SPORTS
University Daily Kansan/Friday, October 25, 1991
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Kansas to face struggling Sooners
Bv David Mitchell
Kansan Sportswriter
Before last week's 4-10 victory, the Kansas football team had not defeated Iowa State since 1984. Tomorrow, the Jayhawks will try to end a six-year drought against Oklahoma.
The Big Eight Conference rivals enter the weekend with identical 1.1 records in conferencing.
"They're the toughest people we've faced," Kirk coach Glen Mason said. "I think they're outwardly tough."
Although Oklahoma is a 14-point favorite, the teams stack up evenly on paper.
Despite back to back losses to Texas and Colorado, the Sooners are ranked 21st in the nation.
The Kansas defense leads the Big Eight in total defense and is ranked sixth in the nation, allowing opponents an average of 263 yards a game. Last season, the Jayhawks were 86th in the nation, surrendering an average of 415.3 yards a game.
Oklahoma's defense is second only to Kansas' in the conference. The Sooners have limited their opponents to an average of 290 yards a game.
However, the Kansas offense should be ready for the challenge after practicing against the Bears.
"Oklaahoma's defense looks real tough," junior offensive tackle Keke Loneker said. But I face a real tough defense every day in game. We're prepared to play a tough game.
The Sooners have slumped to fourth in the conference in rushing behind Nebraska, Colorado and Kansas. The passing game has struggled, as Oklahoma has completed less than 50 percent of its passes. The Sooners are last in the conference in passing offense, averaging just 138.5 yards a game.
The Kansas defense will face a new-look Oklahoma offense. After having one of the nation's most dominant running attacks in the 1980s, Oklahoma is attempting to establish a passing game under third-year coach Gary Gibbs.
Junior defensive tackle Dana Stubblefield said the Jayhawks would be prepared for what he described as a "new era" of football.
"They're a different team than last year because they're trying to establish a passing game," Stubblebell said. "They know about our defense stopping the run. I figure they'll try to
Kansas is second in the conference in run defense behind Kohlahoma, and first in pass defense.
"We've been playing against a lot of passing teams," Stubblefield said. "We're prepared for this."
Stubblefield leads the defense with seven of the unit's 21 quarterback sacks. The Jayhawk defense recorded 198 saves last season.
Gundy completed just five of 17 passes against Texas. Last week against Colorado, he completed eight of 22 with two interceptions.
Oklahoma's sophomore quarterback Cale Gundy was the conference's offensive newcomer of the year last season but has not lived up to expectations this fall.
The Kansas passing attack has struggled as we rank sixth in the conference, ahead of only Wisconsin.
"The offense is disappointing to me," Mason said. "I haven't been able to fine tune it. That's probably the way Coach Gibbs feels. Their offence and, they thought they'd perform better."
Mason returned junior quarterback Chip Hirsch to his starting role after nort. note Failure of a
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"Chip saw the game from a different perspective, standing on the sidelines," he said. "Someone else was watching."
Game 7: 1:30 p.m., Oct. 26, Norman, Okla.
Oklahoma Sooners
Offense
Defense
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| WR | 5 Matt Gay | 5-11/185/Jr. | SE | 2 Corey Warren | 5-11/203/So |
| TE | 1 Dwayne Chandler | 6-3/230/So. | LT | 66 Brain Brauninger | 6-5/279/Sr |
| LE | 7 Chris Perez | 6-5/280/Sr. | LG | 64 Paul Moraty | 6-5/279/Sr |
| LG | 66 Hessley Hempstead | C | O | 50 Randy Wallace | 6-3/278/Sr |
| C | 75 Dan Schmidt | 6-1/260/Sr. | RG | 11 Jeff Resler | 6-2/260/Fr |
| RG | 65 Scott Imwalle | 6-2/265/Jr. | RT | 78 Branden Meyer | 6-5/284/Sr |
| RT | 74 Keith Loneker | 6-3/305/Jr. | QB | 12 Cale Gandy | 6-2/225/Sr |
| WR | 85 Kryden Drayton | 6-0/175/Jr. | TB | 32 Mike Gaddis | 6-2/225/Sr |
| FB | 34 Roger Robben | 6-0/155/Jr. | FT | 31 Mike McKinney | 6-0/226/Sr |
| QB | 18 Chip Hilemeyer | 6-1/185/Jr. | TE | 82 Joey Mickey | 6-5/269/Jr |
| TB | 24 Tony Sands | 5-6/170/Jr. | FL | 3 Ted Long | 5-10/186/Sr |
| PK | 31 Eidichoff | 6-1/215/Js. | PK | 16 Scott Blanton | 6-1/210/Fr |
OLB 39 Don Davis 6-2/200 Fr. LE 88 Trey Tippens 6-3/235 Jr.
