University Daily Kansan
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 951
Relays Referee Follows Line Of Famous Coaches
Ralph Higgins, varsity track coach
Oklahoma A. & M. since 1936, has
been named referee of the 1951
Canas Relays today and Saturday.
Higgins was a contestant in the
best Jayhawker Games in 1923,
RALPH HIGGINS
caring Aggie silks in his first major
claes, rival.
"IYan the 440 leg on a sprint pedley team," Higgins recalls. "We were scared to death, I remember, and I don't recall that we placed." It's the second such honor given the veteran Cowpoke mentor. He previously served as referee of the Drake Relays. Last summer Higginss was named coach of an A.A.A.U. team that toured Portugal and the Union of South Africa, winning 21 exhibition meets in a month-longour.
Higgins put together his finest A. & M. team last spring, a record-mashing crew, featuring middle-distance aces John Voight and Dick Stolpe. This gang won three crowns at Drake and also carried off the booty from Kansas, Texas, Southern, Los Angeles, and California relays, plus winning the Missouri Valley conference championship for the tenth straight time.
He is the 26th referee for the Mt. Oread Olympics and the fourth in the last five years from this area.
1923 Louis C. Mederia II, Penn.
1924 Dr. John Outland, Kansas
1925 Knute Rockne, Notre Dame
1926 Fielding Yost, Michigan
1927 Harry Gill, Illinois
1928 Tom Jones, Wisconsin
1929 John L. Griffith, Big Ten Commissioner
1930 Avery Brundage, Nat. A.A.A President
1303 Avery Brutnage, Nat. A.A.
President
1301 Oie Solem, Drake
1302 Tony Sung, Chicago
1303 Henry Schulte, Nebraska
1304 George Bresnahan, Iowa
1305 Clyde Littlefield, Texas
1306 C. N. Metcalf, Iowa State
1308 Henry Schulte, Nebraska
1308 John L. Griffith, Big Ten
Commissioner
1951 Ralph Higgins, Oklahoma A.
and M.
1939 Frank Hill, Northwestern
1940 Jim Kelley, Minnesota
1941 John Jones, Wisconsin
1942 Glenn Cunningham, Kansas
1946 George Bresnahan, Iowa
1947 John Jacobs, Oklahoma
1948 Frank Potts, Colorado
1949 Ward Haylett, Kansas State
1950 Garfield Weede, Pittsburg
Pittsburgh
MEET DIRECTOR BILL EASTON has been instrumental in promoting the Kansas Relays since he came to the University of Kansas in the fall of 1947. As track coach at K.U. he has guided many athletes to national fame notably Bob Karnes, Pat Bowers, and Herb Semper. All three are distance runners, Easton's forte in the coaching world.
Schedule Of Events
The annual Kansas Relays opens today with high schools from all over the state competing for individual and team titles. Saturday is really the big day, though, for then the collegiate entries begin their competition in earnest.
Approximately 10,000 fans are expected in Memorial stadium for the famous track carnival. The javelin throw, both preliminaries and finals, inaugurates the Saturday events at 10 a.m. Following that the stadium will bear some resemblance to a three-ring circus until, at 5 p.m., the University mile relay draws the curtain on this, the Mount Oread Olympics.
Running Events
1. Javelin (preliminaries and finals) ... a.m. 10:00
2. 120-yard high hurdles (finals) ... p.m. 1:30
3. College two-mile relay ... 1:40
4. 100-yard dash (finals) ... 1:55
5. University four-mile relay ... 2:05
6. College half-mile relay ... 2:25
7. Kansas City, Mo., H.S. half-mile relay ... 2:35
8. University quarter-mile relay ... 2:45
9. Presentation of Relays Queen ... 2:55
10. Glenn Cunningham mile run ... 3:15
11. University two-mile relay ... 3:25
12. College sprint medley relay ... 3:45
13. College invitation sprint medley relay ... 4:00
14. University sprint medley relay ... 4:10
15. Junior college sprint medley relay ... 4:20
16. College distance medley relay ... 4:30
17. University half-mile relay ... 4:45
18. University distance medley relay ... 4:55
19. Kansas high school mile relay ... 5:15
20. College mile relay ... 5:20
21. University mile relay ... 5:30
22. Outstanding athlete award
Field Events
23. Pole vault (finals) ... 1:30
24. Shot put (finals) ... 1:30
25. Broad jump (finals) ... 1:30
26. High jump (finals) ... 2:00
27. Discus throw (preliminaries and finals) ... 2:30