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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 24, 1991
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Kenny Drayton (85), ranked Kansas' 10th all-time leading receiver, said he expected the team to pass more as they faced tougher opponents.
Drayton moves into Top 10
Flanker continues climb up all-time receiving list
By David Mitchel
Kansan Sportswriter
Kenny Drayton began his college football career as a backup to Willie Vaughn, Kansas' all-time receiving leader.
That was in 1988. Now, three years later, Drayton is moving up the list that Vaughn leads.
Drayton's four-catch, 87-yard performance against New Mexico State Saturday moved the senior flanker past former All-American Otto Schlennbacher in 10th place on the Jayhawks' all-time receiving list.
Schnellbacher, a two-sport athlete at Kansas, was a two-time All-Big Seven Conference football selection and co-captain of Kansas' 1947 Orange Bowl team.
He also earned all-conference honors in basketball four times before going on to professional careers in both sports. Schnellbacher was an All-Pro football player with the New York Giants in 1951 and 1951.
"Otto Schlenbacher is way back there in history," Drayton said. "It feels pretty good to move past someone like him."
With 1,136 yards,
Drayton is just three yards from moving past former All-Big Eight Conference receiver Wayne
Capers, who is ninth on the all-time receiving list. Drayton needs 17 yards to pass John Mosier for eighth place.
"I're really happy," he said after the game Saturday. "Any time you can be remembered as one of the all-time greats, it feels really good.
"Hopefully, I can turn this season around and move up even more. If I have a couple more games like today, I'll finish pretty good."
Drayton needs 411 yards to catch former teammate Quinn Smith and break into the top five Smith ended college career 1989 with 1,547 yards.
Drayton had 34 catches for 506 yards in 1990 and was named honorable mention All-Big Eight honors.
Kansas Top 10 Career Receivers
Years played Receptions Yards
1 Willie Vaughn 1985-88 133 2266
2 Richard Estell 1982-85 117 1997
3 Emmett Edwards 1972-74 105 1808
4 Bob Johnson 1981-83 87 1789
5 Quintin Smith 1987-89 97 1547
6 David Verser 1977-80 77 1476
7 Bruce Adams 1972-74 82 1438
8 John Mosier 1967-69 87 1152
9 Wayne Capers 1979-82 73 1138
10 Kenny Drayton 1988- 72 1136
Drayton had five catches for 61 yards in the first two games. Before Saturday, the Jayhawks' offense had been dominated by the ground attack of senior running backs Tony Sands and Rob Robert.
"The offense is coming around," Robben said. "We had been puttering around in the first two games."
The passing game accounted for just 216 yards in the first two games combined.
However, quarterbacks Chip Hillleary and Nate Florell passed for 230 yards Saturday.
Drayton said he expected the Jayhawks to use the pass even more as the team prepared for tough opponents in the coming weeks.
"Virginia isn't going to just let us come in and push them around,"
Though the offense made improvements Saturday, Mason said he still expected more from the unit.
Drayton said. "We'll have to be more tactical about our offense."
"I think our offense is capable of playing better." Mason said. "We still need some work and fine tuning in that area."
The Jayhawks' fine tuning will take place without flanker Rob Licursi, who broke his collarbone and might be out for the rest of the season. However, Drayton said he did not think added pressure would fall on him.
"Anytime we take a top receiver, it slumps off a little bit," Drayton said. "But, we've got a talented receiving corps as a whole. One of the young girls will have to step up where he is needed."
Basketball team continues pursuit of top recruits
By Jeff Kobs
Kansan Sportswriter
The recruiting doors seem to open fast as they close for the Kansas Jayhawks, runners-up in the 1991 NCAA Tournament.
Kansas, after losing out on two highly sought recruits, has continued to pursue
The players Kansas did not get were Jason Kidd, a 6-foot-4 guard from Alameda, Calif., who orally committed to California, and Corless Williams, a 6-7 forward from Russellville. Ark., who chose Arkansas.
