SPORTS
University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 6, 1991
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'Hawks set for first game against Toledo
Game 1: Sept. 7, 6:30 p.m. Glass Bowl, Toledo, Ohio
- The game will be shown on Channel 62 with a 30-minute tape delay. Kevin Wall and former Jayhawk John Hadi will call the action.
Kansas Jayhawks
Coach: Gary Pinkel
Toledo Rockets
Coach: Glen Mason
Probable Starters
Offense
Offense
WR 5 Matt Gay 5-11/185/Jr. SE 28 Joe Lajewski 5-6/159/Sr.
LT 77 Chris Perez 6-5/280/Sr. LT 58 Chadd Dehn 6-2/284/Fr.
LG 66 Hessley Hempstead 6-1/290/Fr. LG 69 Andy McCollum 6-4/255/Jr.
C 75 Dan Schmidt 6-1/260/So. C 70 Albert Thigpen 6-2/240/RG 65 Scott Imwalle 6-2/265/Jr. RG 60 Brian Raub 6-4/278/RT 74 Keith Loneker 6-3/305/Jr. RT 75 Joseph DiLauro 6-5/280/WR 81 Rob Lucursi 6-0/200/Sr. TE 87 Vince Marrow 6-5/255/Jr.
QB 18 Chip Hilleary 6-1/185/Jr. QB 13 Kevin Meger 6-1/180/FB 34 Roger Robben 6-0/215/Sr. TB 9 Tim Williams 5-9/200/Sr.
TB 24 Tony Sands 5-6/170/Sr. FB 36 David Andrews 6-1/218/STE 1 Dwayne Chandler 6-2/230/So. FL 4 Marcus Goodwin 5-7/154/PK 31 Dan Eichloff 6-1/215/So. PK 8 Rusty Hanna 5-8/171/Jr.
Defense
LE 1 Lance Flachsbarth 6-5/260/Sr. LE
LT 93 Gilbert Brown 6-2/305/Jr. LT
RT 71 Dana Stubblefield 6-4/285/Jr. RT
RE 99 Brian Christian 6-4/260/So. RE
ILB 58 Wes Swinford 6-1/230/Jr. OLB
OLB 7 Hassan Bailey 5-11/200/Jr. MLB
OLB 90 Guy Howard 6-3/230/So. OLB
CB 3 Gerald McBurrows 6-0/190/Fr. LCB
FS 10 Doug Terry 5-11/185/Sr. SS
CB 8 Tim Hill 5-8/170/Sr. FS
SS 14 Paul Friday 6-3/190/Sr. RCB
P 31 Daniel Eichloff 6-1/215/P. S
99 Mark Rhea 6-4/240/Sr.
91 Chris Schlachter 6-0/248/Sr.
73 Terry Jackson 6-2/254/So.
65 Dan Williams 6-4/254/So.
90 Matt Eberflus 6-0/244/Jr.
85 Darrell Mossburg 6-3/262/Jr.
85 Tony Borgerding 6-0/232/Jr.
5 Jason Kelley 5-11/183/Jr.
23 Tim Caffey 6-0/179/Jr.
44 Al Baker 5-11/180/So.
24 Darren Anderson 6-1/179/Jr.
24 Brian Borders 6-2/195/Jr.
Tomorrow's contest presents intriguing KU opponent; Rockets are former conference rival of Coach Mason
By David Mitchell
Kansan Sportswriter
Tomorrow night's football game in Toledo, Ohio, will be the first meeting between the Kansas Jayhaws and the Toledo Rockets.
However, Kansas coach Glen Mason is not unfamiliar with Toledo. During his two years as head coach of Golden Flashes twice defeated Toledo.
"My first game as a college head coach was against Toledo," Mason said. "We won on the last play of the game."
