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University Daily Kansan
Sports
Wednesday, August 20, 1986
Season's first 5 games keep players. fans at home
By Frank Hansel Sports editor
The Kansas football team will have plenty of opportunities this season to enjoy some home cooking.
Because of a kind scheduler, the Jayhawks play their first five games in Memorial Stadium. Kansas will not venture into enemy territory until Oct. 18, when it plays Kansas State.
Game 1
North
Carolina
Sept. 13
Home
fidence among our young players."
"There is an advantage when you play at home," first-year head coach Bob Valense said last week. "It will give us a chance to establish ourselves and play in front of our home crowd and to build some con-
The Jayhawks and Valesente won't take their first test until Sept. 13, the latest Kansas has ever opened a football season, when they play the North Carolina Tar Heels.
Fans would flock to see the basketball teams from these two schools meet in Allen Field House, but neither school has been as successful on the football field in recent years.
The Tar Heels won 45 games from 1979 to 1983, but in the last two seasons they won only 10. Last season, they finished fourth in the Atlantic Coast Conference with a 3-4 record, and the Tar Heels were 5-6 overall.
This will be the third meeting between the Jayhawks and Tar Heels. So far, each team has a victory. In 1984, North Carolina defeated Kansas 23-17 in Chapel N.C. The Tar Heels jumped out to a 20-0 half-time lead, and a second-half Jayhawk rally fell short.
Despite the loss in 1984, free safety Wayne Ziegler enjoyed the game.
"I'm looking forward to playing them again." Ziegler said. "They have a class ball club, and whenever I think about playing North Carolina, it brings back good memories."
Some of those memories are of the 18 tackles he made and four passes he broke up against the Tar Heels.
UNC head coach Dick Crum has an experienced team with 15 returning starters, eight on offense and seven on defense. Offensive tackle Harris Barton, 6-foot-4 and 275 pounds, anchors an offensive line that will try to provide holes for running backs William Hume and Brad Lopp.
Hume, who was bothered by injuries last season, was the Tar Heels' top gainer with 515 yards. Lopp was second with 407 yards.
Tackle Reuben Davis, 6-3 and 280 pounds, leads the Tor Heel defense. He was an all-ACC selection last season as a sophomore.
Game 2
Utah
State
Sept. 20
Home
The Utah State Aggies will invade Lawrence on Sept. 20 in the first meeting of the two schools.
Last season, the Aggies were 3-8 overall and 3-4 in the Pacific Coast Athletic Association, putting them in fourth place. First year Aggie head coach Chuck Shelton, who coached at Drake when the school dropped its football program last year, will have seven defensive and four offensive starters back as the foundation of his program.
Linebacker Al Smith. 138 tackles, and down lineman Mark Mraz. 18 quarterback sacks, lead the defense. On offense, sophomore quarterback
Brett Stevens started four games last season. He completed 75 of 151 passes for 909 yards and six touchdowns. Glen Crawford rushed for 495 yards on 105 carries.
Indiana State will return to Memorial Stadium Sept. 27 for the second consecutive season. Last year, Kansas beat the Sycamores 37-10 in the first meeting between the
Game 3
Indiana
State
Sept. 27
Home
schools.
After being ranked first in Division I-AA in 1984, Indiana State teil to 4-6 last season and head coach Dennis Raetz will have to find a replacement for four-year starting quarterback
Jeff Miller. Miller set 15 school and two conference records while amassing 2.261 yards in offense, nearly 70 percent of the Sycamores output.
raetz still has his three leading rushers, Jimmy Edwards, Tracy Steward and Charles Walls
Game 4
Southern
Illinois
Oct. 4
Home
The Jayhawks and the Southern Illinois Salukis will meet for the first time on Oct. 4. The Salukis were 47 last season and finished third in the Gateway Conference with a 2-3 mark.
Head coach Ray Dorr has 36 returning lettermen and 17 starters back from last year's team.
Poll says KU, KSU may compete for Big Eight cellar
By Frank Hansel
Sports editor
According to the annual Big Eight Conference summer football poll, there might be only two significant conference football games — the Nov. 22 game between Nebraska and Oklahoma in Lincoln, Neb., to determine first place, and the Oct. 18 meeting between Kansas and Kansas State to determine last.
The defending national champion Oklahoma Sooners have been picked for the second consecutive year and the seventh time in the last decade to make the Jan. 1 trip to the Orange Bowl.
The Jayhawks have been picked to battle it out with the Wildcats for the seventh and eighth spots in the conference.
"The polls are really for the fans and media," Kansas linebacker coach Mike Monos said recently. "You never really know what is going to happen. You just have to take it one game at a time."
Game 5 Iowa State IowaState Oct.11 Home
The Jayhawks will attempt to prove the pollers hurt Worc. Oct. 11 in the Homecoming game against Iowa State. Last season, Iowa State defeated the Jayhawks 22-21 in Ames, Iowa.
