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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Feb. 17, 1965
The Jayhawkers' Best Salesman Is KU's Talented Tom Hedrick
Rv Bob Henry
If a picture is worth a thousand words, reverse logic makes Tom Hedrick a most prolific artist.
Hedrick, the director of the KU Sports Network, estimates that last year he uttered about 51,500,000 words as he broadcast KU sports contests, Kansas City Chiefs football games, the National Junior College basketball tournament, summertime American Legion baseball tournaments, and six daily sports shows over area radio stations.
in addition to producing that mammoth vocal outpouring, Hedrick traveled about 40,000 miles in 1964, two-thirds of it by air, in his sportscasting wanderings.
But it isn't all sportscasting and travel, the 30 year-old "Voice of KU and the Kansas City Chiefs" is an academician too. He teaches two classes at KU two days a week—a three-hour course in radio and television speaking, and a two-hour course in sportscasting which may be the only one of its kind in the United States.
HEDRICK'S sportscasting last year led him to do 35 football games. 75 basketball games (which included a marathon stint in covering the entire National Junior College tournament in Hutchinson), about 45 baseball games, and the KU Relays.
"I usually spend about 15 hours a week getting ready to broadcast a football game," Hedrick said. This includes viewing game films of both teams; memorizing the offensive and defensive backfields, ends, and line-backers; talking with the coaches and quarterbacks to find out game strategy, and preparing background on the teams and players.
Hedrick said that football is the most difficult sport to broadcast because you have to be a mathematician to keep track of where the ball is located, the down and the yards to go, and the 22 players.
HEDRICK'S hectic schedule sometimes leads to travel assignments which would exhaust most sports-writers.
For example, last fall Hedrick broadcast the KU vs. Syracuse football game in Syracuse, N.Y., on a Saturday afternoon. The next day his voice came booming from San Diego, Calif., where the Kansas City Chiefs were playing.
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Asked if he gets tired from the constant demands which his profession makes of him, Hedrick said, "No, I'd get out of the business if it did. I try to get eight hours sleep every night; I don't smoke or drink, so you can see I take pretty good care of myself. Anyway, I love this business."
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This kind of affection for the sports world was what got Hedrick into the profession in 1954 when he barged into radio station KLWN in Lawrence with a tape recording of himself under one arm and the prediction to the station manager that, "I am going to be the best sportscaster in the business."
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Hedrick admits today that this approach was "a little brassy," but it landed him his first broadcasting job.
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Following his stint with KLWN in Lawrence, Hedrick worked for KWBW in Hutchinson and KOCA in Kilgore, Tex., before returning to Lawrence to earn an M.A. degree in sportscasting from KU. He was a 1956 graduate of Baker University in Baldwin, Hedrick is in his fifth year
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"Ive had a lot of great experiences, but I guess the one that stands out would have to be my first KU football game, when KU defeated Texas Christian University in 1960."
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"I got so excited before the game that I drove my car down some 25 concrete steps outside Memorial Stadium. I still get pretty excited before each game." Hedrick said.
THE KU victory over Syracuse in 1960 was particularly memorable to Hedrick. This was a nationally televised game and he was scheduled to assist with the telecast.
His most recent thrill was being selected to do the Kansas City Chiefs football games.
KU Students Win in Topeka
Three KU students took honors Saturday in the Topeka Open Table Tennis Championship.
The one-day competition hosted about 150 people for the initial eliminations.
Mike Ralston, Van Nuys, Calif., junior, won first honors in the Class A division of the Men's championship. Harriet Benson, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student, took the championship in the Women's division.
Miss Benson teamed up with Fred Mandel, Berkeley, Calif., graduate student, to take second place in the Mixed Doubles competition.
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