ATLANTA -- Pepper Rodgers, a colorful personality who 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, died Thursday. He was 88.
A statement from his alma mater said Rodgers died in Reston, Virginia, where he lived after retiring in 2004 from his final job as the Washington Redskins' vice president of football operations. No cause of death was given.
A quarterback and kicker, Rodgers was part of Georgia Tech teams that went 32-2-2, claimed two Southeastern Conference championships and won three major bowl games during his three years on the varsity.