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Close race foreseen for cross country title
By STEVE CLARK
Seven weeks from Saturday, KU will host the Big Eight Cross Country Championships at the Lawrence Country Club. It is expected to take about 25 minutes for the athletes to run the five-mile course and a few more minutes to tabulate the results.
In a poll of the coaches conducted by the
different teams received first place.
Then and only then will it be clear which team is the best in the conference. Currently nobody, including the coaches, can agree on the probable winner.
BECAUSE KU received the most first place votes, three, one might assume that the Jayhawks are the favorite. But not in this league.
Missouri led the remaining schools with 32, followed by Kansas State's 27, Oklahoma State and Oklahoma with 25 and Nebraska, 7.
On the basis of second and third place votes, Colorado got the coaches' nod with 37 points. The Buffaloes were one point ahead of Iowa State and two points in front of KU.
A first place vote was worth seven points, a second counted six, etc. Coaches didn't
Below is a summary of the conference teams.
KANAS: Following two seventh place finishes, the Jayhawks have to improve. They have two excellent seniors in John Roscoe, a veteran of international running experience, and George Mason, KU's best marathon man ever.
But they need help. Letterman Joel Cambron and Ted Crank, a national junior college champion in the 1,500 meters, should be assets. They'll have to help if the Jayhawks expect to get back into the first division.
Sophomore Bruce Coldsmith and freshmen Bill Rutherford and Brent Swanson round out KU's top seven. They have impressive high school credentials, but have to prove themselves against college competition.
IOWA STATE: The Cyclones, who won their first conference cross country title in 1974, fell back to third last year. Like several other schools, Iowa State could take the title if everything falls into place. That means lettermen Jeff Myers, Steve Manley and Joe Burke must get some help from the Cyclone underclassman.
KANAS STATE: Gone are the Wildcats' top four runners from the 1975 team that set a conference record of 25 points and waltzed to the title. But former Head Coach Delosso Howe, for his replacement, Jerome Howe, with just a bunch of purple uniforms and no runners.
How will fill those uniforms with sophomore Larry Beesley, eighth in the conference last year; veterans Bob Prince and Doug Weber; and two of Kansas high schools' top performers in recent years; Jim Nicolaio and his Tim Bessler to them Ed Garrison and Tim Brown to the wildest last spring, and the Wildcats might be fielding another winner.
OKLAHOMA STATE: The Cowboys have won three of the last eight conference meets, but a lack of depth and injuries could hamper them as they did last year. South Africans Trevor Viljoen and Bernard Rose, along with senior Leo Meade, give Oklahoma State three good runners. But it takes five to win the title.
OKLAHOMA: Kansan Stan Vern leads the Sooner hopefuls and he should get solid support from lettermen Brian Geissler and Randy Wilson. Sophomores Mark Bishop and Tinn Powell, another Kansas product, could help, but a lack of enough good quality runners will probably keep the Sooners in the second division this year.
COLORADO: A surprising second last year, Colorado has the top returner from the conference meet in John Hunsaker, who was fifth. The Buffaloes were hit hard by graduation and have filled the void with transfers and freshmen. Kirk Feiffer, one of the juice transfers, finished eighth in the conference meet. Mark Spilsburgh, a freshman, has clocked a 4-10 mile and an 8:53 two mile. Colorado is another of the teams that could win it all.
NEBRASKA: The Cornhuskers appear destined to repeat their 1975 performance last. However, their season might be made more enjoyable with the addition of Steve Allen. Allen is a transfer from Texas-El Paso and will be the Cornhuskers' best.
MISSUOREI: The Tigers are another team that could run away with the crown. They have seniors Brad Reese and Ron Harmon returning along with juniors Clark Hamilton and Brad Hawthorne to give them an experienced, solid core. Missouri has all the ingredients to improve on a fifth place 1975 finish.
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And that means coach Kirkland Gates will be watching very closely as the challengers wage battle in intrasquad competition this week. He will see who is leading, and for who and who down starting positions for the season, which begins in the spring.
This fall should provide plenty of competition for places on the team, Gates said. While Bill Clarke and Mark Hoksey are in their third semifinals, the other slots appear up for grabs.
Returning from last year's squad are senior Greg Buller, junior Jeff Thomas and
sophomore Joe Ryuser, who appear to be the favorites for the middle position on the bench.
However, they will probably meet considerable competition from two outstanding freshmen in Chet Collin, the second-ranked high school performer in Oklahoma last year, and Bill Krizman, half of Missouri's high school doubles' championship team.
"The team is very strong at the top," Gates said. "I think we're as strong as anyone in the Big Eight at the No. 1 and No. 2 positions this season, our last season and hopefully a bit stronger."
To prepare for the coming season, the Jayhawks have tentatively scheduled practice matches against Oklahoma Oct. 16 and Missouri Nov. 20.
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