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Cross-Country Tops Big Seven
The Kansas cross-country team, coached by ultra-successful Bill Easton, will attempt to climax a brilliant season with an NCAA championship Monday at East Lansing, Mich.
Once again, KU harriers completely dominated the Big Seven meet, as well as outrunning last year's NCAA champions, the Oklahoma A&M Cowboys. The Jayhawkers also defeated Missouri and Quantico Marines in dual meets and Oklahoma and Arkansas in a triangular meet.
Al Frame won the Big Seven individual championship with a time of 15:10.1 for the three-mile race. Kansas depth showed again as Jerry McNeal finished third, Hal Long fifth and Bob Nicholson sixth.
Kansas won its ninth straight Big Seven cross-country championship with ease last week at Ames, Iowa. KU finished with 15 points as compared to 30 for runnerup Missouri. Colorado had 34, Iowa State 69, Oklahoma 91, Nebraska 106 and Kansas State 108.
Colorado's Jack Hughes set the pace for the first two and a half miles, but was overtaken by Frame, Missouri's Keith Bacon and McNeal, to finish fourth.
The Kansas team got off to a good season's start by easily outdistancing the Oklahoma Aggies, 13 to 26 AI Frame, KU ace and defending NCAA champion, showed what was to come by running over the three-mile course in 14:54.7. After Aggie Sture Landqvist, who finished second, came Kansans McNeal, Tom Rupp, Jan Howell and Long.
With the Big Seven title achieved, the Jayhawkers are out to break Coach Easton's mark of 10 straight when he was coaching Drake University into national prominence.
The next meet for the Jayhawkers was against the Quantico Marines, led by Wes Santee, America's foremost miler and former KU track and cross-country great. Santee continued his winning ways by traveling the Mt. Oread course in 15:07. However, after that, it was all Kansas. Frame finished second and was followed by Howell, McNeal and Nicholson. Kansas won the meet. 14 to 25.
Missouri threw a scare into the Jayhawkers, but fell 16 to 21 in the closest match of the season. MU and KU each had three men finish in the top six, but Kansas places were first, third and fifth, which made the difference. Frame again was the winner, Nicholson took third and McNeal fifth for the Hawks.
KU had little trouble from Okla-
lahoma and Arkansas, finishing with
13 points to 29 for Oklahoma and
40 for Arkansas. Kansas captured
the first three places with Frane
again breaking the tape. McNeal
and Long followed and Bernie Gay
took seventh.
Sports At KU Began In 1890
The 1890's, besides ushering in a "gay" era, saw the beginning of intercollegiate athletics on Mt. Oread. Until 1890 athletic contests were virtually unknown. The growing interest in sports, beginning with the revival of the Athletic Association in 1899, led to a demand for a suitable field for baseball, tennis, and football at KU.
Twelve acres of "Robinson's Pasture" were secured and in 1892, a grandstand seating 1,000 people was built on the site of our present stadium. It was called McCook Field after John J. McCook, a prominent New York lawyer who donated $2,500 to the newly-organized athletic department.
First Team Undefeated
The University's first organized football team of 1892 was undefeated, beating such teams as Illinois, Iowa, and the Denver Athletic Club. This year marked the advent of the letter sweater on the KU campus. Controversy over the crimson "K's" adorning the yellow sweaters in vogue at that time, led to the adoption of our present crimson and blue school colors.
With emphasis on modernization, Coach Cowan declared football caps obsolete, believing that long hair rendered more protection against scalp wounds. Players were permitted to let their hair go uncut from the first of August until the first of December.
By 1893, football not only had attained its place in the sun at KU, it had become the sun. The Rev. Hector Cowan from Princeton University, a faculty member of the English Department, was appointed head coach, becoming the first paid coach in the school's history.
The '93 team played a seven-game schedule, winning three and losing four. Repeating 1892 victories over highly-regarded Nebraska and Denver, it also beat Ann Arbor in a much-publicized game at Fairmont Park in Kansas City. It bowed to Baker University, Iowa, Minnesota, and Missouri, however, for its first losing season.
Won 3 in '93
The game with Missouri was played on Thanksgiving Day and like its modern counterpart climaxed the season. Missouri beat the Jayhawkers 12 to 3 in a game marked by the fighting spirit of the teams both on and off the field. The Tiger's head coach played the entire game, but Coach Cowan of KU remained on the bench.
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MU Game Is Dec.1,'56
Due to a conflict with the Thanksgiving vacation, next year's football game with the University of Missouri will be played one week later than usual on Dec. 1, 1956, said A. C. "Dutch" Lonborg, KU's director of Athletics.
There will be an open date between the November 17th game and the December 1st tilt with the Tigers.
UCLA Rescheduled
A feature of the 1956 football schedule will be the reappearance of the University of California at Los Angeles. KU faced the Bruins for the past two seasons, but the two teams did not meet this year. UCLA will replace Southern Methodist on the Jayhawk's schedule.
A newcomer will be the College of the Pacific. C of P replaces Washington State College, the team with which the Jayhawks snapped their 17 game losing streak this fall.
Next year's homecoming game will be with the University of Nebraska.
Kansas' 1956 football schedule is: Sept. 22 Texas Christian at Lawrence.
Oct. 6 Colorado at Lawrence,
13 Iowa State at Ames.
29 College of the Pacific at Lawrence.
20 Oklahoma at Lawrence
27 Oklahoma A&M at Still-
water
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Nov. 3 Kansas State at Manhattan.
10 Nebraska at Lawrence.
(Homecoming)
17 UCLA at Los Angeles.
Dec. 1 Missouri at Columbia.
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