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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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I didn’t realize he was still alive but he was certainly an institution in Arkansas and around college football. I will always remember him walking off the field after Texas broke his heart in 1969 and was accompanied by his wife and children like any family man. It was so touching.
I’ll betcha Darrell Royal can’t wait to take Frank out to the golf course up there somewhere.
It is about the time of year Dad would get his Dave Campbell TEXAS FOOTBALL - the 50s-70s were great football.
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