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Friday, October 26, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Future may hold new indoor facility for Kansas athletes
By BRIAN LEVINSON Sports Writer
A decade ago, basketball at KU was a dirty business
Played on an elevated court, 2% feet above a clay base, basketball games filled Allen Field House with both fans and dust.
"The base of the court and the surrounding track was solid clay," Floyd Temple, coach of the team, said. "The track had to be watered every morning and again at night if there was a basketball game. When you walked into any of the courts, you were also a film of dust cover the peaks."
But the days of two points and a cloud of are gone. The clay case for both the home court has been replaced. Even last year's Tartan basketball court has been covered with a net.
MORE EXPANSION is planned for the
next decade, Bob Marcum, athletic director and recently the main authiter of the league building, which could end the three-running sports that goes on daily in Allen.
During the winter months, the basketball, track and baseball teams are in the Field House.
"Right now Allen is the only indoor arena we have for our athletes to practice in," she said. She was rained out of practice after Oct. 15 when the basketball season starts we have even more games.
MARCUM SAID that money for the practice building would have to come from the school. But she discovered how much support there was for the project before it was seriously contested.
"Within three or four months we will know
Architectural drawings of the proposed building have been completed. Marcum said he would show those drawings to alumni for their reactions.
whether such a facility can be a reality," Marcum said. "The amount of money we need to raise is feasible, if we have the alumni support."
THE PROPOSED building will have a 60-yd Aerostrad infield with a six-knee track around it. There will also be an area for the volleyball practice, and nets that can be lowered from the ceiling for batting practice. There also will be space for the volleyball team to practice at one end of the field and another end of the space, which, Marcum said, is needed best.
According to Marcum, the building would be for varsity athletes only, with preference given to certain teams.
"FOOTBALL WOULD have top priority, "
Marcum said. "But there is enough space so that we won't have a problem with some teams not getting to use the facility."
With an indoor sports building, KU would become only the fourth big Eight school to have one. Nebraska and Missouri have such schools. Oklahoma will have one in the spring of 1980.
“Missouri has our the nicest indoor facilities,” Marcum said. “It has roll-away turf, which gives them a great deal of flexibility in using it.”
KU will have more flexibility with its recreation services by May 1860, Thomas Wilkerson, recreation services director, and the rest of the staff added to Robinson Gymnastium, another in a series of expansions since the first old Fraser Hall in 1852, the basement of old Fraser Hall in 1849.
"I'M VERY excited about the addition."
Wilkerson said. "It will give us the opportunity to offer many more services."
These future and present changes in KU athletic facilities follow other projects.
Included in the new addition are four gyms, 12 raucquetball courts, an eight-lane, 25-meter pool, a new weight room and a physiology exercise laboratory. It will also have an area for golf and archery, a conference room for judo and karate and new classrooms.
To make more room inside the Field, a building was constructed. Center was built in 1899. Parnow rented house various athletic offices and a dressing room and weight room, which were added to the building.
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