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Summer Session Kalsan
Tuesday, July 24, 196?
By Steve Clark
Who will be KU's new athletic director?
No, A. C. (Dutch) Lonborg has not resigned, but he will be retiring next year.
THE POSSIBLE SUCCESSORS are basketball coach Dick Harp, football coach Jack Mitchell, track coach Bill Easton, or a person brought in from another school.
We cannot see the importing of an athletic director since a person already in the athletic department has a wide knowledge of the KU program.
Of course, Lonborg might not step out. It is possible that the Board of Regents might allow him to continue in his present position until the age of 70, just as they did Dr. Forrest C. (Phog) Allen when he was basketball coach.
PROBABLY THE most likely successor is Dick Harp. Harp is a KU graduate and has been in the athletic department since 1948. He served as assistant basketball coach under Allen, before being elevated to the head position for the 1956-57 season.
Harp certainly has a wide knowledge of the KU athletic program and would be an asset to the University in this capacity.
Harp also has an assistant that is extremely capable of moving into the head coaching ranks of major collegiate basketball.
He is Ted Owens, who has been at KU two years, as freshman coach and right-hand man to Harp. Owens knows basketball and is a good recruiter and would be an able successor if Harp would move into the athletic directorship.
Another possibility is football coach Jack Mitchell. Mitchell, an Oklahoma graduate, has endeared himself to the people of Kansas by giving them winning football.
He arrived at KU in 1958 and since then the Jayhawkers have been in title contention every year and won the title in 1960 before losing it due to the forfeiture of two games involving Bert Coam.
KU is so highly pleased with Mitchell's work that he was awarded a lifetime contract as football coach, the first in the history of the school.
Mitchell has many able assistants too. One, Bill Jennings, is an ex-Big Eight coach. Last year he coached at Nebraska. Jennings has been in the Big Eight conference head coaching ranks and has the experience to succeed Mitchell if he should become athletic director.
If Mitchell should move up, it is most likely that he would combine football coaching and athletic directing. This has never been done at KU.
Bill Easton is in the race too. Easton, however, is a track coach and a very highly successful one. He has worked hard building a strong track program and it is unlikely that he might step out to become athletic director.
He loses an able assistant in Bob Lawson who becomes head track coach at Iowa State effective Aug. 1.
If Easton should move up, Bob Karnes, a former Jayhawker who is now head coach at Drake, would be a possible successor. Karnes would probably like to return to his alma mater as head coach and would be a good one.
Karnes could also assume the directorship of the KU Relays, since he is experienced in this line, having managed the Drake Relays for a number of years.
There are three fine men in the running for the race. They are all extremely capable and could fill the shoes of Lonborg who has done a tremendous job.
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— Burly Jack Nichlaus is gone from amateur golf, but his memory lingers on.
The present U.S. Open king dominated the payless game as few had done since the great Bobby Jones. The question is, who can fill his shoes?
A POSSIBLE SUCCESSOR is Labron Harris Jr., 20, a graduate of Oklahoma State University. An Aminus mathematics graduate of Oklahoma State in June, Harris "really had to work" to combine studies with college golf.
Although he enjoyed a successful college golf career under the guidance of his father and Cowboy coach Labron Harris Sr., he never got past the third round of the NCAA tournament.
"I never had much success in the big one," he admitted.
HARRIS COMPETED for one of Nicklaus' vacated amateur crowns—the Western Amateur Championship, Saturday and Sunday at Orchard Lake.
Harris ran away with medalist honors in a 72-hole tuneup to decide the low 16 contestants for match play. He opened with a six-under-par 66 ( six birdies, no bogeys) Wednesday, followed with a 70 and then finished with a 72 and 73 in Friday's 36-hole medal marathon.
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"Naturally you consider it," he said. "But there are a lot of things about my game I have to straighten out. I'm not a bad putter but I'm average off the tee and my iron play has to be worked on."
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