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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, April 18, 1968
102 teams represented in Relays
Competing in this weekend's KU Relays will be a total of 102 teams from 16 states.
The 43rd annual cinder classic, which has attracted six world record-holders, will be today, Friday and Saturday at KU's Memorial Stadium.
In the fold are 15 university division schools, 30 in the college class, 28 freshman-junior college teams, 25 Kansas high schools and four track clubs. Fourteen of the 28 teams in the frosh-juco division are freshman squads from schools also in the university and college classes.
Major schools to file are Duke, Michigan, Air Force, Colorado, Colorado State, North Texas State, Southern Illinois, Drake, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Missouri, Wichita State, Kansas State and Kansas.
The college division includes Loyola of Chicago, South Dakota, South Dakota State, Kentucky State, Murray State of Kentucky, East Texas State, Harding College of Arkansas, Eastern New Mexico, Arkansas AM&N, Oklahoma Christian, Denver, Lincoln (Mo.), Northwest Missouri, Southeast Missouri, Northeast Missouri, Doane, Hastings, Kearney State and Wayne State of Nebraska, Bethel, Southwestern Kansas, Fort Hays State, Emporia State, Central Missouri, Kansas Wesleyan, Oklahoma Baptist, Pittsburgh State, Southwest Missouri and Western Illinois.
In the freshman-junior college bracket are Dallas Baptist, Prairie View, Haskell, Iola, Fort Scott, Coffeyville, Garden City, El Dorado, Chanute, Hutchinson and freshman units from Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Nebraska, Missouri, Drake, Colorado State, Harding, Lincoln, Eastern New Mexico, Fort Hays, Emporia State, Wichita State, Kansas State, Kansas, Central Missouri, North Texas State, Pittsburg State and Southwest Missouri.
Kansas high schools entered are Ellinon high, Hartford, Hoising-
Gray, Freeman face world-record holders
Two sprinters who share national 100-yard dash records of 9.3 accepted invitations to run against world record-holders Charlie Greene and Jim Hines in Saturday's 100-meter headliner at the 43rd annual KU Relays.
Joining the world's two ranking sprinters are Mel Gray, Fort Scott Junior College flash who last week tied the national juco mark of 9.3, and Jim Freeman, Murray (Ky.) State, co-holder of the national freshman record at 9.3.
Meet director Bob Timmons said the other two spots in the six-man field will go to the first two finishers in the university-college 100-yard dash.
The collegiate 100 is slated at 1:30 p.m. and the 100 meters at 2:30 p.m. Saturday.
"We have so many real fine collegiate sprinters who want to get in this 100-meter race," Timmons explained, "that we decided the only fair thing to do would be to let them run for the two available spots."
Hines and Greene, co-holders of the world 100-yard mark of 9.1, are a year out of collegiate competition. Hines, who won the Kansas Relays 100 with a record-matching 9.4 last spring, is still in school at Texas Southern. Greene, the Big Eight's all-time sprint king, is working on his degree at Nebraska.
Neither Freeman nor Gray are eligible for the collegiate 100 since the Murray State speedster is a fourth year man who competed as a freshman and Gray, of course, is in the junior college division. Freeman will anchor Murray's sprint relay teams in the college division.
Among the leading college sprinters who'll bid for the two
open berths are Clarence Ray of Kentucky State (9.3); Tom Griffith, Oklahoma Christian (9.3 wind); Monte Frazier, South Dakota State (9.4), Wayne and Glen Long of Oklahoma and Kansas State's speedy junior college transfers, Mack Herron and Charlie Collins.
Herron and Collins, recruited by K-State football coach Vince Gibson, were given the green light Monday to participate in the Kansas Relays even though the Wildcats have spring drills under way this week.
ton, Horton, Hutchinson, Lyndon, Seaman, Sedgwick, Shawnee-Mission East, Shawnee-Mission North, Shawnee-Mission South, Sumner of Kansas City, Topeka, Valley Center, Washburn Rural, Wellington, Wichita North, Wichita South, Wichita Southeast, Wilson, Wyandotte, Lawrence, Wichita East, Shawnee Mission West and Topeka West.
The KU Relays get started at 2 p.m. today and full morning and afternoon schedules are slated Friday and Saturday.
Track clubs include the Houston Striders, Jayhawk track club,
San Diego track club and the West Kansas track club.
World record-holders in the field are Jim Ryun of Kansas, who holds top marks in the mile, half-mile and 1,500 meters, long jumper Ralph Boston, shot putter Randy Matson, sprinters Charlie Greene and Jim Hines and Jayhawk hurdler George Byers.
Members of the Houston club include world record-holders Jim Hines and Randy Matson as well as ex-Abilene Christian star Roger Orrell. Jayhawk track club members are ex-KU standouts Gary Ard and Tom Vergovich and junior college transfer Ron Jessie. From San Diego come Billy Mills, Tim Danielson and Cary Weisiger.
Billy Mills, hero of the 1964 Olympics after his thrilling 10,- 000-meter victory, will return to his home track to run the 5,000 meters.
Relays steeplechase to be contest of two of U.S.' best
A steeplechase dual involving two of America's greatest at this taxing event will claim a major share of attention at this week's 43rd annual KU Relays.
Chris McCubbins, the Pan American Games champion from Oklahoma State, and Conrad Nightengale, U.S. Track and Field Federation king from Kansas State, top the field for this race to be run late Saturday afternoon just ahead of the climaxing series of mile relays.
Both McCubbins and Nightengale are one year out of collegiate competition and prime candidates for the U.S. Olympic team.
McCubbins broke the national collegiate record with his winning 8:38.2 at the Pan Am Games in Winnipig and Nightengale clocked a career low of 8:40 flat in winning at the U.S.-Italy- Spain triangular at Viaraggio, Italy, last summer.
Those were the second and third best times by American steeplechasers during 1967, being topped only by Pat Traynor of the Air Force, who holds the national record of 8:32.4.
McCubbins is the KU Relays defending champion, having cracked the meet mark with an 8:46.6 that chopped 10 seconds off the former record. The tireless Cowpoke finished 13 seconds ahead of second place John Mason of Fort Hays State.
Nightengale was fourth in the KU test last year, but the ex-Wildcat ace had run a mile two hours earlier in anchoring K-State's distance medley team to second place.
In addition to winning the USTFF title and the international race at Viaraggio, Nightengale was second to McCubbins in the NCAA and the Pan Am Games and second to Traynor in the National AAU championship where McCubbins finished sixth.
The steeplechase has long been a favorite of Kansas Rains fans, often providing comedy relief as runners splash—and sometimes sprawl headlong—into the waterpit at the south end of Memorial Stadium.
Yet the event is no laughing matter for the competitors who regard it as one of the most gruelling of all track events. In
addition to running just under two miles, the steepechaser must clear solid, ungiving three-foot high barriers 28 times and negotiate the water jump seven times.
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