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    Friday, May 17, 1940
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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By June Bierbower.
Returning champions arc nu
merous aa the Big Six track and
field meet opens today, but some
of their thrones are tottering pre
cariously. And, sad to Nebraska,
it is the Huskers who are in grav
est danger.
Seven defending champions are
back, among them Huskers Lloyd
Wright, Ed Wibbels, Bus Knight
and the three of them are going
to meet some tall competition.
Wright, who recently became elig
ible, had not rounded into shape
at the time of the Kansas State
meet, and the Beatrice junior, who
tied with Ed Toribio of Oklahoma
in the hundred last year, is still a
question mark.
Wibbels has been off form all
season in the discus which he won
last year, while javelin champion
Knight is at present on the injury
list with a pulled elbow.
John Munski of Missouri won
the mile and half mile last year,
but he may remain out of the
shorter race what with Marshall
Reeves, indoor champion, seem
ingly back in form after a muscle
injury.
Ray Harris of Kansas pulled a
surprise by beating Charley
Mitchell of K-State in the two
mile last year, but hasn't done
anything because of a bad ankle
this spring. Thaine High of K
State won the indoor mile, but has
been below form this spring, too,
so the title may go to a team
mate, Lawrence Kelley, or to
Munski.
Surest of retaining his laurels
poems to be Elmer Hackney,
Wildcats' shot putter. Big Hack
has had bad luck since setting
that 51-10 record as a sophomore.
Last year he had a bad hand, but
he may get over 52 feet this
weekend.
And about as sure looks Dick
Sdinacke, Iowa State high jumper
who tied with Bob Stoland of
Kansas In the high jump, last
year. Stoland, by the way, won
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Nebraska holds eight indoor
six outdoor cinder crowns
Far out ahead of the peak in
Big Six track and field champion
ships is Nebraska. Since the first
conference meet, which was in
1929, the Huskers have won eight
indoor and six outdoor crowns, al-
tho they shared the 1939 indoor
title with the Oklahoma Sooners.
The Huskers now are defending
indoor and outdoor champions,
having surprised last May with an
outdoor victory at the Ames con
ference meet after having been
relegated to fifth in the indoor
compete. They won the 1940 in
door meet held last March in Kan
sas City, with a sensational crop
of sophomores.
Tigers threaten.
Biggest threats to the Huskers
this spring seem to be Missouri
and Oklahoma. The Tigers are the
only team to break the near-Hus-ker
monopoly which began in
1936, having won the 1938 outdoor
and the 1939 indoor.
Recent history shows that in
1936 and 1937 the great duo of
Lloyd Cardwell and Sam Francis
led the Huskers to victory. In 1938,
the Huskers had a fine chance to
win until star hurdler Bill Gish
dislocated a shoulder in practice
and did not compete. His points
would probably have put the
Husker numbers
13. Harold Brooks.
17. Robert Conner.
18. Dale Garrels.
20. Bill Cook.
21. LeRoy Walker.
22. Gene Littler.
23. Harold Hunt.
24. Bill Smutz.
25. Henry Rohn.
26. Dale Nannen.
27. Millard Cluck.
28. Jerald Davis.
29. Ervvin GoiJenstein.
30. Herb Grote.
31. Harold Scott.
32. Lloyd Wright.
33. Maynard Swartz.
35. Bob Kahler.
36. Ray Prochaska.
37. Bus Knight.
38. Vike Francis.
39. Ed Wibbels.
40. George Abel.
42. Don Chaloupka.
43. Albert LunL
44. Walt Nye.
the broad jump, too, but is in
eligible. He failed to fill out a
class card in a physical education
course, but completed the re
quirements of the subjects. How
ever, the registrar's office failed
to give him credit because of the
technicality, so he lacks hours for
competition.
Track
(Continued from page 1.)
ners last year in a so-called sur
prise win at Ames. Since then, the
sophomore students of Frof. Ed
Weir are carrying on the records
and marks set by his graduating
classmen of 1939.
Littler leads field.
