University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 10, 1986
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KC wins, closes in on 1st playoff spot in 15 years
Seahawks defeated by Chiefs
United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs improved their postseason prospects yesterday by playing the type of defense it takes to win in the playoffs.
■ More football scores p. 8.
The Chiefs held Curt Warner to 16 yards, and Bill Kenney threw three touchdown passes lifting Kansas City to a 27-7 victory over the Seattle Seahawks.
Kansas City has only an outside chance of overtaking Denver to win the AFC West, but the Chiefs are in control. Kansas City beat the leaf's third straight to fall to 5-5.
Warner entered yesterday's game with a conference leading 815 yards, but the Chiefs smothered him. Warner carried 11 times as Seattle, trying to come from behind, went to a passing game without success in the second half.
"He's their offense." Kansas City
United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Bill Kenney has gone from the darkness of the Kansas City Chiefs' early fall, into the shadows of the autumn light and is now basking in the sun of a 7-3 record.
Basking cautiously, though, as he has started only three times in the Chiefs' four-game winning streak after replacing Todd Blackledge, who was pulled after several poor performances.
Kansas City's record is the best 10-game start the Chiefs have had since 1971, when they were 7-2-1. That year was also the last time Kansas City appeared in the playoffs, a fact not lost on coaches, players, fans and, most of all, owner Lamar Hunt.
The promising win-loss record provokes Kenney, head coach John Mackovie and the rest of the team to entertain, in the very outside corners of their thoughts, the possibility of a playoff spot this year.
The Chiefs, second place in the AFC Western Division, will meet the conference-leading Denver Broncos at Mile High Stadium next week, in the first of two matchups.
"Everytime we win now, it just keeps us in the playoff chase for, not only a more week, but also a much bigger victory."
Yesterday, Kenney added the mortar to what had been several strong but separate offensive blocks for Kansas City this season, and built the team a 27-7 victory over the Seattle Seahawks. Kenney has been with the Chiefs since 1900 and was the starter most of last season before he was injured and Blackledge was brought in.
Working behind a very strong defensive game, Kenney threw to 10 different receivers against Seattle, completing 22 of 41 attempts for 256 yards and three touchdowns.
His season totals on the three starts and fill-in's for quarterback Blackledge are 67 of 119 for 909 yards and 7 touchdowns, compared with Blackledge's 77 of 169 for 988 and 8 TD's in 7 start this year.
"Everybody in our offense has a chance to catch the ball," Kenney said. "That's the way it's designed, to mix it up and keep a defense off balance.
"It's evident they (the tight ends) did an excellent job."
Midway through the first half Kenney completed nine consecutive passes — one a 2-yard toss to Walt Arnold for a 7-0 lead — and ended the second quarter with 149 yards in the air, two touchdowns and a 17-0 lead.
"At last, this season we were able to get going
in the first half." he said. "Our offensive line did such a good job in the first half, I was able to pick my receivers."
Kenney's passing game was based on quick, short hits to a variety of receivers.
"We rotated it so much, it was nice for all of us to play," Walt Arnold, tight end, said. "It feels good to catch some passes, but I don't believe it (using tight ends to such an extent) will last all season.
Seattle defensive end Randy Edwards testified to the Chiefs' offensive juggling act.
"It's hard to get to the tight end when the team is struggling, right now we're getting to the tight end."
"Kenney mixed things up pretty well, because he was going to plan," he said. "They definitely took it to us."
"They're as good as any . . . they've got two games left with Denver so we'll see how they fare against them."
Although Denver looms across the Great Plains west of Arrowhead Stadium, Mackovic is, perhaps the most confident in meeting the Broncos next week as he has ever been.
"We know going out there to play them will be a different game" he said. "But we've got the kids."
fense was about as poor as you can get."
Kenney completed 22 of 41 passes for 256 yards and three interceptions. Two of those interceptions were by Dave Brown, who leads all active players with 50 career interceptions.
Kenney completed 4 of his first 12 passes before sparking the Chiefs to a win.
Largest midway through the fourth quarter, capping a 68-yard drive. Largent caught the TD pass after Kansas City's Albert Lewis wised the ball from another receiver. Seattle had three first downs before the scoring drive.
The Chiefs forced three turnovers, including a vicious hit by Kevin Ross on Gilbert that forced a fumble with
Kansas City made it 10-0 with a 35-yard field goal by Lowery the next time it had the ball. Kenny completed all four passes in the drive for 46 yards. The Chiefs settled for the field goal after safety Kenny Easley
keep the first scoring drive alive. His quick 2-yard pass to Arnold at the back of the end zone made it 7-0 1:20 into the second half.
Seattle Kansas City
0 0 0 7 .
0 17 7 3 27
Second quarter
KC — Arnold 2-yard pass from Kenney (Lowery kick)
KC — FG Lowery 36 yards
KC — FG Lowery 8-yard pass from Kenney (Lowery kick)
Third quarter
KC — Carson 25-yard pass from Kenney (Lowery kick)
Fourth quarter
KC — FG Lowery 37 yards
KC — Largen 38-yard pass from Gilbert (Johnson kick)
Monday, November 10, 1986
Colorado victory keeps bowl hopes alive
By ANNE LUSCOMBE
Sports writer
Oranges littered Folsom Field as the Colorado fans made their bowl intentions known. In between the citrus interruptions the Kansas Jayhawks put pressure on the Buffaloes to give Colorado the feeling of becoming freshly squeezed. However, the Buffaloes kept their Orange Bowl hopes alive by defeating the Jayhawks 17-10 Saturday in Boulder.
