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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 17, 1950
By ART SCHAAF Daily Kansan Asst. Sports Editor
A whole heard of K.U. trackmen thundered past track coach Bill Easton one day recently in Memorial stadium. As the beaming Jayhawker headman, stop-watch in hand, gazed admiringly after the runners, he announced proudly, "By golly, that bunch reminds me of my teams at Drake."
Understandably enough Coach Easton could feel a sense of pride in his Drake university cross-country teams of 1944, 1945 and 1946. During those years Easton turned out three consecutive N.C.A.A. cross-country team champions. No other school has won that many in succession.
Since he moved to Kansas in the fall of 1947, Easton's teams have swept to three straight Big Seven championships, but have finished no higher than sixth in the national competition. With the opening of the current school year, though, Easton has a crop of runners working out that would make any coach beam.
Besides a varsity crew that has been turning in end-of-the-season times already this fall, Easton has a rip-snorter freshman team made up of the cream of last year's Kansas high school champions, plus several promising out-of-staters.
Last Thursday Easton ran a time trial, matching the Varsity against the freshmen. Capt. Herb Semper stole the show with a glazing 9 minute, 30.8 second two mile—a 32.2 second improvement over his time the preceding week. Senior Cliff Abel stepped a 9:33.0 to take second place; his time was as fast as the fastest time turned in by a K.U. man during the entire 1949 cross-country season. Both were great performances, but in spite of them the Varsity was able to down the freshmen by a score of only 13 to 24.
Heading the strong freshmen squad is Wesley Santee, an Ashland, Kan. athlete, whose list of state records and championships reads like a Frank Merriwell fantasy. His greatest performance was a four minute, 26 second mile at the Hutchinson regional track meet last spring. That time broke a 19-year old Kansas high school mile record set by Glenn Cunningham in 1930, when the great Kansas Comet raced a 4:28.4 mile for Elkhart high school—the year before he enrolled at K.U.
Santee's other accomplishments include two state class B mile crowns, two K.U. Relays school boy mile crowns, and the 1949 University of Kansas high school cross-country championship and record.
Other freshmen runners showing great promise are Lloyd Koby, Sedgwick, who came to K.U. unheralded, but who has been beating some of the Varsity men regularly; Norman Bitner, a Wyandotte high school product, who won the 1949 Kansas Relays class AA mile crown; Dick Wilson, Schenectady, N.Y., an experienced cross-country runner; and Art Dalzell, Spring Hill, class B half-mile champion and record holder.
Dix, Don Henry Score Easy Victories
By ED BARTLETT Intramural Writer
Monday's intramural football brought together three closely matched Independent "A" teams.
Jolliffe, AROTC, and Jim Beam's Dream team each squeezed out victories in closely contested games
However, Don Henry and Dix Club squads had "easy pickin'$ as they rolled over Battenfeld and the Navy who failed to score.
Jolliffe 2. Oread 0
Outstanding on the Jollife aggregation, was Ray Borden's 60-yard punt in the first quarter. Charles Hawkins' third period interception and the heads-up line play of Charles Stubblefield, Jack Jester, and Wayne Hettenbach were also outstanding.
Jolliffe eked out a victory over a rugged Oread eleven. The lone score of the game was manufactured when Oread's Angell dropped a lateral and Donald Ferrell of Jolliffe tagged him before he could move the ball behind the Oread goal line.
**AROTIC I. AILE 9**
The fly-boys added to a growing string of victories by beating a stubborn, but ineffective AIEE squad.
AROTC 12. AIEE 0
Jim Beam 14, Sterling-Oliver 6
Jim Beam's Dream Team won again to claim a prominent spot in the league standings. The scoring began on the first play of the game when, by virtue of an intercepted Sterling-Oliver aerial, Jim Beam's men jumped out in front to shock the morale of their opposition. Kaufman completed to Kennedy for the point. Kaufman's accurate arm was right again when he hit Kreamer to make good the second score for Beam. Kaufman threw again, this time to Turner to add the extra point.
The most outstanding play of the game, however, and possibly of the day was Don Trent's 78 yard return of a Jim Beam pass which he intercepted near his own goal line for the only Sterling-Oliver score.
The entire Jim Beam defense was outstanding.
Don Henry 33, Battenfeld 0
Harlan Unruh passed his Don
Henry teammates to an easy, top-
heavy victory over an outclassed
Battenfeld team.
The scoring began in the second with a long pass from Unruh to Herb Pearson. Unruh converted successfully. The Battenfeld defense tightened, but the rugged Don Henry offense continued to click.
Unruh pitched again, this time to Charles Shara and then again to Pearson. Seven more points. The third quarter was uneventful. In the fourth, however, Unruh's arm got hot. He hit Virgil Haney for a T.D. and then did a solo for the extra point. Gordon Jarchow then took over the passing burden and succeeded in completing to Virgil Haney and Jim Nitz. Neither try for the conversion was good and the game ended.
Dix Club 26, Navy 0
The Dix Club romped to victory over an easy Navy team. Ferguson had a near perfect day being responsible for all of the four Dix touchdowns. The luckless Navy eleven was stunned by the speed of the Dix onslaught as they scored three TD's in the first quarter.
Ferguson, Dix Club hurler, pitched accurately to Enguel and Ponteney.
I-M Schedule
1 Speedrs vs. Delts
2 Beta vs. Phi Kappa
3 Club 13 vs. Bye
Wednesday's Schedule
All-School Pentathlon Begins Third Week
The all-school pentathlon went into its third week Monday with 13 students competing in the nine-event schedule. During the week of Oct. 16 thru 20 the 880-yard run, the javelin throw, and the high jump will be run off.
Most outstanding feat so far has been Jim Stout's 4 feet, 8-1-4 inch heave of the twelve pound shot—good for 1,047 points as scored according to the graduated pentathlon scoring chart.
Contestants can choose from nine events for their competition, but only five events will be scored. A participant may compete in all nine and take the highest five, or he may compete in only five, but each contestant must include at least one running, one jumping, and one throwing activity in his five events.
Running activities include the 220-yard dash, the 880-yard run, and the 120-yard high hurdles (39 inch). Jumping includes the running high jump, the running broad jump, and the pole-vault. Throwing includes the discus, the javelin, and the 12-pound shot.
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Assistant track coach Jim McConnell has set the week of Oct. 23 thru 27 as make-up week. During that time any of the events may be run off. Late-comers still have a chance to enter the contest. Spiked shoes will not be allowed.
The three high point winners will each receive a medal, and the champion's name will be engraved on a traveling trophy that will remain on display in the track office. Lettermen in either track or cross-country are not eligible for the contest.
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