Special Sports Section
KANSAN
81st Year, No.39
The University of Kansas-Lawrence, Kansas
Special Sports Section
Friday, October 23, 1970
The Sweep
KU running back Dombie Joe Morris (28) begins to swee right end behind the blocking Boyd Childs
(77) and a host of other blockers. Action came during the second game of the season against the Texans FF Red Riders, a junior college team that had six wins, 49 yards before sustaining an
injury in the game that held him out of action since. Texas Tech handed the Jahyhaws their only non-conference loss, 23-0, before 38,000 fans basking under a warm fall sun.
Assistants Share Work
By NOBLE COSGROVE
By NOBLE COSGRG
Kansan Sports Writer
The Jayhawk football staff, under the supervision of Coach Pepper Rodgers is a well disciplined group of stars, with football credits dating back to the 1947 Orange Bowl.
Assistant Head Coach Don Fambrough was Captain of KU's 1947 team and is considered to be one of the finest linemen in Jahawk history. As a former New York State set records that took years to be broken.
Offensive Coordinator Charlie McCullers, a stand-out halfback for the University of Tampa, is now a standout coach for the Jayhawk quarterbacks.
Fambrough, who is married and has two sons, Preston, 24, and Bob, 22, coached under J. V. Sikes and Jack Mitchell before being the first man Coach Rodgers picked for his staff after the 1966 season. As assistant to the head coach, Fambrough is in charge of instructing the offensive line.
McCullers coaches at both Wichita State and Iowa (wa). College before coming to Kansas to play there.
McCullers has three children, Mark 8; Sharon 6 and Karen 7.
The Defensive Coordinator, John Cooper, played his collegiate ball for the Iowa Cyclones.
After coaching at Iowa for a year, and Oregon State for two years, Cooper went to UCLA and designed the most effective pass defense on the West Coast. At UCLA Cooper was on the staff with Pepper Rodgers, and was later asked to join the Kansas coaching staff.
Cooper is married and has a son', John 8, and a daughter, Cindy Ann 15.
Defensive line coach Terry Donahue was a defensive tackle for UCLA during the 1962 and 63 seasons.
It was during Donahue's days on the field, that UCLA defeated Michigan State in the Rose Bowl. The team won the final 36 points.
Upon graduation Donahue came to Kansas to play in the football, but didn't join the varsal staff until the
As tough and as rugged as the team's coach Larry Travis works with the Juhawkin
Travis was a starting guard for three years at Florida State while Rodgers was on the Gator staff. Coming to Kansas in 1987, Travis spent two years at Alabama before being switched to the linebackers in 1989.
Travis is married and has three children, *Mike*, Laura Lee 5, and Scott Edward 1.
A member of Rodger's original staff, defensive back coach Dick Tomey was a three year guard at QB.
Toney has coached at DePauw, Miami of Ohio and Northern Illinois, before joining Rodgers in 1968. Toney is married and has one son, Richard Lewis, born last winter.
The only bachelor on the staff is 25 year-old Sandy Buda.
A recent acquisition is running back back Billie Matthews. Mathews was a star quarterback at Southern Louisiana, and as a freshman led his team to the National Nrg championship in 1948.
Buda was a tight end for Kansas and also a standout first baseman with the KU baseball team. Originally with the freshman squad, he beat Sammy Sosa in 1985, with responsibility of the offensive line.
Coach Matthews was at Houston Kashmere for 12 years before coming to Kansas in the winter of 1970. The 40-year-old coach is married and has four children, 21, Kenneth 19, Kennett 17, and Karen Geene 8.
Wide receivers coach Ben Olson, a standout split end for the 67 Kansas team.
Coach Ollison, a native of Bakersfield Calif., set Kansas records in the 220 and the 440 with the KU trial.
After helping coach the 1968 freshman team, Olison was promoted to the varsity. He is married and has two children, Kevin 5, and Shelly 4. L.C. Gorman, the Kansas
J. C. Hixon, the Kansas defensive back turned
luck, is the head coach of the freshman team.
coach of the freshman team. Hixon started carrying the ball in his last year at Kansas, with great results. Hixon was married last summer.
Floyd Temple, baseball coach, is chief recruiter for the Kansas football Jayhawks this fall.
Temple's new job is a non coaching position, and he will continue as baseball coach.
Temple is also married and has two children, **Hunr**
21, a Jayhawk baseball player, and **Ann 17.**
Terry Donahue was asked to be a spokesman, to express the feelings these assistants have toward Police Reddies. Coach Donahue said, "He is a great guy to work for and he'd done a tremendous job."
