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Missouri's Faurot To Quit Coaching
COLUMBIA, Mo—(UP)—Don Faurot, the greying 54-year-old master football tactician of Missouri, will end 31 years of coaching at the end of the current season, he announced last night.
Faurot said the combined job o athletic director and head football coach "were too much for one man." He will remain at Missouri as athletic director.
Missouri University President Elmer Ellis, the man who hired Faurot to coach there in 1935, said a successor would not be named until the end of the season. He said the man would be "one who believes in the Missouri system of "fair and straight athletics."
Clay Cooper, a Faurot-trained assistant at Missouri, was reported to have the inside track for the job. Another person mentioned Wasley Ashford of Missouri Valley College at Marshall, Mo., a strong believer in Faurot-type athletics.
Faurot, who gained fame in inventing the sling or split T type of football during World War II, is a strong believer in honesty in athletics—in recruiting, administration, and on the playing field. He often has pleaded with the other Big Seven schools to keep the conference clean and free from any possible investigations by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
Assistant Possible Replacement
Faurot is in his 19th season of coaching at Missouri, and made his famous T formation invention during a three-year break for Navy service during World War II. While at Iowa pre-flight, he worked out the sliding T, that is keeping the quarterback on the line of scrimmage. The basic principles are the most universally used in football today.
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No Alumni Pressure
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KU Games To Be Aired
Bill Grigsby, veteran sports announcer, will handle the play-by-play coverage of the 10-game University of Kansas football schedule this fall for the KU Sports Network.
The broadcast will originate over station KANU, KU'S FM radio station, and will be carried by several AM stations throughout Kansas and Missouri.
The season's kickoff on a schedule that includes three bowl teams and the 1955 national champions will come Saturday afternoon with Texas Christian supplying the opposition.
Assisting Griggsy will be Dick Harp, KU basketball coach and color announcer on the network the past three years. Jerry Waugh, assistant basketball coach, will alternate with Harp.
Game times will be 1.30 p.m. except for Oct. 13 and 26, which will be 2 p.m., and the Nov. 17 game with UCLA, which will be there at 4 p.m. Central Standard Time.
Accounts of many of the games will also be carried over station WREN in Topeka and will be announced by veteran announcer Max Falkenstien.
step down, Faurot said, although a few alumni complained after Missouri won only one game last fall. The coach broke the news first to his squad, which opens against Oregon State here Saturday. He expressed appreciation to the players for standing by him during the alumni complaints last fall.
VETERAN AT HALFBACK — John Francisco, 5-10½, 178-pound junior from Massillon, Ohio, who started most of last season as a sophomore, returns to give strength to the left halfback position. He was the Jayhawks' top rusher and sixth in the conference in 1955 on 459 yards, a figure that enabled him to tie Ray Evans for tenth on all-time single-season tables. Although lacking speed, he is an elusive, clever carrier who sets up blocks well and is dangerous as a pass receiver.
Yearling Squad Makes Progress
"We are at least as strong as last year's freshman team," said Wayne Replogie, head freshman football coach.
He pointed out that as much progress as could be expected in such a short time had been shown. The freshman team has been practicing just less than one week.
Coach Replogle wouldn't single out too many standouts, but did mention David Harris, Washington, D.C. freshman halfback, who is larger than the varsity's Homer Floyd and equally as fast.
Assistant coaches for the freshman team this year are Don James, former University of Miami quarterback; Mike Rogers, former KU end; Norm Stoppel, former Fort Hays State guard; Jerome Barland, KU physical education major; Don Clement, former KU halfback; Jim Simeno, former KU end; Richard Reinking, former KU tackle; and Eddie Bush, former Ohio high school star.
Two games are scheduled for the yearling crew this fall. They will play the Kansas State freshmen at Manhattan on October 26, and the Missouri freshmen at Lawrence on November 9.
Bowl Leagues Set To Roll
The J-Bowl committee and the team captains for the coming year met Wednesday to line out rules for bowling competition that starts Monday and discuss the Classic league. No major changes were made from last year's rulings.
The Classic league is being set up this year, however, in a manner that will give the new student just as much chance as someone who has bowled in the league previously. The Classic league is the top competitive league and only the better bowlers may bowl in it.
To get into the league one must register at the bowling office in the Student Union bowling alley. If he has bowled before he may then submit his season's average for any of the last three semesters including summer school.
New students may submit their first week's bowling average in the handicap league that starts Monday. The committee will then pick the top thirty of the registration list. These men will be notified and will have a short time to make up teams among themselves. Those who don't reach an understanding about a club will be placed by the committee.
Mixed doubles will start Sunday, Sept. 30 and the Classic league will open on October 5.
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