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University Daily Kansan Monday. Feb. 27, 1961
Lawrence Grid Star Tells How Kansas Recruited Him
By Bill Sheldon and Fred Zimmerman
Memorial Stadium is empty these days. The thousands of fans who jammed the stadium last fall have temporarily forgotten football.
But for several KU coaches, football is a year-round job. For months these men have been talking to promising high school prospects throughout the country, hoping to recruit a strong freshman team for next fall.
IN JANUARY, Jack Mitchell. head football coach, announced the awarding of football scholarships to two Lawrence High School stars: Brian Schweda and Charles Bowen.
Schweda, 210-pound co-captain of the state champion Lions, has been named to three high school All America teams.
The blond 17-year-old said he got offers from several schools other than KU, including Arizona, Wyoming. Oklahoma and Iowa.
IN A RECENT interview, the brawny tackle discussed the recruiting procedure that brought him to KU.
Schweda he said and Bowen received a one-year renewable grant consisting of $85 a month for room and board and $15 a month for incidentals. He said the scholarship also paid for books, tuition and fees.
"It would have been foolish for me to go away to school. Here I can live at home and have all that spending money," Schweda said.
"I got a letter from an Iowa coach saying if I wanted to come and look over the school Evashevski (Forest, head football coach at Iowa) would send me some money to make the trip.
"COACH WOOLARD (Al, Lawrence High School football coach) told me he thought if Evashevski really wanted me he would written me himself. So I never answered the letter.
Schweda said he had had only occasional conversations with Mitchell until last summer.
"To tell the truth, I've always wanted to go to KU, ever since the fifth grade."
"THEM MITCHELL called me and said he was going to have to take me around the campus sooner or later so he might as well do it then. One day he took me and another prospect, a guy from Georgia, around."
Schweda said he was not contacted again by KU until just before Christmas, when he got a phone call from Don Fambrough, freshman coach.
"Fambrough took Bowen and me out to dinner and told us there were scholarships waiting for us. He said we could sign them whenever we wanted.
"I WAS GOING to hold out a while, probably until March, before I signed. That way I could visit some of the other schools that had written me and I'd get to see a little of the country."
But the pressure to sign started building, according to Schweda.
"The coaches told us they wanted us to hurry up and sign because it would help them recruit other guys out in the state if they could say we had already signed.
"EVERY DAY AT school Judy Bernhardt (daughter of George Bernhardt, KU defensive coach) would come up to me and say, 'Going to KU? Going to KU?' I teased her by saying I was going somewhere, and I asked her if she was getting paid to recruit me.
"Then one day at school Coach Woolard told me to come to his office. When I got there Coach Fambrough was sitting at the desk with Bowen.
"WOOLARD SAID, 'I think you men probably want to be alone,' and he closed the door and left.
"Fambrough pulled out the scholarships. Our names were already on them. I was kind of surprised, because we had understood we were supposed to call them when we were ready to sign, not them call us.
"Fambrough explained the terms of the scholarships and then he asked if we had any questions. I thought of a couple of questions. He answered them, and then he started staring at us.
"I TRIED TO THINK of some more questions, but I couldn't. He just kept staring at me. He didn't say anything, just sat there with his arms crossed and stared. Then he started tapping on the desk.
"By then the pressure was building up. After a while Bowen said, 'O.K. I'll sign now.' I didn't want to sign yet, but that really put the pressure on. I finally decided I'd sign."
WHEN ASKED WHY he changed his mind about waiting until March to sign. Schweda said:
"Well, he just kept staring at me. I guess that's why."
Schweda said he was worried about the courses he would have to take at KU.
"The coaches told me they would fix up a schedule for me the first two years to kind of break me in to college life. I'll have to take a lot of hard courses but they said it could, all be evened out."
SCHWEDA SAID he had received free tickets to the KU football games.
Record Passer
DETROIT — (UPI) — Earl Morrall of the Detroit Lions set an NCAA record in 1955 when he averaged 13.8 yards per passing attempt while playing for Michigan State.
"One time during the football season Mitchell asked me if I was having any trouble getting into the games. He said if I was he would take care of it, and that I could sit on the bench with the team if I wanted to.
"They gave me an armband and let me usher at the basketball games. I could work if I wanted, but I didn't have to. They told me if I wanted to bring a date she could get in free too."
SCHWEDA WAS ASKED if any KU alumni had contacted him.
"I've talked to a lot of people, I don't know who they all are, but no alums have offered me any money. I'd be foolish to take any money. I want to keep my eligibility."
Schweda said his classmates had kidded him during the recruiting.
"THEY KEPT ASKING me what kind of car I was going to get. They thought it would probably be a custom-made Jaguar, big enough for my feet.
"Coach Fambrough asked me the other day if I wanted him to get me a job this summer. I told him I'd like a construction job."
For Fast
Record Drive
DUNEDIN, Fla. - (UPI) - The record for the PGA championship driving contest is 329 yards.
Harold Williams of Tuscaloosa, Ala., set it at Louisville, Ky., in 1952. Ed Oliver, Fred Bolton and Cary Middlecoff all topped 324 yards in the same contest.
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But "Harp's Hardies" were not to be counted out yet. They still had a few gusts left in their never to arrive storm. On frequent occasions throughout the first part of the second half Kansas opened up five and six point leads. But like a lazy summer breeze, they couldn't deflate the Huskers' determination.
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NEBRASKA PARRIED sloppy Kansas ball-handling with accurate shooting and took the lead with 5:52 remaining. 57-56.
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The Kansas storm, which had now been reduced to a drizzle as compared to the monsoon from Manhattan, tried to unleash a torrent of damage, but released only a few drops of harmless dew in the final moments.
Even the biggest wind in the Kansas flurry, Wayne Hightower, failed to divert the Nebraska deluge as he missed a pair of crucial free throws which could have put the heartless Hawkers ahead by one point in the final minute.
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Like the wintry weather which has been threatening the Lawrence area these past few months but has never arrived, the Kansas Jayhawkers poked icy fingers at Nebraska Saturday night, but couldn't produce a cloudburst of energy and desire and were quickly melted, as with the coming of the spring sun, for their second consecutive Big Eight loss.
AS WAS THE CASE last Wednesday in the loss to Kansas State, Coach Dick Harp's squad got off to a good start. Again it was a change in tactics by the opposition which muddled the Hawker play and sent them to defeat, 69-68.
their play somewhat and scrambled to a 28-28 halftime deadlock.
Nebraska, as they had done at Lincoln, opened the game with a deliberate style of play. But Kansas, as they didn't do at Lincoln, started with tremendous shooting accuracy and moved to a 9-3 margin.
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