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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, April 18, 1968
Films push KU, help athletes
By Jill Brackbill Kansan Staff Reporter
There's a man in Allen Field House who keeps busy all year shooting KU's athletic teams.
Wayne Replogle, director of photography for the athletic department, shoots films of all meets and games that KU teams participate in. Right now he is concentrating on track and the KU Relays.
season. He doesn't vary his filming techniques too much from season to season. Two men work on the films using a power driven camera and two handwind or "carry" cameras. Black and white film is used and shots are taken of the various events from all different angles.
Replogle's films of the track team are seasonal with winter indoor track and the spring track
gie will edit them in order to concentrate on a particular individual if need be.
These films have a variety of uses, Replogle said. They are used as study films, for public relations and as entertainment films. The athletic department's main use of them is as training films. Replo-
He said the films are useful in that they show the athlete where he's making a mistake and what his problem is, for instance a runner may not be starting fast enough and he can readily see this from the film. This is a more effective way, Replogle said, than telling him what he's doing wrong. "When you show him he sees it. People don't listen too well, but they can see."
But the athletes aren't the only ones who see these films. TV viewers and service clubs see a slightly different version. Replogle edits the films and in winter makes 2-5 minute shows for TV
stations and other universities. He also puts together a 15 minute show of highlights of the Relays for service clubs and backers of the meet.
During the Relays he takes an average of 3,000-4,000 feet of color film. On the first day of the Relays Replogle takes shots of the races and personality shots. Friday more men and cameras are added and by Saturday there are five men on cameras. Replogle takes the overall shots of the field while the others are filming the individual races and getting closeup shots of winners and personality shots.
These films are valuable as a history of the sport, too, Replogle said.
Southwest Conf. members not at 1968 KU Relays
Conspicuous in their absence at this year's KU Relays are the Southwest Conference schools. A longtime fixture on the threemeet Midwest relays circuit, the conference has decided to pass up the middle meet of the three, the KU Relays, this year.
The schools are participating in the Texas and Drake Relays before and after the KU meet. A conference ruling has made it impossible for the schools to be at KU this weekend.
Olympic Games cause changes in KU Relays
Welcome to the Relays!
The 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City have had their effect in the 43rd annual KU Relays. Since this is an Olympic year some events have been changed to the metric distances* used in international competition.
The Glenn Cunningham mile is traditionally changed to a 1,500-meter race in Olympic years. It is usually one of the highlight events of the Relays and has been especially strong since Jayhawk world record-holder Jim Ryun began running for KU in 1966.
The meet record for the 1,500, 3:46.9, set by Ray Stevens in 1964, may be broken this year if the Relays draw the usual strong field. The event will be at 2:40 p.m. Saturday.
A mile run has been added to Friday's schedule to provide for those who don't want to run the 1,500-meter. The event will be held at 3:30 p.m.
Also being run at the Olympic distance is the 400-meter hurdles. This event is sometimes run at
440 yards but the KU Relays established the Olympic distance as standard in 1952. Prior to that time it had been run at 400 meters only in Olympic years.
The record in this hurdle event was set in 1959 by Dick Howard, then of New Mexico, at 50.4. The finals will be at 3:35 p.m. Friday.
The 200-meter dash has been added to the Relays program for this year. Neither this race nor the American version, the 220-yard dash, has been run in the Relays in the past. It was added this year to provide open competition for dashmen other than the 100-yard dash.
Other Olympic events run in the Relays are the 10,000-meter run at 3:20 p.m. today, the 5,000-meter run at 3:05 p.m. Saturday and the 3,000-meter steeplechase at 4:25 p.m. Saturday.
All of these events will be run as open events, meaning an athlete may compete whether he attends a college or university or not.
KANSAS RELAYS ALL-STAR PERFORMANCES
Kansas Relays Records
Kansas Relays Records
University Division Relays
440 (two turns) ... 40.5 Nebraska ... 1965
Rice ... 1967
880 ... 1:23.4 Southern Methodist ... 1964
Mile ... 3:06.6 Rice ... 1967
Two-Mile ... 7:21.2 Oklahoma State ... 1965
Four-Mile ... 16:36.8 **Kansas** ... 1966
Sprint Medley ... 3:19.5 Oklahoma ... 1958
Distance Medley ... 9:41.3 **Kansas** ... 1966
Coach Bob Timmons
Individual Events Records
100—9.4, Cy Leland, Texas Christian, 1930; Bobby Whilden, Texas, 1956; Jim Hines, Texas Southern, 1967.
120 High Hurdles—13.6, Harrison Dillard, Balwin-Wallace, 1948.
400-Meter Hurdles—50.4, Dickie Howard, New Mexico, 1959.
1,500 Meters—3:4.69, Ray Stevens, ex-Nebraska, 1964.
Mile—3:54.7, Jim Yun, Kansas, 1967.
5,000 Meters—14:19.2, Oscar Moore, Southern Illinois, 1967.
10,000 Meters—29:49.0, John Macy, ex-Houston, 1964.
3,000-Meter Steeplechase—8:46.6, Chris McCubbins, Oklahoma State, 1967.
High Jump—7-0, Steve Herndon, Missouri, 1967.
Pole Vault—16-7, Fred Burton, Wichita, 1967.
Long Jump—26:2$\frac{1}{2}$, Clarence Robinson, New Mexico, 1965.
Triple Jump—50:9$\frac{1}{2}$, John Vernon, Southern Illinois, 1965.
Shot Put—65:10$\frac{3}{4}$, Randy Matson, Texas A&M, 1965.
Discus—178-1, Al Oerter, Kansas, 1957.
Javelin—266:5$\frac{1}{2}$, Bill Floerke, Kansas State, 1965.
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