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University Daily Kansas Fallen April 28, 1970
Track Team Wins Baseball Team Wins First Six Starts; 5th Indoor Crown Five Sophomores Make First Team
The KU track team will enter the Relays with an impressive indoor season behind it, having captured the Big Seven indoor conference title for the fifth straight year.
In the Big Seven indoor meet last March, the Jayhawk distance squad amassed a total of 22 points in the mile, two-mile, and 880—with shot putter Bill Nieder and spinner Dick Blair also adding ribbons to the team score of 51 points.
Nieder set an indoor record with a tremendous 59 foot 94 inch throw. to break Olympic champion Parry O'Brien's collegiate mark of 59 feet 2 inches.
Al Frame surprised fans by winning the 880-beating Missouri's Duane Kelley who had the best registered time by a league runner this year, 1:57.7—and by winning his specialty, the mile, in 4:16.9 the same evening. Hal Long and Lowell Janzen added points in this event by taking third and fourth.
Jerry McNeal of KU won the two-mile in 9:31.9 and teammate Bob Nicholson placed fourth.
Co-captain Dick Blair won his private duel with spinner Jack Davis of Missouri, by nosing out the Tiger dash-man in the 60-yard event in :63.6, to successfully defend his title.
Dave Tams managed a three-way tie in the pole vault, clearing 13 feet 5 inches. Pitman-teammate Kent Floerke missed first in the broad jump by one-half inch, with a jump of 24 feet 1 inch. Frank Mastin of Kansas finished fifth with a leap of 22 feet $ 2 \frac{1}{2} $ inches.
Bob Cannon finished second behind record-breaking Bob Lang of Missouri in the high jump by jumping 6 feet 5 inches. Lang set the record with a jump of 6 feet $7 \frac{1}{2}$ inches.
Mile Relay Record KU's mile relay team of Dick
BOB SHIRLEY
Blair, Bob Franklin, Larry and Louis Sturge finished second behind Oklahoma, who broke the old meet record.
4 First Places
Floerke took a first in the broad jump with 24 feet $3\frac{3}{8}$ inches; Nieder set a shot put record with a 57 foot $6\frac{3}{4}$ inch throw; Bernie Gay ran 4:28.8 to win the mile; the team of Lowell Janzen-Lou Stroup-Hal Long - Al Frame captured the distance medley in 10.08.8, while second-place medals went to Jan Howell in the 1.000 meter run, Lou Stroup in the 600 meter dash, and Jerry McNeal in the two-mile.
Dual meet scores: Kansas 56,
Oklahoma 48; Kansas 56, Michigan
58; Kansas 59, Missouri 45.
Winner of its first six starts this season, coach Floyd Temple's, baseballers seem a cinch to improve on last year's 6 won, 16 lost overall record.
The team is in the rebuilding stage, starting as many as five sophemores. However, returning lettermen Forrest Hogland, Bob Conn, Don Steinmeyer, Don Pfuntzeurer, Gary Feney, Fuzzy Martin, and Don Dixon add considerable balance and experience to the young squad.
The five starting sophomores are Barry Donaldson, Barry Robertson, Jim Trombold, Ron Wiley, and Dale Gulledge. Robertson and Donaldson rank two and three on the batting list with 4 for 11 for a .364 average and .333 on 3 for 9, respectively.
Hoglund leads all hitters with a zooming .555 average from five hits in nine trips to the plate. Conn is fied with Robertson at .364.
The team lineup:
Barry Robertson, short stop; Dale Gulledge, second base; Punky Hoglund, third base; Bob Conn, center field; Barky Donaldson, catcher; Jim Trombold, first base; Don Steinmeyer, left field, and Eddie Dater, right field.
Despite the club's inexperience, Coach Temple states, "I think this year's ball club is about 50 percent improved over last year's. The boys have shown lots of hustle, and that could really make the difference in the close ones"
The pitching has looked good in spots with Bob Shirley regaining his old form, while sophomore Ron Wiley has become No. 2 man on the six man staff. Lefthandees Gary Fenity and Van Cooper and righthanders Fuzzy Martin and Gary Russell also will help considerably.
Lack of hard-hitting outfielders is a big problem, although defensively the outfield is adequate. Despite Shirley's comeback and Wiley's unexpected brilliance, the pitching staff
BOB CONN
lacks depth and must improve to win consistently in the Big Seven.
Gary Fenity's relief job in the second game against Arkansas State has raised hopes somewhat. His timely double with the bases loaded won the ball came and gave him his first win of the year. Thus far, the pitching victories are evenly spread with Shirley, Wiley, and Fenity each taking one apiece.
With a sophomore-dominated squad and inexperience in the infield and at catcher, it is essential that the early scheduled games against non-conference foes round the Jayhawks into a unit which can finish in the first division of the Big Seven.
Big Seven play gets underway for the Jayhawks April 23, when Kansas plays Kansas State here.
65,000 Watched Basketball Team
During the past season a new attendance record was set as approximately 65,000 persons watched Coach Forest C. "Phog" Allen's last Kansas basketball team in action.
Nearly 14 months ago, the University of Kansas basketball team moved into Allen Field House. Since that time the KU team has won nine games while losing only two in the new sports arena.
Pitch the dedication game on March 1, 1955 against Kansas State and the Kansas State game this season drew crowd crowds of 17,-00. Accommodating 17,000 fans, Allen Field House is outranked only by Minnesota with a capacity of 18,250.
Before being ruled ineligible Dallas Dobbs, contain of the 56 team, set the Allen Field Score scoring record as he netted 30 points against the Oklahoma Sooners.
Dobb's record lasted only two months as Fritz Schneider poured through 36 points against KU in Kansas State's winning game.
Wilt Chamberlain, controversial freshman center actually scored the most points in the field house when he hit for 44 as the freshman defeated the varisty 81-71. Because it was not an intercollegiate game, this did not go down as a field house record.
Basketball isn't the only use of the new field house.
Approximately 5,000 fans watched Kansas win two out of three indoor track meets in the new sports arena. The largest crowd, 2,700, saw Kansas go down to defeat before Michigan 78 to 56.
With the moving of the football practice fields to the area south of the field house. Kansas footballers now use the field house locker and shower room facilities.
When the playing floor was removed after the basketball season, Floyd Temple's baseball team used the field house for three weeks before the weather permittd them to practice outside.
Congratulations, Champions
1956 INDOOR & OUTDOOR TRACK AND FIELD TEAM (left to right) 1st row: Bob Lida, Clark Mock, Larry Tharp, Bob Cormack, Bob Smith, Asst. Manager, Paul Baker, Verlyn Schmidt, Earl Eblen, Bob Brooks. 2nd row: Bob Cannon, Jan Howell, Gene Blasi, Bill Nieder, Coach Bill Easton, Kent Floerke, Al Oterer, Dave Tams, Grant Cool son. 3rd row: Jack Warner, Asst. Coach, Lowell Janzen, Hal Long, Les Bitner, Harry Solter, Capt. Dick Blair, Bob Franklin, Bernie Gay, Tom Rupp, Ray Wyatt, Harold Hein, Manager. Back row: Bob Nicholson, Frank Mastin, Larry Stroup, Jim Londerholm, Al Frame, Dave Freeman, Jerry McNeal, Louie Stroup, Larry Frisbie, Bob Lewis. Absent when picture was taken—Blaine Hollinger and John Parker both still out for basketball.
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