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This aerial view shows the main KU campus from Allen Field House on the left to the Campanile in the background.
KU cross country team set for eight seasonal meets
Kansas' cross-country team will compete in eight meets this autumn and for the second year in a row will host the NCAA championships, coach Bob Timmons announced.
The Jayhawks open at Stillwater Oct. 1 in the Oklahoma State Jamboree, which will be the varsity racing debut for Jim Ryun, 19-year-old sophomore who holds the world 880 and mile records and the American record for two miles.
The NCAA meet at six miles will be staged at the KU course Nov. 21. Other meets at the Jayhawk layout southwest of Allen Field House are the KU Invitational Oct. 8; the State Federation Oct. 29 and a combined freshman-junior college invitational Oct. 22.
In addition to the opener at Stillwater the Kansas harriers will run four other times away from home: Oct. 15, Southern Illinois at Carbondale (six miles); Nov. 5, Big Eight championships at Columbia, Mo. (three miles); Nov. 12, Central Collegiate at Chicago (five miles), and Nov. 24, National Federation at Wichita (six miles).
Tom Yergovich, Kansas City, only senior on the Kansas squad, is the top returner from the 1965 team that finished second in the Big Eight and sixth in the NCAA.
Yergovich placed sixth in the conference meet a year ago. Others on the 14-man varsity roster:
Sophomores—Mike Kearns, Van Nuys, Calif.; George Moore, West Chicago, Ill.; Mike Petterson, Wichita; Dave Pitts, Wichita; Jim
Juniors—Curtis Grindal, Carbondale, Kan.; Mike Hayes, Centralia, Kan.; Dave Mansfield, Yuma, Ariz.; Gene McClaim, Salina, Kan.; Allen Russell, Scottsbluff, Neb; Ken Reeder, Caldwell, Kan.
The Schedule
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Oct. 8—KU Invitational at Lawrence, six miles.
Oct. 1—Oklahoma State Jamboree at Stillwater, four miles.
Oct. 15—Southern Illinois at Carbondale, Ill., six miles.
Ryun, Wichita; Mike Sheahon,
Wichita; Larry Weolk, Wichita.
Oct. 22-KU Freshman-Junior College Invitational at Lawrence, three miles.
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