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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Sept. 19, 1962
The Intramural Scene
Football Opens Intramural Slate
KU boasts an intramural sports program which parallels the growth of the University. The school is 96 years old, so is its intramural program.
This year promises to be one of the best of those 96 years, too. About 3,500 men, more than half the total male enrollment, are expected to participate in one or more intramural sport during the school year.
The 1962-63 intramurals program begins Sept. 26 with touch football. A meeting for team managers will be held Sept. 24, at 4 p.m. in Robinson Gymnasium.
"WITH THE INCREASED enrollment, we expect a greater participation than ever before in football this year," said Walter J. Mikols, director of men's intramurals.
Organized in fraternity and independent divisions, "A" and "B" teams will play on the intramural fields across from Summerfield Hall.
Other fall sports are badminton, golf, tennis and horseshoes.
The fall semester bowling leagues will soon begin in the Jay Bowl, located in the basement of the Kansas
Union. Captains of women's teams meet this afternoon at 4:30 in the Oread Room of the Union for an organizational meeting.
THE MEN'S CAPTAINS meeting will be tomorrow at 4 p.m. in Room 305 of the Union.
Bascom Fearing, varsity bowling coach, is director of the intramural bowling program.
For those who do not prefer team or individual intramural sports, the facilities of Robinson Gym are open to students. "We invite students to use the facilities in the gym," said Henry A. Shenk, chairman of the physical education department.
Gym floors will be available except during class hours. An indoor 100-yard track is located around the upper perimeter of the second floor gym area.
MEN MAY SWIM in the basement pool in Robinson on Monday and Friday from 7-9 p.m. and from 2-4 p.m. each Saturday. Women's swimming is from 2-4 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday and 10-12 a.m. on Saturday.
Both men and women may swim
Duff, Kicker, Sprains Ankle; 1962 Season's Opener Nears
Jayhawker Coach Jack Mitchell has only two practice sessions, one this afternoon and one Thursday, in which to prepare the KU football team for Saturday's season opener against Texas Christian here.
Injuries haven't made Mitchell's task any easier.
physically fit for the TCU game.
Gary Duff became the latest addition to the Jayhawker injury list yesterday. Duff, a sophomore half-back and top KU place kicker, sprained his right ankle on the practice field.
AFTER YESTERDAY'S scrimimage, Mitchell still said it was "questionable" whether Ken Coleman, number one fullback, would be
"His injury is a mystery," Mitchell said. "He can run, but he can't maneuver well."
Brian Palmer, Winnipeg, Can. junior, has made the biggest jump of any Jayhawker to date. Yesterday, Palmer was working with the first unit. Palmer was the fourth string quarterback Saturday.
Charlie Hess, sophomore, worked on the first unit with Palmer as Mitchell rotated his quarterbacks and centers.
The starting defensive backfield for Saturday's game will be Ron Oelschlager, safety; Phil Doughty, quarterback; and Tony Leiker and Jim Marshall, who will alternate at the right corner-back spot.
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Yanks Contend for MVP Title
Now that they've got the pennant all but locked up, the Yankees are embarking on another campaign to see to it that Mickey Mantle wins the American League's Most Valuable Player award.
If he does, it will be the third time he has done so in his career and if he doesn't, his teammates feel it'll be a miscarriage of justice.
They said as much last night after Mantie teed off for two tremendous homers and drove in five runs in a 7-1 victory over the Washington Senators that padded the Yankees' lead to four games.
Mantle, who won his last MVP award in 1957, thinks this year's trophy should go to little Bobby Richardson.
But Richardson only laughs when he hears that. "I think Mickey's performance tonight sums up everybody's feeling on this club," said the Yankee second baseman following Mantle's showing last night.
Mickey, who is hitting at a 473 clip in the last 15 games, has boosted his average from 290 to 318 during that span. Both of his homers last night, his 28th and 29th of the season, came off Senator starter Tom Cheney, who was making his first appearance since striking out 21 Baltimore batters in a 16-inning game last week.
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Men's lockers are available at the gymnasium. A four dollar fee, two dollars of which is refundable, is charged per year.
on wednesdays from 7 a.m.
The men's weight-lifting room is open each weekday from 8 a.m.-10 p.m.
Winter intramural sports include basketball and volleyball. Spring intramural sports are softball, track, tennis, golf, handball, horseshoes and badminton.
"It would take 20 years for the varsity team to play as many games as we do in one season." Shenk said.
BASKETBALL ANNUALLY draws the largest number of participants in the program. Last year, 1,700 men competed.
In KU's opening year, and until 1920, such rivalries as the Law-Medicos game were played annually at homecoming.
"KU has one of the fine intramural programs in the country. The lack of facilities is the only handicap here."
Intramurals began on an organized basis in 1920 when G. B. Patrick, an assistant in the physical education department, and Forest C. Allen, then athletic director and basketball and football coach, formed a workable program.
The present system was devised by
John Sabo, varsity football end coach, 1925-1928. Intramurals gained increased popularity under Dr. E. R. Elibel, professor of physical education, who was director from 1928-1942.
Mikols has been in charge of the intramural program since 1952.
Can't Touch His Toes
DALLAS — (UPI) — The Dallas Texans of the American Football League have discovered that rookie flanker Bill Miller from the University of Miami can't touch his toes. Undismayed, Coach Hank Stram says: "We don't throw him many toes anyway."
Luckman Not Too Lucky
CHICAGO—(UPI)—Although Sid Luckman was regarded as one of pro football's best quarterbacks with the Chicago Bears, he still holds the National League record of throwing 31 intercepted passes during the 1947 season.
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