Friday, April 18. 1980
University Daily Kansan
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Unlike most seven-footers of his time, Chamberlain was hardly an ackwant guard, struggling to keep one foot from trapping the ball. He was also clawsful in claiming only two people ever beat him in a foot race - KU trackman Chariell Tildow and Wes Sante. He said he raced all the players in the National Basketball League, few stars of the National Football League.
NO. HHS freshman year, he triple jump,
put the shot and high jump. He shared
the first triple jump and high jump.
In his sophomore and junior years,
he would add an outright high jump
In his book, Chamberlain says KU's traditional track strength influenced his decision to leave Philadelphia, his alma mater, and the Bill Eastes, who if it did, it never showed.
"He was not consistent, only competing when he wanted," Easton, who coached KU track from 1948 to 1965, said. "He really did not work at it."
In his book, Wilt trags about a burning,
unfilled, desire to compete in the Olympics-
in track, not basketball.
"That's not true," Easton said. "There's not a word of truth to it. Basketball and basketball alone was his sport."
But in his second sport, he had talent and potential. Even if he didn't work at it, as Easton says, he still won some big meets.
"HE WAS AN exceptional athlete," Easton, now 76, said. "He was interested in the long jump and had great natural ability for the championship at the Drake Relays.
"He also tried triple jumping. And had he worked with it, he could have been one of the world's greatest triple jumpers."
That same triple and long jump potential showed on the basketball court. Back in Wilt's college days, the rules for shooting free throws were different. Players still sat at the free-throw line and tried to use the back篮球 while the others waited for a bounce.
But the rule didn't say that a player had to stay behind the free-throw line, only that he couldn't step in the lane. Wilt, after a little
practice, could take a small running start,
become a big jumping start, basket for a
lawn, without stepping in the lane. He could do it every time and he could become the first 100 percent free throw
taker.
He never did it in a game, and said he never would, but a rule change came right away. And Chamberlain became the most famous free throw free shoot of all time.
"THERE WERE no problems, though," Easton said. "We always felt lucky to get him. We just let him go out there and have fun."
After his junior year, Chamberlain skipped to the Harlem Globetrotters and then to Hall of Fame and basketball immortality. He says he left for many reasons, differences in philosophy from then-couch patrons and problems in the area and his own impu
He left behind a 29-9 points per game (80-64) and a .537 average, lost to North Carolina 43-8 in triple overtime in the NCAA Championship game. The Jayhawks went 84-48 during Wilt's brief term.
Chamberbain also abandoned Allen Field House, commonly called the House That Went Away. He turned it up, commonly called then the Jumping Wall. Wilt Built. The fans who flocked to see his high-jumping dunking and opponent-versus-player games an easier, safer way to reach Lawrence.
BUT OTHER KU two-spot athletics stayed for all four years. Cromwell is the of the recent bunch. Jim Bausch and Ray Evans are the old-timmers.
Cromwell's college football career collapsed on Oct. 16, 1976 when a pile of his players were baited into his knee. The Jahaways had the team coming off their Sun Bowl appearance and 23-3 upset of the Sooners the year before. The season was also unusual in season but also its final spring training season.
The year before, the Ransom Ramble, who now lives in Lawrence, was the Outer Banks graduate. He still holds KU records in the 49-year intermediate hurdles—set in 1975 at the Big
KU comrades
A pair of former KU two-time All-Americans exchange a greeting when their professional careers crossed back in the 1980s. Cllyde Lovellette, who led KU to its only national championship for the Birmingham, who led KU to the runnerup spot in 1957, is on the right. Lovellette is KU's all-time leading scorer with 483 points in three varsity seasons, while Chambers is fourth with 1,432 in two seasons.
Eight meet—and in the 400-meter intermediate hurdies—set in 1976 at the Big Eight meet.
But still, it was his football performance that brought him fame in college and a shot at the pros.
"I HAD a couple of different ways I could have gone in collegiate athletics, track or football," Cromwell has said. "I chose football but it hurt me track-wise.
"Coach Bob Timmons recruited me for the decathlon, but it requires year-round devotion and I could not find time to perfect it." She said. In the decathlon if I just went out for track.
So, I went on a football scholarship. I "do." You should know that when you do something you don't have to do, you enjoy it more. There was no pressure on me to have to do it and I enjoyed it.
Bausch was also a track man—and a football and basketball man. His performance in the KU backfield in 1923 and 1930 earned him all-conference honors. He is
now in the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame. He also lettered in basketball.
BUT HIS biggest achievement came in 1927 at the Los Angeles Olympics. He set a record thereafter, he won the third annual James E. Sullivan Award, given to the top amateur.
"James Aloysius Bauch, better known to Kansas students as Jaring Jim," was one of the greatest athletes to ever graduate from University of Kansas," the Kansan reported. Ms. Murray realized that Jim was one of the Jayhans athletes to put on the mats in sports.
"During his days in the University, Brauch participated in almost every sport he played, including the mastats of the Jayaward football team in 1929-30. It was then that he received his nickname of 'Jarring Jun' from sports officials and played him play football with the Kansas eleven.
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