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University Daily Kansan Friday, March 27, 1953
KU Relays to Add 3 Olympic Events
The Kansas Relays, dedicated to an Olympic program of three extra events every four years, will add the trio—3,000-meter steeple-chase, 400-meter intermediate hurdles, and hop-step-jump—to its standard card for the 28th running of the spiked-shoe carnival April 18.
"We plan to maintain these events on our Relays program every year," Kansas track coach and meet director Bill Easton explains. "We feel it will help build personnel for these events for the United States Olympic team. It is our hope that more boys will become interested in these events, and will be able to compete in them every year here instead of just on Olympic years. We hope that other relay meets will follow this lead."
It is notable that Horace Ashefetter's victory in the steeplechase last summer at Helsinki was America's first in Olympic history. The United States hasn't crowned an Olympic hop-step-jump king since 1904.
The Jayhawker Games long have featured one standard Olympic event, the Decathlon, in their annual lineup. This was inaugurated in 1828 and lapsed only in 1942 and 1846, the years on either end of the war-forced recess of 1943-44-45. The team also played its only test for the 10-event grind anywhere in the nation except for the Olympic trials each four years.
Two Olympic champions, Jim Bausch, of KU, and Glenn Morris, Denver A.C., have been spawned in Lawrence. Tom Churchill, father of Oklahoma's present reserve basketball center, also Tom, won the first two championships in 1928 and 1929. He and Buster Charles, of Haskell, 1930 winner, also landed Olympic team berths.
The Relays also have carried, since 1932, a fifth Olympic event, the 1500 meters. This was christened the "Glen Cunningham Mile" in 1946, and is run over the American distance on non-Olympic years.
The other three events have been fitted into only three Relays' programs, 1936, 1948 and 1952. Lee Yoder of Arkansas won the quarter-mile barriers last year and went on to earn a spot on the American Olympic team. Jim Brown, competing for Navy, bagged the steeplechase; Jim Gehrhardt, former Rice athlete, took the hop-step-jump.
With the assault on this trio now to become an annual event these records will be under much more pressure:
3,000-meter steeplechase — 9:30.4
Tom Deckard. England. 1936.
400-meter intermediate hurdles—
52.5 L. Yeder, Arkansas 1952
Hop-step-jump-47-2 Jim Gehr-
hardt, unattached. 1552.
These events will be fitted into the usual time schedule which contains seven university class relays: six college class, one junior college, and three high hurdles individual trials in the 100-yard dash, 120-yard high hurdles, high jump, broad jump, pole vault, shotput; javelin, and discuss.
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Officials Want Gym Named After Allen
Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen was suggested as the namesake of the new KU fieldhouse by 14 state representatives Thursday.
Pointing to the fine record compiled by the ageless head man, the representatives said in their resolution that they wanted the board of regents to name the huge structure, now under construction, "the Allen Fieldhouse."
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somes again will receive Kansas Relays' wrist watches as will individual event winners. College relay kings will earn clocks. Medals will go to second and third place winners in both relay classes and the individual events. The "Most Outstanding Athlete" award, voted by press and radio, again will receive a plaque.
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Kansas' Den Kelley will be one of the mainstays of Coach Jack Gardner's West squad when the East meets the West in the second annual Shrine all-star game Saturday night in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium.
Kelley to Play In All-Star Tilt
Kelley, captain for the NCAA second-place Jayhawkers, will compete along with four other players from the Big Seven conference on the 12-man West squad. The others are Kansas State's Dick Knostman and Bob Rousey, Del Diercks of Iowa State, and Frank Gompert of Colorado.
There will be a oreliminary game between the middle league all-stars of Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo. Clarence "Bevo" Francis, a lad who tallied 1,954 points in the past season as a freshman for Rio Grande, Ohio, college, will give a goal-shooting exhibition between halves of the big game.
The West squad, coached last year by Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen of Kansas, leads in the series, 1-0, and will be favored to cop its second game against Coach Harry Combes team.
4 Volleyball Teams Move to Semi-Finals
The Phi Delt and Phi Gam fraternities and Last Chance and Liahona Independent clubs moved into the semi-final round in the intramural volleyball tournament with victories last night.
PLAYOFF RESULTS
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Phi Gam over SAE 15-1, 15-10
Last Chance over Physics 5-15, 16-14
Kansas to Clash In Medley Fight In Texas Relays
Liahona over Jolliffe by forfeit
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Kansas, Kansas State, and Oklahoma A&M will clash in a red-hot sprint medley battle today in the 26th Texas Relays in Austin, Tex., that promises to lower the record of 3:24.0 for the event.
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The race will be anchored by three of the finest half-millers in the area in Kansas' Wes Santee, Dick Eichhorn in K-State, and Billy Head of A&M
The Jayhawkers never have won this Texas event, but even if they don't pull the trick this year, they still are expected to bring home titles in the distance medley and four-mile relays.
Santee, the 5,000-meter Olympic performer, will anchor all three races for the Jayhawkers. He set a new Big Seven 880 indoor record of 1:52.5 on the Municipal auditorium track in Kansas City last month.
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The Kansans will be shooting for their fifth consecutive triumph in the distance medley Running ahead of Smith, Art Dalzell, and Lloyd Kebby.
Coach Bill Easton will send his charges out on the first leg of a repeat performance of last season's three-meet sweep of the distance and four-mile crowns.
Individual performers for Kansas will be Norm Steanson, pole vault; Bill Biberstein, 120-yard high hurdles; Morris Kay, discus; Jim Swim, javelin, and Dick McGillin, 110-vard dash.
Kansas will run the sprint and distance medleys just 45 minutes apart today and will work the four-mile jaunt tomorrow.
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Kansas State will enter in the 440, 880, and mile relays besides its competition in the sprint medley.
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Free Dancing in Union Tonight Free informal dancing, sponsored by the Student Union Activities, will be held in the Kansas room of the Union from 8 until midnight tonight. Music for dancing will be recorded.
Oklahoma A&M Has 30 Days To Conform to Athletic Code
Chicago—(U.P.)—Oklahoma A&M today had 30 days to conform to athletic requirements of the North Central association before the NCA takes another step toward removing the school from its accredited list.
Milo Bail, NCA president, said the executive committee agreed last night to postpone the removal action after the college said it would meet requirements.
Bail said a telegram from A&M President A. S. Willham read:
"After returning I have conferred with the board of regents of Oklahoma A&M college. We will comply with all criteria governing intercollegiate athletics and exert competence over the sanctions competency. Immediate steps will be taken. Believe the commission misunderstood our intentions."
The NCA committee had recommended that A&M be dropped from the accredited list for allegedly
over-emphasizing athletics and subsidizing players. The committee also said the school was weak in "faculty competence" and in "financial support for the educational program."
J. E. Fellows, dean of admissions at the University of Oklahoma, said he thought "too much idealization" of athletic practices might "drive under the table many practices which are now carried on with honor."
Bail said the decision to postpone the action was ordered "pending the receipt of documentary substantiation" that the school "is in conformity with NCA athletic requirements."
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