University Daily Kansan, November 18, 1983 Page 11
Assistant AD's KU ties span 35 years Temple recalls Jayhawk stories of '50s
By JOHN UNREIN
Sports Writer
Akfly Temple about the 1950s, and he'll tell you a few good stories about how much KU has changed in 30 years.
Temple, a 1950 KU graduate who is now a KU assistant athletic director, might tell you about the one-lane road he used to cut from 23rd and Iowa State Field to the Chi Omega sorority house, his future wife, Beverly Beryls, lived.
Temple, a KU assistant football coach in the 50s, might tell you the story of having his coaching office moved to the same location and then located at the site of Wesson Hall.
Temple, 57, worked as an assistant football coach from 1958 to 1976 and coached the KU baseball team for 28 years, from 1953 to 1981.
BUT IF THE SUBJECT came to football, Temple's eyes would probably have been taken.
membered well the old days when a dominant force in the state of Kannadu.
And then Temple would tell you about the man who helped make it all possible — KU head football coach Jack Mitchell. Mitchell was one of the best recruiters he'd ever known, Temple said.
"Back then, we pretty much got an 'Kansas kid we wanted,' Temple said. "Jack Mitchell's theory was if he felt that a borderline recruit could help Kansas State, he took 'em anyway. He went to every other school in the state down."
"Mitchell controlled Kansas, but now it's a totally different situation. You've got to really scramble in recruiting, even in your own area."
Temple said that NCAA rule changes limiting the number of scholarships a school could give out put an end to an era of KU dominating the state in recruiting. In the 1950s, Temple said, there were no limits.
"YOU COULD GIVE out as many
scholarships as you could afford," he said. "We would give out anywhere up to 50 or 60 scholarships to kids in one year. And at times, we probably had between 120 to 130 kids on scholarship at one time."
NCAA schools currently can give out no more than 30 scholarships a year or have more than 95 scholarship athletes on the team.
The primary reason for the change, Temple said, was money. He said that schools could afford to give out more scholarships in the '50s because a full scholarship then cost the school about $1,000. Schools now probably spend about $4,500 on each full scholarship athlete a year, he said.
Also, football and basketball players on scholarship in the '50s stayed at Joseph R. Pearson Hall and had only 27 students. The training table in Carruth O'Leary Hall
FOOTBALL AND BASKETBALL players now live at the Jayhawker Towers. They eat three meals a day at
the training tables in the Towers during the season
And Temple sees other changes.
"We had some quick athletes then, like Charlie Hoag and Wade Stinson, but there weren't nearly as many of them," Temple said. "I think that some of the KU linemen now could have been running backs in the '50s."
Stinson's 239 yards against Utah in 1950 rank him third on the KU all-time single-game rushing list. Hog ranks 14th in KU career rushing list with 1,914 yards.
"I look at our athletes today, but I don't really think you can compare them to those of the past," Temple said. "Through increased emphasis on conducting programs and coaching techniques, we can become bigger, stronger and faster."
Because there were only five classes on the KU football staff of the '50s, Temple said, they had little time to teach blocking and tackling techniques; they also spent their time scrimmaging with the first-team of fense playing the first-team defense.
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File Photo
Floyd Temple, KU assistant athletic director for operations, with his granddaughter, is pictured with head baseball coach Marty Pattin last April when Temple's old number, 13, was retired. Temple, a member of the Kansas Baseball Hall of Fame, was KU baseball coach for 28 years. The only other coach with more tenure was F.C. "Phog" Allen, who coached basketball for 39 years.
"PRACTICES WERE usually pretty rough," Temple said. "Mostly, there was just a lot of head-knocking going on."
Temple said that players in the '50s also differed from players now in terms of size. Players were rarely taller than 6-1 or heavier than 220 pounds.
Because athletes were not as big, Temple said, the football players often played several positions on both offense and defense. And the most popular positions were the fullback and the quarterback.
"We recruited a tremendous number of fullbacks and quarterbacks out of high school because they were usually the best athletes." Temple said. "Sometimes, we'd have 10 or 12 fullbacks on the team."
Temple was a fullback on the Jayhawk football team from 1948 to 1950.
Temple played both football and baseball for KU, but Temple said he did not see much action on the football field, with players such as all-conference running back Stinson on the team.
"IREALLY DIDN'T wear out a lot of uniforms in those years," he said.
Temple said that before coming to school at KU he played football and baseball for a junior college in his hometown of Coffeville. Before that, he served in the Marine Corps from 1943 to 1946.
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