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If the Kansas gymnastics team continues to improve through the rest of the season at their present rate, they could very well end up the number one team in the nation.
By STEVE SHRIVER Assistant Sports Editor
Last weekend in a meet with Western Illinois and Northern Iowa the gym squad scored 158.90, the highest score ever for Kansas and second highest ever for a Big Eight team.
Iowa State, last year's Big Eight champions and number three team in the nation, scored over 161 points in the 1969 conference meet to set the standard. The Cyclones have consistently hit above 160 points this season and are the consensus choice to win, not only the Big Eight again this year, but the NCAA championship.
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Last Friday the 'Hawks disposed of Oklahoma, their chief rival for second place, in a dual at Robinson, 155.55 to 152.20. Now they must turn their attentions to improve upon their routines, according to coach Bob Lockwood.
"Until last weekend it was a race for second place," Lockwood said. "Everyone took it for granted Iowa State would win it again this year. But, I've been believing in these boys all year and now, they believe in themselves."
Lockwood attributed the team's success Saturday, partly to a change in attitude after the big victory over OU Friday.
"We felt real good about beating them (Oklahoma) and we came out Saturday more relaxed," he said. "The boys were smoother in their routines. When you're tense you tend to become a little more cautious on the apparatus. But we got the positive attitude, became more relaxed and more aggressive. We knew we could do it, and we did."
Two other school records fell in the process. Gerald Carley hit a 9.3 in the high bar event and John Brouillette scored a 51.85 in the all-around.
Kansas took first place in every event Saturday, all but one second place, and scored a clean sweep in the high bar with all four spots. Marc Joseph, freshman competing in the all-around, hit a career-high 49 points even. Terry Blanchard and Fred McCracken working on the parallel bars, both hit career highs, 9.0 and 8.85, respectively, en route to a 1-2 finish in that event.
KU's next meet will be at Warensburg, Mo., Friday against Central Missouri and Ft. Hays State. Although the gymnastics squad is still five meets and six weeks away from the Big Eight Championships, March 19-21 in Manhattan, they are undoubtedly looking forward to meeting Iowa State head-to-head.
If the team continues to improve as they have, and it seems inevitable they will, the pressure will be shifted from the Jayhawks to the Cyclones. And Lockwood will be the first to admit that a good routine depends on a good mental attitude, a positive attitude.
As Lockwood has said in the past, "Who knows, we may decide the national champion right in our own backyard."
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Houston meet-glamor
M. E. "Bill" Easton, former Kansas track coach, today was named honorary referee of the 45th Kansas Relays to be staged on KU's new synthetic track April 16, 17 and 18.
While Jayhawk track coach from 1947 through 1965 Easton was director of 18 Kansas Relays meets. He also directed the Drake Relays seven years before taking the KU track post.
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M.E. Easton to be honored
HOUSTON (UPI)—Officials of the Astrodome - Federation National Indoor Championship are excited about the reputation their meet is acquiring this year.
Easton's Kansas squads won 39 Big Eight team championships in cross-country and indoor and outdoor track, making him the
The executive director of the U.S. Track and Field Federation, Carl Cooper of Tucson, said Tuesday that the Feb. 13-14 meet will be the greatest track meet ever held indoors.
Bill Easton
The teams include last year's NCAA indoor champion, Kansas; Michigan State, which won the USFFF meet in Milwaukee last year; San Jose State, the NCAA outdoor champions of 1969; and Southern Cal, the perennial track power.
NROTC men tour base
Twenty-one Midshipmen from the University of Kansas toured the Marine air station at Cherry Point, North Carolina over semester break.
winningest coach of any sport in Big Eight history.
During one stretch in the 1950's Easton's teams won every Big Eight title in all three phases of track for eight years in a row. In 18 years at KU he won 16 league cross-country meets, 12 outdoor crowns and 11 indoor championships.
His teams won the NCAA outdoor in 1959 and 1960 and the national cross-country meet in 1953. While at Drake he won three NCAA cross-country titles.
Easton developed 32 All-Americans and eight Olympians, including the only four-time champion in Olympic track history, discus-thrower Al Oerter. His athletes broke four world records, 14 American records, 14 intercollegiate marks and four Olympic standards.
Easton coached Mexico's national track team for the 1968 Olympics and in addition served as coordinator for those games at Mexico City. Previously he had coached Malaya's national team for the Asian Games in 1962.
After his Olympic assignment in Mexico City Easton returned to KU to resume teaching as an assistant professor in the department of physical education, a post he currently fills.
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| 1. Kansas State | 6 | 2 |
| 2. Missouri | 5 | 3 |
| 3. Kansas | 4 | 3 |
| 4. Iowa State | 5 | 4 |
| 5. Colorado | 4 | 4 |
| 6. Nebraska | 3 | 4 |
| 7. Oklahoma | 2 | 5 |
| 8. Oklahoma State | 2 | 6 |
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