However, Kansas appears to be still in a recruiting battle with Kansas State. Kentucky and Georgia for Dartmouth. Another move is at Garden City Community College.
Garden City coach Jim Carey said Kansas coach Roy Williams visited Hoboken.
"Kansas is one of several schools he'sconsidering," he said.
Carey said Hancock was a high school All-American at Griffin High School in Georgia but came to Garden City for academic reasons.
"He doesn't have any more grade problems," he said. "He does what he has to do and has worked hard."
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Carey said Hancock was a versatile
player and one of the best he had ever coached.
"I've never seen anybody better," he said. "A lot of people think he's one of the best players in college basketball.
Carey said Kansas State was scheduled to visit Hancock today.
"There's not a position at 6-7 that he can't play."
Othella Harrington, one of a recruiting expert Bob Gibbons' top three high school players, has not yet decided on a school. Harrington, a 6-9 forward who is considering Kansas, Georgetown and Georgia, according to Gibbons.
Jaron Boone, a 6-4 guard from Salt Lake City is also scheduled to visit Kansas as well as Nebraska, Colorado. North Carolina and Utah.
Although the early contact period ends Oct. 10, the early national letter-of-intent signing period will not begin Nov. 13th and will last until Nov. 20.
Last year Kansas signed five players during the early signing period, including center Greg Oostertag, guard Greg Murley and forward Ben Davis. Guards Calvin Rayford and Sean Pearson also signed during the early period last year but are academically ineligible this season.
A's slip past Royals despite KC's 16 hits
The Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — All the A's and Royals have left now are personal goals. That being the case, almost everyone was happy last night.
Trailing 5- in the sixth, the A's had twonen with one out when losing pitcher Tom Gordon (9-13) relieved Luis Aquino. Pinch-hitter Ernest Riles drove in one run with a single, and Henderson walked to load the bases.
After Willie Wilson struck out, Gordon walked Terry Steinbach with the bases loaded to force in the tying run and bring on reliever Mike Magnane. Baims hit an opposite-field single to the two more and put the A's ahead 7-5.
"I want to do well, but if I went 0-for-4 and we won, that's fine." Baines said.
"Hitting .300 would be great, but it's not going to be easy to do. You can just hit the ball; you don't know where it is going to go."
The Royals put the tying runs at second and third with one out in the eighth, but the Knicks won by 2-1.
retire Kurt Stillwell and George Brett on grounders to end the innings. One run scored on Stillwell's grounder.
"I thought it was one Eck 'stough saves. He was up there with the tying runs staring him in the face," manager Tony La Russa said.
"Our relievers came in and got the ballup. If they keep it down, we get out of the innings." Royals manager Hal McRaeaid.
"You just hate for your relievers to walk in the winning run. They're supposed to throw strikes. With 16 hits and six runs, you should win."
Joe Klink (10-3), who pitched an inning of relief, got the win. Eckersley recorded his 41st save in 49 opportunities.
Todd Benzinger's RBI single and Kirk Gibson's sacrifice fly scored two runs in the fourth to tie the score. 3-3. Another RBI single by Benzinger in the sixth out of six played Stillwell's two-out RBI single in the sixth offkilt put the Royals up 3-5.
Stillwell was 3-for-5 with two RBIs, while Brett went 3-for-5 with an RBI and scored a run.
The A's are 100-66 against the Royals at the Oakland Coliseum . . . The Royals are 2-for-21 (.095) this season against Eckersley.
Bears beat Jets 19-13 in overtime; Ditka gets 100th victory
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — The Chicago Bears are either touched by destiny or the New York Jets are plagued by disaster.
"We may be the luckiest team in the world."
The Bears remained undefeated last night and gave Coach Mike Dilka his 100th win by coming back twice from almost certain defeat and beat Boston 6-2. The Bears won the 6-16 plunge with 18 seconds left in overtime.
The victory came after a 23-yard touchdown reception by Cap Bosh had been overruled and the ball set back outside the goal line even as both teams and fans left Soldier Field.
