THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2004
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Former running back to be honored Super Bowl I star Curtis McClinton returns to Memorial Stadium
By RYAN COLAIANNI
rcolaiani@kansan.com
KANSANI SPORTSWINTER
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Only few schools can say that a former member of its football team scored one the first touchdowns in NFL Super Bowl history. One of those schools is the University of Kansas.
Former Kansas running back Curtis McClinton hauled in a 7-yard pass from Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson to even the score 7-7 against the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl I. The Chiefs eventually lost to the Packers, 35-10, but McClinton's name became etched into the game's history.
He will return to Memorial Stadium on Saturday to have his name added to Kansas' Ring of Honor.
"Curtis McClinton was a terrific football player," said KU Athletics Director Lew Perkins. "But more importantly, he is a terrific person and a great representative of this university. We are thrilled to add him to the KU Ring of Honor."
McClinton will be recognized
as one of the greatest Kansas football players of all time by being inducted into the ring, joining the likes of Gale Sayers and John Hadle.
"It is a great honor." McClinton said. "I am really humbled by joining a select group of achievers."
McClinton was a running back for the Jayhawks and rushed for 1,377 yards, though he was used primarily as a blocking back.
His total rushing yards rank him 21st on the Jahawks' alltime rushing list. At 6-foot-3, 227 pounds, he was a punishing running back and blocker.
McClinton received numerous accolades while at the University.
He was named to The Sporting News All-America team in 1961, and he played in the 1961 East-West Shrine game, the 1961 Hula Bowl and the 1962 College All-Star game.
Though the Jayhawks were successful while he was on the team, his most vivid memories are from losses. McClinton specifically remembered two games, one
It isn't always the reward of victory that
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you remember. It's when you are clawing and scratching and you had given what you thought was your best."
Curtis McClinton Former Kansas running back
against Syracuse University and one against Oklahoma, in which the Jayhawks were close to victory but unable follow through.
"It isn't always the reward of victory that you remember," McClinton said. "It's when you are clawing and scratching and you had given what you thought was your best."
McClinton also spent three years on the 'Hawks' track team, where he was a three-time Big 8 high hurdle champion.
drafted in the 14th round by the American Football League's Dallas Texans. He was named AFL Rookie of the Year with the Texans in 1962.
The team was later moved to Kansas City, and he scored the Chief's first-ever franchise touchdown, during the 1963 preseason.
In his professional football career, McClinton rushed for 3,124 yards and played in two AFL All-Star games. He played seven seasons with the Chiefs.
After his football years, he continued his education, receiving a master's from Central Michigan, a doctorate from Miles College and completing postgraduate work at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
His work at Harvard prepared him for his service as deputy mayor of Washington, D.C. While there, he worked on revitalizing the downtown area.
McClinton's time on the football field and track prepared him for a professional life. It taught him discipline and commitment, he said.
Edited by Janette Crawford
Former Kansas running back Cortis McClinton scored the second touchdown in Super Bowl history.
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Women's soccer team to play tomorrow
BY KELLI ROBINET
krobinet@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTSWINTER
The University of Tulsa football game isn't the only home opener for Kansas athletics this weekend.
The Kansas women's soccer team will play its first home game of the season tomorrow as it hosts the KUStore.com Crimson & Blue Invitational at the SuperTarget Field.
The soccer squad enters this weekend's tournament undefeated, after beating UNLV and Brigham Young University on its season opening road trip.
This year is only the fourth time that Kansas has opened the season with back-to-back wins, and coach Mark Francis said the
team did a lot of things well last week, but there is still work to be done.
"It's always nice to win the first weekend," said Francis. "But there are some things that we didn't do so well, and hopefully we'll see some improvements in tomorrow's game and continue to improve week to week."
The four-team tournament will be played tomorrow and Sunday with St. Louis University, Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Mississippi State visiting campus.
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Kansas will start the tournament against Wisconsin-
Milwaukee at 5 p.m. tomorrow and finish up the tournament with a game against St. Louis on Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
St. Louis and Mississippi will
t's always nice to win the first weekend."
Mark Francis Kansas soccer coach
face each other tomorrow at 2:30 p.m., and on Sunday, Mississippi State and Wisconsin-Milwaukee take the field at 12 p.m.
Kansas has experience with its two opponents. The Jayhawks have faced off against St. Louis twice in the past four years, and they defeated Wisconsin-Milwaukee last season.
"We've got scouting reports for both teams and know a little of what to expect," Francis said today. "We did some things
TOURNAMENT
SCHEDULE
Friday
St. Louis vs. Mississippi State at 2:30 p.m.
Kansas vs. Wisconsin-Milwaukee at 5 p.m.
Sunday:
Mississippi State vs.
Wisconsin-Milwaukee at
12 p.m.
Kansas vs. St. Louis at
2:30 p.m.
today in practice to get ready for them. They will be two tough games but if we play well I think we can definitely win them."
TENNIS
Edited by Janette Crawford
'Late bloomer' Haynes takes off at U.S. Open
NEW YORK — As a tot, Angela Haynes hit her first tennis strokes on the same Compton courts that produced Serena and Venus Williams.
Now 19 and ranked 185th, Haynes tasted her first bit of the Grand Slam success so familiar to the Williams sisters, upsetting 22nd-seeded Magdalena Maleeva 6-2, 6-3 to reach the U.S. Open's third round last night.
"Everybody peaks at different times, so maybe I am a late bloomer," said Haynes, a wild card. "But I just have to stay within myself, play my game, do what I do best."
The third day of the Open included just-as-expected victo
ries by past major champions Lieptian Hewitt and Nierli Capriati, and none-too-surprising exits by Gustavo Kuerten and Mark Philippoussis, Haynes got a chance in the spotlight.
She lost in the first round of last year's Open, then lost in the first round of qualifying at the Australian Open in January. That was the sum of Haynes' Slam experience until Monday, when she beat Tatiana Perebiynis in a third-set tiebreaker.
Haynes handled Maleea quite impressively in the 6,106-seat Grandstand, the largest arena she's played in, hanging tough even after wasting three match points. Haynes never lost her serve, and kept her unforced errors to a minimum: 14 in all.
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