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Kansas Team Seeks NCAA Title Today
Kansas, boasting its best balanced team in history, will bid for the 1955 NCAA cross-country championship today. The 4-mile event will be run over the Michigan State course at East Lansing.
The only senior on the KU 7-man squad is defending individual champion, Al Frane. Joining Frame are juniors Jan Howell, Bernie Gay, Matt Helm, and sophomores Hal Long, Jerry McNeal and Bob Nicholson.
Five of the runners will count in the scoring and the other two will act as pushers.
Oklahoma A&M captured the 1954 title and Kansas took the 1953 championship. A&M will not be able to defend its title by virtue of entering only one man this year.
If KU wins, it will be because of strength in all seven spots. They bunched every member of their 5-man Big Seven championship team within 40 seconds two weeks ago at Ames and unlike other top contenders. Michigan State, Pittsburgh, Notre Dame, NYU, and St. Joseph, will have good runners in the No. 6 and 7 positions.
While Kansas is rather a rookie in national competition, Coach Bill Easton has produced four individual champions and a national crown since 1949. In that year, Herb Semper captured the individual title. Here is how Kansas has fared since 1949:
1950 - Semper again reigned as the national cross-country king and Kansas finished second in the meet as a team.
1951- The NCAA placed KU on probation and the Jayhawkers could not compete in NCAA-sponsored meets.
1953 - Under the leadership of Wes Santee, Kansas scored a dual victory by winning the individual and team championships.
1954—Frame kept the individual crown in the family by replacing Santee as the top college cross-country runner in the U.S. The team finished in third place.
Babe Sick Again; Enters Hospital
This time she had a friend in her room. Betty Dodd, who probably knows the Babe better than any of the many companions she had on the women's golfing circuit, was at her bedside constantly.
Babe checked into John Sealy Hospital yesterday afternoon and went immediately to a room she has rented for 19 days. She had a smile for the receptionist but was reported having severe pains in her hip, leg and foot.
Olympic Work Progressing
MELBOURNE, Australia — (U.P.) All construction work on Olympic sites in Melbourne is going ahead on schedule. Progress on the new stand to hold 40,000 people is satisfactory, while it is estimated the new boxing stadium at West Melbourne will be completed early in 1956.
By KENT THOMAS
Assistant Sports Editor
With the football season in its dying stage, basketball is coming into the spotlight and already the nation's best teams and players are being forecast.
It's not clear to us how teams and players can be rated by experts who see a few of them play and read about the others, but nevertheless, the pre-season ratings are somewhat interesting.
KU center Lew Johnson is one of four Big Seven players listed in the ten top players in the prairie states.
There they are for what they're worth.
Hawk Talk Special
Dell Magazine picks Kansas as the 19th best team in the nation this season, with no other Big Seven team being mentioned in the top 20.
It's interesting to note that SMU is picked 17th ahead of KU, but in its list of key game predictions, Dell picks KU over the Ponies in both meetings between the schools. Dallas Dobbs, Kansas guard, is picked on Dell's second all-American team. Dobbs is the only Big Seven player mentioned on the three all-American teams, although Missouri's Norm Stewart is picked for honorable mention.
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Adventure! Excitement! Intrigue! Where . . . travel. If you can't manage a trip on your current budget, you don't have to miss the fun. Come to the SUA Travel Coffees. The first is this afternoon at 4 in the Music & Browsing Room with Professor Lind, who will speak on his travels in Italy. Future programs will be on Spain, Japan, and Germany. Free coffee, of course.
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Intramural Officials To Meet Tonight
University Daily Kansan
Monday. Nov. 28, 1955.
All men interested in officiating intramural basketball games are asked to attend the basketball rules meeting at 7:30 tonight at the Lawrence High School, Walter Mikols, director of intramurals, said. Officials will be pay $1 a game.
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Intramural basketball competition will start on Wednesday, Dec. 7, with the deadline for all basketball entries this Friday.
Cage Entries Due Friday
Basketball competition will be heid in three classes for fraternity and independent groups. Each house will be limited to one "A" and one "B" team and as many "C" teams as they wish. At least ten men must be entered to represent a team.
A meeting of all managers will be held in 204 Robinson Gym Friday at 4 p.m. The entry fee is one dollar for each team entered.
Weiss Contract Renewed
NEW YORK (U.P.)—George Weiss received a five-year extension on his present contract as general manager of the New York Yankees.
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