Why Woody Hayes hated Indiana
Woody Hayes was a great football coach at Ohio State for 28 years, but he was also a grumpy old man. Even when he was young, he was a grumpy old man.
Mallory worked for him as an assistant at Ohio State in the 1960s, and he came to Indiana in 1984 after successful stops at Miami of Ohio, Colorado and Northern Illinois. He wanted to beat the hell out of Woody and the Buckeyes when he got here, because he knew from experience that Hayes wanted to beat the hell out of him and the Hoosiers.
Woody Hayes hated Indiana. And that hatred ran deep, right from his first year as a head coach at Ohio State in 1951.
“Bill, of course, worked for Woody at Ohio State and he saw first-hand how much he hated Indiana,’’ Fischer said during a lengthy interview this week. “Bill used to tell the story about how during Woody’s first year, he got beat by Indiana (32-10 to a bad IU team that only won two games that season) and after the game he was so angry that he was frothing at the mouth.
“He was so mad that he swore he would NEVER lose to Indiana ever again. And, of course, he didn’t.’’
Indiana’s history with Ohio State is horrific. Since 1914, Indiana is 7-74-4 against the Buckeyes. Hayes stayed true to his word and never lost to Indiana, going 22-0-1 until he was fired in 1978 for punching a Clemson player in a bowl game.
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Let's keep that streak going....