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Wednesday, August 24, 1977
University Daily Kansan
KU Hall of Fame honors stars
A new entry can be made on the list of honors received by 70 current and former athletes and coaches at the University of Kansas: "Member of the KU Athletic Hall
rine nail, which honors outstanding individuals and teams, is being assembled in the lobbies and corridors of Allen Field House. The first section, featuring individual athletes, should be completed by Dec. 1.
The hall is the brainchild of Clyde Walker, KU athletic director. Walker began working on the hall when he came to KU to play football. He announced plans to make it a reality.
"We are hoping to have all paintings in football and basketball completed by Dec. 1," Walker said. "Our time schedule calls for the remainder to be completed by the fall of 1978. Right now I think we're a little ahead of schedule."
watts has finished almost half of the paintings, which are being hung on the field to display.
A COMMITTEE began drafting criteria for membership and artist Ted Watts of Oswego was commissioned to do paintings of those enshrined.
Getting into the hall is no easy task for an individual or team. Athletes in team sports—football, basketball and baseball—must be named All-American. And athletes in country, track, gymnastics, swimming, tennis and golf—must be NCAA champions.
Baseball teams that reach the College World Series also will be eligible. In other sports, teams must win an NCAA championship to be admitted.
FOOTBALL TEAMS that appear in postseason bowl games will be eligible for induction, Walker said, as will basketball teams that win an NCAA regional championship or National Invitational Tournament.
"The criteria are very demanding and some athletes who made fine contributions to KU sports won't be in the Hall of Fame," Walker said. "We feel the hall must have the highest standards both for individuals and team achievements.
"When it's finished, I think we'll have the finest athletic display of all the universities in the world."
"A few people may get into the hall under
the awnings, but they have to do
what they really outstand them."
THE CRITERIA are stringent, but they can be bent in some cases. Don Baker, sports information director and assistant to Walker in developing the Hall of Fame, explained that some athletes who aren't All-American or NCAA champions can be mitten under a clause allowing statements that allows for special admittance.
Baker said the only two people in the hall under the special ruling were James Nai-smith, who invented basketball shortly before becoming a professor and coach at KU and Jim Bausch, who won the 1932 Olympic decathlon.
"YOU CAN GET the specialty clan isn't in a lot of flood people into the hall." Baker wrote.
Of the 70 athletes and coaches named to the hall, 10 played football, 26 basketball and three baseball, and 31 participated in track.
The football inductees include Otto Schnellbacher, an end on the 1947 team.
Rhea Postlinger, secretary at the KU ticket office, took a little time out to look over the newly hung portrait of Krui great Guitarist Sam '54; a portrait one of 70 that will hang in the museum.
Ray Evans, a halftack on the same team,
and Eric Riggs, a quarterback from the
Liberty Bowl team.
other familiar football names are Gale Hoadi Hadi, Bobbog Drouillard and John Zook
Joining Naismith in the Hall is another KU basketball coach, Forrest C. (Phog) Allen, who coached KU's 1952 NCAA championship team.
Baseball inductees are first baseman John Trumbold, second baseman Sterling Coward and outfielder McGrevy. Aaron Klockenberg, Nathan Shingham, Al Oster, Jim Ryun and Karl Saul.
THE LIST of basketball players wilt
Lovelette, will Chamberlain and Do Jo Wintle.
The youngest members of the hall are David Bluchter, Kevin Neill, Jay Wagner and Cliff Wiley, members of the 1977 NCAA championship indoor mile relay team.
Track also has provided two Hall of Fame coaches; B. Elleston, who led NCAA cham
pionship track teams in 1959 and 1960 and an NCAA championship cross country team in 1953; and Bob Timmons, current head coach, who has fielded two championship indoor track teams, an outdoor track champion and a cross country champion.
"WE'VE HAD some of the finest athletes in the world at the University of Kansas, and the Hall of Fame reflects their talent," said Sharon Hall of Fame that anybody can get into."
Paintings of individual athletes in the hall are being hung in the main east lobby and the north and south corridors of the field where they are played. It probably would go in the main east lobby.
There are no plans for a grand opening of the hall. Warner said, *Hatred* paintings will be held there.
THE HALL of Fame is being financed by the sale of a marble montage of well-known KU scenes and athletes. The montage, designed by Watts, is being sold for $250.
The 1977 senior class also donated $1,000 to the hall.
Intramurals offer potpourri
There is a bit of something for everybody
on the University of Kansas fall intramur-
al.
Students can pick from touch football,
table tennis, bike races, muddinton,
voleball, tennis, racquetball and simple
drop-in recreation at Robinson Gymnasium.
Those interested in touch football can attend an organizational meeting at 5:30 p.m. next Wednesday in Robinson's south gymnasium. Plain will begin Sept. 7.
Singles, doubles and coeducational table tennis teams will be forming Sept. 10.
The date of an organizational meeting for intramural bike races will be announced later. The race will be four-person relays and individual races this year and will begin Sept. 18.
attend a meeting at 5 p.m. Sept. 15 in 208 Robinson   A coeducational tennis organization is scheduled for 5 matches. 22 in 208 and a tournament is planned for Sep. 26.
For those interested in badminton, there will be an organizational meeting at 5 p.m. Sept. 29 in 208 Robinson to prepare for a tournament and coeductional tournament Oct. 4-6.
Volleyball players looking for teams to play on can meet at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 11 in Robinson's south gymnasium. Men's and women's volleyball teams will be formed Oct. 12, and play for both men's and women's leagues will begin Oct. 17.
Students interested in doubles tennis can
Coeudocalcation racquetball teams will begin forming Dec. 1, and play will start
Timmons has 'good feeling'; new squad members to add depth
When Bob Timmons glances down his track roster this winter and next spring, he is sure it will reinforce the "good feeling" he now has about the team.
the discus and middle-distance teams that have been conspicuous mostly in their use. The discus has also
Timmons, the Jayhawk track coach, said a successful recruiting season brought much-needed and long-absent depth to the field. The team also expanded fields, and should bolster the jump area.
The folks returning were members of the squad which captured the Big Eight indoor title and an 11th consecutive outdoor championship last season.
"I think we recruiting this year went well. We've got a good feeling," Timmons said. "And we've got a lot of good folks returning."
Timmons said, "We added some to the burns."
But Timmons said he needed to pump up
So, splitting the two and a half full-ride scholarships among his recruits, Timmons brought in power where the 'Hawks "haven't had it before."
In the discus, Timmons signed junior college transfers Tracy Cook, of Hutchinson; and David Remmer, of Highland. Great Bend High School star Matt Friedman, whose 19-11 loss was as the third worst in the nation, signed a postpertition last spring, also signed with KU.
Veryl Crawford, who went 28 in the long jump and 51-11 in the triple jump two years ago as a freshman at Wichita State University to be KU from Garden City college junior program.
48.5 mile relay split. His best in the 800 is
1.49.2 and 1.48.1. m848 relay split.
Adding to middle-distance depth will be Lester Mickens, who will enroll in KA as a sophomore from Alameda, Calif., junior college. He owns a 46.6 in the 440 and has a
Lansing High School pole vaulter Frank Angelone set the National Olympic record of 16-4/3, the 11th best prep jump in U.S. history, and set a Kansas prep record of 15-4/3. Whacky Tails Scales, then at Lawrence High, set the previous mark of 16-4 in 1974.
Mark Malek, who finished sixth in the 1977 national junior college outdoor meet with a score of 3.25.
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