Dreams Do Not Come True for KU's Hayward
Kansas two-miler and steeple-chaser Charlie Hayward planned a career in basketball while in grade school, but turned to track after having his hopes shattered before reaching the high school level.
The Lenexa junior would listen to radio play-by-play accounts of Clyde Lovellette and B. H. Born and dream, as youngsters will, of someday filling their shoes.
HAYWARD'S DREAM came to a screeching halt while a sophomore at Shawnee Mission North. "I played for two weeks and didn't make a single basket," Hayward said, "so I gave the sport up."
Hayward also took a shot at football, before settling down to a career in track. He played end during his junior year, but couldn't break into the starting lineup. Fraternity brothers Bill Dotson, Tonnie Coane and Ted Reisinger kid him that he was on the end of the bench, but Hayward claims it was not quite that bad.
Summing up his brief football career, Hayward said, "I played football until I got my teeth knocked out.
"I WAS DISCOURAGED with that and just about had decided to hang my spikes up," Hayward admitted. "But my coach talked me into one last try in the Missouri Valley AAU. I surprised myself with a 4:26. Then my coach told me I should come back in the two-mile since there would be some college coaches looking over the young runners and I might earn a scholarship if I did well.
Sitting in the stands that day was Kansas coach Bill Easton, who made a note "that boy has guts."
WHEN HAYWARD enrolled at Kansas he joined a track program that has consistently produced outstanding distance runners. His coach, Easten, has tutored eight two-milers
"I had never run two miles on the track, but I got a 9:36, finishing seventh."
who are on the Big Eight honor roll for that event. Among these are Wes Santee, Jerry McNeal, Herb Semper, Al Frame, Bill Mills, Dal Rastor and the two most recent additions Bill Dotson and Hayward himself.
This is a distinction since the only non-Jayhawkers on the all-time list are Miles Eisenman of Oklahoma, Gail Hodgson of Oklahoma and Bob Hannecken of Missouri.
TRIES DECATHLON — J. D. Martin, whose career best in the pole vault was 15-9<sup>34</sup> for Oklahoma, will compete in the decathlon at the Kansas Relays. In his first try at the 10-event marathon he scored 5,007 points. The Relays record is 7,167, held by Phil Mulkey of the Memphis Athletic Club.
Jayhawks Need Line and Passer
Jack Mitchell is vulcanizing the remnants of his Kansas Bluebonnet Bowl champions these days during KU spring football practice.
Mitchell lists the Jayhawkers major problems for 1962 this way: 1) replacement of the entire starting line, which was lifted by graduation; 2) development of a passer.
Mitchell and his spring staff of George Bernhardt, Tom Triplett, Don Fambrough, Bernie Taylor, and newcomer Bill Jennings, are working with the greeneren squad in Mitchell's five-year tenure. Not only was the varsity lifted, but two great backs, John Hadl, two-time All America quarter, and Curtis McClinton, three-time all-conference right half, will walk the graduation plank in June.
Hayward's first experiences with track were far from pleasant. He was a resounding flop in his first organized junior high relay race.
"We can work at these two," comments the General, "but there is another factor which may be our biggest problem of all and we can't do much about it until we play games. That's inexperience. We'll have a very young team next fall, and right now, I don't see how we can be in a contending position for the first division."
Replacing this pair would be a frightful task in itself, even if the club was set elsewhere. Starters for three campaigns, both Hadl and McClinton finished their careers at
There is no passer in camp who can be expected to match this total. Quarterback Rodger McFarland, one of two returning regulars—fullback Ken Coleman is the other—and his veteran companion, Con Keating, will work overtime on the air game this spring. The staff also plans to give Brian Palmer, lightly-used coming junior, a long look. He shot the Varsity full of holes in the final dress rehearsal last September and frequently unwound accurate demonstrations in scrimmages.
The Jayhawkers hope they have a halfback who can soften McClinton's departure in freshman Gale Sayers, 190-pound Omahan. Like Curtis he is lefthanded. There is further similarity in that he netted 321 yards in two freshman games last autumn. But, like all touted rookies, he still must pass the test of steel and fire in varsity combat.
Houston with more than 1,000 yards net rushing. In addition Hadl fired 1,341 passing yards, fifth highest in Kansas annals. He amassed 729 of this aggregate last season in pacing a 7-3-1 level.
Fambrough analyzes the line situation with this: "We have several good holdover and new prospects in our line. But the big thing is we are losing a bunch of boys who have
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"I FOUND OUT my first day of running I was too slow for the dashes or hurdles," Hayward said. "But I did earn a place on our 880-yard relay team for the junior high meet in Mission. I was given a lead in the third carry, but was last in the field when I handed the stick to our anchor man. I knew then I needed something further to run."
With Hayward being too slow for basketball and taking too much of a beating in football, his high school coach Guy Barnes moved him to the mile and as Hayward reports, "I started doing better."
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As a high school sophomore Haward placed third in the Sunflower League meet with a 4:42 clocking. He cut his time to 4:29 his junior year, but could place no better than second in the state meet behind Wichita East's Archie San Romani, now running for Oregon University.
HIS SENIOR YEAR he ran 4:27 early in the season, but could only muster a 4:32 in the state meet in again placing second behind San Romani.
