Thursday, Nov. 13, 1958 University Daily Kansan
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Mo Valley-AAU Meet To Be Here Saturday
The second annual Missouri Valley AAU open cross-country championship meet will be held here Saturday. For the first time a junior division for Kansas high school runners will be held in addition to the usual senior team and unattached divisions.
The junior division will run at 10 a.m. and the senior division will start at 10:30 a.m.
The junior division will run over the two-mile flat Allen Field House course. The senior division's course will be lengthened to four miles.
Runners from schools affiliated with the AAU may enter the senior division and unattached runners may also compete.
Trophies will be awarded to the first and second place teams in each division. The first 10 runners to finish in both divisions will receive individual trophies.
Missouri University runners have entered the meet as unattached competitors. KU runners will compete as a team, while the freshmen will compete unattached.
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Iron Man Is Victim of Evolution
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Football's "iron man" — the player who could go a full game without stopping to rest—is a victim of evolution.
Players Still Tough Enough
Not physiological evolution, though, said Dr. Forrest C. (Phog) Allen, former basketball coach at Kansas University. The rapid evolution of the game specialist has made the old endurance man nearly extinct, he said.
This change is part of football's evolution from a game of individual performances to today's crowd pleasing spectacles. The fan of the 1950's likes the wide open style of play that was impossible for the tougher all-round player of twenty years ago.
It is not that the "iron man" could not compete against the specialist. The "iron man" simply no longer exists. The former 60-minute player is an extinct specialist.
Today's specialist is inserted when he is needed. He might be an outstanding passer, kicker or defensive man.
Dr. Allen said it is not a lack of stamina that has eliminated the "iron man."
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"There are still players around tough enough to compete a full game," he said. "The older-type ball player just can't be a specialist in all departments."
The former coach said today's player is not as strong as his predecessor. But the new model has more agility.
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"But in the transition toward becoming a specialist, the new man has lost the native ability and determination that characterized the oldtimers," he said.
to the old 'iron man,'" Dr. Allen said.
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Fans demand a spectacular and do not enjoy a game of individual performances Dr. Allen said. Some of the fine individual performances are sacrificed. The fan can not often pick out an outstanding performer from among the many substitutions, he said.
Dr. Allen believes that the platoon system of substituting, which is designed to wear down opposition, is not responsible for the disappearance of the "iron man."
Machines are now used where players once acted individually, he said. This non-personalized struggle epitomized the struggle of man against man.
Struggle Between Teams
However, the change has made teams stronger. Teamwork and stronger coaching have made football a better game which is more pleasing to watch, he said. It is team against team.
The last "iron men" Dr. Allen can recall were both on the 1920 Kansas team. They were the late George Nettles, team captain, and A. C. (Dutch) Lonborg, present University athletic director. Nettles weighed only 168 pounds, but was rated by Dr. Allen as being one of KU's
all time great linemen. He was a tackle.
"He has what it takes to play football in any era," he said. "He is as great a competitor as we ever had in those days when 11 men played the entire game."
"And I think Lonborg played every second of every game that year," he said.
Homer Floyd, he remarked, would have been an "iron man" had he played on the 1920 team.
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