KU football has winning coaches
When members of the KU football team take to the practice field for spring drills on April 8, they will be met by a new head coach for the 29th time in the school's history.
The gentleman's name is Frank "Pepper" Rodgers, and his specialty is football.
Rodgers, 35, a former Georgia Tech quarterback, is an advocate of wide-open, offensive football.
Among the top individuals which the new KU gridiron mentor has had a hand in developing are 1966 Heisman Trophy winner Steve Spurrier and Larry DuPree from Florida, Gay Beban and Mel Farr from UCLA, and Rich Mayo from the Air Force—all of them All-Americans.
During Rodgers' playing career at Georgia Tech, the Yellow Jackets raced to an over-all won-lost mark of 30 victories, two defeats, and one tie.
Rodgers' nickname, "Pepper" was given, to him shortly after his birth by his grandfather, who was a great baseball fan and an admirer of Pepper Martin, former St. Louis Cardinal star.
Jack Green will work with the defensive ends and linebackers. An All-American guard as a player, Green captained Army's national championship team of 1945 that featured Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis.
Defensive backs will be the assignment handled by John Cooper. A standout safety in college, Cooper played with Iowa State's famed "Dirty Thirty" club of 1959, and captained the 1961 Cyclone club. He remained at Iowa State for a year as a member of the coaching staff, before going to UCLA.
Dave McClain has been assigned to work with the defensive interior linemen. A two-way college player at quarterback and safety, McClain helped Bowling Green win the national small college championship in 1959. For the past four years, he coached at Miami of Ohio.
Don Fambrough will aid the offensive tackles and tight ends on the team. Co-captain of KU's 1947 Orange Bowl squad, Fambrough has been a KU coaching assistant for 15 years, and was the first man picked by Rodgers for the staff.
Varsity fundamentals and the freshman team will be the responsibilities of Dick Tomey. Tomey filled coaching posts at Miami of Ohio, Depauw, and Northern Illinois, before going to Davidson as a backfield coach.
Floyd Temple will also work with the varsity on fundamentals. Better known as KU's baseball coach, Temple doubles as a football assistant in the fall.
The KU football team will start spring practice April 8. There will be an intra-squad scrimmage on May 13.
KU opens spring ball intra-squad game May 13
The starting dates for the Big Eight Conference teams are: Colorado, Missouri, and Nebraska on April 3; KU and Kansas State April 8; Oklahoma State and Iowa State will start practice on April 10, 11, and 17 respectively.
their games on May 6. Kansas State, Oklahoma State, and Iowa State will join KU in having their spring scrimmage on May 13.
The teams will have early spring games in the form of intra - squad or varsity - alumni scrimmages. Oklahoma, Colorado, Missouri and Nebraska will have
Each team is allowed 20 practices during a 36-calendar-day period, excluding vacation periods.
Pepper Rodgers, head KU football coach, will discuss "Football '67" at the next Student Union Activities (SUA) current events forum.
Rodgers will speak to SUA
The forum will be held at 3:30 Thursday afternoon in the Kansas Union Meadowlark room.
Cards lose still party
You'd never guess hey had just lost two straight games in the NCAA Midwest Regional Basketball Tournament last weekend.
Gilbert and sophomore sensation Butch Beard kept the party alive with their songs and dance steps, though center Westley Unseld sat sullenly in a corner, apparently quite shook up by the losses.
Most of the Louisville student contingent was jammed into a local motel room singing along in a hootenanny-type party. The song-leader was floor captain Dave Gilbert of the Louisville Cardinals.
Singing popular songs of today, such as "Mustang Sally" and "My Girl," kept the mass of players, cheerleaders and fun-loving fans in a rhythmic session 'til the wee hours Sunday morning.
No one there was big enough to tell him to enjoy himself.
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Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 22. 1967
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