Hartman resigns from KSU post
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP)—Jack Hartman announced last night he has resigned as head basketball coach at Kansas State University to take over the basketball program at his alma mater, Oklahoma State.
Ending almost a week of speculation, Hartman made the announcement, an impromptu news conference in meeting with the mayor.
He replaces Guy Strong at Oklahoma State, who resigned at the end of this season.
Yoya Goss, Kaffanna state athletic director, said Hartman received a five-year contract for $35,000 a year. "Without a doubt, I think we've hired the best man for the job," Goss said in Stillwater.
Tuesday. March 22. 1977
"We tried to do everything practical and possible to keep him," Jermier said. "I feel that we were financially competitive, but Jack is an alumnus of Oklahoma State and understandably interested in their program."
JERSEY JERMIEI, Kansas State athletic director, was openly disappointed at Harman's decision.
Hartman said, "There's only one job in the country I would consider. And that's Oklahoma State. And that country's just not so great."
Hartman also said assistant coach Jerry Holmes would join him at OSU and added that Holmes' acceptance to go
Reiner immediately went on record as a candidate to replace Hartman.
along "was very instrumental in my decision to take the job."
"I'm going to apply for the job as hard as I can," he said.
"We're losing a bell of a man."
HE SAID assistant coach Mark Reiner had been invited to go but declined.
Admired by friends and foes alike as a master psychologist and keen motivator of young men, Hartman compiled an i38-62 record in seven seasons at Kansas State, a place he has long called "Miami." Manhattan on the beaks of perhaps his finest season.
Back-to-back losses to Missouri and Oklahoma seemed to fortify the assessment. but then Hartman began reeling off
AS THE SEASON opened, most observers expected little of the Wildcats because of their lack of size and maturity. The tallest starter was only 6-5, and inexperienced young players dotted the roster at key positions.
Gathering experience and confidence, Kansas State surprised the rest of the league by winning its last 10 games to clinch the conference and the post-season tournament title.
A TALLER, favored Providence squad fell in the first
round of the Midwestern Regions in Norman. Then Marquette squeezed out a one-point victory after a crucial win over Illinois in 1849.
Hartman came to K-State in 1970 and in the ensuing seven seasons produced three conference championships and appeared in post-season competition five years.
A native of Shidler, Okla., Hartman was a star in football and basketball at Oklahoma State in the late '40s.
At Coffeyville, his teams won 150, lost 46 and wound up in the national tournament four times.
THE NEXT year he begin his coaching career, heading the football and basketball programs at Plainville, Ky. He went to Shider and Wagner, Oka., before returning to Oklahoma State as an assistant under Henry Iba.
In the following years Hartman's career spanned seven seasons as basketball coach at Coffeyville, Ks., Junior College and Fresno State.
After graduation in 1950, he spent one year with
Sackatchtewan of the Canadian Football League and won
a championship.
AT SIU, he was 144-64, including two appearances in the NIT.
Hartman's first K-State team, the 1970-71 squad, finished 11-15, for his only losing season.
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Mile relay wins. KU fifth at NCAA Indoor
Bv ROB RAINS
Sports Writer
The Kansas track team fulfilled a two-year goal en route to a fifth-place finish in the NCAA Indoor Championship March 11 and 12 in Detroit.
That goal, winning the mule relay, had eluded the Jayhawks for two years. But behind the strong legs of Chicago and New York, the 2013 team was able to win a team from Howard University and won the
event in a time of 3:15.61 minutes. Howard clocked in at 3:16.49.
"We were disqualified in it two years ago and last year we finished second to Tennessee," head coach Bob Timmons said yesterday. "But we won it this year."
RUNNING THE first two legs for KU were sophomore Kevin Newell and freshman Dave Bluther. Wiley ran the third leg, scoring a three-foot Eight meet, anchored the team to victory.
Washington State edged the University of Texas at El Paso, as it tried to get its fourth consecutive title, by a half-point, 2½⁵ to 15. Villanova finished with 21 points, Illinois 16. Among the 53 schools who scored was Washington State which finished in a forse with 10 points.
Wiley and Wagner won't content with being on the winning relay team, however.
The Jayhawks had a total of $12\frac{1}{2}$ points in the two-day meet.
Baseball team lacked clutch hits
By COURTNEY THOMPSON
Inconsistency wasn't a problem for the Kansas baseball team during its Texan trip in 2014. It was a huge mistake.
Associate Sports Editor
The nemesis for the Jayhawks was a traditional one of the game. They consistently put up pumpen runners on base but, despite this, they consistently unable to get them home.
KU finished its southern swing with a $4 record, one which coach Floyd Temple described yesterday as "not good because it was hard to win hits," its fists, and those are important in baseball."
"If we'd played up to our potential we could have been 8-5 or 9-4. We lost to several schools that there's no doubt weren't as good as us."
TEMPIE SAID there were two or three instances in which the number of KU runners left on base was unbelievable. Through the first 10 games of the series the Jayhawks left 81 runners stranded and a total of 105 men were left on base in the 13 games. The situation was aggravated by the score, the scoring position, Temple said, and that people at bat weren't coming through with clutch hitting.
"WERE mentally dead. There was a lack of execution. You have to do the things you're supposed to do about signals, stolen bases, hit and run—but we didn't."
He said he didn't know what to do about the problem because it wasn't easily corrected by changing coaching or practice methods.
"These things are individual problems they'll have to work out. Clutch hitting, alertness, execution all are part of what's needed to putting yourself in the right mind to do it."
