Pepper Rodgers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American football player and coach
Date of Birth: 08-Oct-1931
Place of Birth: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Profession: American football player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Pepper Rodgers
- Franklin Cullen "Pepper" Rodgers (born October 8, 1931) is a former American football player and coach.
- He was the head coach at the University of Kansas from 1967 to 1970, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1971 to 1973, and Georgia Tech from 1974 to 1979, compiling a career college football record of 73–65–3 (.528).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.From Atlanta, Rodgers played college football at Georgia Tech under head coach Bobby Dodd, where he was a member of the Yellow Jackets' 1952 national championship team as a backup quarterback and placekicker.
- In his second year as a head coach, he led the Kansas Jayhawks to a share of the Big Eight Conference title in 1968, the program's most recent conference championship.
- They played in the Orange Bowl in Miami, but lost by a point to Penn State. At UCLA in the Pac-8, Rodgers installed the wishbone offense and with junior college transfer quarterback Mark Harmon in 1972, the Bruins upset top-ranked and two-time defending champion Nebraska in the season opener, snapping the Huskers' 32-game unbeaten streak.
- UCLA finished 8–3 and fifteenth in the final AP rankings; in 1973 they were 9–2 and ended ranked twelfth.
- (Prior to the 1975 season, the Pac-8 and Big Ten conferences allowed only one postseason participant each, for the Rose Bowl.) He left after the 1973 season to become head coach at Georgia Tech. With the Memphis Showboats of the USFL, Rodgers was the first professional coach of hall of fame defensive end Reggie White. Rodgers is the author of Fourth and Long Gone, a novel 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. On January 1, 2018, the Allstate Sugar Bowl introduced a new Sugar Bowl Hall of Fame with an inaugural class composed of 16 legends of the annual New Orleans football classic.
- Pepper Rodgers was inducted as a member of the inaugural class.
- The first class of Hall of Famers spans seven decades of Sugar Bowl action and includes 12 all-star players, two national championship coaches and two individuals who had the rare distinction of both playing and coaching in the Bowl.
- Pepper Rodgers debuted in the Sugar Bowl in 1953 as he threw a touchdown pass, kicked a field goal and knocked home three point-after kicks in Georgia Tech’s 24-7 victory over Ole Miss.
- He outdid himself the following year, however, passing for 195 yards and three touchdowns while kicking another field goal and two more extra-points to lead the Yellow Jackets to a bowl record 42 points in a lopsided victory over West Virginia.He now lives in Reston, Virginia.
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