Friday, November 20, 1959 University Daily Kansan
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Cross - Country Team in NCAA Next Saturday
Bent on revenge, the Jayhawkers met Arkansas the following week on the Lawrence Country Club course and crushed the Razorbacks 16-42. Mills again led the way with a winning time of 14:54.5, almost a minute under his time in the Missouri meet.
With five victories in six starts, the Kansas cross-country team is looking toward next Saturday and the NCAA cross-country championship meet at East Lansing, Michigan.
The Jayhawkers ended their season against Missouri and took the first four places in downing the Tigers 16-45, notching their 33rd consecutive conference win. Billy Mills took individual honors with a 15:51.8 time over the rugged Mt. Oread course, 'beating teammate Brian Travis by a step.
The following weekend, the team faced the Chicago Track Club at the windy city. Paced by Phil Coleman, the Chicagoans upset Kansas 21-36, snapping a Jayhawker all-meet winning streak at 22.
The squad migrated to Norman, Okla., the following Friday, gunning for their third win of the campaign against Oklahoma. The Sooners obliged, losing 19-43.
The first week of November found the Kansas squad eyeing the Big Eight title.
Running under a steady rain, the Jays, led by Tom Skutka, took six of the first seven places.
Setting a blistering pace, Oklahoma State's Miles Eisenman took individual honors with a record-shattering 13:55.2 over the three-mile course.
But KU wasn't to be denied its 13th consecutive Big Eight cross-country title. Racking up 51 points, the Jays took team honors by 36 points over Iowa State. The order of finish: 1—Kansas; 2—Iowa State; 3—Nebraska; 4—Missouri; 5—Colorado; 6—Oklahoma State; 7—Kansas State; 8—Oklahoma.
COACHING STAFF—Left to right, front row, Bill Pace, Bob Goad, Jack Mitchell, head coach, and George Bernhard; back
Race Track Tops Foul Lines
row, Tom Triplett, Floyd Temple, Don Fambrough, Wayne Replogle and Dean Nesmith, trainer.
NEW YORK — (UPI) The grandstand at the new Aqueduct race track is 350 feet deep, more than the length of a football field and most foul lines of major league baseball parks.
Myers Has Record
CINCINNATI — (UPI) — Billy Myers, former Cincinnati shortstop, set the all-time major league record for grounding into the fewest double plays when he hit into only three in 151 games during 1939.
Ever Fore-ward
NEW YORK - (UPI) The National Golf Foundation reports that at the present rate of increase, the United States will have more than 6,000 golf courses by next year, an all-time high.
No Rust on 'Iron Man'
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Iron Man Joe McGinnity pitched five doubleheaders within a span of one month for the New York Giants of 1903. He won three of the twin bills.
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