NEW SWIMMING POOL IN USE
The new swimming pool in Robinson gymnasium is now in use and is open to students several nights of the week.
Coach pleased with new pool
Few things could have made Dick Reamon, KU's head swimming coach, happier than the new pool in Robinson Gymnasium. "It's like going from night into day," Reamon exclaimed while comparing the new pool to the one in Old Robinson Gymnasium.
THE NEW 25-METER square pool has one-meter and three-meter diving boards, six eight feet wide swimming lanes, underwater and overhead lights, an underwater window, an underwater sound system, two sun porches, a seven-feet deep channel leading to the 14-feet deep diving area, and seating for 600 persons.
This year it is impossible for the spectators to get splashed as they were in old Robinson's Gym.
"There isn't a bad seat in the house," Reamon says.
The new pool is equipped with a modern electronic timing device, accurate to five-millionths of a second, and designed to eliminate the possibility of human error. A wall clock over each lane stops the moment a swimmer touches the pad at the end of the lane. The starter's pistol has an electric cord attached to it that automatically starts the clocks.
The new pool is one of the best
REAMON ASSERTS that the varsity swimming program is sure to improve.
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KU last year finished second in the conference behind Oklahoma University. Nearly all of last year's top swimmers will be back this year.
equipped in the Midwest and makes KU one of the only four schools in the Big Eight qualified to hold a conference swimming meet.
"It has been one vicious circle," Reamon explained. "It has been a matter of trying to get the swimmers without the pool and the pool without the swimers."
Last year's freshman team finished $39_{1/2}^{th}$ points ahead of the second-place team in the Big Eight freshman meet.
The pool is open to students from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday except on home football game weekends.
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"There's a place for closed circuit television," he said, "but the potential lies in how to interpret and when to use it.
More thoughts on the use of closed circuit television and video tape replays during a game-Colorado's Eddie Crowder feels the video tape hinders the progress of the game more than it helps it.
"It's a silly sight when the head coach sits there looking into a box while the game is going on," Crowder added.
By ROBERT STEVENS UDK Managing Editor
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The 63,543 Nebraska fans attracted last Saturday to the game with Utah State are the most ever to watch a game in a Big Eight stadium. Previously, the high was 63,170 for the Oklahoma-Notre Dame game at Norman in 1957. The big Nebraska draw, plus the record crowd at the Iowa State-Oklahoma game in Ames (22,000) helped push the total attendance for the Conference to 332,417 after eight games, an average of 41,542.
Around the Big 8
Kansas State's effort to build a new 34,000-seat football stadium cleared its first hurdle when the University's Athletic Council unanimously recommended plans to finance the new stadium with private non-tax funds. The estimated cost is $1.5 million.
Will bloweth not in Folsom Field, so ruleth Mr. C."
"Those horns that haunt grid stadia, with raucous vulgarity
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Colorado Coach and Athletic Director Eddie Crowder has asked that no fans bring those loud plastic horns to Folsom Stadium. Horns will not be permitted in the stadium in the best interests of crowd-comfort and playing conditions.
The new stadium would be located in the area of Myers Field, the current site of the baseball diamond and football practice areas. It is hoped that drawings of the initial phase can be completed and construction begun by a year from now, with a planned opening for Sept. 21, 1968.
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A six team field, including host Oklahoma State and headed by Kansas and Jim Ryun, will bid for the Tenth Annual OSU Cross Country Derby Saturday. Oct. 1. The four-mile haul will start on OSU's Hillcrest Course at 10:30 a.m.
Ryun and senior Tom Yergovich make the Hawks team favorites. Other teams entered are Oklahoma Baptist, New Mexico, Abilene Christian College and Oklahoma Christian College.
There have been larger jamboree fields, but it's doubtful if there have been as many "name" runners. Ryun, the 19-year-old Jayhawk sophomore who owns the world record in the 880 and mile, will be making his varsity debut for KU.
Projected on the viewers' screen, all the jersey numbers were reversed—and the plays looked rather unorthodox.
When Coach Dan Devine had his local television show following the Minnesota victory, someone in the film room goofed.
When the camera shifted back to Devine, his interviewer observed: "Well, coach, Missouri really came on strong in the second half. Did you make any adjustments at halftime?"
"Yes, we did," Devine deadpanned. "We told Gary Kombrink to start throwing right-handed, and Bill Bates to kick with his right foot."
Datebook on sale
The KU K-Book Datebook, the official University calendar in datebook form, will go on sale tomorrow in the UDK newsroom, 112 Flint Hall.
The datebook is an All Student Council sponsored publication, published under the auspices of Sigma Delta Chi, the professional journalism fraternity.
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