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Show F O, C O --i ' " I ' . ..... . .Sf ' i , - - -vvS f I , - , - S-T - 5 f 1 i4 I w iz4 The assistant football coaches who will debut Saturday Sat-urday at 2 p.m.: (top, L to R) Jim LaKue, Ken Vierra, Jim Hanifan, Rich Groth. (bottom, L to R) John Pise, Dick Scesniak, Ron Taylor, Tom Modrak. Football Assistants To Debut ; In Spring Contest Saturday sive backs and receivers the past two years at Utah, and he has also gained a reputation as a top recruiter. re-cruiter. Jim and his wife Marianna have one daughter, Cathie, 8. Ken Vierra, also returning for his third year as coach at Utah, will take charge of the linebackers and defensive ends. Vierra attended attend-ed the University of Utah where he lettered in football three years. He coached high school ball in California Cali-fornia for five years, then was an assistant under former Utah Coach Jack Curtis at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He and his wife Betty have two girls, Susan, 9, and Christian, 3 months, and two boys, Doug, 7, and Kenny, 5. Dick Scesniak, former all-Big Eight guard from Iowa State, will coach the offensive line. He was assistant coach at Missouri for two years, then returned to his alma mater for three years as an assistant. as-sistant. Scesniak is also noted as a top recruiter. He is 27, and was just married last month. Head Frosh Coach Ron Taylor, former all-Big Eight quarterback at the University of Missouri, will be the head freshman fresh-man coach. He has five extremely impressive years as high school coach to his credit, and he spent last season as an assistant at Missouri. Mis-souri. Ron and his wife Sharon have two boys, Topper, 6, and Todd, 5. Tom Modrak, former small college col-lege all-American from Indiana State University of Pennsylvania, will coach the defensive line. He spent two years as an assistant at his alma mater, then was the plebe coach at Army for two seasons. He and his wife Sandra have one girl two months old. Two former . football players at Utah, Rich Groth and John Pise, will also assist Coach Meek while they work on their graduate degrees. de-grees. Groth also doubles as the head ski coach. By MIKE JACOBSEN J Chronicle Sports Editor When Head Football Coach Bill ! Meek unveils his team in the an- nual Spring game Saturday at 2 p.m., he will also put his new as-' as-' sistant coaches on display. With ! the exceptions of Jim Hanifan and Ken Vierra, who are holdovers ! from the Mike Giddings regime, ' the entire coaching staff will be 1 making its debut in Ute Stadium. ! Jim LaRue will be the number one assistant coach and the de- fensive coordinator. LaRue went i to college at Duke University, where he played halfback on their Sugar Bowl team, and the University of Maryland, where he twice led them in the Gator Bowl. J He coached high school ball for a few years, then returned to the 1 University of Maryland as an as- sistant under Bill Meek. He was 1 head coach at Bainbridge Naval ' Station in Maryland for two years, then rejoined Coach Meek at Kansas Kan-sas State. Former Meek Assistant Coach LaRue followed Meek as an assistant at the University of Houston for two years, and three years at SMU (Southern Methodist University). From 1959 to 1966 he served as head football coach at the University of Arizona. Coach LaRue is 43-years-old, married, and he and his wife Betty have two girls, Jill, 17, and Judy, 14, and one boy, Tom, 13. Jim Hanifan, a former all-American end at the University of California at Berkeley, will take charge of the receivers. Hanifan coached two different high schools in California, then was the offensive offen-sive coach at Glendale Junior College Col-lege for two years. Top Recruiter He has been coaching the offen- |
