Page 10 University Daily Kansan, April 15, 1981
Decathlon, heptathlon open Kansas Relays today
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Clyde Coffman was one of three decathletes from Lawrence to represent the United States in the 1932 Olympic Games. He finished seventh. The decathlon and the heptathlon open the 36th annual Kansas Rivals today, with the first events at 11 a.m.
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The two-day event requires the combined skills of all other track and field events: strength, speed, coordination, timing, courage, rhythm and endurance. The winner is the Olympics, the winner of the event is called as the world's greatest athlete.
He said every state should have a separate meet for the decathlon, which he described as a unique sport.
By BOB MOEN
Sports Writer
"The Kansas Relays has contributed to the international competition, like Bruce Jenner," Bob Timmons, KU track coach, said of the decathlon.
He pointed out that in 1932 all three Olympians that represented the United States in the decathlon came from Lawrence. Jim Bausch and Clyde Coffman both were from KU and was a track star. The third Lawrence representative was Wilson "Buster" Charles from Haskell Indian Community College.
"The people who do the decathlon have a different relationship with one another," Timmons said. "They're like brothers, they're about everyone's performance."
The event is the decathlon. The decathlete stands out among the rest and is, to say the least, a complete athlete.
the decathlon, and the new heptathlon for women, start the 66th annual Kansas Relays today and continues into tomorrow.
It is unfortunate, Timmons said, that the Big Eight does not have the event in place.
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Steve Rainbolt, a former KU decathlete and last year's Relays
Jenner competed in the Relays in 1974 and still has the decathlon record with 8,240 points.
Now an assistant coach at Shawnee Mission East High School, Rainbolt competed in last year's Olympic trials but did not make the team.
winner, said the event had a "certain amount of camaraderie."
KU's lottery entry will be Owen Buckley, who is in his second year as a KU dekathlete. Last year at the Relays, Buckley compiled 6,612 points, good enough to place him fifth on the Kansas all-time decathlon list.
He holds the KU record for most points in the decathlon, ahead of Tom Currier and Bausch.
"In the decathlon, if you want to be good at it," he said, "you have to train year-round."
That fever pushes him through three to four hours of training a day.
"I feel much more like an athlete and I love track and field," Rainbott said. He has entered the unattached this year.
He said he was frustrated with the individual events when he was competing in the high jump during his freshman and sophomore years at KU.
"I became a decadate mainly because in last year's RELays I had such a good time and I thought I could do good at it," he said. "It's like a fever."
But the decathlon is a significant part of the Relays and this year there are 16 entries compared to 11 last year, Valerie Creswell, a member of the Kansas Relays Student Committee, said.
"It was much more cut-throat," he said.
But she said, of a total of 13 schools represented in the event, only two are Bir Eight-KU and Colorado.
Buckley also said that he was disappointed in the Big Eight for not having the decathlon and that it was "ridiculous" not to have the event when
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Jim Bausch, a Lawrence native, won the decathlon in the 1932 Olympics, thus earning the top spot at the Athlete in the World." Bausch is still one of the top wrestlers in KU decathlon history.
all the other major conferences had the decathlon.
Apparently the Big Eight does not have the decimation event because of the NCAA limit on track scholarships. Each team can award only 14 scholarships.
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He said he was against adding the decathlon because the whole track team would be "weakened."
Jerome Howe, Kansas State assistant mens track coach, said with only 14 scholarships, it was difficult to field a good team.
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