| Paul Dietzel | ||
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| Title | Head coach | |
| College | LSU, Army, South Carolina | |
| Sport | Football | |
| Born | September 5, 1924 | |
| Place of birth | Fremont, Ohio | |
| Career highlights | ||
| Overall | 155-119-8 | |
| Coaching stats | ||
| College Football DataWarehouse | ||
| Awards | ||
| 1958 NFL Coach of the year 1969 ACC Coach of the Year |
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| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||
| 1955-1961 1962-1965 1966-1974 |
LSU Army South Carolina |
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Paul Dietzel (Born September 5, 1924, in Fremont, Ohio) is a former college football head coach at LSU, Army and South Carolina. For the coaching strategy game see NFL Head Coach. A head coach is a professional who is responsible for the overall actions of This is a list of American institutions of Higher education in the United States and abroad sorted by region LSU (Louisiana State University is a member of the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Southeastern Conference. The Army Black Knights represent the United States Military Academy. The University of South Carolina 's 19 varsity sports teams are known as the Gamecocks, and USC is the only Division I school to use this nickname/mascot American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive Team sport known for mixing strategy with Events 1590 - Alexander Farnese 's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris. Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Fremont is a city in and the County seat of Sandusky County, Ohio, United States. The National Football League ( NFL) is the largest professional American football league. The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. For the coaching strategy game see NFL Head Coach. A head coach is a professional who is responsible for the overall actions of LSU (Louisiana State University is a member of the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Southeastern Conference. The Army Black Knights represent the United States Military Academy. The University of South Carolina 's 19 varsity sports teams are known as the Gamecocks, and USC is the only Division I school to use this nickname/mascot Events 1590 - Alexander Farnese 's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris. Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Fremont is a city in and the County seat of Sandusky County, Ohio, United States. College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, Colleges and military academies For the coaching strategy game see NFL Head Coach. A head coach is a professional who is responsible for the overall actions of The LSU Tigers football team aka "Fighting Tigers" represents Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge Louisiana, United States in "USMA" redirects here For other uses see USMA (disambiguation The United States Military Academy (also known as USMA, This article is about the University of South Carolina in Columbia He is also a former athletic director. Athletic director (commonly "athletics director" is a position at many American Colleges and universities, as well as in larger High schools He led the LSU Tigers to a national championship in 1958, a performance for which he was named the National Coach of the Year by both AFCA and FWAA. The American Football Coaches Association is an association of football coaches on all levels and is responsible for the Coaches Poll that determines the national champion each The Football Writers Association of America ( FWAA) is one of the organizations whose College Football All-America Team is recognized by the NCAA
Dietzel began his football career in Mansfield, Ohio, where his high school team went undefeated and tied for 2nd in the state. Mansfield is a city in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Richland County. After high school, he was given a scholarship to play football at Duke University. Duke University is a private Research University located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. After one year at Duke, he served in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. The United States Army Air Forces ( USAAF) was the military aviation arm of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including From there he moved on to Miami University of Ohio, where he became an All-American at center. Miami University (colloquially and incorrectly referred to as Miami of Ohio for clarification purposes is a Coeducational Public university founded in 1809 An All-American "team" is an honorary Sports team composed of outstanding Amateur players those considered the best players of a specific season for Center ( C) is a position in American football and Canadian football ( spelled centre in Canadian English)
After graduating from Miami in 1948, he began his coaching career as an assistant coach. He served under such legendary coaches as Red Blaik at Army and Bear Bryant at the University of Kentucky. Earl Henry "Red" Blaik ( February 15, 1897 – May 6, 1989) was an American football coach "USMA" redirects here For other uses see USMA (disambiguation The United States Military Academy (also known as USMA, The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public, Co-educational, University, and is also the state's land-grant university located
In 1955, Dietzel became the head coach at LSU. During Dietzel's first three years, none of his teams had a winning season.
