Duffy Daugherty
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
September 8, 1915 Emeigh, Pennsylvania, |
| Died | September 25, 1987 (aged 72) Santa Barbara, California |
| Playing career | |
| 1937–1939 | Syracuse |
| Position(s) | Guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1940, 1946 | Syracuse (assistant) |
| 1947–1953 | Michigan State (assistant) |
| 1954–1972 | Michigan State |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 109–69–5 |
| Bowls | 1–1 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 2 National (1965–1966) 2 Big Ten (1965–1966) |
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| Awards | |
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AFCA Coach of the Year (1955) Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year (1965) Sporting News College Football COY (1965) Walter Camp Man of the Year (1973) Amos Alonzo Stagg Award (1985) |
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College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 1984 (profile) |
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Hugh Duffy Daugherty (September 8, 1915 – September 25, 1987) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Michigan State University from 1954 to 1972, compiling a record of 109–69–5. His 1965 and 1966 teams won national championships. Daugherty's tenure of 19 seasons at the helm of the Michigan State Spartans football team is the longest of any head coach in the program's history. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1984.
Daugherty was born in Emeigh, Pennsylvania on September 8, 1915. Though Daugherty would later become known as "the Irish pixie, short and stocky, a man of endearing charm, with smiles and jokes," both of his parents were Pennsylvania natives whose parents were immigrants from Scotland. His father, Joseph Daugherty, was the manager of a general merchandise store at Susquehanna in 1920. By 1930, the family had moved to Barnesboro, Pennsylvania, where Daugherty's father was working as an adjuster for a compensation and insurance company. Daugherty had two older brothers, John and Joseph, Jr., and a younger sister Jean.
Raised as a Presbyterian, he converted to Catholicism in 1964. Daugherty played college football as a guard at Syracuse University. He was named co-captain of the Syracuse football team in his senior year in 1939. He enlisted in the United States Army on February 7, 1941, ten months before the United States entered World War II.
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