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World record-holders, SWC teams among baton entries
Kansas State has moved into the national track limelight on the great successes on the relays circuit last spring—then established two world indoor marks this spring at Houston. The 'Cats two-mile relay squad of Ken Swenson and Dave Peterson, standing alongside Coach DeLoss Dodds, and Bob Barrati and Jerome Howe, clocked a record 7:23.7 in the Astrodome Relays.
That record has since been broken, but the sprint medley squad of Terry Holbrook, Charlie Collins, and Larry Weldon—anchored by Swenson—raced to a 3:17.9 world mark which still stands. Kansas Relays records in those events are 7:21.2 and 3:19.5 respectively.
Southwest Conference track powers return to the Memorial Stadium cinders for the 44th Kansas Relays after a one-year absence. Texas, Rice, Texas A & M and Arkansas have contributed numerous stirring chapters through the year—but a league rule, since abandoned, required SWC teams to compete on their own campuses five weekends, one of which was the 1968 Kansas date.
Rice has already posted a 3:07.3 mile relay with Texas right behind at 3:07.7, indicating a challenge to the Relays record of 3:06.6 Rice hung up two years ago. Key man for Texas is Dave Morton (middle), flanked by teammates Rudy Alaniz, David Matina, John Robertson, and Mike Mosley. Morton buzzed an SWC record 45.5 clocking in the 440 as a freshman last year.
Already a legend in Texas for his schoolboy feats with Houston Spring Branch Memorial, Morton will be making his first Kansas appearance.
Nine '68 champions will return
Nine individual champions from the 1968 Kansas Relays will be on hand this year when the Jayhawk cinder carnival is staged for the 44th time next Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Defending champs in the university-college division include a pair of record-setters-KU's Doug Knop in the discus (181-11%) and Lennox Burgher of Nebraska in the triple jump (51-6½). Knop erased Olympian Al Oerter's record of 178-1 with last year's throw, and whizzed the plate 187-3 in KU's recent dual victory over UCLA.
Ex-champ may be 4th
The other returning kings in the collegiate division are Kansas State's Mack Herron in the 100 and Emporia State's Al Feuerbach in the shot put. Feuerbach, however, will be doing well to earn a medal in the
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company of KU's shotputting trio—headed by NCAA Indoor champion Karl Salb (66-84%).
Four other returning champions are post-graduates competing in open division events. This group includes Olympic winner Randy Matson, shot put; Olympic bronze medalist Charlie Greene, 100; Conrad Nightengale, 3,000-meter steeplechase; and James Hardwick, 440-yard intermediate hurdles.
Harwick won the intermediates last year in his final varity season at Oklahoma. Matson, Greene and Nightengale won as non-collegians last year, but previously had earned Kansas Relays watches while competing for Texas A & M, Nebraska and Kansas State respectively.
To by-pass mile
The ninth 1968 champ still around is Jim Ryun, Kansas' triple world record-holder in the 880, mile and 1,500 meters.
Ryun won the high school mile for Wichita East at the 1963-64-65 relays, and the past three years won the Glenn Cunningham Mile in Jayhawk
colors. He owns the prep record of 4:04.8 and the open division marks of 3:42.8 for the 1,500 meters and 3:54.7 for the mile.
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After winning six straight mile titles at the KU meet, Ryun will by-pass the individual race this time to run with Jayhawk relay teams.
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