Tuesday, April 16, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Kansas recruit eager to start
By Pamela Peck Assistant Sports Editor
HAYS—He isn't a criminal, but was a most-wanted and was captured at his farm home near here. Now he anxiously awaits extradition to Lawrence.
He's Chuck Schmidt, 18-year-old St. Joseph's Military Academy senior and a widely acclaimed prep backfield man, who signed a Big Eight letter of intent to attend the University of Kansas, Feb.22.
"I've always looked forward to the time I'd attend college," Schmidt said. "Now I can hardly wait to go to KU."
The 6-1, 198 pound athlete favored the halfback position in high school but will probably be tried out at fullback and line-backer as well at KU.
Schmidt has kept in shape since the end of the football season by participating in basketball and track at St. Joseph's. He also hauls hays bales and milks cows
on his parents' sprawling dairy farm. At the same time he has maintained a 94 point average over a three year period on a 100 point grade average scale at the academy.
He has humorous memories of the time when KU and Kansas State representatives came to visit his family on the same evening.
"The guy from K-State was here and I told him I had to call Don Fambrough (KU assistant coach) at his motel to let him
know he could come out," Schmidt said. "The guy said to go ahead and call him, so I did. The K-Stater kept talking and I didn't think he was going to leave. Finally he left and they passed each other in the driveway. I got kind of nervous there for awhile."
Chuck is one of seven Schmidt children including a West Point cadet and a Catholic nun. He said he has been athletically inspired most by his brother Tom, who is on the B football squad at West Point, and two uncles, Ralph Pfeifer, a former Kansas State halfback, and Marion Schmidt, assistant football coach at St. Joseph's.
Football drills get underway
The Kansas football team will go through its third round of spring drills at 3:30 p.m. today on the practice fields west of Allen Field House. This is the first of four weeks of practice that will conclude with the annual spring intrasquad game May 11.
Practice began Saturday afternoon with head coach Pepper Rodgers putting 70 candidates through their paces. The offensive and defensive platoons went through an hour and a half of drills each. A second practice session was held Monday.
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Trackmen beat Florida
KU continued its impressive track showing, leading up to this weekend's 43rd annual KU Relays, by convincingly beating Florida, $ 95 \frac{1}{2}-48 \frac{1}{2} $ , Saturday afternoon at Gainesville, Fla.
Ben Olison and Ken Gaines were double winners for the Jayhawks.
Olison won the 100 and 220-yard dashes with 9.7 and 21.1 clockings. Gaines took the long jump with a 23-7 leap and captured the triple jump title with a 48-7 effort. He placed second in the high jump with a 6-8 performance.
KU half miler Mark Ferrell clocked a 1:50.9 in the 880. Although it was only good for second place, the performance was the best outdoors by a Big Eight athlete this season.
The KU track squad should receive a boost this weekend when Jim Ryun, out since the first of the outdoor season with a pulled hamstring muscle, and pole vaulter Bob Steinhoff, out two weeks with a leg injury, return to competition.
KU netmen win, lose
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KU's next match is against Washburn beginning at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday on the courts west of Allen Field House.
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The KU tennis team compiled a 3-victory 4-loss record during a week long tour of Oklahoma and Texas.
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"The more you lose the better you should play in the future. We need the experience to get ready for our conference season," Burns said.
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should have beaten Tulsa but that match came the day after we played well against Oklahoma City, who was possibly the best team we'll play all year. I think the team might have been a little down.
Four losses followed —2-4 to East Texas State at Commerce, Tex., 2-5 to Oklahoma City at Oklahoma City, 2-5 to Tulsa and 1-6 to Oral Roberts both at Tulsa.
"The trip turned out pretty much the way I expected." Jim Burns KU tennis coach said. "We
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