Kent State University - Chestnut Burr Yearbook (Kent, OH)

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TRACK RESULTS Kent Opponent 55 Bowling Green 72 32.5 Baldwin-Wallace 99.5 69.5 Oberlin 57.5 29 Ohio University 94 CROSS-COUNTRY SCORES Kent Opponent 87 Pittsburgh 34 Ohio University 32 Bowling Green 76 25 Geneva 32 24 Hiram College 31 30 Ohio Wesleyan 25 49 Ohio State University 15 31 Oberlin 25 33 Bowling Green 22 19 Toledo 41 20 Baldwin-Wallace 38 Often much practice is necessary before the proper highjump form is mastered. NOTE: In cross-country, lowest score wins. Varsity Track Team, Front row, 1-r: Kahler, Roys, Domjan, Nowak, Kovach, Angle. Row 2: Doug Ray- mond, coach; Warfield, Hoose, Szwast, Burns, Cuchna, Thompson. Absent: Turek, Maurer, McFarland, Gilcher.

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The first hill is the easiest as the cross country runners start the first leg of their 4-mile run. Track Training Revised Newly arrived from Boston university, head track coach Doug Raymond ran head on into a tough track and country schedule equipped with only the remnants of a sagging squad. He immediately set upon a program to revitalize the track picture and refused to let losses discourage either him- self or his runners. The 1960-61 track season saw KSU ' s colors carried to several national events. Even though they won no honors the team gained the poise and confidence of experience they will need when Raymond ' s improved teams return to represent the school. The cross-country team won four out of nine meets in the regular season and placed fifth in both the Mid-American and the All Ohio meets held at Kent. The varsity track team won only one of the four scheduled meets and placed fifth at the Mid-American Conference meet at Bowl- ing Green. Chief among Raymond ' s plans for strengthen- ing the track picture at KSU is emphasis on year- orUKI o round training and fitness for his runners,. Cross Country Team, Front row, 1-r: James Kovach, Robert Harvey, Bill Maurer, captain; John Szwast, Jim Rog. Row 2: Douglas L. Raymond, coach; Warren Kra- mer, David Wise. Ronals Brugger, Earl Pitzer, Jack Tippens. Wise. Brugger, Pitzer are members of the fresh- men team. 26

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SPORTS 1961 Varsity Tennis, Front row 1-r: Miller, Chapon, Vens, Hood. Row 2: Coach Chesnutt, Tenwick, Walker, Hutchings, Smith. Tennis, Watered Down TENNIS SCORES Kent Opponent Randolph-Macon 9 4 Marshall College 5 6 Ohio University 3 8 Fenn College 1 1 Pittsburgh 8 7 Youngstown 2 1 Oberlin 8 5 Bowling Green 4 Western Michigan 9 7 John Carroll 2 6 Hiram College 3 4 Kenyon College 5 4 Toledo University 5 Weather, the plague of all sports in the 1961 spring season, played a large part in the fortunes of the Kent tennis team also. Coach Karl Ches- nutt hoped to outwit the elements by taking his team on an early season jaunt to the southland but the overcast weather there cancelled two of his three meets, those with Lynchburg and Roa- noke Colleges. Thus handicapped and inexperienced, the squad moved ahead with their schedule and rolled up a creditable 6-7 record. This was good enough to place dark horse Kent in fourth place in the MAC standings as they surprised powerful Bowling Green and Ohio universities. Lead spots on the team shifted all season long but saw Paul Walker and graduating Joe Chapon carrying most of the load. Adding an unexpected assist were newcomers David Miller and Ray Vens who will return, along with Walker, to pace the 1962 season team. 28