Records could fall in Big 8 track contest
By Ron Hanson
As many as 14 Big Eight Conference track and field records could be broken at the league's outdoor championships this weekend at the University of Missouri in Columbia.
The possibility of this is high as all the necessary ingredients are present for such a bust. Ten national champions head a field that has given the Big Eight its fastest outdoor track start in history. Pre-meet performances are such that all but three of the 17 possible records are not in serious jeopardy.
FIVE OF THE events which could see new records this weekend are the 100 yard dash, 220, 440, 440-relay and the mile relay. KU has a good possibility of breaking one of these, the mile relay.
The Big Eight meet record for the mile relay is 3:10.5, set by Oklahoma in 1959. Kansas State has the seasonal best so far this year with a 3:09.4 clocking at the Drake Relays. Nebraska has the second best time with a 3:09.9 which was also set at the Drake Relays.
The Jayhawks' team of Doug Dienelt, Lowell Paul, Dwight Peck, and Steve Ashurst are third with a time of 3:10.5.
IN THE 100 yard dash, Nebraska's Charlie Green is the headliner of a strong group of runners to compete in the Big Eight meet. His best time this year is a wind-aided 9.3 which is one tenth of a second better than the Big Eight meet record set by KU's Charlie Tidwell in 1959.
Two men who will be pushing
Green this weekend in the 100 are Oklahoma's Jim Jackson, who this year has run a 9.5, and Green's own teammate Lynn Headley, who has had a 9.6 this season.
KU will have either Doug Dienelt or Bob Hanson entered in the 100. Dienelt's most recent clocking was a 10.0 at last weekend's dual with Southern Illinois. Because of a recent foot injury Hanson has just returned to the Jayhawk track team and has not run the 100 yet this year in the outdoor season.
The Big Eight meet 440 yard dash record is also in danger of being broken this weekend. Kansas State's Don Payne, Oklahoma's Bill Calhoun, Nebraska's Dave Crook, and Iowa State's Steve Carson are all national titlists.
Payne, dubbed the "Splendid Sprinter," is considered the favorite as he owns the 400 meter National Federation title and a portion of the NCAA indoor quarter mile championship.
NEBRASKA'S Green, along with being favored to take the 100 yard dash, is also considered a strong contender to break his own meet record in the 220 which he set last year. The record of 20.8 compares to Green's best this year of 21.3. He is expected to receive his greatest competition from Oklahoma's Phil Aldrige who has a 21 flat to his credit this season.
The 440 yard relay should be an extremely tight race as four Big Eight schools have run it with only three tenths of a second separating them this year. Nebraska leads the group with a 41.0, followed by Colorado, 41.1; Kansas.
State, 41.2; and Oklahoma, 41.3.
The record for this event is 40.5
set by Colorado in 1964 and tied
by Nebraska last year.
Army defers pro athletes with injuries
WASHINGTON—(UPI) Athletes such as Joe Namath and Charley Taylor will stay out of the armed forces because the government can't afford them.
The Army, in testimony made public Monday, said one major reason that professional athletes with physical defects were deferred from duty was to spare the government the cost of paying injury claims for years to come.
Namath of the New York Jets and Taylor of the Washington Redskins were rejected because of physical disabilities.
8 Daily Kansan Tuesday, May 10, 1966
Dewey Weddle started a bottle cap collection with this one.
KU's golf team finished 17th out of 21 teams in the Pike's Peak invitational golf tournament held last weekend at Colorado
That's why his next bottle cap was this one.
Golfers do poorly at Pike's Peak
Springs, Colo. The Jayhawks score was 1.013 strokes.
Brigham Young University took the first place trophy.
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