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R. T. V. Bowman

He was best known for his association with college athletics, despite his own weak constitution, serving as the first baseball coach and one of the first assistant football coaches.


1972 college football season

The 1972 NCAA University Division football season saw the USC Trojans, coached by John McKay, go undefeated and win the national championship as the unanimous choice of the fifty AP panelists.

Federated States of Micronesia national football team

The team was managed by Paul Watson, brother of British comedian Mark Watson, and mainly competes in the South Pacific Games.

Graeme Dell

Amongst the coaches he has worked for include Sir Bobby Robson, Roy Hodgson, Don Howe, Les Reed and England's most successful youth team Coach to date Ted Powell.

Grant Brown

When John Schofield and John Deehan were sacked by Lincoln City on 15 October 2007 following a disappointing start to the 2007–08 season culminating in a 4–0 defeat away to Paul Ince's league leaders, Milton Keynes Dons, Brown was appointed caretaker manager until the appointment of Peter Jackson.

J. Troutman Gougler

Gougler was unable to complete the 1910 season and was replaced part way through the season by Thomas Crooks.

Jeff Casteel

But after interim head coach Bill Stewart was promoted to head coach after the 48-28 victory over the Oklahoma Sooners in the 2008 Fiesta Bowl, Casteel decided to stay at West Virginia.

Jeff Otah

The Carolina Panthers were reportedly very interested in him, evident by them sending head coach John Fox and General Manager Marty Hurney to his pro-day.

Marion Barber III

Jim Johnson, the Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator, called Barber the hardest running back in the NFL to bring down.

Nick Dasovic

He became first assistant when manager John Carver left the club in 2009 and was replaced by his understudy Chris Cummins as interim coach.

Otto Pommerening

The film, directed by William A. Wellman, was a genre football comedy starring Joan Bennett, Joe E. Brown, and members of the 1928 and 1929 All-American football teams and USC coach Howard Jones.

Steve Dils

He was Stanford's starting quarterback under Bill Walsh in 1978, and led Stanford to a 25-22 victory over Georgia in the 1978 Bluebonnet Bowl, where he was named the game's offensive most valuable player.

Toakai Puapua

In 2007, he was appointed football coach of Tuvalu during the 2007 South Pacific Games in Samoa.

Vladimir Pronin

Vladimir Pronin (football coach) (1945 - 2007), Soviet football player and coach, in 1994 Russian Second League

Walter Dean

He earned the nickname "American Express" due to the belief of his coach, Eddie Robinson, that the team should 'never leave home without him', a saying similar to the slogan of the eponymous credit card company.

Willie Maley

William "Willie" Patrick Maley (25 April 1868 – 2 April 1958) was a Scottish football coach and former player, the first manager of Celtic Football Club, and one of the most successful managers in Scottish football history.


see also

Acafellas

Recurring cast members who appear in "Acafellas" are Stephen Tobolowsky as former glee club director Sandy Ryerson, Patrick Gallagher as football coach Ken Tanaka, Iqbal Theba as Principal Figgins, Kent Avenido as Sheets and Things employee Howard Bamboo, and Naya Rivera and Heather Morris as glee club members Santana Lopez and Brittany Pierce.

Atlantic Aircraft

Fokker Aircraft Company of America became a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation which acquired a 40 percent holding in May 1929, but ended operations the following year as a combination of the effect of the Great Depression and bad publicity surrounding the crash of a Fokker F.10 that killed celebrated football coach Knute Rockne (TWA Flight 599).

Ballou High School

Mike Locksley (1988), head football coach at the University of New Mexico

Bert German

Bert German was the third head football coach for the Iowa State University Cyclones located in Ames, Iowa and he held that position for five seasons, from 1894 until 1898.

Billy Donovan

In October 2008, coach Billy Donovan and then-head Florida Gators football coach Urban Meyer were named co-chairmen of an effort to raise $50 million to support the Florida Opportunity Scholars Program.

C. J. McCoy

McCoy got his start as a football coach at the Sewanee Military Academy, a preparatory school affiliated with the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.

Carlos Enrique

Enrique works as a football coach and has held assistant manager positions in teams such as Nueva Chicago, Almagro and Chacarita Juniors in Argentina and Aurora in Bolivia.

Clarke Central High School

The current head football coach, Leroy Ryals, is a former LSU Tigers (under Nick Saban) and South Florida Bulls assistant coach.

Coonass

University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban came under fire in early 2007 for using the term while speaking "off the record" to a reporter.

Dario Zuffi

Dario Zuffi (born 7 December 1964 in Basel) is a Swiss football coach and former international player, who is currently a coach for FC Winterthur's U-21 team.

Darren Barber

:Not to be confused with Darren Barbier, an American college football coach.

Dave Fuller

Fuller tried his hand at coaching, first as the head football, basketball and baseball coach at Perquimans County High School in Hertford, North Carolina from 1940 to 1942, and then as an assistant football coach for the backfield at Northwest Missouri State Teacher's College in Maryville, Missouri in 1943.

Dave Rader

David Rader (born 1957), former American football coach and player

David Elson

In March 2010, Indiana University head football coach Bill Lynch announced that Elson will be a defensive quality control coach.

Delta Classic

Fitz Hill created the event, then known as the Literacy Classic while serving as head football coach at San Jose State University.

Dick Hunter

In the mid-1960s, he was the head football coach at Wadsworth High School.

Dusty Mangum

After the game, according to The Daily Texan, President George W. Bush called UT football coach Mack Brown to congratulate him on the win, and to make sure he knew that he watched the entire game, right down to Mangum's last kick.

