Kansas football enthusiasm seemed high with the announcement that KU had hired Pepper Rodgers, a UCLA assistant and former Georgia Tech quarterback star, as its new football coach. He was replacing Jack Mitchell, fired after nine years on the job here. Mitchell left with a 44-42-5 record, the last winning record for a departing coach. He was to become a fulltime Wellington News publisher, having bought the newspaper from Stew Newlin while a KU coach. Mitchell was getting a four-year, $56,000 settlement from KU.

The Journal-World learned that Doug Weaver, who had been fired recently as Kansas State football coach, would move to Lawrence with his family to enter the KU law school. He later was hired as a Jayhawk assistant by new head coach Pepper Rodgers.