1970-71 pom pon squad selected
Pom pon girls for 1970-71 were selected Thursday night. They are: (back row left to right) Jane Phelps, Lawrence junior; Mary Williams, Kansas City, Mo. junior; Connie Cerne, Lawrence junior; Pam Price, Des Moines, Iowa freshman; Rosemary Sicks, Independence junior; Gloria John, Leavenworth sophomore and Windy Patton, Kansas City junior. Front row left to right: Marilyn Marshall, Kansas City, Mo. junior; Marye Ish, Rockford Ill. junior and Sue Tagg, Sioux City, Iowa sophomore.
Pom pon girls selected
The results of the annual tryouts for the pom pon squad was announced Thursday night when the field was finally narrowed from the 66 original coeds who began the tryouts to a 10 member team.
They are: Connie Cerne, Lawrence junior; Marye Ish, Rockford, ill, junior; Marilyn Marshall, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore; Windy Patton, Kansas City junior; Jane Phelps, Lawrence junior; Pam Price, Des Moines, Iowa, freshman; Rosemary Sicks, Independence junior; Mary Williams, Kansas City, Mo., junior; and alternates, Gloria Jahn, Leavenworth sophomore; Sue Tagg, Sioux City, Iowa, sophomore.
The squad was limited from 10 girls to eight this year, with only two alternates instead of four, said Mrs. Carl Dorris, assistant dean of women and one of the sponsors of the squad. This was the choice of the girls. Mrs. Dorris said.
The squad will be of better quality with eight girls, Miss Williams said. With this amount it will be more likely to include the alternates with the regular squad at some games, she said. The two alternates will have
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more of an opportunity to participate and it now becomes more of an honor to be on the squad, Miss Williams said. The smaller group of girls won't have such difficulty getting together to practice, Mrs. Dorris said, and they will be easier to work with.
Along with Mrs. Dorris, the sponsors of the squad are John Novotny, assistant athletic director and business manager, and Mrs. W. Gale Catlett, instructor in physical education.
Arms reduction pledge opens SALT sessions
VIENNA (UPI) — The United States and the Soviet Union began Strategic Arms Limitations Talks Thursday with mutual pledges to try to curb their massive nuclear armories.
Officials from both sides said privately, however, they felt the other adopted harder positions in opening statements at the SALT talks.
President Nixon, in a special message, declared his "firm commitment to the search for an earl, equitable and verifiable agreement."
Relays celebrate 45th year
By GREG SORBER
Kenyon et fierrites
Kansan staff writer
A banner headline announced the first annual Kansas Relays in the University Daily Kansan in 1923. In that first contest 23 Universities, 19 colleges, 4 military schools and 32 high schools competed in a "steady rain."
Forming a Kansas Relays was the idea of John Outland, a former KU student who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. Outland was impressed by the Penn Relays and dreamed of a comparable event for KU. He told F. C. "Phog" Allen, athletic director for KU, of his plan in 1920.
When Outland's plan became a reality in 1923 the KU trackmen dominated the first Relays, winning the 440 and 880 yard relays, taking second in the mile relay, third in the two mile relay and first in two individual events.
And perhaps a little pompous in its lauding the first meet an editorial in the Kansan said, "the first Kansas Relays have gone down in University history as an epoc in athletic progress at the University of Kansas and for the Midwest.
The 1925 meet was insured for $4,000 against the possibility of rain. It did not rain. In the Relays that year 20 records were "smashed" before an attendance of 6,000-7,000 persons. Knute Rockne, coach of Notre Dame was the head referee of the third annual Kansas Relays and was one of the many football coaches who referenced the meets during the beginning years.
School cases denounced
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Recent Nixon administration moves in school desegregation cases in Florida and North Carolina are both pitiful and unprecedented, according to an official of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.
Howard A. Glickstein, staff director for the commission, indicated that the panel probably will make a specific denunciation of those two cases—on top of the broadside it released last weekend against overall Nixon desegregation policy.
Glickstein criticized the Justice Department's recent intervention in court cases involving school desegregation in Charlotte, N.C., and Bradenton, Fla. The intervention, aimed at modifying court decrees requiring extensive busing of pupils to achieve integration, has been viewed as an implementation of the new Nixon policy.
Described as a balmy spring day, the 1935 Relays was to feature a special mile event in which Cunningham, with an undefeated record that year of 11 victories, was to race a four-man University of Kansas relay team.
The special event might have soured a bit since Cunningham finished second to an Oklahomaan in the regular mile race.
A special race between Glenn Cunningham and Gene Venkze in the mile race highlighted the 1934 Relays. Cunningham won with a 4:12.7 effort. The two preceding years he had won the 1500 meter event.
Cunningham was also beaten in 1937 by Emporia State distance runner, Archie San Romani, but bounced back and in 1939 won a special mile before a crowd of 12,000 persons.
The 1940 Kansas Relays had "perfect track weather" and was named after Glenn Cunningham, who would have a disappointing last race that year. He finished behind Blaine Rideout of North Texas State College. The hero of the 1940 relays was Beefus Bryan, a Texan who reached the height of 13'3" in the pole vaulting competition.
World War II interrupted the Relays in 1943, '44, and '45, but high school teams still came to KU during the interim.
"The four main entries of rain, wind, cold and mud got a jump on the other teams with a special practice late Friday night and went on to swamp all events," a story in the Kansan said of the 1947 Relays.
A world relay mark of 40.1 was set in the 440 yard relay by the University of Texas in the 1956 competition while Kansas received five firsts, and a seven
In 1951 the Kansas Relay results were broadcast by a group of campus amateur "ham" radio operators who positioned themselves in a booth above the Memorial Stadium press box.
In 1965, Jim Ryun ran a record-breaking 404.8 mile as a senior for Wichita East High School. Shot put master Randy Matson from Texas A&M heaved the shot for a Relays record of 65'10 3/4".
During the next four years crowd attention focused on Ryum. In 1966 he anchored KU's team in the freshman-junior college distance medley, running a 3:59 mile and in the individual event he ran a 3:55 mile. Ryum posted a meet record of 3:54.7 in 1967 and set another Relays record in the 1500 meter event in 1968. Last year he anchored the distance medley team which set a world record of 9:33. He also ran a 3:57.6 mile.
Rain and water soaked tracks have marred the Relays in the last few years, but a new synthetic track was installed during the summer of 1969 for $125,000. The track was a gift of KU alumnus and former KU trackman Jim Hershberger. The 45th annual Kansas Relays is dedicated to him.
OVER-65S IN FINLAND
KU's Al Oerter, gold medal winner in the 1956 and 1960 Olympics, too three consecutive Relays crowns for the discus in 1956, 1957 and 1958.
foot freshman named Witt Chamberlain, wearing the colors of a plaid golfers cap, performed unattached and placed fourth in the hop, step, and jump event.
HELSINKI (UPI) — Every eighth Finn, or 605,000 out of a total population of 4.8 million, was over 65 years of age in 1969 and received an old age pension, according to the National Pensions Department.
Oklahoma led an exciting sprint medley race in 1958, setting a pace which resulted with even the three following teams breaking the intercollegiate record.