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Mallory returning to Gainesville
Bill Mallory, the man who coached Miami University’s football team to a 16-7 Tangerine Bowl victory over Florida in the only meeting between the two teams, is going back to Gainesville, Fla., the site of that triumph and of the RedHawks’ season opener against the Gators on Saturday.
He’ll be doing about the same thing on Friday night that he did prior to the game played on Dec. 22, 1973 — trying to rile up the Miami players.
“We’re going to have him speak to the team on Friday night at our team meeting,” Miami head coach Michael Haywood said of Mallory, who compiled a 39-12 record in five seasons in Oxford (1969-73) and went on to coach at Colorado (1974-78), Northern Illinois (1980-83) and Indiana (1984-96).
“Coach Mallory and I go back a long way,” Haywood noted. “In m\y second year in coaching, Doug Mallory, who’s his second son, he and I were roommates at West Point Military Academy. Doug went on to Western Kentucky the following year and I went on to Ohio U., but I was a groomsman in Doug’s wedding, so we’ve been really close from that point on.
“When coach Mallory was at IU we used to go over and watch him in practice,” Haywood continued. “You want to talk about intense. He was extremely intense.”
Mallory’s last game at Miami was that Tangerine Bowl victory. His defense, led by middle guard Brad Cousino and linebacker Mike Monos, held the Gators to 189 yards of total offense. Chuck Varner rushed for 157 yards and a touchdown for Miami and Dave Draught kicked field goals of 26, 45 and 27 yards.
It was the first of three straight Tangerine Bowl wins for Miami, which beat Georgia 21-10 in 1974 and South Carolina 20-7 in 1975.
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By Centerville Buckeye
September 2, 2010 4:58 PM | Link to this
Mallory was a great coach. He coached Indiana to respectibility and I believe he had Miami of Ohio rated in the top 10 at one time. He should have been the coach at Ohio State however fate dealt him the wrong hand