Track Team Wins Big 7
Flogging Big Seven track rivals with a 38-point lick in the races from 440 yards to the 2-mile run. Kansas made a shamables of the conference track meet by scoring 64 points, second highest total in history and most ever by a Kansas team.
This was supposed to be a close meet with the Missouri Tigers having a good chance of winning the crgwn.
However, the pattern was set Friday night when basketball player, Blaine Hollinger, broadjumped 23-6 to win the event and Kent Fleorke finished second for a surprising 9 points in the event.
The Jayhawkers lost the lead only once. That came when the Tigers scored six points in the high hurdles event Saturday morning.
Three Kansans Place
Foremost of the heroes was Ray Wyatt, never under -50 in the 440-yard dash this year and rated no better than fourth when the meet got underway.
Kansas got several unexpected performances from Coach Bill Easton's gang that rose to the occasion as they always seem to do.
He zipped through the quarter in :49.8. third fastest time ever recorded in Municipal Auditorium. Right on his heels was Lou Stroup, another of Easton's stable of quarter milers. Still another Kansas man, Larry Stroup, finished fourth in the event to give the Jayhawkers 11 points.
Wyatt came back to anchor the Kansas winning mile relay team with a hot .49.5 effort as a rested
Kansas State team almost nipped the Javhawkers.
One of the highlights of the meet was Nebraska's Jamaican ace, Keith Gardner's efforts to score a triple. He won the 60-yard high hurdles in a record equaling 7.4 but was second in both the dash and low hurdles.
Kent Floerke picked up eight big points for the Jayhawkers by finishing second in the broad jump and springing 6-4 in the high jump for second place. That is his all time best for the high jump.
McNeal Doubles Successfully
Jerry McNeal, after finishing fourth in the mile run, came back 40 minutes later to win the 2-mile for the second straight year. He had to sprint the final two laps to overtake a rested Thomas Fort of Missouri in a comparatively slow 9:29.1 effort.
Missouri finished second with 46½ points. Nebraska had $30\frac{1}{2}$ K-State 14, Colorado 12, Oklahoma 8 and Iowa State 5.
This was the sixth indoor track championship in a row for Coach Easton's Jayhawkers and their seventh in the last eight years.
Meet Results
High hurdles—1. Keith Gardner, Nebraska; 2. Charles Batch, Missouri; 3. Gene O'Connor, Kansas State; 4. John McIntyre, Missouri; 5. Bill Tillman, Kansas Time—:074.
60-yard dash—1. Henry Wiebe, Missouri; 2. Keith Gardner, Nebraska; 3. Larry Chase, Colorado; 4. Don Graves, Iowa State; 5. Charles Smith, Colorado. Time—06.2.
Jayhawkers Sure Champs As Big 7 Into Final Week
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UP) The Big Seven basketball race all but ends this week with Kansas a shoo-in favorite to take the championship and represent the conference in NCAA regional play at Dallas, Tex.
The Jayhawkers clinched a tie and for all practical purposes won the crown by defeating Colorado at Boulder Saturday night while Kansas State was losing in overtime to Iowa State at Ames.
However, Kansas still has to face arch-rival Kansas State at Manhattan Wednesday night in a game that should prove highly interesting, even if it is not crucial to the conference race anymore. Oklahoma and Nebraska, the two cellar clubs at the present time, also play Wednesday, at Lincoln.
Colorado plays a return engagement at Kansas Saturday night and Iowa State is at Nebraska. The final game of the season is March 11 with Colorado at Oklahoma.
Even should Kansas State upset the Jayhawkers Wednesday, Kansas still should win an outright championship in the game against Colorado since if the Buffers didn't win at home, they probably can't on the road.
Draw Names If KU Loses
**Draw Names in KU Losses**
In case of two appearances and tie in the final deciding the conference representative would be chosen by pulling names out of a hat.
The Big Seven representative will play Southern Methodist, champion of the Southwest Conference, at Dallas March 15.
UCLA (21-4) and Seattle (22-2)
remained fifth and sixth in that
order, keeping the top six teams
exactly the same as last week.
North Carolina Tops UP Poll For Seventh Straight Week
Runnerup, Kansas attracted seven first-place votes, while third-ranked Kentucky and ninth-ranked Louisville each had one. All nine of these coaches rated North Carolina second.
NEW YORK — (UP) — North Carolina, unbeaten in 24 regular season games, topped the United Press college basketball ratings today for the seventh straight week, but the make-or-break test for the Tar Heels comes up this week.
