Ken Kunken: The Way Back by John Marcham
Cornell Alumni News, 07/1971

We’d never heard of him when he came out his sophomore year. He was a 145-pound butterball; he was soft. He never said a word, but soon we began asking, 'Who's that kid at the bottom of the pile?' It was Kenny. His instinct began to work for him, and we began to work him in at the end of games, as a linebacker. Wherever the ball was, he was."
Bob Cullen, coach of Cornell's 150-pound team for thirteen years, took Kenneth Kunken '72 aside at the end of the 1969 season and told him, "Kenny, you've got the instinct, damn it, but you're not strong enough. "What should he do? Kunken asked. "Get on a weight program," the coach told him, and Ken went straight to Alf Eckman, an assistant trainer in the athletic department. "I'm sure Ken was on it every day,"Cullen says today. /full article/