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Sayers returns to athletics department

By Jayson Jenks

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

After years away from Kansas, former football standout Gale Sayers is returning as the Director of Fundraising for Special Projects. He will begin working with the Athletics Department in October.

“I am thrilled and honored to welcome Gale back to the Kansas Athletics administration,” Athletics Director Lew Perkins said in a statement. “There is no one better suited to take on this role. Gale obviously distinguished himself on the gridiron as both a collegian and a professional, but the example he also set in his career after football serves as a model to our student-athletes and to the general student body. “

Sayers opened a computer business after his days with athletics was finished in 1984. And now, after years away from the sports world, he’s set to return to the place where he experienced so much success.

Sayers was a two-time All-American selection in 1963 and 1964. He rushed for 2,675 yards and produced 3,917 all-purpose yards, while also leading Kansas in rushing, touchdowns and kickoff returns in each of his three years in the lineup.

He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1977. He was inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame that same year.

“Lew and I started talking about my coming back to the University of Kansas about six months ago,” Sayers said in a statement. “He told me that he wanted to build Kansas Athletics into a program that would be competing for national championships in every sport.”

— — Edited by Abby Olcese

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