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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1941
Facing Aggies On Track Today
Close Battle Slated In Indoor Opener
By GABE PARKS
Led by Captain Louis Akers, star dash man, the Kansas State track team is tangling with Kansas in the first home indoor meet of the season at 3:30 this afternoon. The affair is being held on the track underneath the east wing of Memorial stadium.
Kansas State's inexperienced squad has already competed in one meet this season, losing to Drake 36 to 68 last week.
The Wildcats will be counting on three performers who won four first places against Drake to swell their score. Akers ran a 5.5 50-yard dash against Drake and is entered in the 60-yard dash against Darrrell Mathes, Jayhawk co-captain, this afternoon.
Pollom, Stoland Favored
Ed Darden, former Manhattan High School star, placed first in both the high and low hurdles in the Drake loss. However, Don Pollom and Bob Stoland should provide more competition today.
Ken Makalous, a football tackle,
who is favored to cop the shot put
for Kansas State, was also a winner
against Drake.
Broad jump and high jump will be a Jayhawk strong point. Stoland achieved marks of 6 foot 5 inches in the high jump and 23 feet 10 inches in the broad jump in the 1939 season. J. R. Jones, Big Six indoor champ last year, will team with Stoland in the broad jump.
K.U. Weak in Distance Runs
Kansas' chief weakness is in the half-mile and two-mile runs, with Dick Edwards the only hope in the mile run.
E. A. Thomas of Topeka, will be the referee and starter.
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MEET RECORDS
60 yard dash—'06.3, Mathes, Kansas,
1940.
440 yard dash=;33.3, Nixon, Kansas State, 1935.
Mile run—4:29.9, Harris, Kansas, 1940.
Two mile run - 9:45.5, High, Kansas State, 1940.
880 yard run—2:00.1, O'Reilly,
Kansas State. 1935.
Knappenberger, Kansas State, 1935. and D. Dodge, Kansas State, 1940.
60 yard low hurdles----07.1, Knappenberger, Kansas State, 1935,
D. Dodge, Kansas State, 1940
Broad Jump=22 ft. $ \frac{1}{2} $ in., Pitts, Kansas, 1935.
High jump—6 ft. 1/4 in., Treweeke, Kansas, 1916.
Pole vault—12 ft. $ 6 \frac{1}{2} $ in., O'Hara, Kansas, 1940.
Shot put—47 ft. 9/4 in., Hackney, Kansas State, 1940.
Bill Hargiss Talks To Golden Glovers
Boxers, coaches, managers, and officials of the Golden Gloves boxing tournament, now being held in Kansas City, Mo., heard Bill Hargiss, varsity track coach, speak at a party last night, held in the Kansas City club, and sponsored by the Kansas City Star.
Table Tennis Team Still Unbeaten; Whip K.C.U., 10-1
The University ping pong team sliced their way to a clear win over Kansas City University last Sunday by winning 10 out of 11 matches in the second of a series of intercollegiate matches.
Each member of the two teams played a singles match. Shirley and Ellen Irwin won the women's doubles, Charles Haney and Olivia Cole played the mixed doubles, and Bud Heiberg and Malcolm Black played the men's doubles.
Weight Counts Too -- Allen
K.U. Frosh Have It
The most underrated factor in the game of basketball today is the matter of weight, in the opinion of Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen, dean of American basketball coaches.
"People talk about how tall players are, as though that was the only thing that mattered. Actually," says Dr. Allen, "weight is almost as important."
Especially does weight make a difference in the play under the baskets. Holding a position favorable for taking the ball off the backboard is greatly simplified if the player is heavy.
Sears An Example
What a huge ball player can do in the way of scoring was demonstrated by Dale Sears, 210 pound U.S.C. center last year at the N.C.A.A. tournament in Kansas City. Sears is 6 feet 2 inches tall.
When the Trojans clashed with Kansas the Jayhawks stopped Ralph Vaughan, great U.S.C. forward, only to see Sears run wild. There was simply no one big enough on the K. U. team to handle the ponderous Sears, who dropped in 19 points from close around the basket.
The value of weight in basketball makes Doctor Allen all the more pleased with his brilliant freshman team. Lightest man on the first yearling five scales in at 180 pounds.
They Top Conference Scorers--five scales in at 100 pound (continued to page five)
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H. ENGLEMAN
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HUGH FORD
Other University representatives to the conference, to be held at Lincoln beginning tomorrow for three days, are Doris Twente, college junior, Bill Farmer, president of the M.S.C., and Russell Mosser, graduate student. All delegates are members of the student governing bodies on the campus.
Huff Appoints Whitley Delegate To Lincoln Meeting
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A change of one of the delegates to be sent to the Big Six student council conference was announced today by O'Theene Huff, president of W.S.G.A., who chose Barbara Jean Whitley, fine arts sophomore, to go in her place.
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Twenty-Seven Answer First Call
Twenty-seven men answered Dr. F. C. Allen's first call for baseball candidates last night. The newly-appointed baseball coach outlined his plans for the coming season at the meeting.
"We do not have much to start with," said the new mentor. "Last year's varsity is shot and there are few outstanding prospects from the freshman team. Any boy in college who wants to play and who can hit the ball is welcome to play. Only five lettermen are back from last year's squad."
Addition of the basketball coaching duties will give Doctor Allen a heavy schedule. During the day much of his time is devoted to his job as head of the department of physical education. Afternoons now will be spent coaching the baseball team, which means that spring basketball practice, which starts late
Physical fitness will be stressed, Doctor Allen told the players. Work in the gymnasium will begin immediately with the candidates for the team doing setting-up exercises, punching the bag, and other exercises to develop and limber up the arm and leg muscles. "Phog" has assigned this type of work to help do away with sore muscles when practice begins.
"This is essentially a college game and we will play it as an amateur game the same as we play basketball here. We will play 'college base ball'. We will play it and enjoy it."
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