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Friday, April 16, 1976
University Daily Kansan
11
Ryun's record perfect in Relays
By KEN STONE
Associate Sports Editor
Associate Sports Editor
if you wanted to rename KU's annual track and field carnival "The Jimi Kuny Relay," you'd have ample room for them.
1964
After winning the high school mile for 4:21.3 and helping his team to first in the two-mile relay, sophomore Ryun's coach, Bob Timmons, was quoted as saying: "Jim doesn't have good basic speed. He wins because he can run while all the other boys are tired. He's going to get a lot better."
Ryun has never failed to win at the Kannas Relays. Between his sophomore year at Wichita East High School and his participation in the Munich Olympic Games, 1872, Ryun raced—and won—14 times. *a summary of these races follows*:
1965
Ryun used a 58.7 final to win the high school mile in a meet record of 4:140. "I don't mean to sound cocky," Ryun told reporters afterward, "but I wasn't a bit tired." He proved that the next day by anchoring East to a meet record in the two-mile relay with a sterling 1:31.9 half-mile leg.
A senior in high school with the Tokyo Olympic Games behind him, Ryu cruised to a 4:04.8 mile victory. Cordner Nelson, Ryson's biographer, reported. The next day, running in the two-mile relay, he took the bronze medal. When he announced he said he had to run his 880 in 1:48 to break the national record. He blistered the track with an 1:47.7."
1966
1967
Rynw rume a jersey saying "Kansas Frost," but his meet record 35.5 m, his 39.0 leg in the distance medley relay and his 46.9 quarter-mile split in the mile relay indicated this 18-year-old was no novice.
Having set world records in the mile and 800-yard runs the previous year, Ryan was content to stick to one event in his sophomore year at the Relays. His record is for the 23,700 fans is still the meet record in the open mile.
1968
Despite a bad cold and a painful muscle pull, Ryun took first place honors in the 1,500 meter run with a 3:42.8 clocking, another meet record, but off his world best of 3:33.1 set in 1967.
Now married to a former cheerleader from Kansas State, Ryun helped Kansas to a world record in the distance medley relay with an anchor leg of 3.57.6.
1969
Ryn missed the Relays for the first time in seven years. He was in a period of semi-reretirement, trying to maintain air pressure pressures and expectations that had grown around him. He began racing again during the 1971 indoor season.
1971
Before a crowd of 22,000, Ryun ran his fastest mile in four years, a 3:58.8, to defeat rivals Tom Von Ruden and John Mason. He claimed the outstanding performer trophy for the fourth and final time.
A record crowd of 32,000 came to see their favorite runner blast his typical final 440 to win the open mile—now named after former Kansas great Glenn Cunner. He was also a swinger 587 W. It was his last performance before a Nets game that year, after falling in the Olympic Games and failing to qualify for the final, he turned professional.
Photo courtesy of UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS ARCHIVES
Ryun hands baton to sprinter Dwight Peck in 1967 Relays
Relays segregation once reality
This short story appeared on the from page of the Daily Kansan on Monday, April 23, 1964.
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"Wesley Elliott, KU Negro, did not participate in the Kansas Relays, Saturday, after being Sig rulng against Negro participation, C. Q. Guaguel, athletic director, has said.
'Kansas Relays rules stipulate that participants must be eligible in their own country.
That represented one of the last remnants of segregation in college athletics. Missouri and Oklahoma were the two Big Six teams that excluded black participation and maintained a "gentlemen's agreement" with the other Big Six teams.
from other schools, including Harrison Dillard, the "Ebony Streak" from Baldwin-Dillard, the College, who equaled the RELAYS high record of 14.2, participated Saturday."
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