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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Feb. 9, 1961
CLOSE FINISH—KU's Dean Lee eyes the finish line as he comes over the final hurdle on his way to a close win over Charlie Smith, right, and Curtis McClinton, not shown, in the 60 yard high hurdles in the indoor track meet last night.
KU Opens With Easy 108-14 Win
Hurdler Dan Lee led Kansas to a 108-14 romp over Pittsburgh State last night in Allen Field House in the opening indoor meet of the season. KU's defending NCAA outdoor champions face a tough test in its next encounter, Oklahoma, here Saturday night.
Lee was one of three Jayhawker double winners. In taking both the 60 yard high and low hurdles the Pittsburgh, Pa., junior broke two meet records.
In the highs Lee nosed out teammates Curtis McClinton and Charlie Smith in a close finish for the win. His time was :97.5. The old mark was established by Melvin Coates of Pittsburg in 1957 at :97.7.
Later in the low hurdles the lanky letterman finished in :07.7 to eclipse Dave Freeman's mark of :07.1 in 1957.
Bill Dotson took the lead on the first lap and coasted to a 4:16 victory in the mile run. This bettered Jan Howell's 1957 record by 2.6.
The other double winner for Coach Bill Easton was Larry Cordell.
Dotson also captured the 880 yard run with a very strong finish over KU's Bill Thornton. The winning time was 1:58.2.
Cordell leaped to $ 2 2 - 2 \frac {1}{2} $ in broad jump and cleared 6-2 in the high jump to score for the Hawkers.
Gordon Davis easily won the 600 yard run in 1:12.5 which bettered Olympian Cliff Cushman's Allen Field House record of 1:13.2 set last season. Davis also smashed the meet mark of 1:13.6 by KU's Ray Wyatt in 1957.
Sophomore Bill Stoddart also set a new meet record in the 440 yard dash as he outfought teammate Larry McCue all the way to win the closest race of the evening. His time of :50.9 broke Larry Stroup's 1957 mark of :51.0.
The win over freshman laden Pittsburgh State was the ninth straight dual victory for the indoor squad.
The only other meeting between
In its only other meet of the season Coach Prentice Gudgen's squad, which includes 16 freshmen on the 28 man roster, topped Kansas City University. 90-13.
KU and the Gorillas was in 1957 when the Jayhawkers were also easy winners, 118-50.
Mile run—1. Bits Dotson, KU; 2.
Bob Lindrud, KU. Time—4:16.0
(Breaks meet record of 4:18.6 by
Jan Howell, 1957.)
The results
60-yard dash—1. Larry McCue.
KU; 2. Bert Coan, KU. Time—06.3.
600-yard run—1. Gordon Davis, KU; 2. Bill Thornton, KU; 3. Dave Kirkman, KU. Time—1:12.5 (Breaks Field House and meet records. Old Field House record 1:13.2 by Cliff Cushman, KU, 1960. Old meet record 1:13.6 by Ray Wavy, KU, 1957.)
440-yard dash—1. Bill Stoddard, KU; 2. McCue. Time—50.9 (Breaks meet record of :51.0 by Larry Stroum. KU. 1957.)
Pole Vault-1. Roger Schmanke, KU, 13-8; 2-3 (tie) Jack Stevens, KU, and Mike Reynolds. PS, 13-2
High Jump-1 Larry Cordell, KU,
6-2; 2, Perry Pitchlyn, KU, 6-0.
60-yard high hurdles—1. Dan Lee, KU; 2. Curtis McClinton, KU; 3. Charlie Smith, KU. Time—:07.5 (Breaks meet record of :07.7 by Melvin Coates, PS. 1957.)
2-Mile run-1 Billy Mills, KU; 2.
Bill Hawward, KU, Time-9;31.3.
**Shot Put**-1. Berry Albright, KU,
49-9; 2. Jerry Foos, KU. 48-1.
1000-yard run—1. Kirk Hagan, KU; 2. Lindrud. Time—2:14.5.
880-yard run—1. Dotson; 2. Thornton. Time—1:58.2.
60-yard low hurdles — Lie; Lee;
Smith; 3. McClinton. Time — .07.0
(Breaks meet record of .07.1 by Dave
Freeman, KU. 1957.)
**Broad Jump**—1. Cordell, 22-2½²;
2. Bill Frizzell, PS. 21-1; 3. Kent Huddleston, PS. 20-5½¹.
Mile relay-1. Kansas (Bryan Siebert, Kirkman, Davis and Stoddart). Time-3:29.0.
Final Score—Kansas 108, Pittsburg State 14
Hawks, Jolliffe Templin, Delta Function Win
The Hawks, Jolliffe, Templein, and Delta Function were winners in last night's Independent A intramural basketball play. The Hawks walloped the Torts 52-28, Jolliffe downed Battenfeld 59-44, Delta Function edged Joseph R. Pearson #2 43-35 and Templein won by forfeit over Bo-Jenors.
