SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, September 21, 1993
Chiefs buck Broncos 15-7
Running back, kicker overshadow Montana
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Joe Montana's home debut as a Kansas City Chief was upstaged last night by a couple of other golden oldies — Nick Lowery and Marcus Allen.
And something else golden — yellow penalty flags. Lots of them.
Lowery, a 37-year-old, kicked five field goals, and the Kansas City defense led by Derrick Thomas and Darren Mickell shut down John Elway and Denver as the Chiefs beat the Broncos 15-7.
That was enough to avoid the last-minute heroics Elway has pulled off four years in a row against the Chiefs. He managed a 2-yard touchdown pass to Vance Johnson with 1:24 remaining for the only touchdown of the game.
Meanwhile, the old guys were performing for the Chiefs and penalty flags were flying — 24 in all for the two teams.
Allen, 33, gained 91 yards on 17 carries, his best regular-season game since 1988.
Montana avoided enough mistakes to win his second game without a loss as a Chief. He sat out last week's 30-0 loss in Houston with a sore wrist. He missed open receivers several times, but finished 21 of 36 for 273 yards. Receiver Willie Davis caught six of those passes for 139 yards.
But Lowery got the points — field goals of 34, 41, 52 and 44 yards in the first half and 20 yards in the fourth quarter. A Denver penalty for having too many men on the field helped the Chiefs get three points. The five-yard penalty on a Chiefs punt moved Lowery into position for the 52-yard field goal.
It was the first loss for the Broncos after two stiffs.
The first AFC West meeting of Elway and
Montana was marred by 24 penalties for 180 yards between the two teams. Gary Zimmerman, the Broncos' new left tackle, was penalized for three false starts, and the Chiefs were called three times for roughing Elway.
Elway, who was under pressure all night,
was 28 of 45 for 300 vards.
The game marked the first regular-season victory for Montana over Elway, against whom he had been 0-3. Montana did lead San Francisco to a 55-10 triumph over Denver and Elway in the 1990 Super Bowl.
It was only the third victory in 12 games against Denver for Kansas City coach Marty Schottenheimer, who had been bedeviled over the years with the Chiefs and Brownys by Elway's last-minute comebacks.
Montana didn't start brilliantly, but with the help of Ron Dickerson's 44-yard return of the opening kickoff, the Chiefs moved to
a3-0lead.
Dickerson's return put the Chiefs at the Denver 48-yard line, and after a holding penalty on Denver's Ricky Siglar, Montana threw a 35-yard pass to Willie Davis at the Broncos 23-yard line. But he threw wide to Tim Barnett, who was open on the goal line, and the Chiefs settled for Lowery's 34-yard field goal.
Lowery hit a 41-yarder with 2:37 remaining in the quarter to make it 6-0 after a 74-yard drive that started from the Chiefs' 2yard line. Montana was 5 of 7 for 59 yards on the drive.
Lowery's 52-yarder made it 9-0 with 8:56 to play in the half and was a gift from the Broncos. The Chiefs already had punted from the 39 yard line, but Denver was called for having 12 men on the field, and the ball was moved into Lowery's field-goal range.
Just under five minutes later, Lowyh hit from 44, increasing the lead to 12-0.
Baseball tryout reset for today
Kansanstaffreport
Sunday's heavy rains postponed yesterday's walk-on tryouts for the Kansas baseball team. The first tryout has been rescheduled for 2:30 p.m. today at Hoglund-Maupin Stadium.
Kansas baseball coach Dave Bingham said he never considered having practice inside, which would have been held in Anschutz Sports Pavilion.
"It wouldn't be fair," Bingham said. "You just can't give them inside. You have to hit in the cages and take ground balls off the turf instead of grass."
"We look at speed and defensive ability." Bingham said. "Then we look at hitting."
Pitchers will throw a set amount of pitches in the bullpen. Bingham said.
"If they show us enough there, we'll put them in a game situation," Bingham said. "If we have enough walk-ons that we want to look at, we may have a scrimmage."
"We'll keep players around if we want to look at them closer," Bingham said. "It would be a day-by-day deal."
If a player is selected during the tryout, he is evaluated throughout the fall baseball season. Players who perform well in the fall might be asked to return for the spring season.
The baseball team roster is already set, Bingham said, but there might be an exception.
"We look for good students," he said. "We're looking for an outstanding young guy who is willing to make a commitment to baseball for four years."