In 1958, however, Dietzel came up with a unique 3-team platoon system. It consisted of 3 teams of 11 different players, and was designed to keep his players from being fatigued in an era when most players started on both offense and defense. Instead of replacing individual players during the game, Dietzel would bring in an entirely new set of players between plays and series. The three teams were called the White Team (the first-string offense and defense), the Gold (Go) Team (the second-string offense), and the Chinese Bandits (the second-string defense). The system worked, as the Tigers went undefeated and won the 1958 national championship. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Chinese Bandits second-string defensive unit, which consisted of less-talented but ferocious players, became hugely popular with LSU fans and remains one of the most legendary pieces of LSU football history.
After 1958, Dietzel continued to have success at LSU. His teams finished with 9-1 regular seasons in 1959 and 1961, finishing #3 and #4 in the final AP Poll. The 1959 team was ranked first in the country in both wire-service polls until losing to the Tennessee Volunteers 14-13 in the eighth game of the season, but suffered a humiliating 21-0 loss to hated rival Ole Miss in the Sugar Bowl, two months after the top-ranked Tigers beat the third-ranked Rebels 7-3 in Tiger Stadium on Billy Cannon's 89-yard punt return, the play helped that won Cannon the Heisman Trophy. The Tennessee Volunteers, are the names of the college sports teams at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville Tennessee. The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, is a public, coeducational Research University located in Oxford The Sugar Bowl is an annual American College football Bowl game played in the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans Louisiana. Tiger Stadium is the home field of Louisiana State University American football team. William Abb "Billy" Cannon (born August 2, 1937) is an All-American and 1959 Heisman Trophy winner from Louisiana State University
After the 1961 season, Dietzel accepted the head coach position at Army. He was the first non-Army graduate to have the position. In a 2005 article for the Concordia Sentinel of Ferriday, Dietzel said that leaving LSU was one of the hardest decisions he ever made. Ferriday is a Town in Concordia Parish in eastern Louisiana, United States.
"I think the way you measure my move is 'Was LSU better when I left than when I came in?'" Dietzel said. "It was tough leaving. I never considered going anywhere else because I thought LSU was the best coaching job in America. I loved the LSU fans. They are crazy and passionate about it. I had never considered West Point because they had never had a non-graduate coach. When they came around and asked me if I would be interested, it opened a door I thought would never be opened. "
Dietzel stayed at Army until 1966, when he became head coach and athletic director at the University of South Carolina. Athletic director (commonly "athletics director" is a position at many American Colleges and universities, as well as in larger High schools This article is about the University of South Carolina in Columbia However, he was not able to match the success he had at LSU at either school. He had a record of 21-18-1 at Army, and a record of 42-53-1 at South Carolina, including the school's only conference championship of any kind in the sport, the 1969 Atlantic Coast Conference championship. The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC is a collegiate athletic league in the United States.
Dietzel left coaching in 1975 to become the commissioner of the Ohio Valley Conference for one year. The Ohio Valley Conference (OVC is a college athletic conference which operates in the midwestern and southeastern United States. He then served as athletic director at Indiana University before returning to LSU in 1978. Athletic director (commonly "athletics director" is a position at many American Colleges and universities, as well as in larger High schools Indiana University, founded in 1820, is a nine-campus University system in the state of Indiana. He was the school's athletic director from 1978 to 1982. Dietzel also served as president of the American Football Coaches Association and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. The American Football Coaches Association is an association of football coaches on all levels and is responsible for the Coaches Poll that determines the national champion each The Fellowship of Christian Athletes is a not-for-profit Christian organization that has been based in Kansas City Missouri since 1956
After retiring from college athletics, Dietzel became a watercolor painter, and continues to sell his paintings. Watercolor ( US) or Watercolour ( UK) (and "aquarelle" in French is a Painting method He is now retired and living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Baton Rouge (French Bâton-Rouge ˌbætən ˈruːdʒ in English, and in French) is the capital city of Louisiana.
