University Daily Kansan / Friday, August 31, 1990
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Kansas must moor attack led by Heisman candidate
Bv Rob Wheat
Kansan sportswriter
"One by land, two by sea" was the early warning that alerted Colonial America to the type of attack threatening them on the horizon
This time the threat comes from Colonial America to the Midwest, and it comes from the land and air.
Kansas will prepare for an aerial attack captained by senior quarterback and Heisman Trophy candidate Shawn Moore. Moore was the only starter last year to gain more than 2,000 passing yards and 500 yards rushing.
A United Press International honorable mention All-American last season. Moore was also named the league's most efficient conference offerive player of the year.
Kansas defensive coordinator Jim Hilles said the Jayhawks' front defensive line needed to be strong enough not to let Moore and the Cavaliers beat them off the line of scrimmage.
"Three of the top five plays they use depend on what Moore wants to do," Hilles said. "He'll have a tailback break through the line and he'll run, or look downfield for the deep threat. We have to key on holding him and that means we have to control the line of scrimmage."
Moore helped guide Virginia to a 10-3 record in 1898, making them co-champions of the ACC with Duke. He also led the team to the Citrus Bowl. Virginia was first in school history Virginia has last in 15 of Moore's last 17 starts.
One of Moore's most impressive performances came against Louisville last season. When Virginia trailed 15-13 with only three minutes remaining, he drove them 60 yards downfield and gave Virginia the opportunity to kick the winning field goal.
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Preseason Top 20
Performances like that have made
1. Miami
2. Notre Dame
3. Florida State
4. Auburn
5. Colorado
6. Nebraska
7. Tennessee
8. Michigan
9. Southern Cal
10. Clemson
11. Illinois
12. Ohio State
13. Virginia
14. Alabama
15. Arkansas
16. Texas A&M
17. Pittsburgh
18. Brigham Young
19. UCLA
20. Oklahoma
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Moore one of the front-runners for this year's Heisman.
"I's nice that some people want to put me in that category." Moore said. "It's not something I am going to think about once the season starts. I will be focused on getting the team downfield and winning games."
a law firm than a premier offensive combination, but Moore's favorite target last year was junior wide receiver Herman Morgan. Herman Moore finished the 1989 season with 35 catches for 848 yards and 10 touchdowns.
He was Virginia's most dependable receiver last year, with 34 of his 36 catches for either a touchdown or first down.
Moore and Moore sounds more like
He earned honorable mention all-America from the Sporting News, and second-team All-ACC honors from the Associated Press last season.
The Cavaliers' ground attack will be led by sophomore running back Terry Kirby, who was named Parade Magazine's 1988 National High School player of the year. 1988 USA Today National High School offence in the year, and is the 11ranked back in the nation by the Sporting News.
Besides Kirby, the Cavaliers have no returning starters in the backfield. The leading rusher last season, tailback Marcus Wilson, turned pro after the loss by the Los Angeles Raiders. Virginia also lost their top two fullbacks.
Another formidable threat against Kansas is tame end Bruce McGmignal, who the Sporting News rated as the mithest tight end in the nation. He was an honorable mention All-Star and a second-round pick and the Sporting News last season.
Virginia has seven players returning as either all Americans or all ACC selections, with six of them on the offense.
Points of Attack
Virginia's biggest area of concern entering the Kansas game is at linebacker
Kansas Jayhawks
Coach Glen Mason 0-0
Conference 0-0
The only returning letterman at linebacker is sophomore Yusef Jackson, who suffered a season-ending knee injury during the fifth game of the season. None of the Cavaliers' players from last season returned for 1990.
1 1 p.m., Sept. 1, Memorial Stadium
Virginia Cavaliers
Coach George Welsh 0-0
Conference 0-0
WR - 85 Kenny Dragon, 6-0, 175, Jr.
LT - 77 Cherie Perez, 6-6, 257,
LG - 56 Rus Bown, 6-3, 265,
C - 51 Chip Budde, 6-2, 265, Sr.
