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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, May 23.1963
By Steve Clark
Going into the final round (track, baseball, golf and tennis) Kansas trailed by one-and-one-quarter points to Colorado. Oklahoma State stood fourth, four-and-one-quarter points back of the leader.
The Kansas Jayhawkers came close, but not close enough. They missed the Big Eight's all-sports title by one point to the Oklahoma State Cowboys.
The Jayhawkers needed a second in track, second in tennis, third
THE COWBOYS, however, fared well last weekend. They continued their domination of golf and tennis, finished second in baseball and fifth in track to wrap up the title.
in baseball and fourth in golf to win. But May 19-20 was Friday the 13th to the Jayhawkers as they slipped to fourth in track and to third in tennis.
The football team tied for second, far below its predicted league championship and second in the pre-season national rankings, but its finish was superior to many years in the pre-Mitchell era.
The track team's finish was not so disastrous considering it lost hurdler Charlie Smith, two-miler Charlie Hayward (better known to his teammates as Maynard) while half-miler Kirk Hagan and spinner Larry McCue were at half-strength.
IN RETROSPECT (and we feel this is apropos since this is the last Kansan and the last Along the Jayhawker Trail this semester) the Jayhawkers did have a pretty good year overall.
The cross-country picked up the first on the two school league titles when it wrested the crown away from Oklahoma State. The distance crew went through an undefeated season until the national meet when it had its inevitable bad day and finished fifth.
BASKETBALL WAS a disappointment considering past Jayhawker teams led by Clyde Lovellette, B. H. Born, Wilt Chamberlain, Wayne Hightower and Bill Bridges, but Coach Dick Harp's 1961-62 aggregation showed a lot of spunk and hustled harder than most Jayhawker teams.
The indoor track team swept through its schedule as did the cross-country squad, and then won a memorable Big Eight indoor title by 11/12 of a point at Kansas City.
Jack Stevens' 14-10 vault on his third try to win the indoor crown for KU will never be forgotten by those who were there.
THE JAYHAWKER swimming crew barely missed the league championship because it did not have a diver and finished second, a tremendous tribute to the performers and to coach Jay Markley.
The Jayhawker baseball nine, last place a year ago, surprised the league when it lead the Big Eight until mid-season and finished third.
Jayhawker sports were not what they could be as there is always room for improvement, but, overall, KU did not have a bad sports year.
Next year's prospects are foggy There are many question marks.
THE FOOTBALL team could do what KU football teams have been trying to do for 14 years, win a league title. The Jayhawkers lost a good line and two All America backs in John Hadl and Curtis McClinton.
The cross-country team will miss Bill Dotson, Bill Thornton and Dan Ralston, but with Charlie Hayward, Tonnie Coane, George Cabrera and Mike Fughum returning with newcomers Harold Hadley and Bill Cottle, KU may still retain its championship.
BASKETBALL FORTUNES appear to be better, but the Jayhawkers are still not championship caliber material. With Nolen Ellison. Jim Dumas and Harry Gibson back from this year's squad along with Al Correll from two-years ago, along with some good freshman prospects, the Jayhawkers are first division material.
Next year's team, however, looks like they want to win a little more than this year's club did. We have always contended any sport is more mental than physical. If a team or an athlete wants to win bad enough, he can.
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