Pepper Rodgers

Pepper Rodgers
Biographical details
Sport(s)	Football
Born	(1931-10-08) October 8, 1931 Atlanta, Georgia
Playing career
1951–1953	Georgia Tech
Position(s)	Quarterback, kicker
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1958–1959	Air Force (assistant)
1960–1964	Florida (assistant)
1965–1966	UCLA (assistant)
1967–1970	Kansas
1971–1973	UCLA
1974–1979	Georgia Tech
1984–1985	Memphis Showboats
1995	Memphis Mad Dogs
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
2001–2004	Washington Redskins (director of football)
Head coaching record
Overall	73–65–3 (college) 19–19 (USFL) 9–9 (CFL)
Bowls	0–2
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
1 Big Eight (1968)

Franklin C. "Pepper" Rodgers (born October 8, 1931) is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Kansas (1967–1970), University of California, Los Angeles (1971–1973), and the Georgia Institute of Technology (1974–1979), compiling a career college football record of 73–65–3. Rodgers was also the head coach of the United States Football League's Memphis Showboats from 1984 to 1985 and of the Canadian Football League's Memphis Mad Dogs in 1995. He also served as the Washington Redskins director of football from 2001 to 2004. At 69, he was considered for the Redskins' head coaching position before Norv Turner's eventual firing during the 2000 season.^[1]

Rodgers played college football at Georgia Tech, where he was a member of the Yellow Jackets' 1952 national championship team as a backup quarterback and placekicker. As a coach, he led the Kansas Jayhawks to a share of the Big Eight Conference title in 1968, the program's most recent conference championship. With the Memphis Showboats of the USFL, Rodgers was the first professional coach of future Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive end Reggie White.

Rodgers is the author of Fourth and Long Gone, a fictional book published in 1985 that is a bawdy roman à clef of his experiences as a college football coach and recruiter. He also wrote an autobiography: Pepper, written with Al Thomy. Rodgers graduated from Georgia Tech in 1955.

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs	Coaches^#	AP^°
Kansas Jayhawks (Big Eight Conference) (1967–1970)
1967	Kansas	5–5	5–2	T–2nd
1968	Kansas	9–2	6–1	T–1st	L Orange	6	7
1969	Kansas	1–9	0–7	8th
1970	Kansas	5–6	2–5	T–6th
Kansas:		20–22	13–15
UCLA Bruins (Pacific-8 Conference) (1971–1973)
1971	UCLA	2–7–1	1–4–1	8th
1972	UCLA	8–3	5–2	2nd		17	15
1973	UCLA	9–2	6–1	2nd		9	12
UCLA:		19–12–1	12–7–1
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (NCAA Division I / I-A independent) (1974–1979)
1974	Georgia Tech	6–5
1975	Georgia Tech	7–4
1976	Georgia Tech	4–6–1
1977	Georgia Tech	6–5
1978	Georgia Tech	7–5			L Peach
1979	Georgia Tech	4–6–1
Georgia Tech:		34–31–2
Total:		73–65–3
^#Rankings from final Coaches Poll. ^°Rankings from final AP Poll.

References

↑ McKenna, Dave (2010-11-19). "The Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder". Washington City Paper. Retrieved 2012-11-08.

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Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets starting quarterbacks

Stafford Nash (1892)
John Kimball (1893)
Bill Coleman (1911)
Alf McDonald (1912–1913)
Froggie Morrison (1914–1916)
Albert Hill (1917)
Red Barron (1918)
Marshall Guill (1919)
Jack McDonough (1919–1922)
Alexander Hunt (1923)
Fred Moore (1924)
Ike Williams (1925)
John Brewer (1926)
Bob Durant (1927–1928)
Earl Dunlap (1929–1930)
Marshall Flowers (1931)
Roy McArthur (1932)
Shorty Roberts (1933–1934)
Fletcher Sims (1935–1937)
Joe Bartlette (1938)
Billy Beers (1939)
Johnny Bosch (1940–1941)
Pat McHugh (1942)
Eddie Prokop (1943–1944)
Ed Holtsinger (1945)
Frank Broyles (1946)
Jimmy Southard (1947–1949)
Darrell Crawfard (1950–1951)
Bill Brigman (1952–1954)
Pepper Rodgers (1953–1954)
Ron Vann (1955–1956)
Wade Mitchell (1955–1956)
Fred Braselton (1957–1959)
Stan Gann (1960–1961)
Billy Lothridge (1961–1963)
Jerry Priestly (1964)
Kim King (1965–1967)
Larry Good (1968)
Jack Williams (1969)
Eddie McAshan (1970–1972)
Jim Stevens (1973)
Rudy Allen (1974)
Danny Myers (1975)
Gary Lanier (1976–1977)
Mike Kelley (1978–1981)
Jim Bob Taylor (1982)
John Dewberry (1983–1985)
Rick Strom (1986–1987)
Darrell Gast (1987)
Todd Rampley (1988)
Shawn Jones (1989–1992)
Donnie Davis (1993, 1995)
Tom Luginbill (1994)
Joe Hamilton (1996–1999)
George Godsey (2000–2001)
A. J. Suggs (2002)
Reggie Ball (2003–2006)
Taylor Bennett (2005–2007)
Joshua Nesbitt (2008–2010)
Tevin Washington (2010–2012)
Vad Lee (2013)
Justin Thomas (2014–present)

