when a batter comes up to the plate and stares down a third strike. He said Kansas would come out swinging.
"We didn't want to be left standing in the batter's box," Ruel said. "We had to take chances and try to get a hit. People sit back and wait for Oklahoma to make mistakes are just crazy."
The second fourth-down conversion came in the third quarter, when quarterback Chip Hillier pitched an RB to receiver Jonathan Jones on the left side.
The Jayhawks needed three yards. They gained four.
Four plays later, Kansas was on Oklahoma's 36-yard line and needed six yards to gain a first down. A field goal gave the score more respectable.
"We didn't want to play to be respectable, we wanted to win," Ruel said. "As coaches, you don't ever want to teach your players to play respectable. You want to teach them who needed to get a score on the board."
Douglas scored Kansas' second touchdown eight plays later.
The Jayhawks decided against the field goal and Hillary threaded a pass, which slipped by two defenders. They needed six yards. They got 11.
Ruel said many of the decisions, like going for the fake punt, were made days before the game. But Ruel was an ally of Kansas coach Glen Mason in the field by Kansas Coach Glen Mason.
"I felt like I went for more fourth downs than anyone in the history of mankind," Mason said. "They are all calculated risks, but I’m surprised that we didn’t get more yardage out of that fake punt."
Mason said the successful fake punt helped set the tone for the game, and he hoped that a new characterism would be able toould be a stronger second half effort.
Kansas trailed by only 11 points at halftime last season but then allowed to touchdown that contributed to a 45-6 loss.
Mason said the best way for the Jayhawks to win was by a combined effort from all the players. He said they were all important.
"Football is the greatest team sport around," Mason said. "I always laugh when a running back runs into the end zone unblocked and
raises his hands up, saying "Look at me, I'm the greatest." No way. You better find your buddies."
Offensive lineman Keith Lonker said the fake punt showed the Sooners that Kansas wouldn't be intimidated.
"I feel that a lot of teams were intimidated by the press that Oklahoma was getting," Lonerke said. "We kind of went into the game with the attitude that we weren't going to take any crap from anybody."
The 315-pound tackle said he had never played a harder hitting game.
"I was never more sore (than) after playing Okahoma," Lonerke said "The offense had the ball for a long time in the second half, and there were no long plays, but we like we were inching away at them."
He said that once the team knew they could move up the middle, it was his job to open up big holes for the running back.
"You just have to come off the ball, and keep moving." Lonner said. "You have to do anything you can, you must. And then, you just keep crawling at them."
As the third quarter ended,
Lonekei had the Sooners had a few words for the Jayhawks as they ran past them on their way to the other team.
"They started saying, 'You guys proved a whole lot, and do well with the rest of your season. I kind of put down by it,' Lomber said. "We were acting like there was they were acting like there was nothing we could do to win.
"It made me want to play a whole lot harder. And because they said that, it's going to make我 want to play them harder next year."
UCLA eliminates Hamers, partner
By Juli Watkins
All-American Eveline Hammers advanced to the semifinals of the All-American Longhorn Classic in Detroit. She was defended by a team from UCLA.
Kansan sportswriter
Hammers, a junior on the Kansas women's team tennis, paired up with Janna Kovacevich of Popperdine in Texas, playing last weekend in Austin, Texas.
Hamers is ranked ninth and
Kovacevich is 10th in singles in the
Volvo Tennis/Collegiate Rankings.
Hamers' ranking is the highest any
Kansas tennis player has ever
received.
In the first round, Hammers and Kovacevich defeated the team of Joanne Varmum of Arkansas and Karren van der Merwe of Trinity 6:0.
Hamers and Kovačevich then defeated the No. 1 seed in the tournament, Susan Gilchrist and Joanna Pluatz of Texas, in the second round 67-6, 2-4. The Texas duo was second in the Volyo rankings.
"We lost the first set, but after that we were just playing really well," Hamers said.
second in the Vice President's Hamers said that the victory felt great.
She was paired with Kovaevich because neither of them had other team members playing in the invitation-only tournament.
"I've never been in a national tournament, and all of the sudden here I was without a partner (from Kansas for doubles)." Hamers said. "I was lucky to be placed with someone also in the top 10."
Hamers also competed in the singles, but was eliminated after the second round. She defeated Stacy Otten of Texas 6,2,7 5, Llyn Stait.