Colorado now has a chance to take a giant leap toward its first Orange Bowl appearance since 1977. The Buffaloes host Big Eight co-leader and fourth-ranked Oklahoma this Saturday in the final day of the tournament. Buffaloes only would have to get past Kansas State on the last weekend of the season.
BOULDER, Colo., — Kansas runningback Mike Rogers is stopped on the one-yard line by Colorado linebacker Don DeLuzio. On the next play Kansas quarterback Kelly Donohoe scored on a quarterback sneak for the only Kansas touchdown.
The victory raised the Buffaloes record over the 506 mark for the first time this season. Colorado is now 3-4 overall and 5-0 in the conference. The Jayhawks lost for the fifth straight week, 3-4 overall and 65 in the Big Fight.
Last week, head coach Bob Valente desperately searched for something which would spark the listless Jayhawks out of their slump. The decision came to change when veteran Mike Orth to Kelly Donohoe, a freshman who had never seen colleague action.
It worked.
After a troublesome first half where Donhoe fumbled three snaps from center Paul Oswald and threw one interception, the new quarterback got it together early in the third quarter.
In Kansas' first possession of the second half, Donohoe connected on three long passes and in seven minutes Colorado one yard line. After two furtile rushes
by tailback Mike Rogers. Donohoe took the ball and sneaked across the goal line behind Oswald, right guard Steve Nave and tight end Jeff Anderson. Mac Smith's extra point kick made the score 17-10.
Donohue connected on 25 of 43 passes, 13 of which were for five or fewer yards, for a total of 192 yards. He did, however, throw three interceptions. He also rushed for 29 yards on 12 attempts.
Donohoe wasn't the only offensive bright spot for Kansas.
Wide receiver Wilie Vaughn caught 11 passes, breaking Bobby Johnson's 1983 record of 10 receptions in a single game. Vaughn gained 48 yards from the receptions, one from the touchdown and one to start the touchdown drive.
Peda Samuel, wide receiver, also came close to beating the record with eight receptions for 68 yards.
"it's hard to feel good when you lose," Samuel said. "If I had caught no passes and we would have won the game, it would have satisfied me. We played hard as a team and moved the ball farther than we had in recent games."
The Jayhawks trailed the whole game and finished the first half with three points on the board. Smith boomed a 4-3 field goal with 6:43
Colorado dominated the first half, taking advantage of two Kansas turnovers which put the Buffaloa in excellent scoring positions. Colorado scored on its first possession of the game, moving the ball 71 yards in 11 plays. Halfback Mike Marquee ran
one yard, giving the Buffaloes a 7-0 lead with 6:58 left in the first quarter.
On one of the Donohoe fumled snaps, linebacker Tom Dunn recovered the ball at the Kansas 16-yard line. Three plays later place kicker Dave DeLite kicked a 24-yard goal, giving the Buffalo a 10-lead.
During the next series Donohoe threw an interception that linebacker Dan Schubek returned to the Kankan. Campbell ran for a 34-yard Campbell run for a 34-yard
touchdown two plays later. The Bufaltes then led 17-0 with 8:45 left in the half. Then came the Smith field goal, which started the Kansas
Despite the two touchdowns and one field goal by Colorado, the Kansas defense played like it had in earlier games, outfielder Suafras in the second half.
Five Jayhawks were in double figures in tackles against Colorado. Linebacker Rick Bredesen and defensive end Teddy Newman each
had 14 tackles, and free safety Wayne
Jadger, defensive player Eldridge
Avery and linebacker Rick Clayton
all had 12 tackles.
Valesente, though disappointed with the loss, was impressed with his team's performance.
"I don't think you can ever be satisfied with a loss," he said. "There are no moral victories in this business. You're going to win on both sides of the ball. The character, pride and dedication were very evident in our performances."
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San Diego hands loss to Broncos
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DENVER — The Denver Broncos hardly recognized Tom Flick yesterday.
"It was fun to be out there today." Flick said. "One week makes a big difference. It's like a new season. We're 1-1 now and we can finish strong in the second half."
"This is the biggest thrill of my life," Saunders said. "Coming into the game we thought Denver was the best team in the NFL."
While watching films during the week, the Broncos saw Flick complete four of 17 passes in his first NFL start last week. But yesterday, Flick completed 16 of 22 passes and engineered time-consuming drives guiding the San Diego Chargers to a 9-3 upset over the Broncos.
The Chargers. 28. snapped an eight-game losing streak and won their first game since Al Saunders became head coach a week ago.
Rolf Bencirschke kicked three field goals and safety Jeff Dale had two interceptions helping the Chargers, who were 15-point underdives.
The Broncos fell to 8-2 and saw the
them lead to one game over Kansan CTC.
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