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Monday, May 20, 1957
Huskers Take Third:
Kansas University Cops Track
Crown For Sixth Straight Win
By DEL RASMUSSEN
Edition Sports Editor
The University of Nebraska
track team, under the able guid
ance of Coach Frank Sevigne,
ained four rungs on the ladder
f cinder strength from 1st year
and finished third in the running
cf the 29th annual Big Seven track
and field competition.
The Husker squad could ac
count for only one first, reaped by
the speed king, Keith Gardner,
but the rest of the harriers filled
in the spaces in respectable fash
ion and earned 63"4 points to edge
the Missouri Tigers by one half
point.
The University of Kansas sur
prised no one as they breezed to
their sixth consecutive crown in
the conference contest. The Jay
hawks were blanked In 100 and 220
yard dashes and the javelin event
but still earned enough points to
smother their nearest competitor,
Colorado, by 76 points.
The Kansas crew earned wins
In nine of the events out of the
total number of 15 contests while
their reserve depth easily gathered
70 more points to bring their com
plete score to the 160 mark, one
of the highest scores in confer
ence history.
The crowd of 5,000 spectators
aaw a meet to behold with a tal
ented array of stars performing.
Such men as Ken Yob of Colo
rado, Al Oerter of Kansas, Wilt
Chamberlain of Kansas, Pete Orr
cf Missouri and the Jamaican
Jet, Keith Gardner.
In the close race of the day,
Keith Gardner hustled under the
wire to edge Kansas State's Gene
O'Connor in the 120-yard high hur
dles with a time of : 14.4. Gard
ner's comment after the race was,
"That was awfully close, old chap,
I got a poor start and had to hur
ry . . . it was quite, quite close."
The high jump event featured
the lanky basketball star, Wilt
Chamberlain. When Wilt cleared
the 6 foot 4 inch barrier with only
' Husker Dale Knotek in the running
he quipped,, "I got what I want."
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At this point of the day Knotek
took off with wings and eased over
the bar at a stratospheric height
of the same as Chamberlain's
leap.
The Wilt "wilted" . . .
But he came back to clear the
obstacle at 6 feet 5 inches and
to win first place laurels 'and re
gain his big grin. Knotek missed
bis tries and had to be content
with second place.
Husker fhinclad Dick Jahr
Cereal Chemists
Two University faculty members
Will present papers at the annual
meeting of the American Associa
tion of Cereal Chemists in San
Francisco, Cal., May 19 to 23.
R. M. Sandstedt, professor of
chemistry in the Biochemistry and
Nutrition department, will present
papers on "A Comparison of
Straight Dough and Sponge Dough
Test Baking Procedures" and
''Further Observations on the
Growth of Synthetic Starch Crys
tals." Paul J. Mattern, assistant bio
chemist, will present a paper con
cerning dough mixing properties
of flours.
Top Husker Scorer:
Ekwall Nominated
For Cage Action
Fourth nominee for the Daily Ne
braskan "Athlete of th Year"
award is a very hard working and
deserving basketball player by the
name of Rex Ekwall.
You might call Ekwall "Mr.
Basketball," at least, for the Husk
er campus.
The HolmesviHe senior was for
three years a star on coach Jerry
Bush's Husker hoop squad. He
finished in a blaze of glory by
breaking the all-time Nebraska
scoring record. Ekwall tallied 854
points in his varsity career and
thus topped the mark set by Jim
Vuchanan in 1950-51-52 by some
thirty points.
Ekwall started his basketball
career in his home town and was
good enough to be on the reserve
high school team when he was still
in the eigth grade. Ekwall admits
that this was definitely one of his
most exciting minutes in the sport
and he certainly has had his
share of them.
Like so many of the present bas
ketball squad, "The Horse" starred
for a small high school instead
cf attending a larger one as is
L "o"v : M.cted.
Fiom tii first college game
back in 1954 until his final var
sity contest last March against
Iowa State he was an established
tar..
Jerry Bush has always said that
Ekwall was one of the easiest men
to handle that he ever saw.
The 5'4" lad possesses a good
basketball eye, a lot of hustle
and is a good team man. Many
times, perhaps even too many, Rex
passed up a good opportunity to
shoot and parsed off to a team
mate instead.