Texas A&M upset Hamers 0-6,7-6, 6-2.
"I was disappointed at that moment to lose. It was just wright to lose after winning a set 6-0." Hammers had lost to the Spurs, but I don't know if she won or not.
Hamers said she didn't think everyone was prepared to play her best so early in the season, but it gave a lot of players the opportunity to play some of the nation's top collegiate players.
Kansas women's coach Michael Center said he was proud of Hamers' performance in both the singles and doubles.
"I didn't get an opportunity to watch her play," Center said. "It was her first chance in awhile, and it was a good chance for her to get one."
"She lost to a very good player in three sets. I don't think she played her peak, but I'm not disappointed with the outcome.
"In the doubles, I think it was great for them to beat a team of that caliber."
Hamers and Kovacevich were defeated in the semifinals by Stella Sampras and Iwalian McCalla of UCLA 6.3- 6.2. Sampras, who is U.S. Open champion Peter Sampares sister, is ranked fourth in them. The McCalla is ranked seventh, but the two are not ranked as a doubles team.
Center said it was unusual for a player to have to play doubles with someone he or she had never played with before. In an invitation-only tournament, a few players would be the only ones invited from their schools and would have to be paired up with someone different than they were used to playing with, Center said.
National College Sportswriter's Football Poll
Service marks WSU plane crash of 20 years ago
1. Notre Dame (25)
2. Florida State (4)
3. Michigan
4. Virginia
5. Auburn
6. Tennessee
7. Nebraska
8. Oklahoma
9. Miami
10. Brigham Young
11. Florida
12. Southern Cal
13. Houston
14. Illinois
15. Colorado
16. Clemson
17. Washington
18. Texas A&M
19. Michigan State
20. Ohio State
Writers from the following schools participated in the poll; Texas, Kentucky, Miami (Fl). San Diego State, Colorado, Clemson, Notre Dame, Illinois, Syracuse, North Carolina State, Florida State, Purdue, Brown, California, Utah, Southern Methodist, Penn State, Indiana, Auburn, Kansas, Ball State, West Virginia
The Associated Press
WICHTHA — Survivors of a plane crash that killed 14 Wichita State football players and 17 others will be among those who gather today to mark the 20th anniversary of the tragedy.
Surviver Keith Morrison will not attend the university service marking the Oct. 2, 1970 crash because of a mechanical injury, but he remembers the crash.
"I don't know if I was thrown clear, or crawled out," he said from his bed in a Denver hospital the next day.
"I heard screams," Morrison said. "I recognized the voices."
Morrison, who was 21, was at the back of the plane when it crashed. Six fellow players who wandered dazedly to the highway also had been near the back.
Morrison was hospitalized for six weeks, his arms, hands, chest, left leg and right ankle bandaged, his face cut and bruised.
For a year, he had nightmares and flashbacks.
Because he was hospitalized, Morrison missed most of the initial grieving on campus.
"Because I didn't have to go through the trauma of the memorial
The Wichita State crash: 20 yrs. ago
31 people died in an airplane crash in 1970 as the Wichita State football team was eliminated by Utah, to play Utah.
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
services and everything, it doesn't bother me to talk about it," he said. "But I don't think about it all the time."
The remaining team members voted to complete their season. Soon after, they faced then-No. 9 Arkansas
and lost 62.0 The remaining five games of the season were losses, too, for a 1970 season record of 0.9
Football was not paying its way in 1970 at Wichita State. The program never achieved financial self-sufficiency until the fall of 1983 and was attained at the end of the 1983-86 season.
KANSAN
Morrison has not been back to Wichita since 1978, when 33 state and federal lawsuits filed in connection with the crash were settled for $1.56 million. It was about one-tenth of the amount sought by survivors such as Morrison and the relatives of the 31 who died.
Moments before the crash, the team was getting a spectacular view of the Rockies. They were en route to play Utah State in Logan.
Near Silver Plume, Colo., close to the base of Loveland Pass, the twinengine charter plane banked left, then right and began vibrating.
Investigators blamed pilot error.
It cut a gash 50 feet wide and 150 feet long through mountain pine trees and burst into flames. The trees still have not completely grown back.
Muskegon Highschool. Also we're the team's coach, Bob Wilson, one of his staff, Wichita State's athletic director, the dean of admissions and records and
some team boosters. A total of 36 passengers and a crew of four had been on board.
