Age of Michigan three major men's sports HC hires, all time

Submitted by crg on January 27th, 2024 at 6:07 PM

With the hire of a "young" new football head coach this year (and a "young" new hockey coach almost two years ago), this seemed an interesting opportunity to try and gauge what "young" is in our sports context.

A quick compilation of Michigan major men's sports head coaches and their ages at time of becoming HC (ages & years are approximate to within one year).

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Football

Crawford/Murphy (1891): 21/31

Barbour (1892): 22

McCauley (1894): 24

Ward (1896): 22

Ferbert (1897): 24

Lea (1900): 26

Yost (1901): 30

Kipke (1929): 30

Crisler (1938): 39

Oosterban (1948): 42

Elliott (1959): 34

Schembechler (1969): 40

Moeller (1990): 49

Carr (1995): 50

Rodriguez (2008): 45

Hoke (2011): 53

Harbaugh (2015): 53

Moore (2023): 37

 

Basketball

Corneal (1909): 26

Mitchell (1917): 28

Mather (1919): 32

Veenker (1928): 34

Cappon (1931): 31

Oosterban (1938): 32

Cowles (1946): 47

McCoy (1948): 44

Perigo (1952): 41

Strack (1960): 37

Orr (1968): 41

Frieder (1980): 38

Fisher (1989): 44

Ellerbe (1997): 34

Amaker (2001): 36

Beilein (2007): 54

Howard (2019): 46

 

Hockey

Barss (1922): 30

Lowrey (1927): 36

Heyliger (1944): 32

Renfrew (1957): 33

Farrell (1973): 36

Martin (1980): 38

Giordano (1980): 36

Berenson (1984): 45

Pearson (2017): 56

Naurato (2022): 37

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