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Wayne Woodrow "Woody" Hayes (5x National Champion, OSU HOF, CFB HOF, R.I.P.)

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Buckskin86;1819696; said:
Did Woody Really Push his Car Across the Border? - NBCi video
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Stanford football: Jim Harbaugh wins Woody Hayes Award
By Jon Wilner
[email protected]
Posted: 12/17/2010

Calling it "the best award I've received in my coaching career," Stanford's Jim Harbaugh is the 2010 recipient of the Woody Hayes Award, given to the nation's top coach.

Yes, that Woody Hayes.

The late Ohio State coach served as Public Enemy Nos. 1, 2 and 3 for Harbaugh's alma mater, Michigan.

And yet, from the pigs-must-be-flying department:

"Woody is one of my heroes," said Harbaugh, who plans to accept the award in person from the Touchdown Club of Columbus in February. "I've already told them I'm coming."

This isn't the first time Harbaugh, who has coached Stanford (11-1) to the Orange Bowl against Virginia Tech, has been honored by the Touchdown Club. In 1986, he received the Chic Harley Award, given to the nation's top player.

It was at that ceremony that Harbaugh met the legendary Hayes. Since then, Harbaugh has read books about Hayes and memorized many of Hayes' sayings -- one of which is posted on the door to Harbaugh's office.

"How Woody felt about Richard Nixon, George Patton and Douglas MacArthur," he said, "that's exactly how I feel about Bo Schembechler, Jack Harbaugh (his father), Woody Hayes and Abraham Lincoln."

Past recipients of the Woody Hayes Award include Joe Paterno, Lou Holtz, Urban Meyer, Bob Stoops and even Schembechler, the longtime Michigan coach.

Despite the bitter rivalry between the schools -- the Michigan-Ohio State game is preceded by what both schools call "Hate Week" --

Hayes and Schembechler were close friends.

Schembechler played and coached for Hayes before taking over Michigan.

"I consider myself from the Woody Hayes coaching tree," said Harbaugh, a voracious reader of football history. "Bo is also part of that tree. Woody has the biggest tree in coaching."
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http://www.mercurynews.com/stanford-cardinal/ci_16889538?nclick_check=1
 
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Bleed S & G;1836100; said:
:lol: Sarcasm?
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no, because the tree branches out from there, Bruce alone had Dom Capers, Pete Carrol, Mark Dantonio, Glen Mason, Urban Meyer, Nick Saban and Jim Tressel on his staff at one time or another

you have to imagine Holtz and Schembechler mentored quite a few future head coaches as well

so yeah, no sarcasm
 
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Buckeye86;1836107; said:
no, because the tree branches out from there, Bruce alone had Dom Capers, Pete Carrol, Mark Dantonio, Glen Mason, Urban Meyer, Nick Saban and Jim Tressel on his staff at one time or another

you have to imagine Holtz and Schembechler mentored quite a few future head coaches as well

so yeah, no sarcasm
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Ok, good - I was going to say, you're missing a LOT of names if those were the only ones you put on there
 
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Legendary coach helped break color barrier
February 23, 2011

I wish to compliment The Standard-Times for its excellent feature story on the great local football hero, Bobby Watkins. I met Bobby through his good friends and my neighbors, Margo and the late Howard Baptista.

I extrapolated a few items from the article. I knew prejudice existed, but it always becomes stronger and more pronounced when you know the person who felt the discrimination.

The Woody Hayes I knew growing up was the legendary football coach at Ohio State with a quick temper which became most pronounced when Coach Hayes punched an opposing player during a televised football game. This led to his firing and all people talked about was his temper.

But the world did not know, or forgot that Coach Hayes, as a young coach, gave a football scholarship to Bobby Watkins when the "Big Ten" and other major conferences were not giving scholarships to people of color.

Bobby and Coach Hayes may not realize this. But they were, in their own way, I believe, instrumental that in 1967, Texas Western University (now University of Texas/EL Paso) started an all-African-American basketball team in the NCAA championship game against Adolph Rupp and his all-white Kentucky team.

Texas Western won.

Many positive changes have occurred since Bobby Watkins entered Ohio State and the 1967 game, but we must be vigilant to bring to fruition the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, articulated in his Washington speech.

This is the essence of America.

rabbi Barry David Hartman

New Bedford
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http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110223/OPINION/102230326/-1/NEWSMAP
 
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Bobby and Coach Hayes may not realize this. But they were, in their own way, I believe, instrumental that in 1967, Texas Western University (now University of Texas/EL Paso) started an all-African-American basketball team in the NCAA championship game against Adolph Rupp and his all-white Kentucky team.

Texas Western won.

Many positive changes have occurred since Bobby Watkins entered Ohio State and the 1967 game, but we must be vigilant to bring to fruition the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, articulated in his Washington speech.
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That was the 1966 NCAA Title game.

Watkins was one of Woody's first recruits in 1951, and was tOSU's leading rusher in '53 and leading scorer during the 1954 NC season.
 
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