Kansas Jayhawks head football coaches

Will Coleman (1890)
Edwin Mortimer Hopkins (1891)
A. W. Shepard (1892–1893)
Hector Cowan (1894–1896)
Wylie G. Woodruff (1897–1898)
Fielding H. Yost (1899)
L. W. Boynton (1900)
John H. Outland (1901)
Arthur Hale Curtis (1902)
Boss Weeks (1903)
A. R. Kennedy (1904–1910)
Ralph W. Sherwin (1911)
Arthur Mosse (1912–1913)
H. M. Wheaton (1914)
Herman Olcott (1915–1917)
Jay Bond (1918)
Leon McCarty (1919)
Phog Allen (1920)
George Clark (1921–1925)
Franklin Cappon (1926–1927)
Homer Woodson Hargiss (1928–1932)
Adrian Lindsey (1933–1938)
Gwinn Henry (1939–1942)
Henry Shenk (1943–1945)
George Sauer (1946–1947)
Jules V. Sikes (1948–1953)
Chuck Mather (1954–1957)
Jack Mitchell (1958–1966)
Pepper Rodgers (1967–1970)
Don Fambrough (1971–1974)
Bud Moore (1975–1978)
Don Fambrough (1979–1982)
Mike Gottfried (1983–1985)
Bob Valesente (1986–1987)
Glen Mason (1988–1996)
Terry Allen (1997–2001)
Mark Mangino (2002–2009)
Turner Gill (2010–2011)
Charlie Weis (2012–2014)
Clint Bowen # (2014)
David Beaty (2015– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

UCLA Bruins head football coaches

Fred Cozens (1919)
Harry Trotter (1920–1922)
James J. Cline (1923–1924)
William H. Spaulding (1925–1938)
Edwin C. Horrell (1939–1944)
Bert LaBrucherie (1945–1948)
Henry Russell Sanders (1949–1957)
George W. Dickerson (1958)
William F. Barnes (1958–1964)
Tommy Prothro (1965–1970)
Pepper Rodgers (1971–1973)
Dick Vermeil (1974–1975)
Terry Donahue (1976–1995)
Bob Toledo (1996–2002)
Ed Kezirian # (2002)
Karl Dorrell (2003–2007)
DeWayne Walker # (2007)
Rick Neuheisel (2008–2011)
Mike Johnson # (2011)
Jim L. Mora (2012– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets head football coaches

Ernest West (1892)
Leonard Wood (1893)
No coach (1894)
No team (1895)
J. B. Wood (1896–1897)
No coach (1898)
Rufus B. Nalley (1899)
Harris T. Collier (1900)
John McKee (1901)
George Andree (1902)
Oliver Huie (1903)
John Heisman (1904–1919)
William Alexander (1920–1944)
Bobby Dodd (1945–1966)
Bud Carson (1967–1971)
Bill Fulcher (1972–1973)
Pepper Rodgers (1974–1979)
Bill Curry (1980–1986)
Bobby Ross (1987–1991)
Bill Lewis (1992–1994)
George O'Leary (1994–2001)
Mac McWhorter # (2001)
Chan Gailey (2002–2007)
Jon Tenuta # (2007)
Paul Johnson (2008– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

1952 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football—national champions

Pete Brown Leon Hardeman Hal Miller George Morris Larry Morris Pepper Rodgers Head coach: Bobby Dodd Assistant coaches: Frank Broyles Ray Graves Bo Hagan

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