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6 unusual facts about Woody Hayes


Amos Foster

His career winning percentage of .939 is the highest in Miami history ahead of College Football Hall of Fame coaches George Little, Ara Parseghian, Sid Gillman, Woody Hayes, and Bo Schembechler.

Jerry Lucas

These fans then largely left before the varsity game, sometimes even including football coach Woody Hayes, a noted Lucas fan.

John Mueller

He currently is the Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies and a professor of both political science and dance at The Ohio State University.

Orange Frazer Press

Subsequent works included Woody's Boys: 20 Famous Buckeyes Talk Amongst Themselves, a 1995 book about Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes, as well as biographies of Ohio sports figures Johnny Bench, Chad Johnson, and Joe Nuxhall.

Pay it forward

Woody Hayes (February 14, 1913 – March 12, 1987) was a college football coach who is best remembered for winning five national titles and 13 Big Ten championships in 28 years at The Ohio State University.

William Appleman Williams

The following academic year (1951-1952) Williams taught at Ohio State University, but (according to Williams) he collided with Woody Hayes (in his first year as football coach and, like Williams, a former naval officer) over low grades for a football player that Williams would not change and the incident apparently led to his needing to find another appointment.


1970 Ohio State Buckeyes football team

Woody Hayes received a congratulatory phone call from President Richard Nixon after the game and then asked to speak to Fred Schram, who made the game-winning field goal.

Harold Leroy Enarson

After leaving the university, Enarson commented that he would be remembered most for his firing of popular Ohio State Buckeyes football coach Woody Hayes after Hayes punched an opposing player in the throat, though events such as Archie Griffin's two Heisman Trophies or graduate Paul Flory's Nobel Prize were highpoints.

Helmet sticker

The practice of awarding helmet stickers is often credited to Ernie Biggs, trainer at Ohio State under legendary coach Woody Hayes.

Mershon Center for International Security Studies

There are endowed positions named the Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Security Studies, currently occupied by John Mueller, and the Peace Studies Chair.


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