Don Pierce
The Man Behind The Sports Release
Bv Pat Seidel
KU athletics are always making the news whether they are at home or away, in season or out, and the man responsible for keeping KU sports fans informed in Don Pierce, KU Sports Publicity Director.
Who is the man behind the sports releases? He's a big man in a lot of ways.
There is almost always a cigar in his mouth, and when there's not, you can find him bubbling with laughter.
The releases he writes on his ancient typewriter are typed with only two fingers, yet his two-finger method challenges many a typist for speed honors.
ATHLETICS HAVE COME quite naturally for "The Whale." as he is affectionately called by his friends. An almost continuous string of illnesses forced him to spend more time in bed than on foot during his first 12 years. Then, he was a weak, timid and thin boy who was afraid of the dark. But his love for athletics gave him confidence to try a lot of things.
"Nobody can say athletics are bad for me," Pierce says. "If I hadn't liked athletics, I wouldn't have amounted to anything today."
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He made the all-conference team his senior year after being fifth string two years before. In college he managed to maintain a 1.5 grade average, still caring for nothing but athletics.
THIRTEEN YEARS of football paraded through Don's life, beginning in the seventh grade and ending after two years of professional ball. He had thought of being a sports writer as early as his freshman year in college and when his football career ended, this became a reality.
His dad advised him against being a sports writer, but nevertheless gave him his first job at the Topeka State Journal. He had worked for the paper the summer after his freshman year without pay just for the chance to try.
Pierce graduated from KU in 1941. During the next year he worked on four newspapers while playing a stint with the Chicago Cardinals during the off-seasons.
IN 1945 HE EMBARKED on a new career—doing sports publicity for his alma mater. In his present capacity he manages the press box at Memorial Stadium during football season and the Allen Field House press section in the winter. He makes all trips with the football team, and all the conference games for the basketball team, frequently going a few days early to release stories of the Kansas Jayhawks.
Pierce believes that when one plays he should play hard, and when he works, he should work hard. To
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him there is no other way to become a success. His greatest ambition in life is to be accepted and respected as a sports writer by his contemporaries, which in many writers' opinions is an ambition he has already achieved.
One of his big disappointments was missing playing in the East-West game by a day and a coaching change, but this was overshadowed by Oklahoma naming him to their all-decade, all-opponent team.
HE HAS had many disappointments, but also many happy memories. He maintains that a man who does not try to do anything, who has no ambition, will have no disappointments, but neither will he have any earned jobs.
The big guy has seen a lot and done a lot. His philosophies of life can well be taken to heart. He likes his friends and he has many. Don Pierce is a big man in a lot of ways.
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The picnic will start at 6 p.m. so that the women can attend the fireworks display to be held in Memorial Stadium at 8:30 p.m.
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