Tuesday, Dec. 18, 1956 University Daily Kansan
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Larsen's No-Hitter Is Year's Top Sports Story
By DICK WALT
(Daily Kansan Sports Editor)
Don Larsen's incredible perfect game performance against the Brooklyn Dodgers in the World Series has been voted the Top Sports Story of 1956 in a poll of members of the sports staff of The Daily Kansan.
Morrow Is Third
The sensational varsity debut of Wilton Chamberlain as a full-fledged KU basketball player finished second in the balloting, and also ranked as the top campus sports story—followed by the great showings of Al Oerter and Bill Nieder in the Olympic Games.
Chamberlain's presence on the KU basketball scene has drawn national coverage from many major magazines, and rule-makers are already considering methods of curbing the devastating scoring power of the 7-foot gazelle from Philadel-
Rating behind Chamberlain in the poll was the great Olympic showing of Texan Bobby Morrow, who took first place in both the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes.
Patterson Rates High
Ranking right behind Morrow was another champion -- Bud Wilkinson's Oklahoma Sooners, who coasted to the Big Seven championship, the mythical national championship, a second straight undefeated season, a modern record of 40 consecutive games without a defeat, numerous statistical crowns, and practically every other collegiate football honor.
But Oklahoma was able to finish only one vote ahead of another Oklahoman—Mickey Mantle, the current pride of the New York Yankees.
Patterson Rates High Mantle was only two votes ahead of the youthful Floyd Patterson, who pounded the aging Archie Moore into oblivion to become—at 21—the world's youngest heavyweight boxing champion.
San Francisco's amazing Dons, winners of two straight NCAA titles and 54 consecutive games, finished seventh in the balloting.
A 31-yard field goal by sophomore end Dave Kaiser ranked eighth in the poll. The boot—in the final seconds of the game—propelled the Michigan State Spartains to a 17-14 win over UCLA in the Rose Bowl.
Behind these stories, the balloting was spotty, with numerous stories receiving scattered support. These included—in the order of finish—the disciplinary action taken by the Pacific Coast Conference against its member schools; the great comeback by Brooklyn pitcher Sal (The Barber) Maglie; Don Newcombe's great performance during the regular season and subsequent
collapse in the World Series; the misfortunes of the ill-fated Notre Dame football team and the repercussions from former Coach Frank Leahy's criticism.
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