FOOTBALL
SECTION B
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1996
TEXAS 38 KANSAS 17
Longhorns defeat the 'Hawks
38-17 loss marks a losing season last home game
By Dan Geiston
Kansan sportswriter
The schedule says there's one more game left, but as far as postseason play is concerned, that's meaningless now. The Kansas football team's 1996 bowl hopes are finished.
With its 38-17 home-game loss to Texas Saturday, Kansas not only fell to 4-6, but eliminated themselves from bowl contention and a third straight winning season.
"Looking at the entire year, I'm disappointed." Kansas coach Glen Mason said. "I don't have an answer."
The answer could lie in the Jayhawk offense's second-half woes, especially at home. Kansas has been outscored 78-7 in the second half of its last four home games, all losses.
It happened again a g a i n s t Texas
Kansas and Texas scored on seven of the 10 first-half offensive
Henley scored his first touchdown on a three-yard run with 4:49 left in the first quarter. That put Karas 'up' 10-7. Texas running back Priest Holmes had a three-yard touchdown on the Longhorns' next possession for a 14-10 lead.
The two touchdowns put Henley's season point total at 108, breaking Bruce Kallmeyer's record of 98 set in 1983. His 44 carries gave him the attempts record at 780, breaking Tony Sands' record. Henley is just 29 yards away from breaking Sands career-rushing record of 3,788.
The two teams continued to swap leads when Henley scored on a 17-vard run for a 17-14 lead.
"We have nothing to play for but pride now. There's no bowl, no winning record. It's not the way I wanted it to end." Jim Moore Kansas tight end
half woes. "In the first half they had a regular front. But in the second half they moved around a lot."
"They made a couple of adjustments," Henley said of his second-
"June came to us as a good football player, and he's leaving us a better football player," Mason
series and the halftime score was tied at 17.
Kansas meanwhile bumbled its way for just 59 total yards and five first downs in the second half.
"It's the same old story," Mason said. "We're pretty competitive in the first half, and we can't make anything go in the second half. The offense couldn't move the ball."
No Jayhawk had as big of a second half drop-off as senior running back June Henley. He rushed for 209 yards on 44 carries and two touchdowns, but had just 45 yards on 19 carries in the second half.
Longhorn quarterback James Brown scored on a 15-yard run on their second possession of the second half for a 24-17 lead. Texas never looked back.
Henley's counterpart Ricky Willi a.m s rushed for 190 yards on 25 carries. He helped keep Texas in the bowl race. The Longhorns, 6-4 overall, 5-2 in the Big 12 Conference, clinched a tie for the conference's south division title. The winner of the north and south division will meet in the conference championships game, Dec. 7 in St. Louis. For Kansas, it was a d.
pointing end to a season that had such high expectations. Kansas won its season-opener against Ball State in August and never won a home game again. Saturday also was the final home game for Jayhawk seniors, including stand-outs such as Henley, wide receiver Isaac Byrd, tight end Jim Moore, and co-captains Mark Sanders and Ronnie Ward.
Ward echoed Moore's comments.
"It was a tough year for us. It was very disappointing," Moore said. "We have nothing to play for but pride now. There's no bowl, no winning record. It's not the way I wanted it to end. I guess I'll be proud of June, but the rest doesn't matter now."
"I can't explain it." Ward said of the Jayhawks problems. "Everybody's trying to come up with a solution and we can't."
Kansas senior running back June Henley carries the ball against the Texas Longhoms, who beat the Jayhawks 38-17. Henley scored two touchdowns Saturday at Memorial Stadium putting his season point total at 108, and
breaking Bruce Kallmeyer's 1983 record of 98. Henley also had 44 carries, which set the new attempts record with 780.
Texas' BMW offense rolls over Kansas' hope for bowl
By Adam Herschman Kansan sportswriter
them," Kansas senior defensive back Tony Blevins said about Texas' offense. "They took it to us, and didn't let up. They're very good and talented players, but we just didn't get the job done."
Texas brought its high-powered BMW to Memorial Stadium and drove away Kansas' chances at a bowl bid Saturday afternoon.
"We had a hard time stopping
BMW is a nickname and an acronym of the last names of three Texas offensive players — junior quarterback James Brown, senior running back Shon Mitchell and sophomore running back Ricky Williams, who combined for 94.6 percent of the Longhorns total offense in its 38-17 win against the Jayhawks.
BMW's play against Kansas helped put Texas one step closer to a bowl bid and clinched a tie for the Big 12 Conference's Southern title, while destroying the Jayhawks bowl chances this season.
"We knew that they had to win this game to make a bowl game, so we knew that they were going to play hard," Williams said.
But the hardest working man in Memorial Stadium was Brown, who
combined for a total of 232 yards,
which was the most of any player.
