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KU Intramurals Offer Students Varied Activity
Name your favorite sport, and chances are that it is included in the KU intramural sports program.
From individual competition in golf, tennis, horseshoes and handball, to team sports in softball, touch football, bowling and many others, the intramural sports department offers a wide range of athletic contests throughout the school year.
The program offers a student not only an opportunity to let off steam accumulated from school work, but lets him make social contacts and learn the rules and regulations governing a wide range of sporting events.
The aim of the intramural department is to provide an opportunity for each physically able man at KU to participate in his favorite type of competitive athletics.
Although the department is somewhat cramped for indoor space for the various programs of the department, Walter J. Mikols, director of men's intramurals, said that through the cooperation of the various participating groups and individuals, the department was able to schedule over 400 basketball games in Robinson Gymnasium during the past season.
The intramural competition in the major sports is divided into two major leagues; a fraternity league and an independent league.
The fraternity league is made up of social fraternities. The larger organizations and dormitories and professional fraternities and teams not living in organized houses compose the independent league.
Each of these leagues is further broken down into divisions, each being composed of from seven to nine teams.
League championships in the major sports are determined by a tournament play-off of the top two teams in each division. At the end of the tournament, the winners of the fraternity league and the independent league meet to determine the Hill Championship in that sport.
But fraternities and independents are not the only groups that have intramural competition.
The department also offers a full program of intramural athletics for its faculty members. Included are basketball, volleyball, horseshoes, tennis, and golf.
The success of the intramural program is shown by the number of men and teams participating in the various contests. For example last year 145 teams with a total player count of 1612 men competed in basketball. This compares with 14 teams and 100 men in 1920.
Each of the various sports activities has made similar gains in the number of men participating.
Women's Athletics Program Large
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girl is shown dance skills, practices them and then trys out.
WRA SPONSORS a Play Day each spring when Kansas high school girls come to KU. They are all invited to come and participate in one of various sports, such as volleyball, tennis or bowling.
Susie Wendt, Kirkwood, Mo., junior and president of WRA, said, "We feel each girl will gain more by more intensive instruction in one sport than by giving them a smattering of instruction in many."
At a luncheon for the girls each girl is given a copy of "Sportsgirl Magazine" which explains the recreational organization.
"NEXT YEAR WE HOPE to star a co-recreational program in volleyball." Miss Wendt said. "Each living group will participate with a men's living group. A traveling trophy will be awarded to the winning team. I feel this program will provide opportunities for college men and women to have fun together through sports activities."
Dotson Got Big Thrill in Relays
"Beating Archie San Romani last year at the Kansas Relays was my greatest track thrill outdoors," said Bill Dotson, KU's junior half-mile and mile star.
DOTSON, A QUET, HUMBLE individual who would rather not talk about himself, and San Romani, a controversial, nationally-known sports figure who in his senior year was the nation's top high school miler, locked horns in a 1500 meter duel that saw Dotson crossing the finish line only inches ahead of the then Wichita University ace.
San Romani had transferred from KU earlier in the year. He is at Oregon State this year.
Only time will tell what the Kansas Relays holds in stock for the KU junior. Dotson will see primarily relay duty this year. He is slated to
Hanneken. This broke a mark set by Wes Santee.
anchor the four mile and distance medley relay teams and carry the third leg on the two mile relay.
Bill Dotson
DOTSON STARTED his track career while a sophomore in high school at Jamestown, Kansas.
University Daily Kansan
"I had a cousin who was a year older than I who was a miler at Concordia. He enjoyed running and was their number one miler so I thought I would like to try the mile. I never had any desire to run the sprints," said Dotson.
In the Class BB state meet he finished fifth with a time of 4:43. Dotson's success story continued as he moved up to Class A his junior and senior years by attending Concordia High School.
That year Dotson "tried the mile" and succeeded.
At Kansas Dotson has had an outstanding track career. In his first year here he won the Big Eight freshman postal 880, 1000, mile and two mile runs in the indoor meet and the mile and two-mile in the outdoor. His fastest mile clocking dipped to 4:16.1.
IN THE STATE MEET his junior year, Dotson placed second in 4:26. His senior year he became Class A mile champion with a 4:20.8 clocking.
At the Big Eight indoor he doubled in the 808 and mile, finishing second in the 880 and third in the mile. His low mile time was 4:09.5 in a second place finish in a triangular meet with Stanford and San Jose State.
Last year he won the Big Eight outdoor mile in 4:13.2.
In the Big Eight Indoor he had his second greatest track thrill. Dotson blazed the third swiftest mile in the meet's history. 4.08.9, to become Big Eight Indoor mile champion. He came back after his mile effort to place fourth in the 880.
