
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, August 14, 1993                   TAG: 9308140101
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Doug Doughty
DATELINE: CHARLOTTESVILLE                                LENGTH: Short

TOLIVER DECIDES TO QUIT UVA TEAM

Gene Toliver, who started games for Virginia the past three seasons, has elected not to return for his final year of football eligibility.

Toliver could not be reached for comment, but his mother said he "just didn't have the interest to come back for another year [of football]."

Toliver, whose older brother, Elton, played for Virginia in the late 1980s, started seven games last season and had a career-high 49 tackles, including two sacks and the only interception of his career.

Toliver started in the Sugar Bowl as a redshirt freshman and in the Gator Bowl as a sophomore.

"He told me he wants to get on with his life," UVa coach George Welsh said. "If we had to pick a starting lineup in the spring, he wouldn't have been a starter. He would have been a backup."

Welsh said one other player did not return, freshman lineman Jeremy LeFeber, who was redshirted last year.

by CNB