Nine Jayhawk thinclads hold world track records
By RICK FOLKMIRE
KU's Jim Ryun holds three of his own world records and shares in two others, but eight other Jayhawkers also have a part in some world records.
George Byers, Lee Adams and J. W. Johnson are co-holders of the fastest indoor 60-yard low hurdles race ever run.
Gary Ard, Dwight Peck and Ben Olison, along with Ryun, are members of the team which set a world record in the sprint medley.
Curt Grindal, Tom Yergovich,
Feck and Ryun make up the present world record distance medley team.
ADAMS AND Johnson each ran the indoor 60-yard low hurdles in 6.6 seconds at the 1967 Kansas Federation meet. Then at the 1967 Big Eight Indoor Track and Field Meet Byers dipped 6.6 seconds three times to match the world standard.
Johnson, who was only a junior during the '67 season, is normally a sprinter and a high hurdler. The 5'9", 150-pound athlete is from Wichita.
Adams, a junior from Bakersfield, Calif., is a transfer from Bakersfield Junior College. He was a member of the relay team that set the still existing junior college record of 1:24.7. While at KU, the physical education major set the world record. He also won the Big Eight Indoor 60-yard high hurdles and was second in the 60-yard lows.
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EXTREMELY FAST off the blocks. Byers generally grabs a big lead over the field by the second hurdle. The Kansas Citium finished fourth in the 120 highs at the 1867 Texas Relays in 14 flat to equal Bill Tillman's eight-year-old school record. Byers holds the KU fresh outdoor marks of 14.4 in the highs and 54.8 for the 440-yard intermediate hurdles. The '5'10", 140-pound sophomore also is a physical education major.
At the 1967 Texas Relays Ard, Olison, Peck and Ryun teamed up to run the sprint medley in 3:15.2 to capture the world record.
LEADING OFF that world record medley, KU Co-Captain Ard is another junior college transfer. The 21-year-old senior from Modesto, Calif., reached his peak at the 1966 Southwestern Relays with 25-1 $ \frac{1}{4} $ and 47-3 $ \frac{1}{2} $ double in long and triple jumps.
He bagged the Big Eight outdoor triple jump at 46-10 last year and finished first in long jump at 24-0/4. At the 1967 Texas Relays Ard won long jump at 24-10 and led off its school record mile relay outfit as well as the world record sprint medley crew. The 6-foot Ard is an art major.
Ranked among the nation's top sprinters with clockings of 9.5 in the 100, 21.4 in the 220, and 46.9 in the 440; Olison is another Bakersfield Juco transfer. He outkicked the defending champion Bill Calhoun of Oklahoma in the Big Eight indoor 440 to win in a school record time of 49.3. In his outdoor debut against the defending NCAA champion UCLA, Olison won the 100 in the 220 in 9.6 and 21.2.
He then anchored his mates to a mile relay victory with a 46.6 quarter as his team punched out a 3:10.9 clocking. At the Texas Relays, Olison anchored the school record mile effort of 3.09.5 with 46.8, finishing second only to Rice. Earlier he ran a sizzling 220 with the record sprint medley team and anchored the 440 team to fourth place in 41 flat. The 20-year-old junior is also a physical education major.
ANOTHER KU co - captain, Peck, a graduate of Pascask Valley High School of Woodcliff, N.J., set the KU record of 47.2 for the 440 in the Southern Illinois dual during the 1966 campaign. At Texas this season he logged a 46.5 quarter with the world record sprint medley team and a 46.9 third carry with the school record mile relay unit. The English-Oriental languages major is 6'4", weighs 170 pounds and was a 22-year-old senior.
In April, at the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Yergovich, Grindal, Peck and Ryun clicked off a 9:33.8 clocking for the $2^{1 / 2}$-mile distance medley to bring home to KU another world record.
Winner of the Kansas prep cross-country title as a senior at Wyandotte High School, Yergovich won the Big Eight 1,000 meters in 2:12.5 and finished fourth in the NCAA Indoor at 2:10.9, only a second off Ryun's school record. Yergovich ran the $^{34}$-mile leg on the record breaking distance medley team. The 21-year-old senior is majoring in math and chemistry.
THE LEAD-OFF man for the record unit, Grindal comes from Carbondale. He led off the distance medley team at the 1966 Kansas Relays with a 1:54 half as the Jayhawks clocked 9:41.3, at the time not only a meet and school mark, but was the fastest ever run by a Big Eight unit.
He also led with a 4:14.3 mile the next week at Drake as Kansas smashed the carnival record with 16:38.7, second swiftest in Big Eight history and less than two seconds off the KU standard. He'll captain KU's 1967 cross-country team. A junior, this 21-year-old, 6'1" ,160-pound athlete is majoring in mechanical engineering.
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Ryun, who owns three of his own world records and is coowner of two others, attended high school at Wichita East where he became the first prep thinclad to run the mile under four minutes.
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He holds the world record mile of 3:51.1, the fastest half ever run —144.9—and the most recent of his world marks—the 1,500 meters in 3:33.1. He anchored the KU world sprint medley at the Texas Relays and the distance medley at the Drake Relays. The 20-year-old soph is majoring in business.
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