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Friday, Sept. 11, 1970
University Daily Kansan
KU Completes Workouts
KU football coach Pepper Rodgers put his charges through a light 45-minute workout Thursday culminating pre-season workouts for the Jayhawks. Today will be a day of rest for the team before Saturday's season opener against the Washington State Cougars.
Four Chosen As Captains
Three seniors and a junior will captain the KU track squad this year as the Jayhawks strive to extend their string of eight consecutive Big Eight championships in cross country, indoor and outdoor track.
Bob Timmons, KU track coach, announced that four captains had been chosen for the second year in a row for each of the four areas of competition. The captains are:
Sprints and Hurdles — Phil Reaves, Fresno, Calif., senior, member of the 440-yard relay team and winner of the Big Eight indoor and outdoor long jump titles. Reaves has a career best of $26-2\frac{1}{4}$ (wind albed) at the conference outdoor.
Distances and Cross Country—Jay Mason, Hobbs, N.M., senior, top finisher with KU's Big Eight cross country champion last fall and fourth place finisher in the three-mile run at both the Texas and Kansas Relays last year. His career best in the three-mile is 13:41.0, good enough for a seventh place finish the NCAA meet.
Weights—Bill Penny, Emporia senior and winner of the hammer throw at the Kentucky and Emporia Relays last year. Penny also finished second at the National Federation meet, the Kansas Relays and the Drake Relays. His best throw came at Drake, measuring 191-1.
Jumps and Vaults—Jan Johnson, Chicago Heights, Ill., senior. Johnson is last year's NCAA, National Federation, Kansas Relays, and Big Eight pole vault champion. He is also owner of the all-time world indoor best mark of 17-7. The vault came in a winning effort in the NCAA last June.
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Tryouts to Begin For KU Baseball
KU baseball coach Floyd Temple has announced that fall tryouts for this spring's team will begin Monday and last through the remainder of the week.
All undergraduate men interested in trying out for the team are urged to attend a meeting with Temple Sunday afternoon. The meeting will begin at 3 p.m. in the K Room in Allen Field House.
The Jayhawks will go into the coming season a strong contender for the Big Eight title. Last year's team was the conference surprise as the Hawks finished second to Iowa State. It was the first time in numerous years that KU finished in the upper division.
A strong nucleus will return to Temple's camp this spring including the hard-hitting combination of Paul Womble, Keith Lieppman and Skip James. This threesome gave KU one of the strongest hitting teams in the conference last year.
THE FURY OF WIND
NEW YORK—The most devastating storm of 1968 occurred on May 15 when 67 different tornadoes swept through Alabama and several midwestern states, causing $36 million insured damage, says the Insurance Information Institute.
Physically KU will be in top condition for the game with the exception of starting sophomore defensive back James Bowman. Jayhawk trainer Dean Nesmith said Bowman will definitely miss the game as a result of an injury he sustained in practice earlier this week. Bowman's replacement will probably be junior letterman Dick Hertel, who started much of last year. Junior defensive tackle Pat Ryan, who had been on the injury list most of the week, was given a clean bill of health and will be ready to play.
The Jayhawks will break a long-standing tradition of going out of town to spend Friday night ahead of home games. Rodgers announced that this season the
team would remain at home in its Jayhawker Towers apartments.
KU will go into the game with an eight-game losing streak, second longest in the school's history. The only longer one occurred in the mid 1950's when
the Jayhawks lost 17 in a row. That streak ended in the second game of the 1955 season with a victory over none other than Washington State, 13-0. The game marked the only previous meeting between the two teams.
A crowd of about 32,000 will be on hand to take an early inventory of the Jayhawks to see if the ingredients are there to make true the "Kansas Will Be Back" slogan.
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HOPE AWARD
NOMINATIONS DUE
Fri., Sept. 11
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