ATTA BOY, DICK!—KU's splendid sprinter, Dick Blair, noses out Jack Davis of Missouri in the 60-yard dash to help Kansas sweep to its fifth straight Big Seven indoor track championship Saturday, Henry Philomon of I-State follows Blair and Davis across the finish line.
—(Daily Kansan Photo by Tom Siegfried)
Trackmen Win Fifth Straight Indoor Title, Nieder Shines
Fritz Hageboeck eualled the 60-yard high hurdle mark of 7.4 seconds.
Al Frame, Kansas co-captain, pulled a surprise in winning both the mile and the 880-yard runs. He won the mile in 4:16.9 ahead of Keith Bacon of Missouri. Hal Long and Lowell Janzen added to the KU total by taking third and fourth in this event.
Performances in other events sparkled as KU performers won blue ribbons, but it was the old Kansas forte, strength in the distance runs that insured the Jayhawkers of their fifth consecutive big Seven indoor track championship this weekend in Kansas City.
Frame A Double Winner
Bob Lang of Missouri bettered the old high jump mark of 6 feet 53/8 inches with a leap of 6 feet 71/2 inches. KU's Bob Cannon pressed Lang all the way and finished second with a jump of 6 feet 5 inches.
Kansas scored 22 points in the mile, two-mile and 880 for a total of 51 points. Oklahoma was second with 45/1 2 points and Missouri third with 36. At the other end of the scoring were Iowa State with 13/1 2, Kansas State 8 and Nebraska 4/1 2.
New NCAA Record
Four new marks were set and one old record was tied during the two-day track and field events.
Most impressive of the new standards was a tremendous 59-foot 9-4-inch shot put by KU's Bill Nieder. The mark, established in Friday's preliminaries, erased a collegiate mark of 59-feet 23/8 inches set by Parry O'Brien and made Nieder the second best shot putter in the United States.
Hendrick Kruger of Oklahoma soared 14 feet 6 inches in the pole vault to break the old Big Seven mark of 13 feet 11/78 inches set by Bob Carroll, also of Oklahoma. Oklahoma's mile relay team shaved a full second off their old mark with a time of 3:20.0.
Dropping out of the two-mile run, which he normally runs after a shot at the mile, Frame competed in the 880 for the first time this year. Trailing Missouri's Duane Kelley most of the way, Frame put on a burst of speed on the last lap to win that event in 1:54.7, the best time registered by a league runner in the 880 this year .
Dick Blair, other Kansas captain had the last word in his private duel with spinner Jack Davis of Missouri. Blair nosed out Davis in the 60-yard dash in :63. to successfully defend his championship in that event.
Floerke Nosed Out
Jerry McNeal of KU took the lead in the two-mile from Jim Wyatt after the thirteenth lap and went on to win in 9:31.9. Jayhawker Bob Nicholson took fourth in the two-mile.
Oklahoma's Erwin Cook nosed out KU's Kent Floerke for first place 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 21/2 inches
Dave Tams, Jayhawker pole vaulter managed a three-way tie at a height of 13 feet 5 inches.
KU's mile relay team of Dick Blair, Bob Franklin, Larry Stroup
and Lou Stroup finished second behind the record-breaking Oklahoma team.
KU scored 31 points in the running events and 20 points in the field events.
Thirty freshman football players
attend the 1986 season. They are
Nebraska finished last in the meet for the first time in the indoor championship meet.
30 Freshmen Given Letters
Bill Baker, Kansas City, Kan.; Larry Barcus, Kansas City, Kan.; Gaylon Brown, Norman, Okla.; John Burke, Mission, Bob Cunningham, Assumption, Mo.; James Doolittle, Wichita; Charles Elvin, Haven; Bob Fischer, Bergfield, N. J.; Mike Fisher, Hartford, Conn.; Homer Floyd, Massillon, Ky.; Michael Hicks, Warren Henon, Liberal; Tom Herzog, Manitowoc, Wisc.; John Husar, Chicago; Ron Johnson, Hammond, Ind.; Elmer Laurent, Brackenbridge, Pa.; DeWitt Lewis, Barnesville, Ohio; Jeffrey Mulligan, Ellis; Bill Michael, Elmhurst, Ill.; Ken Morris, Salina; Art Meguer, St. Louis, Mo.; Bob Padgett, Evansville, Palmer, Atkinson, Scottsdale; Baio, Pa.; Larry Steppe, Junction City; Bill Pilya, Stuebenville, Ohio; Pete Whitenight, Lawrence.
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Santee Wins In 4:13.8; Court To Decide This Week's Fate
NEW YORK (UP)—Wes Santee, following an unimpressive winning time of 4:13.8 in the Columbian Mile Saturday, hoped today for a better showing in this Saturday's track meet at Milwaukee—if a court action on Friday allows him to compete.
An injunction issued by the State Supreme Court to lift the AAU's suspension of Santee cleared the way for the lanky Marine lieutenant to run in the Columbian at Madison Square Garden Saturday, but he could only turn in a dull 4:13.8 effort in his victory.
This Saturday, Wes is entered in the mile at the Milwaukee Journal games and he hopes to be faster.
Oliver Kuechle, director of the
Milwaukee meet, said his group will be guided strictly by the Friday court action in deciding whether to allow Santee to run
Santee gave it all he had, which apparently wasn't too much at this time. He ripped through the half mile in 2:02.1 and seemed en route to a new Garden record. Then he slowed up and fought tiring muscles the rest of the way. It didn't make much difference to the crowd of 12,500, which gave him a huge ovation before, during, and after the race.
At the court hearing this Friday, the AAU will be called on to show why the temporary injunction against its ban should not be made permanent.
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