He alsois versatile and played
both the post and forward positions
in his career. Being a good re
bounder, Ekwall was always un
der the basket on both offense and
defense.
turned up with some serious run
ning and earned himself the sec
ond slot in the 220-yard dash and
nabbed fourth place in the cen
tury running. Don Phillipps added,
to the Nebraska point total by
placing sixth in that event.
Bill Hawkins grabbed two fifth
place ribbons in the low stick ob
stacle course and the broad jump.
Chuck Wollaston leaped 22-6 to
finished one place behind Haw
kins in the broad jump event.
Big Max Kitzelman, man of all
sports, heaved the discus 140-4Vi
to earn a fifth place ribbon while
Bill Lafleur and Dean Brittenham
grabbed third and fourth places
respectively in the javelin contest.
Conference
To Admit
New Team
In a move waited for 29 years
by Oklahoma A&M the faculty
representatives of the Big-Seven
extended an invitation to the Okla
homa school to be a member of
the conference. The invitation was
immediately accepted by school
president Dr. Oliver Willham and
thus the Big-Seven became the
Big-Eight.
The Oklahoma Agricultural and
Mechanical College is now being
renamed Oklahoma State Univer
sity. It is located at Stillwater,
Oklahoma, and had an enrollment
of 9,113 for the 1957 school year
Their football stadium can seat
40,000 fans and the basketball field
house has a capacity of 9,000.
The school will be able to com
pete in all sports except football
and basketball starting the win
ter and spring sports in 1958. Just
as soon as they can schedule the
other seven schools, they will be
gin in the championship races in
the two sports. They will enter the
tournament in 1958 and participate
in the championship race that
year. Football will begin no later
than 1961.
Husker fans will be able to see
another big college in the world
teams have consistently been
among the top in the country es
pecially on defense. Their wres
tling team is also tops having fin
ished second in the NCAA behind
Oklahoma last winter.
' At" one stretch between 1944 and
1946, the Aggies won the Cotton
and Sugar bowl games, earned
championship honors in basket
ball and WTestling and had a very
fine track team.
Bill Orwig said of the admission:
"I feel Oklahoma A&M will" be
a very fine member of the con
ference. We know their athlet
ics are strong and well- organized
and they will make a fine con
contribution to the conference."
Chancellor Hardin also com
mented: "We are pleased to wel
come Oklahoma A&M to the con
ference. I have a very high per
sonal regard for President Will
ham and have been much im
pressed with the progress that
has been made at A&M both aca
demically and athletically, under
his administration."
This season as captain of the
squad, Ekwall paced his mates
to a fourth place finish in the
extra strong conference. That final
game of the season against the
Cyclones that Nebraska won was
a good example of the kind of ball
the HolmesviHe star plays. He
scored 19 points to lead both teams
in that department and to pace
Nebraska to a 67-58 upset win
over the highly touted Cyclones.
Ekwall was honored following
both the 1955-56 and 56-57 seasons
as being the outstanding Nebraska
eager of both seasons. This award
is not only based, on his basketball
activity but also his by his actions
off the floor.
Coaches all around the confer
ence praised Ekwall for his hustle
and his ability. He was honored
the last two seasons by being
placed on several all conference
squads.
After the regular campaign was
over this March Ekwall was in
vited to play in the East-West All
Star Game at Kansas City which
is a big honor for any lad. He
responded by playing a fine game
and contributed four ponts to the
cause as the West pulled an upset
victory.
. There will be a big spot to fill
next season on the Husker cage
squad. The spot vacated by the
hustling veteran hoopster.
However, the basketball activity
for Ekwall probably has many
more chapters to be written. He
hopes to play in the National In
dustrial League next season and
we can see no reason why this
want should not be fulfilled for
Rex Ekwall.
- Congratulations to Ekwall for a
job well done.
Ekwall is the fourth nominee for
the new award. He follows Keith
Gardner, Jerry Brown and Wayne
Strickler. The winner will be an
nounced in Friday's Nebraskan.
Iowan Bob Elwood in a Nebras
ka uniform paced Jarry McNeal
of Kansas for the first portion of
the two-mile race but he couldn't
keep up the blistering pace set by
McNeal as he raced to a 9:09.1
to better the mark of that race by
10 seconds. Two other records fell
also during the two-day classic;
those in the 440-yard run and the
mile relay.
