6
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, March 11, 1968
KU takes Big 8 swim title
Photo by Bruce Patterson
By Steve Morgan Kansan Sports Editor
The Kansas swim team won the Big Eight team title by 38 points over defending champion Iowa State, 136-98, Saturday night in Robinson Gymnasium. It was KU's first conference title in the 41-year history of the meet.
The Jayhawks' score was the highest winning total since 1961. The overflow crowds attending the three day meet saw 14 Big Eight records fall in 18 events.
After grabbing a 17 point lead Thursday night, the Jayhawks were never headed and it became apparent favorite Iowa State was going to be unseated.
Depth was the biggest factor in the Kansas victory as the Jayhawks were able to score in all but one event and placed as many as three swimmers in the top six in some events.
KANSAS' BIG EIGHT CHAMPION SWIM TEAM
Old Charter takes Hill 'A'
Records were set in all six events Friday night.
The Old Charters beat Beta Theta Pi 57-50 to take the Class A Hill basketball championship Friday night in Robinson Gymnasium.
A Kansas team of Roy O'Connor, Tom Bowser, Tom Ellis and Bob Hines broke the conference record in the 400 freestyle relay with a 3:10.5 clocking to conclude the evening's show.
The action began with Iowa State's Jim Cotsworth setting a record of 1:58.4 in the 200-yard butterfly. He broke KU's Jim Kent's record in 1967. Kent was third this year.
Winning the Class B championship were the Betas, who defeated the Swahilis 47-23. Terry Gill was high man for the Betas with 11 points.
The Losers beat Phi Gamma Delta 31-30 to capture the Class C championship. Mike Vineyard with 18 points was high for the Losers and Ken Wertzberger with 16 was high man for the Phi Gams.
Kent set a meet record in the 400 individual medley with a 4.25.7 clocking, breaking the old record set by KU all-American Don Pennington, who graduated last year.
Four members of the Old Charters hit double figures to hold off an early second half rally by the Betas, who were down by 10 through most of the first half.
Saturday the assault on the record book continued as KU's O'Connor set a Big Eight record
in the 100 freestyle preliminaries in the afternoon with a time of 47.2. He won the event that night but did not break his own record.
ISU's Bruce Lechler set a conference standard in winning the 100 butterfly in 52.1.
Oklahoma completed the record barrage by winning the 400 medley relay in 3:32.5.
KU's Jim Askins won his second first place of the meet as he took the three-meter diving to complete his sweep of the two diving events. He won the one-meter competition Thursday evening.
Oklahoma finished third with 95 points followed by Oklahoma State $45\%$ Missouri 36, Nebraska $22\%$ Kansas State 20 and Colorado 9.