Orientation Special
kansan
Serving KU For 78 of its 102 Years
Section B
78th Year, No.1
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, September 14, 1967
Hawks try wide-open game
THE BIG SWEAT
Mike Swentman, Kansas City senior, 205-pound All Big Eight linebacker and KU's top tackler, will serve as Jayhawk team captain this fall.
By CHIP ROUSE UDK Sports Editor
Kansas' football team has moved into its second full week of fall drills in preparation for the season opener against Stanford Sept. 23 at Palo Alto, Calif.
Coach Pepper Rodgers, working with a "moving quarterback" offense in his first year, faces the task of improving records of 2-8 and 2-7-1 of the past two years under Jack Mitchell.
Rodgers said he will use a passing attack to a greater extent than KU teams have done previously.
The Jayhawk roster lists 29 returning lettermen, including 13 of last year's top 22.
Offense around Douglass
KU's new offense is centered around quarterback Bob Douglass. The southpaw signal caller from El Dorado was used sparingly last year. He played behind Bobby Skahan, Dave Bouda and Bill Fenton, Both Skahan and Fenton have completed their collegiate eligibility.
Backing up Douglass at quarterback is Jim Ettinger, a sophomore from Bartlesville, Okla. Ettinger missed all but one game
last season but led the freshman team to its only victory of the season, a 14-13 decision over Missouri.
To improve the KU passing game, Rodgers shifted junior letterman Don Shanklin to a flanker position, and John Jackson, No. 3 rusher, to split end. Shanklin was the Jayhawks' leading ground gainer last season and was second in the conference.
John Mosier, a sophomore who played quarterback and wingback in high school, has been shifted to tight end.
Sweatman leads defense
All Big Eight linebacker Mike Sweatman, the team's leading tackler the past two seasons, hubs the defensive unit anchored by ends John Zook and Vernon Vanoy. Zook stands 6-5 and weighs 225, while Vanoy is 6-8 and tips the scales at 235.
Vanoy, the starting center on KU's Big Eight championship basketball team, has not played football since 1964. He was selected to the Missouri All-State prep team as an offensive end at Lincoln High School in Kansas City, Mo.
In addition to Zook and Sweatman, other defensive regulars up front are right tackle Larry Dercer and Bruce Peterson. Peterson is moving in from left end to replace graduated tackle Jerry Barnett. Returning letterman Grant Dahl has also seen a lot of action at right tackle so far this fall.
Junior letterman Orville Turgeon and sophomore Emery Hicks are scheduled to plug the hole at middle guard left by the departure of the graduated Bill Wohlford. Sophomore Raynard McDaniel has also seen duty at the position this fall.
Returning letterman Mickey Doyle or Hicks, who worked at both middle guard and linebacker in spring drills, will join Sweatman at the linebacker spot.
"Hawk" is roving defender
Rodgers plans to use a roving defender this season designated as the "hawk." This position will most likely be filled by either two-year letterman Bill Lynch, who has an injured knee at the present time, Bob Druten, or Jack Perkins. Rodgers defines the term "hawk" as a roving defender who will be flexible in his position, trying to, in his words, guess where the ball is most likely to wind up and getting there to stop it.
"Our 'hawk' will be equivalent to the position referred to as the See Hawks, page 10
See Hawks, page 10
"Youth" for Pepper
Football may not be new at KU, but most of its coaches are.
From the staff of Jack Mitchell only Don Fambrough and Floyd Temple, who is also varsity baseball coach, were retained.
Aged 43, Fambrough is the "old man" of the coach staff and supervising tight ends and offensive tackles this fall. But Jack Green, defensive end and linebacker coach, is only a year younger.
Temple, 41, will coach varsity fundamentals this fall. Doug Weaver, former head coach at Kansas State, will work part-time with the squad while attending KU law school. Weaver is 35.
The remaining five of the nine-man staff are all under 39. Larry Travis, coach of the offensive guards and centers, is 26. Offensive backfield coach Charlie McCullers and freshman coach Dick Tomey are both 27. Defensive interior line coach Dave McClain is 28 and defensive backfield coach John Cooper is 29.
