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KU hurdler Anthony Coleman (lane five) will try for another relays title at Drake
3 relay titles on line at Drake
By GARY VICE Sports Writer
The University of Kansas track team will to defend three relay titles as the Drake
The Jayhawks, ranking behind only Illinois in batton victories at Drake, won the 800-arm relay, the 440 relay and the mile race. The team strength of their strength of super spring corps.
All-America Larry Jackson, who will anchor both the 800 and 440 squads, said, "Those three relay victories are what got us on the map last year. We should be tough this year too. Auburn looks like the team to beat in the 440; they ran a 39.8 earlier."
THE JAYHAWK QUARTER-MILE SQUAD of Laverne Smith, Anthony Coleman, Waddell Smith and Jackson has a 40.1 best season this week and was third last weekend in the ALCS. Jeff Henshaw finished was slowed by a poor first hand-off between Laverne Smith and Coleman.
"We've had some pretty good exchanges in practice this week," Jackson said. "If we can get our sticks (batons) all the way around, we'll run a 39.0."
Jackson, the defending Big Eight champion in the 100, ran the first leg on the victorious mule relay squad last year. But from that foursome, which ran 3:06:3, the third fastest in school history, only sprinter Randy Benson remains. Benson, the conference's indoor champion in the 400, anchor the squadrone of Nolan Cromwell,
Waddell Smith and Jay Wagner, which won the Kansas Relays in 3:08.8.
"TTLL BE TOUGH TO defour our title," Benson said, "but we'll do it."
Friday, April 23, 1976
Cromwell, elected the most outstanding performer of the Kansas Relays, is the only winner of the Western Midlands relays circuit. The 400-meter intermediate hurdler has registered the world's two fastest times this year with his performance in Texas and his 49.8 clocking in Kansas.
"I'm not even going to go for it," he said. "I'm going to try for the open 400 LH. (intermediate hurdles) instead of the collegiate. There's going to be some good people up there in Jim Bolding and Ralph O'Neill on against. I'm ready to see what I can do."
But the junior All-America said he didn't intend to try to complete the Texas-Kansas-Dallas game.
BOLDING AND MANN are the nation's top two intermediate hurdlers and Mann is the nation's top hurdler.
Head coach Bob Timmons said that he was pleased with the team's improvement this season after its slow start and predicted that it would be ready to have its best meet of the year.
our hurdles, Nolan (Cromwell), A. C. Wenckoff, Jr. (Buckman) we'll all done real well."
"I've been very pleased with all three of
Coleman, a freshman from Lincoln High in Dallas, won the 110-meter high hurdles in the Kansas Relays last week in 13.88, and Brack, a junior, was third in 14.12.
BRACK, WHO SET HIS personal record of 14.04 in a preliminary heat, said, "I'm tried of these 14's. I want 13 something or other."
Timmons also had praise for his shot put trio of Jim Podobarella, Steve Stone and Rudy Guevara, which finished 2-3-5 at the Kansas Relays.
The shot putters, who have all thrown more than 60 feet, make KU the nation's only team with three shot putters to beat them. No one else never accomplished the feat together.
GUEVARA WHO HAS a best of 62%4,
said. "I think we all catch it together.
I don't know."
"I look forward to the meet when I spot shot putters throw over 60 feet together."
in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, Bill Lundberg will again try to lower his personal best time of 8:38.6 by six seconds to qualify for the Olympic Trials. Also competing for the Jayhawks will be George Washington to lower his fastest time only two-tenths of a second to reach the NCA championship qualifying mark of 8:55.0.
Soccer club seeks championship
By STEVE CLARK Sports Writer
All season long, the KU soccer club has been working toward one goal—the Big Eight.
This weekend, the Jayhawks will find out whether that effort will be rewarded when they travel to Boulder, Colo. for the Big Eight soccer championships.
"Naturally we're optimistic," player Bermie Mullin said yesterday. "We've got the best team we've had in years and we've got to do it." And he got to go out there and put it all together.
TEAM IN KU'S DIVISION are Nebraska, Oklahoma and Kansas State.
The eight conference schools have been divided into two divisions for the tournament. A roundrobin tournament will be played on Monday, and winners advancing to the finals on Sunday.
The 'Jayhawks' first game will be at 10 a.m. Saturday against Nebraska, a team from Iowa.
"If we play our game, we shouldn't have any problem with them," Mullin said, "but since the halves are shorter, anything could happen."
Because each team must play three games on Saturday, each half has been shortened to 25 minutes. On Sunday, regular games will be used for the championship game.
At 1 p.m. on team. Saturday, KU takes on an
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on this team.
"OBYOUSLY, OKLAHOMA isn't very good," Mullin said. "Our game with them should give us a chance to rest some of our players."
KU's final game of the day is at 4 aqaint Kansas State, the winner of the last two Big Eagles games.
Although KU and the Wildcats haven't played this spring, during the fall portion of the schedule they tailed twice. In the first game, KU cruised to a 8-2 victory, but after trailing the second contest 3-0, Kansas State battled back to salvage a 3-12 tie.
"Kansas State is strong and physical," Mullin said, "orm great than good, but you don't get that good than good."
"I DON'T KNOW WHAT it is. It seems like they can get really pumped up to play Snob Hill, but we can't get up for Silo Tech."
In the other division of the tournament
are Iowa State, Oklahoma State, Missouri,
and Arkansas.
"Oh, no doubt about it, we're in the easier bracket," he conceded. "But assuming we win our side, regardless who we'd play in the finals, they'd be a touch team."
Oklahoma State split two games with KU this spring, and Missouri has defeated KU twice in a row, but Mullin picked Colorado as the probable winner of that division.
"SINCE ALL OF THE TEAMs competing are clubs, and not varusity teams, they are all much weaker on the road, simply because of the financial situation." Mullin said. "Colorado could be powerful as hell, just because they don't have to travel."
KU's travel squad will be close to full strength for once. The lone exception is left midfielder Terry Willexsen, who will miss the season of the season with an ankle injury.
"We think we can win it all," Mullin said. If we just use our heads, we can avoid a roadblock or a crash.
Last season the Jayhawks went into the tournament with an unblemished 14-0 record. But after winning its first two games, KU fell apart.
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KU, now 8-2 on the year, goes into the Des Moines game coming off of a 41-20 win over Iowa. KU was one of the top three in the NFC East.
KU's rugby team travels to Des Moines
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Des Moines is generally regarded as one of the stronger teams in the northern half of the country, Rugby Football Union, according to Joon Mellon, a two-year member of the KU squad.
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