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University Daily Kansan SPORTS Mitchell's Contract Assures Security
KU's Jack Mitchell is possibly the first football coach to lick his profession's traditional occupational hazard—job insecurity.
With the announcement last Friday of the lifetime contract for Coach Mitchell, he has been all but assured of job security.
Most KU football fans easily recall when, in 1952, J. V. Sikes was unceremoniously dumped after an 8-2 season, better than any Coach Mitchell has been able to produce.
FOOTBALL COACHES have received their share of sympathy and pity for their insecurity, which usually is a result of alumni whims and fancies. The axe falls frequently and often for seemingly ungrounded reasons.
Bill Glassford met the same misfortune at Nebraska a couple of years later. He had just completed a winning season, taken second place in the conference and represented the Big Eight at the Orange Bowl.
Two years previous he had been given a three-year contract with an option for two additional years if he wanted them.
This was another example of a school's aroused alumni wanting to
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One of the most avid groups or basketball fans in the country certainly must be the followers of the Cincinnati Bearcats, winners of the NCAA Midwest regional here this weekend.
Merely traveling here for the tourney shows great loyalty to a fine team. But, it was the antics of these fans at the two games which really showed them to be interested, inspiring and active Ciney backers.
ELDERLY MEN who should have been at home in soft leather chairs mellowing their favorite pipes and reading the latest detective novel bounced up and down the aisles, threw programs and pens, stomped their feet, cursed the officials, praised the coach and raved the superiority of the Cincy team to any listener.
AND, WHEN THEY chose to sit down, they did so right next to their equally excited wives. Many of the women were beddecked in bright red while one wore (like her husband) a black and red (the school colors) barret with "UC" on the front.
One member of the younger set, but still too old for even intramural basketball, clanged a cow bell with rolled-up coat sleeves and a glove on his "working" hand.
A GREATER collection of enthusiasts may never be found under the same roof again, or at least not until they re-convene NCAA finals in Kansas City Friday and Saturday. All it took was a basket, a dubious ruling or a peppy tune from the Cincy band to bring the Bearcat backers to their feet, waving their arms, stomping their feet and screaming either vengeance or joy.
Just watching these people was enjoyment enough, and a great side attraction for the action on the court.
get rid of a coach and the rapidity with which it can be accomplished
SECURITY—it's unheard of in football coaching. Overzealous alums are usually blamed for the abrupt firings. What makes the terms of the new contract reported for Mitchell so astounding is that in the past KU's alumni have earned a reputation for being easily aroused and stubborn to deal with.
Chuck Mather, Mitchell's predecessor here, was dropped after five unfruitful years. It was expected, however, especially after Sike's dismissal.
But security and insecurity for football coaches works both ways. Murray Warmath, Minnesota's head coach, was hung in effigy several times two seasons ago.
HE WEATHERED the storm o student and alumni protests and last season coached the nation's No 1 football team. Warmath's job security is at an all-time high today
In coaching, insecurity increases as rapidly as the stature of the school's prestige. The big football schools demand winning teams and most of them get what they want. Terry Brennan of Notre Dame is an example of the coach who made the big time but was unable to maintain his job.
BRENNAN SUFFERED several mediocre seasons—unheard of for Notre Dame. Alums across the nation called for a new coach. Notre Dame wanted a winning team so bad that the new coach it hired, Joe Kuharich, was called out of the pro football ranks.
There are those coaches who have established perennial football powers and with this power, security. But no coach—not even Michigan State's Duffy Daugherty or Ohio State's Woody Hayes—has been able to wangle a lifetime contract from the university.
Jack Mitchell is the first, and at Kansas.
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The Cincinnati Bearcats managed to hold themselves together through a first half long range barrage by Kansas State and come on strongly in the final minutes to capture the NCAA Midwest regional here Saturday night. 69-64.
CINCINNATI DIDNT take the lead until 10 minutes of the second half had been played, but once it got ahead, K-State was unable to come back and make any real threat.