In the 440 Pete Orr of Missouri
churned the distance in a :47.1
time to better the mark, set by
Frank Cindrich of KU and Thane
Baker of KS in 1954 and 1953 re
spectively. The mile relay mark was au
thored, by the Kansas crew of Louis
Stroup, Mik Cummins, Lowell Jan
zen, and Ray Wyatt. These men
shattered the old record of 3:15.4
set by Kansas State in 1953 and
replaced it with a 3:12.6 mark.
Nebraska earned a third position
in that running.
The finals points were reaped
by Ken Pollard, Husker pole vault
er, who tied, for fifth and sixth
place with Carl Cox of Oklahoma
at a 13-ceiling. Pollard, by
doing this, figures to be the hero
of the day for the Cornhuskers as
his earnings for the afternoon
brought the point total of the Se
vigne squad to better the Tigers
by a scant one half point.
None of the thinclads that donned
a Nebraska uniform can be dis
credited, however, when they have
brought the Husker track team
from a dismal last place finish
last year to a respectable, third
place this year.
The second place finisher was
slated to be Missouri but it was
Colorado who furnished the closest
competition for the Jayhawks with
84 points.
Sooners
Accumulate
New Crown
The Oklahoma Sooners added
another championship to their al
ready star studded belts as they
completely outclassed the other
six teams in winning the Big
Seven tennis tournament held
here in Lincoln.
The Sooners won 19 matches and
six of seven finals to finish far
ahead of second place Colorado,
last years champion, who won 9
matches. Behind these were Kan
sas t, Iowa State and Kansas Stale
S each, and Missouri and Ne
braska with two wins apiece.
Barry Walraven salted away two
Big-Seven crowns as he won No.
1 singles, equivalent of the Con
ference championship, and the No.
1 doubles with Joe Harris. He de
feated Iowa State's Ed Hoffman
6-4, 6-2 for the crown in singles
while he and Harris defeated Hoff
man and Dick Sahr 6-4, 6-1 in
doubles.
Joe Harris also enjoyed two
titles as he won the No. 2 singles
from Bob Wright of Colorado, 8-6,
6-2.
The two Cross boys, Dennis and
Don, each had a hand in two of
the Sooner victories. Don wen the
Number 3 singles from Keith An
dler of Kansas State 6-3, 6-2 and
then teamed with his brother to
win the No. 2 doubles crown from
Bob Peterson and Lynn Siever
ling of Kansas 7-5, 6-1.
Dennis won the No. 5 singles
defeating John Whisler of Colo
rado, 6-1, 5-7 and 16-14 in the long
est match of the tournament.
Ron Latta of Colorado was the
only man of the oother siv schools
to garner a victory in the finals.
He defeated Jim Holwerda of Kan
sas State 9-7, 6-8 for the No. 4
singles title.
Art Weaver was the only Corn
husker to gain a victory in the
two day affair. He defeated Kan
sas State's Allen Chaplin 6-3, 4,
6-4 in the first round of the No.
2 singles on Friday. He then lost
to Harris of Oklahoma in the sec
ond round, 6-1, 6-0.
The other victory given to the
Huskers was the bye Weaver and
North had in the first'round of the
doubles. They lost to the Gross
duo 6-1, 6-0 in the semi-finals.
All other Huskers lost in the
first round of their respective
singles and double classes.
Bob Riley of Kansas who won
a singles crown two years ago,
met defeat at the hands of Wal
raven in the semi-finals for the
second year in a row. Their
scores were 6-3, 6-2.
Jim Landin, Colorado's main
hope in singles lost to little Ed
Hoffman in one of the closest
matches of the day, 11-9, 4-6, 6-2.
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Al Karle
Al Karle, veteran Husker sec
ond sacker of Tony Sharpe's
diamond crew was injured when
he collided with the Oklahoma
first baseman in the second
Smith Gets Cup:
Oerter Chosen As
Outstanding Star
Oerter Receives Award . .
Al Oerter, husky young man
from Long Island, New York, who
wore a Kansas uniform in the two
day track and field carnival here
last week end, won the Henry F.
