SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, September 12, 1994
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BIG EIGHT FOOTBALL ROUNDUP
Jayhawks use speed, pride to overcome early errors
By Matt Irwin
Kansan sportswriter
The first half was full of missed opportunities for both teams, but the Jayhawk defense kept the Spartans from capitalizing on multile Kansas turnovers.
After forcing Michigan State to punt after three plays on the first possession of the game, the Jayhawks marched down the field. Kansas moved the ball from its own 44 yard line to the Spartan's 10 where senior wide receiver Rodney Harris fumbled. Michigan State recovered the ball on its own 8-yard line.
Starting with good field position, the Spartans went 51 yards on 9 plays, settling for a field goal.
The Kansas defense stopped the Spartans' on three plays and then junior cornerback Dorian Brew fumbled the Spartans' punt and Michigan State recovered at its own 41.
Two plays later, Kansas senior quarterback Ashlei Preston was intercepted at the Jayhawk 37-yard line by Spartan senior strong safety Damian Manson. Manson returned the ball to the Kansas 25.
Michigan State could not get past the Jayhawk 18-yard line and missed a 37-ward goal goal attempt.
"When you get the ball down there, you've got to get seven," Michigan State offensive coordinator Morris Watts said. "That's a moral victory."
The Jayhawks also had trouble capitalizing on offense. After turning the ball over three times in the first quarter, the Jayhawks failed to convert a fourth-and-two at the Spartans 36-yard line and then missed a 34-yard field goal in the second quarter.
Coming off Michigan State's missed field goal, the Jayhawks marched to the Spartans' 36-yard line and came up about one foot short on fourth down. After a penalty against Michigan State on the next play, the Spartans' junior quarterback Tony Banks was intercepted by Kansas senior strong safety Gerald McBurrows at the Spartans' 38-yard line. McBurrows returned the ball to the Spartans' 21.
Kansas only moved the ball four yards before freshman place kicker Jeff McCord missed his first career field goal attempt — a 34-yard effort.
Late in the half, both teams finally began to capitalize on their opportunities.
On a 47-yard punt by the Jayhawks, Spartan senior wide receiver Mill Coleman returned the ball 63 yards to the Kansas 18-yard line.
Michigan State junior running back Duane Goulbourne scored a touchdown after three running plays, and the Spartans took a 10-10 lead. Goulbourne rushed for 109 yards on 25 carries.
"When they scored on us, it made us mad," Kansas senior linebacker Don Davis said. "From the media all we heard all week was that they were going to manhandle us."
The Spartans did not score the rest of the game.
Michigan State passed the 50-yard line on offense only twice in the second half. The first drive ended when Kansas senior free safety Kwame Lassiter intercepted the ball at the Jayhawk 31. The second drive ended when Michigan State failed to get a first down on its last possession of the game. The drive ended at the Jayhawk 32-yard line.
The Kansas defense used its speed to counter the Spartans' size on offense.
"I thought they hung in there tremendously," Mason said of the Kansas defense. "We aren't very big, but our Hawks are fast."
The Jayhawks used their speed and routinely moved McBurrows up to the line of scrimmage to help with the run.
"We were just trying to get a little more weight up there," Mason said with a smile.
Most of Mason's post-game comments were said with a smile. Michigan State coach George Perless said he was also impressed by Kansas.
"KU is going to be something to be reckoned with in the Big Eight," Perles said. "I think Kansas did well, especially when they got the lead."
The Jayhawks took the lead when they marched 74 yards on the opening drive of the second half.
Perles also thought his team could have played better.
"It looked like first-game jitters," Perles said. "When you complete a shot of sixteen points, you don't expect to play well."
The Spartans' Banks completed only 8 of 22 passes for 71 yards and had two interceptions.
The Jayhawks scored their last points on a 43-yard field goal by McCord. After missing two earlier field goal attempts, McCord hit a final try with 3:57 left in the game. The Jayhawks stalled the Spartans' following drive and ran the clock out to end the game.
Big Eight teams flounder face must-win situations
MU, Iowa State and OU lose big; KU,NU enjoy wins
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Disasters are in progress in Columbia, Mo., and Ames, Iowa.
It could cost the Big Eight a coach in Ames.
