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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, May 21, 1964
Ex-KU Football Coach Dies
J. V. Sikes, former KU head football coach, died yesterday in Commerce, Texas.
Sikes died of a heart attack at the age of 59.
He was the head football coach here from 1948-54, before going to East Texas State College. His KU record was 35-25.
SIKES WAS A three-letter man while attending college at Texas A&M, and the University of Georgia. He was an All-Southwest Conference player, and he played in the 1927 East-West Shrine game.
After serving in the Navy during World War II, Sikes coached for 11 years at the University of Georgia. While at Georgia he was end coach for teams that played in Rose, Sugar and Orange Bowl games.
J. V. Sikes
Player Sought by KU To Stay in Hometown
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—(UPI)—Westley Unseld, a 6-foot-8, 235-pound high school all-America basketball player, said today that he will sign an athletic grant-in-aid with his hometown school, the University of Louisville.
Unseld, reportedly sought by more than 100 colleges, said he chose Louisville because "I want to play in the Missouri Valley Conference and because my parents wanted me close to home where they could see me play quite a bit."
The University of Kentucky had hoped to make Unseld the first Negro varsity athlete in the Southeastern Conference and had gone so far as to poll other conference schools as to what housing arrangements and schedule changes could be made to accommodate such a step.
Unseld revealed Monday that he had narrowed his choice to Louisville and Kansas University, where his brother, George, is a basketball star.
Kansas officials thought they had the inside track with the talented giant not only because his brother is there, but also because his high school coach, Bob Mulcahy, has been hired as an assistant coach at Kansas.
Sikes came to KU from Georgia.
Sikes came to KU from Georgia. He returned to East Texas State in 1954, and coached the East Texas team to a 71-34-4 record.
Sikes was stricken while playing on the East Texas State college golf course, and he died an hour later in a Commerce, Texas hospital.
Sikes is survived by his wife. Funeral services are pending.
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