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University Daily Kansan Friday Nov. 29, 1957
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guided the Jayhawkers to No. 2 place in the nation last year. Mather will lead the Kansas team for his last time Saturday against the Missouri Tigers. A former KU basketball coach, Phog Allen, is pictured in the background.
THREE TOP MEN—KU's coaches of the three major sports are from left, Bill Easton, track, Dick Harp, basketball and Chuck Mather, football. Easton's cross country and track teams have consistently placed high in the nation. Harp, in his first year as head basketball coach,
—(Daily Kansan photo by Jim Siedd)
HERE COMES A LONG ONE—A Jim Beam quarterback drops back to pass against the Chicken Pickers in the Law School's annual homecoming game Nov. 6 on the intramural
field. Jim Beam, the Law School's team, defeated the engineers' Chicken Pickers 26-12 in what is traditionally one of the year's most colorful and hotly contested intramural games.
Team Play Comes First
The big three of Kansas' sports, Bill Easton, Dick Harp and Chuck Mather, agree that in each of their jobs physical conditioning is just a part of college athletics.
Football coach Mather said, "Today physical condition is everything, because if you didn't have it you wouldn't have any morale or spirit on a team.
"But in the end, conditioning is the most inconsequential thing of the sport, for almost any boy has a good body. I think possibly the material thing coming from football is team olay.
"Success comes from cooperation with other individuals and in this day and age you can't get along without it." Mather said.
Track Coach Easton said, "Sports are definitely more than good physical conditioning for it teaches a person character, sportsmanship and self discipline that will hold over when he gets out of school."
Basketball coach Harn said, "By testimony of all the young men who played basketball for Dr. Allen, the least factor of the activity is physical condition.
"From the association with each other and with a great coach, the players learn such things as sportsmanship, right and wrong, and a philosophy of life." Haru said.
Mather, who will resign this year, brought with him an impressive record of victories in high school football but wasn't able to compile such a record in his four years here.
He is a graduate of Ohio Northern
Easton came to KU in 1947 from Drake University where he was track coach and director of the Drake relays. He is an alumnus of Indiana University.
Easton has won 11 consecutive conference cross-country titles, numerous indoor and outdoor track championships and has won the NCAA cross-country championship.
He has long been regarded as one of the best track coaches in the nation and one of the outstanding ones in the world.
College where he played tackle. His high school aima mater failed to field a football team. He began coaching at Brilliant, Ohio.
His individual stars have gained fame all over the world. They include Wes Santee, Bill Nieder, Al Oerter, both of whom went to the Olympics. Also there was Al Frame, Hal Long and now Jerry McNeal.
Harp, after being a assistant coach under Phog Allen, started his varsity season in 1953. Last year he coached the team to runner-up spot in the nation losing to North Carolina by one point in the NCAA finals.
Massillon, Ohio. While he has used an IBM machine for grading the players' performances and on one occasion, his first season here, he used sideline television.
Intramurals Offer Various Sports
He moved on to Leetonia, Ohio high school then to Massillon, Ohio.
When a student comes to Kansas, the University's intramural program gives him a chance to participate in several sports. The intramural program has a colorful history that parallels that of the University itself. From indications, there were various forms of intramural sports carried on the same year the University was started. 1866.
This year there will be approximately 2,300 men participating in the various intramural sports. Including repeats, that is, men who enter more than one sport, around 4,700 men will take part in the various sports.
1. —An opportunity to maintain better health through exercise.
Down through the years many rivalries develop. One of the biggest is the annual football game between students of the law school and the engineering school. The game this year between the Jim Beam squad (Law) and the Chicken Pickers (Engineers) was won by the future lawyers.
The intramural department has set up six objectives by which it operates:
Walter J. Mikols, intramurals director, he handles the various activities. He received his master's degree from Indiana University in 1947 and was an assistant instructor in the physical education department there.
2. An opportunity to make social contact and friendships which could not readily be developed in the classroom.
Six Objectives
He and his wife, Carolyn, have two children, Donna, 5, and David, 17 months.
4. —An opportunity to develop sportsmanship of the highest order. Everything that sportsmanship implies should be developed on the playing fields of Kansas
Mr. Mikols is extremely proud
6. —The opportunity for every individual, regardless of his ability, to realize the joy and fun of participation in his favorite sport against good competition.
3. —An opportunity to learn the important values developed through team spirit and cooperation and the sense of belonging to a group.
5. —An opportunity for relaxation from strenuous school work and the rapid pace of modern living.
"I feel that the competitive spirit here can hardly be equaled. It is one of the most competitive intramurals' programs anywhere. The boys in these events really play their hearts out. They go all out in all of their games." Mikols said.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy has praised the KU intramurals when he said, "Your schedule should never be so full that there is no time for recreation. For a portion of your free time your University provides a year-round program of intramural athletics that combines heathful exercise with interesting competition."
In addition to football, the intramurals department also offers competition in handball, horseshoes, tennis, golf, basketball, softball, track, swimming, badminton and bowling.
The football competition always draws one of the biggest number of matches. There are 51 teams entered in intramural football with 880 men participating, Mikols said.
and enthusiastic about the intramurals program here.
Football Has 51 Teams
George Mrkonic, guard, was the next Kansan to be placed on the team in 1951. Oliver Spencer, tackle, made the grade along with Gill Reich, halfback, in 1952.
Since the initiation of football in 1890, the Jayhawkers have had four All-Americans. Ray Evans, halfback, and Otto Schnellbacher, end, made the team in 1847.
Kansas football teams have been represented three times in the annual College All Star Game. In 1934, Pete Mehringer, a tackle, played in the game. The next KU player was George Dick, an end, in 1944. The last time KU had a player represented was in 1950 when Mike McCormack, a tackle, was a member of the team.
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