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Feb.4 Indoor Meet To Make KU History
History will be made Saturday, Feb. 4, 1956, in the Allen Field House when the Kansas indoor track team meets Okelhoma. It will be the first time that the University of Kansas has run an indoor
track meet on the campus.
An opening ceremony will precede the meet which will start with the field events at 7:30 p.m.
To Michigan State Relays
The Sooners are an appropriate opening opponent as they are coached by John Jacobs, the oldest track coach in years of service in the Big Seven.
To Michigan State Relays Coach Bill Easton's squad will travel to East Lansing, Mich., for the Michigan State Relays Feb. 11, Michigan and Missouri will oppose the Jayhawks on Feb. 18 and 25 respectively. Both meets are in the Allen Field House.
The Big Seven Indoor Meet will be held March 2-3 in Kansas City, Kansas will be after their fifth straight Big Seven indoor title, a feat never before accomplished in Missouri Valley, Big Six, or Big Seven conference history.
The three meets in the Allen Field House all are scheduled for Saturdays and will begin with the field events at 7:30 p.m. and the running events, starting with the mile, at 8 p.m.
The best spectator seats will be on the east side as the straightaway is located on the west side. All the running events will start and finish in the west section. The track, composed of clay, sand, and sawdust, is one-eighth of a mile.
Running. Field Events
The running events will include the 60-yard dash, 60-yard high and low hurdles, quarer-mile, half-mile, and two-mile runs, and a mile relay. The high jump, broad jump, pole vault, and shot put will comprise the field events.
In previous years, all indoor meets we run in foreign field houses as there was no place to hold such a contest at KU. The Alen Field House will also provide much-improved training quarters. Previously, the tracksters held workouts in the frigid east section of the football stadium.
Ray Evans, former KU all-American, has been appointed state sports chairman for the March of Dimes for 1956.
Mercury is the only metal that remains liquid at ordinary temperatures.
3 Are Favored In MV Race
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (U.P.)—The Missouri Valley Conference, in which Coach Hank Iba's Oklahoma Aggies have always been a powerhouse, figures to be a three-team race with St. Louis, Houston and the Aggies fighting for the top spot.
Houston, led by 7-foot Don Boldebuck, was picked in one poll to be slightly stronger than St. Louis, or Oklahoma A&M. But a poll of Missouri Valley coaches shows St. Louis, under Coach Eddie Hickey, the favorite with Houston second and the Oklahoma Aggies third. It was "take your choice" for the finish of Wichita, Tulsa, and Detroit.
Doyle Parrack of Oklahoma, the only new coach in the circuit, said he believed the Sooners would be "real weak"—quite a contrast from the football team.
The Big Seven isn't nearly so well categorized, but champion Colorado may be hard pushed to stay in the seniors. Coach Bebe Lee has four seniors to form the nucleus of the team, with six juniors and five sophomores.
There are several "big boys" in the circuit, topped by Jack Parr of Kansas State and Bill Thom of Nebraska, both 6-feet, 9-inches. Iowa State has Don Medsker, 6-feet, 8-inches, Kansas' tallest man will be Lew Johnson, 6-feet, $ \frac{6}{1} $inches.
5 Are All-Conference
DALLAS, Tex. (U.P.)-All-America halfback James Swink, the only unanimous choice, was one of five Texas Christian players named on the 1955 United Press All-Southwest Conference team.
James Kelly of the University of Minnesota will coach the U.S. Olympic track and field team for next year's games.
The San Diego club of the Pacific Coast league today purchased Harry Elliott, outfielder, from the St. Louis Cardinals.
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The Jayhawk track team will move into new quarters at the Allen Field House today, Coach Bill Easton said.
Track Moves Quarters
Members of the varsity squad will move today and the freshmen will move tomorrow.
The old dressing quarters were located under the east side of Memorial Stadium.
The cross-country schedule was closed Monday after the team participated in the NCAA meet at East Lansing, Mich.
"All effort will now be placed on shaping the team for a tough indoor schedule," Coach Easton said.
Thursday, Dec. 1, 1955.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (U.P.)—The Kansas City Athletics said today they would play 44 night games in 1956, the first of them April 23 against the Detroit Tigers.
He said any student wishing to try out for the team should call him at his office in the field house KU 464.
The A's announced a 77-game home schedule, opening against the Chicago White Sox April 20 and closing against the White Sox Sept. 30.
A's Schedule 77 Home Games
Because of the limited seating capacity at Municipal Stadium, the A's will play morning and afternoon games on Memorial Day, May 30. and Labor Day, Sept. 3.
Eastern clubs will open in Kansas City with Baltimore May 15. Boston, New York and Washington will follow the Orioles.
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