Prize pupil of the Husker class
in particular and the Big Six con
ference in general is Eugene "Red"
Littler. The Mitchell sophomore is
the prc-meet favorite in all dashes
up to the quartermile.
Harold Hunt. North Platte pole
vaulter, is given an even chance
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BIG SIX TRACK AND FIELD
CHAMPIONS.
Indoor Outdoor
1929 Oklahoma Nebraska
1930 Nebraska Kansas
1931 Nebraska Kansas
1932 Nebraska Nebraska
1933 Neb.-Okl. (tie) .. Nebraska
1934 Kansas Kansas
1935 Kansas State ..Oklahoma
1936 Nebraska Nebraska
1937 Nebraska Nebraska
1938 Nebraska Missouri
1939 Missouri Nebraska
1940 Nebraska 77 ?7
Huskers in first place instead of
second.
Last team other than Nebraska
or Missouri to win a title was
Oklahoma. The Sooners won the
outdoor meet in 1935. Their only
other wins came in the 1929 and
1933 indoors, winning singly in
1929, and tying the Huskers in the
latter year.
Kansas shows the best record
next to the Huskers, having won
the 1934 indoor, and the outdoor
meets in 1930, ,'31, and '34. Only
other team to win a championship
is Kansas State, who took the in
door bunting in 1935. Iowa State
has never had a championship
team.
Meet program
for Friday,
Saturday
FRIDAY TKKI.1MS.
2:.10-120-yard hlKh hurdles.
2:M) 100-yard dash.
3:10 440-yard dash.
3 :U0 220-yard low hurdle.
3:ftu 220-yard dash.
4 :10 880-yard (inch.
All field events-Shot, Javelin, discus
and broad Jump at 2:30.
8AII 1UIAY FINALS.
2:00-Mile run.
2 12 440-yard dniih.
2:25 100-yaid dash.
2:37 120-yard hit:h hurdles.
2 :.r0 880-yard dash.
3:02- 220-yard dash.
3:15 Two-mil run.
3:30 220-yard kw hurdle.
3.42-Mile relav.
Field Kvrnta.
1:30 Pole VHUlt and hlKh jump.
2:00- Shot to be followed by discus and
Javelin.
2:30- Broad Jump.
Admission free Friday. Saturday ad
mission fee la 50 eenln for adults, and 10
cents for knotho'.era of hiKh school age
of beating rivals in the sky climb
ing event. Dean Higgins of Mis
souri and Hunt are both possible
new record smashers. The vault
mark is 13 feet 8'.i inches set by
Ray Noble of Kansas in 1935.
"Lonesome John" Munski, Mis
souri and Big Six mile king, is
out to crack the conference record
in the 4-lap race set by Glenn
Cunningham of Kansas in 1932.
The record is 4:14.3.
Brooks has chance.
Husker Harold Brooks is slated
to run the half mile, mile, and two
mile and is conceded a very good
chance of finishing close to the
top in all three races.
Herb Grote has fully recovered
from his flu, but must hurdle a
hazy scholastic hurdle before he
can compete in the javelin. His
chances in this throw are very
good, but tvo former champions
are back. Bob Waldram, Tiger
winner in 1938, and George "Bus"
Knight, '39 victor, are both press
ing Grote.
Other Huskers with a fair
chance of winning are upperclass
men Edsel Wibbels and Ray Pro
chaska in the weights, Bill Smutz
Proudly Present
Tennists end
play vith win
Conference play closes;
net squad undefeated
Nebraska's tennis team closed
its season by being undefeated in
six starts. Latest scalp to the
Husker belts was added, Thurs
day afternoon, when Iowa State
succumbed by a 5-1 score.
Harold Rundle was forced to go
an extra set before downing the
Cyclone's number one man. How
ever, Johnn Huston and Harry
Ankeny won in straight sets. In
doubles, Huston and Rundle won
in two sets as did the second dou
bles team of Ankeny and Mickey
Weidman.
