Jim Frey was hired to manage the 1984 Cubs, with Don Zimmer coaching 3rd base and Billy Connors serving as pitching coach.

* 1944 – Don Meyer, American basketball coach

Following the two championships in 1958 and 1959, the Colts did not return to the NFL Championship for four seasons and saw a transition from head coach Ewbank to a young Don Shula in 1963.

The Colts immediately went on a rampage in the new league, as new head coach Don McCafferty led the 1970 team to an 11 – 2 – 1 regular season record, winning the AFC East title.

One angle where the two clubs did have something in common, however, lay in new Miami coach Don Shula.

* 1939 – Don Matthews, American-Canadian football coach

* 1931 – Don Zimmer, American baseball coach

For most of their early history, the Dolphins were coached by Don Shula, the most successful head coach in professional football history in terms of total games won.

The Dolphins had a combined 15 – 39 – 2 record in their first four seasons ( under head coach George Wilson and behind QB Bob Griese 1967 when Don Shula was hired as head coach.

* 1946 – Don Chaney, American basketball player and coach

The Dolphins were led by head coach Don Shula and featured a defense that gave up the fifth-fewest points in the NFL in the regular season.

From 1978 through 1983, the Chargers wore their white jerseys at home, coinciding with the hiring of coach Don Coryell – when Joe Gibbs, a Coryell assistant in 1979 – 80, became head coach of the Washington Redskins in 1981, he did the same, and white at home became a Redskins staple through 2007 – but Coryell switched the Chargers to their blue jerseys at home starting in 1984.

In addition to Bobby Thomson and Willie Mays, other memorable members of the Giants teams during the 1950s include: Hall of Fame manager Leo Durocher, coach Herman Franks, Hall of Fame outfielder Monte Irvin, outfielder and runnerup for the 1954 NL batting championship ( won by Willie Mays ) Don Mueller, Hall of Fame knuckleball relief pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm, starting pitchers Larry Jansen, Sal Maglie, Jim Hearn, Marv Grissom, Dave Koslo, Don Liddle, Max Lanier, Rubén Gómez, and Johnny Antonelli, catcher Wes Westrum, catchers Ray Katt and Sal Yvars, shortstop Alvin Dark, third baseman Hank Thompson, first baseman Whitey Lockman, second basemen Davey Williams and Eddie Stanky, outfielder, pitcher Clint Hartung, Hall of Fame second baseman Red Schoendienst and utility players: Bill Rigney, Daryl Spencer, Bobby Hofman, and Dusty Rhodes among others.

In Ewbank's place, Baltimore hired an untested young head coach, Don Shula.

His performance was so impressive that Colts coach Don Shula decided to keep Morrall in the starting lineup after Unitas was healthy enough to play.

Morrall put up a better statistics than Unitas ( 792 yards, 9 touchdowns, 4 interceptions, and a 97. 6 passer rating ), but head coach Don McCafferty decided to start Unitas for the playoffs.

Don McCafferty became the first rookie head coach to win a Super Bowl.

Morrall had previously played for Dolphins head coach Don Shula when they were both with the Baltimore Colts, where Morrall backed up quarterback Johnny Unitas and started in Super Bowl III.

" Head coach Don Shula, loser of Super Bowls III and VI, was also determined to win.

" We were dominated to the point where one play didn't make much of a difference ", said Dolphins coach Don Shula.

Dan Reeves became the fourth head coach to lose four Super Bowls, joining Bud Grant, Don Shula and Marv Levy.

The Cardinals also fired their coach, Don Coryell, shortly afterward.

* Clem Haskins, former college and professional basketball player and college basketball coach

When Don Haskins became basketball coach in 1961, he aggressively recruited black players.

* Clem Haskins – coach

* Clem Haskins, former NBA player with Phoenix Suns, former NCAA basketball coach at WKU and the University of Minnesota

Donald Lee Haskins ( March 14, 1930 – September 7, 2008 ), nicknamed " The Bear ", was an American collegiate basketball coach and player.

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He had three standout seasons at El Paso, from 1967 to 1970 under the legendary coach Don Haskins.

* Don Haskins ( coach at Texas Western / UTEP 1961 – 1999 )

The Special Events Center was renamed after UTEP's Hall of Fame coach Don Haskins ( 1930-2008 ) in 1998.

The arena was the site of a milestone win during the 1997 – 8 season, as coach Haskins notched his 700th career victory against SMU.

Glory Road is a 2006 American sports film directed by James Gartner, based on a true story dealing with the events leading to the 1966 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, in which the late Don Haskins – played by Josh Lucas – head coach of the Texas Western College led a team with an all-black starting lineup, a first in NCAA history.

Newly appointed men's basketball head coach Don Haskins ( Josh Lucas ) from the Texas Western College in El Paso, not having many financial resources to recruit the most coveted high school athletes, decides to find the best players in the country regardless of race to form a team that can compete for a national championship.

Glory Road was inspired by a true story, as described by Texas Western's head coach Don Haskins in his autobiography of the same title, a national bestseller released in 2005 by Hyperion Books.

The book details Haskins ' early life as a player ( including a one-on-one game against a black friend that opened his eyes ) and women's basketball coach.

The team was nominated in its entirety for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, and was inducted on September 7, 2007, ten years after coach Don Haskins had already been enshrined.

* Ben Affleck was the original choice for the role of coach Don Haskins, but had to drop out of the filming due to prior commitments.

Hall of Famer Don Haskins, head coach, and former WAC rival, at the University of Texas-El Paso ( UTEP ), hired Ellenberger as an assistant, giving him a chance to return to coaching.

Ellenberger acted as interim head coach at UTEP for one season while Haskins was side-lined due to health problems.

-- Nick Skorich, the line coach for the football champion Philadelphia Eagles, was elevated today to head coach.

He was there one season before rejoining the Steelers as an assistant coach.

One reason for the transfer was to be closer to his coach, Grandmaster Semyon Furman, who lived in Leningrad.

Love was responsible for the hiring of coaches Herb Sendek, the men's basketball coach, and Dennis Erickson, the men's football coach.

Arizona State Sun Devils football was founded in 1897 under coach Fred Irish.

Falcons coach Leeman Bennett was fired after the loss.

After losing 7 straight games, the decision was made to release head coach Dan Reeves.

In 2004, a new head coach, Jim L. Mora, was hired and Michael Vick returned for the full season.

After finishing the season 7 – 9, however, coach Jim Mora was dismissed and Bobby Petrino, the University of Louisville's football coach, replaced him.

Secondary Coach Emmitt Thomas was named interim coach for the final three games of on December 12.

On January 23, Jacksonville Jaguars defensive coach and former linebackers coach for the 2000 Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens Mike Smith was named the Falcons ' new head coach.

First-year head coach Mike Smith was named 2008 NFL Coach of the Year.

Brenly was fired partway through the season and was replaced on an interim basis by third base coach Al Pedrique.

Federko was the head coach / general manager of the St. Louis Vipers InLine team of the Roller Hockey International for the 1993 and 1994 seasons.

" With salutes and courtesies, the Marshal was escorted to Marlborough's coach.

William Ernest " Bill " Walsh ( November 30, 1931 – July 30, 2007 ) was the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and the Stanford Cardinal football team, during which time he popularized the West Coast offense.

Walsh was coaching in Fremont when he interviewed for an assistant coaching position with Marv Levy, who had just been hired as the head coach at the University of California, Berkeley.

In 1977, Walsh was hired as the head coach at Stanford where he stayed for two seasons.

In 1979, Walsh was hired as head coach of the San Francisco 49ers.