Yesterday, Ohio State University unveiled an 8-foot tall bronze statue of Woody Hayes outside the athletic center that bears his name. Hayes, who served as Ohio State's head football coach from 1951 to 1978, won five national championships for the Buckeyes (1954, 1957, 1961, 1968, and 1970), thirteen Big Ten Conference titles, and accumulated a 205-61-10 record (238-72-10 lifetime). Besides his tenure at Ohio State, Hayes also served as head football coach at his Alma Mater Denison (1946-1948) and two seasons as head coach at Miami of Ohio (1949-1950). The last decade of his head coaching career featured the famous "Ten Year War" against Michigan, a program coached by one of his former assistants, Bo Schembechler. Despite all of his accomplishments, Ohio State ultimately fired him after he punched Clemson player Charlie Bauman during the 1978 Gator Bowl (a game OSU ultimately lost, 17-15). Hayes was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983 and he spent the last years of his life in Columbus teaching and mentoring students as a member of the campus's Navy ROTC faculty. Hayes died of a heart attack on March 12, 1987, and today marks the 100th anniversary of his birth. More information about today's story and Hayes's long coaching career can be found at the following links:
http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2013/02/8-foot_woody_hayes_statue_plac.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Hayes
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