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Page-2 University Daily Kansan Monday. Sept. 14, 1953
By DON TICE Daily Kansan Sports Editor
Welcome Back! The sports staff of the Daily Kansan is ready to insert foot-in-mouth and predict a great sports year for the Jay-hawkers in the next nine months. It is not without some good reasons that we do this, however, so we may come out with a few toes left.
Right at the present it is a little hard to say what will happen during the football season. Although the Jayhawkers ended up in fifth place in the Big Seven race last year with a three won, three lost record, they came out with a seven-three record for the season, winning all of our non-conference games.
Coach J. V. Sikes has the unenviable task of choosing a squad from a roster made up of 18 seniors, nine juniors, and 32 sophomores. So, it looks like Kansas football fortunes will hinge on the performance of the untried sophomores on the squad.
Only time will tell what effect the elimination of the free substitution rule, ruling out the two platoon system, will have on football at Kansas. It means, in short, that Kansas will need fewer good players than before, but that the men that carry the load will have to be better all-around players.
At present the biggest problem seems to be picking a man to run the team from the quarterback position. The completion of eligibility of Gil Reich and Jerry Robertson, two excellent quarterbacks, leaves the team without a single experienced man in that position. Coach Sikes has six sophomores to pick from to find a pivot man, and if he comes up with a good one, the Jayhawkers may be on the road to a good season.
Before making any definite or radical statements, we will wait and see how the Jayhawkers fare against Texas Christian, a fair team, and UCLA, picked by many to be one of the top teams in the country this year.
When it comes to basketball and F. C. Phog Allen (it's hard to think of one without the other), by all indications Kansas should be in for another good season. With such stalwarts as B. H. Born, Harold Patterson, and Allen Kelley back from last year's starting five, and the support they will get from a number of better-than-average substitutes from last year, the venerable Dr. Allen may well be able to mold another conference winner, if not a top NCAA contender.
The track prospects for this year look good as usual. The cross country team is riding on a string of six straight victories, with all-American Wes Santee running better than ever. Santee will be supported by such veterans as Lloyd Coby and Art Dalzell, as well good man from last year's freshman队.
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Back from a summer of races against the world's best in Europe, Wes Santee, KU all-American distance man and holder of the American record in the mile, professed a desire to "start running again."
"It was a long summer of racing." Santee confessed upon his arrival in Lawrence last week, "but I haven't run in anything for some time but the Canadian Exposition in Toronto and I feel pretty well rested now."
"All we did, day after day, was travel from place to place," he said. "In one stretch I ran in five open races and one relay in a 7-day period. And each was on a different track.
Asked about the AAU tour he made to six countries with a team of eight other U.S. stars, the Ashland Antelope commented on the lack of adequate time to train.
"I think I picked up a lot of pointers and tips on the excursion from such fellows as Mal Whitfield, who was on our team, and Denis Johannson of Finland, who, by the way, got to Calif. last spring. He whipped me in two out of four races we ran against each other in Finland."
By STAN HAMILTON
Kansan Sports Writer
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Santee competed in a total of 21 open races on the 2-month tour. He broke the tape first in 12; took second in eight, and was third once. In an 840-yard run, won by Mr. White, the team recorded in a time of 1:43.9. Whitfield, however, cracked the old standard in 1:48.6.
Santee set one new American record in the 1,500 meters in a race in Sweden, covering the distance in 3:44.2.
Does he still think he can break the 4-minute barrier in the mile?
“Certainly I think it will be done some day by someone,” he said. “I know this sounds cracked, but in my high school yearbook somebody predicted in the class prophecy that I would run a mile in 3:58.3. Actually, I don't think that is at all out of the question.
"Of course, all the conditions would have to be letter perfect, such as proper temperature, how I feel, track condition, the competition, and so forth. I don't think anyone will win," she explained. Whoever does it will be several tenths or maybe seconds off, one way or the other.
"I don't think I have reached my top peak and I do not think I burned myself out this summer as some persons seem to think. Most of the great milers of the past ran their fastest mile when they were in their late 20's, so I have several years yet."
Next on Santee's program is the Big Seven cross-country season, due to open in early October. Last year he came in first in the conference meet here and led the Jayhawkers to the title.
Next winter he will be out to defend his conference indoor titles in
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the 880 and the mile and will be out to repeat in both distances in the spring outdoor title meet.
Oklahoma hasn't dropped a conference game since 1946, but Nebraska leads in Big Seven championships, nine to eight. The Cornhuskers won six titles from 1931 to 1938. OU won in 39, then the Huskers came back to take the '40 crown and won a trip to the Rose Bowl.
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