Ryun to run two, KU goes for title
By DON STEFFENS
Second of a three-part series
The middle distances and hurdles should provide the bulk of KU's title points in the Big Eight track championship at Norman Saturday.
Though led by sophomores Jim Ryun in the 880 and mile, and George Byers in the high hurdles, Jayhawk hopes for their 14th conference title will still rest heavily in the legs of the non-winning place winners.
Ryun leads Big Eight lists in his two specialties but undoubtedly will run tactical races to aid KU's scoring chances, and due to his duties in a third event, the mile relav.
It seems likely the pack will allow him to set the pace, awaiting his kick to then fight it out for places behind Ryun. At this point, other Hawks will need to be in strategic position to place high.
Junior Gene McClain ran 1:52.1 two years ago and track coach Bob Timmons thinks he will be capable of nearing that time at Norman after breezing through a 1:53.6 last weekend. In the mile, senior Tom Yergovich has twice defeated K-State's defending champion Conrad Nightingale and would like to raise that total to three this weekend.
Still another ranking contender, Allen Russell, boosts KU scoring possibilities as he placed fourth at 4:05.9 in the mile last year. He is expected to double back in the half-mile or possibly join fifth-ranked Mike Petterson and junior Mike Hayes in the three-mile.
They will face one of the nation's best collegiate three-milers in OSU's Chris McCubbins. He is the world's fastest steelechaser to date and claims the third-ranked three-mile of the year.
McCubbins, the Big Eight cross country champ, should be pushed by K-State's Charlie Harper who blossomed in the three-mile against the Air Force Academy last weekend with the conference's number three time.
Even more depth, and lots of it, gives KU an excellent chance to stage the first-ever sweep in conference history of the high hurdles. KU's Byers leads with a Big Eight record-equalling 13.8 and is followed by teammate Lee Adams, who tied the old school record of 14.0. Completing the timber-topping trio is junior Dave Stevens, one of the nation's fastest junior college hurdlers last year along with Adams.
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In the longer hurdle race, OU's Jim Hardwick should rack up 10 points for the Sooners and defeat NU's Dave Kudron, defending champion in the 330-yard event which was lengthened this year. The Hawk's lone hope, with a best of 55.5, is senior Steve Silverberg.
BIG EIGHT PERFORMANCES
880-Yard Run
Jim Ryun, KU    1:48.1
Jim Metcalf, OSU 1:51.0
Les Hellbusch, NU 1:51.3
Craig Endicott, MU 1:51.5
Bill Wells, MU    1:51.6
Mile Run
Jim Ryun, KU    3:54.7
Chris McCubbins, OSU 4:06.4
Wes Dutton, KSU 4:07.9
Couran Hightingke, KSU 4:08.4
Charper, KSU 4:11.2
Bill Wells, MU    4:11.2
Gene McClain, KU 4:11.4
Three-Mile Run
Chris McCubbins, OSU 13:38.8
Glenn Ogden, MU 14:00.2
Charlie Harper, KSU 14:07.2
Mike Kearney, KSU 14:16.6
Mike Petterson, KSU 14:21.2
High Hurdles
George Byers, KU 13.8
Lee Adams, KU 14.0
Dave Kudron, NU 14.1
John Dworak, NU 14.2
Kai Truvey, NU 14.3
Mark Keller, CU 14.3
David Stevens, KU 14.3
440-Yard Hurdles
Jim Hardwick, OU ... 51.8
Dave Kudrek, NU ... 52.4
Bill Calhoun, OU ... 52.4
Ray Burrus, OSU ... 53.1
John Simmons, NU ... 53.2
Kerry Fairchild, KSU ... 54.6
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KU's Rugby team closes out its season with a doubleheader against the Kansas City Rugby Club and Rockhurst College at 1 p.m. Saturday on the field in back of Oliver Hall.
Earlier this season, the KU Ateam downed Kansas City 8-6 while the B-team dumped Rockhurst 6-5.
"From the standpoint of the spectators," Dolph Johnson, Wymore, Neb., senior, said, "they were two of the best games we have played."
In the first game this season,
Kansas City missed a penalty kick after the gun which would have given them the victory. On the same afternoon, the KU B-team scored 6 points in the second half against Rockhurst to win.
The A-team's record now stands at 7-3 while the B-team is 6-1.
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