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Tuesday. December 5.1995
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Rugby team finishes fourth in largest U.S. tournament
By Jeffrey Auslander
Kansan sportswriter
It was the largest collegiate rugby tournament in the United States, and the Kansas men's rugby team finished fourth.
Kansas traveled last weekend to the 15th Annual Las Vegas Challenge, which featured 76 teams from across the country. Kansas took players from its club, collegiate and senior-reserve teams to the tournament with hopes for success. Coach Bill Mills said that success was obtained.
"We were delighted with our performance," Mills said. "It was a great weekend for us."
The team won games against California-Riverside, Emory University, New Mexico and San Diego State. The only loss was a 15-10 defeat to eventual finalist San Diego. Mills said the team was very close to winning all five of its games. He also added that the competition against the rarely seen West Coast teams was a beneficial experience.
"We don't get to compete against the teams from out there very often," he said. "We read about them in magazines, and to finally play them was good."
Mills also said that the West Coast competition was supposed to be the best and that it only could help his team in the future.
"The competition was on a different level," Mills said. "We are committed to raising the level of rugby around here. We now realize that we can compete with anybody in the nation and be successful."
Now that the fall season is complete, the team is working hard to prepare for the Tournament of Champions Feb. 17-19 in San Diego. The tournament is prestigious, considering that the 16 teams competing are supposed to be the nation's best.
Kansas rugby team member Dan Carl, St. Louis junior, said the tournament would be a test for the team.
Mills said the team's biggest job in the offseason was recruitment.
As for Kansas' offseason preparation, Carl said the team was lifting weights and running.
"I'm looking forward to San Diego as more of a learning experience," Carl said. "Playing there will let us now just how good we are."
"We have to recruit because we are low on bodies," Mills said. "We need more good student-athletes to get involved. This is by no means a closed sport."
Carl said that playing for the rugby team would be an enjoyable experience.
"It's a lot of fun, and there is a lot of team camaraderie." Carl said.
Ohio State back wins award
DALLAS — Ohio State's Eddie George was chosen yesterday as the winner of the Doak Walker Award as the nation's ton college running back.
George finished the season ranked fifth in the nation in rushing, with 1,826 yards and fourth in all-purpose yards, with 2,225.
The Associated Press
He averaged 152 yards rushing per game and led the nation in scoring with 24 touchdowns. He set a school record of 11 straight games of 100 yards or
more. He rushed for 200 yards or more five times, and his 314 yards against Illinois was a school record.
Other finalists were Karim Abdul-Jabbar of UCLA, Tiki Barber of Virginia, Tim Biakabatuka of Michigan, Warrick Dunn of Florida State, George Jones of San Diego State, Wasean Tait of Toledo and Moe Williams of Kentucky.
The winner's school receives a $10,000 award. George will receive the award tonight at a banquet at the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas.
ByLinda C. Black
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You've probably put a good deal of effort into making sure you're right. You may get the chance soon to spread your information around. Contacts you make now will be valuable, especially in the evening. Get out and meet some new people.
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If you're not up for an argument today, you may want to pass on a social engagement. A visit with an old friend in private might be more enjoyable. You also may get information you need to handle a change that's going to affect you in the near future.
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Marcus Allen fuels Chiefs' victory and makes history at same time
The Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — Two themes prevailed in the Kansas City Chiefs' 29-23 win Sunday against the Oakland Raiders.
teams."
Marcus Allen was one, and the inexorable march of the ugly duckling Chiefs toward an AFC championship was the other.
The 35-year-old Allen, in his first game at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, rushed for 124 yards to lead the Chiefs to their second AFC West title in three seasons — not bad for a team picked to finish fourth or fifth in the division after Joe Montana's retirement.
Allen also became the first player in the NFL's 77-year history Sunday to run for more than 10,000 yards and catch 5,000 yards in passes.
"We're still not a good team," Allen said after the victory over the team that discarded him. "We're just beating good
Well, not really that good — with starting quarterback Jeff Hostetler on the sidelines with a shoulder injury, the Raiders (8-5) lost for the third straight time. They jumped off to a 7-0 lead with 1:01 gone in the game on Terry McDaniel's 43-yard interception return. They didn't score again until Billy Joe Hobert, the third string quarterback, threw two late touchdown passes, cutting into a 29-10 deficit.
By then it was too late against a team that this season has managed to find every conceivable way to win — the victory and Dallas' loss again left the Chiefs (11-2) with the NFL's best record.
The game was played both between the Chiefs and the Raiders and the Chiefs and the Raiders' fans, who jeered at Kansas City buses as they entered the stadium and threw debris from the stands.
"If you beat the fans,you can beat the
Raiders," said Kansas City cornerback Mark Collins. "But you have to beat the fans first." The Chiefs usually do.
This was their fifth straight win and 12th in 13 games over the Raiders, but the first in that streak in Oakland. It also was a choppy game filled with shoving matches and personal fouls — the Raiders were penalized 13 times for 105 yards; the Chiefs nine for 80, not counting those that offset or were declined.
"There's something missing on this team," said Raiders coach Mike White. "It's a state of mind. I'm not sure what it is, consistency maybe. But this is as low as it's ever been."
Maybe what's missing is the leadership of Allen, run off the team by Al Davis after the 1992 season in a still unexplained dispute.
Allen, who joined the Raiders in 1982, the year they moved from Oakland to Los Angeles, was aided by a defense that forced four turnovers and got four fouls on Vince Evans
before Hobert replaced him. The Chiefs also got effective combined work from Steve Bono and Rich Gannon.
Allen, who had 21 carries, ran a yard for one touchdown; Kimble Andrews went 23 for another; Gannon scored on a 12-yard bootleg while Bono sat out with a bruised throwing hand, and Brian Washington sealed the win with a 74-yard interception return midway through the fourth quarter.
Bono, who threw the interception that was run back 43 yards for a touchdown on the game's third play, returned from his hand injury and completed eight straight passes in the second and third quarters, when the Chiefs took over the game. The first of those was a 26-yarder to Tamarac Vanover on a flea-flicker to set up Anders' TD that put the Chiefs up for good 3:24 into the second quarter.
Starting with McDaniel's interception, defenses precluded.
Jeaff Jaeger's 46-yard field goal three minutes into the second quarter made it 10-6 but Bono came back two series later and drove the Chiefs 53 yards in three plays that included the 26-yard to Vanover and Anders' run.
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Then Washington picked off a ball and took it back for a score.
Allen went 25 yards to the 1, setting up his own TD in the third quarter. Elliot's 35-yard made it 22-10 with 44 seconds left in the third quarter.
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There were no first downs for six series, three by each team, until Allen broke loose late in the first period for 38 yards to the Oakland. 20. Two plays later, Gannon (7 of 11 for 59 yards) went left on a bootleg and trotted in for the score.
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