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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Feb. 16, 1962
Sooners, Tigers Run KU Tonight
The Kansas Jayhawker indoor track team meets Oklahoma, the defending Big Eight outdoor champions, and Missouri, who tied for third at last year's league indoor meet tonight in Allen Field House in what KU Coach Bill Easton predicts will be "the best indoor meet in KU's history."
The pole vault starts at 7:00, the running events get underway at 8:00.
FIVE 1961 conference champions four NCAA finishers and one Olympic team member will compete in the meet.
Several Allen Field House records are in jeopardy, including Olympian Bill Nieder's mark of 58-5 %. NCAA runner-up Don Smith of Missouri put $58^{-1/2}$ last Friday against Indiana, and $58^{-1/2}$ at the Michigan State Relays.
His $58-1 / 2$ set a new Tiger varsity record and ranks as the third longest put in conference history.
ANTHONY Watson, Oklahoma's Olympic broad jumper, may surpass former Jayhawker Ernie Shelby's record of 25-4 established four years ago. The 25-4 mark still stands as the longest indoor jump in league history.
Watson has not been able to compete because of a leg cramp, but Oklahoma Coach Bill Carroll hopes to have him ready for tonight's meet.
Watson jumped 25-9/4 two years ago as a freshman and won the second spot on the United States Olympic team. He did not qualify for the finals at Rome. Last year Watson broke the 26-foot barrier, jumping 26-1/4 for second place in the NAAU.
BILL DOTSON, Jayhawker captain and distance star, may lower his own record of 4:11.5 in the mile run. Dotson established this record in the opening meet of the season against Pittsburgh State.
Tonight he runs against three top distance hands in Missouri's Jerry McFadden and Oklahoma's Paul Ebert and Lee Smith.
McFadden won the Michigan State Relays mile run in 4:15.6. Oklahoma's Smith ran a 4:16.9 against Oklahoma State, while Ebert owns a career low of 4:12.6.
MARK BRADY, defending outdoor high jump champion, opened the 1962 season with the two best jumps in conference history, 6-8. He dropped to $ 6 - 5 1 / 2 $ Saturday against Oklahoma State.
Kansas received help in the high jump when junior college transfer Ron Swanson became eligible for the second semester. Swanson jumped 6-5/4 against Pittsburg State and Southern Illinois, while teammate Charlie Twiss went 6-4/4.
The quarter-mile will feature a duel between Missouri's Jim Baker, who ran :48.8 against Indiana, and KU's Bill Stoddart, who defeated Baker last year at the league meet. Stoddart's best time this year is :50.5.
THREE-MAN battles loom in the 600, 880 and 100 yard runs. KU's Bill Thornton has the best listings in the 600 yard run. The Jayhawker senior has recorded 1:13.3 and 1:13.4 times this year.
Missouri's Greg Pelster finished second at the Michigan State Relays with 1:13.7. Oklahoma's Bob Wilcox has run a 1:13.9. The top recorded time in the event is by MU's Baker at 1:12.9, but he is not expected to double after the quarterile.
Sooner Dick Neff has run the two best 880-yard run times in 1:55.6 and 1:55.7. Bill Thornton has run a 1:56.9 after doubling from the 600 yard run, but Coach Bill Easton believes that Dotson could run beneath a 1:54.
MISSOURI'S NATIONAL freshman co-record holder Bill Rawson won the half-mile against Indiana in 1:56.9, but he is expected to compete in the 1000 yard run tonight.
His competition will be keen against conference veterans KU's Kirk Hagan, the Big Eight defending indoor champion, and OU's Budy Stewart. Hagan was just five-tenths of a second away from the record when beaten for his first time as a Jayhawker by teammate Dotson.
School Officials Say Coan's Status Same
As far as the officials of the University of Kansas are concerned there has been no change in the present status of Kansas halfback Bert Coan in regard to his January trip to San Diego, Calif.
An investigation concerning the matter is being continued by school officials, A. C. (Dutch) Lonborg said today.
The San Diego Union yesterday reported that the Kansas halfback is ineligible to play football next season and will remain so unless KU appeals a NCAA ruling.
The regular procedure is that the matter be discussed on the conference level before it is brought before the NCAA. The NCAA has not yet been requested to rule on the case.
Lonborg and Dean Laurence C. Woodruff, the University's Big Eight representative and chairman of the eligibility committee, emphasized that Coan is still considered eligible and that no formal action has been taken against him.
"I'm getting some facts on the case and I'll turn them over to our athletic committee," Lonborg said. "Bert said he paid all his own expenses on the trip and that's what we're trying to verify."
Woodruff said that the eligibility committee was not forewarned that Coan was going to San Diego.
"Coan went out there," Woodruff said, "and then decided that he wanted to stay in school and play football."
Coan was ruled ineligible for 1990 after accompanying Houston, Tex., oil man Bud Adams to the All-Star
football game at Chicago. Adams, a graduate of KU and president of the Houston Oilers of the American Football League, testified before the Big Eight in Coan's behalf, but to no avail.
Bert Coan
QUESTION MARK-If Oklahoma's Anthony Watson competes tonight he will be shooting toward Ernie Shelby's Allen Field House record of 25-4 in the broad jump. Watson has been hampered all year by a leg cramp.
Daily Kansan All-Stars Meet KU Frosh at 5:45 Monday
The University Daily Kansan Intramural All-Stars meet Coach Ted Owens' freshman squad at 5:45 p.m. Monday in Allen Field House.
Following the All-Star-Freshman game will be Big Eight conference action between the Oklahoma Sooners and the Kansas Jayhawkers.
The All-Stars are composed of the top 16 Intramural players as announced by the Daily Kansan yesterday. The players represent various teams competing in the "A" division of the KU intramural program.
The All-Stars opposition will be formidable. The Kansas freshmen handled Kansas State with ease Wednesday night 69-46. George Unseld, Louisville, Ky., scored his career high of 35 points in leading the Jayhawk attack against the Wildcat yearlings.
The All-Star game will be the first 1962 home appearance for the freshmen. The squad has had intrasquad scrimmages previous to the varsity games, but Monday night's game is the first against other opposition.
Ellison Leads Scoring Race
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UPI) — Despite a 46-point splurtle against Missouri last week, Kansas State's Mike Wroblewis still trails Kansas' Nolen Ellison in the Big Eight conference basketball score race.
Wroblewski has averaged 19.1 points per game, while Ellison has a 19.4-point average. Colorado's Ken Charlton and Kansas' Jerry Gardner are tied for third at 17.7 points, and Nebraska's Tom Russell is fifth at 17.0
Rounding out the top 10: Ken Doughty, Missouri, 16.3; Vinnie Brewer, Iowa State, 14.8; Eddie Bunch, Oklahoma State, 13.9; Cecil Upperley, Oklahoma State, 13.5; and Wilky Gilmore, Colorado, 13.2 points.
Kansas State boasts the best offense for the season, 69.6 points per game, while Iowa State is setting the pace in Big Eight play, scoring at an average of 66.8 points per contest.
Defensively, Oklahoma State is the best for the season, limiting the opposition to a 56.0-point average. Colorado has the top defensive mark in conference games, 55.1 points per game.
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