Bob DeMoss

Robert Alonzo DeMoss (January 27, 1927 – July 23, 2017) was an American professional football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Purdue University from 1970 to 1972, compiling a career college football record of 13–18.

Career

Football playing DeMoss played football as a quarterback at Purdue from 1945 to 1948. He helped the Boilermakers win their first four games and move into the national rankings at No. 9. The next week, he led the Boilermakers into Ohio Stadium, where they routed the #4 team in the country, 35–13 He was then selected in the second round of the 1949 NFL draft by the New York Bulldogs, for whom he played in 1949.

Assistant coach For 20 years, beginning in 1950, DeMoss was an assistant football coach where he was credited with developing Purdue's reputation as the 'cradle of quarterbacks,' having recruited and coached the likes of Dale Samuels, Len Dawson, Bernie Allen, Bob Griese, Mike Phipps and Gary Danielson. As assistant athletics director, DeMoss oversaw the baseball, men's cross country, men's golf, men's swimming and diving, men's tennis, men's track and field, and wrestling programs. Two days after Mollenkopf announced his retirement, DeMoss was named his successor, becoming the third and most-recent Purdue alum to serve as head coach. DeMoss resigned following the 1972 season, citing his desire to be with his family more as his reason for stepping down. DeMoss compiled a career college football record of 13–18.

In DeMoss' three seasons as head coach, the Boilermakers posted an 11–12 Big Ten mark.

Honors DeMoss was inducted into Purdue's Intercollegiate Athletes Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 1999.

Personal life DeMoss was married to Janet DeMoss. They had three children.

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