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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, March 4, 1968
Jays take indoor crown
By Steve Morgan
By Steve Morgan Kansan Sports Editor
The Kansas track team raced to its third straight Big Eight Indoor track championship and its 14th title in 19 years Saturday night at Kansas City with 69 points, the second highest total in conference history.
The Jayhawks took seven of 14 first place medals in leaving their nearest competitor, Oklahoma, 28 points behind with 41. Missouri was third with 35 followed by Nebraska, 33, Kansas State, 22, Colorado, 15, and Oklahoma State, 9. Iowa State was shut out.
Double winners George Byers and Jim Ryun paced Kansas as had been expected, but it was perhaps Gene McClain and Roger Kathol who were the real heroes for the Jayhawks.
McCain and Kathol finished one-two for KU in the 1,000-yard run. The ten points from their victory gave the Jayhawks the points they needed to pull away from Oklahoma. OU and KU had been tied going into the event, but from that point Kansas took a 38-10 advantage through the last seven events to win easily.
Byers tied the meet record at 7.2 in the high hurdles and won the lows in 6.6. The 6.6 clocking was one tenth of a second slower than his world and meet record time run in the Friday night semi-finals of the event.
The next thrill for the capacity crowd came in the first of the lap races. Jim Ryun moved ahead of his last challenger going into the fourth lap of the 12-lap race and won the mile with ease in 4.05.5, a time somewhat slower than many had expected.
Ryun had aggrevated a slight ankle injury at the three-quarter point in the race and decided not to press it and risk further injury. He wants to be in top shape for the NCAA meet next weekend in Detroit.
Ryun considered not running and risking further injury in the 2-mile, the other event he had entered, the Jayhawks needed points at that point so he chose to run.
Just 50 minutes after the mile Ryan started the two-mile. Glenn Ogden of Missouri led until near
the end of the 23rd lap of the 24-lap race but a final sprint by Ryun brought the crowd to its feet. Ryun won by 15 yards in a good time of 9:00.8, just six tenths of a second off the meet record.
An officials' mix-up in the 1,000 apparently confused the runners. An official held up a lap card indicating there was only one lap to go instead of the two that actually remained.
McClain, who began his finishing kick one lap early, said after the race, "Gosh, I thought I was through. I didn't know there was another lap left. I didn't know if I was going to make it."
Kathol came up to finish less than a yard behind McClain with Missouri's Craig Endicott right on his shoulder, McClain's 2:10.5 and Kathol's 2:10.6 were both personal bests.
KU's other first on the track came in the last event when the Jayhawks' mile relay team went ahead early and held on to win.
Kansas took one first place in the field events. Stan Whitley won the long jump in Friday night's only final with a $24-5\frac{1}{2}$ leap. The Jayhawks placed high in other field events with John Turck and Bob Steinhoff grabbing second place honors in the high jump and pole vault respectively.
Overall KU scored in all but one event, the 600-yard run.
The results:
Long Jump (First Friday) —1, Stan Whitney, KU, 24-5½; 2, Mike Gregory, KU, 24-8½; 3, Mike Gregory, KU, 24-1; 4, Gary Rainwater, MU, 23-8½; 5, Hal Oswalt, OSU, 23-4¾.
How they scored
On the Track
On the
    C I K J M N O U
    U S U S U U U O
60-H H 1 0 0 0 4 2 3 0
60 H H 2 0 3 6 4 2 9
60 Dash 3 0 6 4 3 0 11
440 Dash 0 0 4 3 3 6 0 1
660 Run 0 0 2 0 4 1 0 9
880 Run 0 0 0 4 2 10 0
1000 Run 0 0 0 10 1 2 0
Mile Run 0 0 9 5 5 1 2
2-Mile Run 3 0 2 6 4 0 1 2
Mile Relay 0 3 6 4 1 0 2
In the Field
H J         0 0 0 5 0 6 0 5
J               0 0 0 5 0 6 0 5
P V           3 0 0 4 2 0 3 2
S P           0 0 0 1 3 6 0
Field Totals ... 9 0 6 16 6 12 4 11
GRAND TOTALS 15 0 22 69 35 33 9 41
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60-Yard High Hurdles — 1, George Byers, KU; .072 (Ties Record—Old Record, by Keith Gardner, NU, 1958; Jim Miller, CU, 1964; Ray Harvey, NU, 1966; George Byers, KU, and Darryl Green, ISU, 1967). 2, Paul Sims, MU; .074. 3, Jeff Glassgow, OSU; .074. 4, Lonnie Sherlock, NU; .075. 5, Mark Keller, CU; .077.
