Hall Of Fame Richmond Football Coach Frank Jones Dies

[kdinva]

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/sports/college/college_football/article/JONE26_20090725-223008/282252/

Coach Jones got UR going in the right direction in the late '60's. I remember watching that 1968 Tangerine Bowl on TV, and their will to not let Ohio U. get control of that game. He, Jim Tait, and Bill Dooley were part of that migration of coaches from Miss. St. to Virginia/N. Carolina.

[spdram]

He took a program in the pits (longest losing streak in the nation) and took it to a Top 20 team. The facilities were horrible, the tradition did not exist, but he believed in himself and his abilities -- he made Spider fans believers also. And eventhough he left the University when Aministration would not meet his demands he continued to be a loyal fan of the Spiders. The Spider nation lost a great member of out family this weekend.

[CSN Log]

07-28-2009 05:23 PM

Hall Of Fame Richmond Football Coach Frank Jones Dies

FROM RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH (John O’Connor) - Frank Jones, who coached the University of Richmond’s football program to national acclaim in the late 1960s and early 1970s, died in Richmond on Saturday. Mr. Jones was 90 and recently suffered a stroke.

Mr. Jones, a native of Tifton, Ga., and a 1948 University of North Carolina graduate, in 1966 took over a Spiders program that had lost 14 consecutive games. The Jones Era began with five more defeats. Richmond had the nation’s longest losing streak.

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