Wednesday, October 11, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
7
--Those by Gene Tree
Glenn Cunningham, fast-moving Jayhawk runner, on and off the track.
As cyclist, driver, runner
Glenn leads fast life
By Robert Entriken Jr.
Kansan Sports Reporter
Glenn Cunningham likes speed. He likes speed in motorcycles. Of his Enfield Indian 750, he says, "The speedometer reads up to 150, but the most I've done is 115."
He likes speed in cars. "There's a story on the Avenger in Car and Driver," he says. "It's a Volkswagen frame and a Corvair engine with a fiberglass body. I might try to build one next year."
Likes speed in people
He especially likes speed in people. "My fastest mile time was a 4:13.8 in the Golden West Invitational in 1965."
Cunningham, a sophomore from Leon, was KU's first finisher at the Oklahoma State Jamboree cross country meet in Stillwater last Saturday. His eight place aided the KU team to a close 77-78 second behind winner Abilene (Tex.) Christian College.
Cunningham is the son of former KU miler Glenn Cunningham. The elder Cunningham ran a world record mile of 4:06.8 in 1936. Glenn is following in his father's fast footsteps. Undefeated as a high school senior, he won the Class B championship in cross country and both the state indoor and outdoor mile titles.
"I think I can break 4:10 by the end of this year and I should be able to do under four minutes by the end of my junior year," Cunningham said.
Break 4:10 this year
Although Cunningham returns a famous name to the KU campus, he says he was never under any pressure to come here.
"Dad tried to sell me on every other school that came along."
"We also help each other along, giving encouragement to each other. Distance runners are kind of used to running alone and it really helps to have someone else there cheering you on."
Cunningham's avocations are not entirely related to speed.
"I found some old copies of the complete works of Shakespeare, Dickens and Washington Irving down in Oklahoma last week," he said. "They gave me a little extra incentive to do well in the Oklahoma State meet—Coach (Bob) Timmons said since our car was so crowded, if I didn't do well, they'd probably take the books back, but leave me."
Cunningham considers his best distances as "anywhere from the mile to six miles." For longer distances, however, he relies on his Indian motorcycle, which he drove to Canada's Expo '67 last summer.
Likes to run
Found some Shakespeare
big block of blue running together.
While he hasn't run the cycle in competition yet, Cunningham would like to run some scrambles with it someday.
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Oct. 22, 1967
7 and 9 p.m.
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"I take great pride in being a member of the KU track team," Cunningham continued. "For me, it's the epitome of track. There's no place I'd rather run."
Coach 'need best for NU'
"I mentioned the possibility to Coach Timmons on the way to Stillwater," Cunningham said. "He kind of lost his cool on that one."
Although Cunningham's father was a champion mile he "never made me feel I had to run, which is why I've enjoyed it so much," Cunningham said.
HELP!
Kansas must play its best game of the season if it hopes to upset nationally-ranked Nebraska in its conference opener, Coach Pepper Rodgers said Tuesday.
"If we don't play the best game of our lives, they'll be just too strong for us," he added.
Cunningham said, "but KU was always my goal.
"He's the best lineman I've seen in a long time," he said.
Rodgers worried about the Cornhuskers big backs and strong line, and said he was particularly concerned about All - America guard Wayne Meylan.
In Tuesday's practice, the Jaya-hawks went through what Rodgers called a "spirit scrimmage" to stir things up.
"Dad never coached me much either," he said. "He felt he should leave that to my high school coach."
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"Dad worked with me for two weeks on form and it cut seven seconds off my previous best time."
The only time the elder Cunningham did work with his son was prior to the Golden West Invitational, where Glenn ran his top mile time to date.
Current team good
Cunningham feels the current cross country team will present a formidable challenge to its foes this year.
"We run as a group. For us it's a real team effort. The results bear this out—our top five men finished within 30 seconds of each other. It also helps to psyche the other runners when they see that
"We base our choice for player of the week on extra effort," said Jack Whitehead. "We sat through the rain-soaked Ohio game, we watched the game films, and we still can't find that 110% effort we look for. So we don't have a player of the week.
"Nebraska's going to come in here with blood in their eye," he added. "I hope we can find 25 players of the week next Saturday."
Extra effort wins football games. Jack Whitehead and Bob Fleyd believe it takes extra effort to serve students better. That's why Jayhawk Food Mart is clean, comfortable, well-stocked and open till midnite. It's fast becoming KU's favorite place to shop.
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