Missouri, meanwhile, went up to Illinois and could not make a first down for 56 minutes in a 42-0 loss.
Iowa State lost its annual big game to Iowa 37-9, and fans weren't shy about what they thought of coach Jim Walden, who had predicted a turnaround year in his eighth season after succeeding Jim Criner.
“It's time he opened a bait shop next to Criner's place out in Iowa,” said Kirk Vander Leese of Winfield, Iowa, a 1987 alum.
"It's all talk and no play," said Howard Heckes of Iowa City. "I'd like to see him go."
In other Big Eight games, Kansas rallied to beat Michigan State 17-10 and No. 21 Oklahoma fell apart in the fourth quarter to drop a 36-14 decision to No. 14 Texas A&M.
The rest of the league was
idle. No. 2. Nebraska beat Texas Tech 42-16 on Thursday.
Missouri now faces a must-win situation at Houston on Saturday. The Tigers can't win on the road, and have games with West Virginia and Colorado staring them in the face after the game with the Cougars.
Missouri (0-2) got its initial first down with 3:39 left in the game, and was only able to cross midfield by recovering a fumble. The Illini (1-1) had 540 yards in offense, scoring three touchdowns in the final nine minutes of the second quarter and on their first possession of the third period.
"I was hoping they would line up and run at us and they did," said Missouri coach Larry Smith, who appears to have miscalculated the talent of his team. "But they ran right through us."
"When you give up 42 points and over 500 yards, you are missing a lot of tackles," Smith said.
Walden could only throw his hands in the air, scratch his head and otherwise search for a solution. "You just go, 'Wow, why is this happening to me?"
Illinois made 30 first downs and had 359 yards rushing.
Walden had been telling Cyclones fans that it would take time to bring Iowa State
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back because of scholarship sanctions imposed by the NCAA for violations under Criner's tenure.
People seem to be tired of waiting, especially after consecutive losses to Northern Iowa and the Hawkeves.
Iowa (2-0) committed three turnovers, but Iowa State (0-2) was worse with four.
Oklahoma had beaten A&M by 30 points last year, and the Aggies were out for blood this year.
"Revenge is a bad emotion, but respect is a much more positive emotion and we had respect for Oklahoma because they beat us convincingly last year," said coach R.C. Slocum.
The Aggies (2-0) had three sacks, three interceptions and recovered two fumbles in winning its 21st straight game at home.
"I was amazed how we stopped their running game with only 85 yards," said defensive coordinator Tommy Tuberville, in his first season. "This game was for Slocum after what happened last year."
Michigan wins with last-second field goal
The Associated Press
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — There was another miracle come under the Golden Dome on Saturday. Only this time, Notre Dame was the victim instead of the victor.
Reny Hamilton kicked four field goals, including a 42-yarder with 2 seconds left, to give sixth-ranked Michigan a 26-24 victory over No. 3 Notre Dame in a sensational seesaw game.
"Every kicker thinks about making a winning field goal," said Hamilton, a redshirt sophomore from Boca Raton, Fla., who had attempted only one field goal in his career prior to Saturday. "I'm a hero now. I could be a goat next week."
"It seems like Notre Dame does it to us every time," said Michigan senior quarterback Todd Collins. "When we
had an opportunity to get the ball back. I said, 'Ok, let's to them.'
- Michigan has been victimized by several Notre Dame comebacks since the series resumed in 1978, including a late touchdown pass by Rick Mirer in 1990 and Reggie Ho's winning field goal in 1988. But this time it was the Wolverines (2-0) staging an amazing rally to beat the Irish (1-1) for only the second time since 1987.
"I thought we had won it," said Powlus, who was 15-of-27 for 187 yards and two touchdowns.
Ron Powhus, Notre Dame's highly touted sophomore quarterback, looked like he would be the hero after throwing a 7-yard touchdown pass to Derrick Mayes with 52 se. onds left to put the Irish ahead 24-23.
But Collins, who was 21-of-29 for 224 yards and one touchdown, came up with some heroes of his own. He opened the winning drive with a 15-yard scramble, then completed three passes as Michigan drove to the Notre Dame 24 before Hamilton booted his final goal.