Schulte Memorial Trophy Satur
day. Oerter was one of two men who
gathered double wins during the
meet.His winning toss in the dis
cus throw of 179 feet 10V4 inches,
was no surprise to most folks when
it is noted that he flipped the
plate a mighty 183 feet 5 inches
last year to set a new conference
record, but at the time of the
throwing Al was experimenting
with a new way to throw the plat
ter. Al also won the shot put compe
tition with a heave of 53 feet 6V4
inches to win that contest by three
quarters of an inch.
Oerter set the stage beautifully
to win the shot. He was the last
man to toss the weight and Phil
Delavan of Iowa State was led
ing the field with a 53-534 heave.
Oerter had failed in his other at
tempts but had one more chance.
A mighty heave of the 16 lb. iron
ball put it to the ground a scant
three-quarters of an inch past Del
avan's try.
Individual Champions. . .
100-yard dash Chuck Smith.
Colorado, :10.
220-yard dash Chuck Smith,
Colorado, :21.9.
440-yard dash Pete Orr, Mis
souri, :47.1 (betters record of :47.9
set by Frank Cindrich in 1954 (KU)
and Thane Baker in 1953KS).
880-yard run Lowell Janzen,
Kansas, 1:54.4.
Mile Hal Long, Kansas, 4:15.
Two-mile Jerry McNeal, Kan
sas, 9:09 1 (betters record set by
Bruce Drummond (O) in 1953,
9:19)
High hurdles Keith Gardner,
Nebraska, : 14.4.
Low hurdles Gene O'Connor,
Kansas State, :24.1.
Stroup Mike Cummins, Lowell
Janzen, Ray Wyatt), 3:12.6 (bet
ters record of 3:15.4 set by Kansas
State in 1954).
Discus Al Oerter, Kansas,
179-lOVi.
Pole vault Dave Tarns, Kan
sas, 13-7T.
High jump Wilt Chamber
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game of a double header Satur
day. Karle's injury was not ser
ious, however, an examination,
revealed.
lain, Kansas, 6-5.
Shot put Al Oerter, Kansas,
53-6li.
Javelin Ken Yob, Colorado,
213-3.
Braod jump Blaine Hollinger,
Kansas, 23-10.
Oerter laughed when Delevan
came over to congratulate him and
said, "I didn't do anything on the
last one except throw the hell
out of it." Then he trotted off
to earned top place laurels in the
discus.
The weighty lad of Coach Bill
Easton's crew was in contention
for the Schulte award with one of
his own teammates, Jerry McNeal,
who shattered the two-mile mark
by more than nine seconds.
Others in contention for the hon
or were Chuck Smith of Colorado,
who doubled in the 100 and 220,
Pete Orr, who broke a conference
record in the 440-yard run; and
Gene O'Connor who nearly swept
nor who starred- for the Kansas
State Wildcats handily won the
low hurdles but was nosed out by
Nebraskan Keith Gardner for the
high stick laurels.
Oerter is the Lympic Games
winner in the discus competition.
He is working on a new style in
hopes to repeat his past perform
ance in the coming Olympics.
Smith Wins Big Seven Sprint Cup
Chuck Smith from Denver, Colo
rado won the Big Seven Sprint
Cup for his victories in the 100 and
220 yard dashes. The cup has
been awarded since 1920 by Jack
Grover Washington 'CS; Shannon
Douglas, Missouri '10; and guy
Reed, Nebraska '11.
Dick Blair of Kansas copped it
in 1955 and 1956.
Smith, proud father of a two
week old baby girl, grinned when
he received the award and said.,
"My little girl will sure be proud
of me now."
(2) wrestlers Danny Hodge and
Dick Delgado, who won national
championships at Pittsburgh, Pa.,
with Hodge being voted the nation's
best the second year in a row;
and (3) swimmer Julian Dyason,
who won the national collegiate
championship in the 100-yard breast
stroke in the recent NCAA meet
at Chapel Hill, N. C.
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Ziegenboin, Siebler Victims:
Husker Hurlers Lose
Two Top Performances
By BOB WIRZ
Sports Staff Writer
Just what does a pitcher have
to do to win a baseball game? This
is what two Husker pitchers were
wondering after they were handed
setbacks in the first and second
games of a important Big Seven
series in Lincoln this weekend.
