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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Feb. 24, 1964
Wildcats Stomp Hawks 70-46; KU Sweeps Other Contests
Jayhawk athletic squads-with one notable exception—scored a clean sweep in weekend competition.
The track, swimming, and gymnastics teams all won impressive victories but unfortunately, the Jayhawk basketball team Saturday night lost to their arch-foes, the Kansas State Wildcats—by the embarrassing score of 70-46.
A CROWD OF 16,000 persons—the largest since the KU-K-State game here in 1961—witnessed the slaughter as the 'Cats broke their streak of close games.
By beating KU, the K-Staters boosted their season's record to 8-2 and gained a tighter grip on first place in the Big Eight Conference. The Jayhawks dropped to 5-6 in conference play.
The enormous crowd cheered, stamped and shouted through the first half as the teams battled on almost even terms with K-State finally gaining a 25-20 lead as the first period ended. After the half, however, the Wildcats put on a tremendous scoring burst and completely overwhelmed the KU squad.
IN OTHER WEEKEND competition, however, the Jayhawks were not so unfortunate.
Coach Bill Easton's high-flying indoor track team prepared for next week's conference championship meet by rolling over Oklahoma State and Kansas State Friday night in Allen Field House.
By winning the triangular meet, KU remained undefeated in dual
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and triangular competition through 23 consecutive meets.
BILL SILVERBERG, Overland Park senior, ran the third fastest indoor two-mile in Big Eight history with a 9:05 effort. In the two-mile, KU had four runners between 9:05 and 9:26. David Kamrar ran 9:13.2 behind Silverberg, Paul Acevedo ran 9:17 and George Caberra ran 9:26.
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Floyd Manning cleared 15-6 in the pole vault for KU and Charles Twiss leaped 6-6 in the high jump to tie the meet mark.
KU's football all-American Gayle Sayers won the 60-yard low hurdles with a time of 7 seconds flat despite the fact that Sayers has only been out for track since Thursday.
THE KU SWIMMERS defeated Nebraska Saturday by a score of 51-44 and became the only undefeated team which will enter the Big Eight Conference swimming meet, March 5-6-7 in Norman, Okla.
KU's Jerry Higgins broke the pool record in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:51.9 - two seconds off the record set by his teammate Mike Caldwell earlier in the season.
The Jayhawk 400-yard freestyle relay team of Caldwell, Higgins, Dick Bisbee and Steve Brooks broke pool
and school records which they had set earlier in the season.
THE KU GYMNASTICS team swamped the Central Missouri State squad 86-24 in a dual meet Friday night in Robinson Gymnasium.
Kent Dobbins, Lawrence sophomore, set a new KU record for number of firsts won in a dual meet when he took first in five events.
KU Coach Bob Lockwood said his men will now be concentrating on their routines in preparation for their double-dual meet next week with the Air Force Academy and Nebraska. Nebraska currently leads the Big Eight in gymnastics.
The final home competition for the KU team will be March 7, when KU meets Fort Hays State.
PITCHING IMMORTAL CHRISTY Mathewson hurled three shutouts for the New York Giants in the 1905 World Series against the Philadelphia Athletics.
—Photo by John Wright
RECORD BREAKER-Bill Silverberg, Overland Park senior, ran the two-mile in a record-smashing time of 9:05 Saturday night in Allen Field House, as KU defeated Kansas State and Oklahoma.
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