And if the Tar Heels falter, Kansas (19-2), Kentucky (22-4) and Southern Methodist (21-3) will make their own claims for the national crown. These three teams trailed North Carolina in that order today for the sixth consecutive week.
In their next-to-last ballot of the season, 26 of the 35 leading coaches who comprise the United Press rating board picked North Carolina tops and gave them a score of 341 points — just nine short of perfect.
Coach Frank McGuire's men stake their perfect record, a berth in the NCAA tournament and their claim to the 1957 national championship in the Atlantic Coast Conference tourney which starts Thursday.
California advanced two places to No. 7, Louisville moved up one to No. 9 and Bradley dropped from eighth to 10th place. Indiana, No. 7 last week moved back to a tie for 12th place.
Shotput—1. Al Oerter, Kansas,
59-81%; 2. George Church, Oklahoma,
51-63%; 3. James Blackwell,
Colorado, 51-54%; Philip Delavan,
Iowa State, 51-14%; 5. Robert Rumping,
Missouri, 50-9.
Michigan State, the Big Ten leader, was this week's only newcomer in the top 10, jumping three notches to eight place.
The coaches based their rating in games played through Saturday.
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Low hurdles—1. Gene O'Conner,
Kansas State; 2. Keith Gardner, Nebraska;
3. Charles Batch, Missouri;
4. William Marten, Nebraska; 5.
John McIntyre, Missouri. Time—07:0.
Mile run—1. Bernie Gay, Kansas;
2. James Sanders, Missouri; Jan Howell, Kansas; 4. Jerry McNeal, Kansas; 5. Jack Schroeder, Kansas.
Time—4:15.1.
440-yard run—1. Ray Wyatt, Kansas; 2. Lou Stroup, Kansas; Pete Orr, Missouri; 4. Larry Stroup, Kansas; 5. Charles Smith, Colorado. Time—49.8.
Pole vault-1. Kari Englund, Missouri, 14-3; 2. Robert Davis, Missouri, 14-0; 3. (tie), Dave Tams, Kansas; Jesse Undlin, Colorado; Karl Lindenmuth, Kansas State, 13-9.
Two-mile run—1. Jerry McNeal, Kansas; 2. Thomas Fort, Missouri; 3. Ron Elwood, Nebraska; 4. Verlyn Schmidt, Kansas; 5. Leo Teghtmeyer, Iowa State. Time—9:29.1.
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Kansas Tankers Lose 49-37 To Nebraska Swimmers
Nebraska University defeated the Jayhawkers, 49-37, in a swimming meet in Lincoln Saturday.
KU managed to win five of the 10 events, but a lack of depth plagued the Jayhawkers as they ended their season with a 4-5 record.
Chuck Edwards was the Kansas' individual star of the day, winning the 100 and 220-yard freestyle events and coming from behind to anchor the Jayhawker 400-yard freestyle relay team to victory. relay team to victory.
Edwards time in the 220-yard freestyle was 2:25.8, which is a new KU varsity record.
The day's upset was recorded in the one-meter diving, when Bill Tagney of Nebraska upset teammate Gene Cotter, who is the defending Big Seven champion.
Team Has No Depth
"Depth doesn't always play such a big part in the conference meet." Edwards said. The Jayhawkers have continually won their share of firsts all season, but a lack of depth has cost them several close meets.
100-yard medley relay—I. Nebraska. Time 4:28.8.
220-yard freestyle—1. Edwards,
(K); 2. Bodensteiner, (N); 3. North,
(N). Time: 2:25.8.
50-yard freestyle—1. Farell, (N);
2. Tagney, (N); 3. Milledge, (K).
Time: 25.7.
100-yard freestyle—1 Edwards, (K); 2. Hill, (K); 3. Holeman, (N). Time: 58.6.
200-yard butterfly-1. Clevenger, (K); 2. Helmdoerfer, (N); 3. Poorkyny, (N); Time: 243.8.
One-meter diving-1. Tagney, (N), 214.55 points; 2. Cotter, (N), 201.30; Matthews, (K), 155.8.
200-yard backstroke—1. Schorr,
(N); 2. Arizumi, (N); 3. Kreye,
(K). Time: 2:37.4.
440-yard freestyle—1. Bodensteiner, (N); 2. Milledge, (K); 3. Peterson, (K). Time: 5:39.
200-yard breaststroke—1. Cleverger, (K); 2. Helmsdoerfer, (N); 3. Holeman, (N). Time 2:44.
400-yard freestyle relay-1. Kansas,
(Milledge, Hill, Drowatsky,
Edwards.) Time: 3:53.8.
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