Cincinnati Rallies To Win Regional Over KSU. 69-64
The Wildcats, led by Larry Comley and Al Peithman drilled in 46 per cent of their shots in the first half with most of them coming on long jumpers to hold the lead throughout the half until the Missouri Valley champions hustled to a 33-33 intermission deadlock.
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Bob Wiesenhahn led all scorers with 22 while Comley topped the Wildcats with 16.
THE BEARCATS also achieved the only record breaking performances of the two-night tourney, totaling 117 and 67 respectively, 119 rebounds and also broke the one game rebound mark with 67. Both marks were set by Kansas State in 1959.
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In the consolation game, a battle for Lone Star State supremacy, the Texas Tech Red Raiders showed vast improvement over their defeat the night before to Cincinnati and withstood a second half rally by Houston to win. 63-67.
THE RAIDERS, losers to Cincinnati, 78-55, were led by an outstanding performance by 6-9 junior center Harold Hudgens who scored 24 points.
Hudgens finished as the high scorer for the tourney with 50 points. In the other Friday night game the Wildcats got off to a slow start but had little trouble downing the Cougars, 75-64. Comley's 18 points led K-State, but the loser's Gary Phillips was high with 22.
Clyde Lovellette scored more points than any other player in the history of the Big Eight tournament when he totaled 222 in three seasons.
Jayhawkers; O-State Tie in K-State Relays
Billy Mills, Larry McCue, and the two mile and shuttle hurdle relay teams copped firsts for Kansas as the Jayhawks tied Oklahoma State for top honors at the Kansas State Indoor Relays at Manhattan Saturday. Both KU and Oklahoma State finished with 14 points.
Mills was clocked in 8:27.2 in winning the 3,000 meter run. Mills' time bettered his own record of 8:33.7 set last year.
LARRY McCUE, Big Eight Indoor 60 yard dash champion, was KU's other individual winner as he broke the tape in the 75 yard dash in .07:4.
KU's distance medley relay team of Bill Stoddart, Bill Thornton, Mills, and Bill Dotson placed first ahead of Kansas State and Oklahoma State. The winning time was 10:06.1.
ANOTHER KANSAS relay team of Charlie Smith, Curtis McClinton, Danny Lee, and Glen Anderson won first in the Shuttle Hurdle relay. The time was :30.9.
In a "down to the wire" race Drake finished several feet ahead of the Hawk quartet to win the event in a very fast time of 7:37.4. This clocked shaving 11 seconds off the old record of 7:48.5 set in 1959 by Colorado.
The anticipated duel between two of the country's top two mile relay teams, Drake and Kansas, came off as expected.
Previous to the meet, KU had finished second at the Chicago Daily News meet with a 7:40.9 clocking and Drake was also second
at the Milwaukee Journal meet with a time of 7:44.2.
THE MEET'S high scorer was Rex Stucker of Kansas State. Stucker won both the high and low hurdles and set a new record in the former.
Jack Stevens, KU pole vaulter, who was favored to win his specialty was unable to make the trip because of a geology field expedition. Don Meyers, Colorado vaulter, won at 14-4.
IN THE COLLEGE division of the meet, Emporia State successfully defended its crown, winning its division with 15 points.
The K-State Relays was the Jaya-
hawks' final indoor meet of the seas-
on. The cindermen now move outside,
their first outdoor meeting beeing
Saturday at the Oklahoma State
Preview at Stillwater.
IN INDOOR competition, the Hawks were undefeated, winning dual meets from Oklahoma and Missouri, a triangular from Kansas State and Oklahoma State, and the Big Eight Indoor championship.
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Cincinnati placed two players on the sportswriters and sportscasters NCAA Midwest regional All-Tournament team.
Bob Wiesenhahn tied with Kansas State's Larry Comley for most votes with 28. Houston's Gary Phillips had 26, Texas Tech's Harold Hudgens, 23, and Ciney's Tom Thacker picked up 21 votes.
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