Hayward, as a freshman, cut his mile and two-mile times to 4:23 and 9:23 while competing in freshman postal competition.
During his sophomore year Haward made headlines at the Texas Relays in Austin. Entered in the 3,000 meter steeplechase, he ran the fastest time ever run by a Big Eight performer, 9:14.2, in winning the event.
AN ATTACK of influenza hampered Hayward in his next outing, the Kansas Relays. He entered the steeplechase despite not being fully recovered and had to drop out after the sixth lap.
The illness bothered him through the remainder of the outdoor season. He ran the two-mile at the Big Eight meet, but again was hit with misfortune. During the second lap of the race another runner ripped off one of Hayward's shoes with his spikes and the Jayhawker finished third despite having to run without one shoe
The third place tied his effort in the Big Eight indoor even though the time was much slower. His outdoor Big Eight time of 9:43.7 was hampered by the thin Boulder, Colo., air. His indoor time was 9:25.6.
DURING THE PAST cross-country season Hayward was always a bridesmaid and never a bride. Running behind teammate and conference champion Bill Dotson, Hayward placed second in every meet previous to the Big Eight championship
An untested Danny Metcalf of Oklahoma State after trailing Hayward most of the way defeated him in the last mile to place second.
Hayward unwound a fine string of two-miles during the past indoor season with 9:18.7, 9:16.7, a career low of 9:15.2 and 9:19.3, the latter for second in the Big Eight.
HAYWARD OPENED the 1962 outdoor season with his fastest time in the two-mile run, 9:02.5, during a triangular meet with San Jose and Stanford. Nevertheless he finished second behind teammate Dotson who ran 9:01.1.
There are only five men in the Big Eight who have run the two-miles faster than Hayward. They include former KU great Wes Santee (8:58), Eisenman, OSU (8:58.7), Hodgson, OU, (8:59.6), McNeal, KU, (9:01.7) and Dotson.
Hayward's outdoor duty will be divided between the two-mile and the steeplechase. He will run the two-mile at the conference meet and in dual and triangular meets. He will compete in the steeplechase on the mid-western swing of Texas, Kansas and Drake Relays.
STEEPLECHASER — KU's Charlie Hayward will be entered in the 3,000 meter steeplechase in the Kansas Relays tomorrow. The Lenexa junior placed third in the Big Eight cross country run and second in the league indoor two-mile.
With the exception of the 3000-meter Steeplechase, there isn't a more rugged race in track than the 400-meter hurdles. It means running a quarter as hard as you can over 10 three-foot barriers spaced every 40 yards.
Swafford Runs On Strong Pin
Picture, if you can, a runner scissoring this gruelling test with a foot-long pin holding his left leg together. That's what Texas Tech's Don Swafford does.
Last year he posted the nation's sixth-best collegiate clocking. :51.6.In his first start at this distance,he won the Texas Relays in :52.6
He'll shoot for the second jewel of a Texas-Kansas-Drake Triple crown here this week when he goes to the post against a much tougher field in the 37th Kansas Relays. In it will be former great Cliff Cushman, 1960 Olympic silver- $ ^{ \textcircled{8}} $
medalist, now stationed at Craig AFB, Selma, Ala.; and Occidental's Dixon Farmer, 1961 NCAA champion to name two.
Farmer won his title in 50.8 over the slightly longer 440-yard distance last June in Philadelphia. Cushman owns the nine best times in Big Eight history, climaxing with a 49.6 in the Rome Olympiad.
ALL THIS isn't likely to bother Swafford, who has been limping on a broken femur (thigh bone) since he was run down by an auto at age five. His left leg still is an inch shorter than his right.
Even under such a handicap he has just about crowded in with Eddie Southern (Texas), Roy Thompson (Rice) and Jack Patterson (Rice) and now Baylor track coach) on the all-time list of Lone Star triple hurdle greats.
He has clocked as low as :14.2 over the 120 highs and :23.5 in the 220 lows.
SWAFFORD, A 6-2, 170-pound senior from Abilene, isn't a hurdling specialist either. He was entered in seven races at the Longhorn Games, stretched over prelims and finals, and was prodding his coach, Don Sparks, for duty in an eight, the 880 relay, before Friday night's opening session was
rained out.
Nothing much bothers the guy. With nobody eager to run in an early-season triangular against Texas Western and New Mexico, which was lashed by a minor snow blizzard, Swaford volunteered for the open 440 and won it in :503, despite the snow-ridden gale.
Don's home town of Abilene is, of course, the site of one of the nation's most powerful track schools, Abilene Christian. Furthermore, his father, Hollis Swafford, is a minister in the Church of Christ. But Swafford followed his older brother, Hollis, to Lubbock.
AFTER GRADUATION he plans to team up with Hollis again in the restaurant business (he's an industrial management major) eventually. Hollis now is studying law at SMU. Don plans to coach awhile "just because I want to do it, but not all my life."
Swafford's major concern isn't the weather, the competition, nor the dents in his physique. More likely, it's preservation of a supply of left legs for the family. His Dad's south limb still carries a cast from a month-ago accident. It was broken when he was run down by an auto the night before the South-west Recreational meet at Fort Worth.