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Monday, February 8, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
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KU alumni now Hall-of-Famers
By Elaine Sung Kansan sports writer
Kansas has turned out as a breeding ground for basketball Hall of Fame selections.
But for former Jayhawk players Clyde Lovellette and Ralph Miller, the award has been a long time in coming.
Lovette and Miller were among four selected Thursday to the Basketball Hall of Fame. The other two were current Washington Bullets coach Wes Unseld and the late Bobby McDermott.
The two alumni bring the number of Jayhawks in the Hall of Fame to 13, making Kansas the school with the most inductees.
Lovelette, a born-again Christian, now is an instructor at White's Institute in Wabash, Ind. Miller is the basketball coach at Oregon State.
Lovelle is one of the best-known Jayhawk basketball players and was voted by fans last year to the Kansas all-time team.
He set many records during his collegiate career from 1950 to 1952 and is the second all-time leading scorer in Kansas history with 1,888 points. Kansas forward Danny Manning is the all-time leading scorer with 2,503 points and counting.
Lovettele's best year came in 1952, when he led the Jayhawks to the NCAA championship, beating St. John's 80-63, and was named tournament MVP. He also led the United States Olympic team to a gold medal in Helsinki, Finland, that same year.
Following that was an 11-season professional playing career spent with Minneapolis, Boston, St. Louis and Cincinnati.
Lovelle said he was honored by the selection to the Hall, but the award does not come without its thorns.
"I'm just said that it took so long for the University to nominate me," he said. "It was Dick Hart (now an assistant at North Carolina) that really got it going. It wasn't the University, and that hurts."
Despite the apparent snub, Lovellette still follows Kansas basketball when he can.
The best memories by far was
winning the national championship for Kansas, who hasn't won it prior to that or since," he said. "And I was playing there under the great coach (Dr. F.C. 'Phog') Allen. Anybody who came in contact with him had a better life for it."
In turn, Lovellette now tries to make the lives of others better. He teaches young adults at the institute who have gotten in trouble with the law, helping them earn a degree equivalent to a high-school diploma. His only contact with basketball now is as coach of the institute's eight-grade basketball team.
The other Hall-of-Famer, however, has kept his hand in basketball ever since leaving Kansas. Ralph Miller, a native of Chanute, started his coaching career at Wichita State. After 13 years there, he coached six years at Iowa.
Now with Oregon State, Miller, 68, has an overall coaching record of 644-358 and holds more victories than any other Division I coach in the nation.
"It's a dream come true. Naturally, 'I'm very elated and happy. But when I stop and think, it's really a group award," he said. "I've been around a long time, and I've had help from my players and all the people I've worked with. I'm grateful to all of them."
"Of course, to a person like myself who's spent so much time in basketball, one harbors the hope that he will get this honor someday."
Miller, a forward, played for the Jayhawks in 1939, 1940 and 1942. He was a Big Six selection and Kansas scoring champion in 1942, but his fondest memories are from the 1939-40 season.
Miller was also the team scoring champion and conference pick that year, but what made that year special was the NCAA championship game against Indiana, which Kansas lost 60-42.
Despite his outstanding collegiate play, he said it was probably his coaching success that got him the award.
"I've already coached over 1,000 games. I've moved ahead of Dr.
See HALL, p. 12, col. 1
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Ken Brokenburr, Wayland Baptist University, left, crosses the and Eric Young, Lincoln University, right, come in close behind. finish line of the 55-meter dash first. Kansas' Ron Moore, center. the race was Saturday during the Jayhawk Invitational track meet
Track teams break records
By Keith Stroker
Kansan sports writer
Track records fell like rain in April last week at the Jayhawk Invitational track meet in Anschutz Sports Pavilion.
Among the record breakers was the Kansas men's two-mile relay team, which consisted of four freshman. They placed second, running a 7:43.9, breaking the Kansas school record of 7:58.04 set in 1967.
"We struggled a little on the third leg, which cost us a few seconds," said relay member Ty Thiel. "Our anchorman, Stacey Smiedala, ran a great race, closing strong."
Kansas State won the race, 15 yards ahead of Kansas. Joining Smiedala and Thiel on the Jayhawks relay team were Donnie Anderson and Bruce Hayes.
Some of the pavilion records broken included: Ray Hill, Arizona, 6.23 in the 55-meter semi-final; Ken Brokenbrenn, Wayland Baptist, 46.8 in the quarter mile, broke the record of 47.39 set last year by Devon Morris, Wayland Baptist; Patt Hessini, Kansas State; 2:28.20 in the 1,000-meter preliminaries; Leagard Fitta, Wayland Baptist, 14:32.24 in the 5,000-meters; Courtney Hawkins, Arizona, 7.40 in the
55-meter hurdle semi-final; and
Lorenzo McGill, Wayland Baptist,
47.83 in the 400-meter preliminaries.
Kansas' John Creighton was second at 11:13 in the 600-yard run; Scott Huffman was second at 17-feet-0 on the paultue; Johnny Brackins was second at $46-10\%$ in the triple jump; and the mile-team of Stacey Siedmala, Darren Bell, Brad Cobb, and John Creighton was second at 3:18.3.
State, 8.10 in the 55-meter hurdles semi-final; Marcia Brown, Wayland Baptist, 7.09 in the 55-meter semi-final; Berna Stulting, Wichita State, 2.54.29 in the 1,000 meters; and Kathryn Evans, Wichita State, 17.27.8 in the 5,000 meters.
