Newcomers draw praise from Rodgers
Two newcomers gained most of Jayhawk football coach Pepper Rodgers' praise following Saturday's intra-squad game that climaxed this year's spring practice.
Dan Heek, junior college transfer from Hawthorne, Calif., who Rodgers said is now his number one quarterback, and Bob Helm-
Dan Heck
bacher, St. Louis freshman who has apparently filled the kicking void left by the departed Billy Bell, left the KU mentor all smiles as he analyzed the concluded game and next year's football fortunes.
"I think we're going to have a good team." Rodgers said. "The play of Heck was good, Helm-bacher looked good, the receivers were great and I thought the play of the linebackers was good."
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The quarterback position was up for grabs at the start of practice but Rodgers said that Heck is now number one.
"You can't have a good football team without a good quarterback," Rodgers said, "and Heck is good."
"I feel better about this football team as compared to last year's because Heck is more experienced," Rodgers said. Heck played in 21 junior college games prior to enrolling at KU in January.
Heck also drew praise from Rodgers in what Pepper termed the best play of the game.
Ironically enough it came when Heck, who completed 17 of 30 passes for 284 yards, threw his only interception of the day.
"The pass was terrible." Rodgers said, "but did you see how he hustled over and knocked Rucker six feet out of bounds. He looked as if he was angry."
Rucker (Rich), newly converted linebacker, had an open shot at going all the way with the interception before Heck's grueling touchdown-saving tackle.
"Hustle is what we have to have to win," Rodgers said. "We can't win without it because we're inexperienced."
Inexperienced is also the proper term to describe placekicker Helmbacher. The soccer-style kicker had never kicked a football before coming to KU but no one would have guessed it by his performance Saturday. While kicking for both teams the 5-10, 152 pounder kicked field goals of 39 and 45 yards and converted six of eight extra points with one being blocked.
"That was the best thing that happened today," Rodgers noted. "Before he's through he'll be a good one."
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Basically we're a young team," Rodgers concluded, "but I'm real pleased at how we've progressed. If we can keep from getting killed early (with injuries) we'll have a chance."
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more things well. You can't evaluate how good or how bad you are in spring practice."
Just how good are the Jayhawks? Rodgers is not certain but he is optimistic.
"Of the four (teams since he came to KU) this team is more ready than any of the others," Rodgers said. "That doesn't mean it's a better team but it is doing
"This team is better than any other in attitude," Pepper noted. "Last year's attitude was that we can turn it on when we want to turn it on. Well, we've learned
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Putting the ball through the airways seemed to be the order of the day—but the 'Hawks crunching ground game also provided the victorious White squad with valuable yardage. Quarterback Dan Heck is shown here handing off to fullback John Riggins. Running back Chuck Schmidt watches the first quarter action.