Pepper Rodgers
| Sport(s) | Football |
|---|---|
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
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 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 1 Big Eight (1968) | |
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 (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 (.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.
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