Pepper's 1967 objective: to confound the experts
By PAUL HANEY
The 1967 KU football team will win more games than the experts predict, but less than the alumni desire. Pepper Rodgers, new head football coach, said yesterday at the weekly current events forum. Approximately ten persons attended.
HE SAID HE COULD make no win-loss predictions until "I get a look at how much talent we have in comparison to the others (teams)."
He said fans can look forward
to "few running plays and a lot of passing."
Rodgers, who has coached several All-American quarterbacks, said "70 of 75 plays will be called by the quarterback in the huddle." He said he would rely on one quarterback, rather than alternating them.
"IT'S HARD to exchange quarterbacks. It's important to have one who knows he'll be running the show," he said.
Rodgers said KU is recruiting players in Kansas, Ohio, Illinois,
Iowa, Missouri, Georgia, Florida California and Texas. He said he is looking for "agile, hostile and mobile" players.
He is planning to start next season with experienced players.
"THE YOUNG BOYS will have beat them out," he said.
The University is Rodgers' best recruiting aid. He said prospective players are impressed with everyone "from the Chancellor on down."
Rodgers said KU cannot presently recruit on the basis of winning the Rose or Cotton Bowls.
"Maybe next year we can," he added, "or the year after next."
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Hawks meet UCLA
Gary Ard, from Modesto, Calif., and Ben Olison and Lee Adams, transfers from nearby Bakersfield Junior College will wear the crimson and the blue as Kansas opens their 1967 outdoor season. Ryun set his mile record in California last year.
Three Californians will be competing in their home state for Kansas and Jim Ryun will return to the state where he set his world outdoor mile record, when the Jayhawks meet UCLA tomorrow.
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Kansas holds the 1966 NCAA indoor championship and the Bruins are victors of the 1966 indoor title meet.
The Hawks could bring home four firsts with Ryan competing in the mile and 880 and leaper Ard in the long and triple jumps.
Daily Kansan Friday, March 24, 1967
Nine months or one year of tuition-paid graduate study at any university in the nation await seven KU seniors who have won National Science Foundation first-year fellowships.
NSF fellows named
Recipients and their areas of study are Tom Edgar, Bartlesville, Okla., chemical engineering; Gene Wester, Mankato, electrical engineering; Paul Bock, Dodge City, chemistry; Daniel Brune, Lawrence, botany; Jimmy Doll, Carl Junction, Mo., chemistry; Jeff Nichols, Stockton, microbiology; and John Shaply, Wichita, chemistry.
The value of each NSF grant is $1800 for nine months of study and $2400 for one year. In addition the student receives travel and dependent allowances. The grant may be supplemented by the institution the recipient chooses.
Initial grants awarded to the KU seniors are automatically renewable if the student shows reasonable progress, NSF recipient Tom Edgar said. At the end of the second year, however, he must apply for an intermediate grant and may finish his studies with a fourth-year advanced grant.
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