In Fraternity C play Sigma Alpha Epsilon #1 trounced Sigma Epsilon #2 37-9, and Sigma Chi #1 over Phi Gamma Delta #3 62-31. Forfeited games were won by Beta Theta Pi #5 and Theta Tau from Delta Epsilon #3 and Sigma Alpha Epsilon #3.
In Independent B competition, the action was close as Templin squeaked by Concordia 36-33 in overtime, AAA edged Chemistry 29-22, and Cisabs slipped by the Ringers 39-36. The Navy won by forfeit over Joseph R. Pearson.
Results in Independent C play were: Joseph R. Pearson 30, Botany 19; Slugs 37, Gunners 25.
In today's Fraternity A competition Tau Kappa Epsilon meets Sigma Alpha Epsilon at 4:15 and Delta Upsilon faces Alpha Tau Omega at 6:15.
In Independent A play Foster vs. Pearson at 4:15, and Ace Pearson vs. Stephenson at 5:15.
In Fraternity B competition: Sigma Chi Si vs. Theta Chi at 4:15, Phi Gamma Delta vs. Pi Kappa Alpha at 5:45, Alpha Tau Omega vs. Kappa Sigma and Phi Kappa Tau vs. Phi Kappa Psi at 6:30, Sigma Epsilon vs. Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Alpha Kappa Lambda vs. Acacia at 7:15.
In Fraternity C competition Beta Theta Pi #1 vs. Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Chi #5 vs. Phi Gamma Delta #5 at 4:15; Phi Delta Theta #5 vs. Sigma Nu #2 at 5:00; Beta Theta Pi #2 vs. Phi Gamma Delta #4 and Delta Chi vs. Sigma Chi #4 at 5:45; Phi Delta Theta #4 vs. Sigma Nu #1 and Tau Kappa Epsilon vs. Phi Gamma Delta #2 at 6:30; Alpha Tau Omega #3 vs. Sigma Chi #2 and Phi Delta Theta #3 vs. Theta Chi at 7:15.
In Independent C play: Hucksters vs. Jim Beam at 4:15; Carruth and O'Leary vs. Medics and Joseph R. Pearson vs. Phi Beta Pi at 5:00; Chemical Engineers vs. Cowards at 5:45.
The best defensive team in the Big Eight in 1934 was Kansas as it allowed an average of only 23.5 points per game. This mark still stands as a Big Eight record.
By Bill Sheldon
An unsigned letter was recently received by the Daily Kansas which lambasted KU's fine head basketball coach, Dick Harp.
The writer criticized coach Harp's extensive use of the now ineligible Ralph Heyward in the easy win over Air Force.
The writer of the letter sarcastically used such terms as "Big Eight Coach of the Year, Albert Einstein Harp, Coach of the Year and Philosophical Dean of Big Eight Coaches" to describe Coach Harp. He also asked if Coach Harp uses "hindsight, foresight or nosight" in his strategy.
The writer points out that there is a great need for an able substitute for Bill Bridges and Wayne High-tower, which is true. But the KU stars are termed as "free-fouling." This is a fallacy. Only once, in the early season loss to St. John's, did both have serious foul trouble which possibly cost Kansas a victory.
Above all, Coach Harp appears to be a teacher and a humanitarian. Letting Heyward play neither hurt the team in the Air Force game or the future. After all, how much experience can be garnered by playing against a team of the low caliber such as the Falcons displayed?
First. Ellison doesn't actually need such "spot" action to add to his skills. It must be remembered he played a vital part in the KU drive for the conference title last season.
The writer also criticized Coach Harp for not allowing such reserves as Butch Ellison, Jim Dumas and John Matt the opportunity for experience in the Air Force game.
Dumas and Matt were obviously not used because Coach Harp wished to let Heyward play as much as possible in his last game this season.
In accusing Coach Harp of hindsight the writer fails to realize one important factor. A successful coach, like Coach Harp, always looks back on previous mistakes and tries to avoid their re-occurrence.
As far as foresight is concerned, the writer felt Coach Harp would have been smarter to use some one other than Heyward apparently in view of the close race for the conference title.
The writer says, "... it would be better to win this big intersectional contest and experiment with commonplace Colorado, which only beat Kansas twice last season."
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Nosight — this seems impossible. Coach Harp could hardly be said to be capable of "nosight." This is shown by merely looking at his 84-36 record at Kansas. Certainly a coach can't use "nosight" and defeat his opponents better than two times out of three.
Coach Harp undoubtedly realized Colorado would be playing without its top player and thus would be weakened to the point where experimentation would be possible—which it was.
writer is in error since Colorado defeated the Jayhawkers only once last season, and that was in the noisy field house at Boulder.
Criticism of coaches is fine. But in order to be of any value it must first be accurate; second there must be some basis for a complaint. At this point Coach Harp's usage of Heyward against Air Force poses KU no problems.
It apparently was considered what the writer termed a "shrewd maneuver" only by the anonymous author since Coach Harp's choice seems like the thing to do by any good coach who is deeply interested in building character in his athletes. Such is Kansas' Dick Harp, who appears to be the probable choice for actual "Coach of the Year" honors in the conference.
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