'Dragster Doughty' Likes Secondary
Little wonder Phil Doughty relishes his defensive job in Kansas' secondary. He's lived dangerously before as a high-school hot-rodder in his home town of Oelwein, Ia.
Most of his drag-race competition was staged on the high school's quarter-mile track, starting out of the chute, like the track folks used to do before they became so turn-conscious even on non-Olympic years.
The sturdy Jayhawker junior still is fascinated by carburators and horse-power, but he obviously would rather talk football.
He is one of those near-extinct finds who was un-recruited. He came to Kansas in the first place on an NROTC scholarship. He was a 160-pound end then, in danger of being trampled under foot. In a year and a half's play he hasn't touched the ball on an offensive play, but he obviously carries as much pride in his job as a T-formation quarterback.
THAT'S ONE REASON he's become what Coach Jack Mitchell describes as "one of the best deep defensive backs we've had since we've been here."
"WF DIDN'T TEAR it up much though," notes Phil. "It always was overgrown with grass in the summer. How fast did we go? Well, I had a '53 Mercury that registered to 120 on the speedometer. The pin used to lay against that, so $^{1}$ know I must have gone faster." to run. If you let your man go too
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"I learned quite a bit from Roger Hill (ace of the 1960 deep secondary)." Doughty says. "I played end on the scout squad as a sophomore and ran a lot of pass patterns against him. I never could shake him even although I was faster than he was. Watching him I noticed he never had his back to you. He always seemed to be in a position where he was looking through his man, watching him and the passer too.
"Playing back there, I've learned you've got to have confidence in your teammates in the secondary. You've got to do your job. You can't worry about what the others will do. Oelschlager (Ron, sophomore T-back) and Leiker (Tony, veteran slot-back) are real good back there. I get a lot of help from the corremen on my side, (left), Coleman (Ken) and Baughman (Armand). The ends too, St. Clair (Pack) and Shinn (Mike).
"THEY MAKE the difference on the running pass which is real tough. A defensive halfback has got to stay on this play and stay with his man until you're sure the passer is going
to run. If you let your man go too soon, the passer will stop at the line (scrimmage line) and throw it over your head.
"The hardest job though is covering a good end in any situation That Horton (Bob) at Boston (Boston U.) was the best I've seen so far Big and strong and fast."
Doughty, now a solid 180, didn't play in his normal sophomore season of '60, and scores another rarity here because he admits he'd rather have it that way. "I wasn't ready to play Big Eight football and I knew I wasn't ready. I learned a lot playing against bigger, better boys. I was small (he wrestled in the 154-pound class at Oelwein as a senior), but one thing saved me. I could run and Coach Mitchell likes speed.
"I DON'T MISS carrying the ball because I didn't do it in high school (he was an end there and an end-linebacker for his coach-Dad, Paul Doughty in Junior High). I always felt I could do the team and myself more good on defense. This year I think my tackling in the open field has improved because I've learned to keep my head up. I just make it a rule to hit 'em with my helmet first."
Doughty has forsaken hot-rodding since he departed high school. Hunting and fishing are his chief hobbies now. But he still loves to tinker with ancient autos. Right now he's driving a 1940 Chrysler limousine, which he and two pals purchased for $60 last year and promptly nicknamed "The Beast." He's dickering though, for a 1946 La Salle hearse, now owned by an acquaintance in Davis City, Ia.
If At First Etc.
CHICAGO — (UPI) — Robert L Miller made 36 consecutive incomplete pitching starts before winning over the Chicago Cubs Sept. 30, 1962 for the New York Mets.
MORE SEATS PROPOSED—The western section of Memorial Stadium will mushroom by 6,500 seats resulting from approval of a plan by
6,500 Seat Addition To Be Completed in 1963
the University athletic board and the Kansas Board of Regents.
Little Crandall Has Big Desire
By Rusty Laney
The Jayhawkers' little number 23 brought over 30,000 fans to their feet on his third varsity ball carry.
Against Colorado in the fourth quarter, he streaked around left end for 52-yards and KU's final touchdown in the 35-8 rout.
Who's number 23? He's Dave Crandall, one of the many fine, talented sophomore backs Jack Mitchell has this year.
"There are no little cliques on the team. Everybody is striving toward a single goal out on that field and all of them are pulling together. If your assignment is only to fake a run, you want to do it so your teammate who does get the ball will have a better chance of scoring."
Belonging, that is one of the key words for this likeable young man,
"It gives me a thrill every time I see that big "Blue" line swarm in around a ball carrier and stop him dead, and I can say, 'I'm a part of that team effort'.
At 5-10, 175 pounds Dave is small for a college back. When asked why he wanted to get in and mix it up with the big boys he gave several reasons.
"Well," he shrugged, "it's a way of getting through college. Also Mike Shinn and I used to pal around together at Topeka high and ever since Shinn was a junior it was known he was coming to KU to play football.