BC 39 Keyle Moore 6-2/350 Jr. LT 77 Stacey Dillard 6-5/245 Jr.
LT 93 Gilbert Brown 6-2/305 Jr. NG 46 Corey Mayfield 6-2/270 Jr.
LT 79 Dana Stubbeld Jr. JR 97 Procter Land 6-4/256 Jr.
RE 19 Dana Stubbeld Jr. JR 97 Regeiger Neumann 6-4/256 Jr.
OLB 7 Hassan Bailey 5-1/1200 Jr. LB 45 Joe Bovden 6-0/230 Jr.
ILB 52 Steve Harvey 6-4/230 Jr. LB 30 Chris Wilson 6-1/230 Jr.
CB 38 Robert Vaughn 5-1/1190 So. LCB 28 Darrell Walker 5-8/166 Jr.
CS 10 Doug Terry 5-1/1185 So. RCB 15 Charles Frankes 5-9/179 Jr.
SS 10 Tim Friday 5-1/1185 So. SS 29 Jason Beeler 5-9/184 Jr.
CB 8 Tim Hill 5-1/170 So. SS 29 Jason Beeler 5-9/184 Jr.
P 31 Dan Eichloh 6-1/215 So. P 84 Brad Reddell 6-2/195 Jr.
Source: Kansas Sports Information
Molissa Unterborg KANSAN
Mason said Hilleary and Gundy had received too much criticism for the teams' shortcomings. He said the pressure only made it more difficult to perform.
Sidelines
- "The more you try, the more you press, the worse it gets," he said.
Senior offensive tackle Christopher Perez will start his 40th consecutive game tomorrow.
This season marks the first meeting since 1983 that Kansas has entered a game against Oklahomba.
Off the wall
Rick Jaso, Overland Park senior, tries to score against the Lab Rats during a wallyball tournament. Wallyball is a form of volleyball in which a team may use the walls to serve and return a volley. Jaso's team from the Delta Tau Delta fraternity lost the match 15-5, 15-7 last night at Robinson Center.
Jayhawks to meet tall Sooners team
By Jeff Kobs
Kansan Sportswriter
When the Oklahoma Sooners volleyball team rolls into Allen Field House tonight, it will be pay-back time for the Jawhaves.
Kansas will be out to avenge the first big Eight Conference loss of the season. The Hawks lost their conference opener to the Sooners Sept. 28 in Norman, Okla. the loss ended Kansas' 15-match winning streak.
"We want this one badly," senior Mary Beth Bella said. "We could have given them a tougher match the first time than we did."
Only teams finishing in the upper division of the conference advance to the next round.
A victory tonight could be crucial in chances for making postseason play.
Kansas is in third place with a 3-3 conference record and 20-4 overall, but the team will play four of its last five matches away from Allen Field House. Oklahoma is 2-3 in the conference and 10-11 overall.
"I don't think it's revenge as much it's a much needed win," senior Julie Woodruff said. "Everyone knows it's a critical match."
Woodruff said the team had handled the pressure well
VOLLEYBALL
"We know we have to win that game, but no one's panicking." she said.
When the teams first met this season, Oklahoma won in a hard-fought, five-game match.
Oklahoma, with the conference's tallest team, used height to its advantage.
"I think my team was intimidated at first," Coach Frank Albitz said. "It took about a game and a half to settle down."
Woodruff said that the team would be more prepared this time.
"They have really good middles," shesaid. "We'll have to shut down their blocks."
Oklahama is the only team this season to beat Kansas in a rally-point game. Kansas is 4-1 in rally-point games.
The rally-point rule is new this year. When a fifth game is needed in a match, all side-outs count as points whether or not a team is serving.
Albitz said the team was mentally ready for the game.
"My team is usually good about rising to the occasion," she said. "I just hope we can come out on top of this one and then go from there."