Turf Pleases Rodgers
Kansan Sports Writer
"We think it's excellent!" was caoca
Pepper Rudge's comment added to the new
adapter. "It's great."
KU is now among the elite schools that play on artificial Tartar Turf. There are three other big Eight schools that also have new symbetic fields this year. KU and Oklahoma have their fields carpeted with Tartar Turf, and Nebraska and Nebraska both play on Astro Turf.
KU FIRST ANNOUNCED its intentions of installing an artificial field last January but the method of financing was not disclosed. The project would be directed to Director, said financing would come about through the excess of revenue over the expenditures in the football budget. The project will be paid for over a five year span, with the possibility of extending it. The total cost of the Mod SoD is about $240,000.
The 3M Company, who manufactures the Tartan Turf, does not give a guarantee on their product stating that because it is a new development they have no idea about how long it will wear. Rodgers said the work will be done by manufacturers and there are no noticeable signs of wear.
KU Goes to "Mod Sod"
The actual building of the playing surface is a long and time consuming process that took several years to build.
. . . and joins the growing list of schools using artificial turf
FIRST, THE OLD grass turf had to be scraped off and the ground had to be graded and leveled in order to lay the base coat. The base layer consists six to seven inches of a
mixture of rock and clay that is packer and rolled leaving the center of the field armored 18
Then comes two layers of aspirin. The first layer is an inch and a half thick and the second layer is a quarter inch thick.
rolled smooth in preparation for the actual turf.
Fun and Winning Go Hand and Hand
By DON BAKER
The next step is applying the Tartan surface. The Tartan is a cold mixed preparation that is poured onto the asphalt base. After cemented in concrete.
Assistant Kansan Sports Editor
Pepper Rodgers believes
football should be fun. And to
these fans, anonymy for "fun"
is "winning."
Winning is the name of the game in Rodgers' 'football philosophy as evidenced by his current crop of Jayhawks Eight championship since the pory" head man came to Mount Oread four years ago. Save for last year's fusco KU has become accustomed to being in the thick of a race under the Rodgers' regimes.
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"I DO THIN' players should have fun," Rodgers said recently in an interview. "I think ning—to win you must sacrifice but win the only iscore."
Rodgers is known to make the game fun for his players with his quickness, and he also quick to out winning can only be achieved through hard training.
"If you win you can have fun." Rakers assessed "And I try to get them out. But winning is the goal and this is only achieved through sarcific play."
PEPER IS NOT only concerned about football being fun for fans, but also about fans and supporters as well. Again the foremost ingredient is
"You know to have a good program it has to be fun for the players as well." Rodgers said. "If you win, you play the game, don't you think people had fun. Of course the bad thing about that was that while all the KU fans were happy, the K-States were sad. But that's a part of it. I don't think it is better than having everyone wonder why I kick on third down."
traditional as "mom's apple pie" and Rodgers sees the sport as a similarly important part of the college environment.
"FOOTBALL PLAYS a very important part in the university," he said. "It's a means of everybody getting something." You know our library can't play Missouri's library or our engineering school either, but our football teams can compete against theirs."
Football in America is a
In this year when the relativity and necessity of college athletics has come under attack from some student groups, including KU, Rodgers has not concerned itself with opposing arguments.
IT IS TRUE the university would survive without football. It might be difficult to convince students, alumni and fans. Fall Saturday afternoons have come to be synonymous with college football across the nation. And from a practical standpoint college football is the number one event in campus sports people to the campuses in man.
"Football is not necessary." Rodgers assessed, "but then neither is forensics or debate. We could get along without them too. So its just another opportunity to identify with your school."
"You know football also gives the fans a chance to become a part of the university," Rodgers said. "After each game they can either tear me apart for punting or they can celebrate how great the team is doing. But they can take pride in being their 's."
Identity, pride, fun and winning
Identify all a part of the Rodgers
Guild's identity and pride. Pride is
enhanced by winning. And
pride is enhanced by winning. And
Pepper Rodgers
. fun is winning
Dead Aim
Attempting a one record-breaking 40 pass attempts, KU quarterback Dan Heck takes aim at receiver. The Titans score 136 yards.
Bobby Childs (77) and Gary Cooper. Heck completed 17 of his attempts for 180 yards but the effort was in vain as KU fell to the Red Raiders. Heck is another of the important junior college transfers that have put the Jayhawks on their way back after last year's dismal record.