Dana Coin
| Michigan Wolverines – No. 36 | |
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| Position | Linebacker, placekicker |
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| High school | Pontiac Northern (MI) |
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| Born: | December 10, 1949 |
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Weight | 229 lb (104 kg) |
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Dana S. Coin (born December 10, 1949) is a former American football player and coach. He played as a linebacker and placekicker for the Michigan Wolverines football team from 1969 to 1971. He set a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) record in 1971 by successfully converting 55 of 55 extra point attempts. He also extended the Michigan school record for the longest field goal in 1970 and kicked a game-winning field goal in November 1971 that clinched a Big Ten Conference championship for the Wolverines. He later served as the defensive coordinator at Eastern Michigan University.
Coin enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1968 and played for the school's all-freshman team that fall. He was a member of the Michigan Wolverines football team from 1969 to 1971. Coin played for Michigan at a time when the school's head coach, Bo Schembechler, held the view that there would be no kicking specialists on his team and that a kicker had to be a football player first. Accordingly, and although his greatest talent lay in his kicking, he also played at the linebacker position.
As a freshman in 1968, Coin played on Michigan's freshman football team. As a sophomore in 1969, he was a backup linebacker and handled kickoffs for the Wolverines. As a junior in 1970, he began the season handling kickoffs and field goal attempts and took over responsibility for extra points in the middle of the season. On September 19, 1970, he kicked a 42-yard field goal that was, at the time, the longest field goal in Michigan football history. Coin's 42-yard field goal broke a school record of 40 yards set in 1961 by Doug Bickle, and not surpassed until a 50-yard kick by Mike Lantry in 1973.
As a senior in 1971, Coin set an NCAA record by successfully converting 55 of 55 extra points without a miss. He was also the team's leading scorer with 79 points. He kicked a career-high nine extra points against Iowa on November 6, 1971, surpassing the prior season record of 50 extra points set by Al Limahelu of San Diego State. Coin's 55 extra points in 1971 remains a Michigan single-season record.
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