KU track men prepare for spring season
By JOHN LAWSON
If one sits on one of the benches by the Campanile, or walks down the hill toward Memorial Stadium between 2:30 and 6:00 on any afternoon, and wondered what kind of football palyers were working out in the stadium, he can relax—they weren't football players.
Football receives enough publicity so that students know why the players go to spring practice.
Football has spring practice in April and May, and for the same reason, track, a spring sport, has fall practice.
WHAT STUDENTS do not know is that track has a fall program. The distance runners have cross country season to help condition them, but the sprinters, shot putters, high jumpers, and all the other field event men must work behind the
scenes preparing for their first meet.
The indoor track season starts with the second semester in February. But Coach Bob Timmons, along with his assistant coaches John Mitchell, Ron Russian, Charles Strong, and Jim Aziere, put in over three hours daily coaching the many boys who make up the team.
Passing by Memorial Stadium any weekday afternoon reminds one of a beehive. Athletes are scattered all over the field running, jumping, and throwing.
JUST WHAT exactly is going on? If one read the sports page, he knows all sports have trouble with injuries. Quarterback Bob Skahan is ailing, Don Shanklin injured an Achilles tendon recently, and Bob Hammond has
mononucleosis, to name a few football injuries this season.
Track has the same problem. However, the better shape a team is in, the less injuries it will have. Generally speaking, the best team will be the one in the best condition.
COACH TIMMONS, in his second year as head coach, is in the process of building a championship team. He is known for the many great athletes he has coached in swimming and track. Jim Ryun, of course, being a good example.
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It's for sure Coach Timmons isn't letting the track team rest in this off season, and come February, the other teams in the Big 8 and the nation are going to see the results of KU's fall track program.
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Jayhawks highlight Big Eight
KANSAS CITY — (UPI)— The surprising Kansas Jayhawks get their first Big Eight Conference football test at Iowa State Saturday while Colorado travels to Oklahoma State and Kansas State hosts Missouri in other league action.
Oklahoma faces Texas at Dallas in a traditional battle and unbeaten Nebraska plays at Wisconsin in non-conference games.
Kansas, loser to Texas Tech in its opener but winners of its last two including a 16-14 upset of Minnesota last week, will face a tough struggle at Ames where the Cyclones must win to retain any hopes of a high finish in the conference.
Iowa State was regarded in most pre-season predictions as a possible dark horse but the Cyclones have lost three straight, including two league games to Oklahoma and Nebraska.
Colorado, 10-0 winner over stubborn Kansas State last week, takes on at Stillwater an Oklahoma State team that looked good in losing to Arkansas the first week of the season but then took a 35-6 pounding from Houston last week.
Daily Kansan Friday, October 7,1966
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