Speaking of history, checked out KU football history and found link after link to some interesting trivia w/r/t KU and Texas football, a bunch of worthless, but somewhat interesting trivia follows.
Research shows, hell, even with Gale Sayers, 1962-64, the best the Jayhawks could do was 6-3-1.
Oh, there was that perfect 10-0 season under coach Fielding H. Yost, in FREAKING 1899, coaching there one year, then going to Stanford and San Jose State each for one year, then Meatchicken where his teams won 6 MNCs (4 straight from 1901-04, 1918, 1923). Why would you leave a 10-0 HC gig? Stanford and San Jose State for the weather; I guess Meatchicken had the bucks and rep.
George Sauer coached them 1946-47, to 7-2-1 and 8-1-2 records, then coached at Navy for 2 years, then Baylor 1950-55, 38-21-3 there.
Sauer earlier played at NU under DX Bible 1931-33; Bible, who had previously coached at aggy 1917, 1929-28, then went to HC at NU 1929-36, left NU for Texas 1937-46, becoming AD and hiring DKR.
Bible's 1919 aggy team was undefeated, unscored upon, outscoring its opposition 275-0 for the season. Bible started the twelfth man thingy.
Further trivia, George Sauer had a son, George Sauer, Jr., UT letterman, sophmore on the 1963 Texas MNC squad, all-pro with the Jets, caught 8 passes from Namath to beat the Colts in the AFL-NFL World Championship game (aka later, the Super Bowl).
John Outland, player for Penn 1891-92, then Kansas 1895-96, then back to Penn 1897-99, HC at Kansas 1901, for whom the Outland Award is named, only went 3-5-2 as HC at KU.
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Warned you this would be a bunch of trivia dump, but some of it interesting.
Last edited: Nov 19, 2018