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University Daily Kansan Monday, February 28.1955
Underdog KU Wins Big 7 Indoor Title
By BOB LYLE
Kansas City, Mo.—An under-rated Kansas track and field team pulled a few surprises to stave off Missouri and Oklahoma and register its fourth straight Big Seven championship Saturday in Municipal auditorium.
Coach M. E. Bill Easton's Jayhawks scored a mass total of 574 points. Missouri, rated an excellent chance to unseat the Jayhawks from the indoor throne, finished with 46 points. Oklahoma with 43 points rounded out the big three. Colorado led the also ran with 153 points. Other team scores: Nebraska, 64; Kansas State, 54 and Iowa State, 51.
KU's victory marked the first time since the formation of the old Big Six in 1929 that a team has won the classic, four years in a row.
Coach Bill Easton's track teams also have another unprecedented record of eleven straight indoor, outdoor, and cross country titles dating back to 1951.
Kansas performers figured in two of the four meet records either tied or broken.
Bill Nieder, Kansas weight man,
set a new shot put record in Friday's preliminaries with a toss of
53 feet $10 \frac{1}{2}$ inches. The toss eclipsed
the old record of 52 feet $4 \frac{1}{2}$ inches
set by K-State's Rollin Prather in
1948.
Dick Blair of Kansas latched on to a piece of the 60-year dash record of 6.2 seconds when he nosed out teammate Ralph Moody in the finals. Jack Davis of Missouri also equaled the mark in the preliminaries but could manage no better than fifth place in the finals.
Bob Derrick, flashy Oklahoma hurdler, skipped over the lows in both the preliminaries and finals in the record time of 6.7 seconds. The clocking represents the fastest time ever recorded anywhere indoors for the distance.
Bill Constantine, of Missouri,
equaled the existing record of 7.4
seconds in the 60-yard high hurdles
during the Friday trials.
Kansas followed up the surprise Blair-Moody finish in the 60-vard dash with a one-two-three punch in the mile. Al Frame, Bernie Gay, and Mike Swanson finished in that order for a 12 point lead. Frame's winning time was 4:26.7. The plodding distance ace from Wichita, who was defending champion in the twomile event, fell back to fifth place in the longer haul. Bobby Buchanan of Oklahoma, outdistributed the pack to take the race in 9:28.3. Jan Howell kept Kansas in the point race with a second place finish, however.
Missouri also pulled the one-two-three act with Hal Beard, Bill Duncan, and Morris McQuinn going across the finish line of the 880-yard run in that order. Beard's time was 1.583.3.
Bob Smith and Frank Mastin took second and third places in the broad jump to bolster Kansas' field strength. Leon Wells with a tie for third place in the high jump, Bob Lewis with a tie for fifth place in the pole vault, and Gene Blasi's third place finish in the shot put rounded out the KU scoring in the field events.
Bill Biberstein, of Kansas, defending champion in both the high and low hurdles, counted for a third in the highs, but didn't get past the trials in the lows.
Willie Jones and Louis Stroup, of Kansas teamed up for five points in the 440-yard dash. Bob Massengale of Missouri, defending champion in
the quarter made it two in a row by winning the event in 50.1 seconds.
Erwin Cook, of Oklahoma, was the meet's only double winner. Cook won the broad jump with a leap of 23 feet $ \frac{1}{4} $ inches and shared the
high jump mark of 6 feet $3 \frac{1}{2}$ inches with Ray Kelley of Nebraska.
Adolph Mueller, the only Kansas finalist in the 60-yard low hurdles, fell after clearing the next to last hurdle. He was running in third or fourth place when he tumbled.
Oklahoma's mile relay team won its fourth straight title as Wilbur Derrick, Archie Henderson, Charles Folsom and Johnny Dahl were timed in 3:26.4.
—Kansan photo by Larry Trethar
Kansan photo by Larry Tretbae MISSOURI'S DEATH RATTLE—Dick Blair and Ralph Moody give an early indication to Missouri of things to come as they cross the finish line in the 60-yard dash in 1-2 order for the biggest upset of Saturday's Big Seven indoor track and field meet. Blair, left, tied the meet record 6.2 and Moody, right, finished a close second. Missouri's highly touted Jack Davis, after posting the fastest times in the preliminaries, finished fifth in the finals.
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Kansas Loss to A&M Puts Phog Behind Iba
Shooting at a 55 per cent clip, the Oklahoma A&M Cowpokes pulled away in the second half Saturday night to defeat Kansas, 53 to 49, at Stillwater.
With deadly accuracy, the Cowpokes fought over the KU zone defense to break the 15-15 record between Coaches Hank Iba and Phog Allen.
The Cowpokes sank 26 of 47 field goal attempts for their excellent shooting average. The Jayhawkers couldn't keep up the pace after eight minutes had gone by in the second half, ending up with only a 37 per cent shooting average.
The first half was nip-and-tuck, with the score only 31 to 27 in favor of A&M at the half. The second half began in the same fashion until there was 13:20 left. Then Cowpoke Mel Wright got hot and sank three quick field goals. That spree put A&M 10 points ahead. There was never any doubt about the game after that.
High scorer for the game was A&M's Tom Maloney, who hit for 17 points. KU's Gene Elstun hit five field goals and six free throws to lead KU scoring. Bill Brainard followed Elstun with 11 points.
With 10 minutes left in the game, Coach Iba had his players go into a stalling game, and during a two-minute period, the Jayhawks couldn't get their hands on the ball. After that stall, A&M began padding its score.
The title "World champions" for the winners of the World Series is credited to Chris Vander Abe, club owner of the St. Louis Browns after his team beat the Chicago White Stockings in 1886, and he gloated "my poys, chamepeens of the world."
—Kansan shot by Larry Treharb Record Shattering Shot Putter; Bill Nieder, Kansas shot putter, displays the form which enabled him to break the Big Seven indoor track and field meet record rFriday. Nieder tossed the shot 53', 10%' to break the old mark.
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