HUSKER WOES
Nebraska linebacker TERRELL FARLEY allegedly hit two parked cars and tried to run away before he was arrested early yesterday for the second time this year on suspicion of drunken driving.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Farley was suspended from the team and will be dropped from the squad if he is found guilty, coach Tom Osborne said in a written statement.
SPORTS
Terrell Farley
Police chief Tom Casady said the 21-year-old senior was clocked driving 61 mph in a 35 mph zone shortly before midnight Wednesday.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL GAME RESCHEDULED
The KANSAS WOMEN'S BASKETBALL game against Purdue originally scheduled for Dec. 2 now will be played on Dec. 1 directly after the
men's basketball game vs. San Diego at Allen Field House. Tipoff for the men's game is set for 1 p.m.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22,1996
Just when the CHARGERS seemed to have righted themselves, they lost to Tampa Bay at home after leading early. San Diego, which won the first meeting 22-19, has lost five of six at Arrowhead. The Chiefs have lost just one regular-season game there in the last two years. But
WEEKEND MATCHUP
Kansas City's already ques
nable offense is hurting with injuries to tackle John Alt and guard Dave Scott, who both missed last week's 14-10 victory against Chicago.
SECTION B
Sixteen players to leave the nest
By Dan Geiston
Kansan sportswriter
When the Kansas Jayhawks football season ends tomorrow, so do the collegiate careers of 16 seniors.
The 16 players combined for 250 career starts, two winning seasons, one winning conference season and an Aloha Bowl victory. Twelve of the players — Isaac Byrd, Andre Carter, Hosea Friday, June Henley, Chris Jones, Kevin Kopp, Jim Moore, Luke Richelson, Mark Sanders, Jared Smith, Ronnie Ward and Scott Whittaker — finish as four-year lettermen. Ben Rutz, Eric Galbreath and Jim Stiebel also are seniors, and junior Jeff McCord, who is a senior academically, is playing his final game as he prepares for a career in the ministry.
However, the seniors never were able to defeat Kansas State or Nebraska.
"It's too bad that this is the way it has to end," Ward said. "We really expected more out of this season, and to have only four wins, sure it's disappointing."
When Kansas, 4-6 overall, 2-5 big 12 Conference, plays Missouri, 4-6, 2-5, at 11:38 a.m. tomorrow at Faurot Field, it will be the
105th meeting between the two schools. The series, which began in 1891, is the second-oldest series in Division I-A football.
The winner of the game clinches not only fourth place in the conference's north division, but the symbolic Indian War Drum trophy is presented to the winner of the game each year. Despite winning five of the eight games since coming to Kansas, coach Glen Mason said he never has seen the drum.
"We'll be up and ready to play," Moore said. "There's a lot of pride on the line for
"I know it is a big game, a traditional game," Mason said. "We take it very seriously."
They should, because the Tigers have a lot more at stake. The Tigers haven't won five games since 1987 and haven't had a winning season since 1983. Missouri has won three games in five of the last seven seasons.
this team. We're just not going to lay down and roll over. We're going to get up and fight. We're proud of what we've accomplished. Even though this year was disappointing, the seniors still did a lot of things that have never been done."
The seniors finish with a 25-20 record, thanks in large part to last season's 10-2 performance. But the seniors leave behind some impressive individual performances.
Byrd leaves as one of the greatest wide receivers to play for Kansas. Despite playing only two full seasons, he is sixth on the Jayhawks career reception chart with 97 catches, the best two-year total by a wide receiver in Kansas football history.
Henley has 3,759 career rushing yards,
just 29 yards short of the record set by
Tony Sands. Henley ranks first or second in the Kansas record book in 14 categories, including career touchdowns and scoring in a season.
Despite catching only eight passes this season, Moore was one of the better tight ends in the conference. Last year, he earned honorable mention all-conference honors.
Ward leads the team with 111 tackles and was a two-time honorable mention Big Eight selection. Last season should have been his last, but he was forced to redshirt medically after injuring his shoulder. He is on the watch list for the Butkus Award, which is given to the nation's outstanding collegiate linebacker.
Whittaker was a conference honorable mention selection last year.
Fast BREAKS
Jayhawks to face Aggies in year's last home game
The Jayhawks, who are 9-22 overall and 3-14 in the Big 12 Conference, will try to snap a nine match losing streak against Texas A&M.
The Kansas volleyball team will face No. 14 Texas A&M at 7:30 p.m. today in Allen Field House. The match against the Aggies will be the Jayhawks' last home match of the year. Kansas lost Wednesday to No. 8 Texas in three games.
Texas A&M defeated the Jayhawks in three games on Oct. 27 in College Station, Texas.
The Aggies come into the match with a 22-5 overall record and a 13-3 conference record. They defeated Oklahoma last Saturday after losing to Baylor and Texas.
Next weekend the Jayhawks will play their last two matches of the season against Iowa State and Missouri. Kansas defeated both teams earlier this season in the field house.
