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Thursday, February 17, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Tartan Floor Dream Might Be a Nightmare
By BOB SIMISON
Kansas Sports Edito
In line with what appears to be a national trend, an increasing number of Big Eight schools are beginning to feature surfaces in their basketball arenas. The coaches accept substitutions and uphold wooden floors.
"The jury's still out on the synthetic floors," Kansas State coach Jack Hartman said in a recent telephone interview.
I opened the conclusions of three other Big Eight coaches, including the University of Kansas' Ted Owens, whose arenas have, or are about to play surfaces.
Colorado is the only Big Eight state, but it also Missouri, but kState and Missouri will have Tartan floors for next season. We plan to install one in Colorado this summer, and necessary $160,000 are available, necessary $160,000 are available, director of logistics he has.
everyone I've talked to likes it. Stinson said. Other universities that have synthetic basketball surfaces include Washington, Dayton, Alabama, Houston, Indiana and Drake.
IOWA STATE Coach Maury
Coughlin doesn't like the Tartan surface for basketball. John's teams at Drake played on a Tartan floor (Husker) and a Tartan court.
he moved to Iowa State this season.
"ou t'will like it," John said. "I don't want to knock their product on anything like that. For instance, the dirt down," he grits great.
"But basketball was meant to be played on a wood surface."
John encountered injury problems after the Tartan floor was installed at Drake.
"We noticed more knee and
kid injuries," John said. "When
you stop on it, you stop."
Ccoach Sox Walseth at Colorado had the same problem this season. The Buffaloes have a synthetic door for three years.
"WE HAD A rash of knee injuries in my last season, but say it's the floor's fail but we lost three regulars before the season started, and this has been an issue."
"It's pretty good stuff, but we have some problems getting it to be the right stickiness on the surface. The main problem is that there's too much traction. But when it's dirty, it gets too tickle."
The Colorado field house is used for physical education and for recreation as Allen Field House would be after a Tartan dress. The other floor makes maintenance a problem, Walshe said.
"Personally, I think that when you combine recreation and intramurais on a varity courts."
Walseth said, "it's not an ideal situation. It's hard to keep."
much! A rash to keep it up "You can do great things on it but I'm not certain about using it for athletic facilities."
MANTENANCE considerations constitute a majority of the reasons for KUs play to surface walls and floor with Tartan, Sinson said.
"The No. 1 advantage of putting it in would be that we wouldn't have to take it down and it up all the time." Stinson said.
"it's a combination of things in the field house. Now, the morning is the day when we wet the dirt down so it won't be too dusty to play basketball too"
The expense of frequent room cleaning and good floor would be eliminated, said. The present floor, purpureous, is nearing the end of cleanliness.
Installation of the Tartan floor in K-State's Ahearn Field House is part of a renovation project, and the work will be used for physical education.
"We're putting the floor in to make it more functional," Hartman explained. "This way, we have three floors instead of one."
David Miller, KU student
entered dirt area in Allen Field
House be surfaced and three
courts set up for recreation use at
the site.
goal is to relieve overcrowding in Robinson Gym.
MOURSISU' NEW field house has been surfaced with a Tartan floor. The Tigers will move into the new facility this spring.
"I think that after examining everything we found a synthetic surface best suited to our coaches," Coach Norm Stewart said.
Advantages of the synthetic glue-side consistency, Stewart, said. The basketball bounces the same way everywhere on the court; there is no mess.
"Also," Stewart said, "the lacertions are supposedly completely removed. There are only small splints or abrasions."
Missouri's new basketball arena will not be used for physical education or recreation. Stewartsaid.
"THEY CAN'T really prove that the floor is what caused those injuries," Owens said about Walseth's objections. "The floor is not through. You need good traction, but you also need some slippage.
If "Tartan can guarantee us a product that will not be too sticky and can be maintained, then you have to give it the same field house. We've got to get the dirt out. We'll never have an attractive place in her until we get it."
Tartan floor apparently has been interviewed him a year and a half ago. He accepts the idea of a Tartan floor in the absence of a fire.
"What would be ideal," Owens said, "would be if we can have the Tartan floor wall to wall and use a raised wooden floor. This is what I'd prefer, something like an 8-foot high raised wooden floor on the Tartan surface.
IF 'THAT' NOT's a workable solution to the problem in here, then we'll have to go all Tartan, and that would be all right with
John agreed. Although Iowa State decided on a concrete floor with a raised wooden playing court, the playersColliseum, John said the best use of Tartan would require a wooden basketball court for varsity
"We've got a Cincinnati wooden floor, and it's the best basketball floor made," John said.
Such a new wooden floor would cost about $35,000, Stinson said.
cost about $35,000, Stinson said. "That would eliminate the use of the floor for activities," Stinson pointed out. "You cannot be taking it down every day and making it up every day for practice."
"It might be the ideal thing to do, but it wouldn't be very feasible."