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
Tim Rodagna, New Port Beach, Calif., freshman, practices on the Kansas tennis courts behind Allen Field House. Rodagna and the rest of the men's tennis team worked out yesterday afternoon.
Taking aim
Colorado coach says luck was not on Buffaloes' side
By Matt Doyle
Kansan sportswriter
Colorado coach Bill McCartney said his team was not paid back by referees for the "fifth down" flashe three years ago at Missouri late in the Buffaloou 41-37 lost Saturday at Stanford.
Colorado thought it was a fumble, but the officials ruled the play a catch.
Stanford tight end Tony Cline caught a 5-yard touchdown pass from Steve Stenstrom with eight seconds remaining to give the Cardinals the victory. However, television replays showed that the ball squirted out of Cline's grasp after being hit hard by Colorado free safety Dwayne Davis just as Cline planted his feet in the end zone.
"Things out over the course of time," said McCartney, whose team is now 2-1 and ranked No. 13 in the Associated Press poll. "In our first two games, we got all the bounces to go our way. In our game with Baylor, we scored two touchdowns by recovering a fumble in the end zone and catching a tipped ball in the end zone at the end of the half."
The Buffalooes record could even up at 2-2 after this Saturday. Colorado hosts No. 3 Miami at Folsom Field in Boulder.
Kings of the Road?
"I'm really not aware of those type of things," said K-State coach Bill Snyder. "We don't research those negative things, we research out positive things."
The same luck was not afforded to Missouri, however.
The Tigers 73-0 loss at No. 14 Texas A&M extended their road losing streak to 11 games overall, and 14 games in non-conference action.
Missouri's last victory on the road was a 31-21 decision at Kansas in 1990. The last time the Tigers won a non-conference road game was in 1981 at Mississippi State.
Student participants must sign injury waiver
"It's obvious we haven't done very well with road games," said Missouri coach Bob Stull.
Keeping up with Jones
By Anne Felstet
Kansan sportswriter
Oklahoma State coach Pat Jones tied former Cowboys coach Jim Lookabaugh for most career victories at Oklahoma State with 58. Jones tied the mark with Saturday's 16-10 victory at Tulsa.
It would be ironic if Jones sets the mark this week at Arizona State. His first win as the Cowboys coach was a 45-3 decision in 1984 at Arizona State.
As senior Fetsi Ngoepe lay on the soccer field, all he could think about was the waiver he had signed.
Nebraska coach Tom Osborne said junior running back Calvin Jones is listed as doubtful for the Cornhuskers game at home against Colorado State this week.
"Whatever happens, no one is responsible for the injuries," he remembered it said. "But what if this one is serious?"
During Sunday's championship
Jones sprained his right knee in the third quarter of Nebraska's season opening 76-14 victory against North Texas on Sept. 4. Osborne said he hoped to have Jones back at full speed for Nebraska's Big Eight opener on Oct. 7 at Oklahoma State.
game against Nebraska, Ngopee conluded in mid-air with another player. He said that he couldn't get back up. Once he did, he was sidelined for the remainder of the game.
Injuries cause concern for club-sports program
"Maybe if someone were there to instantly assess what it was and could have given me proper care, I could have made it back into the game," Ngopee said.
Every club sport participant must sign a waiver, which exempts the University from injury liability.
Like other club sports, soccer does not have a trainer to handle injuries.
Unlike soccer or women's rugby, men's rugby has the benefit of having an emergency medical technician on the team. Joel Foster, a collegiate side player, said he worked for the Shawnee fire department's type II ambulance service as an EMT.
Varsity sport teams, like the Kansas football and basketball teams, do have physical trainers and sometimes even doctors on the sidelines during games.
He said he did not join the team to care for players, but he would take care of an injury if he had to.
Senior rugby player Scott Collin, said the only thing the team really worried about was head and neck injuries. He said injuries such as broken fingers or hurt muscles could be treated by the players themselves.
Freshman soccer player Kyle Ratzlaff, already has gone to Watkins Memorial Health Center this fall for an injury he sustained during a game against Wichita two weeks ago. He said that the doctor told him he had sprained or stressed ligaments in his right foot.
He said that having a trainer at the games was not a necessity but that it
would be reassuring to know that someone was able to handle serious injuries if the need arose.
Some club sports do not have to worry about the presence of a trainer. Mike Amick, crew president, said that rowing was a low-impact sport and that most of the injuries came from something outside of the sport itself.
