UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, October 17, 1995
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Shoulder injury sidelines 49ers quarterback
Steve Young won't be able to play this Sunday, which ends streak of 55 starts
The Associated Press
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Steve Young's battered left shoulder will sideline him for at least four weeks, meaning the San Francisco 49ers will be without their two-time NFL most valuable player for their Nov. 12 showdown with Dallas.
"Basically we're dealing with a strain and a bruise in his shoulder," 49ers coach George Selfert said yesterday.
Young was sacked six times in Sunday's 18-17 loss at Indianapolis and left the field in visible pain on several occasions. He underwent an MRI scan after the game, which revealed the damage in his passing shoulder.
Team physician Michael Dillingham reviewed the results.
"He said, 'Don't plan on having Steve Young for a four-week period.' Seifert said.
The injury ends Young's streak of 55 straight regular season starts, the longest among active quarterbacks. Elvis Grbac will make his first career start Sunday in St. Louis against the Rams, who are one game ahead of the defending Super Bowl champions in the NFC West.
"Basically we're dealing with a strain and a bruise in his shoulder."
George Selfert San Francisco 49ers coach
Young, who was 28-for-40 for 229 yards against the Colts, had been bothered by soreness in his left shoulder since the second game of the season, when Atlanta's Jessie Tuggle knocked him down an instant after he threw a pass.
He continued to play but during San Francisco's bye week did not throw at all
in hopes the rest would allow his shoulder injury to heal. Young resumed throwing a week ago, and Seifert said Young's passing in practice last Thursday and Friday was among the best he had seen him throw this year.
"Steve Young suffered a shoulder bruise approximately four weeks ago from which he had virtually completely recovered," Dillingham said in a
statement. "In (Sunday's) game, Steve suffered two separate and distinct injuries to his left shoulder. Early in the game, he suffered a mild sprain to his shoulder. Toward the end of the game he suffered a second injury to his shoulder which was a bruise deep into his shoulder."
Young was knocked down by rookie
Ellis Johnson while completing a pass for no gain with 1:05 to play and was obviously staggered by the hit, his passing arm hanging limp at his side.
He gave way to Grbac for one play and returned seconds later. He completed one more pass, but a 46-yard field goal attempt by Doug Brien was wide right with 50 seconds to go.
It was the second consecutive week a quarterback was injured against the Colts. The previous week, Miami's Dan Marino returned to the game after a painful tackle by the Colts. The next day, an MRI showed knee damage that required surgery and Marino is expected to be out at least a couple more weeks.
Young first hurt his shoulder when the Colts' Ray Buchanan grabbed his arm as he attempted a pass in the second quarter. Grbac warmed up after that injury, but Young said he decided he could keep playing when the 49ers regained possession.
Cary Conklin, a free agent who used to play for Washington, is the 49ers No. 3 quarterback.
Rams' Miller rejuvenated in new city and with old coach
The Associated Press
ST. LOUISE — Chris Miller is getting hit less, staying on the field a lot more and posting numbers reminiscent of his 1991 Pro-Bowl season for the St Louis Rams
"Anybody who could look at him and say he's not a great player and a great quarterback isn't looking at something or is brain dead." Coach
Rich Brooks said. "He's a terrific talent."
Kevin Brooks said. He's a terrific talent.
Miller is coming off consecutive 300-yard passing games, ranks fourth in the NFC in passing efficiency and has missed only one quarter in the first six games after sustaining
a concussion against Chicago Sept. 24.
After playing in only half the games from 1992-94 due to two blown-out knees and four concussions, Miller likely will have to keep answering questions about his health. But the Rams are not making it an issue.
"I hope the questions can keep fading," Miller said. "It's a physical, violent game and the defensive linemen who are pounding us are big, big men. But it's hard to get injured when you're only getting hit twice and neither one of them were hard."
Miller has been sacked 14 times. The protection got markedly better last week after Brooks confronted the offensive linemen with a chart that showed who was responsible for each hit.
"We told them we couldn't go through the year with that many hits on him and that they
needed to step up, not only the line but the backs and everybody else that's involved in pass protection," Brooks said.
Miller got sacked 28 times in 10 starts last year. Along with two concussions, he also suffered a pinched nerve in his neck.
"There's not too many guys who could take the punishment he did last year and put up great numbers," Rams wide receiver Jessie Hester said. "It's just not going to happen, I don't care who you are."
Brooks, who's in his first year, said it was tough deciding whether to keep Miller or Chris Chandler, now with Houston.
"We had a lot of difference of opinion in the organization," Brooks said. "Both had been injured and both were talented players.
"I went down and looked at a lot of tape and I was convinced that when Mille was
healthy he still possessed as much ability as any quarterback playing in the league. Chandler had a lot of ability, but I didn't think he had Miller's ability."
Brooks said the fact he coached Miller at Oregon didn't enter into the equation.
"I can't go just on emotion and judge it just because I coached him in college." Brooks said. "I needed to see what he had done last year, a year when people doubted what he was doing."
On Thursday, Miller completed 27 of 38 passes for 328 yards and two touchdowns as the Rams beat Atlanta 21-19. He has thrown 11 touchdown passes and has been intercepted only three times.
Nobody's doubting now. The Rams signed free agent Mark Rypien this spring as insurance, but he's hardly been needed.
Kansas tennis hits cool streak
Kansan staff report
The weather was hot but the Kansas women's tennis team was not last weekend in Tempe, Ariz.
Only two Jayhawks, sophomore Maria Abatjoglou and freshman Kris Sell, made it to the second round in singles action.
One week after dominating the Big Eight Indoors, the Jayhawks suffered their first disappointing finish of the fall tournament season at the Arizona State Sun Devil Invitational.
Abatjoglou lost to top-seeded and ninth-ranked Reka Cesernyes of Arizona State in the second round, 6-1, 6-2, while Sell lost to Melody Falco of Texas, 7-3, 3-6, 6-4.
Kansas senior Kim Webster and juniors Bianca Kirchhof and Amy Trytek lost in the first round.
Webster and Trytek lost in the round of 16 in the doubles draw as did the team of Sell and Abatjoglou.
The Kansas men's tennis team shared a similar fate at the ITA All-American pre-qualifying round in Austin, Texas, as both senior Michael Isroff and sophomore Trent Tucker lost their only match and were eliminated from the tournament.
Kansas senior Victor Fimbres, however, won his first four matches in his attempt to qualify for the tournament that begins Thursday. He has lost just one set thus far.
Fimbres still needs four more wins to qualify.
Kansas sophomore All-American Enrique Abaroa begins play today in the qualifying round.
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- Former KU graduate and YaleMed. School graduate.
- Dr. Sharlotte Bell, M.D.
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