Dan Franks, 1975 BS in communicative disorders, supplied these photos of himself and wrote: "I miss that place, the 'Home of the Hounds.' Some interesting things happened there.

"I heard of a guy in legendary Chavez Hall who made (a slingshot) out of surgical tubing and a towel, mounted it between vertical rails on the 3rd floor, pulled it back to the south side of the landing and nailed somebody with a water ballooon outside the Science Building, and nobody got seriously injured."

Dan played varsity basketball in 1971-72, and high jumped in track and field from1972-1975.

Mr. Franks says, "This was taken inside the old ROTC Gymnasium, located in the middle of campus (I think there's a water fountain there now). I was trying to 'tune up' for the 1973 NAIA Indoor Nationals in Kansas City (we took 2nd) and there was no place to jump.

"My 'approach' was on a big roll of rubberized 'Tartan Track,' purchased for use by the long jumpers and pole vaulters. Those old 'landing pits' were made of industrial strength nylon cargo netting filled with surplus foam rubber chunks from furniture manufacturers. They were hard and the nylon would scrape bare skin right off us. But it was a place to practice."

Mr. Franks says, "That wasn't a dunk. I could easily do it (at 6'1", hey, I was a high jumper), But it was a technical foul in those days. So, we'd get up and flip the ball downward toward the basket so if a defender got a hand on the ball on its flight, it was 'goaltending." If you flipped the ball hard enough, it hit the net so hard it looked like a dunk. In this photo, I'm already coming down.

"Also, if you look very closely in the upper left hand corner of the photo, you will see somebody's stocking feet on the horizontal support beam directly behind the backboard. The guards were photographed dribbling the ball, the forwards and centers were shot doing the 'Buddy Ball Preferred Two-Handed Chest Pass.'

"After that, Coach Ball left the court and the photographer asked to shoot 'something creative.' Somebody suggested shooting down from over the backboard at players shooting a layup. That's what was happening, with another photographer shooting from the side.

"The shots from above were used every now and then in game programs. Lon Sprayberry (7'1") slammed one and just about knocked the guy off his perch.

"True stories!"