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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Nov. 1, 1963
KC Pro Football Chiefs' Pepsters Double as Students
EDITORS NOTE: Randy Neil, a member of the Kansan's sports staff, is head cheerleader for the Kansas City Chiefs professional football team. Below he tells how the cheering squad was formed.
By Randy Neil
KU students will be contributing to football enthusiasm double-time this year. As many students will follow the new Kansas City Chiefs Professional football team after watching the Jayhawks on Saturdays, several students are active on the new Chiefs' cheerleading squad as well as here at KU.
We thought it important that Kansas City's pro football effort should have a group of cheerleaders to act as the liaison between the team and the people, so we wrote a letter to Lamar Hunt, owner of the former Dallas Texans, in April.
Mr. Hunt replied, saying that such a squad could be an important asset to the team.
IN MAY, WE began to contact students in the Greater Kansas City area who were well-known and experienced as yell leaders for colleges and high schools. Talking with Tim Hamil, KU head cheerleader, we learned of several students here that would want to be a part of our program.
First to be contacted were Phyllis Schneider, a sophomore; Georgia Lonnecker, a junior; Linda Paradise; a sophomore; Ron Tucker, senior; Larry Brooks, junior, and Bill Thomas.
All are presently Jayhawk cheerleaders, except for Brooks, who is treasurer of the pep clubs, and Bill Thomas, who is president and a member of the band.
After recruiting other students from Tarkio, William Jewell, and Kansas State, as well as Kansas City high schools, we began practices
which were often as frequent as three times a week.
WE WORKED on tumbles and stunts that are very much like those used by KU. We then varied our program to be commensurate with requirements for professional football.
After initial organization details had been taken care of, we began to contact merchants who would donate our uniforms. The boys had no trouble in obtaining red blazers. The girls made their own uniforms.
Kansas City businessmen, who were behind the Chiefs' ticket drive, began to take an interest in our progress. We appeared several times on local television stations, were interviewed on radio stations and became a part of many public appearances and parades that marked the arrival of pro football in Kansas City.
In addition, pictures of various members of our squad were distributed to football writers across the country; activities of the group were picked up by other pro teams and ABC-TV decided to feature our group on coast-to-coast television some time late in the season
THE KANSAS CITY Chiefs' cheerleaders were formed after a pattern set by the KU squad and our success in becoming one of the best known groups of its kind in pro football can be attributed, in many areas, to students from here.
Our plans for the future, being mapped by the Chiefs' publicity office, include a national cheerleading conference for college and pro cheerleaders to be held in Kansas City next June. A special invitation, as guests of honor, will be sent out to all members of the Jayhawks cheerleading organization.
Big Eight Wrestlers Win National Honors
By Dick Shireman
It may come as a surprise to most KU students, but wrestling is a popular sport in the Big Eight Conference.
In fact, Big Eight schools have won 30 of the 34 NCAA team championships and have produced 125 of 285 national individual champs.
KU will have a wrestling team this year for the first time since 1935. The Jayhawks, coached by Dwayne Hal, will compete in eight dual meets and the conference meet.
OKLAHOMA STATE won the Big Eight meet last year and then made its lowest finish in history in the NCAA meet by placing fourth. Oklahoma edged Iowa State, 48-45, for the NCAA title.
"Wrestling is coming back because the students themselves are interested." Hall, who is director of the Kansas Union Food Service, said. "The sport is growing faster than any other sport in the nation's high schools, jumping from 12th to fifth in number of participants in the last 10 years."
Home meets will be in Allen Field House. Workouts at present are being conducted in Robinson Gymnasium.
THE SQUAD INCLUDES:
Ron Manka, Jim Elkan, Darrell Ward, Steve Converse, Chip Kapalan, Tim Cunningham, Ron Fergeson, Marc Ryan, Blake Jensen, David Ward, Dennis Whisker, Louis Ward, and Kenneth Shumate.
Following the varsity football season, Phil Doughty, Gary Duff and Fred Elder plan to report.
THE MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE was the original forerunner of the Big Eight. It was founded in 1907 with Iowa, KU, Missouri, Nebraska and Washington of St. Louis the charter members.
Hall said the Jayhawk wrestlers' tentative schedule is as follows:
Dec. 6, South Dakota State here; Dec. 12, Central Missouri State here; Dec. 17, Missouri at Columbia; Jan. 10, Missouri here; Jan. 16, William Jewel College here; Jan. 25, Central Missouri State at Warensburg; Feb. 14, Fort Hays State here; Feb. 21, Northwest Missouri State here and March 13-14 Big Eight meet at Oklahoma State.
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