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University Daily Kansan
By BOB MACY (Assistant Sports Editor of the Daily Kansan)
What makes a basketball player, in hot pursuit of the national scoring title, pass up a chance to score 35 or 40 points and settle for six? This is the question KU fans, Sunflower state fans and people the nation over are asking about the performance of Wilt Chamberlain at Boulder Monday night.
Chamberlain had a better scoring average against the Buffaloes than almost any other club in the nation. His four games against Colorado had netted him a 37-point a game average. Why then, would the Dipper refuse a chance to fatten his scoring average by intentionally passing up chance after chance to pick up additional points?
The answer, to those who were in Boulder Monday night, is simple. Wilt is a team man. To him the most important thing is a victory for Kansas—national scoring titles or records are second in his book. But, we don't propose to act as judge for this all-America center. We want the readers to know what his teammates and his coach think of him. Here is what they told this writer following the CU game:
Al Donaghue, forward: "I think it was real fine of Wilt, what he did. He knew we were open and he just passed to us for the easy baskets. Wilt seemed to be real happy about the whole thing and I think it was really great of him."
Jayhawker coach Dick Harp: "Wilt has virtually destroyed his chance to win the national scoring crown because of his play Monday night. I never knew anyone unselfish enough to do this sort of thing. This just proves Wilt is a fine playmaker and a fine team man. This was all his own idea."
Bob Billings, guard: "I think Wilt put on a real fine exhibition of sportsmanship Monday night. It just goes to show that Wilt plays as a team, that the team comes above him. It shows that Wilt is more than just a fine basketball player. When a guy will sacrifice a chance to get the basketball scoring crown to help his teammates, it shows what he is really like."
Monte Johnson, forward: "I'm not sure just what Wilt's reasons were, but his idea sure paid off. You sure have to admire the guy for the way he passed up the chances to build up his scoring average."
Ron Loneski, forward: "As long as I've played with Wilt and as many guys as I've played with and against I've never seen such a thing in my life. I think this will prove all over the country that Wilt is not just a basketball player but a person. He had the shots. It wasn't so much that Colorado had him boxed up, he just passed up shots to give us the points. Several times I remember we were both open under the basket and he passed off to me when he had a cinch shot. I still can't get it out of my mind what he did. I've never felt that he thought he was more important than the good of the team. I think this should definitely prove it."
Wilt broke a school record and a Big Eight record with his performance last Saturday.
We feel this his performance Monday night is just as significant if not more so.
Wilt Chamberlain, for turning his back on the national scoring title Monday night, gets this writer's vote as the sportsman of the year.
Built-In Overdrive Keeps McNeal Going In 2-Mile Run
One of the reasons for Jerry McNeal's success as a distance runner is his built-in cardiac overdrive.
Experiments conducted by Dr. Ed Elbel, University of Kansas physical education professor, disclose that the senior 2-miler enjoys a heart-beat drop of 12 during a 5-minute eight-mile-per hour run. Furthermore, his pulse rate drops 57 beats within 30 seconds after this grind.
McNeal's resting pulse is 48. It shoots to 151 during the first minute of his experimental 5-minute run. By the fourth minute it has dropped to 139. It maintains that beat through the fifth minute.
Lessening of pulse-rate during competition, of course, has been discovered before among top-flight distance runners. McNeal's figures merely place him in that elite. Significantly, no other member of KU's 1957 cross-country squad . . . and all of them are better-than-ordinary to good . . . save Barry Crawford shows a similar dropoff. And his was only two beats. This excludes Tom Skutka, who was not available for the test.
In Top Shape
All this means that McNeal is in exceptional condition. There are, of course, other factors which contribute to his ability, but this is an important one. However, it doesn't
A 9:00 2-mile would require a pace of 13.3 miles per hour. McNeal has just about matched that, clocking 0.017 (two-tenths under the record) for third in the NCAA last June.
'Meet Will Be Close,' Says Bill Easton
mean that McNeal would retain the same ratio of drop-off in heart beat if he ran faster. Although eight miles an hour is something more than a jog it would cover only two-thirds of a mile in the allotted five minutes.
Bill Easton said Wednesday, the Kansas-Michigan State track meet Friday in Allen Field House will be a "comparatively close" contest. Field events begin at 7:30 p.m. and running events at 8 p.m.
The Jayhawkers, suffering from a string of injuries, including half miler Cliff Cushman and Kent Flowerke, high and broad jump man, will have deficiencies in several events
Too, he has the swiftest indoor clocking in Big Eight history, 9:06.1 and owns more sub-9-20 races at nine than any other 2-miler in league history except Herb Semper. Jayhawker great of the 1950-51-52 era, who recorded 12. Jerry soared to his slowest clocking since his early sophomore days, 9:33.7 to open the season with a victory against Oklahoma Wednesday.
"The immediate dropoff in pulse rate after exercise among our cross-country runners is pronounced, especially after the first two minutes," explains Elbel who once was a college coach of all sports at Ottawa.
"Michigan State has some good men who will give us a lot of competition," Coach Easton said. The Spartan's Dave Lean and Willie Atterbury are potential trouble for Kansas in the 440 and 880-yard races.
"Kansas will have to make points up in the running events where we'll lose in the field events," he said. KU will have one man in the high jump, one in the shot put, and none in the pole vault. "If anybody in school can pole vault, we'd love to have them out for the varsity team," he said.
Pulse Rate Drops
Wilt Chamberlain scored 20 field goals in 1957 against Northwestern to set a Kansas record. This is also an Allen Field House record.
"This indicates the body adjusts itself to fatigue. One of the means of doing this is slower heart rate and an apparently greater volume of blood thrown out with each beat."
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Phi Psi Drops ATO From Unbeaten Ranks
Phi Psi and Triangle were victorious in their Fraternity A games Wednesday.
Phi Psi defeated ATO 53-44 in a game between unbeaten teams. Bob McMicheal led the winners with 13 points. Other scorers for the winners were Dick Foreman 12, John Flanagan 11, Jim Brownfield 10, Gary Cooper 5, and Jerry Brown 2. Luder scored 13 for ATO. and Holler added 12.
Triangle defeated DU 38-37. Ron Gast scored 10 points to lead the winners and was followed by Rob Johnson 8, Doug Vincent 6, Gary Pack 5, Gerry Kelly 4, Gary Reed 3, and A. H. Henderson 2. Holt led DU with 12 points and Walters had 10.
In Independent A action Pearson defeated Carruth, 34-28. A. Henry led Pearson with 11 points and Musgrave, Groening and Platz each had 6. Horejs, Macomber and Sprekel-
meyer scored 6 points each for Carr-
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Other results:
In another Independent A game the result was Oread 2, the Jacks 0 (forfeit).
Fraternity C-Beta I 47, ATO III
22; SAE 2, Delta Chi 0 (forfeit).
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