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Tuesday, April 15, 1975
University Daily Kansan
High jumper Smith aims higher
By KEN STONE
Sports Writer
One would think that University of
Hawaii high jumper Randy Smith would
feel safe.
Smith, the 1974 NCAA outdoor high jump champion and holder of the Big Eight indoor record of 7-14, equaled his personal best of the Wichita State Relays last weekend.
Yet the first thing he and Gary Pepin, KU assistant coach discussed Monday morning was the recent 2-7 jump of the University of Oklahoma's Gene Stoner.
And when Smith was asked Monday what
novice high jumpers because he was one himself once.
South began high jump when he was 7, in 1961. He said he used the standard playground scissors style of jumping. It was his first time using a knee jumper. He was often substituted for a bar, he said.
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But one day, while competing in Lawrence, where Smith spent part of his childhood, he was defeated by a stradler. Smith said that when he began using the stradle technique, he had become a Brunel, a former Russian Olympic high jump champion.
The straddle technique involves a
advice he nead to tor the many aspiring jumpers around the nation he shot back:
"quit! don't need any more competition.
Go play basketball or something."
Actually, Smith, McPerson senior, said he didn't mean to wreck the hops of all
Spring practice in fourth week
The University of Kansas football team went through a spirited practice Monday as the Jayhaws began their fourth week of spring practice.
Bud Moore, head football coach, said Monday that the team worked on blocking assignments during the two-and-a-half hour practice, which was at Memorial Stadium instead of the practice field behind Allen Field House because of rainy weather.
Lvaerne Smith, first-time running back been injured, returned to practice. Moon said.
Scott McMichael appears to have the edge on the starting quarterback job at this time because of his good performance in Saturday's scrimmage. Moore said.
"Scott is the only one right now who is executing as he should," Moore said.
executing as he should," Moore said.
Continued work on the kicking game and work on a goal line defense are scheduled for this week's practices, Moore said.
straight, angled approach of the bar, a high
angle, a face-down or a face-up
"rollin' out" of the bar
However, the Fosbury Flop is popular now. Dick Fosbury, the 1968 Olympic champion, popularized this technique, which uses a fast, curved approach and back wall layout clearance, with the jumper responding to do a backward somersault.
Smith said that he didn't know much and he could be younger and was younger but he could be, too.
So Smith thumped his nose at style and
so Fashion embraced the old-fashioned
straight-leg suit.
jump title the 1974 United States Track and Field Federation title and an NCAA Title.
Barry Schur, the first KU jumper to clear 7-0, graduated last year and now competes for the Gulf Coast Track Club. Schur set the GIAC record in 7-3 in the 1972 Big Eight championships.
Using the straddle technique, Smith has wrist watches for first place finishes at the Texas, Drake and Kansas Relays. He has also won the 1974 Big Eight indoor high
Smith first cleared the seven-foot barrier in April 1973, when as a KU sophomore he jumped 7-4. He has made steady im-mentation in jumping throughout his career.
Delta Upsilon wins in men's basketball
Delta Upson won the men's intramural basketball A League Hill Championship last night, defeating T.B.T. 38-43. Bill Geis scored 14 points for Delta Upson and Jerome Franks of T.B.T. led all scorers with 18.
In the B League Championship, Lucky 13 defeated Phil Delta Theta No. 14-41. In the C League Championship, Phil Delta Theta No. 3 beat the Titans 41-34.
He began with a high school freshman best of 5-10 and then jumped 6-4 as a sophomore, 6-9 as a junior and a Kansas high school best of 6-9a as a senior in winning his third straight Kansas Relays high school high tilt title.
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"Pepin has helped quite a bit," Smith said of his KU high jump coach. "I've always had good coaching, and I used to having good coaching."
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Smith attributes his improvement to good coaching, improved technique and a con-
AT KU in 1972, Smith leaped 6-10. His 7-14 lump came his sophomore year.
"But Pepin's helped the jumpers quite a lot here. He's really enthusiastic."
Smith said his better jumping was also the result of many other things.
But with a Kansas Relays title to defend Saturday, the Drake and Texas Relays and
Lawrence, Ks.
"We're going to rake the field today and see how it looks," Temple said Monday. "It seems as if we spend more time raking the field than playing on it."
Floyd Temple, KU coach, expressed hope Monday that the team would be able to play the twin bill even when rain Sunday and Monday had left the field in bad shape.
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The University of Kansas baseball team will play Ottawa University in a 1:30 game.
KU, Ottawa to play ball
KU is 7-13 for all games and 3-3 in the Big
Fight Conference.
Temple said that he planned to use five or six pipsters, but that he hadn't decided who.
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a second NCAA championship to shoot for in June, Smith said he was far from being bared with it all.
As an added ingredient to the rest of the KU home games, McDonald's of Lawrence will give certificates redeemable for Big game hats. The KU football team, KU freshman shirt stop, gets two in one game. A person must be present at the game to receive a certificate.
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In order to prepare for Wednesday's match against the University of Missouri, the University of Kansas tennis team has canceled today's match against Southwest Missouri State, Steve Vann, assistant tennis coach, said Monday.
He said the match would probably be rescheduled for sometime in May.
Netters prepare for MU
Last weekend the team finished second in the eight-team Oklahoma City University tournament, losing to West Texas State 2-7 and Arkansas 3-4 and defeating North State 6-3. The seventh-season finish wasn't as bad as it seemed because losing the first
match made fifth place the best the team could finish, Vann said.
Tim Headtke, KU's 0.2 man, said that the team had an off day against West Texas but that the win over North Texas State was gratifying.
He said the North Texas State team was probably stronger than the teams that beat him.
Headkwe all won three of his singles matches during the tournament. His tournament play reflected increased consistency in his game, he said.
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