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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, October 10.1967
By Mike Jones Kansan Sports Reporter
KU QUARTERBACK BOB DOUGLASS
Rodgers praises KU quarterback
KU football Coach Pepper Rodgers feels starting quarterback Dob Douglass is improving every game and has the ability to be one of the best signal callers in the Big Eight Conference.
How does Douglass feel about his play thus far?
"As long as we are losing I can't be happy with the way I am playing," Douglass said. "I have learned a lot in the last three games—more than I have learned ever before about football—but I still have a long way to go."
"I think the thing that will help me more than anything else is game experience." Douglass said. "Coach Rodgers is great at building a guy's confidence and we work hard in practice, but game experience is hard to beat."
Douglass, a junior, started three games at quarterback last year and logged more time at the position than anyone else on the squad. He still feels experience is the thing he needs most.
Experience helps most
Douglass leads Jayhawks
Douglass is currently leading the Jayhawks in rushing yardage with 107 yards and in passing with 447 yards. He is also tied for the lead in scoring with 12 points.
"The record really didn't mean that much," Douglass said. "In our offense the quarterback is supposed to handle the ball that much. I really wasn't amazed at the number of times I handled the ball in any of the games. This is the way we work in practice and the whole team is used to it. I don't care about any record if we don't win."
In KU's first three games, Douglass has received plenty of experience. He broke a KU record by running and passing the ball a total of 42 times against Indiana. At Stanford he ran or passed 39 times and last week against Ohio the total was 40.
This past summer the KU quarterback served as one of KU's football ambassadors, traveling to 70 Kansas cities giving short speeches and showing films.
Douglass leads Jayhawks
What is fun about defense?
Wayne Meylan, Nebraska's All-American middle-guard, says,
"Getting yourself a quarterback.
That's the best part about defense—it is especially fun when you catch him from behind."
"I really enjoyed being an ambassador," Douglass said. "I talked
Defense fun
mostly to civic groups and KU alumni associations. I met some real fine people over the state."
Douglass was a standout athlete at El Dorado High School. He was an All-State performer in football, All-Valley in basketball, played first base and pitched in baseball, and competed in the high jump and the long jump in track. This summer Douglass also played semi-pro baseball for the John Wietzel Cowboys in the Wichita area. He once struck out 15 batters in one game.
Douglass is a business major but he is undecided about his distant future.
Majoring in business
"I don't know what I'll do after school yet," he said. "I want to play football or baseball but I don't know if I will be able to. I think I would enjoy coaching too, so I'll just have to see what comes up."
Right now Douglass just wants to improve and get KU football back on the winning track.
Big 8 standings
(all games)
| | W | L | T |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Colorado | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Missouri | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Nebraska | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Oklahoma | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Oklahoma State | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Kansas State | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Iowa State | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Kansas | 0 | 3 | 0 |
(conference games)
| | W | L | T |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Colorado | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Nebraska | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Oklahoma | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oklahoma State | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| **Kansas** | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Iowa State | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Kansas State | 0 | 1 | 0 |
This week's games
Oklahoma at Texas
Kansas State at Iowa State
Missouri at Colorado
Nebraska at Kansas
Post office prefers use of rubber bands
You ask whatever happens to talented college grads. Very simple. They go to work for the government writing inter-office memos and the tons of instructional manuals for their fellow "employes of the people."
For instance: The Post Office, which used to tie bundles of letters with twine, is switching over to rubber bands. Of course the couriers need an instructional memo.
After explaining, for the uninitiated, exactly what rubber bands are, the memo goes on to instruct employees on how to use them:
"First, pick up the bundle, apply facing slip (destination information) on the top or bottom as required; second, pick up the rubber band, place over the long
dimension of bundle; and third, pick up second rubber band, place over short dimension of bundle at the center."
To make sure that everything is abundantly clear, the regulations are illustrated to show proper use of the bands. Postal officials plan to keep tab, through progress reports, on just how the transition is proceeding.
Fear not undergraduate! The outside world awaits you with invaluable tasks to perform.
Cast Addition
HOLLYWOOD—(UPI)—Character actor James Whitmore has been added to the cast of "Madigan" starring Richard Widmark and Henry Fonda.
SUA Quarterback Club
presents
Color films
of the
Kansas-Ohio football game
Wednesday, Oct. 11
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