Soccer coach Mike Salisbury said that competing without trainers present was a part of participating in club sports. He said it would be nice to have a trainer present, but that too many would have to be hired to tend to all the Kansas club teams.
Bryan Schultz, Topeka freshman, has been the leading runner for the Kansas cross country team the last two meets.
Paul Kotz/ KANSAI
Freshman leads Kansas cross country
Schultz is top runner at first two meets of season
Leading isn't what freshmen are supposed to do in college athletics.
Schultz, Topeka freshman, has surprised himself and the coaches by being the top Kansas runner in the team's first two meets. The engineering major took third place overall at the Southern Illinois Invitational Sept. 4 and seventh overall at the Jayhawk Invitational Sept. 11.
By Kent Hohifeld
Kansan sportswriter
Schultz started running his freshman year in high school at the encouragement of his brother, who is now a senior at the University.
No one told Bryan Schultz.
"He told me how much fun it was," Schultz said. "I thought I'd give it a try and really liked it."
His high school freshman year was not an indication of his potential. He was 17th out of 28 runners on his Topeka West cross country team. The following summer he started an off-season training program
Schultz's work in the off season was the biggest factor in his improvement, Schrag said. He went from 17th on the team his freshman year to the No. 1 runner his senior year.
Schrag said that many schools decided not to recruit Schultz his senior year because of his interest in attending Kansas.
"The coach started these small competitions during the summer," Schultz said. "He had games which made running fun."
supervised by his coach, Joe Schrag.
"He got a lot of attention from Division II schools and was recruited by Wichita State," Schrag said. "He decided to go to KU pretty early."
Two of the factors that led to his decision were the strength of both the track and the engineering programs at Kansas.
Schrag said that he thought Schultz would make the varsity squad, but that he had not expected the immediate impac Schultz had made.
Schultz said that last summer he worried about whether he would make the travel squad this year. He said that teammates, freshman Josh Stewart and senior Jon Hays, had helped him keep his confidence during the summer.
Not only did Schultz make the squad, but his performance went beyond Kansas coach Gary Schwartz's expectations.
"We are very pleased with his transition to the college level," Schwartz said. "We thought he had the potential, but we didn't expect an immediate impact."
An immediate impact is exactly what Kansas got with Schultz.
"Before the Southern Illinois meet I was pretty nervous," Schultz said. "I didn't know what to expect."
Schultz said he did not go into the first two meets with any preconceived goals.
He said the fact that the team had run in a pack during meets had helped him and the other freshmen in competition. Schwartz used the tactic to help the freshmen on the team run closer together and improve their confidence.
He said that he hoped to continue to help the team as it headed into competition against Boston College Saturday and Michigan on Oct. 17. He said that he hoped those meets would help the team prepare for Big Eight Championships in October.
"I just wanted to keep up and run my race," Schultz said. "I wanted to feel good about the way I run, which I do."
The Associated Press
U.S. has new dream team
NEW YORK — The U.S. basketball team at next summer's world championships in Toronto will not include a single player from the squad that rolled to a gold medal in the 1992 Olympics.
Magic Johnson, who came out of retirement to start at point guard in most of the Olympic team's games, was in New York yesterday as part of a group trying to win an NBA franchise for Toronto.
And that's just fine with Magic Johnson.
Two more players will be selected, possibly from college. The 1992 team had only one college player, Christian Laettner.
The U.S. team will be coached by Don Nelson of Golden State, with one pro and two college assistants: Don Chaney of the Detroit Pistons, Xavier Pete Gillen and Utah's Rick Malerus.
"All these guys deserve it," he said. "It will be super team, but not good enough to beat our Barcelona team."
A selection committee chose 10 NBA players for the competition next Aug. 4-14: Larry Johnson and Alonzo Mourning of Charlotte, Orlando's Shaquille O'Neal, Derrick Coleman of New Jersey, Dominique Wilkins of Atlanta, Joe Dummes of Detroit, Mark Price of Cleveland, Miami's Steve Smith, Dan Majerle of Phoenix and Tim Hardaway of Golden State.
"This new team is similar to our team," he said. "It has great big men and great shooters."
The NBA has not said that any members of next summer's team would also play in the 1996 team in Atlanta and has not ruled out 1992 team members from the next Olympics. But Johnson said the 1994 team also could do the job in 1996.
"Shaq and Alonzo could play on the next three Olympics," he said. "They're so good and so young."
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