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University Daily Kansas Thursday.. Sept. 13, 1956
Track Picture Is Bright Despite Loss Of Nieder And Corps
Despite KU's loss of Olympic team members, an Olympic alternate and an American collegiate record holder, the Jayhawker's track picture looms as bright as ever.
Gone are big Bill Nieder, first college shot putter to tose the shot over 60 feet. Les Bitner, holder of the American college javelin mark, and Dick Blair, the greatest sprinter in KU history. Nieder will represent Kansas and the United States in the Olympic games at Milebourne, Australia, in November and December, and Blair is an alternate in the 200 meter event.
Absent form the scene also are AI Frame, NCAA cross-country individual champion in 1954, and miler, Tom Rupp, a member of the NCAA cross-country championship team of 1953.
These five athletes were the hard core of a Kansas track squad that won it's fifth straight "grand slam" of the Big Seven Conference cross-country, indoor and outdoor titles and the squad that finished second in the NCAA cross-country and outdoors national meets last year. Record Unqualified
The record these five trackmen have established at KU is unequaled. Nieder won two indoor and two outdoor shot titles and the NCAA shot put title in 1955. His record toss at Manhattan last spring in the conference outdoor meet set a new national collegiate mark of 60 feet, 39 inches.
Bitner, the red-headed javelin thrower, twice won the Big Seven javelin crown and erected a new national collegiate record of 246 feet, 1 inch, when he won the NCAA title in 1955.
Blair consistently reminded Kansas sports fans of his value to the squad by annexing seven Big Seven sprint titles and placing second in the 1956 NCAA 200 meter race. Blair twice won the indoor 60-yard dash crown, twice the outdoor 100-yard dash title, and three times he crossed the finish line first in the outdoor 220-yard dash.
Wins Eight Titles
Not to be outdone, Frame brought home eight Big Seven titles. Twice the Summerfield scholar won the cross-country crown, the indoor half mile once, the indoor mile twice, the indoor 2-mile once, the outdoor mile once and the outdoor 2-mile once.
But returning to Coach M. E. (BHI) Easton are 22 varsity lettermen and a host of sophomores from last year's freshmen team that was considered by many to have the best in KU's history.
Perhaps the brightest star in the Kansas fold is Al Oerter, who will be absent from KU this fall semester to take part in the Olympic games.
Owns College Record
Certer, holder of the longest collegiate discus discus last year, 183 feet 4 inches, also set the national prep school mark, and the national collegiate freshmen mark.
Seven lettermen return to the cross-country team. They are Jan Howell, 1956 cross-country captain, Lowell Jenwen, 1957 indoor-outdoor captain, Bernie Gay, Hal Long, Jerry McNeal, Bob Nicholson and Verlyn Schmidt. Janen won the conference half-mile outdoors last year and also anchored the winning mile relay team, while Long captured the mille title and McNeal the indoor and outdoor 2 mile crowns.
Five Back In 440
Coach Easton has five lettermen back in the 440. They are Bob Franklin, Larry Frisbie, Louis Strop, Larry Strop and Ray Watt. The Stroups and Wyatt were
members of the conference outdoor championship mile relay team last spring.
Kent Floerke, Blaine Hollinger and Frank Mastin are "IK" winners who will be available for duty in the broad jump this year.
The lone lettermen in the high jump and hurdles respectively are Bob Cannon and Dave Freeman.
John Farker and Jim Landerholm are scheduled to take up part of the slack left by the loss of Bitner in the javelin, while Bob Lewis and Dave Tams are the two returning pole vault lettermen.
In addition to the seven lettermen in cross-country, Coach Eastern will have ten other runners who will be trying for positions on this fall's squad. They are Paul Baker, Grant Cookson, Calvin Cormack, Bob Cormack, Berry Crawford, Earl Ehlen, Bob Farris, Frank Hicks, Kurt Hoffman and Charles Schroeder.
Denth Good
Farrel Mitchell and Jere Potts will help in the pole vault department and Paul Scholz in the high jump.
John Burke and Howard Haselwood are working with the shot put and Terence Beucher, Peter Nowin, Virgil Wolter and Jerome Barland will supply additional power in the javelin.
Expected to take over Blair's vacancy in the sprints is Charles Tidwell. In the hurdles Bill Tillman and John Sheleen will provide depth for the Javahawkers.
In the 440, Vern Gauby, Bob Lida and John Davis are expected to give the lettermen stiff competition.
The first nationally televised football game was at Lawrence. Kansas defeated Texas Christian 13-0 in 1952.
A CAPABLE GUARD—Returning to add strength and experience to the forward wall of the 1956 football team is Bob Kraus, 6-2, 206-pound junior from Massillon, Ohio. A sophomore starter last fall, Kraus, with normal improvement in all departments, could become one of the top guards in the conference. He will receive considerable pressure from several newcomers for a starting job.
Hawk Cagers Work Out
Seven Jayhawker basketball players took advantage of the summer vacation by working out independently at the National Guard armory in Kansas City, Kan. They are Wilt (The Stilt) Chamberlain and Monte Johnson, sophomores, and Maurice King, Gene Elstun, John Parker, Lee Green and Harry Jett, seniors.
Cliff Speegle, coach of Oklahoma A & M who is starting his second season there, hopes for improvement in that he had 99 candidates out for the start of spring practice.
Francisco On Rushing List
Kansas left halfback John Francisco is one of eight returning rushers from the Big Seven's Top Ten of 1955. He ranked sixth on 459 yards. Other returners include Tommy McDonald, Oklahoma, No. 1, at 702; Willie Greenlaw, Nebraska, No. 3 at 584; Clendon Thomas, Oklahoma, fourth, at 485; John Bayuk, Colorado, fifth at 469; Gene Roll, Missouri eighth at 432; Jim Harris, Oklahoma, ninth at 388, and Billy Priser, Oklahoma, tenth at 340.
Blasi Coaching At Baker U.
Gene Blasi, KU football letterman for the past three years, has accepted a post as line coach at Baker University for the coming year. Gene's youngest brother, Bill, is a candidate on this year's Jayhawker grid squad.
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