LOS ANGELES — Terry Donahue, the winningest coach in Pac-12 Convention and UCLA soccer historical past who later served as normal supervisor of the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers, died Sunday. He was 77.
The college mentioned he died at his residence in Newport Seaside after a two-year wrestle with most cancers.
Donahue has essentially the most wins (98) of any coach in Pac-12 historical past and likewise essentially the most wins (151) in UCLA historical past. He coached the Bruins from 1971-75, working as an assistant beneath Pepper Rodgers after which Dick Vermeil, earlier than taking on as head coach at age 31 and serving from 1976-95. His first job out of school was as an assistant to Rodgers at Kansas for one season.
Donahue was the primary to seem in a Rose Bowl sport as a participant, assistant coach and head coach. The Bruins gained the New Yr’s Day sport in 1983, ‘84 and ’86 throughout his teaching tenure. He was the primary faculty coach to earn bowl sport victories in seven consecutive seasons, from 1983 to 1989.
Born in Los Angeles, Terrence Michael Donahue graduated from Notre Dame Excessive in Sherman Oaks earlier than going to UCLA. He joined the soccer workforce as a walk-on defensive lineman in 1965. He helped lead the Bruins to their first-ever Rose Bowl win in 1966 with an upset of beforehand undefeated and top-ranked Michigan State.
He had a 151-74-8 teaching report at UCLA and a 98-51-5 mark in Pac-12 play. The Bruins gained or shared 5 league titles throughout Donahue’s tenure. He coached such future Corridor of Famers as quarterback Troy Aikman, security Kenny Easley and out of doors linebacker Jonathan Ogden.
Donahue was inducted into the School Soccer Corridor of Fame in 2000. He joined the Rose Bowl Corridor of Fame in 1997, and the press field on the Rose Bowl was named for him in 2013.
“He epitomizes every little thing you attempt to be as a coach and as a human being,” present UCLA soccer coach Chip Kelly mentioned. “For the reason that second I stepped on campus, he’s been an unimaginable mentor and one of the crucial genuine, humble and hardest males I’ve ever met. He liked UCLA with all he had, and I can’t categorical how necessary his steering and friendship has been for me.”
After retiring from teaching, Donahue labored for CBS, Fox and the NFL Community calling video games.
He served because the 49ers’ director of participant personnel in 1999-2000, and because the workforce’s GM from 2001-05. He turned down an opportunity to educate the Dallas Cowboys, a transfer that might have reunited him with Aikman in 1998.
He’s survived by Andrea, his spouse of 52 years; daughters Nicole, Michele and Jennifer; and 10 grandchildren.