'52 NCAA Champs to Return to KU
'Good Old Days' Recalled
By BRAD AVERY
Kansas Sports Writer
What ever happened to the good old days? That question has been pressed more than any other by the frustrated parents of the world. If they attended the University of Iowa, they were on "perhaps one day," perhaps one of the years they have missed most was 1952, the year Kanehaus won national championship.
KU will resume a bit of that past next weekend when the only team from the Big Eight ever to win an ACC title is KU-Missouri basketball game Feb. 26. The setting was radically different when men played in a single game.
His optimism seemed justifie when Kansas opened with a 57-4
WITH LOVELYLEE, a gambit player at 6-foot-9 and leading the his sweeping hookshots and easy jumpers, Allen was confident.
Amid the trades of Joe Clemente, the son of DeWight Dewitt, Ennoyer to the presidency; Clyde Lovelatte and the president; its first and only pionnain crown.
Phog Allen was entering his 35th season as coach that year. He will be leading the conference championship after finishing second the year before.
Schneider Goes To ABA Meet
Fred Schneider, Russell seniell, expert exp in triangling the American West with tournament in Long Beach, Long Beach, weekend in the all-events division of Association of College Unions International Region 11
Schneider won in a field of 70 with a total pinfall of 1,799. He was followed closely by Steve Hefley. Bonner Springs junior, with 1,794. Hefley is an alternate national tournament April 22-24.
In the doubles division Hefley teamed with Steve Zimmerman, Toperka辛娘, to place first with 1.216 points. Bill Mug杰格t, David Peele, Dan Patton, Central Missouri State, placed second in doubles
victory over Baylin in the first half, and both Auditorium. The Jayhawks set a single-game school scoring record the following game with a win over Baylin.
Perhaps, thoughts of intense determination lay on Alen's head when his team of Dean Kelley, Bill Lienhard, and Jon Lovelove their next five games in a row and on Jan. 3 were named the top team in the league.
Ah, but how the hopes and dreams of men can be dashed, nimble, sinner their ability to recruit untutured agrarians from down the river (sometimes known as K-State) crushed the mighty Jayhawks,
AND, ALAS, life must have seemed a cruel riddle when Okhakionn took (then Okhakionn is second hiss in four nights, 49-45.
But it is often said that the test
KU Recruits 22nd Senior
Marc Craven, a 6-foot-2, 215-pound offensive and defensive tackle for the West, has signed a Big Eight letter of intent to attend the University of Kansas, coach Dan Sloan, had announced Wednesday.
Also a heavyweight wrestler, Craven was selected by the Kansas City Star to its all-state team.
Craven is the 22nd high school in Oklahoma and with KU since the official signage period began last week. He is the 16th recruit from the Kansas City.
The University of Kansas women's basketball team will conclude regular season play against Washington at washburn in Topeka
Women Cagers Close Season
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of a great team is its ability to overcome adversity. The severity of the damage from the ashes of defeat and went on to crush ofe after foe. Nine consecutive times did they triumph, but the biggest test yet was
Still greater foes lurked in the NCAA regional, waiting to snuff out the dream. It almost outnumbered the band, but TXU finally fitted, 88-64.
The second round saw the second round with the Lovettee pour in 44 points in a crush defeat of St. Louis, 74-55. But the last test still未完。
THE FIRST round of the NCAA final a report of the score for each team over Santa Clara. Now only St. John's remained between Kansas and Arizona.
The game began with a Lovelle free throw, and KU never relinquished the lead. St. Louis won 10-9, the Hawks and badly lost 8-3.
"Victory," cried the 10,000 Lawrence citizens who turned out to honor the national champions who had lost in a fire drove the fire truck down
Massachusetts wearing a white fire chief's hat.
Clyde Lovelette is still the Jahayws all-time, leading scorer with 1.888 points. Charlie Hosse was one of KU's last three games and has knowns when Kansas will win another national championship.
Ah, those were the days. Ah, those are the days that era are still with us, so are the achievements of the 28-3 (including later Olympic trial).
New President For Houston
NEW YORK (AP)—Ray Patterson, who in three years turned the Milwaukee Bucks into one of the league's best basketball Association by winning a coin flip for Kareem Abdul Jabbar and trading for Oscar Robertson, was named the Houston Rockets Wednesday.
Patterson, who held the same position with the Bucks, tendered his resignation, effective May 1.
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BUT, STINSON added, "we're no closer to getting a synthetic surface than we were 16 years ago, using a lot of talking beforehand.
So perhaps Owens can regard a possibility of getting back to his resignation than that with which Hartman and Stewart look forward to using them.
"We'll go aband and use it for the games," Hartman said. "We're anxious to see how it works."
Dev Nelson, K-State sports information director, said Hartman had considered keeping wooden floor for use during games.
"We think it's going to be very attractive," was the most Stewart could say.
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