Friday, April 16, 1954 University Daily Kansan
Page 15
E.A. Thomas, Widely Known Official, to Be Referee
By TOM LYONS
E. A. Thomas of Topeka, commissioner of the Kansas State High School Activities association has been selected as referee for the 29th annual Kansas Relays here tomorrow.
Mr. Thomas is widely known in national prep and collegiate track circles. For 25 years he has been a member of the National Track and Fields rules committee, and the past 20 years has served on the National high school football rules committee.
He has been referee and starter for the state high school track and field meet and the interscholastic division of the Kansas Relays for the past 20 years.
Mr. Thomas has served as an official at National Collegiate Athletic association and Big Seven meets as well as working as referee and starter of numerous Big Seven duals and triangulars.
Early Stages
Mr. Thomas assumed his present position 27 years ago after a high school coaching career at Quenemo and Williamsburg.
Boston—(U.P.)—In 1800 no fewer than 26 stagecoach lines operated out of Boston. Each week, 116 coaches arrived at or departed from Boston. The running time between Boston and New York was 40 hours. Today, airlines make the trip in 55 minutes.
E Reno, Okla.—(U.P.)-Jenks Simmons, high school basketball coach, is famous here for remembering sports statistics, but he has trouble remembering dates. Simmons took his team 65 miles to Enid for a tournament, then started back immediately. The tourney wasn't to start until the next night.
Date Trouble
Early Whalers
Oh, Come on, Horse, Whoa!
Boston—(U.P.)-Records show that in 1578 no fewer than 400 European vessels were engaged in whaling and fishing along the New England coast. This was 42 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth.
Atlanta, Ga. — (U.P.)—Pine Hill Stables was sued for $50,000 damage because it was alleged to have guaranteed one of its horses would halt at the command, "Whoa!" Sue Lord, 17, was injured while riding the animal because it failed to do so.
Mr. Thomas has been one of the editors of the National high school Federation Track and Field guide, and has written articles on rules, starting, and running of track meets. Many articles written by Mr. Thomas have appeared in the Track and Field guide.
He was first commissioner of the Kansas State high school Activities association when the organization
was founded and has been with the group continuously since time
of her retirement.
Louis C. Mederia III, 1923, Penn;
Dr. John Outland, 1924, KU-Penn;
Knute Rokne, 1925, Notre Dame;
Fielding Yost, 1926, Michigan; Harry
Gill, 1927, Illinois; Tom Jones,
1928, Wisconsin; Maj. John L.
Griffith, 1929, Big Ten commissioner;
Avery Bruntard, 1930, National
AAU president; Ossie Solem, 1931, Drake.
A. A. Stagg, 1932, Chicago; Henry Schulte, 1933, Nebraska; George Bresnahan, 1934, Iowa; Clyde Littlefield, 1935, Texas; C. N. Metcalf, 1936, Iowa State; Henry Schulte, 1937, Nebraska; Maj. John L. Griffith, 1938, Big Ten commissioner; Frank Hill, 1939, Northwestern; Jim Kelley, 1940, Minnesota; Tom Jones
1941, Wisconsin; Glenn Cunningham,
1942, Cornell college; George
Bresnahan, 1946; Iowa; John Jacobs,
1947. Oklahoma.
Frank Potts, 1948, Colorado; Ward Haylett, 1949, Kansas State; Dr. Garfield Weeade, Pittsburg State Teachers; Ralph Higgins, 1951, Oklahoma A&M; Ed Weir, 1952, Nebraska; and Tom Botts, 1953, Missouri.
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