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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1951
KU Freshman Track Team Rated As Best In History
Bv ART SCHAAF
Daily Kansan Sports Writer
Kansas freshman trackmen are the postal indoor champions of the Big Seven conference, final tabulations in Coach Bill Easton's office reveal.
The meet was a comparison by mail of the times, heights, and distances of the first year men, who are prohibited by conference ruling from competing on other campuses.
The young Jayhawkers won the meet with 57 points to runner-up Colorado's 52. Oklahoma scored 377 points, Missouri 15, Nebraska 131, and Iowa State five. Kansas State did not compete.
The Jayhawkers scored in only seven of the 12 events while Colorado was scoring in 10, but the Kansans made near sweeps of the 880, mile, and two-mile to accumulate their winning total.
In the mile run the Jayhawks won the first four places and tied for the fifth. The league meet was scored on a 5,4,3,2,1 basis, giving the Kansas runners $14\frac{1}{2}$ points out of a possible 15. Missouri got the half point that prevented a Kansas sweep.
In the half-mile the frosh flyers scored first, second, fourth, and fifth places, for 12 points. In the two-mile they won the first three places, for 12 more points—a total of $38\%$ points out of a possible 45 from the three races.
The five runners who compose that winning combination had already pocketed the conference freshman cross country championship last fall with a sweep of the first four places, and a ninth place. They were so potent that a rival coach jestingly suggested a match between his freshmen and Easton's second best quintet of runners.
The personnel of this winning five are: Wes. Santee, Art Dalzell, Lloyd Koby, Norman Bitner, and Dick Wilson—in the order that they finished in the mile-run.
Coach Easton paid a real compliment to the current first year men when he called them the best freshmen middle-distance runners that he has ever coached. Among the track aces who have been tutored by Easton are Fred Feiler and Bill Mack, who ran for him when he coached at Drake university; and Bob Karnes, Pat Bowers, and Herb Semper at Kansas.
During his eight year coaching stint at Drake, before coming to K.U. in the fall of 1947, Easton turned out three consecutive N.C.A.A. cross country team champions—in 1944, 1945, and 1946. No other school has won that many in succession.
Santee, who bids fair to play havoe with some of Glenn Cunningham's fabulous Kansas records, led the team in scoring with an indoor total of $139^{4}$ points. The "Ashland Flyer" last spring smashed Cunningham's high school mile record with a 4:26 flat effort. Cunningham's 20-year-old school boy standard had been 4:28.4. Santee has also erected new K.U. freshmen records in the mile, mile and a half, and two-mile races.
The slender athlete was unbeaten in the two-mile, and was defeated in the mile only twice out of nine postal races. One of those was by Johannson, an import from Norway now attending Purdue who has turned a 4:08 mile outdoors. His postal time indoors was 4:20.2. The other defeat suffered by Santee was to Zellers of Indiana who coped a close decision with a 4:19.5 race. Santee's time was listed as 4:20.4.
Dalzell scored 9414 points indoors and racked up a new K.U. freshman half-mile record in the process with a 1:57.9 run. The Spring Hill speedster set a new Kansas high school class B half-mile record last spring in 1:59.6. He won the high school Kansas Relays half-mile three consecutive years.
A relatively unheralded runner from Sedgwick, Kan., Koby chipped
in 69<sup>14</sup> points to the Jayhawkers total. He gathered points in five events. Temporarily showed by a recent appendectomy, Koby will be a powerful addition when he is in top condition.
More competition on their own track team than in all the rest of the conference caused two young Jayhawkers, Bitner and Wilson, to scramble for points. Bitner, with a 4:24.5 mile, was only half a second behind Dalzell and Koby who tied for second and third at 4:24.0, but he failed to win a single point in the mile or half-mile in dual meet competition since dual meets give
only three places on a 5.3.1, basis.
only three places on a 5,3,1, basis.
Bitner scored 10 of his 33 point total in the pole vault, an event he doesn't claim to excel in. He managed a jump of 8 feet, 6 inches, which is not a good vault no matter how you look at it, but it garnered him one first, a second, and two third places nonetheless. He also scored 20 points in the two mile where he had the third best K.U. time.
Two other freshmen came through with conference wins and new school records. Dick McGlenn in the 60-yard dash, and Larry Marsh in the shot put garnered points in events that have been weak on Kansas teams in recent years. Marsh heaved the iron ball 44 feet, $8 \frac{1}{2}$ inches. He was defeated only once during the season, and that by another Norwegian import, Nielsson, now attending Michigan. Nielsson was the national shot put champion of Norway before coming to this country.
McGiln, a Leavenworth product,
set a high school class B 100-yard
record last spring with a brilliant 9.8
second effort. He was undefeated in
the indoor 60 but was tied by Oklahoma's Sweatte, and was involved in a four-way tie for first in the
conference finale in 6.3 seconds. He is potentially the best sprinter ever to wear Kansas colors.
The mile relay team of Wilson, Dalzell, Koby, and Santee won seven of nine starts and got second in the conference. Only Michigan and Oklahoma bettered them. Michigan ran 3:30.7, Oklahoma ran 3:32.2, and the Jayhawkers ran 3:32.5.
Eleven freshmen earned the minimum of 10 points for a numeral, but they must compete outdoors and pass at least 24 hours during the school year to be eligible for the awards, Coach Easton said.
Name Event Best Perf. Total Pts.
1. Wes Santee 440 53.3
880 1,58.5
420.9
2. Art Dalzell 2 ml.
440 9:32 a
880 52 a
ml 1:57 a
mi 4:29 a
880 53 a
880 1:59 a
mi 4:24 a
2 ml. 9:46 a
b.j. 19 '9' a
s.p. 44 '8' a
60 6 a
54 a 37 a
640 2:06 a
mi. 4:24 a
2 ml. 9:51 a
8 a 23
s.p. 43 '4' a 16 a
h.h. 8.5
l.h. 7.7 13
steve Milne 5 '7' a 13
dick Wilson 440 53.8
880 2:01 a
ml. 3:04
2 ml. 10:27 a 11
John Ussery 60 6 a
b.j. 8 a 11 a
ml. 5 '6' a 4 a
s.p. 39 '6' a 4
m. Denny 8.7 31 a
l.h. 7 a
s.C. Carpenter b.j. 18 '8' a
l.h. 8.2 1
h.j. 5 '5' a 1
sp. 38 '9' a 0
4. Larry Marsh s.p. 44 '8' a 43
5. Dick McGlinn 60 6 a 37 a
6. Norm Bitner 480 2:06 a
mi. 4:24 a
2 ml. 9:51 a
8 a 23
s.p. 43 '4' a 16 a
h.h. 8.5
l.h. 7.7 13
steve Milne 5 '7' a 13
dick Wilson 440 53.8
880 2:01 a
ml. 3:04
2 ml. 10:27 a 11
John Ussery 60 6 a
b.j. 8 a 11 a
ml. 5 '6' a 4 a
s.p. 39 '6' a 4
m. Denny 8.7 31 a
l.h. 7 a
s.C. Carpenter b.j. 18 '8' a
l.h. 8.2 1
h.j. 5 '5' a 1
sp. 38 '9' a 0
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