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University Daily Kansan
Thursday. Sept. 13. 1962
QB, Line Problems Plague CU's Bud Davis
Greenish, but potentially tough that's the pre-season appearance of the 1962 Colorado football squad.
The Buffaloes have been brutally hit by personnel losses following last year's championship campaign. Of 32 lettermen, 14 were lost by graduation while nine more were erased by a special Big Eight ruling.
THIS WILL BE the greenest Colorado team since the Buffaloes entered the Big Eight. Of the nine returning veterans, only two — LE Ken Blair (the 1962 captain) and LH Leon Mavity — were regulars last season.
Gone, too, is the entire coaching staff.
So the Buffaloes will present an almost-entirely new cast from top to bottom this fall. The new coach, 32-year-old Bud Davis, brings an impressive high school background into his first college coaching assignment. A prominent member of his staff is defensive coach Dal Ward, who guided the Buffaloes to a solid 600 record from 1948 through 1958.
DAVIS. WHO WILL use a prototype "Swingin' T," inherits major problems in the center of the line and at quarterback. The Buffaloes have no lettered guards or quarterbacks and only one veteran center. Shoring up the middle, then, looms as the big problem facing Davis and his staff.
The new Buff coach plans to use a 3-team system with his first unit going both ways and the next two specializing.
COLORADO'S FIRST unit should be a tough, experienced crew anchored by seven lettermen. In addition to Blair and Mavity, the wheelhorses of this team will be RT Bill Frank, one of the top sophomore linemen in the Big Eight a year ago; FB Bill Harris, who came on fast as a runner late last season; and RG Dan Grimm, a big, aggressive forward who was an alternate tackle but who has been moved in to help plug the guard hole. All
three of these players started at least one game a year ago.
LE John Meadows and Center Dale Christensen are lettermen who developed last fall as sophomores. Two non-lettered juniors, LT Jerry McClurg and LG Al Holingsworth are also well-regarded.
The only sophomores on the first unit are QB Frank Cesarek and RH John McGuire.
Cesarek and rookie Larry Ethridge are the two top QB candidates with the former having the edge because he was a redshirt last fall and earned several battle ribbons directing the scouting team against the varsity each week. Cesarek is a very promising passer who should continue to give the Buffers a solid aerial threat. Ethridge can throw, too.
BEYOND THE FIRST unit lies uncertainty, however.
Seven sophomores show up on the pre-season defensive specialist team and 10 on the offensive-specialist unit.
Defensive halfbacks Ted Somerville and Nick Graham are the only experienced men on either of these units. Somerville, incidentally, could be a stout candidate for the first unit if an injured knee is sound this fall.
SEVERAL HIGHLY-PROMISING rookies could pump life quickly into the two specialist units although depending too heavily upon sophomores can be dangerous. But in FBs Ben Howe and Bill Symons, LH Terry Locke, RE Stan Irvine and Gs Skip Hall and Skip LaGuardia, the Buffaloes have a group of youngsters with great potential.
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