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BOB LOCKWOOD, senior from Lawrence, shows his form on the rings at a gymnastic team practice.
the rings at a gymnastic team practice.
Grueling Course for Haskell
The boys seen running around the campus every week day are members of the Haskell Institute cross country team.
Track Coach Carlos Toyebo prescribes a fairly tough schedule consisting of a few laps of a course winding around the stadium and Campanile and including the hill behind Joseph R. Pearson, men's dormitory. After climbing the rope hanging from the scoreboard at the stadium, they do pace work on the track, and a mile or so of interval running — all timed by the stop watch.
The 14 boys out for the cross countrv team cover about six or eight miles per day.
The team competes primarily with Kansas City schools, and members of the Jayhawk League, and they will compete in the Shawnee Mission East Invitational cross country meet, which they won last year.
Coach Toyebo said that the strong teams this year are Wyandotte, Wichita East, and Emporia. Haskell won the Eastern Regional this year, and Emporia won the Western Regional at Wichita.
Wichita East has won the state meet the last three years with Haskell as runner-up all three times. The last time Haskell won the state meet was in 1956.
Lockwood Leads KU Gymnasts
The KU gymnastics team, coached by Bob Lockwood, Lawrence senior is preparing for its coming season.
The team is composed of 14 men, including their coach. Other key team members include Bill Steele. San Marino, Calif., senior and Don Clifford, Wichita senior.
A standard dual gymnastics meet in made up of seven events. They include free exercise, performance on the trampoline, side horse, horizontal bars, vertical bars, parallel bars, flying wings and tumbling.
Free exercise consists of various tumbling exercises on a 40-foot square mat. Performance on the trampoline consists of various bouncing and flipping feats.
The flying wing feat is the most spectacular. The gymnast grabs two rings supported by ropes, swoops from an elevated position, does two flips and lands on the floor — feet down.
Performing on the side horse, the gymnast moves in, out, and around an elevated shaped pad. Various hand stands are exhibited on both the horizontal and vertical bars.
Waggoner Wallops Weaver and Winter
KU's first dual meet is with Northwestern Oklahoma State on Dec. 3. In other meets, the squad will face Kansas State, Fort Hays State, Nebraska, Denver, Colorado and Colorado State College.
When Kansas State football coach Doug Weaver and basketball coach Tex Winter dropped over to Salina the other day to plug their school in a lecture at a local civic club, they found to their dismay that a representative of the bitter rival, KU, was delivering a lecture for the opposition at a hall just down the street.
That was bad enough, but what really hurt the K-State sportsmen was the discovery that the KU man, Dean George Waggoner, outrew them 115 to 89 with a lecture on—of all things—poetry.
Friday. Nov. 11, 1960
University Daily Kansan
Freshman Basketball Team Has Good Size
Tonight's freshman-varsity basketball game will feature an experienced Jayhawker squad against a very tall freshman team led by a new coach.
Ted Owens, in his first year as varsity assistant, is the coach of the freshman team. He says his squad is tall but this may also be a disadvantage.
Height a Problem
Because of the outstanding size of these future Jayhawkers they have the problem of developing team speed and quickness, he said.
Under Big Eight rules, freshman teams are allowed to play only four games. All of the KU fresh games are in February.
Coach Owens feels his team has done reasonably well in their practice sessions thus far in preparation for both tonight's game and the four-game second-semester schedule.
Opens Against Parsons
Owens said the squad has to do a lot of work on fundamentals, but added that this is typical of any freshman squad.
The official opener for the Kansas squad will be with defending national junior college champion, Parsons Junior College. The game will precede the KU-Colorado game Feb 6.
Before the KU-Missouri game in Allen Field House Feb. 13, the KU yearlings play the Tiger first year men.
The choice at the center spot is between 6-foot 8-inch Dick Baker of Savannah, Missouri and Buddy Vance, 6-foot 7-inches, from Seminole, Oklahoma.
The final two games are with rival Kansas State. A shorter, faster Wildcat team than last season will host KU Feb. 15 and will come to Lawrence Feb.21.
Coach Owens said he is depending on seven players to carry the load tonight.
The three possible starters at the forward positions are also tall. Der-
ril Gwinner of Topeka, 6-foot-5 inches and Lee Linhardt at 6-foot-6-inches are the tallest, but outstanding prospect Dave Stinson, at 6-foot-3-inches, from Lawrence, is also being considered as a starter.
Owens said his first team guards will probably be a pair of 6-foot 3-inchers, Harry Gibson from Wyandotte in Kansas City, Kan., and John Redwood of Brooklyn, New York.
The top reserves on this season's team are John Davis, 6-foot 3-inches, of Southwest High School in Kansas City, Mo. Rob Ash of Shawnee-Mission North, a 6-foot 3-inch; Lynn Weas, a 5-foot 10-inches, from Newton; Gene Schofer an Ottawa 6-footer; Dick Benson, from Topeka, at 5-foot 9-inches and Phil Sorenson a 6-foot 7-inch who is in the hospital now and will not be ready until second semester because of a animal operation.
Coach Owens is also hoping to have football players Danny Hudgins and Jay Roberts on the squad later in the season.
Hawk Tennis Team Seeks League Title
This spring's tennis team will be stronger than last year's second place squad and will be gunning for the number one spot according to coach Denzel Gibbons
Mel Karrle, St. Joseph junior and number 1 man last year; Pete Woodard, Topека junior, number 2 man; Jerry* Williams, Olathe senior; and Pete Block, Mission senior, are the nucleus of the squad.
"We may not have as good a record this year because we're playing a tougher schedule," Coach Gibbs said. The record for last year was 12 wins against 1 defeat.
A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views—Charles Dickens
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT Extends A Hearty And Cordial Welcome To Every Alumnus, Parent, Visitor and Student Who Will Be On Our Campus This Weekend
To the 1960 Football Homecoming
ARTHUR C. "DUTCH" LONBORG Director of Athletics UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS