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Friday, April 1, 1977
University Dally Kansan
Relays circuit opens in Texas
By ROBRAINS
Sports Writer
AUSTIN, Tex.—There is a saying that everything in Texas is either the biggest or the best. That generally holds true as far as oil, football or cattle drives are concerned. Today and tomorrow, it will also be true of a track meet.
Taking center stage at the University of Texas" Memorial Stadium for the next two weeks, the Midwest Relays circuit. The list of competitor reads like a who's who of college sports.
Five of the individual event winners at this year's NCAA Indoor Championships will be on hand plus three of the winning relay teams. Two individual winners and one winning relay team from last year's Outdoor meet are also scheduled to be here.
ADD TO THAT some individuals who competed for the United States and some athletes who ran for foreign countries in the 2016 Olympics, will be featured for the 50th running of the Texas Relays.
The University of Kansas Jayhawks are here, along with members of 64 other college and university teams. The KU squad will be trying for its second outstanding performance in the Longhorn State within a week. Last Saturday it captured the Dallas
Ruggers head to tournament
The KU Rugby Club will be back in action tomorrow when the Jayhawks travel to Manhattan for the two-day Big Eight Rugby Tournament.
All eight conference teams including defending champion Kansas State should be at the tournament, according to KU coach Mike Bell. All teams competed in last year's tournament.
Injuries, inexperience and a lack of depth have plagued the Jayhawks so far this season. The "A" team is 0-4 and the "B" team is 2-2.
Several Jiahawk starters will be playing while injured, and one, Doug Hassig, has been lost for the season because of a knee injury.
Despite their problems, Kieltyka said, the Jayhawks have a chance to win the tournament although they would be considered a darkhorse.
Kieltyka said that University of Oklahoma and Iowa State would have to be in the same region.
"We don't really have enough people," Kieltyka said. "Everyone has been playing a lot and this has caused some of the injuries that have hurt us."
Most of the teams the Jayhawks defeated at Dallas are here in Austin. They won't get a chance for revenge, however, as no team scores will be kept.
AMONG THE schools KU defended were the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), Texas A&M University (TAMU) and
Couch Bob Timmons doesn't take that victory lightly by any means. But he knows it's going to take an outstanding effort by his sound to do well at this meet.
Last year, Kansas lost all of the relay events here and captured only one individual title—Nolan Cromwell's victory in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles.
"We were somewhat disappointed with our performance at Texas last year," Timmons said. "Some of our individuals performed well, but our relay effort was not up to par." In a problem almost every year at Texas—lack of time to prepare our relay units."
KU WILL enter teams in four of the relays here. They won't enter a team in the mile relay, in which they won the NCAA Indoor title.
"We don't have the personnel to run in all the relay's. "Timmons said. "We feel the 480 is not going."
Running for the Jahyawks in that relay will be Anthony Coleman, Dave Blutcher.
Kevin Newell and Cliff Wiley. The same foursons will run the 440 relay.
KU will also field teams in the sprint-medley and the two-mile relay.
The preliminary round of competition began this morning at 9. Finals in the long jump and sox of the running events will be held all of the other finals tomorrow afternoon.
ONE OF the meet's highlights figures to be an invitational 100-meter dash, slated for tomorrow afternoon. The field will include Johnny Jones of Texas, a member of last year's U.S. Olympic team; Bill Collins of the Alabama State; the location of Arkansas State; Lake Jackson in Kansas sprinter; and Wiley. All have run the 100-dash in under 9.5 seconds.
Three events which seem to have even more than the usual number of outstanding entries are the pole vault, high jump and long jump.
There are eight pole vaulters who have cleared 17 feet entered, including KU's Tad Scales and former Karasaw star Terry Bergman. The defending champion is back to defend his title.
IN THE high jump, 15 individuals have correct seven feet.included are national indian gymnastics champion Chang Gray Joy of UTEP, Nat Page of the championship Steve Rainbow and Jay Reardon of Kansas.
There are nine long jumpers in the meet
that kept落后 more than 25 feet. They
include Jillian, Sara, Amy and
Overstreet of Houston, Mike Pleasant of Oklahoma and Peppie Whitaker of Missouri. Mike Wilk and Reardon are entered for KU.
Timmons has been selected as the referee for the meet. The honorary referee is Dustin Waller, the Texas athlete director and he also retired football coach of the Longhorns.
Part of the Kansas team which didn't make the trip to Texas this weekend will be in Emporia tomorrow for the Emporia State Relays.
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High jump - Steve Rathbull, Reardon,
Triple jump - Wheelie, Wilk
Triple jump - Wheelie, Wilk
Triple jump - Wheelie, Wilk
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600-meter hurdles - Cliff Wiley, Newell
Anthony Coughlin
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