Bill McCartney
| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
August 22, 1940 Riverview, Michigan |
| Playing career | |
| 1959–1961 | Missouri |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1974–1981 | Michigan (assistant) |
| 1982–1994 | Colorado |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 93–55–5 |
| Bowls | 3–6 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 1 National (1990) 3 Big Eight (1989–1991) |
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| Awards | |
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AFCA Coach of the Year (1989) Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year (1989) Walter Camp Coach of the Year Award 1989) Paul "Bear" Bryant Award (1989) 3x Big Eight Coach of the Year (1985, 1989–1990) |
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College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 2013 (profile) |
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William Paul McCartney (born August 22, 1940) is a former American football player and coach and the founder of the Promise Keepers men's ministry. He was the head football coach at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1982 to 1994, where he compiled a record of 93–55–5 and won three consecutive Big Eight Conference titles between 1989 and 1991. McCartney's 1990 team was crowned as national champions by the Associated Press, splitting the title with the Georgia Tech team that topped the final Coaches' Poll rankings.
In September 2008, McCartney came out of a five-years retirement from Promise Keepers to become the CEO and chairman of the board of the organization after founding the Road to Jerusalem ministry. McCartney was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2013.
After receiving his Bachelor of Arts in education from the University of Missouri in 1962, where he was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, McCartney was named as an assistant football coach under his older brother, Tom, in the summer of 1965 at Holy Redeemer High School in Detroit, Michigan. The younger McCartney was also the head basketball coach at Redeemer from 1965 to 1969, taking the school to the Detroit City Championship during the 1968–69 season. McCartney then served as the head football and basketball coach at Divine Child High School in Dearborn, Michigan before becoming the only high school coach ever hired by University of Michigan coaching legend Bo Schembechler.
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