Don Fambrough, who served two stints as head football coach at the University of Kansas, was born 100 years ago on this day in Texas.
Fambrough coached the Jayhawks in the early 1970s, then again in the late '70s into the early 1980s; during each stint, he led KU to a postseason bowl game.
Fambrough began his college career playing for Texas, but left during World War II as a member of the U.S. Army Air Corps. After the war, he and his wife moved to Lawrence, Kansas, and he finished his college playing days with the Jayhawks.
Fambrough served as an assistant coach for KU, East Texas State, one season with the Shockers at the University of Wichita, then back to Kansas.
Fambrough's best season as KU coach was 1973, when Kansas played in the Liberty Bowl in Memphis, and finished the season ranked in the Top 20 in the nation.
During his coaching tenures at KU, Fambrough was known for intensely stoking the KU-Missouri rivalry. Coach Fambrough openly showed contempt for Missouri; when KU played road games at Missouri, Fambrough always brought prepared meals on the KU bus, refusing to buy any food, incur sales taxes, nor spend any money within the state borders of Missouri.