Dietzel is authoring another book set to be released in September 2008 in time for the 50th anniversary of the LSU 1958-59 National Football championship. The book's title will be Call Me Coach:A Life in College Football published by Louisiana State University Press
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Head coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl | Coaches# | AP° | ||
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| LSU (Southeastern Conference) (1955 – 1961) | |||||||||
| 1955 | LSU | 3-5-2 | |||||||
| 1956 | LSU | 3-7-0 | |||||||
| 1957 | LSU | 5-5-0 | |||||||
| 1958 | LSU | 11-0-0 | 1st | W Sugar | 1 | ||||
| 1959 | LSU | 9-2-0 | L Sugar | 3 | |||||
| 1960 | LSU | 5-4-1 | |||||||
| 1961 | LSU | 10-1-0 | 1st | W Orange † | 4 | ||||
| LSU: | 46-24-3 | ||||||||
| Army (Independent) (1962 – 1965) | |||||||||
| 1962 | Army | 6-4-0 | |||||||
| 1963 | Army | 7-3-0 | |||||||
| 1964 | Army | 4-6-0 | |||||||
| 1965 | Army | 4-5-1 | |||||||
| Army: | 21-18-1 | ||||||||
| South Carolina (Atlantic Coast Conference) (1966 – 1971) | |||||||||
| 1966 | South Carolina | 1-9-0 | |||||||
| 1967 | South Carolina | 5-5-0 | |||||||
| 1968 | South Carolina | 4-6-0 | |||||||
| 1969 | South Carolina | 7-4-0 | 1st | L Peach | |||||
| 1970 | South Carolina | 4-6-1 | |||||||
| 1971 | South Carolina | 6-5-0 | |||||||
| South Carolina (Independent) (1972 – 1974) | |||||||||
| 1972 | South Carolina | 4-7-0 | |||||||
| 1973 | South Carolina | 7-4-0 | |||||||
| 1974 | South Carolina | 4-7-0 | |||||||
| South Carolina: | 42-53-1 | ||||||||
| Total: | 155-119-8 | ||||||||
| National Championship Conference Title Conference Division Title | |||||||||
| †Indicates BCS bowl game. The Louisiana State University Press, founded in 1935 is a Nonprofit Book publisher dedicated to the publication of scholarly general interest and regional LSU (Louisiana State University is a member of the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Southeastern Conference. LSU (Louisiana State University is a member of the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Southeastern Conference. The Sugar Bowl is an annual American College football Bowl game played in the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans Louisiana. The Orange Bowl is an annual College football game that is usually played the first week in January in the Miami Florida metro area in the United States The Army Black Knights represent the United States Military Academy. The Army Black Knights represent the United States Military Academy. The University of South Carolina 's 19 varsity sports teams are known as the Gamecocks, and USC is the only Division I school to use this nickname/mascot The University of South Carolina 's 19 varsity sports teams are known as the Gamecocks, and USC is the only Division I school to use this nickname/mascot The Chick-fil-A Bowl, formerly called the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, and before that simply (and perhaps more familiarly called the Peach Bowl, is an annual The University of South Carolina 's 19 varsity sports teams are known as the Gamecocks, and USC is the only Division I school to use this nickname/mascot #Rankings from final Coaches Poll of the season. The USA Today Coaches' Poll is the current name for a weekly ranking of the top 25 NCAA Division I-A College football and Division I | |||||||||
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| Preceded by Gaynell Tinsley |
LSU Head Football Coach 1955-1961 |
Succeeded by Charles McClendon |
| Preceded by Woody Hayes |
Paul "Bear" Bryant Award 1958 |
Succeeded by Ben Schwartzwalder |
| Preceded by Dale Hall |
Army Head Football Coach 1962-1965 |
Succeeded by Tom Cahill |
| Preceded by Marvin Bass |
South Carolina Head Football Coach 1966-1974 |
Succeeded by Jim Carlen |
| Preceded by Carl Maddox |
LSU athletic director 1978-1982 |
Succeeded by Bob Brodhead |
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