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University Daily Kansan
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Friday, April 21, 1961
Easton's Success — 'Work'
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the Jayhawks have won the Big Eight Indoor crown 10 of the last 12 years and the outdoor crown the past nine years.
- None of his indoor or outdoor brigades has ever finished lower than fourth in the conference competition, and this, only once.
In 1953 Kansas won the NCAA cross country championship and Easton equalled his former coach at Indiana, the late Billy Hayes, as the only man to tutor intercollegiate championship squads in both the NCAA cross country and track meets.
Previous to the two NCAA crowns Kansas placed third, second, fourth, and second in the NCAA track meet and were thrice runners-up in cross country.
OTHER EASTON ACCOMPLISH-
ments include:
- Easton-coached performers have broken two world records (both by Bill Nieder in the shot put), 14 American records and tied three, 14 intercollegiate records, seven NCAA meet records and tied one, three Olympic records (two by Al Oerter in the discus and one by Nieder), and two national freshmen marks.
- His KU clubs have won 68 relay championships and 59 individual crowns on the Midlands Brand Circuit of the Texas, Kansas and Drake Relays.
- His 1957 four-mile relay team
was the first college quartet to break 17:00 with a 16:57. clocking at the KU Relays. Nieder was first collegian to crack 60 feet in the shot.
- He has developed 28 All-Americas and six Olympians.
- His 1960 cross-country team added to a streak of 36 consecutive dual wins over conference opponents and a 14 year 54-3 record.
Before coming to KU, Easton, a former quartermiler at Indiana, coached at Hammond, Indiana High School and Drake. During his eight year stint at Drake his cross-country squads captured three NCAA championships.
THE CENTENNIAL EDITION of the Relays will be Easton's 14th since coming to Mt. Oread in 1947.
Easton is known for his ability to enlist and develop distance runners. In looking for a track prospect he considers first the boy's desire to get an education and second his attitude toward physical training.
Three bits of information he always garners are the boy's educational standing, how he gets along in the community, and finally his athletic ability.
The Third Man
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Ford Frick is only the third man to hold the job of baseball commissioner. He was preceded by Kenesaw M. Landis and Albert B. Chandler.
To live by medicine is to live horribly. - Carl Linnaeus
High School Competition in Relays Appears Wide Open
Competition for titles in the Interscholastic Division of the 36th Kansas Relays should be wide open with only one 1560 winner returning to defend an individual crown.
Graduation claimed eight of the nine individual winners from last year's meet and the one remaining titleholder—Chanute's Ken Winters has been slowed by an injury through the early part of the season.
WINTERS COPPED THE high jump in 1960 with a leap of 6-4, but didn't approached that mark as the presters went into the final tuneups for the annual meetings of the top athletes from all classes in the one-division meet.
Even if Winters is able to regain the form that led to last year's title, the Chanute product could have a tough time repeating.
Joe Moreland of Mt. Hope, who finished in a tie for fourth in last year's Relays while clearing 6-0, has a mark of $6\frac{1}{4}$ already on the books this season. And Moreland has set his sights on 6-7 by Relys time, a performance that would easily clip the Relys standard of 6-5 3-8 set by Winston Rogers of Independence in 1930.
Returning place winners from the 1960 carnival in the other individual events are about as scarce as good
running weather has been for the Kansas high schoolers this spring.
Herald Hudley of Shallow Water, who chased Harper's Cal Elmore to the wire in the mile run last year, is back for another try. Hudley
turned on a 4:32.5 indoors this year,
a time under Elmore's winning
4:32.9 of the 1960 Relays.
Richard Harper of Cedar Point, second in last year's javelin, also returns. But he has not yet approached the 153-5¹⁴ he used to place here.
Ron Holm of Salina, who finished fourth in the 120-yard High Hurdles est year, bettered the 1930 winning time of :14.8 (by Derrick Gwinner of Ellsworth) in winning the Topeka Relays more than a week ago in 14.7.
Shawnee Mission North ran the mile relay in 3:29.7 in winning the state indoor meet, but could get a stiff challenge from Lawrence, which has turned in a 3:30.4 outdoors and could beef up the team even more.
Deer Loss
SPRINGFIELD. III. —(UPI)— More deer and more traffic add up to more deer killed on Illinois highways, according to William T. Lodge, director of the Department of Conservation.
In 1960, conservation officers reported 523 deer were killed on Illinois highways. Many more were hit and not recovered. The 1960 highway deer kill was 46 per cent higher than the 477 killed on the highways in 1959.
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