He passed for 200 yards on 15 of 25 attempts and one touchdown. Brown also ran for 32 yards including a 15-yard touchdown run that proved to be the game winner and put Texas up 24-17 with 4:23 left in the third quarter.
Mitchell contributed 79 total yards to Texas' offense. He caught two passes for 38 yards and ran for 41 yards, which included a 21-yard touchdown run in the first quarter.
Brown's touchdown run to the left side was not a designed play. The call was a手offto the running back.
Williams ran for 100 yards on 25 carries. He also caught two passes for a combined 38 yards.
"Williams just run around on us all day." Blevins said.
Williams' six-yard touchdown catch with 5:42 remaining in the fourth quarter put Texas up 31-17.
Texas sophomore wide receiver Wane McGarity said that the combination of Mitchell and Williams at halfback was very important Saturday because the wind and rain made it difficult to throw the ball.
"That one-two combination that we have between Shon and Ricky is hard to stop," McGarity said.
AP Top 25
The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll records through Nov.16, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and last week's ranking:
rank team rec pts prv
1. Florida (54) 10-0 1,660 1
2. Ohio St. (7) 10-0 1,580 2
3. Florida St. (4) 9-0 1,568 3
4. Arizona St. (2) 10-0 1,485 4
**5. Nebraska** 9-1 1,412 **5**
**6. Colorado** 9-1 1,336 **6**
7. Penn St. 9-2 1,197 11
8. Brigham Young 11-1 1,192 10
9. Tennessee 7-2 1,026 12
10. Notre Dame 7-2 972 14
11. Northwestern 9-2 959 13
11. Washington 8-2 872 15
11. North Carolina 8-2 862 6
14. Kansas St. 8-2 799 **9**
15. Alabama 8-2 772 8
16. Syracuse 7-2 713 19
17. Virginia Tech 8-1 677 21
18. LSU 7-2 659 17
19. Virginia 7-3 476 24
20. Wyoming 10-1 381 23
21. Michigan 7-3 327 16
22. Clemson 7-3 185 —
23. West Virginia 8-2 170 —
24. Iowa 7-3 139 —
25. Miami 6-3 126 18
Other team receiving votes: Auburn 65, Army 59, Southern Miss. 43, Texas 15, Utah 14, East Carolina 13, Michigan St. 9, Naw 5, Houston 4, Texas Tech 2, Rice 1.
'Hawks lace up shoes for final exhibition
Converse All-Stars final foe for Kansas in the preseason
Kansas will step onto the stage for the second time this season when it plays the Converse All-Stars at 7:05 tonight in Allen Field House. Tonight's final exhibition game of the season will be the No.2 Jayhawks' last dress rehearsal before the regular season opener Nov. 22 at Santa Clara.
By Evan Blackwell Kansan sportswriter
"It is like a dress rehearsal," said Kansas men's basketball coach Roy Williams. "At the end of the play, everybody may stand up and clap. But if you're in the play or you're directing the play you know whether you did a good job or not."
It appeared the Jayhawks did a good job in their first exhibition game Tuesday, a 115-80 victory against Geelong, Australia. However, Williams said there was plenty of room for improvement after one game.
"You can improve a lot," Williams said. "I think the one thing we're looking for more
than anything is the execution — being where you're supposed to be on the offensive end of the floor in your set stuff, and being where you're supposed to be on the defensive end of the floor."
After a week of reviewing game film, Williams said the coaching staff found plenty of execution lapses to point out to the players during practice.
"When you look at the tape you can show it to the kids," Williams said. "Human nature is you're not going to believe something as much until you see it."
Williams said he follows the words of former Kansas player Rick Calloway.
"He said, 'the old eye in the sky don't lie,' so the tape shows it." he said.
Tonight's Kansas opponent should have some familiar faces for Jayhawk fans. Converse guard Jamar Johnson, who played for Nebraska, nailed a three-pointer in overtime to defeat Kansas 81-9 in 1992.
Johnson, along with former Pittsburgh point guard Jerry Mcullough and former Massachusetts guard Derek Kellogg form a solid backcourt.
Mcullough scored 32 points last week in Converse's 91-84 loss at Arkansas.
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Kenny Gregory, a 6-foot-5-inch shooting guard from Columbus, Ohio, signed his letter-of-intent to play for Kansas at a Saturday press conference.
"It's hard to get a really high level of emotion for an exhibition game, and I don't try and do that," Williams said. "It's more a question of execution than anything else."
Gregory, the No. 24-rated player overall by Prep Star's Recruiting Handbook, chose Kansas in favor of Ohio State and Clemson.
Eric Chenowith, a 7-foot-1-inch center from Villa Park, Calif., also signed his letter-of-intent with the Jayhawks Friday.
Kansas still has four scholarships remaining for next season.