"Whenever we would go into some place all the guys would crowe around Mike and wish him good luck up here and well, I just wanted to be a part of that too.
Crandall almost did not play college football. His mother was very strongly against it but Dave was determined to play. He brought his mother up to see KU play Kansas State and after watching the Jayhawkers roll over the Wildcats, his mom said, "Well if you are going to play college ball, play for KU so you will have good protection." That's all the encouragement Dave needed.
"Rodger had been kidding me a lot about just running latterly toward the sideline and when he called my number in the huddle he said it again. Sure enough I cut up field and scored."
This is the type of spirit which caused quarterback Rodger McFarland to tell Crandall before the game, "If you cut up field today, you'll score a touchdown."
When asked if this was his biggest thrill, Dave replied "Of course." But he added, "Anyone of our halfbacks could have done it with the blocking I had. I was fresh. Colorado was just run down."
- By the start of next football season, KU's Memorial Stadium will have facilities to accommodate 6,500 additional fans.
The addition, expected to cost approximately $600,000, will extend westward from the top rim of the stadium 27 rows and will extend 10 feet beyond the north edge of the playing field and 40 feet beyond the south edge of the field.
Included in the proposal is a triple-deck press box, 97 feet long, 20 feet deep and centering on the 50-yard line.
Bids will be opened approximately Nov. 1. The awarding of the contract is tentatively set for Dec. 1.
The stadium addition will be financed jointly through the athletic corporation's reserve funds, a 20-year loan from the endowment association and through donations. Each source will finance one-third of the project, not to exceed $200,-000.
CalvinVanderWerf, professor of chemistry and chairman of the athletic board, said the plan was discussed and "received approval from the athletic family." He said the athletic board's objective is to present a plan that would receive support from the administration, faculty, students and alumni.
Prof. VanderWerf gave four reasons why expansion is necessary.
- An expanding student body that is anticipated to grow to 20,-000 by 1975. (At present there are 10,400 students on the Lawrence campus.)
- The demand for seats that cannot presently be met.
- The desire to compete with the Big 10 not only academically but athletically. "Our board has gone on record as wanting to schedule Big 10 schools on a home-and-home basis." (Presently, Illinois and Minnesota are scheduled on an away basis.)
- Increased population. "We feel we are in the middle of the fastest growing area in the Big Eight. Planners tell us that someday there will be a continuous city from Kansas City to Topcka.
With increasing enrollment, we are increasing alumni interests in KU. We are going to project athletics into a more vital role in the University. Twenty-five per cent of athletic profits will be turned over to the Endowment Association to use as they wish."
VanderWerf said that the entire sports program could be expanded by the new addition.
"Our figures show that football is the only profit-making sport. Football pays for our sports program."
He indicated that initial athletic program improvements would include an imroved track in the stadium and the adding of wrestling as a varsity sport.
Prof. VanderWerf attributed the stadium expansion plan to athletic director A. C. (Dutch) Lonborg, who will retire next year.
"Expansion represents the realization of Dutch's dreams over the years," Prof VanderWerf said. "It is the culmination of a wonderful career." He said that resources in the athletic reserve fund have increased the $200,000 in five years, and
that without Lonborg's "able leadership," the board would not have been in a financial position to consider expansion.
The addition will bring the stadium's permanent seating capacity to 42,930. With the present non-permanent bleachers, total capacity will be 44,900. Presently there are 36,400 permanent seats and 38,400 total capacity, including the bleachers.
The expansion will move KU from sixth in stadium capacity to fourth in the Big Eight. Only Oklahoma, Missouri and Colorado will have larger stadiums.
VanderWerf said that the first proposal, while "more logical," had no chance of winning wholehearted public approval because of emotional and sentimental reasons.
The decision to build upward rules out the possibility of building an upper deck. The construction of an upper deck was considered, Lonborg said, but overruled because the seating would not be as good.
Only 6 Years Behind Times
Ask Don Pierce who stole second base in the 1924 World Series (if anybody did), where the 1938 heavy-weight boxing championship bout was held (if there was one that year) or who won the National Football League title in 1946 (there was a winner that year) and chances are he'll give you the correct answer.
Pierce, KU sports publicity director, is a walking sports encyclopedia. Pierce complains that his days aren't long enough. He says he has trouble keeping up on his reading of periodicals.
Periodical reading for Pierce does not mean reading the current Sports Illustrated (he calls it a "slick cook book for a two-yacht family") or the recent newspapers.
Instead Pierce is presently mulling over the issues of Sport magazine for 1956.
"It makes a good review," explains Pierce.
Pierce, who is never at a loss for a word of humor, is in his 17th year as KU sports publicity director. He has 23 years of sportswriting to his credit.
Pierce was all state in high school for Topeka and all league for Kansas in 1940. He played professional with the Brooklyn Dodgers in the NFL in 1942 and the Chicago Cardinals in 1943.