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

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http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus...-state-seeking-trademark-for-woody-hayes.html

EXCLUSIVE: Ohio State files to trademark ‘Woody Hayes’
Apr 21, 2016, 1:52pm EDT Updated Apr 21, 2016, 2:12pm EDT
Evan Weese
Staff reporterColumbus Business First

Woody Hayes is being enshrined alongside Urban Meyer – in Ohio State University’s merchandising canon.

With the blessing of the late football coach’s family, the university has filed to trademark the name "Woody Hayes" to better protect its exclusive commercial licensing arrangement. The move comes 29 years after his death and 38 years since he last coached the Buckeyes.
“We have formalized the agreement with the family,” said Rick Van Brimmer, director of Ohio State’s trademark and licensing services. “We took the next step, which was going ahead and seeking the registration, just like we did with Urban.”

Hayes, who died in 1987, has been featured on numerous hats, T-shirts and bobbleheads. His name has been licensed for decades with permission from Hayes’ late wife, Anne, and son, Steve, but without an official U.S. Patent and Trademark Office registration.

“Steve and I had talked about, ‘Well neither one of us is going to be around forever. What happens 10, 20 or 30 years from now?,’” Van Brimmer told me. “We have the rights. It wasn’t an issue that we didn’t have rights to use his name. We just never filed a formal application.”

Ohio State has defended its common law trademark rights through the years, issuing cease-and-desist orders against violators. But federal trademark registration grants the university more power to combat infringement, whether it's related to the terms "Woody Hayes," "Urban Meyer" or even "Ohio" in stylized script (for which Ohio State also is seeking a trademark).

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http://www.bcsn.tv/news_article/show/726634

A ride with Woody that became legend
DAVID BRIGGS BLADE SPORTS COLUMNIST
11/26/2016, 1:23am EST

It is burrowed deep into the lore of the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry.

The legend of former Buckeyes coach Woody Hayes pushing his car through a snowstorm across the state line to avoid — gasp — buying gas in Michigan.

A great story. There is just one small problem.

“That’s absolutely not true,” ex-Ohio State assistant coach Ed Ferkany said with a laugh this week.

He should know. Mr. Ferkany, a 1959 graduate of Bowling Green State University who coached under Mr. Hayes, was the one driving the car.

Before second-ranked Ohio State hosts No. 3 Michigan today, Mr. Ferkany — speaking by phone from his home outside Columbus — set the record straight.

The truth is almost as good, and provides yet another link between The Game and the Glass City.

Toledo is not only the bitterly divided epicenter of the rivalry and the birthplace of Ohio State’s Urban Meyer and Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh — “I’ve always just taken great pride in being from Toledo,” Mr. Harbaugh said Monday — but, yes, where the stubborn Mr. Hayes once mercifully came upon a filling station.

It was late on a snowy night in February, 1972, and Mr. Hayes and Mr. Ferkany had been on a recruiting trip to Detroit.

For Mr. Ferkany, new on the job as the Buckeyes’ offensive line coach, the car ride was surreal.


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http://www.bcsn.tv/news_article/show/726634

A ride with Woody that became legend
DAVID BRIGGS BLADE SPORTS COLUMNIST
11/26/2016, 1:23am EST

It is burrowed deep into the lore of the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry.

The legend of former Buckeyes coach Woody Hayes pushing his car through a snowstorm across the state line to avoid — gasp — buying gas in Michigan.

A great story. There is just one small problem.

“That’s absolutely not true,” ex-Ohio State assistant coach Ed Ferkany said with a laugh this week.

He should know. Mr. Ferkany, a 1959 graduate of Bowling Green State University who coached under Mr. Hayes, was the one driving the car.

Before second-ranked Ohio State hosts No. 3 Michigan today, Mr. Ferkany — speaking by phone from his home outside Columbus — set the record straight.

The truth is almost as good, and provides yet another link between The Game and the Glass City.

Toledo is not only the bitterly divided epicenter of the rivalry and the birthplace of Ohio State’s Urban Meyer and Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh — “I’ve always just taken great pride in being from Toledo,” Mr. Harbaugh said Monday — but, yes, where the stubborn Mr. Hayes once mercifully came upon a filling station.

