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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. December 1. 1954
Bannister Mile Feats Top '54 Sports Story
New York—(U.P)—Coming down to the end of 1954 there is little question but what the No.1 sports story of the year was written into the muscular record books in May at Oxford when Roger Bannister became the first man to run the magic four-minute mile.
Bannister undoubtedly stands out as the man of the year in sports because he looms as the key figure in two of the top 10 stories of the year. His churning legs turned in the peak effort when he ran that history-making 350-mile race she threw over and again when he defeated Australian John Landy in the second fastest time ever recorded, 3:38.8.
His performance eclipses even that of the New York Giants, who came out of nowhere to win the National league pennant and wind up a sensational season by downing the favored Cleveland Indians in an amazing four straight games in the World Series.
The top 10 sports stories of the year from this angle:
1. Bannister breaks four-minute mile
2. New York Giants swamp Indians in World Series.
3. Bannister beats Landy in
  British Female games
4. Philadelphia Athletics shifted
to Kansas City.
5. Handicapped Ed Furgol wins
T.I.S. opp.
6. Mrs. Babe Zaharias wins Women's U.S. Open a year after cancer operation.
8. Sam Snead defeated Ben Hoan in Masterson's playoff
7. Landy sets 3:58 record for mile run.
9. Determine won Kentucky
Derby.
10. Rocky Marciano decisioned Ezzard Charles.
For world-wide interest and sheer amazement nothing touched Bannister's dazzling feat of becoming the first man to better four minutes for the mile, a mark which long has been the No. 1 target in sports. Landy subsequently clipped 1.4 seconds off that mark but it was a bit anticlimacid and for enduring drama doesn't touch Bannister's "first" and his subsequent match race victory over Landy in 3.588, the world's second best time.
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'Allen Fieldhouse' Favored 23 to1
By a vote of more than 23 to 1, "voters" so far have expressed their desire that the new fieldhouse be named at the present time in honor of Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, Jayhawk basketball coach.
The total number of ballots received to date is 121, with only five asking that the name of Dr. James Naismith, basketball inventor, go alongside that of Allen on the $2½ million arena.
Adding to the drive to get the reguents to name the building now was the endorsement yesterday of Ed Hundley, sports director of radio KLWN. Several mentions of the Kansan drive were made on the station yesterday, also.
The Kansan is trying to get the regents to sidestep a tradition against naming state buildings for living persons a "tradition" that is no more with the recent naming of the science building for Deane W. Malott, former chancellor and now Cornell university president.
We go along strongly with what Alf Landon, former governor and 1936 presidential nominee, said of the Allen campaign two years ago: "If this is a tradition let's kick a hole in it for the man that deserves more than anyone I know to have the new building named after him."
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Leake, 3 Buff Backs Lead Scorers, Rushers
The final, official football statistics of the Big Seven conference today showed champion Oklahoma with the No. 1 scorer in Buddy Leake, but Colorado claimed the three leading ball carriers.
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John Bayuk, Frank Bernardi, and Carroll Hardy finished in that order in the ground gaining department, Bayuk with 824 net yards on 145 carries. Bernardi netted 668 and Hardy 642.
Leake, counting nine touchdowns and adding 23 conversions, led all scorers with a 77-point total. Hardy, with 68, and Bayuk, 66, were his nearest rivals.
Vic Eaton of Missouri won passing laurels, completing 36 of 74 for 609 yards. His teammate, Tony Scardino, was a close second. He netted 609 yards on 37 completions in 71 tosses.
Harold Burnine of Missouri snared 21 aerials for 389 vards to head the pass receiving list. He beat out Kansas State's Corky Taylor, who caught 14 for 332 vards.
Ted Rhode of Kansas was the best punter in the conference. He averaged 43.7 yards on 29 kicks against a 41.9 average for Oklahoma's Max Boydson, who kicked 13 times.
Cagers Hold Tough Drill
Coach "Phog" Allen yesterday ran his basketball squad through what was probably the hardest practice session since cage drills began Nov. 1 in an attempt to whip the inexperienced Jayhawks into shape for the LSU opening game here Monday.
Gene Elstun, sophomore forward, who is expected to play a key role in this year's campaign, missed yesterday's practice because of a sprained left hand.
An intra-squid scrimmage was the order of the day, as Allen puzzled over which five players will answer the starting call against Louisiana State.
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Football Crowds Increase 6.2 Per Cent Over Last Year
New York—(U.P.)—College football attendance showed an increase of 6.28 per cent this season with the biggest gains in the Rocky Mountains, the Southwest, and the East, the annual United Press survey revealed today.
The tabulations of home crowds from 122 colleges showed a total of 13,749,667 fans attended 599 games in the 1954 campaign as against 12,937,124 fans who turned out for 593 games in the 1953 season.
Every section showed an increase except the Midlands area where crowds were off 3.60 per cent. In the Rockies, where interest has reached a new peak, there was an increase of 17.66 per cent in attendance, in the Southwest it was up 12.33 per cent, and in the East 10.67 per cent. The Far West showed an upswing of 5.83 per cent, the Midwest 5.69 per cent, and the South 2.34.
The average crowd per game this year was 22,954, whereas in 1953 the average gathering totaled 21,816.
The attendance "champs" for 1954, even though they wound up as the second ranking team on the field, were Ohio State's Buckeyes who played to 480,340 fans at six games for a new home record.
Michigan ranked second with 410,000 for six games while Ohio State's Rose Bowl opponent, Southern California, rated third with 360,656 for seven games in the vast Los Angeles Memorial coliseum. However, the Trojan total was well below its 1953 figures.
The sectional leaders in addition to USC and Ohio State were Miami, Fla., in the South with 306.-162 fans for seven games, Yale in the East with 276,300 for seven games, Rice in the Southwest with 274,000 for six games, Oklahoma in the Midlands with 210,000 for four
games, and Colorado in the Rockies with 129,700 for five games.
Three other schools had attendance in excess of 300,000. Minnesota, with a new record, had 351,966; California had 319,490, and UCLA's national champs had 318,246. The Uclans also play in 100,000-seat Memorial stadium but had only five home dates to seven for USC.
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