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University Daily Kansan Monday, March 5, 1962
Kansas Wins Big Eight Meet
Stevens' Vault Puts KU Ahead for First Time
The defending champion Kansas trailed Nebraska at the Big Eight indoor track meet Saturday night by six and one-fourth points with one event not decided.
The pole vault bar stood at 14 feet, 10 inches. Vaulting for Kansas was Jack Stevens, Ames, Iowa, senior. His vaulting mate Roger Schmanke had placed third with 14-2.
SOME 6,000 fans had waited 20 minutes to see the results of the pole vault. The fans knew that if Kansas was to successfully defend its conference championship Stevens would have to make the vault. His teammate also knew it. So did he.
Stevens missed his first two vaults. A hush came over Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium. Stevens started down the runway. He placed his pole in the vaulting box, and vaulted himself over the bar and Kansas to an 11/12 of a point victory over Nebraska.
The Kansas Jayhawkers' second consecutive Big Eight indoor title was an uphill struggle the entire way. The Jayhawkers never led during the meet and trailed once by 33 points.
The final scoring was Kansas 5314 points, Nebraska $52\frac{1}{2}$ Oklahoma State $27\frac{1}{2}$ Missouri $27\frac{1}{2}$ Oklahoma, $22\frac{1}{2}$ Colorado $10\frac{1}{2}$ Kansas State 10 and Iowa State seven.
NEBRASKA qualified the most men for the finals and dominated the first three events of the evening to build up its lead.
KU's Bill Dotson and Oklahoma State's Charlie Strong were double winners. Dotson coasted to a mile victory, running his slowest time in several years 4:20.9. He saved strength for the half-mile which he won in 1:56.9.
Strong defeated Olympian Anthony Watson of Oklahoma in the broad jump. He returned and fought off Colorado's Ted Woods and Missouri's Jim Baker to tie Kansas State's Thane Baker's record of :48.6 set in 1953.
BILL THORNTON contributed greatly to the Jayhawks' win. Thornton, despite a 10 day bout with the flu, finished second to Dotson in the half-mile, and second to Missouri's Greg Pelster, who set a new record in the 600-vard dash.
KU's other first place came in the 1000-yard run. Kirk Hagan staved off a late bid by Nebraska's John Porteet to win. Much to red-faced Big Eight officials' dismay, there was no official time recorded. Five runners ran the race under the world's record with Hagan eight seconds under-
Meet officials determined the course was too short.
KANSAS AND Nebraska tied for
the most first places, each with four. The 60-yard dash ended in a photo finish. Nebraska's Degnan and Knaud and KU's Larry McCue were so close the decision was upheld until the photograph could be developed.
After studying the photograph Degnan was awarded first place and McCue, the defending 60-yard champion. second.
Charlie Hayward was upset in the two-mile run. Hayward set an early pace and at one point in the race led by 15 yards. Nebraska's Fleming and Oklahoma State's Danny Metcalf slowly narrowed the margin and Fleming outsprinted Hayward in the final lap.
SUMMARIES
60-yd. High Hurdles—1, Ron Moore.
Nebraska. 2, Fred Wilke. Nebraska. 3,
Jerry Berger, Kansas State. 4, Bill Fasson.
State. 5, Ron Toppenberg, Iowa
State. 70-4.
Broad Jump (Finals Friday)—1, Charles
bong, Oklahoma. 14, Dennis Sinclair.
bong, Oklahoma. 14, Nathan Washon. Oklahoma.
24-0. 3. Victor Brooks. Nebraska. 23-63a.
24-0. 3. Victor Brooks. Nebraska. 23-61a.
5. Tom Raleigh. Oklahoma. 22-104a.
60-yd. Dash-1, Donald Degnan, Nebraska. 2. Larry McCue, Kansas. 3. Ray Knaub, Nebraska. 4. Richard Beldner Missouri. 5. Ted Woods, Colorado. @06.2.
60-yd. Low Hurdles—1, Fred Wilke,
Nebraska. 2, Ron Moore, Nebraska.
3, Charles Smith, Kansas. 4, Bill Fasano,
Nebraska. 5, James Streeby, Missouri.
06:9.
Shot Put—1. Donald Smith, Missouri,
Kansas City, 54-6; 2. Ron Stout,man-
klahoma, 54-6; 3. Ron Stout, Kansas
State, 53-81; 4. Tom Galbes, Colorado,
5. Bob Crumpeter, Colorado, 52-193.
Mile Run—1. Bill Dotson, Kansas. 2. Ray Stevens, Nebraska. 3. Ted Riesinger, Kansas. 4. Jerry Mathis, Missouri. 5. Jerry Mfcadden, Missouri. 4:20.9.
600-yd. Dash-1, Gregory Pelster, Mission
Stone, Oklahoma State. 4, Robert Wilcox,
Okahoma. 5, Tonie Cone, Kansas.