It was late on a snowy night in February, 1972, and Mr. Hayes and Mr. Ferkany had been on a recruiting trip to Detroit.

For Mr. Ferkany, new on the job as the Buckeyes’ offensive line coach, the car ride was surreal.


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Awesome story. That's how I heard it too. It was never that Woody actually pushed the car but that he would have rather than buy gas in TSUN.

Anyway, the only thing that bothered me in the article was referring to Woody and their coach as Mr., not Coach, or Woody etc. Just seemed strange
 
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FILM STUDY FLASHBACK: WOODY'S FORCED ADAPTATION TO THE I-FORMATION MADE OHIO STATE A MODERN NATIONAL POWER

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With three national championships in his first 11 seasons at Ohio State, Woody Hayes had made the Buckeyes one of America's most respected and well-known programs.



But after pummeling opponents for a decade with his "three yards and a cloud of dust" offense running out of the old 'T-formation,' the Buckeyes lingered in mediocrity for the first time in Hayes' career. From 1962-67, Ohio State failed to win a single conference title and losing at least two games per season, bottoming out in 1966 with a 4-5 record.

There were a number of factors that pulled Hayes' program back down from the top of the mountain. Attracting only in-state players meant Hayes couldn't match the talent found on other powerhouse programs that had begun to recruit nationally. Spurred by the worst season in his career since his initial 2-6 campaign at Denison University 20 years prior, Hayes spent the winter of 1967 expanding his scouting footprint, bringing in out-of-state talents like Jack Tatum, John Brockington, Jan White, and Tim Anderson, all of whom would go on to plant All-American trees in the Buckeye Grove.

But Hayes also needed to look inward. Though his' T-formation system certainly brought great success, its biggest downside may not have been its conservative nature, but its rigidity. There was little room to accommodate the talents of any specific individual, as evidenced by the first true star Hayes ever coached.

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Vic Janowicz won the Heisman trophy in 1950 as the focal point of Wes Fesler's single-wing offense, running, throwing, and kicking his way to nearly 1,000 yards of offense at a time when such a feat was rare. Yet once Hayes arrived the following season, Janowicz was assigned to play left halfback, severely limiting his touches and ability to affect the game. The reigning Heisman-winner rushed for 376 yards and threw for only 74 more as his team went a mediocre 4-3-2 in Hayes' inaugural season in Columbus.

A decade later, little had changed. Paul Warfield would go on to become one of the greatest receivers in NFL history, catching 427 career passes and going to eight pro bowls before earning a spot in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Yet as a member of Hayes' Buckeyes from 1960-63, Warfield was a glorified blocker as a halfback in the T, never gaining more than 540 yards from scrimmage or scoring more than six touchdowns in a season from his fixed role in the OSU system.

The focal point of Woody's T-formation system was the fullback, a big-bodied bruiser who rammed forward into the mass of bodies between the tackles, picking up efficient, though rarely extended, gains from scrimmage. Athletic ball-carriers that thrived in open space were accessories, used as decoys on fake sweeps around the end that posed less of a threat as time wore on.

In 1967, Purdue hammered the Buckeyes at home, 41-6, as Boilermakers coach Jack Mollenkopf took a seat on the bench during the second half, knowing his victory was secure as Woody's offense wasn't built to come back from such a deficit. Hayes took Mollenkopf's actions as the ultimate insult, determined to get revenge once his talented group of sophomores took the field the following fall.

But the biggest addition to Woody's program that autumn may not have been the talents of Tatum, Brockington, and the rest of the 'Super Sophomores.' Though Woody had a keen eye for hiring some of the game's best coaches to be his assistants, such as Bo Schembechler, Ara Parseghian, Lou Holtz, Joe Bugel, Bill Mallory, and Earl Bruce, one of the most influential staff members to join Hayes' staff was a former Pensylvania high school coach named George Chaump.

