Christmas Special
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan
Serving KU for 77 of its 101 Years
Section 4
77th Year, No. 51
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, December 5, 1966
Leader of the pack
KU running ace still holds world marks
JIM RYUN
By EMERY GOAD
One KU sophomore is the best in his field in the world.
He was an honor roll student last semester.
He has traveled around the world, through Europe, Japan, and to the Olympics.
HIS WEEKENDS take him from his business and mathematics courses across the United States.
RYUN CAME to Lawrence in the fall of 1965 as the only high schooler to beat the 4-minute mile. At Wichita East High in May, 1965, he set a time of 3:58.3.
Thousands of sport fans have cheered him through the victory tape past runners like Peter Snell of New Zealand.
As a KU freshman last year he ran a 3.55.3 for the fastest mile in the world at that time.
But just ask Jim Ryun and he'll tell you he is no different than the other 350 men in Templin Hall.
Ryun later broke his own record and set the one which still stands today, 3.51.3 minutes.
When asked if he can do better,
"I hope so," Ryun says. "It's only
a little harder."
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THE DOMINANT figure in track has been running since high school and still recalls the days in his sophomore year when he couldn't make the team.
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He has been working hard ever since, running between 20 and 30 miles daily, some even before the sun rises through the empty streets of Lawrence and the campus, the rest while most students
sit in the Hawk's Nest or the Rock Chalk in the afternoon.
The way Ryun explains it he has an obligation to track.
"HE TALKS with his legs," his coach in high school and now at KU, Bob Timmons, once said.
He is something special to KU. "No," disagrees Jim. After all, he dates, attends church, and when he's not interrupted by
He is something special to KU.
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