Frank Lauterbur, Football Coach (1963-70)
This man served as head football coach and athletic director at UT from 1963 to 1970. The man who began the famous 35 and 0 Rocket streaks of 1969 to 1971, Mr. Francis Xavier Lauterbur, better known to everyone as Frank X. Frank Lauterbur still stands as the winningest football coach in our history and as the winner of more Mid-American Conference Championships, three in 1967, 1969, and 1970. Frank'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 Frank 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. As athletic director, Frank surrounded himself with winners; he hired Brain Eisner as tennis coach who produced seven Mid-American Conference Championships. He hired Dick Wilson, who produced the last UT wrestling Championship, he hired Bob Nichols, the winningest basketball coach in UT history, and he hired Stan Sanders, who has become the winningest baseball coach in our history. Even the golf team, coached by Barney Francis won a Mid-American championship in 1964. While Frank was athletic director, even the assistant coaches that Frank surrounded himself with have many cases gone on to fame of their own. Frank left UT to become head coach at Iowa and since has coached also with the Baltimore Colts, the Los Angeles Rams, and the Seattle Seahawks.
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