RS - 53 Smith Holland, 6-3, 260,
RT - 74 Kline Lonker, 6-3, 252, Sr.
CT - 77 Gate Chief, 6-4, 235, So.
OB - 18 Hile Gray, 6-1, 185, So.
BF - 68 Maurice Dougas, 5-10, 190,
TB - 24 Tary Sands, 6-5, 180,
WR - 61 Jim New, 6-0, 175,
PK - 31 Dan Eichhorn, 6-0, 220, Fr.
Probable Starters:
Offense
SAM 83 Mar Etrick, 6, 235, Fr
SRE 78 Gry Oakys, 6, 127, Gr
NGI 71 Dan Stubbelseb, 6, 305, So
LT 91 Glen Boulder, 6, 315, Ms
LE 17 Lennan Flachsburgh, 6, 245, Jr
WL 25 Pat Rogan, 6, 205, IlB
ILB 19 Curtis Moore, 6, 245, Sr
CB 7 Hassan Bateau, 6, 195, SS
SS 22 Charley Bowen, 6, 119, Su
FS 23 Jason Fainon, 6, 185, CB 8 Tim Mull, 5, 81, 170,
P-31 Dian Eckert, 6, 020, Fr
Probable Starters: Defense
WR- 87 Herman Moore, 6,51, 201; WR- 72 Lary Raybon, 6,30, 301; LG- 54 Chail Stearns, 6,62, 272; CG- 159 Ryahta, 6,44, 264; GR- 76 Chail Borsan, 6,58, 281; RT- 67 Paul Collins, 6,62, 276; TE- 86 Bruce McGonnall, 6,52, 231; QB- 12 Shawmore Mc, 6,21, 255; FR- 60 Dave Sweeney, 6,12, 250; TB- 42 Terry Kirby, 6,32, 100; WR- 83 Derek Dooley, 6,1, 185; PK- 11 Jack McJennery, 6,1, 203.
85 LE- Chishua 6, 5, 25, So
LT- 94 Don Reynolds, 6, 4, 25, Jr
NG- 53 Mati Quigley, 6, 3, 25, Jr
RT- 78 Joe Hail, 6, 22, Jr
RE- 27 Benson Goodwin, 6, 0, 21, Jr
BL- 47 James Pearson, 6, 23, So,
P- 31 P. Jill Kane, 6, 3, 220, Fr
CB- 27 J Wallace Law, 5, 11, 169,
SF- 16 Tyrone Lewis, 5, 10, 194,
FS- 16 Kc McMeans, 5, 11, 178,
BC- 57 Corynoving, 6, 0, 192,
P- 1 Myron Martin, 5, 10, 195
Coverage: The game at Memorial Stadium will be broadcast on KLZR 105.9 FM and KLWN 1320 AM.
Coverage: The game at Memorial Stadium will be broadcast on KLZR 105.9 FM and KLWN 1320 AM
Facts: Glen Mason is in his third year as coach for the Jayhawks. Welsh is in his eighth year as the Cavaliers coach.
The two teams have never met. KU and UVA have never met in basketball or baseball either.
Although the Virginia total starting offensive platoon averages four pounds heavier than Kansas', the
Jayhawks' defensive squad outweighs the Cavaliers' by an average of six pounds.
Hilles said the Jayhawks weren't afraid of Virginia and were looking forward to the operer.
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"Not too long ago our biggest guy on defense was 240 pounds." Hilles
Although the two (ears) have never met, Kansas has a winning percentage in season openers, with a 35-20-2 record at home.
said. “We’ve come a long way. It all depends on how we work, and if we execute the way we are supposed to then we can, and wil, stop them.”
Hot tourney kicks off volleyball season
Bv Chris Oster
Kansan sportswrite
The Kansas women's volleyball team will kick off its season by hosting the Jayhawk Early Bird Invitational this weekend inside what should be a very hot Allen Field House.