On the other side of the field, Toledo coach Gary Pinkel will be directing his first game as a college coach. Pinkel came to Toledo after 12 years as an assistant coach at Washington. He is the third coach in three years for last year's Mid-American Conference co-champions
On defense, all-conference linebacker Matt Eberflus and junior defensive end Dan Williams return. Williams led the team in 1990, tackling opponents behind their line of scrimmage 17 times.
While the 'Hawksave All-Big Eight Conference place kicker Dan Eichloh, the Rockets' junior place kicker, Rusty Hanna, was ninth in the nation last year with 18 field goals.
The Jayhawks return 18 starters, and the Rockets return nine. The 'Hawks outweigh the Rockets at nearly every position.
Returning starters Pinkel inherits include junior quarterback Kevin Meger. Last season, Meger passed for 1,861 yards and six touchdowns. The Rockets are 13-3 in games that Meger has started.
Mason said planning the trip to Ohio
A Division I football program can only take 60 players to away games. With newfound depth entering his fourth season at Kansas, Mason said the limitation had become a problem for the first time.
was one of the hardest preparations.
"This is the first time since I've been here that I sat down to try and figure out who's going to make the 60-man travel squad," Mason said. "In the past we'd get to 52 or 53 and try to fill up the seats."
Mason said that several members of the second string were playing at the same level as the projected starters.
"There are a number of guys who don't show up on the depth chart as starters, but you are going to see them play a lot of football," he said.
Mason said junior Hassan Bailey had won the starting job as outside linebacker. Bello Fellio, defensive coordinator, said competition at that spot.
Mason said that junior Chaka Johnson and sophomore George White would both see playing time behind senior Tony Sands. He said that the Jayhawks top four receivers, junior Matt Gay and seniors Krayton Drayton, Rob Licursi and Jim New, were interchangeable. He also said that Kyle Moore had practiced well behind defensive end Lance Flachsbarth.
"Hassan and Robert Mitchell have been in a real battle out there," Fello said. "Hassan has excellent speed and good instincts for that position."
"I'm not just talking about clean-up roles," Mason said. "There's going to be more than just your normal 11 guys."
Freshman Gerald McBurrows will start at the cornerback position vacated by Bailey when he moved to
linebacker this summer
Fello said that McBurrows had been especially impressive for a 17 year old.
"Gerald has worked very hard," Fello said. "He picks things up very well. I'm impressed with his maturity. My main concern with any true freshman is that he puts too much pressure on himself."
SIDELINES
The last time Kansas won a season opener away from Memorial Stadium was at Hawaii in 1985.
Toledo coach Gary Pinkel and Kansas defensive coordinator Bob Fello were teammates at Kent State, and both served as graduate assistant coaches there in 1975.
■ Flanker Kenny Drayton will be looking to extend a 22-game reception
Mason announced that sophomore Dan Schmidt would start at center, filling the void created by the graduation of four-year starter Chip Budde.
In practice, sophomore kicker Dan Eichloh has experienced few problems with the new dimension of the goalposts. Goalposts were narrowed by nearly five feet this fall.
"Really, Dan has kicked better at the smaller target than at the bigger target." Mason said.
Cross country squads show preseason depth
There are 12 players from Ohio on the roster. Quarterback Chip Hilleman, Westerville Ohio, junior, passed for more than 100 tickets to the game.
Mason's wife, Sally, is a native of Toledo.
my in-aws are from Toledo," Mason laughed. "That was the only down side. I'm staying at the hotel, thank God."
Bv Jeff Kobs
Kansan Sportswriter
Kansas men's and women's cross-country teams will open the 1991 season tomorrow at Southern Illinois with high expectations.
"If we go in knowing we have to run hard and that they aren't going to hand it over to us, we'll win," senior Sean Sheridan said. "But we are not taking them for granted."
Team captain for the women,
Cathy Palacios, said the women's
team was excited to get the season
started.
The men will run a dual meet against Southern Illinois, but the women will run against Murray or Eastern Illinois and Southern Illinois.
