Minnesota State University - Katonian Yearbook (Mankato, MN)

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Opp. MSC Northwest Open Track Meet .... No standing kept 59 State College of Iowa ...,,.. North Central Relays ........ Kansas State University Relays 72 Northern Illinois .....,,.... Drake Relays . . ........,. . . 58 St. Cloud State 4... Iowa Relays ..,.n.,. 22 South Dakota State . . . Emporia Relays ,...... Howard Wood Relays . . . Bemidji Invitational .... 38 Gustavus Adolphus 14 St. Paul Bethal .... . NSCC Conference ....... NCAA College Division .... Third place , . . . . . . . . 22 . . . 32 . . .,..., 78 Third Place .. ..... . 58 Eighth place Third place . First place .. .... .109 .........109 . First place . Sixth place Roger Big Daddy Meyer holds the confer- 'md 'he 'M' TH I NCLADS WIN 15th Darrell Grosland Cleftl finishes second for MSC in a 220-yd. dash. The Indians opened their indoor track season with the entire MSC contingency representing the col- lege in the Northwest Open Track iv Meet at the University of Mimie- sota's Field House. Tom Swanson U My had a shot-put heave of 53' Iii , which was good enough for first place. State College of Iowa shaded the Indians 59-55 at Cedar Falls, Iowa, in the Indians' first dual meet of the year. The Indians notched four Hrst places, six sec- onds and iive thirds but still could not stave of-I defeat. Mankato State grabbed third place in the North Central Relays held in Naperville, Illinois, as they showed great improvement over the Hrst two meets. The were but live points out of first pllace, which was nailed down b Northern Illinois University while Loyola University of Chicago was second. MSC was severely tested in the Kansas State University Invita- tional Relays, which inc uded the Big Eight Colleges. MSC had a f 1-aQ'C t5t52'.f ' 1' 5',sa'.f '. ,.fn'fT . g.,--., N af-.L fs . ,M .et ' 7 ga. . ,i ,. Shir' ,f team score of 22 points and only twelve of the thirty-one teams had boys who placed. 228

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Arlin Brandt, left, and Jim Christenson won the Mankato State Doubles Table Tennis Champion- s xp. IN INTRAMURALS 311100 I0l1nS0n's I.M. basketball team won .the Larry Willett's I.M. basketball team won the oil-campus title and also the overall champion- dormitory championship and were runners-up in ship. the overall division. 227

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Row One: G. Trygstad, J. Nelson, K. Viesselman, C .PfafI, W..Feder, M. Seery, J. White, C. Rettmann, I. Reisdorf, L. Hinz, R. Broberg. Row Two: Coach Myers, D. Johnson, C. Satrum, J. McCless, R. Brown, L. Bellamy, D. Grosland, J. Goode, D. Kamath, E. Roepke, R. Meyer, L. Leist, L. Harme. Row Three: D. Crocker, R. Melquist, M. Bryan, I. Wrucke, I. Linner, H. Hill, W. Wolverton, mgr., C. Mays, Ass't. Coach C. Nelson. Hurdler Ed Roepke limbers up before going to Bemidji to the NSCC meet to successfully de The varsity team ran head-on into the North Central champion, Northern Illinois, and were shock- ed 72-32. The Indians set three new Northern Illinois Field House records in defeat. For the first time in the school's histo , MSC failed to bring back a meldal from the Drake Relays. All MSC men moved from the prelimi- naries to the finals but did not place. The Indians nailed ten firsts in the dual meet with the St. Cloud Huskies winnin 78-53. MSC finishecf third behind the tied State College of Iowa and Bradley University at the Iowa Relays. Del jones set a new tourna- ment record in the pole vault with his soar of 13' WA . In their 58-22 defeat to South Dakota State the Indians did man- age to win six firsts, five second p aces and seven thirds. Dan Crocker set a new school record in the javelin, 183' 34 , in the Emporia Relays. A third place in the two mile relay, and the low- high shuttle-hurdles rounded out the scoring for the eighth place Indians. Coach Earl Bud Myers has a reason for smiling+winning the NSCC track title for the fifteenth season. 229 fend his 440-yd. hurdles record and title 'Qigpf' Q. is L