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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, Feb. 19, 1964
Jayhawk Swimmers Seen as Contenders
By Marshall Caskey Sports Editor
Coach Dick Reamon's swimming squad has an undefeated conference record so far in this season's competition and Reamon says he thinks it may well stay that way.
The Jayhawk swimmers meet Nebraska University at 3:30 p.m. Saturday in Robinson Pool.
Early this season, Coach Reamon said he believed this year's swim team to be the best ever assembled at KU. He has not had reason to change his mind as the Jayhawk tanksters have rolled over eight opponents by comfortable margins.
"OKLAHOMA," Coach Reamon said, "is the defending champion in the Big Eight and will be favored to win the conference. KU is, however, a leading challenger along with Iowa State and Nebraska. We beat Iowa State 61-34 earlier this year, but they have improved quite a bit. The meet with Nebraska should serve as an indicator of our strength."
The Big Eight Conference Championship Swimming meet location was changed last week from Ames, Iowa to Norman, Oklahoma. The meet will be March 5 and 6.
Coach Reamon said he thought the fact that the meet location had been moved to Oklahoma would assist the Sooners in their bid for the conference championship.
"I FEEL," Coach Reamon said, "that the transfer of the league meet to Oklahoma is definitely to the Oklahoma team's advantage. A team is always better off competing in its own pool. The swimmers can make their turns better in their home pool and the divers know their boards."
Coach Reamon said he believed his team to be in the best of condition for the upcoming meet with Nebraska. He said that, in his opinion, every member of the team was in the best shape he would be in for the rest of the season.
"A number of the boys," Coach Reamon said, "swam their best times against K-State last week."
THE RESULT of these times was apparent as the Jayhawk swimmers rolled over the Wildcats 74-21.
Coach Reamon said Jerry Higgins, Mike Downey, Pete Stebbins and Jim Basile set individual marks in the K-State meet.
Regarding the meet with Nebraska, Coach Reamon said he thought the KU team had more depth in ability than did the Cornhuskers but that he thought the Nebraskans had one excellent man in each event.
"OUR BEST events in this meet," Coach Reamon said, "should be the 200 and 500 freestyle and diving. I plan to run Bill Caldwell in both the 60 and 100 to try to do well in those events. The Nebraska team has a spinner named Lodwig who is one of the very best in the Big Eight. The Nebraska team has general good strength and this will be without question the best home meet we will have this year."
Lieutenant Cliff Cushman, KU's 400-meter silver medal winner in the 1960 Olympics, has been transferred from Paine Field, Everett, Washington to the Air Force ROTC detachment here.
The switch will enable him to train under Bill Easton, his former college coach, who converted him from a miler to the Big Eight's best all-time middle distance runner. His 0:49.6 time behind second-time champion Glenn Davis in the Rome Games is the fastest ever run by a Big Eight performer.
"I haven't been in shape since the US-Russian and Polish duals in 1961." Cushman remarked. "Flight training (he has passed through pilot training and advanced fighter training) doesn't give you much time to run. I have been working cross-country since last September, but I really hope to catch up now.
Cushman joins a former teammate here in miler Bill Dotson, who has been working out under Easton since December, when he completed his stint with the marine corps.
While attached to the ROTC detachment here, Cushman will fly 15-20 hours per week at Richards-Gebaur AFB. He has been in the Air Force since September, 1961.
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