University Daily Kansan
Friday, October 27, 1972
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Conley Adjusts to Pro Life
By DANGEORGE
Kansas Sports Editor
Kansas Sport
Ever wonder what it's like being snarled by 250 pounds of ferulous middle linebacker?
Conley, a former running back for the University of Kansas, is known as one of the Bengals of the National Football League and experienced one such season.
exhibition season when the Bengals played the Miami Dolphins.
According to Conley, Nick Buonconti, Dolphin middle linebacker, threatened him with his life.
"It was in the fourth quarter," he said. "I'd carried six times for about 36 vards.
But then I ran 25 yards and scored a touchdown.
Steve Conley During KU Days
... former Jayhawk now with Bengals ...
Conley, who played both offense and defense while he was with the Jahyawks, again had his versatility put to the test this summer. Originally slated for a return to Cincinnati, he was moved to the running back corps when Dou Dressler, a four-year veteran, was injured at the start of the exhibition season. Conley stayed on and also ran back kicks for almost the entire pre-season schedule.
THEN, AGAINST Philadelphia in the last exhibition game, he suffered a pinched nerve in his upper arm. He was out of action until the second game of the regular season. When he returned he was moved again to play this time to an outside spot.
Buooncoti just missed tackling me at the goal line. He got a hand on me but I got in.
Conley didn't say whether he did come back, but it is a known fact that Buonocott did not kill him. In fact, Conley has been very much mild the past few years to his efforts to make the Bengals.
"I'm now going through the process of re-learning the process," he said. "I used to get used to linebacker after being a running back. You make one wrong step and it's too late. You need to move or the ball carrier's by you."
"WELL, after I scored, i spiked the ball. It bounced back up and hit him in the chin. He just kind looked at me. Then he told me to run out, young ass off the field. He said if you came back, he'd kill我."
A major difference in professional football, said Conley, is the overall level of quality in the players.
in high school, each team has one or two good players. "Conley may have four, or six—unless they're like Nebraska."
"But at this level there are no bad players. Even the guys on the
Spencer, who is now in his twenty-first year of coaching, has a very colorful background.
After being head coach at Austin College in Sherman, Tex. from 1968-70, he played the Houston Oilers. As offensive and defensive line coach, Spencer helped the Oilers win the League championship in 1961.
Spencer came from the professional ranks of the St. Louis Cardinals while Plumb graduated from the University of Tulsa.
BUT PERHAPS Spencer's greatest claim to fame came during the 1968 season when he was the offensive line coach of the New York Jets. That year the Jets won the Super Bowl and it was vital that season in that it such good care of Joe Natham.
After 11 years in the pro ranks it seems curious that Spencer would return to college ball.
"I've known Don Fambrough for 22 years and he is one of the nicest men anyone would want to work with. Spencer said." Just being around him can be enjoyable, the coaching staff here is enjoyable. I feel college football is more challenging to a coach in the respect that it requires more patience. I feel it is more difficult than playing player improvement day by day than to coach a pro who is already a specialist at his position."
So, he went after the best in the business and did not have to look for pick Joe Spencer his plump up to head up the receivers.
SPENCER said he thought there was a need for football teams to entertain the fans and encourage area where the Jahayhaws excel.
cab (taxi) squad are really good.
The guys here are so fast.
Everyone here knows what he's doing. Nobody makes mistakes.
CONLEY, though, has been a good player no matter where he has played. He became interested in football when his
"I feel football is for the
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people," Spencer said, "and college teams must do everything possible to make it as exciting as possible. We'll build time build winning tradition."
Plumb basically had the same reason for coming to KU.
"I knew the Jayhawks were going to rely on the pass when coach Fambrough asked me to come to Kansas." Plumb said, "and this appealed to me very well," he added. The coaches who like to be at a place where their part of the offense is not going to be used extensively."
When University of Kansas coach Dion Fambrouch began thinking about using a pre-vacancy model, he would have to strengthen two of the three positions which are Fambrouch. Faribault realized he would have to find coaches who could build a strong offensive line and develop a passing strategy.
Now in his ninth year of coaching, Plumb has gradually worked his way up since graduating from Baylor in 1962.
Upon graduation he signed a pro contract with the Buffalo Bills, but an injury cut short his career. He took up his new love, coaching.
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Coaches Spencer, Plumb Put Punch in KU Attack
Plumb's first coaching job was at Raymondville, Tex., where he was in charge of the offensive and defensive seasons at Raymondville. Plumb went to Lubbock, Tex., and coach the quarterbacks and backs at Raymondville season there. Plumb advanced to an assistant coaching position at Cerritos Junior College in Norwalk during the 1966 and 1967 seasons.
For the next three plumb Plumbs was the receiving coach at TCU in Fort Worth, Tex., and then the receiving coach at the received coaches of the receivers at TUa.
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Yes, Don Fambrough knew what he was doing when he hired an officer to take the plumb, for two of the strong points of the 1972 Jawahays have already proved to be their office line and their receiving corps.
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