Collins was in the grasp of an Irish defender when he threw the last pass, a 9-yarder to Seth Smith, who dove out of bounds with 7 seconds left.
Notre Dame then called a timeout as the play clock was about to expire because the Irish thought they had an extra man on the field. The delay didn't bother Hamilton.
"I was out there stretching, trying not to think about what this kick meant," he said. "Coach (Gary Moeller) just told me to go out there and make the kick."
As he was about to go on the field to attempt the kick, Hamilton got encouragement from Mike Gillette, a former Michigan kicker whose last-second miss of a 49-yard field goal allowed Notre Dame to escape with a 19-17 victory in 1988.
"Right before the kick, he came up to me and said, 'Come on, Remy, you can do it,'" said Hamilton, who made two 32-yarders and a 35-yarder against Notre Dame before his game-winning attempt.
Michigan fans stormed the field after the kick, but the game wasn't over until the Wolverines squibbed a kickoff and tackled Notre Dame's Pete Chryplewicz as time expired.
"This hurts," said Irish coach Lou Holtz. "It was a great comeback by Notre Dame, followed by a great comeback by Michigan."
Two of Hamilton's field goals were set up by fumbles in Irish tailback Lee Becton, who hadn't lost a fumble in 233 carries since the third game of the 1992 season.
Michigan's touchdows came on a 10-yard run by Tim Biakabutuka and a 3-yard pass from Collins to Jay Riemsma.
Aided by a pass interference call against Michigan's Tyrone Noble.
Notre Dame took a 17-10 lead in the third quarter on an 8-yard touchdown run by Marc Edwards. But Michigan rallied to take a 20-17 lead later in the period on the TD catch by Riemersma and Hamilton's 35-vard field goal.
Notre Dame took the opening kickoff and drove to the Michigan 15, where Stefan Schroffner booted a 32-vard field goal.
Michigan, playing without injured star running back Tyrone Wheatey, scored a touchdown on its first drive with the help of a freak play.
Facing a fourth-and-1 at the Notre Dame 12, Hamilton attempted a 29-vard field goal.
The kick was blocked by Irish cornerback Bobby Taylor, but Michigan's Che Foster caught the ball in the air behind the line of scrimmage and ran for a first down.
Two plays later, Biakabutuka burst up the middle for a TD that put the Wolverines ahead 7-3.
Notre Dame responded with an 80-yard, 14-play scoring drive that ended with a 1-yard pass from Powlus to Becton.
Powls rolled left and found a wide-
beacon Becton just over the goal line to
give the Irish a 10-7 lead with 1:11 left in
the first quarter.
By Steve Wilstein The Associated Press
Agassi batters Stich captures Open title
NEW YORK — Andre Agassi, navigating the most perilous path to the U.S. Open championship in history, battered Michael Stich from the start in yesterday's title match.
Agassi never lost his serve in his 6-1, 7-6(2) 7-5 victory, putting on a commanding show and beating the former Wimbledon champion in every phase of the game.
"I'm still in a state of shock," Agassi said after receiving the $550,000 winner's check and the silver trophy. Girlfriend Brooke Shields stood by, snapping photos of the moment.
"It it's quite amazing what I pulled off, 'Assagi said. "I can't believe it. It's been an incredible two weeks for me."
No unseeded player had ever run a gauntlet of five seeded players as Agassi did.
To win this title, Agassi had to beat, in order, No. 12 Wayne Ferreira, No. 6 Michael Chang, No. 13 Thomas Muster, No. 9 Todd Martin and No. 4 Stich.
The only other champion to beat five seeds was Vic Seixas in 1954, when 20 players were seeded.
No player ever won a Grand Slam tournament dressed like Agassi with his black cap, black shorts and black socks, nor did any other champion have his shoulder-length hair and gold earrings.
But the image is-everything Andre Boy once again proved there is substance behind his style, and it came in the form of rocketing returns of serve, compact ground strokes and all-court pressure.
He played better in this match than he did even in winning Wimbledon two years ago in five sets.
Agassi tossed away his racket and dropped to his knees when his last backhand into an open court sealed the match.
Agassi, 24, won Wimbledon in 1992 and reached the final of Grand Slam events two other times.
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