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Tubby Raymond inducted in College Football Hall of Fame this weekend

9:50 a.m., Aug. 7, 2003--Legendary University of Delaware football coach Harold R. “Tubby” Raymond will be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame during ceremonies this weekend in South Bend, Ind.

Photo by Elsburgh Clarke

Raymond will be inducted alongside fellow coaches Roy Kidd of Eastern Kentucky University, who retired after the 2002 season, and Marino Casem, who coached at Alabama State, Alcorn State and Southern universities over 26 seasons until 1992.

Raymond closed out a stellar career after the 2001 season, leading the Fightin’ Blue Hens to 300 wins and three national championships over a span of 36 seasons as head coach.

He becomes the third straight UD head coach to be named to the College Football Hall of Fame, joining direct predecessors Bill Murray (1940-51) and Dave Nelson (1952-1965).

The Blue Hens are now coached by one of Raymond’s former players, K.C. Keeler, who was a starting linebacker on the 1979 NCAA Division II championship team.

Raymond compiled a 300-119-3 record as UD head coach, making him one of only nine coaches in the history of college football to reach 300 victories and just the fourth to do so at one school.

A native of Flint, Mich., Raymond played football and baseball for the University of Michigan and was captain of the 1949 baseball team.

He played minor league professional baseball for two years and then moved into coaching, first at the University of Maine and then at Delaware, where in 1954 he joined the staff of a fellow Wolverine, Dave Nelson.

Raymond served on Nelson’s staff and also was the Blue Hen baseball coach for nine years, compiling the second best coaching record in the history of the sport at UD with a mark of 141-56. His first season as head football coach was 1966.


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