Thursday, Sept. 15, 1969 University Daily Kansan Page 9
Jayhawks Excell In Olympic Games
Former KU track athletes, in a surprising show of strength, helped the United States Olympic team by bagging three gold medals and a silver medal at the 17th annual Olympic Games at Rome, Italy.
Of six former KU greats, Al Oerter, Bill Nieder, and Allen Kelley won coveted gold medals, while Cliff Cushman won a silver medal. Also participating in the games were Bill Alley and Terry Beucher.
Big Bill Nieder, a last minute addition to the U.S. team, surprised his outspoken arch-rival, Parry O'Brien, by winning first place in the shot put with a toss of $64-63^3$.
O'Brien Is Second
O'Brien, former world record holder, had boasted earlier that Nieder was no competition. O'Brien won a gold medal in the 1958 Olympics at Melbourne with a toss of 60-11 $^{13}$ g.
O'Brien finished second with 62.8% and Dallas Long was third with 62-4%.
Nieder, now an Army lieutenant, was the 12th former KU athlete to win a gold medal in Olympic game competition. Oerter and Kelley brought the total to 14.
Nieder Recovers
Nieder's win was a shock to some observers who had watched him in the July Olympic trials. Nieder finished fourth due to a leg injury but was kept on the team as a shot put alternate.
On the strength of his pre-Olympic showings, however, Nieder was placed on the team at the last moment ahead of Dave Davis, who had not been working well with the 16 pound shot.
Oerter Sets Record
Al Oerter's repeat discus victory in the Olympic Games marked the first time in history that a Big Eight product has mated two individual track and field goal medals. The former Kansas star added almost 10 feet to his Olympic record of $184-10^{2}$ at Melbourne in 1956 with a winning cast of $194-214$.
In order to win Oerter had to come from behind on his next-to-last throw to bent Rink Babka, Manhattan Beach, Calif. Babka finished second with a throw of 190-4<sup>14</sup>.
Kelley Aids Cagers
Allen Kelley, who was the mainstay of the 1953 KU basketball team which finished second in the NCAA, won his gold medal while playing guard on the U.S. basketball team, which took first place.
One of the surprise showings at the Olympies was turned in by Cliff Cushman. Cushman took a second place silver medal by turning a brisk 45-6 in the 400-meter hurdles. He had never been below 50 flat while at KU.
The team was coached by KU Athletic Director Duten Lonborg. KU's Dean Nesmith, trainer and physical education instructor, was the team's trainer.
Cushman A Surprise
Bill Alley, highly touted KU javelin thrower, and Terri Beucher, another Jayhawk star, failed to quality in preliminary rounds. In the final Olympic tryouts, Alley and Beucher placed 2-3, landing the Jayhawker's first javelin representation in history.
At present Alley has a world record pending at 283-8.
Strong Backfield Ups Jay Prestige
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and young promise to meet the rigors of a Big Eight schedule. Topping the list is Elvin Basham.
His starting stablemate will be Benny Boydston, another 180-pounder, who earned varsity status last year. Behind him is another
(Editor's Note: This is one of seven articles describing the prospects and problems of KU's conference foes this season in football.)
I-State Spirits Soar Again
AMES—There are only 21 members of the colorful Dirty Thirty left—and they don't talk much about their exploits as the surprise team of 1959.
Just the same the spirit of the Dirty Thirty at Iowa State—known for tough, hard-nosed, disciplined football—still dominates the 1960 football squad.
Man, that was a tough workout.
"Tough? That was a breeze." Eurden snorted, not without pride, "Just wait a couple of days when the coach thinks we are tough enough and ther you'll see a real workout."
Coming off the field last Monday at the end of two rugged and hot practice sessions, a sophomore remarked to wingback J. W. Burden.
That might be the watchword this fall as Coach Clay Stapleton enters what he calls the most critical year for Iowa State;
Just moments before as the squandraced off the practice field an anonymous voice had yelled. "We've all got to get tough, let's go!"
"No team in the country needs back-to-back winning seasons as badly as Iowa State," he told sports writers on Press Day. "We made a good start last fall but in order to progress our program we need still another winning season in 1960. If we fail in that some of our backers could get discouraged. That's why it is so important to win again this year."
THE TOWERING FIGURE of Fred Hageman dominates Kansas' 1960 center picture. The 6-5 220-pounder was all-conference last year and can be expected to give an even better performance this season.
high-caliber guard, again 180, Jim Mills. Joe Spurney, Belleville senior, completes the lettered roll-call.
Hageman was the Jayhawkers' first all-league pivot in 19 years last season. Roving from his center line-backer post in KU's basic 6-3-2 defense, he is surprisingly agile and swift in pursuit. He'll tri-captain this year's club along with Fullbacks Dovle Schick and Fred Bukaty.
John Hadi, who led the Jayhawkers in six offensive departments and earned all-conference last year as a sophomore, was given a thorough trial at quarter during spring practice. Solitating time with him in engineering the varsity was Rodger McFarland, sophomore transfer from Texas A & M.
No position will command more attention through Kansas early practice rounds than quarterback.
CURTIS McCLINTON, THE PRUISING PARGER from Wichita who earned all-Eig Fight as a sohomore returns at right half. McClinton led Javahawker rushers last season on 472 net vards, seventh high in the league and tent-high on KU's all-time seasonal lists.
Two other top halfbacks will be 3-4 transfers Pert Coan and Hugh Smith. They hold much of the key to Kansas backfield success this autumn. This is true not only from the standpoint of how much they can produce, but because they must fill the large shoes left by the switch of John Hadl, last year's regular, to quarterback.
FULLBACK IS THE STPONGEST position in Kansas' backfield. Depending upon a surge by veteran Fred Bukaty, it could be as solid as any spot on the club.
If he does hell furnish fine offensive relief for Dove Schick, one of the Big Eight's finest all-round football players.
Glad You're Back, Jayhawkers
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