60-Yard Dash — 1, Glen Long, OU.
@6.1.2. Wayne Long, OU. @6.2.3.
Julio Meade, KU. @6.2.4. Mack Hearon,
KSU. @6.2.5. Bob Brown, OU.
60-Yard Low Hurdles — 1, George Byeus, KY. ...60.6.2, Wayne Long, OU.
Bryan K, UT. ...60.9.3, KSU; .308.4, Bill James, CU. ...60.9.5, Mike Gregg, CU. ...70.7.1.
Shot Put 1—, Dennis Hagin, NU, 55-9. 2, Larry Wright, KSU, 55-24-3, John Calin, KSU, 54-74-3, Doug Knop, KU, 54-63-4.
**Mile** Run —1.  Jim Ryun, KU,
4:05.5. 2.  Bill Wells, MU, 4:10.4. 3.
McClain KU, 4:10.8. 4.  Carey
Hollis, UO, 4:12.8. 5.  David Kanz, MU,
4:14.5.
600-Yard Run — 1, Jim Hardwick,
OU, U1:13.0, 2. Ted Nikiel, MU, U1:13.2,
3. Chine Johnson, UO, U1:13.6, 4. Mike
Hugh McGovern, UO, U1:13.5, 8. Hugh McGovern,
NH, U1:14.1.
2-Mile Run —1, Jim Ryun, KU,
9:00.8, 2. Glen Ogden, MU, 9:02.4, 3.
Nickelman, CU, MU, 9:06.8, 4.
V Rose, KSU, 9:06.9, 5. Bill Blewett,
OU, 9:08.1.
440-Yard Dash — 1, Clifton Forbes,
NU, **48.4**. 2. Terry Holbrook, KSU,
NU, **48.4**. 3. Steve Halliburton, MU, **49.9**. 5. Duane
Guenerchier, MU, **50.4**.
1000-Yard Run — 1, Gene McClain,
KU, 2:10.5, 2. Roger Kathol, KU,
4:10.5, 4. John Lissner, KU,
4:10.6, 4. John Cook, OSU, 2:12.4, 5.
Les Hollusbach, NU, 2:13.7.
880-Yard Run — 1, Dan Morran, NU,
1:52.8, 2, Mike Randall, NU, 1:54.0.3,
MITTING, KU, 1:54.4, 4, Bill
Wells, 1:55.3, 5, Mark Ferrell,
KU, 1:55.6.
Mile Relay — 1, KU (Julio Meade,
Jim Hatcher, Rady Julian, Ben Ollson).
3:17.3. 2. MU. 3:17.6. 3. KSU.
3:17.7. 4. MU. 3:18.8. 5. NU. 3:19.1.
High Jump — 1, Steve Krebs, NU,
6-10. 2. John Truck, KU. 6-8. 3. Ron
Tull, UO. 6-4. 4. Steve Zabel, OU,
6-4. 5. Ken Gaines, KU. 6-4.
Pole Vault 1, Chuck Rogers, CU,
5-8, Charles Bucker, CU.
Larry Curtis, OSU, 1967). 2. Bob
Stelhoff, KU, 16-0. 3. Larry Curtis,
CU, 15-6. 4. Charles Bucker, CU,
15-6. 5. Charles Beek, MU, 15-9.
UCLA now officially in tourney
UCLA, hoping to avenge its loss to Houston and shooting for its fourth national championship in the last five years, officially gained a berth in the NCAA tourney Saturday night by clinching the Pacific Eight title.
The Bruins whipped California 115-71 to head a list of five teams clinching berths in the 23-team field. Only six berths are still unfilled as 17 clubs have now
gained bids. The tourney opens Saturday with seven first round games.
LaSalle, which won the Middle Atlantic Conference tourney, and Davidson, which won the Southern Conference tourney, were two other teams gaining bids. Weber State wrapped up the Big Sky crown and TCU won the Southwest title to also clinch berths.
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