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Tuesday, Feb. 11, 1964 University Daily Kansan
THIS EVENING...
By Roy Miller
It comes as no earthshaking surprise that a KU wrestling meet will be televised this week.
After all, Terry Shockley, KU wrestling coach, is a graduate student in radio and television. His life's goal is to produce sports documentaries over the air waves.
The Jayhawks will meet Fort Hays State at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Hoch Auditorium. Television coverage of the meet will be originated by KU-TV. WIBW-TV of Topeka plans a delayed telecast of the meeting.
Standing behind the podium lecturing his speech class, 23-yearold Shockley looks very much like the assistant instructor he is. Talking smoothly in his office in Flint Hall you can easily picture the Rock Island, Ill., product as the sportscaster he hopes to be.
Shockley must be one of the youngest major college coaches in the country. He certainly is the youngest wrestling coach in the Big Eight Conference, where collegiate wrestling is at its best.
But, somehow you can't visualize this bespectacled, slightly built young man as an intercollegiate wrestling coach.
Nowhere else is wrestling so popular as in the Big Eight. At Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, wrestling meets have attracted bigger crowds than basketball games. Iowa State, Oklahoma State and Oklahoma have often been the top national contenders.
The Jayhawker wrestlers have opened the season with six straight defeats, but Shockley isn't discouraged.
"We're doing a representative job for our first year in a conference like this." Shockley says. "I think the fellows now are getting some of the experience they've been away from since their high school days.
This is KU's first year in wrestling at the varsity level since 1931 when the sport was discontinued because of lack of interest. The sport shows signs of catching on here again.
"The team is vastly improved. There's no comparison with the beginning of the season. I can tell we're gaining confidence because the boys are shooting for pins."
Shockley started wrestling seriously when he won an intramural title in junior high school. He won a state championship in high school.
"I think my high school coach, Bill Smith, inspired me more than anyone else." Shockley says of the man who was an Olympic gold medal winner. "He's a fantastic coach."
Shockley considered following his high school coach to Nebraska where Smith became wrestling coach, but decided to stay closer to home. And in time he became the first Augustant wrestler to enter a NCAA tournament.
Bowling, Billiards, Chess Team Preparing For Iowa Tournament
By Rob Jones
There are about 20 KU students who, when they drop in at the Kansas Union for a round of bowling or pool or a game of chess, billiards or table tennis, are not there just for the fun of playing the game.
These students put in long hours developing their skills in these games, because they will be representing the Kansas Union at the Region Eight Tournament at the State University of Iowa, Feb. 14-15.
They will be competing against people from other colleges and universities in Kansas.
These two men finished first in their divisions, and were invited to go to the tournament.
The preparation by members of the team is extremely intensive. For instance, the men's billiards team of Ralph Pagani, Jackson Heights, N.Y., junior, pocket billiards, and Kenneth Wilke, Topeka junior, 3-cushion billiards, were in a special tournament at the Union which consisted of the top eight billiards players on the campus.
Bascom Fearing, manager of the Jaybowl and coach of the KU team said all the people who will participate in the tournament are carefully chosen, and must conform to the Big Eight Conference eligibility requirements. "The only exception," continued Fearing, "is that freshmen and graduate students are able to participate."
Similar tournaments were set up to determine the table tennis team of William Roe, Atchison freshman, Lowell Wood, Wichita senior, and James Tilford, Wichita senior, and the chess team of Tamerlan Salaty, Lawrence graduate student, James Dukelow, Lawrence graduate student, Charles Marvin, Lawrence senior, and Charles Gish, Lawrence graduate student.
The five men and five women bowlers were chosen by a different process. Fearing, who also teaches the bowling classes in the Union, said that at the beginning of the fall
If he thinks the bowler has ise, he invites him to come to the team meetings Monday afternoons.
semester, students are invited to try out for the men's and women's teams.
Fearing then keeps track of all bowling scores made by the squad members, trims the low members from the squad, and makes his final selections just before a match.
The Classical Film Series
The team members who are mak-
Jacques Cousteau's Undersea Documentary Filmed in Brilliant Color
presents
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The Silent World
The women's bowling team has not had a chance to bowl as many games as the men. ___
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ing the trip to Iowa; Donald Kahl, Tulsa, Okla., junior; Dave Rylott, Ottawa senior; Robert Bowerstock, Shawnee Mission freshman; Bill Ryan, Wichita freshman, and Kenneth Hoy, Kansas City city, have bowled from 129 to 144 games in actual competition so far this year.
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