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OVER THE TOP—Kent Floerke in the high jump.
PERFECT HANDOFF—Bob Lida (left) takes the baton from Verne Gauby.
KU Wins Seventh Straight League Indoor Title
The University of Kansas performed the expected Saturday night as it won its seventh straight Big Eight Indoor championship. KU fans had some pretty anxious moments early in the meet as they saw Nebraska take the lead for the first half of the meet before losing to the Jayhawkers 58 56 to 351/6.
The Cornhuskers surged ahead on their specialty, the sprint events, before Kansas took over in the distance events.
The one man who stole the show was Nebraska's Keith Gardner, a spinner and hurdler from the island of Jamaica. Gardner equaled the
It was coach Bill Easton's distance men who came through to save the meet for Kansas. The Jayhawkers picked up 27 points, almost half of their total from the mile, the 2-mile and the 880-yard run.
world record of :60.7 in the 60-low hurdles and set a new meet record of :07.2 in the high hurdles. KU's Charlie Tidwell and Gardner, co-favorites in the 60-yard dash, had to take second and third behind Oklahoma's Dee Givens. Givens equaled the meet record in that event with a :60.1 timing. Gardner had just set that record the night before in the preliminaries.
Four KU athletes put in the best performances of their careers. Tom
Skutka ran the mile in 4:11, his best time either indoors or outdoors. Only former Jayhawker Wes Santee has had a better time recorded in the Kansas City auditorium.
Bob Tague ran his fastest 880 with a clocking of 1:54.9 to win that event Al Oerter tossed the shot put 57 feet to better his own mark and finish far ahead of competition.
All America basketball center Wilt Chamberlain tied Missouri's Jim Green for first place in the high jump with a 6-feet $ _{3-4} $ -inch jump.
One of the big surprises of the evening came when Colorado's Bernie Frakes defeated Jayhawker Jerry McNeal in the 2-mile run. Frakes led at the start and held his lead
through the whole race. McNeal trailed Frakes by no more than five to ten yards throughout the race and was just inches behind at the finish.
Skutka was top point man for the Jayhawkers, picking up eight. He
won the mile run, then came back to finish third in the 880-vard run. Following KU and Nebraska came Oklahoma with 23 $ _{3} $ points; Missouri, 10 $ _{1/2} $ ; Kansas State 14 1/6; Oklahoma State 12 $ _{1/2} $ ; Colorado 10 1/6; and Iowa State six.
AFROTC Dance Planned For March 7
The Army ROTC formal dance and commissioning dinner will be held at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the Kansas Union. Graduating seniors will receive their commissions at that time.
The dinner will be followed by a dance in the Kansas Union Ballroom from 8:30 p.m. until midnight with music by Wayne Rupenthal's orchestra.
An AROTC honorary cadet colenel will be crowned at the intermission of the dance. She will be chosen from among candidates submitted by AROTC cadets.
Wilt Chamberlain paced the freshman team of 1955-56 with 42 points and 29 rebounds as they won their first game over the varsity since the series began in 1923.
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