Dan Boisture
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | February 22, 1925 Detroit, Michigan |
| Died | May 18, 2007 Wyandotte, Michigan |
| Playing career | |
| Position(s) | Wide receiver |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1959-1966 | Michigan State (asst.) |
| 1967-1973 | Eastern Michigan |
| 1974 | Detroit Wheels |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 45-20-3 (college) |
| Bowls | 0-1 |
Daniel P. Boisture, Jr. (February 22, 1925 - May 18, 2007) was an American football coach. He was the head coach of the Eastern Michigan Eagles football team from 1967 to 1973, compiling a record of 45-20-3.
Boisture was a star athlete in high school, playing both basketball and football at Detroit Holy Redeemer. He served in the United States Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater during World War II,and was wounded in the Battle of Okinawa, for which he was awarded a Purple Heart. After returning home, he was recruited as a basketball player by Notre Dame, but instead attended the University of Detroit, where he lettered four times in football as an end, and twice in basketball. In 1949, Boisture helped the University of Detroit football team win the Missouri Valley Conference championship in the school's first year in the conference.
Boisture began his coaching career as a high school football coach at Dearborn St. Alphonsus High School and Ecorse St. Francis Xavier High School. From 1954 through 1958, he coached at Detroit St. Mary's of Redford High School in the Detroit Catholic League, where his teams accumulated a 37-4-2 record and won the Catholic League championship four of the five years he coached there. In 1959, at the age of 33, he became an assistant coach at Michigan State University, under Duffy Daugherty, where he stayed through the 1966 season. During his time at Michigan State, the team won two national championships, in 1965 and 1966.
In July 1967, Boisture was hired as head coach at Eastern Michigan University. He later commented that he was willing to go to a smaller school, saying, "There weren't many jobs open...Joan and I looked at the campus. It was a cute campus." Under his leadership, the team produced the longest period of sustained success since Elton Rynearson's days. The team posted winning seasons in all seven years of Boisture's coaching, including a 13-game winning streak that remains a school record. His 1971 squad finished the regular season 7-0-2, only allowing one touchdown in the last five games, before losing to Louisiana Tech in the Pioneer Bowl, the first bowl trip in school history. Boisture was named NCAA District Four "coach of the year" in 1971.
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