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KU Thinclads Prepare To Defend Titles
By KENT THOMAS Assistant Sports Editor
With the 1956 indoor track season just around the corner, Coach Bill Easton's Kansas track team is hard at work in preparation for its first meet Feb. 4 against Oklahoma. The meet will be held in Allen Field House, the first time KU has ever run indoors before a home crowd.
Kansas probably will be favored in both the indoor and outdoor Big Seven meets this season on the strength of seasoned veterans returning from last year's conference champions and NCAA third-place finishers.
Good Sophomore Prospects
Good Sophomore Prospects
The team lost valuable men in Bill Biberstein, Adolph Mueller, Bob Smith, Dick Knowles, Don Sneegas, Willie Jones, and Don Bracellin, but a promising crew of sophomores should take up most of the slack.
If the Jayhawkers win either or both of the Big Seven meets, it certainly won't come as a new experience for Coach Easton. He has guided KU to four straight indoor crowns, four consecutive outdoor championships, and, only last week, the ninth straight cross-country title.
Kansas appears to be strong again in the 60,100 and 220 yard dashes with Dick Blair, defending league champion in each, and Ralph Moody, second-place finisher in the 60 yard sprint, lead, and Al Stevenson transfer from Iowa State, should help in the dashes.
Dave Freeman, freshman stand-out last year, will attempt to fill the shoes of the departed Bill Fiberstein in the high hurdles.
Although losing its top 440 man, Willie Jones, to the Army, KU has Larry Frisbie, Larry Stroup and Louis Stroup, all point winners last season, back again with sophomores Ray Wyatt, Bob Lida and Clark Mock helping the cause.
In the 880 yard run, Lowell Janzen, third in the Big Seven outdoor meet, Harold Long, Paul Baker, and Leon Matassarin are on hand.
Strong Milers
Al Frame, defending indoor and outdoor champ in the mile, Bernie Gay, second indoors and fourth outdoors, Jan Howell, second place outdoors, and Verlyn Schmidt, should maintain KU's dominance in that distance.
The two-mile field appears to be nearly as strong with outdoor champion Frame, Howell, second place indoors, Tom Rupp, outdoor fith, Jerry McNeal and Bob Nicholson ready to go. Nicholson
won the KU Relays steeplechase race last spring as a freshman. Sophomore Bob Cannon is the best bet in the high jump and Frank Mastin, Blaine Hollinger and Kent Floerke probably will pace the broad jumpers. Mastin finished third in the indoor meet and Hollinger captured third outdoors. Floerke, who set a new Kansas Relays record in the hop, step and jump last spring when only a freshman, is an outstanding prospect for the 1956 Olympics in that event.
Bob Lewis, who tied for fifth indoors, and sophomore Dave Tams will handle the pole vaulting chores.
Kansas again will be well represented in the shot put with defending NCAA and league champion, Bill Nieder, and Gene Blasi, second outdoors and third indoors, returning. Nieder's best mark last season was 57 feet. 11% inches.
Bill Nieder Back
The Jayhawkers should score heavily in the discus this season with sophomore Al Oerter, Nieder and Blasi ready to heave the platter. Oerter holds the national collegiate freshman record at 171 feet, 6 inches.
Harold Patterson, a former KU great and probably one of the finest all-around athletes who ever wore the crimson and blue, has become a standout football player for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Professional Football League.
Another defending NCAA and
Former KU Player Stars In Canadian Football
The husky Patterson is probably better-remembered for his feats with Coach Forrest C. "Phog" Allen's basketball team, but he has become one of the real standouts of Canadian football.
This year, in helping the Aloouettes compile a 9-3 record and win the Eastern division of the league, Patterson contributed the following records.
1. Led the league in pass interceptions with seven, returning them for a total of 93 yards.
2. Led the league in kickoff returns with 470 yards on 14 returns, for an average of 33.6 yards per return.
3. Was the only griddir in the league to return a kickoff for a touchdown on a 94-yard return.
4. Was-third in the league in punt returns with a 9.1 yard average a return.
5. Was third in the league in pass receiving with 44 catches for a total of 939 yards. He caught 10 touchdown passes.
6. Was sixth in the league in scoring, with 11 touchdowns.
The 6-foot 2-inch, 195-pound Pat-
Kansas Claims 5 All-Americans
Through the years at University of Kansas, five heroes of the Jayhawk football team have risen above their fellow players to gain the honor of all-American.