Chaump joined the program in 1967, and immediately tried to get the old man to change his ways. While the Buckeyes had been toiling in mediocrity throughout the mid-60s, Southern Cal was busy winning championships and establishing itself as one of the nation's pre-eminent programs, thanks in large part to their I-formation offense.

Instead of featuring a physical fullback that was certain to pick up a few yards at a time the way Hayes did in the T, the I put an athletic halfback in the spotlight, attacking every potential gap on the field with handoffs and tosses and turning the fullback into a human bulldozer tasked with leading the way. Trojan halfbacks Mike Garrett and O.J. Simpson thrived in the system, winning Heisman trophies and re-defining the running back position.

Don Coryell, who would go on to become one of the most innovative minds the game has ever seen with his vertical passing game, implemented the I-formation in Los Angeles for head coach John McKay. Coryell's offense gave the halfback time to read the defense and hit holes as the play developed instead of ramming straight into a pre-defined spot, whether it was filled by a defender or not.

But not only did the system change the backfield's alignment, it spread out the defense further by including receivers split out wide along with a tight end, providing three passing targets on every snap. Chaump believed the system would be ideal for his new team, having seen the athleticism of the new recruits, but his boss was set in his ways.

As noted in A Fire to Win - The Life and Times of Woody by John Lombardo,

“Woody thought it was illegal to use three receivers,” Chaump said. “But I was battling to throw the ball.”

The more experienced coaches chuckled under their breaths. The idea of moving away from his “three yards and a cloud of dust” offense was heresy.

“Woody was tight as hell and was dead set against using the I– formation, and he got so mad at me for suggesting it, and he fired me on the spot,” Chaump said. “He said it would never work, that it would make the fullback a glorified guard, and he wasn’t going to change his reputation and ruin his image by listening to some high school coach who never coached a college game in his life. I couldn’t believe it, but I got up to leave, but then he told me to come back and sit down.”

But though they had been hesitant early on, fellow assistant coaches Hugh Hindman, Tiger Ellison, and Earl Bruce slowly bought into the idea, helping to thaw their boss' views on such a radical change. Eventually, Hayes relented and allowed his young staff to install the system in the spring of 1968.

The change in philosophy paid off immediately, as Ohio State cruised to a 35-14 opening day win over SMU in which the Buckeyes rushed for 227 yards while throwing for 139 yards on 8 of 14 passes. Led by a star three-sport athlete in Rex Kern at quarterback, Hayes' new offense thrived early, amassing over 400 yards of offense in a revenge upset win over Purdue, who had entered the game as the country's top-ranked team.

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Gone were the predictable and compact T-formation concepts that rarely attacked the edges, replaced by a (relatively) wide open attack that spread the defense horizontally with outside tosses to Brockington and options allowing Kern to read the defense like the point guard he'd originally dreamt of becoming.

Unlike Woody's primitive passing offense in the T-formation which was based entirely off play-action fakes, the Buckeyes now included a dropback passing game for the first time since Janowicz had operated from the single-wing two decades prior. With two receivers split wide and a tight end or running back releasing to the middle, the defense was stretched like they had never been before when facing the Buckeyes, leaving opponents reeling.

Entire article: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...k-woodys-forced-adaptation-to-the-i-formation
 
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Woody’s Mentor From Michigan

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No two names sum up the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry more than “Woody” and “Bo.” Their 10-Year War from 1969-1978 was the most hotly-contested period in one of the fiercest rivalries in all of sports.

Most Buckeye and Wolverine fans know that Bo Schembechler played for Woody Hayes while the latter was the head coach at Miami University, and later served six seasons under Hayes at Ohio State, one as a graduate assistant and five more as an assistant coach.

Far less known than the Woody/Bo relationship is that Hayes had his own mentor from the other side of the rivalry.

Wayne Woodrow Hayes matriculated to Denison University in Granville, Ohio in the fall of 1931 after graduating from Newcomerstown High School.

Hayes played tackle for the football team, and his first autumn at Denison was also the inaugural year for new Big Red football coach George Rich. It marked Rich’s first varsity head coaching experience, but he did have a fairly impressive resume. He had previously earned all-conference honors and served as team captain at the University of Michigan.