SPORTS BRIEFS
Crew to play host to regatta
The Kansas crew win play now five-team novice regatta at lp.m. Sunday at Burcham Park, Second and Indiana streets. The visiting schools Washburn state, Kansas State, Washburn and Washington University of St. Louis.
About 200 participants are expected for the regatta. Club president Ulf Becker said Kansas would have about 70 novice rowers in the races.
The fund-raising efforts of the Ryan Gray Playground for All Children at "Late Night with Roy Williams" raised $1.408.
"Basically it's to give new crew members their first race experience," he said.
There will be two flights in the men's and women's divisions.
Fund-raising effort a success
The proceeds will help build the playground, which will provide a place where children with different physical abilities can play together. The playground will be built at Hillcrest Elementary School.
The money was raised by selling tickets for the opportunity to shoot baskets during "Late Night."
"We're very pleased with both the amount of money raised and the interest expressed by the crowd," said Jody Anderson, who heads the playground project.
Soccer club goes into action
Kansas beat Nebraska-Omaha 2-0 last weekend in the Ed Chartrand Tournament in Kansas City, Mo.
play host to two teams this weekend:
Nebraska-Omaha tomorrow and
Rockhurst on Sunday. Both games will
have Complex, 23rd and Iowa
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Kansas defeated Rockhurst's juniors varsity team earlier in the season 1-0, a game that was very physical, Kirchhoff will play the varsity team on Sunday.
The Kansas men's soccer club will
Many of the soccer players are unable to travel to games at other universities because of Saturday mornings and summer holidays, usually participate in home games.
"It's a home game, so we'll have all our players. We're basically undefeated at home," said Kevin Kirchner, Wichita senior.
The other semifinalists are Michigan's Brick Anderson; Notre Dame's Demetrius Dubose; Miami's Darrin Smith; East Carolina's Robert Jones; Ohio State's Steve Tovar; Georgia Tech's Marco Coleman; Michigan Bullough; Florida's Tim Paul and Clemson's Ed McDaniel.
Marvin Jones of top-ranked Florida State is among 10 seminalists for the Butkus Award, which is presented by college football's top linebacker.
Butkus semifinalists chosen
Braves blow away Twins 14-5
The list will be trimmed to three finalists Nov. 21. The winner will be announced during a banquet Dec. 7.
The Associated Press
The Braves breezed to within one game of the World Series championship last night, blowing away Minnesota 14-5 when Lennon Smith and David Justice homered again and Mark Lemke hit two more triples.
ATLANTA — The Atlanta Braves made it look easy for a change. Now comes the hardest part.
Justice drove in five runs, Smith became the first player since Reggie Jackson to homer in three straight Series games, and Brian Hunter also homered at Atlanta ripped 17 hits, taking a 3-2 edge in the series.
Yankees beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 16-3 in Game 2 of 1960. It came after two straight games in which the Braves won the final at-bat on close plays at the plate.
To win their first Series ever, the Braves will need to leave the southern comfort for Minnesota's great indoors. Minnesota is 0-9 in Series road games and has lost 14 straight dating to the 1925 Series, but they are 6-0 at home in the Metrodome, including two victories last week.
It was the biggest offensive show in a Series in 31 years, since the New York
Notes: Atlanta defeated Minnesota
14-5 last night and leads the series 3-2.
Today is a travel day.
The Braves became the eighth World Series team to win three games in a row after losing the first two. Six of them won seven teams went on to win the title.
Game 6 - 7:26 p.m
Tomorrow's game
Atlanta at Minnesota
Avery (18-8) Erickson (20-11)
Source: The Associated Press
OSU picked first in preseason basketball poll
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For the first time since the Big Eight preseason media basketball poll was launched in 1980, Oklahoma State has been picked first.
The Cowboys, who return Big Eight co-player of the year Byron Houston, received 30 first-place votes and a total of 385 points to edge Kansas, which tied Oklahoma State for the highest title and went on to become the 1990-91 NCAA runner-up.
The Jayhawks, who were projected to have the league's top newcomer, received 17 first-place votes and 360 total points. Oklahoma was picked third with 316 points, followed Missouri, Kansas State, Nebraska, Iowa State and Colorado.
Houston, the forceful Oklahoma State senior center, was projected by 47 ballots to repeat as player of the year. Last season, Houston finished third in conference scoring with almost 11 rebounds in conference in rebounding with almost 11 rebounds a game.
