Tigers hope to
improve record
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter
Please excuse Missouri coach Bob
Stull if he seems overly optimistic.
He’s just happy to be undefeated so
tar this season.
“We won the spring game, so
we’re 1-0,’’ the first-year Tigers
coach said. “Now all I have to do is
keep that string going.”
With 15 starters back from last
season’s team, Stull is counting on
experience and senior leadership to
improve on Missouri’s 3-7-1 record
last season. But he knows it won’t be
easy.
“It’s hard to tell what kind of team
I’ve inherited until we actually get
out there on the field and start playing
some games,” he said. “We’ve got
some good players, but I’m not sure
all the parts are there yet.
“We’ve got a lot of holes to fill.”
Stull, who transformed the Tcxas
E1 Paso program from a cellar-dwell
ing joke three years ago to a 10-3
bowl team last season, said one major
task is to develop a quarterback for
his type of offense.
Missouri ran the flex bone offense
- a derivative of the wishbone forma
tion - while under Woody Widen
hofer’s reign, but will switch to a pro
style offense this season, which was
the same offense that turned the
UTEP program around.
John Stollcnwerck, who trans
ferred from Southern Methodist two
seasons ago, will return for his final
season, and will start fall drills as the
Tigers] top quarterback. Kent Kiefer
also will challenge, as will incoming
freshman Phil Johnson.
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Colorado coach hopes this will be the year
17 starters return for Buffs ‘89 season
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter
Rarely do a touchdown and a
field goal make or break a college
football team’s season, but they
shattered Colorado’s last year.
The Buffaloes dropped a 17-14
game to Oklahoma, then lost a 7-0
thriller to Nebraska three weeks
later. The losses, coupled with an
earlier loss to Oklahoma State,
kept Colorado from its first New
Year’s Day bowl appearance since
its 1977 Orange Bowl loss to Ohio
State.
Colorado coach Bill McCart
ney knows it well, too.
“Each year, we play (Nebraska
and Oklahoma) closer and
closer,” he said. “Last year, we
played them about as close as we
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Against Oklahoma, Colorado
missed a last-second field goal that
would have given the Buffs a tie.
In the Nebraska game, Colo
rado tailback J.J. Flannigan was on
his way to a touchdown when he
fumbled the ball inside the 20-yard
line. In the second half, Colorado
was again driving for an apparent
score when quarterback Sal
Aunesc threw an interception.
Take away those mistakes and
Colorado would have had its first
Big Eight championship since it
shared it with Oklahoma State and
Iowa State in 1976.
And this year?
“We should be impressive,” he
said.
The Buffaloes got off to an
impressive start Monday with a
27-6 win against Texas at Boulder,
Colo., during a nationally tele
vised ESPN broadcast.
Seventeen starters return for
Colorado this season, although the
most important starter -- Aunese --
won’t be back. Late last March,
Aunese was diagnosed as having
stomach cancer, which has since
spread to one of his lungs.
His replacement will be Darian
Hagan, a 5-foot-10, 185-pound
sophomore.
Against Texas, Hagan rushed
for 116 yards on 14 carries and
completed 7 of 12 passes for 95
yards.
Charles Johnson, a 5-9, 165
pound sophomore, will step in if
Hagan falters.
When McCartney calls a pass,
the primary target will almost
always be split end Jeff Campbell,
a 5-9,170-pound senior. Last sea
son, Campbell caught 15 passes for
465 yards.
Wingback Mike Pritchard and
tight end John Perak also return to
their starting positions.
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Big Eight’s lowest pass comple
tion percentage (43.2 percent) and
fewest touchdown passes (5). Most
of the reason for that was the suc
cess enjoyed by the Buffs’ back
field. Aunese is the only starter not
returning.
Eric Bienemy, a 5-6, 190
pound junior, earned All-Big Eight
honors last season while rushing
for 1,243 yards and 10 touch
downs. He has been named in sev
eral preseason college football
magazines as an All-American in
1989.
Also returning is Flannigan,
who racked up 522 yards as Bien
emy’s back-up last season. Junior
O.C. Oliver, Colorado’s leading
rusher during his senior season,
also will see playing time behind
Bienemy.
Lead-blocking for Bienemy
will be fullback Erich Kissick or
George Hemmingway. Also in the
picture is Michael Simmons, who
started in 1987 and was suspended
from the team for disciplinary rea
sons last season.
Up front for the Buffaloes are
four starters back from last year.
The only hole is at center, where
Jay Lceuwenburg, a 6-3, 255
pound sophomore, and Neil Sch
lesencr, a 6-4, 260-pound junior
will compete for the starting job.
Bill Coleman (6-5, 265) and
Mark Vander Poel (6-8, 295) re
turn to the tackle spots, while Joe
Garten (6-3, 280) and Darrin
Muilcnburg (6-4, 280) again will
clear defenders from the guard
spots.
The Sporting News rated Colo
rado’s offensive line the second
best in the country, behind that of
Syracuse.
“With the development of an
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played them
(Oklahoma and
Nebraska) about
as close as we
could without
beating them
both.’
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adequate center, this line could
rank as the Buffs’ best of the dec
ade,” The Sporting News article
says. “Garten and Muilenburg are
the nation’s best tandem.”
Defensively, Colorado’s line
backing corps also gains a No. 2
rating from The Sporting News,
behind that of Southern Cal.
At the outside linebacker posi
tions are juniors Alfred Williams
and Kanavis McGhee. Known as
the “H Boys” (along with defen
sive tackle Arthur Walker -
they’re all from Houston), Wil
liams and McGhee combined for
111/2 sacks, 10 tackles for losses,
13 quarterback hurries and 161
tackles, 109 of which were unas
sisted.
Last season, McGhee earned
All-Big Eight honors and was
named second-team All-American
by The Sporting News, while Wil
liams was named second-team all
conference.
When opposing runners turn
inside, it doesn’t get any easier.
Wailing for them will be Michael
Jones, a 6-0, 230-pound senior
who started last season, and either
David Brown or Terry Johnson.
Walker will anchor the line as
the only returning starter. Last
season, he made 67 tackles, in
cluding 29 solos.
Joining Walker on the line will
be Okland Salavea or Brad Robin
son at the other tackle spot, and
nose tackle Joel Steed, a 6-3. 270
pound sophomore.
The secondary returns intact,
with Dcon Figures and Dave
McCloughan again filling the cor
nerback positions. The strong
safety will be senior Bruce Young,
while Tim James will return at free
safety.
Placekicker Ken Culbertson
returns, and the punting will be
handled by sophomore Tom
Rouen.
McCartney's goal tms season,
as it is every season, is to win the
Big Eight championship. Beating
Nebraska and Oklahoma, he said,
is an “obvious obstacle.”
“It’s been 28 years since we’ve
beaten them both,” McCartney
said. “If we are to get to the point
of competing for the conference
crown, we’ll have to beat them
both. We came close last season,
but it wasn’t close enough.
“Maybe this year, it will be.”
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