Former Vanderbilt coach
Rodgers names Green as sixth assistant coach
A sixth assistant has been named to the football staff of Pepper Rodgers.
Jack Green, who compiled a 7-29-4 record in four years as head coach at Vanderbilt, will join Rodgers' staff as defensive end and linebacker coach.
Green resigned from Vanderbilt Dec. 4.
SPEAKING AT AN afternoon press conference yesterday in Allen Field House, Green said he was pleased to be at KU.
"Id rather be an assistant at Kansas and win than fight an eternal battle at Vanderbilt," he said.
The 42-year-old coach was referring to the lack of quality players at Vanderbilt. This season the Commodores won one and lost nine. They played six teams that appeared in post season bowl games.
"We just didn't have the players to compete with." Green explained, "The academic requirements at Vanderbilt are different."
GREEN SAID HE left Vanderbilt with no negrets.
"It was a fruitless place to do business," Green said, "so I left rather than fool around there."
After deciding to leave Vanderbilt, Green applied for the head coaching position here. Then Rodgers replaced Jack Mitchell, so Green spoke to athletic director Wade Stinson about another staff position.
Green praised his new boss.
"PEPPER HAS A tremendous number of ideas and is imaginative. I think everybody at Kansas will appreciate him," Green said.
Green lettered his freshman year at Tulane in 1942. Transferring to West Point, he became an All-America guard in 1944 and 1945 playing for coach Red Blain. Army won the national championship both years.
Captain of the 1945 team, Green played with stars Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard.
He served as Blaik's varsity assistant for six years. In his first year at Army, Green worked with Sid Gilman, Vince Lombardi,
Murray Warmath and Paul Dietzel, all of whom are prominent coaches today.
In 1954, he became Andy Pilney's assistant at Tulane and stayed there for six years. He transferred to Florida in 1960 and worked for three years with Ray Graves before moving to Vanderbilt.
At Florida he coached guard Larry Travis who recently joined the KU staff.
He is married to the former Miss Jeanne McDermut of Leonia, N.J. They have three children, David, 17, Nancy, 15, and Danile, 11.
Swimming, gym contests set
KU's swimming and gymnastics teams will get back into Big Eight action Friday and Saturday with separate meets in new Robinson Gymnasium.
The swimming Jayhawkers will face the Missouri Tigers at 7:30 p.m. Friday. The varsity contest will be followed by a freshman meet.
KU WILL TANGLE WITH the Colorado Buffaloos, contenders for the Big Eight Swimming title, at 2 p.m. Saturday. Coach Dick Reamon expects both contests to be rough ones.
The gymnastics team will meet Iowa State, defending Big Eight gymnastics champion, at 2 p.m. Saturday.
The Jayhawkers will enter the meet with a 1-0 record following a 161.05-145.90 victory over Wichita State. Iowa State is fresh from a convincing defeat of Kansas State in which the Cyclones scored 185.75 points.
BOB LOCKWOOD, KU GYMNASTICS coach, says the Cyclones have an outstanding team this year and could win the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Championship.
Tar Heels backslide
If the North Carolina basketball team didn't make any New Year's resolutions, it might be time for a late one.
The Tar Heels started off the 1966 part of this 1966-67 season with a magnificent 9-0 record, bringing back memories of 1956-57 when the Tar Heels went 32-0 and beat KU in Wilt Chamberlain's sophomore year 54-53 in triple overtime to win the NCAA title.
Weaver may switch from football to law
Doug Weaver, K-State ex-football coach, may give up the gridiron for the courtroom.
Perhaps with the hopes of winning more cases than he did games, Weaver has applied and been accepted to KU's law school for the spring semester.
"IM STILL UNDECIDED as to exactly what I will do, but I should know within the week," said Weaver.
With football still in his blood, Weaver said, "I have a very great interest in law, however I haven't
ruled out football coaching yet."
Weaver made no comment as to why he is not ready to make a final decision on his immediate future, although he gave the impression that a coaching assignment may be possible.
HE HAS BEEN down to the KU law school several times to discuss various courses, but no one knows at the law school whether he will attend for sure.
Weaver has also applied for law school at Washburn and the University of Nebraska. He has been accepted at both schools.
Thinclads to 8 invitationals
Problems Facing the
In addition to eight varsity meets previously listed, Kansas' track squad and coaching staff will be represented at eight invitational meets and clinics during the indoor campaign, Coach Bob Timmons announced Wednesday.
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John Lawson, Kansas graduate student and captain of last year's squad, will run the two-mile at both Los Angeles and Portland. Lawson also will compete at that same distance in the Knights of Columbus meet in Boston January 14 and the Athens Invitational at Oakland, Calif., the following night.
either the mile, 880, or 1,000 at Portland.
Sophomore Jim Ryun, who holds world records in the mile and half-mile, will be limited to two invitation meets, Timmons said.
Thursday, January 5----7:30 Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union
The world's premier miler has been sought by nearly every indoor meet in the country, but Timmons said it would be unfair to Ryun to expect him to run in more than two in addition to the full schedule he'll face with the Jav Hawk team.
THE 19-YEAR-OLD Wichita Olympian is slated to compete in the Los Angeles Invitation January 21 and the Oregon Invitation at Portland January 28. Ryun's appearances in those meets are contingent on his being back in top running condition at that time, he said.
Timmons pointed out that Ryun missed nearly two months of conditioning during the fall when a back ailment kept him
Following those feats Ryun now finds himself in a position where he must run a "class race" every time he competes to avoid disappointing his host of admirers.
RYUN LAST YEAR set world marks of 1:44.9 in the 880 and 3:51.3 in the mile and an American standard of 8:25.2 for the two-mile.
Ryun is slated to run the mile at Los Angeles and he'll go in
out of cross-country after the first two meets and a chest cold sidelined him a week at the start of indoor practice.
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