Huskers end Hawk string of Big Eight track trophies
By Ron Hanson
KU's string of three straight Big Eight outdoor track championships came to an end this weekend and Nebraska won its first outdoor championship since 1950 in the meet held at Columbia, Mo.
The Cornhuskers rolled up 113 points, ten more than second place Oklahoma. Third place went to Oklahoma State with 39 points, and the Jayhawks, who were favored to win by many, ended up fourth with 77. The top four teams were followed by Missouri and Colorado, 48 each; Kansas State, 37; and Iowa State, 21.
As was expected the meet produced many outstanding performances. More league records were broken than at any championship meet since 1959.
CHARLIE GREENE, Nebraska,
one of the world's greatest sprinters,
set the pace by smashing the oldest record when he ran a 9.3
in the 100 and came back to tie the 220 standard of 20.8. The old
100 yard dash record was set in
1930. For his performances,
Greene was named the meet's outstanding performer.
The mile record also fell when Conrad Nightingale, K-State, set the new mark of 4:00.9 in the second race of the afternoon Saturday.
OTHER MARKS broken this weekend were the 440,880, high jump, three-mile run and the mile relay.
Nebraska's Dave Crook set the 440 mark with a 45.9. John Perry, OSU, broke the 880 yard dash record with a time of 147.7.
Chris McCubbins, also of OSU,
set a new record in the three-
mile run with a 14:03.9. Second
place went to KU's John Lawson
who had a time of 14:11.6. Lawson's inability of winning this
race and the mile ruined any chance he had to make a grand
slam of indoor-outdoor distance
runs. This year in the Big Eight
Indoor, he won both the mile
and two mile.
RON TULL, Oklahoma's seven-foot high jumper, didn't go that high at the meet, but he did clear 6-11 and broke the old record of 6-8½ set in 1956.
Oklahoma's mile relay team set the final record of the meet, running the event in 3:08.8 and breaking the old record by nearly two seconds.
One of the biggest surprises of the meet was KU's relatively mediocre fourth place showing. The Jayhawks, who won in '63, '64 and '65, had big problems at the beginning of the meet Friday when Art Cortez was injured and out for the meet. Cortez was expected to place in at least three of the jumping events.
THE JAYHAWKS did win three first places, all field events, in the finals Saturday. Gary Ard won two, the triple jump, 46-10, and the long jump, $24 - \frac{1}{2}$.
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