Friday. April 21, 1961 University Daily Kansan
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Only One First for Kansas Squads
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The final Big Eight standings this year show only one Kansas team on top, with two others in both the second and third place notches.
John Hadl
The lone champion is the Indoor track squad which swept to a stunning 61-34-32 win over Oklahoma and Oklahoma State in the March meet at Kansas City.
Coach Bill Easton's individual winners were: Larry McCue, 60-yard dash; Bill Dotson, mile run; Bill Mills, two mile run and Kirk Hagen, 1,000 yard run.
The season mark for Coach Jack Mitchell's hard hitting crew was 7-2-1 — before probation. With the forfeits of the Colorado and Missouri romps, the record shows a 5-4-1.
KU posted another first, but it lasted only a few weeks. This, of course, was the ill-fated title which the Jayhawkers won on the gridiron but lost shortly after at the conference table on a probation ruling.
The league mark for the football team, led by All America John Hadl, was 4-2-1.
The other third place finish went to the swimming squad.
Dick Reamon
The basketball team trailed Kansas State to the wire in the stands, dropping four while winning 10 games. The Hawks were also second to the Wildcats in the Big Eight Tournament.
For the season, Coach Dick Harp's team, led by high scorers Wayne Hightower and Bill Bridges, compiled a 17-8 mark.
Coach Jay Markley's outstanding trio of Eldon Ward, later to become the only All America swimmer in Kansas history for the second consecutive year, Bill Murdock and Dick Reamon, led the Hawks to one of the best records in KU annals and just three points shy of nudging Iowa State from the runner-up spot behind powerful Oklahoma.
Mills took the grueling cross-country individual title last fall and Dotson finished fifth but the Kansas harriers could muster only a second behind host Oklahoma State.
Wayne Hightower
The outcome broke a thirteen year streak of Big Eight titles for the Easton-coached cross-country squad.
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