A second plane carrying 22 of the younger team members, six assistant coaches and six other passengers landed safely in Utah. It was there that Bob Seaman, an assistant coach, got word of an urgent call for him from Wichita State President Clark Alhberg.
The others were asked to stay on the plane. Seaman returned to the plane, took roll of those on board and then the other plane had crashed.
News reports of a plane crash reached Wichita within hours. Friends and relatives gathered outstretched a apartment to learn what had happened.
Clusters of students gathered on campus sharing their disbelief and arriet.
Seaman and some of the survivors will be back at Wichita State to participate in an annual memorial service. About 200 people are expected to gather in Wiedemann Hall, built up to the Duerksen Fine Arts Center where national investigators staged hearings on the crash.
Sports briefs
Johnson loses position
downs in Missouri's 30-9 upset of 21st-ranked Arizona State.
to younger Celtic team
Sophomore Brooks Barta had eight tackles as Kansas State beat favored New Mexico 38-6. Barta was last year's Associated Press Defensive Newcomer of the Year. He had four sacks for a total of 47 yards in losses, caused one fumble and recovered a fumble.
that Johnson would not return to the team for the coming season.
Dennis Johnson, a member of three NBA championship teams, has lost his spot on the Boston Celtics as the team makes a push for younger
K-State, Missouri teams have players of the week
With the return of Brian Shaw after a year in Italy, first-round draft pick Dee Brown and current guards Reggie Lewis, Kevin Gambis and Jonah Ewing. The young corps of guards to rely on during the coming season.
The Celtics announced yesterday
From The Associated Press
Associate
Missouri's quarterback and a Kansas State linebacker have been named Big Eight Conference players of the week.
Ann Sommerlath
sports editor
Men will be boys in the locker room
You can't tell me he was ignorant of the discussion that went on there. Yeah, maybe I'm the one being sexist and stereotypical on this point. But that's not what one has to do when discussing the people involved in the incident.
Kent Kiefer completed 20 of 33 passes for 279 yards and two touch-
I just want to establish the fact that I only want to be a sportswriter/editor so I can get my thrills in the men's locker room after a game.
It's really sad when being a female sportswriter has to turn into a sexual issue. Lisa Olson was merely doing her job when members of the New England Patriots found it necessary to expose themselves and verbally harass the Boston Herald reporter in a docker room after a game Sept. 17.
Kiam lamented the fact that he responded so late to Olson's allegations, saying that he knew absolutely nothing about the event. Impossible. Remember, this happened in a locker room.
OK, so team owner Victor Kiam has apologized and has spent $100,000 on full-page ads in the Herald and the New York Times to reiterate that apology, and granted, Kiam said he has done so because his gross behavior of any sort."
As long as I'm using clichés to support some of my more disappointing points, two of the world's oldest clichés — "money can't buy everything" and "actions speak louder than words" — are quite applicable.
Maybe he just didn't want to hear about it. After all, the rumors had to start somewhere about Kinn's less complimentary reference to them.
But the fact remains that the incident occurred and there is no excuse for the conduct of the players involved.
Kiam also blames his tardy response on a six-day delay in learning of the incident. You have to wonder why it took so long for him to hear about the "flyspeck in the ocean" because he didn't exist and to formulate his eloquent first response, calling Olson a "classic bitch."
Don't get me wrong. I support Kiam's actions now, they're his only way out, since he's obliged to try to make amendies. Buy the full-page ads show that he does feel some remorse (or at least regret that his Remington razor products may be bovcotted).
And he had nothing to do with what purportedly occurred in the locker room. He wasn't the one making lewd remarks, but as I looked at his remarks, however rude, for later.
So, I am not blaming Victor Kiam.
His gesture of promising Patriot management changes in the near future is a noble one.
But the fact remains, that there is bias among male athletes toward female sportswriters. I've seen it on this campus myself. Male athletes can be very competent in incompetent of knowledge, understanding and fair coverage of sports.
It's just the male mentality that women have no place in a sports teams dominated by men.
After all, boys will be boys, right?
The Patriots are simply men playing a boys' game and acting accordingly,
for them, them, they don't know any better.
Ann Sommerlath is a St. Louis senior maloring in journalism.
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