Only 35 himself, Rodgers is a nine-year veteran in the coaching world. He has coached teams at Air Force, Florida and UCLA. His first coaching job, however, came at Georgia Tech while working on a degree in industrial management.
From Georgia Tech, Rodgers went to the Air Force Academy
as backfield coach under Ben Martin for the 1958-59 season. He then worked under Ray Graves at Florida for four years and, in 1965, advanced to top assistant to Tommy Prothro at UCLA before coming to KU.
During his coaching career, Rodgers has gone to four bowl games, winning three and tying one. Some of the "greats" he has coached include Steve Spurrier of Florida and Mel Farr of UCLA.
As an undergraduate player at Georgia Tech from 1951-53, Rodgers quarterbacked Bobby Dodd's team to a three year record of 30 wins, two losses and one tie. This record includes one Orange Bowl and two Sugar Bowl victories.
KU's long, cool summer bubbles, taxes and kids
By BETSY WRIGHT
UDK Editorial Editor
UDK Editorial Editor While Detroit burned, Saigon sweated and Cairo sizzled this summer, the KU-Lawrence community passed the last three months scarcely warmer than a tall draught.
Throughout June and July, nearly 4.000 junior and senior high school students came to the hill to study and play government.
Skitch_slips
More than 2,000 enrolled in the nine divisions of the thirtieth annual session of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp. They acted in plays, performed concerts and
Individual students also made headlines this summer. While Jim Ryun was adding three new world records to his KU portfolio, track coach Bob Timmons, perhaps looking to the days after Ryun, signed Kansas' fastest high school miler. Jim Neihoue of Salina, to a letter of intent.
wrote the Kansan. During the last week of the camp, they saw nine of their counselors, all KU coeds, fired from their jobs for drinking champagne with guest conductor Skitch Henderson in a University residence hall.
Ryun Runs
KU law student, Doug Weaver,
former chief of the Kansas State
grid squad, also signed up in the Athletic Department's draft as an assistant to Pepper Rodgers. Meanwhile, another draft board took a long look at KU football standout Don Shanklin. After denying Shanklin's appeal for a student deferment, the board turned him down at induction headquarters for a speech defect.
Summer was also a time for academic innovation. Students who took Western Civ discussion but put off the comprehensive may be startled at changes in the list of required readings. Fourteen authors were booted from the list but another 23 were
See KU, page 14
KU picked sixth in Big Eight poll
KU's gridiron Jayhawks have been picked to finish sixth in the Big Eight this season in polls conducted by the KU sports information department and the Big Eight Skywriters tour.
In the sports information poll, KU finished sixth with 731 points and Iowa State was seventh with 861. K-State was last with 897. Nebraska was favored over the Colorado Buffalces in the poll by a slim margin of 232 to 239. The Cornhuskers amassed 42 first-place, 52 second-place, and 14 third-place votes.
OU Third?
Oklahoma received 439 votes to finish third in the poll, and Missouri was fourth with 483. Oklahoma State headed the second division with 582.
Sports information gave K-State 63 last-place votes, Iowa State 45, and KU only 8.
The Jayhawks received 165 votes for sixth place in a poll of newsmen making the fifth annual Skywriters tour of league camps completed last week. The Hawker's total was just two better than Iowa State, which received 167 votes, and K-State, which polled 168 selections.
Colorado was almost a unanimous choice in the Skywriters poll to end Nebraska's 4-year Big Eight football dynasty.
With lowest vote picking first place holder, Colorado drew 23 first-place votes and one vote for second place. Nebraska was second with 58 and drew the only other first place vote. Missouri was third with 85, and Oklahoma and Oklahoma State tied for fourth and fifth with 98 each.
Cross Country
Oct. 7—Oklahoma State Jamboree at Stillwater
Oct.14—Southern Illinois at Lawrence
Oct.28—Kansas Invitational at Lawrence
Nov. 4—Kansas Federation Championship at Lawrence
Nov.11—Big Eight Championship at Boulder
Nov.18—Central Collegiate at Chicago
Nov.23—U.S. Track & Field Federation Championship at Ft. Collins, Colo.
Ft. Collins, Colo.
Nov. 27 - NCAA Championship at Wyoming, Laramie