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University Daily Kansan Thursday. March 2, 1961
KU,OU Vie for Title
Coach Bill Easton describes his Jayhawks' chances as "a poor second" in the Big Eight Indoor track meet at Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium this weekend.
Defending indoor champion Oklahoma is favored to repeat as the winner.
Last year the Sooners foiled Kansas' attempt for a ninth straight indoor championship by defeating the Hawks $ 61 \frac{1}{2} $ to 58.
Kansas will go into the meet greatly handicapped as six members of the team will not be at full strength.
Early in the week, KU's hopes suffered a tremendous blow when
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two-miler Billy Mills and middledistance man Gordon Davis turned ankles.
ALSO • HAMPERED by injuries are sprinter Larry McCue with a pulled Achilles muscle, 440 yard man Bill Stoddart, a bad knee, high and broad jumper Larry Cordell, a bad case of the flu, and shotputter Bob Albright with a bad hand.
Oklahoma and Kansas met in a dual meet on February 11 with Kansas winning 70-52. Coach Easton termed this victory misleading in relationship to the Big Eight Indoor meet.
"We have the type of squad that is good in dual and triangular meets but does not have enough outstanding stars to win a big meet." Coach Easton explained.
THE SOONERS will be very strong in the four field events, where they may be expected to
score at least 20 points. The Sooner's J. D. Martin, Mike Lindsay, and Mark Brady should pick up firsts in the pole vault, shot put, and high jump respectively.
Don Warrick and Steve Swafford could garner seven vital points in the broad jump.
Leading the Oklahoma running corps will be Bob Wilcox, 600 yard run; Mark Sullivan, 60 yard dash; Buddy Stewart, 1000 yard run; Dick Neff, 880 yard run. In the KU-OU dual, only Sullivan and Wilcox were able to win first places.
THE JAYHAWKS will have to depend on the distance and hurdle races for important points. In the distances, Bill Dotson, Billy Mills, and Kirk Hagan will carry the load. Dotson will be favored to cop the mile and to come back strong in the 880 yard run.
Mills and Hagan are favored in the two mile and 1000 yard run respectively.
In the hurdles, KU will be relying on Curtis McClinton, Dan Lee, and Charlie Smith. This threesome has placed 1-2-3 in previous dual meets. But the trio will be facing its toughest competition of the season. Last year, McClinton took first in the 60 yard high hurdles.
AFTER LOSNG co-captains Paul Williams and Darwin Ashbaugh, along with Ted Rjesinger because of scholastic ineligibility, the Jayhawks rebounded to compile a 4-0 record in dual and triangular meet competition.
"These ineligibilities will handicap us about 35 points in the conference meet," said Coach Easton.
Friday night's events will start at 6:30 and will consist of preliminaries in the hurdles, sprints, high jump, and shot put. The broad jump will be completed Friday.
Saturday's finals will start at 8:00 p.m.
Bowlers Face Nebraska, I-S
KU's varsity bowling team will try to take another step towards the top of the Big Eight standings as it faces Iowa State and Nebraska this weekend.
Tomorrow night the Kansas team meets Iowa State at 7 in the Jay Bowl and Nebraska will bowl at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Bascom Fearing, coach and manager of the squad, said the KU team got off to a slow start, but lately it has been improving greatly, and has a chance this weekend to improve its fourth place standing.
Fearing also said the league standings are somewhat deceptive since many of the meets are conducted by mail and therefore results and standings lag two or three weeks behind the actual competition.
Kansas is the defending Big Eight champion, having won the league title the past two seasons. It also
This will be the first meeting this season between Kansas and Nebraska, but KU has bowled Iowa State before.
won the Big Eight tournament last year in addition to the Kansas Conference journey to which all the schools in the state are invited.
The final result of the Iowa State match is not known but Kansas did roll a 2005 match which ranks as the third best in the league thus far.
The Kansas squad is composed of:
Terrel Hays (191 average), Bill Carey (188), Dave Rybolt (183).
Kermit Welch (183), and Ted Diehl
(181).
The Iowa State team has an average of 177 per man and Nebraska boasts a 183 per man mark. KU is averaging 184 per man.
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Beta, Sig Chi In IM Finals
The finals of both the Fraternity B and C divisions in intramural basketball this afternoon will pit Beta Theta Pi and Sigma Chi.
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In B play the Sigma Chis downed Sigma Nu, 39-14. The Betas came back in the second half from a 10-12 halftime deficit by hitting 14 of 16 free throws to defeat Phi Delta Theta in an overtime, 35-34.
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In C play the Beta No. 2 squand coasted past Sigma Nu No. 2, 21-13 while Sigma Chi No. 1 beat Phi Delta Theta No. 1, 23-18.
The B game will be played at 5 p.m. and the C game at 4:15 p.m.
Tenn. State on Top
Jim Beam clobbered the Medics last night, 29-19, to capture the Independent C division crown and AAA scored a 38-23 win over Chemistry for the Independent B championship.
Both Features Re-released
Tennessee State, with a 24-4 mark, leads the nation's small college teams on the latest United Press International rankings. Mississippi Southern and Prairie View are next in order.
Volleyball Meet Set
The next phase of the intramural program will be competition in volleyball.
Competition, as in basketball, will be in Fraternity and Independent A, B, and C with the exception of the latter in Independent play.
The deadline for all volleyball entries is today. The usual fee of twenty-five cents per player will prevail.
A meeting of all volleyball managers will be held on Monday, March 6 in Room 202 Robinson Gym at 4 p.m. Information concerning tournament play and rules will be discussed.
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