In 1952, Oliver Spencer, tackle on the 1952 KU eleven, was chosen all-American. Spencer is now in the service. Before joining the service he was a regular tackle for the Detroit Lions in 1953, the year Detroit won the pro football championship.
First of the Jayhawkers to obtain this honor was halfback Ray Evans and end Otto Schnellbacher, members of the great Orange Bowl team of 1947.
Evans also was a two-time all American guard in basketball at KU in 1942 and 1943. He is now vice-president of the Traders National Bank in Kansas City, Mo, and a member of the University Board of Regents. Following his graduation from KU he played one year of professional football for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
George Mrkonic, KU guard in 1951, was the next Jaylawker to join the all-American ranks. After graduation from Kansas he played for the Philadelphia Eagles pro football team. He now is serving in the armed forces.
Schnellbacher of Sublette like-wise was an outstanding basketball player who was chosen all-conference four times at forward. He is an insurance man in Topeka and a scout for the San Francisco 49'ers pro football team.
Gil Reich was the last Jayhawk to win the all-American honors. He played halfback on the 1953 football team. Gil also was a star basketball player for KU. He is now in the service and is one of the 24 men recently called to try out for the Army basketball team.
league champ for Kansas is Les Bitner in the javelin throw. He'll have plenty of help from John Parker, Big Seven fourth-place finisher, and outstanding sophomore Jim Londerholm. This should be another trio of 200 foot throwers, as all consistently have bettered that mark. Bitner's winning NCAA throw measured 246 feet, 1 inch.
The KU cindermen should be well tested by the time the Big Seven Indoor meet rollls around March 2-3. After Oklahoma, the team will compete in the Michigan State Relays Feb. 11, face Michigan, last year's Big Ten champion Feb. 18 and Missouri Feb. 25.
terson plays left end on offense and right halftail on defense, playing both ways in a game normally thought of as a two-platoon sport.
He was chosen as a defensive back on the Canadian Press all-Star team. He is one of two nominees from the Alouettes for the Jeff Russell Memorial Trophy, which is awarded annually to the player most valuable to his team and who exhibits the most sportsmanlike conduct throughout the season.
He also has been chosen to play in the Canadian East-West Shrine Game in Toronto, Dec. 3.
Patterson came to KU in the fall of 1952, after playing two years at Garden City Junior College, where he was named to the Juco all-American squad.
While at KU, he lettered two years in both football and basketball. He was a standout member of "Phog" Allen's famed "Cinderella Squad" of 1953, which went all the way to the NCAA finals, in spite of the loss of almost all of the national champion 1952 squad which went to the Olympic games.
A group which receives few plaudits, yet contributes highly to the University, is the Kansas Relays Committee. The work of the 18 or 20 students that comprise the committee has enabled the annual KU Relays to be successful year after year.
The committee is made up of students who enter the University as freshmen. These students continue to serve until being graduated, Usually, between six and eight freshmen are selected each year to offset members lost through graduation. The group is headed by two senior managers who are picked for merit, interest and experience in aiding with track meets. One of the managers is in charge of the Relays Parade, which always accompanies the track spectacle.
Students Run Relays
Start Work Dec. 1
Shark Work.
The team didn't held until spring, but the committee begins its work around Dec. 1 with the mailing out of entry blanks.
If spring vacation precedes the Relays, most of the committee members forego their vacation to compile entry lists and work on meet details. They prepare score-
cards and man the telephone system at the Relays.
Dr. Edwin R. Elbel, professor of physical education and advisor for the Relays, said he expects this year's event to keep the committee busier than normal since 1956 is an Olympic year and the Relays will attract an unusually large number of contestants.
Present Staff Members
This year's senior mangers and freshmen members have not yet been selected. Holdovers from last year are seniors Fred Heath of Kansas City, Mo., John Simpson of Salina, Dick Reynolds of Emporia, Bill Buck of Kansas City, Kan., Ralph Stone of Sharon Springs, and Don Johnston of Pittsburg.
Juniors are Bob Elliott and Jay Ochs of Wichita, Bill Sailver of Kansas City, Kan., Ed Petrick of Caldwell, Martin Hanna of Winfield, and Tom Hampton of Salina. Sophomores Ray Dean of Kansas City, Mo., Bill LaRue of Bird City, Eldon Benso of Gorham, Bob Peterson of Emporia, Dave Lhuillier of Joplin, Mo., Roger Jones of Leawood, Minter Brown and Wayne Rolley of Topeka complete the group.
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