Kansas will face Iowa State at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 29 in Ames, Iowa. The Jayhawks will finish the season against Missouri at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 30 in Columbia, Mo.
—Kansan staff report
Kansas to face Gauchos tonight
Women will compete for redemption after last season's defeat
By Adam Herschman Kansan sportswriter
Although Kansas entered last year's game against UC-Santa Barbara as the favorite, the result was not favorable.
The Jayhawks '20 point loss to the Gauchos, 95-75, on Dec. 30, 1995 in Santa Barbara, Calif., ended the team's three-game winning streak.
Kansas sophomore center/forward Nakia Sanford said the Jayhawks are entering this game with a different approach after losing to Santa Barbara last season.
"The same thing won't happen again," Sanford said. "I think we really underestimated that team. We're just going to have to be focused. Last time we played them, we were not focused at all."
"Had we shot better, or had we controlled the boards, we probably would've won that game," Dixon said. "Everybody felt like we had a chance to win, but everybody was upset that we lost. It was all a learning experience for us."
No. 15 Kansas (1-1) will play Santa Barbara (0-0) at 3 p.m. Sunday in Allen Field House.
The Jayhawks will try to rebound after losing their last game to No. 5 Tennessee (79-60) on Nov. 17 in Knoxville, Tenn.
Kansas senior point guard Tamecka Dixon said Kansas shot poorly, and was outrebounded by the Lady Volunteers.
Santa Barbara will face Missouri-Kansas City in its first game of the season tonight at Kansas City, Mo., before playing the Jayhawks.
"They're definitely a quality ball-club." Dixon said about Santa Barbara. "We can't look away from them or act as if they're not going to come in here and play us hard. They beat us last year, and it's still on everybody's mind so we're going to come in and we're going to play hard."
Dixon said defense and boxing out had been emphasized in practice this week before the game against the Gauchos.
Jayhawks ready for opener
Broncos will look for win on field house turf
Jerod Hase, senior guard, goes up for a basket in a pre-season game. The Jayhawks start the regular season at 9:30 tonight in Santa Clara, Calif.
By Evan Blackwell Kansan sportswriter
Ready or not, tonight it counts for real.
Kansas opens the 1996-97 regular season at 9:30 p.m. against Santa Clara in San Jose, Calif. It will be televised on channels 13 and 62. After an entire fall of workouts, practices and two exhibition games, the No. 2 Jayhawks said they were ready for the opener.
"No question. That's what we're here for," Kansas senior guard Jerod Haase said. "Tm excited to get out there and toss it up. We're ready to go."
Kansas tried to work out all the preseason bugs in its two exhibition wins: 115-80 against Geelong, Australia and 115-81 against the Converse All-Stars.
"We've been ready," Kansas sophomore guard Ryan Robertson said. "Hopefully, we can go out to Santa Clara with our game more polished."
The Broncos should be a familiar opponent for Kansas. The two teams met in the second round of the NCAA tournament last season with the layhawks scoring a convincing 76-51 win. Two seasons ago, Santa Clara came to Allen Field House and lost 80-75.
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Kansas men's basketball coach Roy Williams said that Santa Clara had not played well in the last meeting and that they would be looking for redemption.
"After the NCAA tournament game last year, he (Santa Clara head coach Dick Davey) said that we put on a clinic," said Williams. "That's the kind of thing those kids have been reminded about this preseason, and they will be really enthusiated to play us."
Santa Clara enters this season searching for a replacement for Steve Nash, the former Bronco point guard who now plays in the NBA with the Phoenix Suns.
Freshman Brian Jones is expected to start as the point guard tonight, teaming in the backcourt with Santa Clara's top returning scorer, senior Marlon Garnett. Garnett averaged 12.8 points a game a year ago.
"We know that Stevie's gone, but I really like Marlon's game and think he's a heck of a player," Williams said.
Even though Kansas will be without senior point guard Jacque
"That freshman point guard (Jones) is going to feel like Marlon is his comfort zone and his security blanket," Williams said. "If you have two new players back there then you have more to be concerned about than if you have
Vaughn for tonight's game and likely the first month of the season because of an injury, Williams said the Jayhawks would apply pressure to test the inexperienced Jones.
one."
After playing the Broncos, Kansas will go directly to Hawaii for the Maui Classic next week.
kansas also will have a height advantage against the Broncos. Santa Clara's starting front line of 6-foot-3 Lloyd Pierce, 6-7 Jason Sedlock and 6-9 Drew Zurek will have to match up with the Jayhawks front line of 6-7 Paul Pierce, 6-11 Reaf LaFrentz and 6-11 Scot Pollard.
The Jayhawks will play Louisiana State University in the first round Monday.
Earl Watson, a 6-1 point guard from Washington High School in Kansas City, Kan., signed a letter of intent to play for the University of California at Los Angeles Wednesday. The signing ended speculation that Watson would back out of his original oral commitment to UCLA after the firing of head coach Jim Harrick.
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