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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 17, 1963
University Daily Kansan SPORTS KU Athletics Have Productive Years
(First of a series) By Russ Corbitt
Few people realize the KU athletic department is a half-million dollar business.
Statistics for the 1961-62 school year, show a gross income last year of $635,082.91 for the KU Physical Education Corporation, which confirms that athletics at KU is big business.
In order to obtain a complete picture of the athletic department, its organization and operation, one must first examine KU's past participation and achievements in intercollegiate athletics.
THE JAYHAWKER BASKETball team first competed in 1899, under Dr. James Naismith, who invented the game. The team finished its first season with seven victories and four defeats.
The KU football team first entered the scene in 1890, and won one of three games.
Records show the first organized conference the Jayhawks belonged to was the Missouri Valley, KU was a charter member of the conference in 1907, and remained in the league for 20 years.
IN 1928, KU, Iowa State, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma broke away from the Missouri Valley and formed the Big Six conference.
The league expanded to the Big Seven in 1948 with the addition of Colorado, and finally to the Big Eight with the entrance of Oklahoma State in 1957.
The Jayhawkers can point to one of the most successful basketball histories in the nation. According to statistics compiled last year by a Boston writer, KU is second only to Oregon State as the winningest basketball team in history.
IN THE 64 SEASONS that KU has fielded a basketball team, it has won a total of 873 games while losing 397. This winning percentage of .687 places KU sixth on the nation's all-time list in this category.
The Jayhawk basketball teams have had only four coaches during the 64 season span.
Dr. Naismith was followed by the dean of basketball coaches, F. C. (Phog) Allen, from 1908 and 1909. W. C. Hamilton began his decade as head coach in 1910.
Allen returned to KU in 1920 to commence his remarkable 37-year career as head coach. Dick Harp, Allen's understudy, took over in 1957.
TWO YEARS after assuming the coaching chores in 1920, Allen built his charges into a powerhouse. The Jayhawks won six consecutive Missouri Valley titles, compiling a won-lost record of 87-7.
KU finished fifth in its first year in the Big Six conference, but never finished below third place during the remainder of the 19-year period.
The Jayhawks captured 12 championships or co-championships in the Big Six, and finished in second place three seasons.
Coach Allen and his cagers won or shared four of ten Big Seven titles, and second once. KU finished in the lower division the other four years under Allen. Coach Harp led the Jayhawks to their fifth Big Seven championship in the final season of the league, and finished second in the NCAA tourney.
IN SIX SEASONS of Big Eight play under Coach Harp, KU has shared one title and finished second twice.
KU has more to boast of than its excellent coaching and superior winning records. A Jayhawk has won the individual conference scoring championship 19 times since 1920. KU has also placed 19 players, many of them more than once, on the All-
America first teams. In all, KU has won 31 conference titles or co-titles, 24 of them under Allen.
The history of the KU football team since it took the field in 1809 does not match that of the basketball team.
The KU griders have managed to finish in first place five times since the first conference game in 1907.
THE JAYHAWKERS won two Missouri Valley titles and three Big Six crowns.
KU has never placed higher than third place in the Big Seven, but has twice finished second in the Big Eight.
The Jayhawks won the title in 1960, but were ordered by the Big Eight to forfeit their victories over Colorado and Missouri when the conference declared KU had used an ineligible player (Bert Coan) in those games. The forfeits knocked the Jayhawks down to third place.
KU officially has not won a conference championship since the Big Six titles in 1946 and 1947.
Although the Jayhawks have never been a consistent powerhouse, they have several times received national ranking in certain categories.
East Texas State track coach Delmar Brown faces two problems with his precious sophomore spinner, R. L. Lasater. One is to get him out of the starting blocks faster; the second to get his mind off model airplanes long enough to run.
KU HAS ALSO had its share of individual stars. Six Jayhawkers have been named to the All-America first teams, with John Hadl receiving the honor twice. Jim Bausch, an all-conference fullback in 1929 and 1930, and Olympic decathlon champion in 1932, was voted into the National Football Hall of Fame in 1954.
"He's got them hanging all around his room," laughs Brown, a former North Texas State spinner, who helped the Eagles to their first Kansas Relays baton championship in the 880 in 1937. "Once in a while when he makes a good one he sends it home to his Mom. He'd put them together on trips too if I'd let him. But I don't. I want him to get his mind on the meet.
"HE'S A FINE sprinter. One of the best you ever saw without a good start. It's not his form. It's just his reflexes. We've worked and worked to get him out of it, but we can't. He's got a great finish in the last 70 yards though. This is one reason I'm really encouraging him in the quarter-mile.
East Texas State Sprinter Is Model Airplane Enthusiast
The quarter-mine for a guy who runs a wind-bait .99.2 and several wind-aided :09.4's, plus a legal .20.4! "That's right." Brown remarks. I think he can get down to :45.0 (a tenth above the world 400 meter record) by next year. "Of course we've got to develop his endurance. But he's a great competitor. He's already done :47.5 on the blocks."
CONTINUING, BROWN, who unwinds a dialogue that draws comparison with Chester of Gunsmoke fame, explains. . . . "We're eyeing the quarter for the Olympics. There's a cow-lot full of :09.4 and :09.5 sprinters and :20.4 and :20.5 220 men. It's tough to break in. The
good quarter milers today have the speed of a spinner. This boy ran only one quarter in high school on the mile relay team. Why, he doesn't even know how to run it yet."
"He works hard in practice, but he can't do anything. He times :09.8 and :09.9 all the time. But put someone out there in a meet for him to run against and he can really let go."
"Lasater ran as fast as : 09.8 in junior high at Big Springs, Texas. Last year as a freshman he broke Brown's : 20.5 Lone Star Conference 220 record with his : 20.4.
OF MORE importance at the moment is how well he can handle the quarter as the pack takes a run to break Texas Southern dominance of the college division in the 38th Kansas Relays next weekend. The Tigers won all six baton hauls here a year ago including a record burst of 3:11.0 in the mile.
ine repeated their 1962 slam at
Texas a week ago, by bagging all six relays, stretching their streak on the Texas-Kansas-Drake Grand Circuit to 21 of a possible 23 championships. They spun 3:10 at Austin to outdistance Texas Western's 3:14.6 and East Texas' 3:16.1.
Two weeks earlier Brown's Lions were down to 3:13.5 at the West Texas Games. But that was good for no better than third since Western skated 3:12.7 and McMurry 3:13.2.
Looks like Lasater, who'll also be in the 100 here, will be obliged to fire that 45.0 ahead of schedule if the Lions are to break through.
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