The preseason all-Big Eight team consists of Houston at center, Missouri's Anthony Peeler and Kansas' Adonis Jordan at guards and forwards Jef Webster of Oklahoma and Alonzo Jamison of Kansas.
Others receiving votes for all-conference honors included Oklahoma's Brent Price, Jevon Crudup of Missouri, Sean Sutton of Oklahoma State, Richard Scott of Kansas, Billy Law of Colorado, Damon Patterson of Oklahoma, Justin Thugen of Iowa state, Terry Evans of Oklahoma, Darrell Robert of Oklahoma State and Carl Hayes of Nebraska.
The media have correctly forecast the Big Eight champion seven times in the 12 years of the poll. Last year, Iowa State's fifth-place finish was the only position correctly predicted.
Ben Davis, Kansas' 6-foot-8 freshman, was picked as preseason newcomer of the year, edging Kansas State freshman Gaylon Nickerson, a 3- guard. Rex Walters of Kansas, a forward in the western team that sat out last year, was third in the balloting.
Stop the nonsense, not the chop
Rick Honish
Associate sports editor
OK, sports fans, here is a amidgen of what's on the agenda for this weekend. In college football, No.1-ranked Florida St. is playing Louisiana State.
And, of course, the World Series will culminate this weekend in Minnesota.
In the NFL, Washington will play the Giants.
Notice anything these games have in common?
Apparently the Chop is insensitive and demeaning to American Indians.
The thousands of people attending them are going to be, whether they know it or not, offending American Indians because their team's mascots are associated with American Indian lore or lingo.
Now that U.S. Tomahawk missiles have stopped chopping Iraqi soldiers into pieces, it seems a small number of American Indians have decided that it is of utmost importance to stop thousands of American sports fans from participating in the infamous "Tomahawk Chon."
At least that is what the American Indian Movement would like us to believe. Addressing fans entering Fulton County stadium in Atlanta on Tuesday, AIM leader Vernon Bellecourt of Minnesota said, "We find your behavior embarrassing not only to us but to the American people."
But they can't. Too many people see how asinine the whole thing is.
If only more American Indians felt strongly about this matter, maybe the group could protest more than one event at a time.
The group intends to target the Washington Redskins when the series is through, claiming the team's name is a racial slur.
The Redskins have issued a statement saying, "Over the long history of the Washington Redskins, the name has reflected positive attributes of the American Indian, such as dedication, courage and pride."
Nor has former president Jimmy Carter, who said the Chop was a compliment, not a slur.
"I think wean look on the American Indians as brave, successful and attractive," Carter said. "So I don't look on it as an insult."
Whew! They haven't caved in.
The Cherokee Indians in North Carolina don't mind "chop-mania" at all. According to principal chief Jonathon Taylor, the Cherokees are shipping tomahawks out of their craft plant as fast as they can produce them.
And the Turkeytown Association of the Cherokee, with chapters in Gadsen, Ala.; Rome, Ga.; and Nashville, Tenn.; provides support of the Braves and their fans
The resolution probably does not include Jane Fonda, though. The finance of Braves owner Ted Turner said last week that she would stop doing the Chop now that she realized it was offensive.
A surrender on a much greater scale happened when the Wichita Wings announced they had dropped plans to use the controversial Chop during their season opener tonight now that their season opener it was offensive.
Are we to believe it was not of offensive throughout the regular season? Or at Seminole games for the last couple years?
But this is not the way to do it. This has no real impact on a cause.
The American Indian has been treated unfairly in this country, and measures should be taken to correct injustices.
All this about a chant and some names is ludicrous.
It is a sporting event. People go there to escape, to have fun, to go skiing, to dance, to play with sensitive individuals, some fans are loitered on their moral shoulder.
What's next?
What happens when a Washington Redskin gets called for spearing and they are playing the Lions, or worse, the Dolphins. Animal rights groups are going to have a cow about the symbolism involved there.
How would Leif Ericson feel if he knew how bad the Vikings are this year?
Or the Patriots, a team that can't even defend's own goal line, let alone a country, as its name would imply?
Thank goodness Cleveland isn't playing the Braves in the hubs, huh?
Rick Honish is a Kansas City, Mo., senior majoring in journalism.