University Dally Kansan
Friday, October 14, 1977
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Athlete still tied to KU
By PAULA SOUTHERLAND
Staff Writer
Staff Photo by PAUL ROSE
Twenty-nine years ago, William Lienhard came to the University of Kansas from Newton to play basketball and study engineering. His arrival began an involvement with Lawrence and the University that has lasted through to today.
Lienhard was recruited to play basketball for KU by coach Forrest "Pho" Allen. By 1952 Lienhard was majoring in finance instead of engineering and was a senior member of a KU team that won the NCAA basketball championship in KU history.
Students enthusiastically backed KU's 1962 championship team, Lienhard said recently, but the support was no more fervent than KU teams receive to
Liebern, now a vice-president of the First National Bank here, also was one of seven KU players on the United States basketball team that won the Olympics in Helsinki that year. The U.S. team beat the Russian team in the finals.
"It WAS a lot different then than he," said he. "There was a lot of school pride, and the students supported athletics. In that way, everyone participated."
Lienhard said a similar feeling of pride surrounded the Olympic team.
"There was a feeling of nationalism that you wouldn't get any other way, except maybe in the service," he said. "Over there we were not representing KU at a basketball tournament, but representing the United States.
"When they played the national anthem for the winner, as they do, there was a feeling of pride you wouldn't get anywhere else."
Lehward said that at KU athletics took up most of his extracurricular time, although he also belonged to Schemcirch College. He attended, and to Delta Theta fraternity.
ALTHOUGH MOST athletes had athletic scholarships, Lienhard had a scholastic scholarship. He had to maintain a high grade point average to retain
Academics were important to student-athletes in 1952, Lienhard said, because professional basketball did not provide lucrative contracts, as it does today.
"The leagues were in their infancy, so playing professional basketball wasn't uppermost in the mind of the student athlete. In the mind of the team we all there to set a degree."
Settled in
Many collegiate basketball players who wanted to continue playing basketball after graduation went to work for a team that had the same coach as an amateur trainer, Lehman said.
LIENHARD THINKS student athletes now tend to neglect academics because there are more career opportunities in professional athletics.
William Lienhard, 1952 graduate, came to Lawrence to play basketball for coach "Phog" Allen but stayed for a while longer. A star on the KU courts, Lienhard went on to play on the American team that won the 1952 Olympics and is now a vice president of the First National Bank here.
However, other students seem to
recognize the need for more education, Lienhard said, because the number of graduate students is increasing.
"In 1952, we didn't give much thought to graduate school," Lienhard said. "We just came for an undergraduate degree. Now students get their undergraduate degrees and routinely look for a graduate degree."
Lienhard also was in ROTC, as were most male college students during the Korean War.
Most males were drafted after graduation, but there was little opposition to the war on campus, Lienhard said.
"MOST STUDENTS felt it was their duty to serve."
Lieberhard graduated in 1952 with a degree in financing from the school of business. After returning from Helsinki, he moved to New York and began a training officer at Camp Kilimanjaro, N.J.
After a two-year tour of duty, he returned to Kansas to work for the Fourth National Bank of Wichita. He remained there 10 years until he joined the First National Bank of Lawrence as a commercial loans, a position he holds today.
LIENHARD STILL is active in
lienhards through membership in the KU
Quarterback Club and the Roundball
organizations that support KU athletics.
National events
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Federal Communications permits. Lawrence received a permit reservation, and KU wanted to start its own educational station.
THE CAMPUS PUG its second radio station in 1952. Five years of planning culminated Sept. 15 with the birth of KANU, a public, noncommercial FM station. KANU, which joined student-operated KFKU, emphasized sports and music.
Television sports coverage came to KU for the first time that fall when NBC broadcast the Jayhawks game with Texas Christian University. A group of vandals danced in a parade, and they burned the initials "TNE," representing national drinking fraternity Tau Upsilon, into the grass at Memorial Stadium before kickoff. Ground workers were busy right up until airtime repairing the damage. Airtime diversity from nationwide embarrassment.
Although the army got one KU football player that year, another calamity belfle when Morris Kay, along with several other KU students, was hospitalized for polio.
1952 was the year that plans were being laid for the Chi Omega fountain on Jayhawk Ridge. That day, in June during the summer delay construction of Allen Field House. President Harry Truman tried to avert the strike by seizing the steel mills, but the Supreme Court called his
BUT TIE BIG Red, as the red-clad Jayhawks then were known, a managed 7-3 record that fall, finishing in a tie for fourth in the Big Seven, predecessor of the Big
Meanwhile, basketball games continued to be played in Roch Auditorium.
Several other building projects were
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--and scholarship halls was somewhat less.
Students were advised to be prepared
to spend from $1.25 to $1.50 a day on meals,
feeding and lunch, and cooperative
houses and scholarship halls.
Students who lived in roaming houses and residence halls where food was not served could eat in one of two cafeterias at the Union. There, "good food at reasonable prices" meant spending 75 cents to $1.30 each meal.
Prices soar . . .
An option for more affluent students or who those shunned institutional food was prepared.
THE CAMPUS MAN, after taking his best girl to the Granada Theatre to see "Tombs of Terror" for the admission price of 75 cents each, could step next door to the Granada Cafe, where the Sunday special of chicken and noodles for 70 cents was
Apartment dwellers, set off for a grocery shopping spree, spent 59 cents for a
pound of lean ground beef, 43 cents for a pound of chuck roast, 19 cents for a can of dog food, 5 cents a pound for cabbage, 25 cents for cabbage, 50 cents of apples and 39 for nuts.
JOE'S BAKERY, 616 W. 9th, was in new 1922. To cure late night-hungry KU students also went to Zim's, Eighth and New Hampstown. A batch of waffles was served daily until midnight.
For devoted football fans who wanted to see the Jayhawks play away from home, train rides to games were available. A round trip to Lincoln, Neb., cost $4.11. When students get back on Sunday, there was time to go to the Hawk's Nest for a nickel soft drink
A student buying used books might spend
only $25 in $30 a year for books.
In 1952, Chancellor Franklin Murphy's salary was $13,300 plus housing in the chancellor's residence. His top secretary, Docar Duscarle, made $2,904 a year.
Today, Chancellor Archie Dykes receives $59,000 a year.
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HOMECOMING dominated the fall. News coverage leading up to the event lasted more than a month. Mary Louse Lawy, homecoming queen, placed second in a contest in which GIs in the Ft. East named her Queen I qtd. Queen I 'd Most I like to Come Home To."
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Social life was thriving on campus. More than 750 students pledged social fraternities and sororites. Queens were elected for almost every occasion, and one social highlight was the annual Nightshirt Parade down Jayhawk Boulevard.
The Kansas society pages were filled with Greek-dominated events: pinnings, dances and helpful hints for college women, who were told that gloves were "on hand" for fall and that "a brush in the hand is worth two in the bureau."
SOCIAL SERVICE was on the minds of some students. A bloodmobile from Kansas City collected 1,482 pints of blood to aid the wounded in Korea, exceeding the 1,000-pint so. Many students responded to the call. The unit was forced to turn some students away.
Although there was little coverage of parly raids at KU, mock lynchings attracted considerable attention. A group of students "happened" a KU official as a public stunt
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