A Record to Remember

Risk and reward. Maybe it’s no accident those two words appear so often together. It was the risk taken by Dan Devine, leaving his job as a Michigan high school football coach for a lower-paying job as a graduate assistant under Coach Duffy Daugherty at Michigan State that led to a long, highly successful coaching career, including a national championship as coach of Notre Dame. Devine didn’t remain a graduate assistant for long. He soon became a full-time coach and, in 1955, left to take over as the head coach at Arizona State University. Using variations of wing and flanker offenses, Devine would spend three years at ASU, losing a total of three games, against 27 wins and a tie. In his last season, 1957, the Sun Devils went 10-0. It then became time for Devine to follow a legend, even if it wasn’t clear at the time. With Frank Broyles leaving the University of Missouri after one