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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Nov. 18, 1955
CHARLES V. "CHUCK" MATHER
LAURI WARTIAINEN
PAUL SCHOFER
WAYNE REPLOGLE
DICK PISKOTY
DEAN NESMITH
With the members of this year's successful freshman team and a group of promising transfers to work with next fall, the outlook appears bright for the Kansas coach. Mather, who was a highly successful prep coach before coming to Mt. Oread, hopes that next year will be a good one.
Mather's career as a football player was short. His high school alma mater, Hopesdale, Ohio, never competed in football. His sparse playing background consists entirely of his college days at Ohio Northern, where he played tackle, starting in only three games.
DAVE PUTTS
The "Chuck Mather" era of KU football is now in its second year and although this year's gridiron team hasn't shown too much power in the Big Seven, the Jayhawkers have managed to post a better record than last year's 0-10 mark.
After graduation from college, Mather coached at four Ohio prep schools and piled up a total of 111 victories, 10 losses and five ties before coming to Kansas.
Jayhawks Are Well Coached
Short Playing Career
Mather is fundamentally a standard-T exponent and believes greatly in the grading of techniques and tactics of his players. He evaluates each player on each play. This is done through game films with the results so detailed they must be sorted and printed through IBM machines.
By DARYL HALL
Mather thinks highly of his coaching staff. He has been closely associated with most of his aides for six years and believes that they rate with any coaches anywhere.
Schofer joined Mather as a line coach in 1947, when the latter was coaching at Hamilton, Ohio. He followed Mather to Washington High in Massillon, Ohio, and then came with him to KU. Schofer doubled as head basketball coach in the two Ohio pre schools.
Schofer Backfield Coach
Paul Schofer, KU's backfield coach, is in his ninth year as assistant coach under Mather. He has been in the coaching business since graduating from Wittenberg college in 1936. His on-the-field chores at KU are concentrated with the quarterbacks and fullbacks.
The backfield coach started his coaching career at Minerva, Ohio, where he headed football and basketball in 1936 and 1937. From there he served nine years as head
coach of football, basketball and baseball and athletic directer at Blume High School of Wapakoneta, Ohio. He then joined Mather at Hamilton.
Lauri Handles Tackles
Laufi Hannes Tackles
Lauri Wartainte likewise followed Chuck Mather to Kansas. The move sent Wartainte into his fourth level of the coaching cycle. He previously had coached in the freshman, junior high and high school-ranks.
He coached at his high school alma mater, Denison, Ohio, from 1933 and 1935. He then shifted to Baltic, Ohio, high as head coach in 1937 and then to Mount Vernon, Ohio, high school as line coach and assistant basketball coach in 1941.
Two years later he became coach of all sports at Jones Junior High in Massillon and then joined Washington High's coaching staff in 1946. He became a member of Mother's staff in 1948 when Chuck took over as coach at Massillon.
Wartianinen is tackle coach at KU.
Longest Service Dean of the Jayhawkner football staff is Wayne Replogle, Kansas freshman on team and chief scout. One of the state's all-time great athletes, Replogle was a standout fullback in his undergraduate days at College of Emporia in the early and mid-twenties.
He now is serving under his 1fth head coach at KU.
A native of Coldwater, Replogle joined KU's staff following nine years as head coach of all sports and athletic director at Elgin Academy, Colo. He also coached at Douglas, Wyo., and Pikeville, Ky., high schools.
For 27 years he has been a ranger in Yellowstone National Park during the summers.
During his playing days Replegio was all-Kansas fullback in 1924 and 1925. He also was a 13-foot pole vaulter and a varsity basketball forward, later playing the same position for the Wyoming Athletic club.
In 1928 he won Olympic trials in the pole vault and discus throw at Casper, Wyo.
Putts Takes Guards KU's guard-center chief, Dave Putts, is another long-time Chuck Mather staff member. He joined Mather's corps at Massillon's Washington High fresh out of Miami University in 1948. At Miami Putts was a regular
At Miami, Putts was a regular
guard with the Sun Bowl champions under Sid Gillman. Graduating from Riverside High School in Brookfield, Ill., he earned all-conference selection in his senior year.
Newest Member
Newcomer to the KU staff is Dick Piskoty, former guard-mate and roommate of Dave Putts when both were playing at Ohio Miami.
Mather lifted Pickyt out of the Massillon Junior High school ranks, where he coached all sports, to join his Kansas staff last year. Pickyt handles end play exclusively.
Piskotty served in both World War II and the more recent Korean conflict. He coached under Major Joe Donahoe at Camp LaJeune in 1952, in the midst of his five-year pre coaching stint.
Long-Time Trainer
Long-Time Trainer Trainer of all sports at Kansas for the past 17 years is Dean Nesmith, a three-lettered Jayhawk tackle under Ad Lindsey in the mid-thirties.
Nesmith is well-regarded in his profession by contemporaries, athletes and coaches. This was never more clearly demonstrated than last March when Missouri basketball coach Sparky Stalcup selected him to train the West All-Stars against the East in the annual Shrine game in Kansas City.
The one-time Bellsville farm boy headed a course in treatment of athletic injuries for the third time last August at the Kansas State High School Activities association coaching school. In 1950 he headed a similar course at the "Top of the Nation" school at Alamosa. Colo.
During the days of now-defunct Big-Seven-Southwest dual track and field meet, the veteran Kansan twice was chosen to handle the Plainsland aces.
Nesmith became head trainer at KU in 1938 after a one-year apprenticeship under Elwyn Dees.
Savilan To France
NEW YORK —(U.P.)—Former welterweight champion Kid Gavilan will invade France early next year and is being considered for a fight in Paris Jan. 21. Gavilon will meet the winner of a bout between Clause Milazzo and another French middleweight.
Eleven Missouri football players have played in the East-West Shrine football game.
After Tomorrow ...
M. U. MAY be a thing of the past . . if our team comes through like we know it will.
AND:
Other service stations and garages WILL be a thing of the past if you try the "extra" service offered you at Motor-In's gas island and the expert service given your car at Motor-In's repair shop.
Bring your car to the "combination" station tomorrow.
Service
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