Intra-squad game winds up spring drills
Kansas' spring football drills wind up Saturday with a full-scale intra-squad game at Memorial Stadium. Kickoff is slated for 2 p.m. and coach Pepper Rodgers assures there will be a genuine kickoff rather than giving one side the ball at the 30-yard line.
"We'll have a coin toss and kickoffs and keep score just like in a real football game." Pepper said.
This spring finale will match the top offensive and defensive units against their No. 2 counterparts.
This is a change from the past
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three years when offensive players were matched against the defense and the games decided on an intricate point system.
Rodgers said that Dan Heck, junior college recruit from Hawthorne, Calif., will quarterback the No. 1 team and Bob Bruegegging, upcoming sophomore from Kansas City, will run the other club.
The Jayhawk coach will not firm up the two squads until late in the week. Third and fourth team members will be divided among the two squads for reserve duty.
John Riggins, standout running back, who has been dividing time this spring between football drills and an outfield slot with KU's title-contending baseball squad, will work in double harness Saturday
He will be with the baseball squad for an 11 a.m. match with Missouri before joining his football mates.
Also scheduled for double duty—but just on the football field—is Bob Helmbacher, the little soccer-style placekicker from St. Louis who is slated to replace Billy Bell as the Jayhawks' field goal and extra point booster. Helmbacher will perform that type of kicking for both sides Saturday.
This game will afford many Jayhawk fans their first look at Rodgers' new offense which features the triple option and two wide receivers. Kansas packs a lot of speed at the flanker spots with Ron Jessie, Xerk White, sophomore Marvin Foster and
junior college transfer Lucius Turner available.
Also this spring, the Jayhawks have utilized the dropback pass, whereas the past three seasons saw most of the passing designed for the quarterback rollout.
There also has been a shift in defense from the five-man front to a four-man front with three linebackers.
Bob Tyus, 283-pound defensive tackle from Kansas City, and Rich Rucker, 195-pound linebacker from Olympia, Wash, have been appointed captains for the Blue squad.
The White team will be led by co-captains Steve Carmichael and Larry Brown, elected by team members earlier this spring for the 1970 season.
Carmichael is a 229-pound defensive end from Mulvane and Brown is a 216-pound split end from Starke, Fla.
Rodgers also announced that Don Fambrough, assistant head coach, will direct the Blue squad and John Cooper, defensive backfield coach, will lead the White team.
Fambrough's staff will be composed of Dick Tomey, Billie Mathews, J. C. Hixon and Larry Travis, Cooper's aides will be Terry Donahue, Charlie McCullars, Ben Olison and Sandy Ruda
Rodgers plans to be an impartial observer from the pressbox.
Admission is $1 for adults and 50 cents for grade and high school students. KU students will be admitted on presentation of their ID cards.
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