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University Daily Kansan Monday, March 9, 196
Jayhawk Swimmers Finish Second To OU
The KU swimming team, undefeated in its season's competition, bowed to Oklahoma over the weekend, as the Sooners won their tenth consecutive Big Eight swimming championship.
The Sooners won the meet with 119 points while KU followed with 102
Coach Dick Reamon said he thought the Jayhawks finished behind O-State because KU made certain "mistakes."
"WE COULD HAVE WON IT"
Coach Reamon said, "but we made some mistakes—we couldn't afford any mistakes."
"Actually, the mistakes and breaks just about evened themselves up. Out of the 17 men we took to the meet 15 of them scored and the other two placed seventh and qualified, Coach Reamon said.
Coach Reamon pointed out that
KU Cagers Clinch Third
The Jayhawk basketball team clinched at least a tie for third place in the Big Eight Conference Saturday night when it defeated Hank Iba's Oklahoma State team.
The Jayhawks easy (57-48) victory boosted the team won-lost record to 13-12.
Oklahoma State's Iba was, for the second time, denied his 700th victory as a coach. Both times he has gone for 700 the Cowboys lost to Kansas teams. Kansas State beat the O-Staters in overtime last week in Manhattan, then the Jayhawks romped Saturday night.
DEL LEWIS AND GEORGE Unseld led the attack for KU by scoring 17 and 16 points respectively.
The Jayhawk defense came to the foreground in the latter part of the game as O-State was able to score only two points in the last eight minutes of play.
The two points came with two seconds left in the game when a Cowboy player took a jump shot which bounced off the rim, George Unseld, in an attempt to get the ball, hit the net and the referee called goal tending.
One highlight of the game, as far as the crowd was concerned, came in the closing minutes of the contest when KU stalled very effectively. George Unseld, not known for his ball handling, put on a dribbling exhibition to keep the ball away from the O-State defenders and drew a roar of approval from the crowd.
GENE JOHNSON WAS the only Cowboy who scored in the double figures, scoring 10 points before fouling out of the contest.
Two KU seniors played their last collegiate contest Saturday night. Harry Gibson, starting forward, and Buddy Vance, reserve center, closed out their college careers by scoring five and two points respectively.
Oklahoma State now has a 14-10 record with one conference game remaining.
After the game, Coach Harp said he was pleased with the performances of the team members. He also predicted that KU will be in contention for next year's Big Eight crown.
Gymnasts Beat Fort Hays State
The KU gymnastics team, which was defeated by Fort Hays in their first meet of the season, snapped back to trounce the Tigers $69_{12}-49_{12}$ Saturday afternoon in the last home meet for the Jayhawkers.
KU men won first honors in four events and took second in two other events by a difference of only one-half of a point. Kent Dobbins, Lawrence sophomore, took all four firsts for the Jayhawkers.
Saturday's meet finished out the regular conference season for KU. Next weekend they will travel to Ames, Iowa, for the Big Eight Championship meet.
The KU squad finished with a 4-6 season record.
the Jayhawks took second place in the competition without taking first place in any event.
"Ours must be the only team in history which scored 100 or more points in a championship meet without winning a single first place. The fact that we were able to do so indicates that we have very good depth all the way through. I think we did pretty well in the meet. Oklahoma just made less errors."
"OKLAHOMA HAS A senior-laden team while ours is made up
largely of sophomores. Our boys were lacking somewhat in experience. Coach Reamon said Jerry Higgins' performance in the 1650 was outstanding.
"Higgins turned in an outstanding time in the 1650," Coach Reamon said. "He broke the conference record. The record was set by Schuette of Oklahoma and he's an All-American in that event. Higgins' time wasn't quite low enough for him to receive All-American honors, but I feel that with two
more weeks of practice before the national swimming meet, he should be capable of becoming All-American."
Events in which Jayhawk swimmers placed included:
1,650-yard freestyle — Jerry Higgins, second, Mike Caldwell, third, Bill Mills, fifth: 100-yard freestyle—Richard Bisbee, sixth; 100-yard breaststroke—Jim Basile, fourth; 100-yard backstroke—Jack Allen, third, Bill Johnson, fourth; 100-yard butterfly—Mike Downey, second
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Pete Stebbins, sixth; 3-meter diving—Ron Marsh, third, Don Buckholz,
fifth, David Richwine, sixth; 400 freestyle relay—KU second.
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