KFKU = June 1, 1944

The Big Six Out door Track- championship of the conference was won by |
Iowa State College at Lincoln, Nebraska, on May 20, with 67 points. Kansas
showed surprising strength in taking second place with 564 points. Kensas won
seven first places, and had she fit “a larger squad, as did Iowa State, undoubtedly
Kansas would have been the winner. Other Big Six schools placed in the following
order: Oklahoma, 34% points; Missouri, 324 points; Nebraska, 244 points; and
Kansas State, 9 points. |

Kansas has experienced a very successful indoor and outdoor track season
under the splendid tutelage of Ray Kenehl. Kanehl graduated from the University
of Kansas in 1927, having won a gold track shoe on Coach Harry Huff's Missouri
Valley — oe. Coach Kanehl is in his first year - the University
of Kansas, having come to us from Wichita East High School where he was chairman

of the Physical Zducation Department. Kanehl won five track championships while

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et East High in Wichita.
An interesting thing about the coaching situation at Kansas is that all
of the varsity coaches are members of the Physical Sidesbite Department, having
come under the enlarged army and navy conditioning program. This also applies
to tian Nesmith, head trainer and property man, who @¢e08 assists with the varsity
football, Henry Shenk, head coach of tested ean to the Physical Mien dik
Department, @ year before Pearl Harbor. Elmer Schaake, who came last year, is
assisting the ASTP program and aiding Coach Shenk in a valuable way in coaching
the varsity football team. Shenk, Schaake and Nesmith sxbertenssd a thrill that
few Kansas coaches have experienced recently in football by whipping the Missouri
Tigers here on Memorial Field last Thanksgiving Day, 7 to 6. 3
Coach Schaake is sau deme as baseball Sian: having taken over the

reins last week when Coach Austin, who was also in the ASTP program, resigned

on account of a curtailed enrollment among the ASTP boys. Coach Vernon Hayes,