Steinhoff vaults over frosh records
By Ron Hanson
Although KU track has been blessed with the services of the great freshman miler, Jim Ryun, he shares the freshman spotlight with another outstanding Jay-
hawk, pole vaulter Bob Steinhoff,
of Downey, Calif.
Last weekend at the Kansas State Indoor Relays, Steinhoff, along with Larry Smith of Oklahoma, broke the freshman conference record in the indoor pole vault with a leap of 16 feet-one-quarter of an inch. This vault broke the old mark by nearly a foot and established Steinhoff and Smith among the top pole vaulters in the conference in either the freshman or varsity categories.
Wesley, Lewis await North-South contest
COACH Ted Owens has been chosen to coach for the North in the North-South game to be held at Wichita State University April 2. Now it has been announced he will be joined by two of his KU players, All-American Walt Wesley, senior center from Fort Myers, Fla., and guard Del Lewis, Pauline senior.
KU's Big Eight championship team has won many team honors this season, and now honors are coming to individual members with the selection to All-Star games.
He doesn't think the pressure will be as great as in a conference game. "Sure we want to win, but there isn't so much at stake if we lose."
"It's a real privilege to be playing," Lewis said last night. "This is a first representative honor for Lewis, but he doesn't feel overawed at the thought of playing with the cream of the North. "I'll play just as well as I can," he said.
Wesley believes there will be some pressure in the game, but after conference games he said he will find it "enlightening."
Wesley is no newcomer to representative games, having already played in this year's AAU invitational. He said the only difference between conference games and invitational games is that all the players will be all-stars, "the outstanding players in the conferences."
"The team play won't be much different, except not having played a lot together there will not be a set pattern," Wesley said.
the International Meet of Champions in January with a vault of 15-2 and he also won it in the freshman category at the NCAA championships two weeks ago with 15-6.
STEINHOFF received second place in this meet as it took him two tries to make the height, while Smith did it on his first attempt. Neither vaulter could go any higher.
who was graduated two years ago.
Steinhaff's 16 foot plus vault of last weekend is not his best ever as last year, while he was a senior at Warren High School in Downey, Calif., he cleared the bar at 16-1.
In the Will Rogers Meet at Ft. Worth, Texas, he tied for first place, again with Smith of OU, with a vault of 15 feet even.
TAKING UP pole vaulting when he was in the ninth grade, Steinhoff progressed rapidly, clearing 13-4 as a high school sophomore, 14-6 as a junior, and over 16 feet as a senior.
The first freshman outdoor meet of the season will be the Emporia Relays in late April, and Steinhoff said he is looking forward to competing outdoors for the first time at KU.
This year he has participated in four meets, and won his event in two of them. The Jayhawk freshman won the pole vault at
THIS YEAR, Steinhoff has set his goal at 16-9, and if he gets it, he will break KU's school record of $ 1 6 - 4 \frac {1}{2} $ , set by Floyd Manning
Concerning OU's Smith, who will probably be Steinhoff's chief competition in the coming years, the KU star said, "Smith will have to work a little bit to make it—by this I mean to beat me."
Daily Kansan
Thursday, March 24, 1966
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