THIS YEAR HE WAS undefeated in three indoor duals and one triangular meet in the mile. At Missouri he set a new Brewer Field House record of 4:10.4 in his duel against Missouri's distance ace, Bob
Dotson, like most distance runners, runs cross-country. This year, his teammates elected him as cross-country captain for next year. At the Big Eight cross-country meet the captain-elect captured fifth place in 15.07.
"BEEING ELECTED CAPTAIN this year and being selected outstanding sophomore on the track team last year were my greatest track honors." Dotson said.
Dotson has several immediate goals in mind. One is to defeat Oregon's Daryl Burleson, a sub-four minute miller whose best time is 3:58.6.
In the NCAA meet last year, the Jayhawk ran against Burleson, who won, and finished fifth. A controversy developed between them over elbowing during the race and a personal rivalry has resulted.
A THIRD GOAL is to make a European track tour this summer. Each year a team is picked from those who place in the National AAU meet.
Dotson also wants to run a sub-four minute mile.
This year several teams will tour Russia, Germany, France, and other European countries, and Dotson would like to be on one of them.
Former KU Star Honored
The former Kansas athlete proved his ability by winning Olympic berths in 1932 and 1936. He held the world records for both the indoor and outdoor mile.
Glenn Cunningham, one of KU's greatest distance runners, has been lauded as one of the 20th Century's greatest athletes by the nation's sportswriters and sportscasters.
The awards were made by New York's Manhattan Shirt company in conjunction with Sports Illustrated magazine and various national sportswriters and sportscasters. They included three winners in each of ten sports, baseball, basketball, bowling, boxing, football, golf, hockey, horse racing, tennis and track.
Officials said that the awards were not determined by performance alone. They said the greater part of the criteria for a champion athlete lies in his ability to acquire the correct style and finesse of the sport.
Friday, April 21, 1961
Baseball—Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams and Babe Ruth; basketball—Bob Pettit, Bill Sharman and Jack Twyman; bowling—Ned Day, Don Carter and Andy Variapapa; boxing—Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey and Sugar Ray Robinson; football—Johnny Unitas, Otto Graham and Harold (Red) Grange; golf—Sam Snead, Gene Sarazen and Walter Hagen; hockey — Maurice Richard, Jean Beliveau and Gordie Howe; horse racing—Eddie Arearo, Willie Shoemaker and Ted Atkinson; tennis—Bill Tilden, Jack Kramer and Don Budge; track and field—Jesse Owens, Mal Whitfield and Glenn Cunningham.
Awards made in the ten sports were:
Two Sports Man
PHILADELPHIA — (UPI) — Bill (Pickles) Kennedy of the Philadelphia Warriors of the National Basketball Association, also is a Pittsburgh Pirate farmhand.
Good Right Arm
DETROIT — (UPI) The Detroit strong-armed right hander, has won more than 10 games a season for the Detroit Tigers for the last six years.
It has been the custom in the pass that the people of the University of Kansas were never really certain that spring had arrived until the KU Relays officially closed the door on the long dormant winter months and invited people outside to see the budded trees and enjoy the outdoors.
Rain, Rain Stay Away
IF WERE LUCKY, that will be the case today and tomorrow. Although temperatures had been predicted to range 10 to 20 degrees below the normal seasonal level up to at least a few days before the Relays, hopes are high that sunshine will appear and warm the campus to an agreeable temperature.
Weather is a major concern of the officials in charge of the Relays as well as the athletes. If the weather is bad, it definitely affects attendance, which cuts down on necessary finances to meet the bills.
FOR THE FIRST TIME in three years KU was blessed last year with two days of good weather back-to-back for the meet. However, even with this good weather came gusty winds which hampered some of the events.
In 1958, rain fell during both days activities. In spite of this eleven new records were set.
Rugged Traveling
The KU Relays will not be postponed due to the weather—nevertheless many people wait anxiously to see if Mother Nature will smile upon them and send her warm sun and fair skies. The success of many hours of hard work depends on this gamble with the weather.
WILMINGTON, Del. — (UFI) — For the fourth consecutive year, Boy Scouts in the Del-Mar-Va Council, Inc., will sponsor rugged canoeing expeditions into Minnesota and Canadian wilds, according to the tristate council's headquarters here.
They will be held from June 18 to July 5 22 miles northeast of Ely, Minn., and three miles south of the Canadian border. The expeditions will carry crews deep into Canadian territory.
Only One
BOSTON — (UPI) — Willie O'Ree of the Boston Bruins is the only Negro player to perform in the National Hockey League.
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