Kansas' trackmen compile best fall and winter record
The University of Kansas has just completed the most successful cross country and indoor track campaign in the history of the school. Coach Bob Timmons and Assistant Coach John Mitchell, now preparing the Jayhawks for the outdoor season, will long remember the first seven months of the 1965-66 season.
Kansas, with captain John Lawson setting the pace, became the 1965 cross country power of the Eig Eight area. The Jayhawks opened the season on October 2 with an easy win over Southern Illinois University. KU runners took the first four places in that opening dual meet and placed eight athletes among the top 10.
FINAL RESULTS of the University of Kansas Invitational Cross Country Meet again found the Jayhawks taking the first four places. Lawson, along with Tom Yergovich, Jose Contreras and Allen Russell outdistanced the best efforts of runners from Iowa State, S.I.U. and K-State. With low score winning the Jayhawks whipped the Wildcats 16 to 43.
Lawson ran a 30:17.8 to take first place in the Kansas State Federation Meet on October 30 and the Jayhawks again outclassed K-State for team honors. A week later the KU senior captain won the Big Eight Conference Cross Country Meet at Stillwater, Okla.
On November 12 Lawson won the Central Collegiate Championships at Chicago running against the best trackman in the entire middle west. No other Big Eight school placed a runner among the top 50 finishers although KU
took six more places in addition to Lawson.
KU WAS host to the 27th Annual N.C.A.A. Cross Country Championships on November 22 and athletes represented schools from all sections of the United States, coast to coast, journeyed to Lawrence for the highlight of the cross country season. Once more John Lawson of Kansas proved why he is one of the world's best distance runners and finished first with a time of 29:24.0.
The Jayhawks opened the 1966 indoor track season on February 4 against a strong Southern Illinois University squad. Captain Lawson and spinner-hurdler Bob Hanson led KU to a 38-54 dual victory.
Three days later at Wichita,
Lawson clocked a 28:50.8 to win
the National Federation Cross
Country Meet.
LAWSON re-wrote both the mile and two-mile records while Hanson tied the 60-yard dash mark during the opening meet. Lawson's time for the mile was 4:08.4 and for the two-mile, 9:07.5. Hanson ran the 60-yard dash in 6.2.
Kansas won its 28th straight indoor track meet on February 10, thumping Oklahoma 74-48. Lawson claimed an Allen Field House mark when he won the 1,000 yard run with a 2:11.6 time. Gary Ard, a transfer student from Modesto, Calif., Junior College, won the long jump in his first appearance for KU with a leap of $23-11\frac{3}{4}$.
A week later the Jayhawks defeated both Kansas State and Oklahoma State to ring up their 29th straight victory. The Jayhawks scored 74 points, K-State 48, and the Cowboys tallied only 26.
THE ANNUAL Big Eight Conference Indoor Track Championships were held at Kansas City on February 26, and Coaches Timmons and Mitchell saw their Jayhawks fight to a 41-37 win over favored Nebraska as Captain Lawson registered a rare double victory in the mile and two-mile races. Art Cortez, the KU "handy man," took a first place in the long jump and a third in the high jump. Hanson added a second in the low hurdles and Lowell Paul nabbed a second in the 1,000-yard run.
On March 5 the Jayhawks dominated the Kansas State Federation Meet as the KU varsity won five events while the Frosh team took four for a total of nine victories in 14 events.
ONE OF the greatest team victories in the history of collegiate athletics shocked track fans at the N.C.A.A. Championships held in Detroit, Mich., on March 11 and 12. The Kansas Jayhawks, displaying a well balanced list of entries, edged Southern California 14-13 for top national honors.
Jayhawks lead Big 8
KU holds a slim lead in its attempt to claim the Big Eight all-sports championship for the second straight year.
Kansas leads by one-half point over Nebraska,  $23\frac{1}{2} - 24,$ going into the final spring sports. OU isn't far back with 28.
Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma are locked in a fierce duel for the title with seven of 11 sports completed. The seven league championships claimed thus far have been divided among six schools. KU, with crowns in basketball and indoor track, is the only double-winner.
FIRST-DIVISION finishes are essential and the Jayhawks have, for the most part, been consistent. In addition to their two titles,
KU proved to have the best indoor track team in the nation by winning the N.C.A.A. title without the benefit of a 'first' in any event. In fact, Southern Cal (2nd), Central State Ohio (3rd) and Nebraska (4th) all needed first place wins in certain events to even stay close to the Jayhawks.
they have been runnerup in swimming and cross country, third in gymnastics, tied for sixth in football and last in wrestling.
Nebraska won in football, K-State in cross country, Oklahoma in swimming, Iowa State in gymnastics and Oklahoma State in wrestling. Colorado and Missouri are without a title as yet.
Outdoor track, tennis, golf and baseball are the only sports remaining.
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Daily Kansas Monday, March 28, 1966
Walt Wesley, KU's All-American senior from Fort Myers, Fla., scored 10 points from the field for the West Saturday, in its losing effort in the fourth annual East-West game at Kentucky University's Memorial Coliseum. The East downed the West, 126-99.
Wesley hits 10 for the West
The East's score was a record for the coliseum and also for the series, which now stands even at 2-2.
Jim Barnett, Oregon, and Jerry Chambers, Utah, led the West with 19 apiece, followed by Lonnie Wright, Colorado State, with 16.
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