Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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Coach William Favrow- Bill Favrow, assistant cross coun- try coach, is in his seventh season at K-State. A native of Kansas City, Favrow was a track standout at Em- poria State Teachers College where he set a record in the 1962 con- ference meet. He also lettered four years in football and one year in basketball at Emporia. Favrow came to K-State in 1965. Prior to that time he was a high school coach at Argentine High School in the Kansas City area, and later at Concordia High School. In addition to his coaching duties Coach Favrow serves as the director of the K-State athletic dormitory. ' IWO of 7; LEFT: CROSS COUNTRY TEAM — Top Row: Jerome Howe, Tod Settle, John Glimple, Don Akin. Rick Tyler. Jeff Schemmel, Coach Dodds. Bottom Row Keith Palmer, Craig McVey, Stuart Collier, Richard Lozano, Chris Perez, John Feltner. FAR LEFT: Keith Palmer leads his teammate ' s to victory. TOP LEFT: K- State runners are closely grouped far ahead of the rest of the field. TOP RIGHT: Its a long five miles to the finish line. CENTER RIGHT: Just one more hill and II will all be over. ABOVE: Victory makes all the pain worthwhile. Cross country-121

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Harriers surpass expectations Mid morning dawned. Cutting, sub-freezing winds wailed across desolate plains. Looking across Stagg Hill, which was covered with scrubby grass and patches of snow, one could see few trees, few houses and little wildlife. The only things visible were a few pickup trucks, some colored flags marking portions of a five-mile cross-country course and nervous athletes who were jogging around, preparing to run those five miles. A comfortable voice from inside one heated truck called out over a loud-speaker: Three minutes until start. Take off your warmup clothes. The competitors stripped off wind-breakers and other bulky clothing and moved toward the star- ting line. In their motley assortment of bright caps and earmuffs and long underwear beneath their team un- iforms, the athletes looked strange, ghostlike, almost comical — like will- ing victims of a vast practical joke. The participants had endured ,months of rigorous training and hard competition. They had run miles and miles every week, pushing and punishing themselves for the private satisfaction of beating someone else dedicated to the same goals, realiz- ing all the while that the rest of K- State watched the football team. These runners formed a team which was often apart from other varsity glamour — marching bands, floating Charmin rolls, cheerleaders ' yells and shrill crowds. Now they had reached another summit of running prestige, they toed the line. Lost in the starting gun ' s canonade, vanishing footsteps echoed into the grassy knoll ... just one more run had begun. The one more run of Wildcat harriers became a surprisingly successful season far beyond pre- season expectations. Led by impressive Jeff Schemmel, the young team captured three first place dual-meet finishes along with a second place mark at the Wichita State Triangular Meet. Disappointment accompanied a fifth place finish at the Big Eight Meet but the harriers rebounded for third place at the NCAA District Meet. The NCAA championships finish- ed the Wildcats ' season when they failed to place in team standings. 120—Cross country

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Intramural program transforms sports-shy students into jocks And finally — after all the frustrations of rote learning, quiz- outs, quiz-ins, drop-adds, break- ups, break-outs, dateless nights, rainy afternoons and 7:30 classes finally at K-State there are in- tramurals. When there seems to be time for little else, there is time for intramural sports: time to take a two-mile jog on a cold Saturday morning, time to try one ' s luck at sports never or long- since played, time to try out the old physique before plunging into an all- nighter, time to force once-limber muscles into positions long-since forgotten and time to seek release from being a mere spectator. From every intellectual cubbyhole students descend upon the In- tramural playing fields in a flurry of physical ambition and good inten- tion. People pursue championships the year long with as much deter- mination, reckless abandon and pain as they might pursue a 4.00 OPA. One talks of Purple Pride. Where Is the pride In intramurals? in win- ning? Possibly the pride Iles in mak- ing one ' s body perform in the capacity to which it was once con- ditioned. Often, that can hurt switching one ' s roles from spectator to participant at a moments notice for seemingly no good reason but . . . personal pride? Somewhere there is pride in Intramurals, but its only colors are black and blue. 122—Intramurals