"The morale keeps going up and up," she said. "Before, Kansas cross country has always been known as men, men, men, but I think the women are going to surprise a lot of people this year."
"The girls should challenge Southern Illinois to win the meet," Coach Gary Schwartz said. "The men's should be a very competitive race. The coaches are looking forward to see what the meet to see how they stack up."
Running for the men will be team captains and fifth-year seniors Donnie Anderson, Sam Froese and Sean
The women's course will be 5,000 meters, but the men, who usually run an 8,000 meter course, will finish with a course approximately 7,000 meters.
"Since it was an early season meet, Coach Cornell (Southern Illinois coach) and I had a mutual agreement to shorten it," Schwartz said.
Sheridan.
Others are juniors Ladd McClain, Alec Bolton and Jon Hays, and sophomores David Johnston, Michael Cox and Sean Shaffer.
Johnston said the balance of lead ership and talent made the Jay hawks a good team.
"We've spent the last three or four years rebuilding the team," he said. "It's time to see what we've got."
Johnston also said the depth was a big benefit for the team.
"We have a lot of talent, so the number one position should change each week," he said. "Coach really likes it that way, because it makes the team better because of the competition."
The women's team will field a much younger team, with Palacios being the only senior. Others competition will be junior Laura Cook, Rebecca Smith and Julia Saul; Marianne Dagley and Ashley Ace, and freshmen Kristi Kloster and Melissa Swartz.
Palacios said talent and depth would counter the team's youth.
"I think we have a really good shot at winning the meet," she said. "We have a lot of depth and that's the key factor right now."
"Last time we went down there, the year before last, it was hot and humid, and we had a hard time adiating to the heat," he said.
"It's all part of a evaluation process," Schwartz said. "Each meet is important because the season is
Schwartz said the season opener was the first test on the way to the final exam week.
Schwartz said the one factor he was concerned about for the race was the heat.
Defensive tackles ready for opener
Talent and size give defense the ability to set game's pace
By David Mitchel
Kansan Sportswriter
Two big factors that have lead to the optimism surrounding this year's Kansas football team are its big defensive tackles.
Juniors Gilbert Brown and Dana Stubblefield earned preseason All-Big Eight honors from The Sporting News. The publication also ranked Brown as one of the nation's top 20 defensive tackles.
Brown, at 6-foot-2, 395 pounds, and Stubblefield, at 6-4, 285, anchora line that defensives coordinator Bob Fello said was the most important part of the defense.
"You've got to have people to stop things up front," Fello said. "When you build a defense you have to have a good front line, and then you go from there."
last season Brown earned second team All-Big Eight honors and Stubbeldie earned honorable mention honors after the duo combined for 80 tackles and seven quarterback sacks.
Fello said the potential of the tackles was unmeasurable because both had two years of eligibility remaining.
"Once you set limitations on people you set a fence around what they can accomplish." Fello said.
"It is different for me now but now I've got a yield under me and I know what to expect." Stubble-
After sitting out of the 1989 season through the provisions of Proposition 48, Stubblefield started all 11 games in 1990.
Defensive tackle Dana Stubblefield (right) challenges offensive guard John Jones one-on-one.
He said that last year's performance had led to high expectations this fall.
Everybody's expecting us to be good this year, and we've got a lot of pressure on us to meet those expectations. "Stubblefield said."
"It doesn't make us feel pressured it makes us want to play harder," he said. "When people say things about us, we want to try to live up to that." He has loved children wanted the lives to improve as
Brown said that the presseason hype served as an incentive rather than a hindrance.
He also said he wanted the defense to improve as well as his individual performance.
I want to help the team in any way I can to make us play better as a defensive unit and give more support
to the offense." Brown said.
Last year the defense allowed an average of 33.2 points, a game while the offense scored an average of 40.7 points.
In 1990 the Jayhawks lost their final game of the season in a 31-21 upset to Missouri. Brown said that the team had a new attitude and was ready to prove itself this season.
