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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Jan. 8, 1963
Veterans and Three Sophs Must Boost Indoor Champs
By Roy Miller
Bill Easton, KU track coach, says he likes closely fought track meets. Easton also admits that he doesn't relish meets that end as close as last year's Big Eight indoor track meet.
KU came away from the meet at Kansas City with the league title. Only eleven-twelfths of a point kept Nebraska from grabbing the same trophy, however.
Going into the last event, defending champion KU trailed the Cornhuskers by six and one-fourth points. The final event was the pole vault and one Jayhawker, Roger Schmanke, had already placed third
IT WAS ALL UP to Jack Stevens. Stevens missed on his first two tries. Then, the bar at 14-10, Stevens leaped over the bar and gave KU a $53^4$ to $52^4$ margin over the Cornbushers.
This year Easton hopes things won't be quite so close.
Returning are nine lettermen for the indoor season which opens at Allen Field House Feb. 1 in a dual with Pittsburg.
The returning lettermen, all except one seniors, are:
MIKE FULGHUM, distance; Kirk Hagan, Big Eight 1,000-yard champion the past two years; Charlie Hayward, second in the league indoor two-mile last year and cross country captain; Roger Schmanke, third in the pole vault; Bill Stoddart, 440 and a member of the fourth place league mile relay team; Ron Swanson, third in the high jump; Yul Yost, shot put, and Ted Riesinger, third in the mile and fifth in the 1,000.
The lane junior returner is Tonnie Coane, fifth in the 500 and a member of the mile baton crew.
Easton believes that KU's chance of defending its crown will depend largely on the lettermen and three sophomores, all members of the varsity football team.
THE THREE sophomores are Gale Savers, all-Big Eight halfback and the Jayhawks' leading rusher and scorer; Lloyd Buzzi, leading KU pass receiver, and Dave Crandall, alternate slot-back.
"These men will give us the balance we need to compete against the high level in the conference this year." Easton said. "And, too, we're glad to try to help them with their running in football. It will make us happy if we can add a half-step more of speed to each of the halfbacks' running."
Crandall, who ran the 100 three times in 9.9 as a senior at Topeka High School, has already reported to practice.
SAYERS RAN the 100 in 9.7 at Omaha (Neb.) Central High and sailed to the best prep broad jump in the nation as a senior there with a 24-5 leap.
Buzzi was a state champion hurdler from Arkansas City High School. Easton calls Sayers the team's "life-line" in the sprints and broad jump.
Other returning veterans besides the lettermen are Charlie Twiss, fourth in the indoor high jump; George Cabrera, the Jayhawks' top cross country hand this fall, and Sparky Patterson, who has been limited by injuries in the past but is a 440 prospect this season.
THE MAIN LOSSES from last year's team were Bill Dotson, mile; Larry McCue, sprints; Dan Ralston, distance; Charlie Smith, hurdles, and Bill Thornton, distance.
Promising sophomores are Ty Smith, high jump; Don Vaugham, 440; Ed Wiberg, hurdles; Bill Chambers, hurdles; Bill Cottle, distance; Herald Hadley, distance; Harold House, hurdles; Gary Janzen, 880; Chuck Lanning, 440; Bob Lowry, 440 and broad jump, and Glenn Martin, hurdles and broad jump.
Six prospects are junior college transfers. Their former school and event are:
event are. Chick Fero, Bakersfield, Calif. distance; Jerry Gilliland, Scottsbluff, Neb. hurdles; Dewey Amos, Garden City, 440; Floyd Manning, Ventura, Calif. pault vault; Rog Suggs, Bakersfield, Calif. hurdles, and Paul Taylor, Coffeyville. distance.
"THE BASIS of our indoor team will be the come-through of our older men at the conference meet last year," Easton said. "These are all experienced hands who scored last year and the ones who should come through."
Kansas has captured the loop indoor title in 11 of the past 13 meets. The KU 1963 indoor track schedule:
Feb. 1, Pittsburgh State here; Feb.
9, Southern Illinois, here; Feb. 15,
Oklahoma, here; Feb. 23, triangular
between Oklahoma State, Kansas
State and KU, here; March 1-2, Big
Eight Meet, Kansas City, March 9,
Chicago Daily News, and March 16,
Kansas State Invitational.
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