Ditkaasaid. "Imaybeluck, itmaybe diveintervention. It's something... I don't know what. We got this one on luck. We'll take another one on skill."
It was a game the Bears tied on a 6-yard pass from Harbaugh to Neal Anderson on the final play of regulation time after Steve McMichael stole the ball from Blair Thomas with 1:54 left at the half. Then he ran over after the Jets, leading 13-6, had stopped Harbaugh on the 1-yard line on fourth down with 3:32 left.
Then the Bears watched as 40-year-old Pat Leamy missed a 28-yard field goal on first down and scored. Then he missed a 37-yard kick earlier in the game, bad missed only seven of his last 105 inside the 4
entering last night's game.
Harbaugh completed 29 of 43 passes for 307 yards, career highs in attempts, completions and yards. He drove the Bears 80 yards in 10 plays for the winning score in a surreal atmosphere rivaled only by the 1989 playoff game in which the Bears beat the Eagles in fog that obscured the field from almost everyone, including the players.
"Yes, we got some breaks with the missed kick," said Ditka, whose team's four wins are by a total of 4 points. "But I've been on both sides of him, and we've seen nicer to find a way to win than a to lose."
For the Jets, who fell to 1-3; it was the second heartbreakloss loss to an unbeaten team. Last
week, they fell 23-20 to Buffalo after leading 20-16.
The Jets led 13-3 entering the final period, a lead cut to 13-8 by Kevin Butler's 44-yard field goal:2.09 into the period.
Then Brian Washington's stop of Harbaugh at the goal line kept the Bears away and Thomas, who gained 125 yards in 27 carries, moved the ball out to the 36 as the Bears used their final timeouts. But then came McMichael's strip and that final drive — set back by Jeff Lagenan's sack and Washington's stop of a Harbaugh scramble at the 6.
But the Bears lined up, got off the fourth下半场play and Anderson caught it in the left front of the end zone to make it 13-12. Butler added the extra point to force overtime.
Two KU tennis players lose
Senior Paul Garvin was defeated by Levene Nantone of Campbell 4-6, 7-5. 6-4. Freshman Manuel Ortiz was defeated by Mike Williams of Clemson 7-4/4-3. 6-1.
Two Kansas tennis players were knocked out of the pre-qualifying round yesterday at the National Clay Court Championships in Wilmington,
Senior Rafael Rangel will begin play today in the qualifying round. He will face Moe Ridaua of Mississippi at 11 a.m. He did not have to play in the pre-qualifying round because he finished last year ranked 27th in Region V.
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Rangel will need to win four matches to qualify for the main draw. The championship will end Sunday.
Colorado gets weekly honors
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Colorado's Darian Hagan and Chad Brown on Monday were named Big Eight offensive and defensive players the week
based on their performances during the Buffalooes' 58-0 victory over Minnesota.
Hagan, a senior quarterback from Los Angeles, connected on seven of eight passes for 162 yards and two touchdowns in the weekend victory. He took second and second-leading passer in touchdown passes and total passing yards.
Brown, a senior outside linebacker from Altadena, Calif., had nine unsisted tackles, including a quarterback sack, as Colorado's defensive unit recorded its first shutout in 40 games.
"We wanted to establish our running game and get things going early," Hagan said. "They were really reacting to the option because they thought we would come out running, so we opened on ton."
Sacramento trades forward
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Sacramento Kings have traded
vetener forward Antoine Carr to the San Antonio Spurs for center Dwayne Schiznitz and a 1994 second-round draft pick. The 6-foot-8 Carr, 30, is a seven-year veteran of the State. He led the Kings in scoring last year with a career-best 20.1 points per game.
Jerry Reynolds, Kings' director of player personnel, said giving up Carr was difficult, but that the Kings had "an abundance of forwards." He described Schintzius as "a highly skilled, young, big center."
