Lawyers tough in sports
Law school teams post winning year
By David Finch
Hill champions in basketball. Runner-up in softball and volleyball. This is the impressive record of the Law School's teams in intramural sports this semester.
Easketball was the first intramural sport this semester and was the one in which the Laws won their Hill title.
Undefeated in all league competition, the Laws progressed through the play-offs and met Beta Theta Pi in the final. Law took an early lead and held it throughout. The Betas fought back in the third quarter, but the Laws held out to win 52-45.
This marked the first time an Independent team had won the Hill title in basketball in 11 years.
TOF SCOREER was John Wolf. Overland Park graduate student, who averaged about 20 points a game and who was the high scorer in the final game with 17 points.
Other regular players were Al Hardy at center, second year law student from Lawrence; forwards Lance Burr, Salina second year law student; and Harlan Burkhead, first year law student from Marysville; and guards Wolf and Dave Adams, first year law student from Wichita.
In the softball competition the Lawmen won all their league games and went through the playoffs to meet DUs in the finals. As expected, this turned out to be a pitching duel between the Laws' Bob Lundblad, second year law from Kansas City, and the DU's Carlos Frey, graduate student from Liberal.
Entering the final, Lundblad had pitched several one-hitters and had never had more than one run scored against him in any game. Frey had faired even better, winning his six games with six shutouts.
The final game ran true to form. Lundblad allowed only one
run, but Frey pitched another shutout and the DU's won the game.
IN VOLLEYBALL the Law team really caused an upset. Playing in the Independent A league, which had only three teams this year, they were expected to be a chopping-block for the Thunderballs, the reigning Hill champions.
And so it was, until the Independent playoffs. Although beaten by the Thunderballs in season encounters, the Laws turned the tables and won the playoff. But the effort was too much and the Hill championship, played on the same evening against Sigma Chi, resulted in defeat.
DAILY sports KANSAN Basketball part of Jayhawk tradition
Bu Ron Hanson
KU's basketball team had a great season this year, its best since 1957. But in checking back through the records, greatness is found to be a traditional part of the basketball program at KU. When one thinks of the sport of giants and KU's part in it over the years, more famous names, records and performances come to mind that even the most uninformed have heard of many of them.
Naismith, who originated basketball to give athletes a good winter sport, guided the first nine Jayhawk teams to an overall record of 53-56. He was the only coach in KU's basketball history to have a losing record.
THE STORY STARTS at the beginning of the game of basketball. Dr. James Naismith, the inventor of the game in 1897, was a physical education instructor at KU for 36 years as well as the Jav Hawks' first basketball coach.
Three players featured in all three sports. These were John Wolf, Dave Adams and Dan Denk, first year law student from Shawnee Mission.
NAISMITH RETIRED from the head coaching job in 1907 and was replaced by KU's all-time greatest coach, Dr. Forrest C. (Phog) Allen. Allen in his first stint as a coach, remained only two years despite winning 13 and losing only nine games during this time.
He was replaced in 1909 by W. O. Hamilton another physical education teacher. Hamilton remained as coach for ten years. Toward the end of his reign as coach, the team began to show mediocre records, barely winning as many as it was losing.
SENSING THAT PEPHAPS Allen was better than previously thought, he was installed again as head coach in 1919, and remained in that position until his retirement in 1956.
In the remainder of Allen's 39 years as Jayhawk coach, his teams won league titles 23 times. His teams also won the Helms National championship twice in 1923 and 1924; they went to the midwest regional tournament four times, 1940, '42, '52, '53; and to the national NCAA tournament three times, 1940, '52, '53. He won more games than any other coach in the history of college basketball.
IN 1952. ALLEN AND KU had their best basketball team of all-time. Led by two-time all-America Clyde Lovellette, KU won its only NCAA national championship in basketball. defeating St. Johns University 80-63.
Harlan Burkhead and Tom Hamill, second year law from Colby, played basketball and softball and Fred Slicker, first year law from Tulsa, Okla., played softball and volleyball.
THEIR NEXT objective? The Hill title in touch football next pendent league and lost only two finished second in the Independent eagle and lost only two games, both to MBA, the eventual Independent champions and runner-up to the Betas in the Hill play-off.
So beware Independents and Greeks. The law students have proved that they can win their battles on the field as well as in the courts.
This is a very special event for you; one you will remember the rest of your life.
Of special importance is the Senior Breakfast, Monday, June 6, at 8:00 a.m. in the Union Ballroom. Among other things, you'll receive the Last Gasp '66 (a special Senior Class newspaper), final instructions on commencement ceremony procedure, and concluding remarks from your class officers. It's a unique event not to be missed.
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On June 4,5,and 6 we will be holding the Centennial Commencement exercises for the Class of 1966.
PATRONIZE KANSAN ADVERTISERS
Dear Graduating Senior,
Daily Kansas 13
Wednesday, May 25, 1966
Be sure to stop by the Alumni Office if you haven't picked up your "official" commencement schedule.
See you there,
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