Rich played halfback, fullback and quarterback during his three seasons on the Wolverine team. His sophomore season of 1926 was Fielding Yost’s last as Michigan head coach. UM went 7-1, beat Ohio State 17-16 and shared the Western Conference title.

After that year, Elton Wieman took over the program from Yost and the 1927 Wolverines started the year 4-0, including a 21-0 win over OSU. However, they slumped at the end of the year and finished 6-2.

Rich was named team captain for his senior season of 1928. He started four games at quarterback, including the October 20 showdown in Ohio Stadium. Michigan managed just one first down that day as Ohio State won, 19-7, snapping a six-year losing streak in the rivalry. Michigan finished the year 3-4-1.

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After his playing career was over, Rich served as Michigan’s freshman team coach, while also earning his law degree from UM. In February 1931, he headed south to Ohio to take the head coaching job at Denison.

In addition to his coaching duties, Rich also taught a commercial law class at DU. Many Buckeye fans may recall that Hayes later earned the title of associate professor at Ohio State and taught classes during the offseason.

Hayes did not play with the varsity as a freshman during the fall of 1931, due to the rules in place at the time, and the Denison team struggled to a 0-5-2 record. During that year, he joined the Sigma Chi fraternity. Denison’s 1932 Adytum yearbook wryly notes of the house, “First fraternity on the campus in 1868, Sigma Chi is still first according to co-ed opinion.”

The next year, Hayes earned immediate playing time. In its recap of the Big Red’s season opening loss to Western Reserve, the school newspaper, the Denisonian noted “Playing in his first college game, Woody Hayes, a sophomore, turned in one of the most brilliant performances of the day at guard and center.”

However, the season would prove a frustrating one both individually and for the team. Hayes was largely relegated to a reserve role in a 2-5-0 campaign. Following the year, the following spring’s Adytum said, “his drive and ability to tackle made him a constant threat” and went on to predict, “he will be in line for a regular position at tackle next season.”

Entire article: http://theozone.net/2017/08/woodys-mentor-michigan/
 
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ELEVEN WARRIORS AND THE NEWCOMERSTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY TEAM UP TO DEDICATE A STATUE OF WOODY HAYES IN HIS HOMETOWN
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Woody is home.

Over a year after Eleven Warriors teamed up with the Newcomerstown Historical Society to bring a statue of the legendary Ohio State coach to his hometown, thousands descended on to Lee Stadium for a dedication ceremony and the unveiling of the statue.

On hand were Woody's son, retired judge Steve Hayes, two-time Heisman Trophy winner Archie Griffin, Ohio State and Philadelphia Eagles great Ike Kelley, former Buckeye captain and mayor of Columbus Greg Lashutka, and dozens of former players who shared stories of playing for Woody.

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The statue, created by renowned sculptor Alan Cottrill, met the roar of the crowd following speeches by Hayes, Griffin, Eleven Warriors' Chris Lauderback, Newcomerstown Mayor Pat Cradle, and others.

“People ask me if I'm an only child,” Hayes said during the ceremony. “My answer is no I am not. My father had thousands of sons.”

“Those seeking to understand Woody's true legacy would be well-served to talk to those who played for him and were shaped by his influence,” Griffin said. “Speaking for some of his former players, I must say what stands out so many years later is how much he truly cared for us and what he tried to teach us about this world we live in.”

"It was truly an honor and privilege to be a part of the effort to deliver a statue of a great patriot and coach, Woody Hayes, to the wonderful people of Newcomerstown and I’m so thankful the Hayes family and Archie Griffin were able to join in the celebration," offered Chris Lauderback, Executive Editor of Eleven Warriors.

Dozens of donors, including Kirk Herbstreit, helped make the statue a reality.

“It was a special day, but it wasn't about us. It was about the city of Newcomerstown and the Hayes family,” Jason Priestas, Publisher of Eleven Warriors said.

https://www.elevenwarriors.com/11w/...icate-a-statue-of-woody-hayes-in-his-hometown
 
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