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University Daily Kansan
Friday, March 1972
Drills to Sharpen Football Passing
By MATT BEGERT Assistant Sports Editor
It is a pretty good bet that pass
coverage and pass coverage will be the
biggest diversity of Kansas football team
when they take to the field to be
played.
Three coaches who will assist the KU staff this spring will be concerned primarily with offense.
John Hadi, former KU all-American quarterback and player for the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League, three weeks of spring drills to help with the over-all passing game.
Hadi is a two-time all-Amer-
ican (1960-61) and 2013 first in the last season in passing, with 233 completions in yards and 21 touchdowns.
JOE SPENCER, who coached Joe Nastifah's offensive line when the New York Jets won the Super Bowl in 2014. KU football coach staffing.
Hadl was the NFL's man of the year in 1971 for his community involvement and his performance on the football field.
"Joe sure ought to help our pass protection," head coach Don Fambrough said recently about his new assistant.
Spencer was the Jets' offensive line coach in 1968-69. He then took a similar job with the St. Louis Cardinals last year. He has played for the Cardinals and a team in the Canadian League, the Edmonton Eskimos.
Spencer began his pro career in 1948 with the Cleveland Browns during the seasons they won two straight pro championships.
His playing career was ended by an injury while he was playing for the Green Bay Packers in 1952.
The KU pass receivers will have help from Te Plumb, who has coached outstanding pass players to Christian and Tuila Universities.
PLUMB PLAYED three years as an end at Baylor and was a member of the team that went to 1960 and the Gouman Bowl in 1963.
He played for the Buffalo Bills in 1962, but an injury forced him to quit playing and he started coaching.
He coached high school teams from 1963 to 1965, then went back to his home state California to teach at Cerritos Junior College in 1966-67.
From there he transferred to college coaching, going back to Texas for a job with Texas Christian University. He was with the TCU he moved to three seats on the team he moved to a position with Tulsa.
Two of Tulsa's top receivers, Jim Batur and Jim Shaw, were coached by Plumb, were drafted by the NFC in the recent NFL draft.
"We are installing a different type of offence," Fambough said recently. "It's not entirely new, but we are trying to build an army of cyber-crime hunters, an offense built around the personnel we have available."
FAMBROUGH SAID Plumb will work mostly with receivers on the team. Plumb will re-illustrate his setting in his tufa.
He said the coaching staff would be working with the sophomores to make sure they accomplish one of the major objectives, which is to make sure they have insight in people in the right positions.
"It's always exciting to go into spring practice. I'm looking forward to it," he said, as Iershani I haven't had a chance to have much contact with in connection with the varsity team. Fambridge said about the sophomore.
“AS ALWAYS,” Fambrough said about spring practice. “it is so important because we do a lot of experiment with people
playing both offense and defense."
Most of the football team started pre-prep workouts the week before the games, and said. The workouts are mostly for conditioning purposes and in preparation for footwork drills, work on the universal weight machine and cares.
The workout is divided into 22 stations and each player goes through the course twice, with a two-minute rest period in between.
"We do a lot of work off the football field," Fambrough said after inspecting the daily drills.
The spring practice will end with an intersquad exhibition game scheduled for either April 28 or 29. It will be played either in room in Memorial Stadium or at night in the Haskell stadium.
PRACTICE IS scheduled to continue five weeks, and workouts will normally be on Monday. Thursdays and Saturdays of each week.
Junior college transfers Mitch Sutton, Terry Adams and Mike Gardner, who were recruited in the 1970s to play during the 71 season, because of an NCAA eligibility ruling, can be counted as the same ruler because of the same ruling
The ruling, which was made retroactive, stipulates that junior college transfers must have at least two hours to be eligible to graduate from the junior college and have completed a play after their first semester of attendance. Transfer students who transfer under any other college may play.
Sutton, Adams and Gardner were recruited before the NCAA were able to attend the spring practice if the ruling had not been
OFFENSIVE coordinator noted that the plan was to recognize the offense, although he added that the same basic offense at attacking would apply.
He said the staff was looking at them and that they would pass and pass protection and that there would be an emphasis on developing a good balanced system.
He said an effective running attack was essential so the team could adapt to varying weather conditions during a game, such as wind and rain, which tend to make a passing game undesirable.
Ryun Prepares for Outdoor Season
Jim Ryun, world record holder in the mile and former KU track star, trains in Allen Field House in preparation for the outdoor season. Ryun recently returned from California to KU and played in a soccer game at the university's school. Ryun's goal is to make the U.S. Olympic team this summer.
