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John McKay (American football)

John McKay
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Sport(s) Football
Biographical details
Born (1923-07-05)July 5, 1923
Everettville, West Virginia
Died June 10, 2001(2001-06-10) (aged 77)
Tampa, Florida
Alma mater University of Oregon
Playing career
1946 Purdue
1947–1949 Oregon
Position(s) Back
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1950–1958 Oregon (assistant)
1959 USC (assistant)
1960–1975 USC
1976–1984 Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1972–1975 USC
Head coaching record
Overall 127–40–8 (college)
44–88–1 (NFL)
Bowls 6–3
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
4 National (1962, 1967, 1972, 1974)
9 AAWU/Pac-8 (1962, 1964, 1966–1969, 1972–1974)
Awards
2x AFCA Coach of the Year (1962, 1972)
2x Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year 1962, 1972)
Sporting News College Football COY (1972)
Tampa Stadium Krewe of Honor (1991)
Tampa Bay Buccaneers' Ring of Honor (2010)
College Football Hall of Fame
Inducted in 1988 (profile)

John Harvey McKay (July 5, 1923 – June 10, 2001) was an American football coach. He was the head coach at the University of Southern California (USC) from 1960 to 1975 and of the National Football League's Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1976 to 1984. In 16 seasons at USC, McKay compiled a record of 127–40–8 and won nine AAWU/Pac-8 conference titles. His teams made eight appearances in the Rose Bowl, with five wins. Four of his squads captured national titles (1962, 1967, 1972, 1974).

Following a disappointing 1975 season, McKay moved to the NFL as the first head coach of the expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In 1976 and 1977, Tampa Bay lost the first 26 games, but improved by the end of the 1970s. The Bucs made the playoffs three times under McKay, including an appearance in the NFC Championship Game in 1979. McKay was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1988. On January 1, 2014, McKay was named the All-Century Coach of the Rose Bowl Game during the celebration of the 100th Rose Bowl Game. His son represented him in the 2014 Rose Parade.

McKay was born in West Virginia in the now-defunct town of Everettville in Monongalia County, where he was raised as a Roman Catholic. He was the third of five children born to Scots-Irish parents John and Gertrude McKay. His father was a coal mine superintendent who died when John was 13 years old. He grew up in Shinnston, and graduated from Shinnston High School in 1941. Offered a football scholarship to Wake Forest, McKay was on campus enrolling when his widowed mother became ill. He returned home to West Virginia and worked as an electrician's assistant in a coal mine for a year, then enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force in 1942. McKay served as a tailgunner aboard B-29s and saw action in the Pacific Theatre during World War II.


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