The Cyclones will try for their first winning season under four-year head coach Jim Criner. Iowa State could reach its goal with the help of 17 returning starters and 37 lettermen.
Alex Espinosa returns at quarterback. After only 19 games, Espinosa is third on the all-time Iowa State passing list and second in career completions. The Cyclones gained just 1,061 yards rushing with only eight rushing touchdowns, but Andrew Jackson, who led the team with 415 yards rushing, has returned to the team.
For the defense, Iowa State's two top tacklers, linebackers Dennis Gibson and Jeff Braswell, will return. The two teamed up for 178 tackles last season.
Game 6 Kansas State Oct.18 Away
Away
Kansas will leave Memorial Stadium for the first time Oct. 18 to play K-State in Manhattan. The Jayhawks defeated the Wildcats 38-7 last year in front of 40,000 fans – the largest crowd of the year in Lawrence.
after the Wildcats lost to Wichita State and Northern Iowa on the way to a 1-10 season. Kansas State, which defeated Missouri, tied with the Tigers for the Big Eight cellar with 1-6 marks.
Like the Jayhawks, K-State is entering a new coaching era. Stan Parrish, who has never suffered a losing season at Wabash and Marshall Universities, takes over for Jim Dickey. Dickey resigned last season
The Wildcats return 13 starters — eight on offense and five on defense. Randy Williams and John Welch will battle for the quarterback job and two of the top three rushers, Todd Moody and Ray Wilson, are back.
Defensive ends Kevin Humphrey and Jeff Hurd are the cornerstones of the Wildcat defense. Last year, the two combined for 143 tackles.
Game 7 Oklahoma State Oct.25 Away
Away
The Jayhawks stay on the road with an Oct. 25 game in Stillwater, Okla., against the Oklahoma State Cowboys. Last season, the Cowboys scored a touchdown with one minute, five seconds remaining to defeat Kansas 17-10.
Head coach Pat Jones will have to rebuild the OSU defense after the loss of All-America defensive end Leslie O'Neal and lineman John Washington.
The heart of the Cowboy offense,
running back Thurman Thomas, the
Big Eight's leading rusher with 1,650
vards and 15 touchdowns, is back as
well as quarterback Ronnie Williams.
Game 8
Oklahoma
Nov. 1
Home
The Jayhawks return home Nov. 1 to play the national champion Oklahoma Sooners, who routed Kansas 48-6 last year in Norman, Okla
The Sooners may be just as tough this season. Despite the loss of All-America nose guard Tony Casillas, the OU defense, which gave up a national low 193.5 yards per game, will be led by All-American linebacker Brian Bosworth.
Offensively, head coach Barry Switzer and the Sooners will rely on the quick feet of quarterback Jamelle Holleway.
Last season, Holley took over after Troy Aikman broke his leg against Miami and led the Sooners to the Big Eight title and the national championship with a 25-10 win over previously unbeaten Penn State in the Orange Bowl. Holley was the Sooners leading rusher with 861 yards, the most ever for a freshman OU quarterback.
The Jayhawks will play the Colorado Buffaloes Nov 8 in Boulder, Colo Last year, the Buffaloes beat the Jayhawks 14-3 in Memorial Stadium.
The victory was just part of head coach Bill McCartney's magic. He
Game 9
Colorado
Nov.8
Away
took a team that finished 1-10 and transformed them into a 7-5 team, including a 20-17 loss to Washington in the Freedom Bowl.
Serving as mMcCartney's magic wand was the wishbone offense. Colorado has seven offensive starters returning including quarterback Mark Hatecher and running back Anthony Weatherbspoon and Sam Smith.
The defense is led by linebacker Barry Remington, who had 162 tackles, and punter Barry Helton, who was second in the nation with a 46-yard average.
Game 10
Nebraska
Nov.15
Home
The Jayhawks return home Nov. 15, where the Nebraska Cornhuskers, who buried Kansas 56-6 last year in Lincoln, Neb., will await the team's arrival.
Nebraska had its worst season since 1981 when it finished a mere 9-3, including a 27-23 loss to Michigan in the Flesta Bowl. The offense will be led by two-time All-Big Eight runningback Doug DuBose, who rushed for 1,161 yards last fall.
All-Big Eight linebacker Marc Munford, the team's leading tackler, is expected to recover from November knee surgery to lead head coach Tom Osborne's defense.
Game 11
Missouri
Nov. 22
Away
The Jayhawks will finish the regular season in Columbia, Mo., against the Missouri Tigers on Nov. 22. The Tigers are trying to rebound from a 1-10 season, including a 34-20 loss to the Jayhawks.
Second-year head coach Woody Widenhoor will look to a strong offensive line, including Ted Rommey an All-Missouri Valley Conference selection who transferred from Drake, to lead the offense. Wide receiver Herbert "Junebug" Johnson, who set a Missouri record with 49 receptions, also appears to be an offensive threat.
Defensive end Dick Chapura, who recorded seven sacks and 98 tackles, is the Tiger leader on defense.
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