FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1950
UNIVERSITY, DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
B NINE
Men's Intramural Program Just Grows And Grows
By RAY SOLDAN
The men's intramural sports program at the University, one of the largest programs of its kind in the nation, keeps growing every year.
A new record for participation in the program is being set during the present school year. Approximately 5,800 men will have participated in the 10 sports and 15 tournaments on the 1949-50 intramural schedule at the completion of play in May. This is an increase of nearly 1,000 participants over the past year.
Don Powell, director of intramurals, and his assistants have organized the program so that men of all levels of ability will be able to compete. The program is primarily for the "recreation, relaxation, and enjoyment of the male population of the University," Mr. Powell stated. "There are limited facilities now, but the new fieldhouse—which was told to the legislature on the basis of the intramural program—should alleviate bad hours and week-end play."
The intramural staff has succeeded in building up student interest as the 5,800 figure for participants in 1949-50 would indicate. The next big goal is to get the faculty interested in the program. Three faculty teams were entered in volleyball competition this winter—two from the physics department and one from the English department, and two faculty teams are entered in spring badminton play—Romance language department and football staffs.
The intramural play is divided into three seasons—fall, winter, and spring. Sports on the fall schedule are touch football, horseshoes, golf, tennis and badminton. On the winter schedule are basketball, volleyball, and bowling, and on the spring program which opened the past week are softball, tennis, golf, horseshoes, handball, badminton, and swimming.
A summary of intramural play in the various sports thus far in the 1949-50 school year is as follows:
Touch football--More than 1,000 men played on the 58 teams which were entered, Beta Theta Pi won the class "A" championship and Sigma Chi won the "B" championship. Both teams were fraternity league champions. The Betas downed the Dix club, independent "A" league champs, 40 to 0, and Sigma Chi edgeged Jim Beam's Dream Team, kingpins of the independent "B" league, 13 to 7.
Golf-James Houghton, Alpha Tau Omega, topped a field of 163 men to win the fall intramural golf championship, Dave Ritchie, Phi Gamma Delta, was runner-up, and Frank Prosser and Fred Brinkman were finalists.
Tennis—Bob Swartzell, independent, defeated Charles Crawford, Phi Gamma Delta, 6-4 and 6-1, to capture the fall tennis tourney. Bill Thompson and Dale Ferguson were semi-finalists. There were 136 men entered in the single elimination tournament, a slight drop from the past year.
Badminton — Hervey Macferran, Phil Gamma Delta, won his third straight badminton championship by decisioning Bob Timmons, Beta, 15-11, 15-12. Carl Lewton and Jack Banson reached the semi-finals in the 125-man field.
Basketball—More than 1500 men took part in the largest basketball program in school's history. Three courts were used as 575 games were played during the three month season. There were 145 teams that competed.
Horseshoes—Carl Cole defeated J. O. Biggs, 21-15, 21-5, to win the fall horseshoe tourney. Cole beat Hugh Kreamer and Biggs beat Frank McColloch in the semi-finals. A record number of 126 entrants were in the single elimination tournament.
Beta Theta Pi, fraternity "A" champs, defeated the independent kings, the Dark Horses, 37 to 34 for the "A" crown. Phi Delta Theta captured the "B" title with a narrow 35 to 33 victory over Spooner-Thayer. The "C" crown was won by the Beta's in a playoff among winners of the three fraternity "C" leagues. There was no "C" class in the independent play.
Volleyball—Phi Delta Theta won the "A" championship by defeating the Fijis, 15-5, 15-3. The "B" title went to Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Sig Alphined Scarab in the "B" championship match, 15-1, 15-13. A record number of teams were entered in volleyball play. About 1,000 men played on 110 teams. More than 200 matches were unraveled in the course of about a month.
Seventy-five teams, a record number, are entered in softball competition this spring. Approximately
900 men will participate and about 200 games will be played. In 1949, 750 men on 61 teams played 150 games.
Play in the spring sports—softball, tennis, horseshoes, golf, handball, and badminton—began the past week. The swimming meet will be held from Monday, April 24 through Wednesday, April 26, in the Robinson gym pool. It is expected that individual entries in the swimming meet will approach 1949's record of 210.
In tennis there is also a record number of teams this spring. Thirty-six teams with four men to the team will play a round-robin tournament.
Bowling — The Four Spares — Drexil Forkner, Harry Llorenegl, Jay Nixon, and Dick Routles—outclassed Oard hall No. 1 to win the intramural bowling championship. Play was divided into four leagues with the top two teams of each league entering a single elimination playoff. The Four Spires, Oread No. 1, Pi Kappa Alpha, and Phil Delta Theta were league champions. Forty-four teams and about 200 individual bowlers took part in the season's play.
Entrants in spring horseshoes have dropped from the high mark of a year ago. Twenty teams will compete. There are three men to a team.
Golf entries have also fallen off from 1949. Twenty-eight teams including 84 men are entered in play this spring.
Badminton is on the spring sports program for the first time. There are 16 teams entered in badminton play with six men on a team for a total of 96 men who will participate.
Play in intramural handball got under way with 22 teams, another new record, comprising 66 individuals. This is two teams and eight individuals more than the past season.
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