Page 8 University Daily Kansan
Friday, Sept. 28. 1962
Easton Perturbed; Few Frosh Report
By Roy Miller
Bill Easton, KU cross country coach, is perturbed.
Only 17 freshmen have reported for cross country this fall, one of the lowest turnouts in years. Last year, 30 freshmen tried out.
COACH EASTON believes that there are two reasons for his prospect shortage. They are:
- Freshmen who come to KU from a small high school feel they don't have the proper background for a cross country team at a school as large as KU.
- Others feel participation in cross country requires an extraordinary amount of time and work.
"These are both fallacies," Easton said. "Everyone will be given an opportunity to show and reach his potential.
"Some of the greatest boys we have had came from small towns," Easton said. "Why look at Bill Dotson—he came from Jamestown—that's just a wide place in the road."
ARGUING AGAINST the claim that trying out for the cross country team damages grades, Easton said, "We find that our boys actually make better grades while out for the sport."
Easton commented that in 16 years, only three track or cross country team members have not graduated.
Standing in his outer office, pointing at the pictures of Kansas cross country and track stars of the past, Easton pointed out the Phi Beta Kappas. Of the pictures on the walls, Al Frame, Kent Floerke and Dick Blair gained the Phi Beta Kappa honor.
"We extend to every boy who has some past experience," Easton said, "a warm and cordial invitation to try out for cross country."
CU 'System' Revealed
A breakdown in the "system" that governs big-time college football was responsible for the firing last spring of University of Colorado coach Sonny Grandelius, according to an article based on University files published in the current issue of Sport magazine.
Under the title "Anatomy of a College Football Scandal," author Bill Furlong reveals that Colorado President Quigg Newton wrote a letter in March 1961 to all University athletic coaches reminding them that Big Eight and NCAA rules were not to be violated. The letter was written after rumors of illegal recruiting practices began circulating in Boulder. Newton warned that any coach involved in a violation could not expect the support of the University and would be dismissed.
THIS, FURLONG SAYS, was :
signal to Grandelius and his assistants that the "system" wasn't working. How it does work in schools where cheating to win is overlooked, is described as follows: "It accepts that the football staff will be an empire apart from the college—the farther apart the better. The head coach does one thing vital for the peace of mind of the president: he keeps him officially ignorant of any cheating in the football department. In that way, the president can always insist—if things get sticky—that he was innocent of any wrongdoing. In short, the coach lies in order to protect the president. In return the president is expected to protect the football coach."
The NCAA began an investigation in August 1961 of charges that Colorado was violating the NCAA code.
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