Fortunately for the Jayhawks their practice facility at Robinson Center feels like a bamboo steamer
"If we can play at Robinson, we can play anywhere," Coach Frankie Albizt said.
Senior Lisa Patterson said the high temperatures caused some problems.
breathe," she said. "It's worse than you realize at first."
"We looked pretty bad Monday, so we took it easy Tuesday," she said.
"The heat makes it hard to
Because of the heat this week, Albitz has taken it easy on the team, especially early in the week.
we took it easy Tuesday," she said.
Junior hitter Kris Kleinschmidt has been feeling the early-season fatigue.
"She got a late start on practice," Albizt said. "She's been dong sprints all through the procession and is worn out." He explained, "The adrenaline flowing this weekend."
In town for this weekend's tournament are Northern Illinois, Drake and Tulsa. Patterson said all three
should be easy prey for the Jayhawks.
Junior settle jelly Woodruff said that the Jayhawks were tired of playing against each other in practice.
"this is a tournament we should win," she said. "I think it was set up that way."
"We're ready to play someone," she said. "It will be good to see somebody else on the other side."
Kansas' first opponent in the round robin is Northern Illinois at 7:30 tonight. The Huskies hold a 1-9 series lead over the Jayhawks. Albizt said the Jayhawks lost a five-set match to them last year but said she was not
sure how good they would be. Northen Illinois is led by hitter Julie Krelling Zinke.
Kansas takes on Drake at 10:00 a.m. Saturday and then meets Tulsa at 5:00 p.m.
Drake returned only five people from last year's 7-22 team, which placed eighth in the Gateway Conference.
Tulsa went 11-20 last season and returned nine players from that squad.
Wooddruff said this tournament would serve as a good warm-up for the season and should ready the Jawskacks for Big Eight Conference play.
Chiefs, Packers play tonight in exhibition final
The Associated Press
KANSAS City, Mo. The experiments are about over as the Kansas City Chefs and the Green Bay Packers prepare for the games that count
The two teams have one victory between them, but the coaches said they were less concerned with winning adjustments for the regular season.
The Chiefs, missing three quarters of their talented defensive secondary, are wintless in three exhibition Packers are not much better at 1.2.
The two exhibition also-rans, who have a regular-season date in just three weeks, will put an end to their summer season with a 7 p.m. kickoff in Kansas City's Arrowhead Stadium. Both teams have been using exhibition games to experiment and evaluate. They are expected to start mostly their projected regular season starters.
For Kansas City, that means quarterback Steve DeBerg. For the Packers, that may or may not mean Anthony Dilwhee
"You go into every gym to win, and if we don't win we'll be disappointed." Schottenheimer said. Christian Okoye, the NFL rushing champion last year with 1,480 yards, was expected to see his first exten-sion in the league after they were crippled by their situation in the secondary. Pro Bowl safety Deren Chorn, recovering from knee surgery, will not be available until at
Norseth, a former KU star, has completed 7 of 21 passes for 122 yards and one interception.
pute, Dilweg has been splitting time with No. 3 man Mike Norseth.
With star quarterback Don Majkowski sitting out in a contract dis
least mid-October. And cornerbacks Albert Lewis and Kevin Ross were still not signed as of yesterday afternoon.
But Schottenheimer, 8-7 in his first season with the Chiefs, said breakdowns were not confined to the secondary.
"Frankly, we haven't had the consistency of performance," he said. "At times we we've done things well, at other times we've failed to do them well. I'm not concerned about the outcome, but I do want us to perform in a consistent manner. If we don't, I'm going to be disappointed."
Royals lose to Oakland in spite of three homers
Bojack hit him a solo home run, his 22nd, in the eighth off Eckersley that tied it at 5. Eckersley (3-2) got the ball and his second blown save in 41 chances.
The Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — Mike Galloelle singled home the winning run with one in out the ninth innning yesterday, and the Oakland Atheltics, overcoming a rare blown save by Dennis McGee, beat the Kansas City Royals 6-5.
