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Making The List: George Chaump
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Football is still here, thank God! So as we progress into the season it only appears appropriate to me that in are undertaking for Making the List we remain within the great names from the Scarlet and Gray’s gridiron.
This week, with Oklahoma being our big focus, I wanted to pull into attention someone that is deserving of notice that just does not seem like someone on any of our top three prospects for inclusion. In those words, I am merely suggesting that there are so many roses in the garden to pick, why is it that we reach for the ones in the front – well, that’s because they are more in our pivotal sphere. So allow us to pick one from the back, one just as beautiful in the lore of our wondrous school – The Ohio State University.
George Chaump was born April 28, 1936. He would play football for Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. His coaching career began in the ranks of High School in 1961 – Shamokin High School in Pennsylvania – which was followed for six seasons at John Harris High School. It was at the latter that brought positive attention – going 58-4 in those six seasons.
George was brought onto the staff of the great Woody Hayes and the Ohio State University in 1968. What a great time to join a team. The Buckeyes went 10-0 (7-0 in the Big 10) and would end the season with a victory over the USC Trojans and Heisman winner OJ 27-16 in Pasadena on New Year’s Day in front of 102, 068 people.
That team would be loaded with what would be termed as the Super Sophomore Class: Rex Kern, Jack Tatum, Jim Stillwagon, John Brockington, Mike Sensibaugh, Leo Hayden, Bruce Jankowski, and Jan White. It, of course, was the play calling of George Chaump that accelerated the talents of those “Super Sophomores.”
Woody’s Offense Coordinator would remain with him and the Buckeyes until the day following that dreadful Gator Bowl against Clemson on December 29, 1978.
From there Coach Chaump would venture into the NFL where he served as an assistant coach with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the helm of Coach John McKay from 1979-1981. Coach Chaump left the NFL and went back to his home state of Pennsylvania where he’d head up the Indiana University of Pennsylvania from 1982-1985. He’d end there with a 24-16-1 record.
Thereafter, 1986 to 1989, Chaump coached Marshall, concluding with a 33–16–1 record. In the seasons of 1987 and 1988 Marshall, under Coach Chaump, had 10-win seasons. And from 1990 to 1994 he headed to Annapolis where he’d serve as Head Coach of the United States Naval Academy. Those years weren’t so grand – 14–41 record.
Chaump would eventually head back to where he started – High School Football – in Harrisburg, PA at Central Dauphin in 1997 where he’d generate a 57-14 record through 2002. In 2003, he would take over as Head Coach at Harrisburg High School – eventually ending his time there in 2010. He hung up his coaching cleats in 2012 at 76 years old.
His overall Head Coaching record would be 190-66.
During his tenure with the Buckeyes as the Offensive Coordinator, the Buckeyes would win the National Title once and have 98 wins versus 20 losses and 3 ties – with no losing season. Offensively the Buckeyes under Chaump would score 3,721 points and produce two Heisman trophies – both for Archie Griffin.
George Chaump is absolutely deserving of notice and inclusion of our Making the List. He is a guy that flies under the radar of notables, but arguably was a major force in some of the greatest times of Buckeyes Football history. I could add that our current Offense Coordinators in Columbus could learn tremendously by dabbling into the history for which they hail within the same walls of – and their predecessor(s) – but I won’t offer such personal observation. This is not the purpose of our Making the List. The purpose is to acknowledge the greats of past Buckeye sports…and George Chaump is indeed one.
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jcollingsworth via our good friends at Buckeye Battle Cry
Visit their fantastic blog and read the full article (and so much more) here
Football is still here, thank God! So as we progress into the season it only appears appropriate to me that in are undertaking for Making the List we remain within the great names from the Scarlet and Gray’s gridiron.
This week, with Oklahoma being our big focus, I wanted to pull into attention someone that is deserving of notice that just does not seem like someone on any of our top three prospects for inclusion. In those words, I am merely suggesting that there are so many roses in the garden to pick, why is it that we reach for the ones in the front – well, that’s because they are more in our pivotal sphere. So allow us to pick one from the back, one just as beautiful in the lore of our wondrous school – The Ohio State University.
George Chaump was born April 28, 1936. He would play football for Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. His coaching career began in the ranks of High School in 1961 – Shamokin High School in Pennsylvania – which was followed for six seasons at John Harris High School. It was at the latter that brought positive attention – going 58-4 in those six seasons.
George was brought onto the staff of the great Woody Hayes and the Ohio State University in 1968. What a great time to join a team. The Buckeyes went 10-0 (7-0 in the Big 10) and would end the season with a victory over the USC Trojans and Heisman winner OJ 27-16 in Pasadena on New Year’s Day in front of 102, 068 people.
That team would be loaded with what would be termed as the Super Sophomore Class: Rex Kern, Jack Tatum, Jim Stillwagon, John Brockington, Mike Sensibaugh, Leo Hayden, Bruce Jankowski, and Jan White. It, of course, was the play calling of George Chaump that accelerated the talents of those “Super Sophomores.”
Woody’s Offense Coordinator would remain with him and the Buckeyes until the day following that dreadful Gator Bowl against Clemson on December 29, 1978.
From there Coach Chaump would venture into the NFL where he served as an assistant coach with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the helm of Coach John McKay from 1979-1981. Coach Chaump left the NFL and went back to his home state of Pennsylvania where he’d head up the Indiana University of Pennsylvania from 1982-1985. He’d end there with a 24-16-1 record.
Thereafter, 1986 to 1989, Chaump coached Marshall, concluding with a 33–16–1 record. In the seasons of 1987 and 1988 Marshall, under Coach Chaump, had 10-win seasons. And from 1990 to 1994 he headed to Annapolis where he’d serve as Head Coach of the United States Naval Academy. Those years weren’t so grand – 14–41 record.
Chaump would eventually head back to where he started – High School Football – in Harrisburg, PA at Central Dauphin in 1997 where he’d generate a 57-14 record through 2002. In 2003, he would take over as Head Coach at Harrisburg High School – eventually ending his time there in 2010. He hung up his coaching cleats in 2012 at 76 years old.
His overall Head Coaching record would be 190-66.
During his tenure with the Buckeyes as the Offensive Coordinator, the Buckeyes would win the National Title once and have 98 wins versus 20 losses and 3 ties – with no losing season. Offensively the Buckeyes under Chaump would score 3,721 points and produce two Heisman trophies – both for Archie Griffin.
George Chaump is absolutely deserving of notice and inclusion of our Making the List. He is a guy that flies under the radar of notables, but arguably was a major force in some of the greatest times of Buckeyes Football history. I could add that our current Offense Coordinators in Columbus could learn tremendously by dabbling into the history for which they hail within the same walls of – and their predecessor(s) – but I won’t offer such personal observation. This is not the purpose of our Making the List. The purpose is to acknowledge the greats of past Buckeye sports…and George Chaump is indeed one.
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