On the women's side, Kansas set a pavilion record in the distance medley relay, winning at 11:54.25. Other pavilion records broken were: Kim Kilpatrick, Kansas
The Kansas women had good performances from Janice Turner, second in the 600-semi-terminal at 1:26.15; Yolanda Taylor, first in the long jump at 19-3; Mylene Mahara), second in the 300-yard dash at 35.72; and Shundreka Smith, fourth in the 55-meter semi-terminal at 7.21.
KU bowlers defeat national champions
By Phil Wilke
Special to the Kansan
The Kansas men's bowling team upset defending national champions Wichita State on Saturday. Kansas was 2-0 Saturday, but couldn't repeat the performance yesterday.
Own men's and women's teams were 12-4 overall in the two-day matches against teams from Wichita State, Emporia State, Kansas State and Nebraska. The teams also played in the Kansas/Nebraska Bowling Conference.
Boosted by Saturday's victories, the men moved from fifth to third in the conference and the women remained second. Yesterday's performances fixed the final conference standings.
"It always feels good to knock off the top ranked team," said bowling coach Mike Fine. "This was by far the best performance of the men this season.
"This is the first match of the
year where we got some of the breaks," he added. Fine said the team needed to bowl well this weekend because it would be their last competition before invitations to the NCAA championships were sent out. The last conference match was yesterday in Manhattan.
In Manhattan, both the men and women dropped two games to Wichita State but swept everyone else. It was the first time the men's team defeated fifth ranked Nebraska.
Senior Tim Demars was pleased with the team's advance in the conference standings.
"This is where we belong and we're going to stay here." he said. He said that Wichita State and Nebraska had two of the best programs in the country. The team's goal now, he said, was to stay ahead of K-State and Emporia.
Kansas swimmers defeat Missouri
By Tom Stinson
Kansan sports writer
After seven years as the Kansas men's swimming coach, Gary Kempf finally left Columbia with a victory over Missouri. But the conquest wasn't too thrilling to Kempf.
"It wasn't that exciting." Kempf said, "because we knew we were a better team than they were. We have been looking ahead a little bit."
The Jayhawks are looking forward to the weekend's dual meet against Nebraska. The Jayhawk men and women beat the Tigers 84-56 and 87-53 this weekend setting up a battle with the defending conference champions in Lawrence.
Kansas and Nebraska are undefeated in Big Eight dual meets this season. The Nebraska men and women are ranked 8th and 17th nationally.
Kansas' men are 23rd in the countrv.
The Jayhawk men also beat Southwest Missouri State 71-42 this weekend in Springfield.
"If you want to be the best, you have to race the best," Kempf said, referring to the Cornhuskers.
The Jayhawks dominated Missouri. The men won 10 events and the
women won eight. Kempf said Kansas swam a lot of the races as exhibition to keep the meets from being blowouts.
In exhibition races, the swimmer competes for time but doesn't score any team points.
Freshman John Easton and sophomore Amy Flower were double winners (for the men. Easton won the 100-yard and 200-yard freestyle and Flower won both the 1-meter and 3-meter diving.
Junior Barbara Ann Smith was a double winner for the women, taking the 100-yard and 200-yard breast-stroke.
Other winners for the men were sophomore Scott Berry in the 1000 freestyle; freshman Jeff Stout in the 100 backstroke; sophomore Pat McCool in the 100 breaststroke; junior Allan Chaney in the 50 freestyle; junior Glenn Trammel in the 200 backstroke; junior Bobby Kelley in the 400 individual medley and the 200 medley relay team of Trammel, McCool, senior Grant Seavall and Chaney.
Tramnel set two pool records with his victory in the backstroke and his 100 lead-off leg on the 400 freestyle freestyle relay.
Other women winners were sophomore Susan Bloomfield in the 200 backstroke; Blanca Castillo in the 200 butterfly; junior Jenny Fisher in the 200 backstroke; senior Lori Spurney in the 3-meter diving and freshman Kelley Kaulzarch in the 1-meter diving and the two relays.
Bloomfield, junior Erin Easton,
freshman Gina Brown and junior Sue
Spyr won the women's medley. Members
of the freestyle relay were Spyr,
Brown, sophomore Marcia Otis and
freshman Heather Hoskins.
Swimmers posting victories against Southwest Missouri State were senior Chuck Jones in the 1000 freestyle; junior Andrew Billings in the 50 freestyle; junior David Youker in the 200 backstroke; senior Todd Neugent in the 200 breaststroke; Berry in the 400 individual medley and Chaney in the 100 freestyle.
The winning 400 medley relay team was composed of seniors with Karl Zueger, Dave Nesmith, Seavall and Chris Cook.
"Our depth people started to come around." Kempf said. "These are the people who will make the difference in the conference championships."
Sports Briefs
HOCKEY CLUB SPLITS GAMES:
The Kansas Hockey Club split two games against Iowa State this weekend in Ames. Kansas lost to the Cyclones 4-1 on Friday, but rebounded to win 4-3 in overtime on Saturday.
Mark Nevens led the Jayhawk victory with a hat-trick, including the winning goal in overtime. Steve Ohollearn played goalie for the Jayhawks and stopped 45 shots on goal in the second game.
The club's record this season is 8-6.
CREW SUCCESSFUL IN CLASSIC
Three women and one man from the Kansas crew teams participated in the Mid-Winter Crew Classic in Madison, Wisc., yesterday. The competition was based on 2,500 meter rowing times on ergometers, which are rowing machines.
in one women's lightweight division, Kelly Wells placed ninth of 16 with a time of 10:21.9. In the novice/freshman heavy weight division Kathy Yehle placed first in her heat and first in the final, with a time of 9:42.2. Jennifer Johnson placed first in her heat and second in the final, with a time of 9:44.2 in the final round. In the men's varsity heavy-weight division, Tim Sites placed 4th of 30 with a time of 8:11.7.
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