Jim Ryun approaches the finishline in the four-mile relay. The team of Ryun, Allen Russell, Gene McClain and Tom Yergovich of Kansas won the event with a time of 16:43.0.
Jim Ryun gets ready to pass a Southern Illinois University opponent in the one-mile relay. Prairie View A & M University won the event with a time of 3:07.7.
Christine Sheets of Oklahoma State, the 1968 Relays Queen congratulates members of the University of Kansas' distance medley relay team. Standing next to the Queen is Jim Ryun.
Jim Ryun and teammates on the medal stand after one of Kansas' victories. In 1968 Ryan ran in the two-mile relay and the distance medley with Curt Grindal, Mark Ferrell, Gene McClain and Ben Olison.
A runner from Kansas clears the water pit in the 3,000- Meter Steeplechase. The athlete is either Jon Callen or Paul Mattingly. Jeromee Liebenberg of Western Michigan University won the event with a time of 8:54.6.
Jim Ryun runs unattached in the Invitational One-Mile Run. Ryun finished a disappointing 7th place. Apparently he had been suffering from dysentery, and didn’t want to disappoint the crowd by dropping out. The race was won by Robert Maplestone of…