5, Remy Rene, Record 1:12.1,
Jim Heath, Colorado. 1961).
440-vd. Dash-1, Charles Strong, Oklahoma.
James Baker, Missouri. 4; Dale Alexander,
Kansas State. 5, Standish Barnes, Iowa
by Thane Barrens, Kansas State. 1553)
Two-Mile Run—1, Mike Fleming. Nebraska. 2, Charles Hayward. Kansas. 3, Oklahoma State. 4, Pat McNeal. Kansas State. 5, Dan Ralston. Kansas. 9:17.6.
1000-yd. Run-1, Kirk Hagan, Kansas.
2. John Porte, Nebraska. 3. Timothy
Jeonard, Oklahoma. 4. Marvin Stewart,
Oklahoa. 5. Ted Risinger, Kansas.
(No time).
High Jump—1. Larry Ellert, Iowa State.
Homa State—2. Ron Swanson, Kansas.
6-4, 4-5. (Tie). Bill Metzger, Colorado.
Oklahoma. Mark Brady, Oklahoma.
6-2, 4-8.
880-vd. Run—1, Bill Dotson, Kansas. 2,
Bill Thornton, Kansas. 3, Ray Stevens,
Nebraska. 4, Walter Mizell, Oklahoma.
5, Chuck Buchoit, Colorado. 1:56.9.
Mile Relay-1. Oklahoma State (Gary Krause, Jack Miller, Bill Stone, Charles Strong). 2. Missouri. 3. Nebraska. 4. Kansas. 5. Oklahoma. 3.18.0. (New Record). Record. 3.18.7. Kansas (Charles Tidwell, Bone Covey, Cliff Cushman, Bob Lida).
Pole Vault—1, Stevens, KU. 14-10. 2.
Mule, MU. 14-6. 3 (Tie). Schkane, KU.
Holstinger, OS. 14-2. 5. Tie among
Boark, CU. Wiley, MU. Jessifers, KU.
13-10.
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KU's performance came as a surprise to many people, but not to Coach Jav Marklev.
The 119-110 score is as close as any team has come to Oklahoma in many years. Last year OU took first place by 70 points.
"It was an outstanding team effort," the KU mentor said. "We outswat them, but just didn't have enough swimmers."
Although winning first place in eight of 14 events, the Kansas swimming team finished second to perennial champion Oklahoma in the Big Eight championships Friday and Saturday at Ames.
Lack of Depth Responsible For Swimming Team's Loss
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By Mike Miller
All America Eldon Ward swam anchor on the team in 48.9, which Coach Markley said was the fastest 100-yard time in Big Eight competition this year.
HE EXPLAINED that KU has only eight swimmers on the team as compared with Oklahoma's 18 and Iowa State's 17. The Cyclones took third place in the meet.
Since each swimmer can enter only three events, the KU squad simply did not have the depth that Oklahoma and Iowa State did.
Coach Markley said, "Eight men went up there to do a job and they did it. It was a great endeavor. We couldn't ask for any more. I can not overemphasize how much eight fellows can do."
The team of Bill Mills, George Winter, Bill Murdock, and John Kemp swam the distance in 3:49.5 in the preliminaries, and 3:50 in the finals.
THE 400-YARD medley relay team also set a new Big Eight record, breaking their own record set two weeks ago.
Eldon Ward successfully defended his conference 50-yard freestyle title, however, he did not break the Big Eight record which he set at the conference meet last year.
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The fact that Nebraska and Colorado could score only a combined total of 82 points also hurt KU's chances. Markley explained that if either of the other two could have taken a few places from OU, the Jayhawkers would have had a better chance of winning.
THE RELAY team composed of two distance men, Ludy Harman and Stewart Anderson, and two sprinters, Bill Mills and Capt. Eldon Ward, had originally been expected to take third.
The team set the record of 3:27.6 the first time that they had swum together as a team. Coach Markley explained that these four men were the only four who had not swum in their maximum three events. He had the alternative of swimming them as a team or putting them in one additional individual race. He chose to enter them in the freestyle relay and was rewarded with a first place and a new Big Eight record.
"The outstanding event in the meet for us was the 400-yard freestyle relay." Markley said. He was referring to the relay team that set a new Big Eight conference record for the event.
KU was weak in diving. Oklahoma took 24 points in the diving events as compared to only one for KU.
Bill Murdock just missed the conference record as he won the 200-yard breaststroke. "Bill did an outstanding job on both his individual events and the relay," Coach Markley said. "He has the potential to qualify for the nationals."
ASIDE FROM the lack of depth
Sophomore John Kemp won the 200-yard butterfly in what Coach Markley described as "nearly a perfect job of swimming." Markley explained that Kemp started so fast that as he tired near the end of the race, he was far enough ahead of his competition that they didn't have a chance of catching him."
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