UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, August 19, 1992
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For kicker, good isn't enough
By David Bartkoski
Kansan sportswriter
Dan Eichloff, a junior punter/kicker for the Jawhaws, was named a 1992 Playboy preseason All-American.
Dan Eichloff said being named to the Playboy preseason All-America team and considered for the Lou Groza Collegiate Place Kicker Award were good things.
But Eichloff said he wanted more.
The junior place kicker and punter, who was born in West Germany and moved to the United States in 1984, said he wanted something to celebrate in the postseason as well.
He said he saw this year as the year that Kansas football could obtain a long-awaited bowl bid.
"It looks like we have the talent, ability and attitude." he said.
Eichloff's lofty goal not surprise
siren Dave Marcum, long snapper
Eichloff was talented enough last year to rank third nationally in field hockey.
"He's a big inspiration, and he does a great job," Marcum said.
His personal goal is to be the best kicker and punter in the nation.
"I took some lay-off time. We did a lot of work as a team in the spring," he said.
Eichloff he spent most of his summer taking time away from the game.
Eichloff said he gradually geared himself up for the season. Now that practice has resumed he has focused his mind on football once again.
"He's hard-headed," Marcum said. "He's got to be perfect and that's not a bad way of thinking."
During practice, Eichloh usually does some kicking and punting. When he is not kicking, he does stretching uses snaps and snaps balls to stay loose.
He said he credited Marcum and quarterback Chip Hillery, his field-goal and extra-point holder, as key ingredients to his success.
Eichloff said he did not know how
he would get along without his teammates, whom Hilleary referred to as the "triangle" — the snapper, holder and kicker.
The three combined to crank out 18 field goals in 24 attempts and 31 extra points in 33 attempts last year. Eichloff averaged more than 42 yards a punt during last year's campaign.
Assistant head coach Golden Ruel said that he thought Eichlöff's punt was good.
first saw it.
He said that Eichloff got the job done and that was what the team needed.
"He would kick the ball with a side-step approach as opposed to the traditional straight approach," Ruel said. "But when someone is successful as he is, you don't fool with it."
He said Eichloff's kicking abilities provided the team with opportunities to do more with its field position.
"The biggest worry in all of our minds is the day that Dan graduates," Ripley said.
Though he kicked the longest field goal and is the third-leading scorer in KU history. Eichloff said he would not sit on past accomplishments.
Eichloff's chances of getting post-season honors could be improved if the Jayhawks have a good season.
Eichloff said he believed they could. "I think this is going to be the first time in a long time that KU football is unrecognized as a competitive team," he said.
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Senior tackle pushes team to new levels
By David Dorsey
Kansan sportswriter
"Getting the sack in front of the one crowd that a feeling you can't get out of is getting better."
Senior defensive tackle Dana Stubblefield loves to explode off the snap, overpower the man assigned to block him and sack the opposing team's quarterback.
Stubblefield, a senior captain on this year's Kansas football team, recently was named a preseason All-American by Playboy magazine. The Sporting News rated him third-best defensive tackle in the nation.
Stubblefield does not take his pre-season status lightly.
Although he led the team in sacks last season with 10, Stubbilefield said, "We're not there."
"That's a real great honor for me," he said. "It all comes to downme playing hard, and then all of the good things like that will come with it."
"During the season, I never did set any personal records, but I always try to do better than the guy next to me," he said. "I figure that if I'm trying to do my best, then my teammates are trying to do their best as well."
"That puts a burden on my shoulders because the team picked me to help lead them to another winning season," Stubblefield said.
Freshman Mark Allison,站到 to Stubblefield's back-up this year and possibly his successor next year, said he was a good role as a good team for his teammate.
"He knows most of his moves really well," Allison said. "Be as good as you
he is, I'm just trying to learn everything I can from him."
Defensive coordinator Bob Fello said, "He's accepted his responsibility in a positive way, trying to exert leadership by example and vicious, pushing himself and pushing others. I think he had a very productive summer, and so far in camp, he's been very productive."
Fello said that Stubblebear helped some of the younger players adjust and that he spent extra time studying the play book.
"He's doing all of the extra things he needs to do to take the team to the finals."
Stubblefield said he did not dwell on the possibility of playing in the National Football League in the future.
"I think about it, but right now my goals are to set finish my career up here at the University of Kansas," Stubblefield said. "If I could pick a team to play for, I'd pick Philadelphia. I'd love to play with Reggie White, but I'd play with any team."
Reggie White is an All-Pro defensive tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Stubblefield said that he was already looking forward to this season's first game Sept. 5 against Oregon State in Corvallis, Ore., and that he was very excited about the Sept. 24 game at home against California, which will be shown on ESPN.
"All of my high school games were at night, so I love night games anyway." Stubblefield said. "It's going to be wild."
"If we take the attitude we have now and take it into the fall season, I think we can do it," he said.
Stubblefield said he hoped to lead his team to a postseason bowl game. The Jayhawks were 6-5 last year.
Justin Knuno / KANSAN
Senior Dana Stubblefield is rated the third-best defensive tackle in the nation by The Sporting News.
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