Lefty Charley Ziegenbein hurled
a two-hitter on Friday in a nine
ininng contest but lost 4-3 to Okla
homa when teammates committed
six costly bobbles. The situation
was even worse on Saturday when
sophomore Dwight Siebler hurled
Golf Crown
Stays In
Oklahoma
Ho! Hum! it's the Oklahoma
Sooners again, this time winning
the Big Seven golf crown for the
second year in a row.
They finished a solid 19 strokes
over Kansas totaling 920 for the
four top men Dlavine 54 holes
over the par 72 Hillcrest golf course
here in Lincoln.
Takinsr medal honors was Jack
Morre of Oklahoma. He fired,
rounds of 76-75-72 for a seven over
par 223. Temmate J. C. Dixon was
runner up with rounds of 77-73-
76226.
The meet was never in doubt as
the Sooners lost no time in talc
ing the lead. They were ahead of
Kansas by 22 strokes at the end
of 36 holes. Missouri finished third
with 953, Coloraco, fourth with
970, Iowa State fifth with 373, Ne
braska sixth with 982 and Kan
sas State last with a soaring 1,005.
Low man for the Scarlet was
John Butterfield with a 54 hole
total of 243. Warren Christenson
and Tom Kissler each had totals
of 251 to round out the top four
Huskers.
Missouri's Tom Faerber, Colo
rado's Frank Bocovich and Kan
sas State's Dave Phuetze each
fired 231'a to round out the top
seven in the meet. Iowa State's
Dale Fridley shot a 232 to re
main close behind. He was given
an outside chance of taking med
alist honors.
Generally, top play was some
what hampered by cool weather
and a wet course. The only par
round was fired by Moore with a
72 on the last 18. Richardson and
Dixon each came within sight of
a 74 and 73 respectively. They did
prove conclusively that rain or
shine, there is no golf team in the
Big Seven that comes near their
shooting ability.
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a no-hitter at the Oklahoma bat
ters only to lose 1-0 on his own er
ror in the second inning.
The Huskers came back in the
second half of the Saturday double
header to win 7-3 but they were
already virtually eliminated from
the Big Seven race.
Oklahoma jumped to a quick
lead in the series by scoring three
unearned runs in the first ball
game. Tney received their first un
earned tally in the opening frame
with out the aid of a base hit.
The Sooners upped their lead to
3-0 in the third inning when they
bunched their two hits with an
error.
Meanwhile, Eddie Fisher had the
Huskers eating out of his hand.
The big Nebraska bats did not
get started until the sixth when
they picked up two runs: Larry
Lewis drove both runs home with
a single. Nebraska tied up the
game the next frame only to fall
behind again in the eighth.
Once more the visitors scored
without the aid of a base hit.
Nebraska . threatened in the
eighth but some faulty base run
ning beat them out of a chance
to score.
The Saturday opener was harder
to face for the Huskers. Siebler
was simply magnificent all the
way. The crafty righthander
walked just three men while strik
ing out nine and not allowing a
single hit.
The sole run came in the sec
ond frame as Bob Burr scored on
Siebler's overthrow of first base.
Burr had walked opening the in
ning and advanced to second when
Frank Nappi fumbled Bob Greg
ory's grounder. This brought up
first baseman Don Stiller and the
lanky football co-captain bunted.
Siebler hustled off the mound and
fielded the ball cleanly and then
threw over the head of Al Karle
who was covering first.
The Huskers were held to one
hit by Tony Risinger until the
seventh inning when with one out
Kane doubled and it looked like
the home favorites had a life.
First baseman John Beideck was
due to bat next but coach Tony
Sharpe chose to go along with
lefthanded Roger Bottorff. The
Lincoln senior drilled a single be
tween third and short and every
one thought Kane could score from
second. Everyone that is except
leftfielder Jim Leeper. He scooped
up the ball and fired a strike to
home plate cutting down the Wis
ner catcher.
Nebraska finally salvaged the
final game of the series after the
major damage was done. Lewis
and Nappi carried the big bats
in this contest each driving in two
runs.
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