FALCONS' NEST OF COACHES
Moe Ankney Bill Mallory Don Nehlen Larry Smith Denny Stolz Their names are familiar. Together, they dot the nation as football coaches at all levels of the game—high school, college, and professional football. They belong to the Falcons' Nest of Coaches, an organization createa in 1984 to promote the proud traaition of Bowling Green Falcon football. Through the development of student ana graduate-assistant programs at Bowling Green, most of these coaches got their start at this Mia-American Conference institution. They've stuaiea and maturea under the coaching philosophies of Warren Steller, Doyt Perry, Bob Gibson, Don Nehlen, Denny Stolz and Moe Ankney, to name a few. Toaay, they are making a name for themselves and for their respective football programs around the country. Though they may be miles apart, they share at least one thing in common, They are members of a fine football coaching fraternity at Bowling Green, the Falcons' Nest of Coaches. A few of the members are listed below:
MOE ANKNEY SCOTT DUNCAN LARRY KEHRES BOB REUBLIN DALE STRAHM Bowling Green Rose-Hulman Institute Mt. Union Bowling Green Georgia CARL BATTERSHELL MEL FOELS RAY KWIATKOWSKI MIKE SCHMITZ ELLIOTT UZELAC Detroit Lions Tennessee Findlay Rittman High School Navy JERRY BERNDT JACK HARBAUGH BILL MALLORY BO SCHEMBECHLER DWIGHT WALLACE Rice Pittsburgh Indiana Michigan West Virginia RON BLACKLEDGE JIM HEACOCK MARK MILLER BOB SCHNELKER BOB WOLFE Pittsburgh Steelers Illinois State Bowling Green Minnesota Vikings Bowling Green JOHN BOLES RUSS HEPNER DON NEHLEN LARRY SMITH MIKE WRIGHT Genoa High School GrossePte. South H.S. West Virginia Southern California Kutztown State LARRY COOK KEN HOCKMAN RICH PONT DENNY STOLZ JIM YOUNG Sandusky High School Harrison High School Yale San Diego State Army DOYT PERRY HALL OF FAMEDINN ER - OCT. 29, 1988 Call 372-2401 For Details Doyt Perry To Be Inducted Into College Football Hall of Fame The year 1988 will be fondly remembered native received his degree in 1932 and then by Doyt Perry, the former player, coach and began coaching on the high school level i administrator at Bowling Green State before becoming an assistant football University. coach at Ohio State University in 1951. Last January, he learned that he would be Perry returned to his alma mater as head a 1988 inductee into the National Football football coach in 1955. Over the next 10 Foundation's College Football Hall of Fame. years, he led the Falcons to a 77-11-5 record In May, he was in Toledo, OH, for his induc- for a winning percentage of .855, topped tion into the Mid-American Conference Hall only by Knute Rockne and Frank Leahy. His of Fame. teams won five MAC Championships and This fall, when the Bowling Green Falcons the national college division championship host Miami in an October 29 football game in 1959. at Doyt L. Perry Field, the man in whose Perry, who retired from coaching in 1964 honor the stadium was named will be there to become BGSU's athletic director for six for a special on-campus presentation by the years, developed such outstanding National Football Foundation. coaches as Jim Young of Army, Bill Mallory Then, on December 6, Perry will be in New of Indiana, Don Nehlen of West Virginia, York for the Foundation's Hall of Fame Din- Larry Smith of Southern California, the late ner. Perry will be officially enshrined into the Dave McClain of Wisconsin and Bowling College Football Hall of Fame at Kings Green's own Moe Ankney. Island, OH, in the spring of 1989. Ironically, Perry will enter the College Foot- Perry's association with BGSU dates back ball Hall of Fame with another Bowling almost 60 years when, as a student, he let- Green graduate, the late Jack Mollenkopf tered nine times in three sports (football, '31. Mollenkopf coached the Purdue Boiler- Doyt Perry basketball and baseball). The Croton, OH, makers to a record of 84-39-3 in 23 seasons. 4?