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01.10.06: Injuries
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01.09.06: National
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01.07.06: N.C.
Hall to enshrine ECU grad Charlie Adams ... Pirates announce
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01.06.06: College
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01.05.06: Former
C-USA chief Slive takes reigns of BCS ...
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01.04.06: College
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Scoreboard & Schedule ... Final C-USA Football Postseason
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01.03.06: Pirates,
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Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule ... Final C-USA Football
Postseason Scoreboard |
01.02.06: Rice
lures Tulsa defensive guru as head coach ... Final C-USA
Football Postseason Scoreboard ...
C-USA Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule |
01.01.06: C-USA
Basketball Scoreboard & Schedule ... Final C-USA Football
Postseason Scoreboard |
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News Nuggets, 01.20.06
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Innovative creator of I-formation passes at 92
TALLAHASSEE
— Tom Nugent, a College Football Hall of Famer who was credited with
developing the I-formation at Virginia Military Institute, died Thursday. He
was 92.
Nugent died
of congestive heart failure at a local nursing home, his family said.
Nugent, who
coached at Florida State and Maryland after his stint at VMI, was also
credited with creating the "typewriter" huddle in which players stood in two
rows rather than a circle while plays were being called.
Nugent
was 19-18-2 at VMI from 1949-52. In all, he was a head coach for 17 years,
posting an 89-80-3 record before turning to broadcasting and public
relations.
During his
six years at Florida State in the mid-1950s, he also served as the school's
athletic director. Among the players on his teams were Lee Corso, who would
go into coaching and eventually make the transition to prominent ESPN
college football analyst, and actor Burt Reynolds.
"He put FSU
on the map in the early years," Reynolds said Thursday. "He was an
innovator, who brought a whole new style of football with the I-formation. I
love him and I'll miss him."
Nugent led
the Seminoles to a 34-28-1 record and two bowl games during his stay from
1953-58 and coached the school's first game against Florida.
Nugent took
the Seminoles to their first New Year's Day game in 1955 when they were
defeated by Texas Western 47-20 at the Sun Bowl. In 1958, Florida State lost
to Oklahoma State 15-6 at the Bluegrass Bowl in Louisville as a
then-relatively obscure broadcaster named Howard Cosell did the game.
Nugent
coached Maryland from 1959-65, posting a 36-34 record.
After
coaching, Nugent was a sports broadcaster before working in public
relations.
He
was inducted into the halls of fame at Florida State and New York's Ithaca
College, where he won 10 letters in baseball, basketball, football and
track.
A captain in
the Army Air Corps during World War II, Nugent served as a fitness trainer
for officers heading overseas, and later as a director of entertainment at a
base in Missouri.
A native of
Lawrence, MA, Nugent began his coaching career at the high school level in
Virginia before accepting his first college job at VMI in 1949.
Nugent's
wife of 61 years, Peg, died in 2002. He is survived by five sons, four
daughters, 15 grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
A memorial
mass is scheduled in Tallahassee on Monday.
C-USA Basketball Standings, Scores & Schedule
(Updated
through Thursday, Jan. 19, 2006)
CONFERENCE USA STANDINGS
TEAM
C-USA ALL
UAB
3-0 13-3
Texas-El Paso
3-0 10-5
Memphis
2-0 16-2
Rice
2-1 8-8
Tulsa
2-1 7-9
Central Florida
1-1 7-8
Houston
1-2 10-5
Southern Methodist 1-2
8-7
Marshall
1-2 7-8
Southern Miss
1-2 7-11
East Carolina
0-3 6-10
Tulane
0-3 4-11
----- SCORES -----
THURSDAY,
JAN. 19
No games
scheduled.
WEDNESDAY,
JAN. 18
Southern
Methodist 74, East Carolina 70 (OT)
South Dakota State 69, Central Florida 64
Memphis 88, Tennessee 79
Houston 62, Southern Mississippi 58
Tulsa 66, Marshall 57
UAB 75, Rice 68
Texas-El Paso 75, Tulane 47
----- SCHEDULE -----
FRIDAY, JAN.
20
No games
scheduled.
SATURDAY,
JAN. 21
Memphis at
Southern Mississippi, 5 pm
Houston at UAB, 6 pm
Texas-El Paso at Marshall, 7 pm
Tulsa at Central Florida, 7:30 pm
Rice at Southern Methodist, 8 pm
East Carolina at Tulane, 8 pm
SUNDAY, JAN.
22
No games
scheduled.
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