The 7-foot-2 Schiltzius, 22, averaged 3.8 points in 9.4 minutes a game in his rookie season last year as a backup to Spurs starting center David Robinson. He was a 1986 Olympic team finalist from the University of Florida.
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COLORADOSPRINGS, Colo. The Executive Committee of the U.S. Olympic Committee nominated William J. Hylf of Colorado Springs
Hybli's nomination follows last week's resignation of Robert Helmick, who stepped down amid criticism that he had private business dealings with Olympic-related clients. He said media attention prevented him from functioning effectively.
If Hylb's nomination is approved by the Board of Directors, he will be USOC president until the next election in October 1992. The USOC board of directors will vote by mail whether to approve Hylb's nomination.
yesterday to serve as president of the USC through the Barcelona Games.
USOC officials also said yesterday that executive director Harvey Behm is the leader of Belmick's activities is being reviewed, would keep his post.
Expansion team names staff
DENVER — Bob Gebhard, the assistant to Minnesota Twin general manager of Starburst Brewing.
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yesterday as general manager of the Colorado Rockies, and John McHale Jr. was hired as the team's chief contract negotiator.
"Bob is probably one of the most prized prospects in baseball today," Rockies' president Steve Ehrhart said. "John McHale and Bob Gebhard provide two of the best baseball minds who have been involved with several of the most successful major league franchises."
A Rockies representative said Bernie Mullen, former vice president of business operations for the Pittsburgh Pirates, would take a similar position with Colorado. Dave Peeler, director of public affairs at Exxon, was hired as the Rockies senior vice president of public affairs.
Colorado also hired Randy Smith as assistant general manager, Dave Glazier as director of corporate sales, Roger Kimerley as director of community relations and Wendy Jobe as executive administrator.
From The Associated Press
The top 25 teams in the Associated Press 1991 college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Sept. 21, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote, one point for a 25th-place vote, and last week's ranking:
| | Rec. | pts. | pvs. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 1. Miami St (48) | 3-0-0 | 1,486 | 1 |
| 2. Miami (8) | 2-0-0 | 1,412 | 2 |
| 3. Michigan (1) | 2-0-0 | 1,375 | 3 |
| 4. Washington (3) | 2-0-0 | 1,365 | 4 |
| 5. Tennessee | 3-0-0 | 1,191 | 6 |
| 6. Oklahoma | 2-0-0 | 1,166 | 7 |
| 7. Michigan | 2-0-0 | 1,159 | 8 |
| 8. Notre Dame | 2-1-0 | 1,000 | 11 |
| 9. Iowa | 2-0-0 | 933 | 10 |
| 10. Penn St. | 3-0-0 | 870 | 12 |
| 11. Syracuse | 3-0-0 | 870 | 18 |
| 12. Baylor | 3-0-0 | 850 | 14 |
| 13. Auburn | 3-0-0 | 825 | 13 |
| 14. Florida | 2-1-0 | 712 | 5 |
| 15. Ohio St. | 3-0-0 | 647 | 16 |
| 16. Nebraska | 2-1-0 | 548 | 9 |
| 17. Colorado | 2-1-0 | 534 | 19 |
| 18. Pittsburgh | 2-1-0 | 503 | 20 |
| 19. Georgia Tech | 2-1-0 | 494 | 17 |
| 20. Mississippi | 3-1-0 | 384 | 24 |
| 21. Michigan St. | 3-1-0 | 266 | 23 |
| 22. Alabama | 2-1-0 | 151 | — |
| 23. North Carolina | 2-1-0 | 136 | — |
| 24. Arizona St. | 2-0-0 | 124 | — |
| 25. Illinois | 2-1-0 | 116 | — |
Others receiving votes. Texas A&M 114, N Carolina St. 98, Air Force 65, UCLA 33, Mississippi 102, Tulsa 13, Houston 8, West Virginia 8, Cent. Michigan 7, Georgia 6, Texas Christian 4.
Louisville 3, Oregon 3, Southern Miss. 3, Texas 3, Indiana 2, Duke 1.