Wille Randolph singled for his fourth hit of the game with one out in the ninth against Steve Crawford (5-10) and scored easily on Gallego's single.
In its second big deal Wednesday, Oakland acquired outfielder Willie McGee, the National League's second-leading hitter, from the St. Louis Cardinals for outfielder Felix Jose and a pair of minor leaguers.
Harold Baines, acquired Wednesday in a trade with Texas, went 1-for-5 for the Athletics.
McGee, 31, was batting 335 for the Cardinals. He was eligible for free agency at the end of the season and decided he would not stay in St. Louis.
Jim Eisenreich's two-run homer in the seventh off Dave Stewart pulled back before him. He harned into the second deck in left field, giving him six home runs and
15 RBIs in five games.
Jackson also saved a run in the bottom of the seventh with a brilliant play when he threw out Terry Steinbach trying to score from third on a single by Randolph. Jackson bluffed Steinbach into thinking he would catch Randolph's line drive, then a strike to catcher Bob Boone.
Steve Crawford, the Royals' third pitcher, got out of an eight-inning jam by striking out Jose Cansejo with runners on second and third and by getting Mark McGwire to fly out with the bases loaded.
Rickey Henderson, who had three hits, including his 45th career home run leading off a game, snapped a 2-1 tie in the sixth with a bases-laced single on a 3-2 pitch from Steve Farr. Carney Lansford followed with an RBI single that gave Oakland a 5-2 lead.
Oakland scored twice in the first imming off Andy M McGaffigan. Henderson hit McGaffigan's first pitch of the game over the left-field fence for his 23rd homer of the season and two of the team's unearned run with a two-out single.
The Royals tied the score at two in the fourth on Danny Tartallbull's third home run in three games and Kurt Stillwell's sacrifice飞.
George Brett was removed from the game in the fifth inning with a sore back.
The KU Rugby Club warms up before practice. The club's season opener begins at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow.
Both KU Rugby teams eager to tackle St. Louis in opener
Bv Derek Simmons
Kansan sportswriter
The KU Rugby Club two teams practiced on a fevered pitch last night as they completed preparations for tomorrow's season-opening match against the St. Louis Ramblers.
Both the club team and the varsity team open play at 1:30 p.m. on rugby pitches at Drew River Drew Elder said the team was ready.
"We've been getting in shape for weeks," he said. "We're eager to be playing against anybody besides ourselves."
Rugby, characterized by Elder as the missing link between soccer and football, is an easy game to play. The players of the men's club, the club's faculty adviser.
"We could show a player the rudiments in an afternoon," Diedrich said. "Of course, you never quit learning the game. Like any sport, you can always learn from new challenges."
Elder offered another reason.
"Lots of guys find the idea that you can go out and hit somebody appealing," he said. "And if they aren't big enough to play football for KU, they can play rugby for KU!"
Diedrich said most people who took up the game had been athletes in high school, mostly wrestlers and football players, who missed competition. Others want to play for a nationally ranked team.
"After working out with the club for a few weeks and actually playing in a match, very few people quit," he said. "Some guys spend 20 to 25 hours a week practicing and playing, and others only."
Elder, a fourth year player, said the club had about 45 new members this semester. About half will quit during the semester, he said, because of scheduling conflicts with jobs or classes. The rest probably will be with the club next semester.
The club practices Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. and plays matches Satdays.
spend five or six. You can get whatever you want out of it."
Diedrich said he had played the game for 15 years before he retired last spring.
"The camaraderie is additive," he said. "You meet people, you stay in shape, and you can go to a every weekend, if you re into it."
The varsity side of the club is coming off of the best season in club history, finishing fifth in the nation after a strong showing at the College Championship and earning a Championship tournament in Dallas in the spring. Kansas lost to eventual national champion Air Force Academy in the Western Territory finals. Besides the victory, Kansas lost a berth in rugby's Final Four.
The club side finished similarly, losing the chance for a Final Four spot to the Denver Barbarians.