Posted on 08/14/2017 6:05:06 PM PDT by buckalfa
FAYETTEVILLE — Frank Broyles, who coached Arkansas to its only football national championship and later served as the Razorbacks’ athletics director for years, has died. He was 92.
Broyles died Monday at a family home in Fayetteville. He had suffered from Alzheimer's, the neurological disease about which he spent countless hours raising awareness and from which his first wife, Barbara, died in 2004.
Broyles devoted most of his adult life to the Razorbacks. After coaching one season as head coach at Missouri, he was hired by then-athletics director John Barnhill to lead Arkansas in December 1957 and spent the next 57 years working for the Razorbacks in some capacity until his full-time retirement as a fundraiser in 2014.
He retired as Arkansas’ athletics director in December 2007 but remained employed as a fundraiser for the Razorback Foundation — the athletics department’s private fundraising arm — for nearly seven more years.
The office building for the athletics department and the field at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium have been named for Broyles, and a statue of him is located on the university campus. Broyles was inducted into numerous halls of fame, including the College Football Hall of Fame and Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame. In 1999, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette named Broyles the state's most influential sports figure of the 20th century.
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Time to update the Body Count?
Also with Oklahoma.
Didn’t Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones play on that 1964 national championship team?
Assistant coaches who worked under Broyles included Hayden Fry, Joe Gibbs, Jimmy Johnson, Johnny Majors and Barry Switzer. That’s an impressive legacy he had.
Ara Parseghian, now Broyles, who is next using the theory of three? I hope this could not be considered Arkancide.
It is interesting how some of those coaching trees go.
I think Bear Bryant’s coach at Alabama played for Knute Rockne.
Coach Gene "Bebes" Stallings suffered a minor stroke today. Hope he isn't on their heels just yet.
Well he’s with Darrell now. He announced his retirement near the end of the 1976 season. By the time Arkansas and Texas met at the end of that season, Royal had also decided to retire as well. Two classic coaches and gentlemen the likes of which will not be seen ever again.
Yes. Jimmy Johnson was also on that team.
Yes. Jimmy Johnson was also on that team.
In his book, Bear Bryant mentions that he spent two weeks with Darrell Royal learning how to run the triple option.
Ill never forget “the game”. It was by far the biggest college game in history. James street thew to Randy Peshall. Most think he scored. He didn’t. He got a huge first down to the 11 and Texas thundered in for the win. President Nixon was in the Texas lockroom post game. Royal and Broyles were friends who honored each other through out their lives. Frank Broyles was grace in defeat and it was a bitter loss but he was a real man. not some flaming jack ass like casperdick.
When Royal had the wishbone the next hurdle was to find a quarterback to run it. At the place he finally got down to James Street he wanted to say something fanasticaly poiniant and encouraging to the youngster. As he was putting together what to tell Street, Coach Royal finally just said, “Ah hell just get in there. You can’t do any worse than the rest.” Two years later in 1969 James Street finished his Longhorn career 20-0.
There have been lots of great wishbone QBs. Steadman Shealy who led Alabama to a national championship attended our church, First Baptist in Dothan.
The best I ever saw was Jack Mildren.
Did they have a Frank Broyles statue? If so, it will soon It will be toppled.
I have long attributed a couple of key quotes to him. I heard them when he was doing yeoman work on TV after his coaching career.
1. Basketball is a contact sport; football is a COLLISION sport.
2. “Luck” is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
RIP.
“The best I ever saw was Jack Mildren.”
Amazing. Jack made me a believer in the wishbone, not to mention 60 plus yard quarterback sneaks.
It’s called The Christ of the Ozarks in Eureka Springs Ark
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