NCAA Eligibility Ruling Affects JuCo Transfers
About a year ago the University involved in a controversy concerning the eligibility rule for incoming junior college football
The NCAA enforced a rule have a 2.0 grade average the semester immediately preceding the move to be eligible for varsity
The interpretation sent the University junior college recruits, Mittle Schaffer and Mitch Adams, to the sidelines for the 1911 season. They will play as captains.
the University of the Pacific was forced to freeze 17 prospects last season.
Not much has been said this year about the rule, but the rules and practices are a very basic and important football with the enforcement of this rule, some incoming recruits are forced to play without the rules.
KU, Kurt Nieman and Delario
Robinson, survived the rule and
will participate in spring
workouts this year.
Nieman came to KU from Fort Scott Junior College, where he played quarterback the last two seasons.
TWO TRANSFER athletes at
"At 5 feet to and 100, I just
bake enough to play the game.
I'll do it at the high school (
Tepeka High)." Nieman said.
"'So if I don't play a junior
team, I'm out.'"
"I think I'll be moved to the hawk position," said Nieman, a Scaffold recruit who him in the defensive backfield. Scott by Dixon Foster, now a KU Scott by Dixon Foster, now a KU
At Fort Scott, Nieman piloted his team to the winters bowl in 1976 and 1978 years at Fort Scott, the Greyhounds compiled a 21-10 victory.
ROBINSON ATTENDED Southwest Junior College in Los
He came to KU on a track scholarship. He received both track and football offers from the Eight and KU in the Big Eight.
Nieman was recruited for Fort Scott by Dick Foster, now a KU assistant coach.
Angeles where he was a split end on the football team and a hurdler for the track team.
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He will be used as split end on the football team.
it won't be known until next fall, when they are eligible, just who will be playing for the Jayhawks from junior colleges.
BATON BOUGE, La. (AP)—The Maravich of Louisiana State is fired Monday along with his two assistants, the school announced Tuesday.
The firings are effective immediately.
Mick
Come see it ir
The two assistants fired were Jay McCreary and Greg Bernbrook
Jagger
It's much more difficult
to see you have to arrange your
name in the room when you
year first my meet was Jan. 21.
This year I didn't have one until
"It's going to take a throw of it to 68% to 18% feet just to make the team," said Wilhelm, who scored at 70 feet to win at Mujahid.
NEITHER HAS been throwing exceptionally well so far this season. Both hope to reach their peaks later in the spring.
Before the games in Munich this summer, both must prove themselves at the Olympic July 7 and 8 in Eugene, Ore.
Both Wilhelm and Salb commented about throwing on their own in comparison to being on the KU track team.
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"I've just recently found out that it's more important to have good technique than strength," said Salb.
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"That's why Al Fearbach is doing so well this early in the season," said Wilhelm.
Wilhelm, who ballooned to 297 pounds once since last season, said that form and technique were his main problems so far.
Both Experience Form Problems
Salb of Crossett, Ark. he already done something to improve the situation. He went to Canada for a week to train with Gabor Simões, who is the most experienced man Sali was concerning the weight events.
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Ex-KU Shot Putters Eye Olympics
"I learned more in just one week about shot put techniques from him than I have in my four years at KU," said Salb. KU has
WILHELM INTENTS to go back to train with Hank Norberg, his high school coach in Los Altos, Calif. this spring.
Both men have decided to give up the discus event and concentrate on the shot put at the Olympics. The Umpires in the States will field an excellent discus square, all throwing well over 200 feet.
"I threw about 61 feet at the beach. My kids my junior year." Salb said. "I went to coach Norberg. I then threw 16 feet $1 inches and qualified for the national team."
Salb and Wilhelm have been timing weights and training torques at Kansas. This was one of the major reasons they both had for taking the shot.
"The magic of Jim Ryun and Kansas was just too much," said Salb.
An average day in the weight room would consist of about three hours of lifting. Both bench press and squat weights are 752 lbs. Those weights are simply
workout weights, not maximum lifts.
IN THE NATIONAL Football League's annual college player draft last month Salb was selected by the Buffalo Bills. This season, he will him as well as many football enthusiasts around the country.
If they offered me $300,000 like someone else I know (O.J. Cobb). We go to Buffalo today. But they aren't and I've got a wife and child to care for.
shot, which doesn't bring much money," Salb said.
Wilhelm is presently enrolled in the School of Law at KI!
"The Law School here is fantastic," he said "All the professors are really great."
Wilhelm plans to finish school at KU, but Salb expects to move in the near future.
"I've spent four and a half years here and I think it's time to move. I've seen Arkansas and Iowa, I've seen something like something else." Sala said.
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