Former UT Coach Frank Lauterbur Passes Away at Age 88
11/21/2013 12:53:00 AM | Football
TOLEDO, OH – Former Toledo head coach Frank X. Lauterbur passed away tonight at a Toledo area nursing facility. He was 88.
Lauterbur, who had a 48-32-2 record at UT, served as head football coach and athletic director at UT from 1963 to 1970. He began the famous 35-0 Rocket streaks of 1969 to 1971, his and teams won MAC titles in 1967, 1969, and 1970.
Lauterbur's 1969 and 1970 teams were nationally ranked in the top 20 of Wire Service Polls and won Tangerine Bowl Championships, in both of those seasons and in 1967, he was named MAC "Coach of the Year" and Ohio College Coach of the Year. Fifty-five players recruited by Lauterbur were either first or second-team All-MAC, four of those players won National All-America Honors--Tom Beutler, Curtis Johnson, Chuck Ealey, and Mel Long, all who are in UT's Hall of Fame.
Lauterbur left UT following the 1970 season to become the head coach at Iowa. He also coached in the NFL with the Baltimore Colts, the Los Angeles Rams and the Seattle Seahawks.
