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Lonborg's Career Reflects Achievement and Expansion
Consistent success on the conference and national scene and considerable improvement and expansion of the physical plant have marked Dutch Lonborg's 12-year regime as KU athletic director.
Erection of Allen Field House, with its multiple facilities for basketball, indoor track, and baseball, is the major item in expansion of the physical plant.
A total of 35 Big Eight championships have been harvested during this period. These have been garnished by four NCAA titles, basketball, 1952, Cross-country, 1953, and track, 1959 and 1960, plus two runners-up in each of the three.
THE JAYHAWKERS also have won two league all-sports championships (1956-57 and 1959-60) while finishing second seven times during this span.
QUIGLEY FIELD, named for Lonborg's predecessor here, was completed in time for the 1959 season. It is the only completely enclosed park in the Big Eight.
Latest improvements were refurbishing of the indoor and outdoor tracks during the past year and addition of a scoreboard for Quigley field, the Jayhawkers' baseball park, to match construction of dugouts, a gift from the 1960 graduating class.
Friday, April 19. 1963 University Daily Kansan
A football parking lot was constructed ahead of the 1958 season, on the old baseball field southeast of the stadium. Previously stadium walkways were asphalted inside and outside, concession booths were improved, relocated and expanded; a new electric scoreboard with attachment for the Kansas Relays was installed; the dressing and shower rooms were improved and the official's dressing room modernized.
Lonborg also has inaugurated a program of scholarship aid for baseball, swimming, tennis and golf.
LONBORG'S ATHLETIC background is one of the most extensive in the land. As a competitor, he is one of only 33 Jayhawk athletes to
earn letters in three sports. He also is one of a handful who rated first-string all-conference selection in football and basketball. He demonstrated further versatility by earning his grid plaudits at end in 1917 and 1919 and at quarter in 1920. He was an all-Missouri Valley guard in basketball, later meriting All-American AAU acclaim with the old KCAC five. He was a three-year baseball regular at third base.
His first job was at McPherson college as the Bulldogs' first full-time coach. He handled all sports there, but was most successful in basketball, guiding his teams to 23 wins in 27 starts. This earned promotion to Washburn in the fall of 1923.
The Horton native graduated from the KU Law School in 1921, but never has practiced a day. Instead he spent 29 years in the coaching ranks before assuming the reins from the retiring E. C. Quiglev in 1950.
AT THE TOPEKA school he put together his famous 1925 team which won the National AAU in Kansas City, the last collegiate undergraduate unit to bag that title. His 1927 club was a semifinalist in the same tournament. Overall, the Ichabods won 63 of 80 games under the sidetracked barrister. Lonborg also doubled as a football assistant.
Northwestern beckoned, following the four-year run at Washburn, and Lonborg moved up to the Big Ten to serve under Tug Wilson, now Big Ten commissioner. There he remained for 23 years posting an overall 237-198 won-lost record, while winning the 1931 championship and tying for the '33 flag.
During his tenure at Evanston, Lonborg piloted the College All-Stars to six victories in nine starts against the professional champions.
BEST-KNOWN Lonborg products at Northwestern include Otto Graham, one of the finest multi-sport athletes in Big Ten history; Waldo Fisher, formerly Northwestern basketball coach; Rut Walter,
present Wildcat track coach; and basketeers Frank Marshall, Joe Reiff, and Max Morris.
During this period, Dutch also served on the football staffs of Dick Hanley and Lynn Waldorf, handling much of the scouting.
Lonborg's basketball successes over an extended period earned him selection to the National Basketball Hall of Fame. He served 13 years as chairman of the NCAA basketball tournament committee, resigning from that post this past year, while doubling as chairman of the United States basketball committee for the 1959 Pan-American Games and the 1960 Olympic Games.
He was manager of the United States basketball team for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.
Relay Briefs
Of 14 Texas Relays individual champions at least seven are expected to compete in the 38th Kansas Relays. Most prominent of these are McMurray's Bill Miller, who set a 25-6 Kansas record here last year en route to a Grand Slam of the Texas-Kansas-Drake circuit, and Omaha's Roger Sayers who blazed a :09.6 100 at Austin against a 10-mile wind.
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Texas Southern, which slammed college division relays at Texas and Kansas in 1962, will be shooting for a repeat of all six Mt. Oread baton crowns. Stan Wright's Houston club opened the 1963 Grand Circuit by slamming the Texas Relay field. Among Tiger returnees is quarter-miller-halfmiler Ray Saddler, who won the most outstanding athlete award at Kansas last year as a freshman.
KU came away from the Texas Relays without a gold medal for the first time since 1948, but hopes to be closer to full strength for its own meet. Four of KU's top hands missed the affair due to injuries.
A PROSPEROUS CAREER—Since coming to KU in 1950, Athletic Director A. C. (Dutch) Lonborg has guided the Jayhawkers to success on the conference and national scene and to gigantic expansions in the physical plant.
Horned-Rimmed Specs Aids Jumper
If you think that 6-10^1/4 leap by Colorado's Leander Durley for a new Big Eight High-jump record was a good one, wait until he gets his eyes focused through his new horned-rimmed glasses.
Near-sighted since his prep days at Denver Manual, Durley redomed specs soon after soaring to his new league mark last month in Kansas City.
"I couldn't see the bar very well," he told Buffalo sports publicist Fred Casotti. "It looked like a black and yellow blur."
En route back to Boulder he told his troubles to Coach Frank Potts, who urged him to give glasses another try. Durley had used them in high school until he broke a lens which imbedded glass chips in one eye. He shucked them after that.
Trying at 6-8 in the Colorado Indoor Invitational, Durley missed his first effort. Snapping on his new glasses ahead of the second try he cleared with ease. Then he barely missed 6-11.
"He's sold on 'em now." laughs Casotti.