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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1950
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Track Team Has Indoor Title To Defend This Year
By ART SCHAAF
Kansan Ass't Sports Editor
The Jayhawkers' 1951 indoor track squad will try, next February, to break a jinx that has hung over track coach Bill Easton during his three year tenure at Mt. Oread.
The Kansans under Easton's tutelage have never won a dual indoor track meet. They did, however, run off with the 1950 Big Seven championship at Kansas City's municipal auditorium on March 6.
The story of last year's cinderella finish to an otherwise all-losing indoor season lay in the individual brilliance of the Jayhawkers small squad, rather than in a large, well-balanced team.
EMIL SCHUTZEL, a steadilyimproving quartermiler, is the Jayhawker track captain for the 1950-51 indoor and outdoor seasons. He was elected by the vote of his teammates last spring. Schutzel, a senior from Kansas City, Mo., placed third in the Big Seven outdoor quartermile last year and ran the opening leg for Kansas' victorious mile - relay team. He succeeds Bob Karnes, the Jayhawkers' graduated distance star, as captain.
The Kansans were slated to finish no higher than second in the conference meet after losing duals to Alabama 43 to 61; to Oklahoma $51_{1/2}$ to $52_{1/2}$; and to Missouri $49_{1/2}$ to $63_{1/2}$, but with K. U's dynamic distance trio of Pat Bowers, Bob Karnes, and Herb Semper collecting 23 points among them from three distance runs, the Jayhawkers stunned the other six conference members with a 40 point winning total.
Eleven Kansans added to the point collection, but it was the one-two finishes of Karnes and Bowers in both the mile and half-mile races that provided the scoring punch by furnishing 18 points of the winning total. Karnes won the mile run in four minutes, 17.2 seconds to tie the conference record set by Missouri's Bill McGuire the previous year. Bowers was just a step behind Karnes in the mile. The order of finish was reversed in the half-mile. Bowers had broken his own league record in the preliminaries the previous night with a one minute, 54.8 second effort.
Semper's two-mile performance was perhaps the most surprising and crowd-stirring of the night. Holding the lead intermittently through the first $^{1/4}$ miles, he took over for good with three laps left and produced such a strong kick in the final lap that he was a good 40 yards in front of second-place George Fitzmorris of Colorado. Semper's time of 9:25.4 was nearly three seconds better than the record Karnes set in the 1949 meet.
In the finals he raced 1:55.6, and Karnes was just a step behind him. Spectators vowed that either runner could have nipped the other in his speciality. Each runner had to slow down to allow his teammate to win.
Valuable point contributions from Bob Devinney and Jack Greenwood in the hurdles and mile relay; Del Norris and Bill Richardson in the high jump; Jim Dinsmore in the half-mile; Cliff Abel in the mile; and Emil Schutzel and Jim Hershberger in the relay assured the Kansas victory.
Coach Easton will place his hopes of retaining the crown on a squad riddled by graduation. Gone from the squad are the twin terrors, Bowers and Karnes. Bowers is a graduate student at KU., and Karnes is coaching at Sedalia, Mo. Also lost thru graduation is high jumper Del Norris; weightman Ed Lee; and dashman and hurdler Forrest Griffith. No longer competing are broad
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jumpers. Al Bouchard and Clarence Nauman. High jumper Bill Richardson is a question mark. At the present time he plans to graduate at the end of the current semester.
Sophomores, transfer students, and squadmen will be relied upon by Easton to fill the gaps left by the departures. Senior Dave Breedental was hampered by injuries for the largest part of last year, but is regaining the form that made him a standout as a sophomore. Breedental is a miler. Dave Fisher, a junior half-miler, has shown great promise this season and should go a long way toward filling the gap in the K. U. half-mile ranks. Jim Floyd will return as Easton's lone pole-vaulter.
Eight sophomores are expected to add strength to the Kansas team. They are; Bill Farney in the mile; Keith Palmquist in the two-mile; Don Smith in the low hurdles and 60-yard dash; "Long John" Riederver in the 440; Don Ochs, Galen Fiss, and Oliver Spencer in the shot; and Don Clements in the 60-yard dash. Transfer students Rollie Cain and Art Schaaf should add strength in the 440 and 830.
The indoor schedule is as follows:
February 3 at Oklahoma; February 10 at Nebraska; February 17 at Kansas State; and February 24 at Missouri. The Big Seven championships will be held in Kansas City on March 2 and 3.
Most of the indoor squad is taking conditioning work in Memorial stadium already this fall.
Indoor Summary
Last year's indoor results: Dual Meets
Kansas 43, Nebraska 61
Kansas 51!₁, Oklahoma 61!₂,
Kansas 40 2-3, Missouri 63 1-3
Rig Seven Meet
Big Seven Meet
Kansas 49
Nebraska $34_{12}$
Oklahoma 29
Missouri $26_{12}$
Colorado $25_{12}$
Kansas State $21_{12}$
Iowa State 3
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