Hawks leave for Detroit to defend NCAA title
By DON STEFFENS
UDK Asst. Sports Editor
A squad of 11 Jayhawks left yesterday for Detroit and the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships, and KU will need a quality effort from all to defend its title.
"There is no key event for us," coach Bob Timmons said, "We need all of them to score to be a contender for the championship."
Other teams expected to give KU a run for the honors, Timmons said, are Southern California, Villanova and Oklahoma.
USC WOULD PROBABLY be designated as the favorite with unparalleled depth in the pole vault and 60-yard dash, though QU could do well in the 60 also.
A world record is possible, even likely, in the pole vault, where current indoor world record holder Bob Seagren of SC has catapulted over 17-feet five times, including his 17-3 record.
Seagren's teammates, Paul Wilson who has done 17-1 outdoors and Bill Fosdick who won the outdoor NCAA title in 1965, could complete a sweep for the Trojans.
BUT A KU VAULTER may have something to say about the final results.
Sophomore Jayhawk Bob Steinboff is competing against more than just another valuer as he's up against a former high school teammate in Wilson.
It will be only their second dual since their 1955 prep days.
A dual that holds more national interest than any other is the mile run.
KU's supreme sophomore Jim Ryum will face the blossoming Dave Patrick of Villanova for the top mile match of the year.
PATRICK HAS BEEN the scourge of the time-conscious east coast with two of the nation's top times in 4:09.6 and 3:39.3. Ryum leads with 3:58.8.
Ryun, like most of the Hawks, will double this weekend, probably running the half-mile heat and final on Friday. The mile feature will be on Saturday.
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The only KU runner not doubling is hurdler George Byers.
Byers' favorite event, the 60-
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ADAMS SHOWS a 7.2 in the highs with a 6.3 clocking in the 60 where he joins junior Ben Olison.
yard low hurdles, is not scheduled to be run. But he is entered in the highs with barrier-mate Lee Adams.
Olison surprised many last weekend with a last curve, comefrom-behid victory in the 440. A similar tactic may be necessary in Detroit.
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"If he can make it past the heats," assistant coach John Mitchell said, "he should be able to score for us.
"But those heats are going to be tough," he said.
jumper Gary Ard and 600 specialist Dwight Peck.
SO HE WILL BATTLE with senior Steve Achurst for tallies in the quarter before teaming up for the mile relay, the meet's final event on Saturday, with long
Ard and Steinhoff are joined in the field by springy-legged Ken Gaines who is KU's sole hope in the high jump and will back-up Ard in the long jump.
If all these individuals pick up but one or two points each, that might be all that's needed for the first-place trophy.
Both last year's and 1965's winners needed only 14 points to win.
Highlights of the meet will be telecast on ABC's Wide World of Sports over KMBC-TV at 4 p.m. Saturday.
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