"We've been waiting on this since after the Miss-sourage game, he said. "We're ready for it."
Stubbellefied agreed that the Hawks would be
ready for Toledo.
"They're real light," he said. "They're more technique than power. They're nothing compared to the Big Eight offensives we'll see on later in the year."
Junior quarterback Chip Hillary, who has been scriummaging against the Jayhawk defense for the past several weeks, said that he sympathized with Toledo quarterback Kevin Meger.
"I really feel confident that our defense is going to set the tone for the game," Hilleary said. "That quarterback's got something coming."
Connors advances to semifinals; Haarhuis' errors allow victory
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Jimmy Connors didn't need a miracle to reach the semifinals of the U.S. Open, just a psyched-out foe who cracked under pressure and let him steal the match
Connors methodically took apart Dutchman Paul Haarhuis 4, 6-7, (7-3), 6-4, 6-2 yesterday before another frenzied crowd of nearly 20,000 fans to become, at 39, the oldest semifinalist since Ken Rosewall in 1974.
sinterkruiser. Connors, ranked 174th in the world, reached that round for a record 14th time and is two victories away from his sixth Open title. The last player to win six Opens was Bill Tilden, who won
"Is this for real?" Cnnons wonderd aloud as his achievement sank in. "I can't describe this to you, the highs, the lows. I'll take six months before I can tell you what happened here, and it's not over vet."
his seventh in 1929.
Retreating to the baseline,
Haarrihuis ceded the net to Connors and made more and more errors on the game. The errors were from Connors and the crowd grew.
Haarhuis, who beat top-ranked Bocker Becker in the third round, dominated an unsettled Connors early in the second half and off and allowed him to take control.
"I've learned that I can't stay back
"I had a chance in the second set to serve it out," Hairuhs said. "He's shown this week that he's come back many times. It was a mistake for me to let the second set go. I started making too many errors."
time after time," Connors said. "It will wear me out."
Haarighi said Connors bothered him more than the crowd.
Connors said that as the match wore on he could see the fear in Haarhuis' eyes and his stride height, and said to himself. "Let's get it over."
Chicago's 10-run fourth crushes KC; Bo 2-for-4
Connors will have to play a higher grade of tennis to get past his next opponent, French Open champion Jim Courier.
"I got to enjoy that two-run single for about two minutes," Jackson said. "He had to spoil it for me."
The Associated Press
CHICAGO - BoJackons joked that White Sox teammate Ozzie Guilenn's grand slam spoiled Chicago's appreciation of his first RBI hit since his return to the majors from a crippling injury.
"Bo hasn't hit a home run for us yet," he said. "I hope the home run doesn't mess up my swing. If I start hitting home runs, the White Sox won't have enough money to pay me."
Four batters after Jackson's two run single, Guillem capped Chicago's 10-run fourth inning with his first career slam as the White Sox beat the Royals 11-2 yesterday.
Guillen, whose homer was his career-high third of the year, rejected the idea he and Jackson were the
In his first start as Chicago's designated hitter, Jackson went 2-for-4 with three RBI and is now 2-for-12 since his return to the majors on Mon
team's long-ball threats.
"Now that I have my first two hits out of the way, I can live a normal baseball life," he said. "I feel comfortable. It was work finding the groove I had last October. I haven't seen major league pitching until this week."
Charlie Hough (8-8) was the beneficien of Chicago's 13-hit, eight-walk offense. Hough gave up seven hits in eight innings.
Hough settled down after giving up two runs in the first inning.
"I was throwing too hard," Hough said. "I threw it slower and it worked."
Royals manager Hal McRae said: "We had him on the ropes. Charlie was getting his knuckleball up early."
The White Sox scored all 10 of their fourth-inning runs with two outs.
The inning was Chicago's highest-scoring since the team scored 11 runs in one inning in 1987 against the Oakland A's.