1. Raymond Robert Nagel was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator.
26 Facts About Ray Nagel
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Ray Nagel played quarterback for the football team and was a third team all-city selection his senior season in 1944.
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Ray Nagel graduated in 1945 and enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was a three time letter-winner from 1946 to 1949 as a quarterback and halfback for the Bruins.
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Ray Nagel played for head coach Red Sanders and was named all-Pacific Coast Conference and UCLA's Most Improved Player.
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Ray Nagel later earned bachelor's, master's, and law degrees from UCLA and was an assistant coach for the Bruins' football team.
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Ray Nagel played one year of professional football at age 26, with the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League as a player and scout in 1953.
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In January 1958, Ray Nagel was named head coach at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, then a member of the Skyline Conference.
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Ray Nagel led the Utes for eight years, from 1958 through 1965.
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Ray Nagel was hired as the 21st head coach of Iowa football in December 1965.
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Ray Nagel's teams won three Big Ten titles, two Rose Bowls, and finished in the top ten of the final AP Poll five times.
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Ray Nagel brought a talented coaching staff to Iowa; his assistants included George Seifert and Ted Lawrence.
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Ray Nagel reiterated his longstanding policy with regard to unexcused absences from practice.
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Ray Nagel had set a precedent on the matter in his first season in 1966 when he dismissed star end Rich O'Hara from the squad when O'Hara failed to appear for practice.
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That afternoon, sixteen black players boycotted spring practice, and Ray Nagel immediately dismissed them from the team.
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Only four black players broke the boycott and appeared for spring practice: Mel Morris, Ray Nagel Manning, William "Zoom Zoom" Powell, and Don Osby.
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Ray Nagel is brought from the black colony, typically called high school, which is predominantly black.
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Ray Nagel announced that those boycotting players that wanted to be reinstated could make an individual appeal to the team for reinstatement, and that the team would conduct a vote on whether or not to allow them to rejoin the team.
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Ray Nagel had one year left on his contract, and he was looking for an extension.
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In January 1970, Ray Nagel dismissed offensive line coach Gary Grouwinkel for "disloyalty," which Grouwinkel later revealed was his allegiance to Evy instead of Ray Nagel.
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About two weeks later, Lawrence's roommate, a non-athlete, submitted to the Iowa Board of Athletics a written statement charging Evy with participating in a rebellion aimed at getting Ray Nagel fired and that would allow Evy to succeed him as head football coach.
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Ray Nagel left Iowa in May 1971 to become the athletic director at Washington State of the Pacific-8 Conference.
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Ray Nagel moved on to the University of Hawaii in June 1976, and served as its director of athletics until 1983.
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Ray Nagel left Hawaii to become the executive vice president of the Los Angeles Rams in 1983.
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Ray Nagel left after just one year and returned to Hawaii in 1984 as vice president of public relations for the Bank of Hawaii, and held that position until 1989.
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Ray Nagel was then named as the executive director of the Hula Bowl and retired in 1995.
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In June 2006, Ray Nagel was inducted into the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Hall of Fame.