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Tuesday, February 10, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Wiley refuses to let success go to his head
By KEN STONE Associate Sports Editor
Recordholder Cliff Wiley
Friends and classmates of Cliff Wiley greeting him by that name wendy day.
They were calling the University of Kansas spinner "Congratulations," "Fine job," "American record holder!" and "Hew. great job at Idaho. man."
Just back from a weekend during which he competed in five races in two states, Wiley wasn't letting his new American record in the 100-meter dash swell his head.
"TI MEANS NOTHING by itself," said Wiley, whose 104 clocking in the rarely contested dash was three tents of a second old record and two tents off the world best.
"I need to back it up. Look at the guys who
wrote me. I never heard of those guys before."
Wiley was not kidding, unless you happen to be a fan of Bob Dardenkite, a member of the New York Athletic Club who ran the game when they were days when blocks were defy dug holes.
SPEAKING OF obscure record holders, Wiley pointed out that the world record holder in another rarely run sprint race, the 2006 Olympic gold medalist, a paleasman for Seats-Rebuck in Chicago.
"I'd really hate to see that of 10 in the 100-meter be the highlight of my season," Wiley said. "It sounds good to say, 'I'm an American record holder,' and it sounds
"IF I DON'T RUN well the rest of the season, I'll have to discard the whole season with the record. It would mean nothing to me."
good to other people, but I've got to back it up.
Wiley, Baltimore, Md., sophomore, said he would like to use the record as a "catapult" into the rest of the indoor track season, which consists of three big meetings: first a team practice with the Big Eight indoor meet a week later and the NCAA meet next month in Detroit.
"A GOOD SEASON for me," Wiley said,
"wouldn't necessarily another Big
Eight championships (Wiley is the defending 80-yard dash tiltlist). It would be an NCAA final spot in the 60, coming outdoors and making the 200-meters in the Olympics."
But Wiley still needs to qualify for the NCAA 60 first. By this time last year, he had run the qualifying time of 6.1 seconds on at least three occasions.
"I've just had one good race this year, the 100" be said, "That was my first decent meet for a good meet at Alabama City that got to get a 8.1 as soon as I step on the track."
BUT THIS HEAT, he's been running 6.2s, about a yard slow. Although he's won two races at 300 yards and contributed a 47.6 leg on the mile relay, his only short dash victory came in the 100 meters Saturday at Pocatello, Idaho.
Having conquered what he called "the concentration problem that I've been having," Wiley said he was ready to run 6.1. He also said "would be the beginning of my season."
THERE'S NO QUESTION about how Wiley would like his outdoor season to end, either at the finish line on the artificial field or in a sunny spot. "I sit there, and watch the Winter
Olympics, and they'll put on a commercial about the Summer Olympics," he said. "Min, that's two months away. I'm the one about getting good 200-meters in and making the team."
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MONDAY
Tonight, KU will play host to intrastate rival, Wichita State University. The game starts at 7 in Allen Field House.
This weekend, the team will travel to Manhattan to play in the Big Eight tournament.
With the Grandview loss, KU's season record fell to 11-10.
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The announcement, which was made by Eagle's owner Len Tose, said that Vermille had been given a five-year contract. It ended a coast-to-coast search for a successor to Mike McCormack, fired after the last day of the 1975 season.
Earlier, however, the Jayhawks defeated Drake University, the 79-69 in des Moines
Adrian Mitchell shot in 29 points and accounted for 15 rebounds, and Viette Sanders added 23 points but the University of Kansas women's basketball team lost to Grandview College Saturday, 87-80, in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Saint Valentine's Day really has little to do with the Saint himself. In actuality, we owe this day of flowers and sonnets to young Roman girls and birds.
The holiday began as a religious observance of the feast of Luperealia. Celebrations included purification and fertility riles along with men drawing love letters from a large urn and then courting the girl whose message they'd drawn.
In later years, there was a belief in England and France that February 14 began the mating of birds. This notion suggested that lads and lasses choose lovers and exchange gifts which have sin
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