Ed Herr

:For the former American college football coach, see Edward Herr.

Edward Slaughter

In March 1931, Slaughter was hired as an assistant football coach at the University of Virginia, where he was put in charge of the linemen under new head coach Fred Dawson.

Erwin Dudley

Dudley's wife is the niece of Sylvester Croom, the first African-American head football coach in the Southeastern Conference.

Fokker F.10

On March 31, 1931, TWA Flight 599 crashed near Bazaar, Kansas after a wing separated in flight, killing all eight on board, including football coach Knute Rockne.

Franjo Džidić

Franjo Džidić is famous footballer and football coach from Mostar, Bosnia and Hercegovina.

Fred Trosko

In 1946, Trosko was hired as an assistant football coach at his alma mater, Flint Northern High School.

George Roark

He served as the head football coach at Westminster College of New Wilmington, Pennsylvania in 1936 and at Washington & Jefferson College from 1937 to 1940, compiling a career college football record of 18–18–3.

Glaspie

Andrew Bird Glaspie (1876–1943), politician and college football coach

Harry Trout

Harry E. Trout, head college football coach for the West Virginia University Mountaineers, 1903

Jack Ryan

John J. Ryan, known as Jack, head football coach at Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin

James Farragher

One skeptical observer, Murray Sperber, author of Shake Down the Thunder, speculates: "...when N.D. publicists began compiling the history of Notre Dame football, no one could ascertain who had coached in 1902 and 1903. Because Farragher had played on the team at the turn of the century and was a popular police officer on the Notre Dame campus in the 1930s, the publicists inscribed his name on one of the most prestigious lists in American sports–head football coach at Notre Dame".

Joe Walton Stadium

The facility opened in 2005 and is named for Colonials head football coach Joe Walton.

John Harbaugh

In 2004, he was mentioned as a possible candidate to replace Gary Darnell as the head football coach at Western Michigan, where he had earned a master's degree and was an assistant football coach from 1984–1987.

John P. Koehler

He served as the head football coach at Lawrence Institute in Wisconsin, now Lawrence University, from 1904 to 1905, at the University of Denver from 1906 to 1910, and at Marquette University from 1914 to 1915, compiling a career college football record of 39–29–4.

John P. Surma

As the vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of Pennsylvania State University, Surma informed longtime Penn State football coach Joe Paterno late at night, and over the telephone, that he had been terminated without a hearing amid the media firestorm in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal.

Kenneth Frazier

On November 11, 2011, as a member of the Penn State board of trustees, the board selected Frazier as chairman of a commission empaneled to investigate a child sex abuse scandal involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky and allegations of a cover up by university officials.

Kreps

Dean Kreps (born 1961), American football coach and former player

Logan Young

During the 2000 season, an assistant football coach at Trezevant High School in Memphis claimed that Young had paid Lynn Lang, the Trezevant head football coach, approximately $150,000 to encourage defensive lineman Albert Means to sign with Alabama.

Lou Palazzi

From 1950 to 1958, Palazzi was an industrial arts teacher and assistant football coach at West Scranton High School.

Lucius Littauer

Littauer graduated from Harvard University in 1878 and was the school's first head football coach, guiding the Crimson to a record of 5–1–2 in 1881.

Mulligan's Stew

Lawrence Pressman starred as Michael Mulligan, a high school teacher and football coach, and Elinor Donahue played his wife, Jane, who works as a school nurse.

Needtobreathe

Named after the University of Alabama football coach Bear Bryant, brothers Bear and Nathaniel Bryant "Bo" Rinehart were born and raised in rural Possum Kingdom, South Carolina, where their father, a pastor, ran a church camp.

Oklahoma Republican Party

Bud Wilkinson, legendary University of Oklahoma football coach (lost 1964 U.S. Senate election to Fred R. Harris)

Ossie Solem

In 1932, Solem signed a three year contract to succeed Burt Ingwersen as the 13th head football coach at the University of Iowa.

Plymouth State University

Ed Ashnault (1960), collegiate baseball, basketball and football coach

Randy Awrey

Awrey was the head football coach for the Saginaw Valley State Cardinals located in University Center, Michigan.

Rashaun Woods

After his playing career ended, Woods worked as an assistant football coach at Millwood and at Star Spencer High School, and also as a high school football radio commentator and professional bass fisherman.

Robert Burton, Sr.

In January, 2011, Burton demanded that three million dollars worth of donations to the football program be returned over a perceived slight by Athletic Director Jeff Hathaway, as Burton alleges he was not consulted regarding the university's choice of hiring Paul Pasqualoni as the new football coach.

Sark Arslanian

After a long and successful career as a football coach at the collegiate and professional levels, he helped establish a winning tradition at Pine View High School in St. George, Utah.

Tammy Irons

She is married to Curley Hallman, the former football coach at Southern Miss (1988-90) and LSU (1991-94).

Terry Albritton

From 1990 to 2004, he was a teacher and assistant football coach at St. Anthony High School and was also a personal trainer on Maui for professional athletes, including Shane Victorino of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Terry Bowden

Bowden is a son of former Florida State University head football coach Bobby Bowden and a brother of Tommy Bowden, former head football coach at Clemson University, and Jeff Bowden, the former offensive coordinator at Florida State who serves as Terry's special teams coordinator at Akron.

Uwe Weidemann

Uwe Weidemann (born June 14, 1963 in Weißensee, Thuringia) is a German football coach and a former player who was last managing VfR Fischeln.