RIP Bill Mallory
Former MIami (NTM), Colorado, Northern Illinois and Indiana football coach Bill Mallory passed away today at the age of 82. Mallory is the all-time leader in wins at Indiana and spent 13 years coaching the Hoosiers.
Notable to Michigan fans for having sons Mike, Doug and Curt, all of whom played football in Ann Arbor. Mike and Doug Mallory were team captains. Curt Mallory also spent 3 seasons as an assistant coach.
a few very last minute wins (or losses as the case might be) against the good giys including one loss prior to instant replay.
they recovered it inside the U-M 15. Got it in from there. They did earn that TD (along with the other TD where they went 88 yards).
at school. i was closest to mike a very talented, if undersized, linebacker for us. i have always rooted for them. sorry to hear about this. from all i know bill mallory was a super guy.
Had they beaten MSU in East Lansing that year, and all else the same, they probably would have.
They blasted No. 9 Ohio State in Columbus and also beat No. 20 Michigan in Bloomington that year - a feat that was still unthinkable in that era.
Indiana had no business being good at football. But they were and that's because Mallory was a great coach, and a kickass recruiter as well.
He is most famous for his post-MSU game locker room speech to the '88 Rose Bowl-bound Spartans, imploring them to kick the ass of whoever they would play (ultimately USC). The Spartans complied.
RIP Coach! Condolences to the Mallory family.
Anthony Thompson -- very good college RB. Finished 2nd to Andre Ware in the 1989 voting. It was a close loss, lost by about 70 points.
I was pretty young at the time, but I definitely thought Thompson deserved it.
Ware was good. But a lot of his stats was (1) defenses still learning to react to the run-and-shoot, and (2) Houston blatantly running up the score to get Ware his stats (he had 5 games with at least 5 TDs; Houston won all those games by at least 45 points each, including a 95-21 (!!!) win over SMU).
You are right, 1987 was their year. That rare chance at Pasadena. Their first win vs. OSU in 31 years and they broke that streak with a romp (31-10) in Columbus no less. Just couldn't get that mid-November win at MSU (they lost 27-3, it was a pretty decisive game).
That's actually very cool.
He has always seemed like part of the family. A great loss for us, and for those who knew and loved him. RIP