MONDAY MARCH 5.1951
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Along the JAYHAWKER trail
By BOB NELSON Daily Kansan Sports Editor
The 1951 Big Seven annual indoor track meet was termed by track coaches and fans as "one of the finest in its 23-year-old history."
It marked the second straight year that an underdog rose to the required heights to capture the championship. Missouri had been handed the favorite's role and qualified what looked like an adequate number Friday to outman the other six conference track squads in the finals Saturday night, but M.U. didn't come through with enough first, second, and third place winners.
Nebraska's title was its second in the last four years and was well earned. The Cornhuskers showed the best overall balance scoring 21 points in running events and another $19 \frac{1}{2}$ points in field events for a winning total of $40 \frac{1}{2}$ points—three points more than second place Missouri.
But the outstanding thing as far as we were concerned was individual performances and not team performances. Kansas' great Two-Miler, Herb Semper, and hurdler Jack Greenwood turned in remarkable performances to rank as the top two performers in our book. Running a
close third was K-State's Herb Hoskins who won the broad jump and finished second in the 60-Yard dash.
Hoskins set a new broad jump record Friday night by leaping through the air for a distance of 24 feet $7 \frac{3}{4}$ inches to better the old mark more than seven inches.
After being handicapped by a leg injury the past two weeks, Greenwood sent a mild shock through the favorites' title hope chest with victories in the high and low hurdles. He was the only twotime winner in the two-night meet.
Semper ran so well from the start it is a wonder his competitors can't just give up and drop out of the race. He jumped into a lead the start and soon was far out in front. At the end of the first mile, the red-head started his lapping procedure and took his men one-at-a time but at a steady pace.
He took Nebraska's Bob Kruger at the half-way point (12 laps) and had lapped everyone but his dualing Missouri rival, Bob Fox, by the 20th lap.
Semper finished strong and received a tremendous applause for his outstanding performance by the more than 6,000 roaring fans that stood and cheered Herbie around the final two laps.
There seemed little doubt that he was breaking a record he ran so well, but he was surprised to find that he had posted a 9:11.3, the second best indoor Two-Mile time in the nation this year.
Our prediction of 9:12.0 was a little off (as stated in this column last Friday), but I guess we misjudged the condition of the track or something.
Big Seven Indoor Track Meet Summary
60-Yard High hurdles: 1. Jack Greenwood (K), 2. Don Bedker (N).
3. Frank Bardot (M). 4. Byron Renner (M). 5. Robert Foster (M). Time:
07:5.
60-Yard dash: 1. Augie Raso (C),
2. Herb Hoskins (KS), 3. D. Cooper
(N), 4. Thane Baker (KS), 5. Dale
Kelley (C). Time: .063.
Shot Put: 1. Wally Tanner (C),
50 feet 11 inches; 2. Clair Mayes
(O), 50 feet $5^{\frac{3}{4}}$ inches; 3. Phil
Brusca (M), 50 feet $2^{\frac{1}{2}}$ inches;
4. Paul Grimm (N), 45 feet 4 inches;
5. Lowell Neilson (N), 44 feet 10
60-Yard Low hurdles: 1. Jack Greenwood (K), 2. Wendell Cole (N), 3. Merwin Hodel (C), 4. Harold Carter (M), 5. Byron Renner (M). Time: 06.9.
Yard dash: 1. Jerry Meader (N), 2. Thane Baker (KS), 3. Randy Vanet (M), 4. Charles Coleman (O), 5. Lee Alexian (N). Time: .50.3
Mile run: 1. Bill McGuire (M), 2.
Cliff Abel (K), 3. Ken Jacobs (N),
4. Dean Kays (KS), 5. Hobe Jones
(N). Time: 4:20.1.
Two-Mile run: 1. Herb Semper (K), 2. Bob Fox M (H), 3. Keith Palm-queist (K), 4. Bill McGuire (M), 5. Bruce Drummond (O). Time: 9:11.3. (New record. Old record 9:26.4 set by Semper, 1850).
880-Yard run: 1. Hobe Jones (N),
2. Don Crabtree (O), 3. Dick Towers
(KS), 4. Dave Fisher (K), 5. Pete
Gallup (M). Time: 1.564.
Mile relay: 1. Kansas (Emil Schutzel, Rollie Cain, Don Smith, and Jim Hershberger); 2. Missouri; 3. Kansas State; 4. Iowa State; 5. Colorado. Time: 3:42.2.
Pole Vault: 1. Leonard Kehl (N), 13 feet $6\frac{1}{2}$ inches; 2. Don Cooper (N), 13 feet 3 inches; 3. Jerry Lemon (O), 13 feet; 4. (three-way tie) Jim Floyd (K), John Wilkin (IS), and George Lindsey (C), 12 feet 6 inches.
Broad jump: (Finals Friday night) 1. Herb Hoskins (KS), 24 feet $7 \frac{3}{4}$ inches; 2. Laddie Stovall(M), 23 feet $6 \frac{1}{2}$ inches; 3. Irving Thorde (N) 23 feet 4 inches; 4. Glenn Beerline (N), 23 feet 3 inches; 5. Quannah Cox (O), 22 feet $7 \frac{1}{4}$ inches. (New record. Old record 24 feet $ \frac{1}{8} $ inch set by Norman Pederson, Iowa State, 1946).
High jump: 1. Dick Jones (O), 6 feet $3 \frac{1}{4}$ inches; 2. (wet-way tie) Joe Gold (C), Mitchell Launius (M), Virgil Severnus (KS), and Dick Meissner (N), 6 feet $2 \frac{1}{2}$ inches.
Florida's population gain from 1940 to 1950 was 873,891, an increase of 46.1 per cent.
Big Seven Play Ends This Week
Big Seven teams will play six games this week as they ring down the curtain on the 1950-51 basketball season. The final game of the regular season finds Kansas traveling to Stillwater, Okla., Saturday night to meet Oklahoma A. and M. Aggies in a non-fence game.
Tonight's conference games match Oklahoma against Kansas State at Manhattan and Colorado invades Missouri. Wednesday's games match Iowa State's Cyclones against Kansas here, Nebraska plays at Missouri, and Colorado closes its season at Norman against the Oklahoma Sooners.
Victories over Colorado and Nebraska at Columbia will give the Missouri Tigers a season league record of 8-4. A victory over Iowa State here will also allow K.U. to finish with an 8-4 record, the same as the 1950 record.
Saturday's game at Stillwater matches K.U. against the club that has ranked second nationally most of the year, Hank "The Iron Duke" Iba's powerful Oklahoma Aggies.
Big Seven Standings
CONFERENCE GAMES
| | W. | L. | Pct. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Kansas State | 10 | 1 | .909 |
| KANSAS | 7 | 4 | .636 |
| MISSOURI | 6 | 4 | .600 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | 5 | .500 |
| Nebraska | 4 | 7 | .364 |
| Iowa State | 3 | 8 | .273 |
| Colorado | 2 | 8 | .200 |
ALL GAMES
W. L.
Kansas State 20 3
KANSAS 14 8
Missouri 14 8
Oklahoma 13 9
Iowa State 9 11
Nebraska 9 13
Colorado 4 18
LAST WEEK'S RESULTS
KANSAS 58, COLORADO 56
Kansas State 74, Nebraska 48
Missouri 59, Iowa State 54
Kansas State 81, Iowa State 47
Nebraska 46, Oklahoma 44
GAMES THIS WEEK Tonight:
Oklahoma at Kansas State Colorado at Missouri Wednesday:
IOWA STATE at KANSAS
Colorado at Oklahoma Saturday:
KANSAS at Oklahoma A.&M.*
*Non-conference game
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