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University Daily Kansan Friday, March 3. 1959
Kansas, I-State Rated Second in Swim Meet
The KU swimming team is participating in the Big Eight Swimming Championhips Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week at Lincoln, Neb.
The Cyclones handed Kansas a 57-23 defeat earlier this year. Since then, the Jayhawkers have raised many of their times so are expected to give I-State a closer battle.
Although Oklahoma University is expected to dominate the meet, Kansas and Iowa State should wage a strong battle for second place.
Since coming to Oklahoma three years ago, Coach Matt Mann's teams have been Big Eight Champs all three years. Oklahoma had won 22 straight duals under the 74-year-old Mann before Southern Methodist scored a 51-35 victory at Dallas this winter. The Sooners, however, gained revenge when SMU came to Norman. The Sooners won the return match 48-38.
Oklahoma is led by Gordon Collet, sophomore breaststoker. Collet broke both the American and national collegiate short course records for the 200-yard race with a 2:22.9 clocking.
The Jayhawkers' Jim Laidlaw has the third-best conference time at 2:32.8. Jared Piety is in fifth at 2:37.0.
Although Larry Lermo, Oklahoma's junior distance swimmer from Bend, Ore., never swam a stroke in high school competition, he has a good chance to win the 220, 440 and 1,500 meter championships.
Lermo became a swimmer by accident. A high school half-miler on the track team, Lermo fell over a hurdle in 1956 and injured his knee. The doctors told him the best way to strengthen it was to start swimming. So he began working out in the local municipal pool in the summer since his high school had no indoor pool.
Lermo swam so hard exercising the knee that he won the Oregon AAU 400-meter freestyle race that summer in an outdoor pool. He turned down scholarship offers at Oregon and Ohio State to attend Oklahoma and swim under Coach Marm.
The Sooners' top diver, Johnny Williams is being withheld from competition the rest of the season because of a head wound suffered in the Oklahoma AAU meet. The 5-5, 132-pound junior suffered the cut which required 30 stitches while attempting an inward cutaway $ 2 \frac{1}{2} $ somersault.
Oklahoma has nine swimmers returning who scored points in the Big Eight Meet last year. They include Lermo, Chuck Lechner, Carlyn Cruzan, Don Jobson, John Janovy, Bon Conner, Alan Wilcox Ernie Drowatzky and Harry Klug
KU coach Jay Markley said that while Oklahoma is not rated nationally this year, they may easily be classed in the top five in the U. S. next year. The Sooners will lose only two seniors by graduation and gain at least three good prospects from this year's freshman team.
Oklahoma Coach Matt Mann rates Kansas and Iowa State as the chief contenders in the Big Eight meet.
Kentucky's Rupp Replaces Tex As 'Coach of the Year'
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Adolph Rupp of Kentucky, now busy getting his squad ready to defend its NCAA basketball title, today was voted United Press International "Coach of the Year" for the 1958-59 season.
Rupp described the Wildcats who scored a surprise triumph in last year's NCAA tournament as "just a bunch of fiddlers who turned into violinists." It was the same story this season. Johnny Cox was the only starter who returned from the championship team but Rupp directed his inexperienced souad to 23 victories in 25 games of a rugged schedule.
Tex Winter, the Kansas State coach who won the honor last year, was eighth in the voting.
OU's Larry Lermo—A swimmer by accident.
CU Challenges Oklahoma, OSU This Weekend
BOULDER, Colo. — Needing one win in its last two games to clinch at least a piece of second place in the Big Eight race, Colorado's basketball team must make its bid in foreign arenas. The Buffs will be at Oklahoma State Saturday night and at Oklahoma on Monday.
CU has already defeated both Sooner state foes in Boulder. It was 65-52 over OSU in January and 73-56 over OU Saturday night.
Two Buff seniors, playing their last home game, compiled 34 points against Oklahoma Saturday night. Don Walker and Gerry Schroeder hit 18 and 16, respectively.
It was the first time for double figures in four games for Schroeder, named to the Associated Press All-Big Eight team last Friday. He lost his team scoring lead to Walker during a late-season scoring slump.
Surprisingly enough, Guard Russ Lind, the No. 3 scorer on the team, has been individual game scoring
leader the most times thus far— seven.
Schroeder and Walker have led the team six times each, John Musciano twice, and Billy Lewis once.
Musciano broke into the headlines for the first time in the OSU game at Boulder, getting 19 points to pace the win. The 26-year-old Musciano has been alternating as a starter since that January night and his scoring has been a late season boon to the Buffs in their battle to retain second place.
Green Named Big 10's Best
CHICAGO — (UPI) — Johnny Green of Michigan State today was voted a member of the United Press International All-Big Ten basketball team for the second straight year. Green, a 6-5 senior from Dayton, Ohio, was the only unanimous choice on the first team. M. C. Burton of Michigan, the league's leader in scoring and in rebounds,
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—(UPI)Indiana State Wednesday night qualified for its 10th appearance in the NAIA, small-college basketball tournament that opens here Monday.
Veteran Indiana State Qualifies for NAIA
Indiana State defeated St. Joseph's of Indiana, 85-69, to lead a parade of five qualifiers that won district playoffs. Twenty - four teams now have won berths in the meet here with eight more clubs which qualified in district playoffs.
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Three other teams which were in the 1958 field qualified again for this year's meet. They are Lenoir Rhyne of Hickory, N.C., which defeated Western Carolina, 48-42, in the district 26 finals; Western Montana College which won over College of Idaho, 64-50, in the district five finals, and Austin College of Texas, 71-63 winner over Midwestern Uni-
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Another team which won a district crown last night was Linfield College, which defeated Portland State, 61-42, in the district two (Oregon) finals. It marks the first appearance of Linfield here since 1947.
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The other three berths went to Tom Robitaille of Rice; Texas Tech's Leon Hill, a second team choice a year ago as a junior, and Ronnie Stevenson of TCU.
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