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OL FU
March 15th, 2007, 05:01 PM
I was reading the Delaware tribute thread and if there is one thing that AGS has taught me is that we should all stop for a minute and xbowx xbowx xbowx xbowx xbowx xbowx xbowx






College Football Hall of Fame Inductee:

Harold "Tubby" Raymond

Position: Coach
School: Delaware
Years: 1966-2001
Inducted: 2003
Place of Birth: Flint, MI
Date of Birth: 11/14/1926

During the 36-year head coaching career of Harold "Tubby" Raymond, he witnessed many changes to the classification of small college football. He won at every level. In the era before classification, he won a national championship in 1971 and repeated with an undefeated-title team the following year. When the NCAA created the classification system in the early 1970's, he was the Division II national runner-up in 1974 and national champion in 1979. When the NCAA created the Division I-AA level in 1978, Delaware was runner-up in 1982. Overall Raymond won 300 games. In addition to his three national championships, his teams won 14 Lambert Cup trophies as the best small college team in the east, and were awarded 23 post season bids, including four consecutive wins in the Boardwalk Bowl. Raymond spent nearly a half century at Delaware, first as an assistant coach for 12 seasons to Hall of Fame coach Dave Nelson. As Nelson's backfield coach, he was instrumental in the implementation of the Delaware Winged-T, an offense that was adopted by thousands of high school and college teams. At the time of his retirement, Raymond had accounted for over half of the total wins accumulated by the Blue Hens in the 110-year history of the program.

89Hen
March 15th, 2007, 05:07 PM
Already trying to soften us up for 2008? xsmiley_wix

buckp
March 15th, 2007, 05:10 PM
I wish UD would have won a I-AA NC when he was still the coach. I was happy for the Blue Hens when it happened in 2003; I just wish 'Tubby' could have experienced that title also. Great coach.... xbowx

OL FU
March 15th, 2007, 05:27 PM
Already trying to soften us up for 2008? xsmiley_wix

xoopsx That's right the game is next year:o



How do you delete a threadxsmiley_wix

BlueHenBoy
March 16th, 2007, 08:14 PM
That's 3 in a row. Is K.C. next? .................................................. .................................................. .................................Don't count on it.

GannonFan
March 16th, 2007, 11:58 PM
That's 3 in a row. Is K.C. next? .................................................. .................................................. .................................Don't count on it.

Time will tell - no one knew Tubby was going to make the Hall of Fame after his 5th year. xcoffeex

MR. CHICKEN
March 17th, 2007, 09:45 AM
UH LARGE PART O' OURAH '03 SQWAD.........WERE TUBBY RECRUITS......KC....DID UH FABULOUS JOB UH......TWEAKIN' DEM AFFLETES.........INTO HIS VISION......."HAROLD" CAME CLOSE TA DUH BLING....LOSIN' TA MACK-NEESE STATE IN DUH FINAL SECONDS O' UH SEMI-FINAL...FEW YEARS BACK........AH LOVE LISTENIN' TA DUH TUBSTER...ON RADIO SHOWS.....AN' HIS COMMENTARY DURIN'...HIGHSCHOOL GAMES..........HIS SENSE O' HUMOR....IS WONDERFUL...........IFIN' YA'LL DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS UH COACH.......YOU'D NEVERAH GUESS IT.......HE HAS UH WAY O' TALKIN' FOOTBALL......LIKE NO OTHERAH........"THIS IS THE WAY WE RUN OUR OPERATION"...........AH ONCE RAN INTA HIM.....AT DUH PERKINS PANCAKE HOUSE...IN NEWARK........AH WAS FLYIN' DUH COLORS.......AN' WHEN AH WENT BY HIS TABLE.....HE LOOKED UP.......BUT AH DID'NT SPEAK......AH DIDN'T WANNA BOTHERAH HIM.....AS AH'M SURE DUH LESS BASHFUL FANS......WUDDAH DONE.........AN' AH KNOW HE IS CORDIAL.......AH WISH AH COULD HAVE DAT MOMENT BACK......IT'S UH RUNNIN' GAG....DAT TUBBY COULD RUN FO' GOVERNOR.....AN' WIN BY UH LANDSLIDE.....AH LOVE DAT GUY.........AS ALL HENS FANS DO.........xnodx...BRAWK!

Mich Griz
March 17th, 2007, 11:07 AM
Another Michigan boy ....what were the helmets like prior to Tubby??xbowx

89Hen
March 17th, 2007, 11:13 AM
Another Michigan boy ....what were the helmets like prior to Tubby??xbowx
His predecessor, Dave Nelson, brought them in 1951. BTW, Nelson also had them at Hillsdale College, Harvard and Maine before coming to UD.

ngineer
March 18th, 2007, 03:04 AM
Tubby is a legend. I was recruited at UD in 1969 and had looked because my uncle played for Nelson in the early '50's. UD always had tough teams and we had some great rivalry games back in the 70's and 80's. I know he and Whitehead were somewhat kindred spirits. Definitely belongs in the HOF.xnodx