Friday, April 19, 1957 University Daily Kansan
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SIGHTING SANTEE'S RECORDS—Cliff Cushman, who snapped the freshman Big Seven half mile record, could be the Jayhawker's best bet to begin snapping Santee's records. Cushman, besides winning the half-mile, beat Santee's freshman performances in the quarter mile and was less than one second from his mile time. He clocked .50.9 in the quarter and 4:21.1 in the mile run compared to Santee's :53.3 quarter and 4:20.4 mile.
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THE NEXT BILL NIEDER?—Russ Garriott, although finishing second in the shotput in the conference freshman track meet to Missouri's Dick Cochran, broke Bill Nieder's freshman school record with his 50 feet 3 inches throw. Cochran's conference record heave was only 1 and $ \frac{3}{4} $ more at 50 feet $ 4\frac{3}{4} $ inches. Garriot is from Hobart, Ind.
Freshman Big 7 Dominance Insures KU Track Position
Experts who concede the Big Seven football crown to the Oklahoma Sooners before the season starts, might as well do the same with the track and field crown, but in this case to the Kansas Jayhawkers. Kansas, which has dominated Big Seven track for the past six years, appears capable of extending this domination during the next three years after its freshman track squad won the Big Seven indoor postal meet.
The young Jayhawkers won the Big Seven crown with 58 2-5 points. The Oklahoma Sooners, with what many Sooner fans consider the finest freshman track team in Sooner history, finished second with a 51 21-40 total.
Eight freshman records were broken and two were tied in the meet. The Jayhawkers figured in four of the records broken and tied another. Ernie Shelby shattered the broad jump mark with a leap of 24 feet $2\%$ inches. He also equaled the 60-yard low hurdles mark of 06.9.
Cliff Cushman broke the 880-yard run record with a 1.54.6 clocking. Tom Shutka, Notre Dame transfer who became eligible for the varsity with the start of the outdoor season, broke the 2-mile mark with a time of 9:30.6.
Bill Logan jumped 13 feet $ \frac{9}{2} $ inches in the pole vault to better that freshman mark.
Dee Givens, Oklahoma spinner,
won the 60-yard dash in -06.2 to tie
the previous Big Seven mark. Shelly
gained a third place finish for the
Jayhawkers.
Kansas showed good team strength by scoring in every event. The meet was run on a 5-4-3-2-1 basis. The Jayhawkers' largest point total came in the 2-mile run where they accumulated 10 points. Their lowest total was the 449-yard dash, where they gained only one point.
Bob Henderson finished third behind Shelby and Givens in the 60-vard low hurdles to add three points to the final KU total. Cushman and Henderson trailed two Nebraska high hurdlers for a third and fourth place finish. Both Kansans had clockings of :07.3.
Cushman Places In 449
Cushman was the only KU point winner in the 440-yard dash. He finished fifth, with a time of :509. Hial Gernert, of Oklahoma, broke the freshman record with a winning time of :49.5.
Shutka, who broke the 2-mile mark, also finished fifth in the 880-yard run, with a 1:57.0 clocking, and second in the mile run behind Ernest Kleynhans of OU. Kleynhans winning time of 4:19.0 was a new record. Shutka's time was 4:19.3, also under the old record.
Brian Travis and Dale Lubs finished third and fourth behind Shutka in the 2-mile to make this the strongest Jayhawker event. Travis covered the distance in 9:34:6, while Lubs' time was 9:52:0.
Pat Bowers, an unassuming art major from Chicago, in just two seasons of running, earned the title of Kansas' greatest half-miler of all time.
Bowers Kansas' Best Half-miler
The only runner in history to win the half-mile, mile and two-mile in the same Big Seven Conference track meet was Glenn Cunningham. He accomplished the feat twice, in 1933 and 1934.
He smashed 16 individual records, won the "Most Outstanding Athlete" award at the 1950 Texas Relays, and helped the under manned Jayhawkers to an amazing Big Seven indoor championship in 1950.
He graduated after setting a new conference indoor mark of 1.548.8 on the board track of Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium, then missed by a mere tenth of a second of tying Glenn Cunningham's ancient outdoor mark.
Foco Frazier was the first Jayhawker to win a conference track crown in the two-nile run, as he ran 9:54.4 for first place in 1927 in Missouri Valley Conference meet.
In the only other running event, the Jayhawk mile relay team finished third behind the Nebraska Cornhuskers and Oklahoma. Nebraska's winning time of 3:22.6 was a new record. The Jayhawker's time was 3:26.7.
Russ Garriott heaved the shot put 50 feet 3 inches to finish second behind Missouri's Dick Cochran. Cochran threw the shot 50 feet 4¾ inches to better the Big Seven record.
Dick Keith scored three points with a third place finish for KU in the high jump. His best jump was 6 feet 2 inches as compared with K-State's Steve French's winning jump of 6 feet 3/4 inches.
T. J. Kelly added the final points to the KU total with a fourth place finish in the broad jump. His best leap was 22 feet % inch.
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THAT LAST HURDLE IS JUST TOO MUCH—Gene O'Connor, Kansas State's fine hurdler will be seeking his third straight KU Relays crown in the 400 meter hurdles, although he is only a junior. He holds the meet record at :52.2 which he set last year. He will also be a threat in the 120-yard high hurdles. In the latter event, he was nipped by Eddie Southern, Texas' Olympic sprinter-hurdler in a :14.1 effort.
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