Rodgers never fit the mold of the stereotypical football coach and didn’t bother trying. He wasn’t a jut-jawed, all-knowing autocrat with heightened paranoia.

Rodgers was an assistant coach at Florida during Spurrier’s freshman and sophomore years (1963-64). Though Rodgers left two years before the Gator quarterback won the 1966 Heisman Trophy, the ...

Pepper Rodgers, who coached college football at Kansas, UCLA and Georgia, as well as for the Memphis Showboats of the United States Football League, died Thursday at age 88 in Reston, Virginia.

Pepper Rodgers died Thursday at the age of 88. He was the quarterback of Georgia Tech’s 1952 national-championship team, the head coach for one of the school’s most memorable upsets and a man ...

Former UCLA football coach Pepper Rodgers, ... He started his coaching career as an assistant at Air Force in 1958 and went to Florida two years later before arriving at UCLA in 1965 for his first ...

Pepper Rodgers, head coach of the the 1968 Kansas Jayhawks football team, which fell to Penn State, 15-14, in the 1969 Orange Bowl, has died at the age of 88. “He passed away two hours or so ago ...

Rodgers helped Georgia Tech to an unbeaten season as a player in 1952 and went on to coach the Yellow Jackets as well as Kansas, UCLA and Memphis teams in both the USFL and CFL.

LAWRENCE, Kan. – Pepper Rodgers, who was the head coach of the Kansas Jayhawks from 1967-70 passed away on Thursday, May 14, in Reston, Va. He was 88. Rodgers joined the Jayhawks in 1967, where he led ...

Pepper Rodgers, a wisecracking former college football coach who mentored several notable players and coaches during his career, died May 14 at a hospital in Reston, Va. He was 88. He was taken ...