There also were other troubles for the Jayhawks throughout the trip. The team lost some of its nine-too-mille depth when leftfielder Monte Hobbs suffered a knee injury. They responded. He wore it for the past six games and the extent of his injury still is uncertain.
TWO PLAYERS, catcher Andy Gilmore and pitcher Greg Thurman also were lost for the last part of the trip when they were violated indefinitely for curfew violations.
Temple was to meet with the players yesterday but said they would probably play Saturday for the Jayhawks against Washburn. He added that they would receive "additional duties" for a while but declined to describe those duties.
The Jayhawks finished 15th in a field of 16 teams, including two other Big Eight schools - Oklahoma State (13th) and Alabama. The University of Tulsa won the tournament.
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The KU women's golf team didn't have one of its better tournaments at the Betsy Rawls Invitational in Austin Texas, March 11-13.
This was the first competition for the team and was against a group of southern schools that have had the benefit of warm weather for most of the year. Consequently, these teams have been practicing for most of that time as well.
The KU men's tennis team started its Florida trip with a win against Florida State, 54, eleven days ago. But after that, the team won only once in their next four meets.
Tennis team wins 2
THE JAYHAWKS then combined four singles and three double wins to beat the Florida International team, 2-7. But Yale beat KU, 7-2, to give the Jayhawks their third loss in four meets. Clarke and No. 6 played the only KU players with wins.
Dave Rusch, a lefthander and junior college transfer, pitched three good games and had a particularly strong game against Texas Wesleyan last Saturday. Temple said he also was pleased with freshman Clay Christiansen.
AMES, Iowa (AP)—IOWA State basketball coach Lynn Hassan has earned a one-year extension of his three-year contract, ISU announced yesterday.
"He had two real good outings even though the third wasn't so good. Maybe he just got to thinking he was pretty good enough to be the third time out they rapped him bellow.
KU also was defeated by Miami Dade South, 6-3, Hasking and No. 4 Collieter won in singles competition and the team of Clarke and Haskinger won, 7-4, 6-5.
Nancy Hobs the was the low scorer for KU with a 5-hole total of 257.
TEMPIE SAID that, in spite of all the things he saw that he didn't like, there were some encouraging aspects. The pitching depth was good and for the first time on a southern trip he didn't hase to use a starting pitcher who hadn't had three daw's rest.
Women golfers 15th
South Florida gave KU its first loss, 7-2. Bill Clarke and Mark Hosking, playing the No.1 and 2 singles positions, scored the only wins for KU.
"The last time this happened was about 1968, I think. They just didn't realize what they couldn't do and what would happen if they got caught."
Nance gets extension
Second baseman Ron MacDonald led the team in hitting with a .357 average. Three other players also finished the trip with averages above 300.
RICK BOGDAN, a freshman in his first year with the KU team, gave the Jayhawks good relief pitching and Thurman pitched well on the field. Before he got another chance in the rotation.
Iowa State improved from a previous season 3-24 record to 8-19 under the direction of Nance, 34, in his first year as the Cyclone coach.
Wiley finished third in the 60-yard dash, behind Southwest Conference champion Greg Edmund of Houston and Oklahoma's John Garrison, fourth and quarter.
Wagner finished fourth in the 600, won by Michael Soloman of New Mexico, a member of the Tridad Olympic team last year, in 1:10.01.
"While it is highly unusual to extend a contract in the first year of a rebuilding program, it was the unanimous opinion of the lawyers that actions merit such an action." Knight said.
"We are pleased with the progress made by the total program," said Rolle Knight, chairman of the Athletic Council. "We are committed to an indisposition to continued improvement."
"We've got to keep the top five hitters up there and bring the other four up a lot before we can compete. You just can't do it because of them. 179 and 200 averages in the Big Eight."
But the Jayhawks aren't ready for Big Eight competition, Temple said, primarily because of the general lack of hitting perimeter and going to be the focus of upcoming practices.
Kansas 15, Dallass 4
Kansas 4, Dallas 1
Arlington 1, Kansas 0
Arlington 4, Kansas 3
Texas A&M 4, Kansas 2
Kansas 6, Texas A&M 5
Kansas 1, Texas A&M 1
Sr. Garyy's 2, Kansas 1
Kansas 5, Texas Lutheran 4
Texas Lutheran 3, Kansas 0
Texas Wesleyan 8, Kansas 6
Kansas 3, Texas Wesleyen 2
Texas Wesleyen 9, Kansas 5
Kansas Results
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THE OTHER points for KU came from Tad Scales, who tied for fourth in the pole vault. He cleared 16-6. The event was won by Don Bairn on Long Beach State with a vault of 17-4. Arkansas State's Earl Bell, the defending champ, also cleared 17-4 but Bairn was awarded the win on fewer misses.
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"The meet climaxed a real fine indoor season for us," Timmons said. The Jayhawks were undefeated going into the national meet, having won both the United States Track and Field Federation Championships and the Big Eight meet.
KU would have won this meet as well if it had been an all-American affair. Of the top two finishers, Washington State had only two points scored by American athletes and UTEP had seven, with the rest coming from foreign athletes. *Illinois* 16, points 10 were by foreign athletes. KU doesn't have any foreign athletes on its squad.
Other Big Eight athletes recording top performances were Jeff Lee of Nebraska, who won the 69-yard high hurdles; NatPage of Missouri, who took second in the high jump, and Oklahoma's two-mile relay team, which won that event.
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