Dick Coury, a longtime high school, college, and professional football coach, passed away on Saturday. He was 91 years old.
Dick Coury, longtime Mater Dei High, college and pro football coach, dies at 91 https://t.co/SLW1fcY1zC
— eric sondheimer (@latsondheimer) August 16, 2020
Coury’s coaching acumen spanned over 50 years, beginning at southern California powerhouse Mater Dei High School, where he posted an astonishing 85-9-5 record from 1957-1965.
Coury then caught on at USC, where he served as the defensive coordinator under coach John McKay in 1967 when the Trojans, behind running back O.J. Simpson, won the national championship.
Coury went on to become the first ever head football coach at Cal-State Fullerton in 1970, and eventually he took over as the head coach of the Portland Storm in the short-lived World Football League from 1974-1975.
That eventually led Coury into the NFL, where over a 30-year span he coached for nine different NFL teams, including the 1981 Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles. Although he was mostly a wide receivers or quarterbacks coach, Coury did have two stints as offensive coordinator from 1991-1992 with the Patriots, and again in 1994 with the Oilers.
He last coached in 1998 under coach Jeff Fisher with the Los Angeles Rams.
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