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University Daily Kansan Thursday. March 19, 1959
University Daily Kansan SPORTS
IM Team to Compete In Volleyball Tourney
The third annual Jayhawk Open volleyball tournament to be held in Robinson gym and annex all day Saturday will feature a group of intramural players competing with some of the most powerful volleyball teams in four states.
The team, which was formed less than a week ago, is known as the University of Kansas "Blue" team, to differentiate from the "Red" first team and the "White" second team.
Squad members Gary Thompson, Chuck Foster, Larry Schwartz, Jim Husser, Don McNichols, Pete Abbott, Dick Lee, Dave Edgell, and Dick Dobbin have had two practices and expect to have only one more before trying the big time.
The "Blues" will be playing in the "Mount Oread" half of the tournament in the afternoon, after competing against stronger teams in the morning. The high point of their day will be the game with Oklahoma University at about 4:00 p.m.
Playing manager Jim Husser has not settled on his line-up yet, but McNichols, Abbott, Thompson, Lee, Edgell, and Husser have been working as a unit with Foster and Schwartz alternating as spikers and Dobbin and Schwartz spelling the setmen.
KU Volleyball Team Ready
Carrying a losing record into its own tournament, the University of Kansas volleyball team will have to show a lot of improvement to repeat its second place finish of last year.
Entries in the third annual Jayahawk Open Tournament to be held in Robinson Gym this Saturday include the YMCA teams from Wichita, Omaha, Topeka, Lincoln, and Kansas City, Kan., all of whom have finished ahead of Kansas in tournments this year.
However, the Jayhawks will be at full strength for the first time and the home court advantage may help pull them up.
High point of the season so far for the Jayhawks was a third place finish in the strong Southwest Open tournament at Oklahoma City six weeks ago. Playing tough, alert volleyball, Kansas downed good teams from Wichita Falls, Tex., and Dallas while losing only to an outstanding team from Fort Worth.
Coach Kevin Jones plans to start a line-up of Russell, Hougland, Afl Americas Dick Laptad and Glen Buell, setman Bill Henson, and spiker Bruce Wells. Wells, a newcomer and the tallest man on the squad at 6'5", is just beginning to come into his if. He and Buell can put the ball down, Kansas may finish high in the tourney.
Commenting on his squad, Coach Jones said: "So far this season we have entered four tournaments and we have only played in one. In the others we stood around and watched
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the other teams. If the players want to, they can finish second Saturday, and might even give Wichita a battle for first."
He went on: "If one of our men decides to loaf, he can pull the whole team down to sixth or seventh
place in the tournament. Bob Cooksey, our only substitute, has been playing too short a time to help us keep hustling, although he may reach the top by the end of the season."