Only man member to lose a
match was Chuck Eberline who
carried Griffing to three sets be
fore losing. Results:
6INGI.ES: Rundle N won from Buren
OS), 6-4. 2-6. 6-2: Huston (Ml won from
Owens (IS), 6-4, 6-3; Ankeny N won
irom Beresiord (is), 6-2, 6-4; Griffin
(18) won from Eberline (N), 3-6, 6-1, 6-3.
DOUBLKS: Rundle-Huston (N) won
from Buren-Owens (IS). 6-4. 6-4: Ankenv-
Weidman (N) won from Beresford-Urlf-
"ng usj. 6-3.
in the two hurdle races, and Lloyd
Wright in the dashes.
Schnacke star jumper.
Possible record breakers include
Dick Schnacke of Iowa State in
the high jump. The record is 6'
3"8". Elmer Hackney, Kansas
State's One Man Gang, has ex
ceeded his conference mark of 51'
10" in the shot put. Iowa State's
mile relay team is expected to win
Jthis event, with Missouri and Ok
lahoma fighting for place posi
tion.
Saturday will be the day when
observers can see which teams and
individuals have had the better
cram sessions. Friday's prelims
win not have any admission price.
Saturday's finals will cost adults
fifty cents and knotholers will be
admitted for a dime.
Here's for the Huskers to pass
that last final track examination
with flying colors!!!!
Students at Bucknell university
spontaneously started a campus
wide drive to improve their own
scholastic standings.
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golf, tennis
Nebraska ranks as
strong contender
for OU's tennis title
Oklahoma's Sooners are the
ones that Big Six schools are
aiming to beat in tennis and golf
play in the conference champion
ships held here today and Satur
day. The Oil State lads are 1939
champions in the net sport. Ed
Lindsey, Oklahoman, is the re
turning singles champ. His chief
obstacle is Nebraska's Harold
Rundle, who was runnerup to
Lindsey at Ames last year.
Team laurels are supposed to
lie between the Sooners and the
Huskers with Oklahoma given a
slight edge. Nebraska's quartet of
Rundle, John Huston, Harry An
keny and Chuck Eberline are un
defeated in six starts.
NU-Ames deadlocked.
Second to Oklahoma in tennfs
last year were the Huskers and
Iowa State who were deadlocked
for runnerup honors.
In golf, Kansas is the 1939
champion. The Jayhawkers beat
the Sooners by one stroke to win
the title. Dean Ritchie, Kansas
amateur champ, is the only re
turning letterman. Oklahoma and
Iowa State are figured to be in.
the running for the number one
position. The latter has the Hall
brothers, Billy and Max Hall, to
threaten individual honors.
Nebraska's links quartet will be
composed of four of the following
six men: Bill Mowbray, Wally
Spomer, Jack Weidman, Frank
Tallman, Don Million, and Jack
Hyland.
Golf play will be contested at
the Lincoln Country club, while
the tennis championships will be
held at the Lincoln Tennis "club.
Tennis.
Nebraska : Harold Rundle. John Huston,
Harry Ankeny, Charles Uberline, Don
Schulr.
Kiintas: Howard Engelman, Kermlt
Franks, Jack Kloyd. Conrad Voelker.
Missouri: Art Prever, Lacey Haines,
Louis Gerdes, Robert Schroeder.
low Slate: Buren, Owens, Grlfflog,
Meoze. Beresford.
Kansas State: Thornburrow, Horacek,
Cushing, Sechler.
finlf.
Nebraska: William Mowbray, Wallv
Spomer. Jai'k Wrliirr-"1 Tack Hyland,
Krnnk Tallman, Don Million.
Kansas K-tc Ailin ward, Bennie York,
Paustlan, Mundy. f,
Kansas: Dean Ritchie, Roderick Wake
land, William McWIhenny, Robert Lntiree.
Missouri: Robert H gehoom, John De
weese. Willi.-im Victor, Harry Missildine.
Iowa State: Tom Hoak, Bob Schreiber.
Max Hall, Billy Hull.
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