Three hours of drill daily
Summer heat doesn't stop Stallworth
By DAVE GOSSER
Kansan Sports Writer
A familiar sight in Robinson Gym these hot and humid summer days is KU basketball player Bud Stallworth. It's not June (or July) in January either, Stallworth wants to be in top shape before the basketball season opens October 15.
Since the beginning of summer school, Stallworth has drilled for almost three hours daily in body conditioning exercises and basic basketball fundamentals. Long-range results should show an improved player, but in the meantime the rewards are sweat and fatigue.
Stallworth doesn't complain about his own workouts, but he does look for better results.
Stallworth said, "The Big Eight Conference is too rough for a basketball player to be satisfied with himself. The competition is always improving, and I have to try to improve with it."
sophomore to score more in his opening game was Wilt Chamberlain with 52 against Northwestern in 1956.
As a sophomore last season, Stallworth appeared in 26 games and finished the season with a 12.7 scoring average. In his first varsity contest against Marshall he scored 27 points. The only
Stallworth stands 6-5 and weighed around 190 pounds last season. Although he played both guard and forward, he is aiming his workouts towards the back-court position.
"I am lifting weights hoping to add weight and strength," Stallworth said. "Anymore you have to be around 6-8 and 240 to even take the physical contact under the basket.
"A guard, of course, has to be a better ball-handler than a forward. I am really working hard on my ball-handling this summer. My shooting is coming along, but I have more confidence in my shooting now than in my ball-handing."
Basketball doesn't dominate Stallworth's life completely. His first visit to the KU campus wasn't to meet KU basketball coach Ted Owens, but to play
the trumpet before the music professors in the Midwestern Music and Art Camp class of 1967. One of his hobbies today is listening to modern jazz, especially artist Quincy Jones and the number "Walking in Space."
Inevitably, as though he "cast his fate to the wind." Stallworth spent a lot of his time in Robinson Gym playing pick-up games
with the KU basketball players.
He caught Jo Jo White's attention and Coach Owens was notified. One would imagine he was interested in seeing Stallworth play, but the NCAA has a rule for bording any such action. However Jo Jo, an outstanding athlete himself, continued to play
with Stallworth. Today Stallrelates the camp incident to his wearing a KU uniform.
"Jo Jo really worked with me on my weak spots. We'd go one on one and I would get creamed. He took an interest in me and I was a mighty happy boy for the camp session. Come to think of it, I didn't do bad for a high school kid considering who I was playing," Stallwooth added with a laugh.
Green carpet awaits football enthusiast
"I liked the KU campus when I was here as a camper. The basketball program is a winner and I want to be a part of it. I had offers from other colleges (60) but I made up my mind that I was coming back to KU. There wasn't then, and hasn't been any reason now for me to regret my decision."
Kansas gridiron fans will be given the "green carpet treatment" August 29 when the annual buffet and mixer for Jayhawk players and townspeople tops off a Saturday afternoon of football festivities at Memorial Stadium.
Stallworth is majoring in sociology. He is taking five hours this summer. He says, "I have an interest in people, and I want to do something for someone else. I want to contribute."
To give KU fans an opportunity to inspect the new Tartan Turf field now being installed at the Stadium, Pepper Rodgers has set up a full schedule before and after an intra-squae scrimmage.
Before the 3:30 p.m. scrimmage, fans are invited to walk on the field and get the feel of the green synthetic turf the Jayhawks will be playing on this fall.
Buffet tickets may be ordered through the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.
From 3 until 3:30 p.m. Jayhawk players will be on the field to visit with fans, pose for pictures with amateur photographers and sign autographs.
Between the two-hour scrimage and the buffet, fans will be invited to tour the press box and one of the locker rooms.
The buffet, annually sponsored by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and the KU Athletic Department, will be at the stadium rather than at Allen Field House.
Food tables will be set up on the track and serving will begin at 6 p.m. After the picnic-style dinner, players will be introduced and a drawing held for young fans for six footballs autographed by the squad.
Tickets for the buffet dinner are priced at $3 for adults and $1.50 for children. All events leading up to the buffet are free.
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Other coaches making the two week trip with Rodgers were Duffy Daugherty of Michigan State, Charles McClendon of Louisiana State University, and John Ralston of Stanford.
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"I flew to West Berlin," he said, "and then I crossed into East Berlin at Checkpoint Charlie. The officials are strict and I wasn't allowed to take pictures."
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Pepper returns from European coaching clinic
KU football coach Pepper Rodgers recently returned from a two week European coaching clinic sponsored by the United States Air Force.
As a side note he added, "I got a haircut in Turkey for 30 cents." Before returning to the US Coach Rodgers visited East Berlin.
The clinic originally included stops in England and Germany. However Coach Rodgers traveled to US Air Force bases in Turkey at the request of Air Force officials.
Commenting on the trip, Coach Rodgers said, "I was greeted very friendly by the men overseas. They needed a boost in morale and I did my best. They also like football."
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