Changes: Sam Rutigliano

Sam Rutigliano
	; Rutigliano around 1979 as Cleveland Browns head coach
Personal information
Born:	July 1 1933 (age 90)
Birthplace:	Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
High School	Erasmus H.S., Brooklyn, NY
College	Tennessee, Tulsa
Position(s):; End, Head Coach	Jersey #(s):;
Height::; 5 ft 11 in (1.8 m)	Weight::; 175 lb (79 kg)
Career information
NFL Draft	Undrafted, 1955 / Round N/A / Pick N/A
	Career
Teams
	As player:
	As coach:
Teams coached	Collegiate:; Maryland 1966 ; Connecticut 1964-1966 ; Liberty Univeristy; (Head Coach) 1989-1999 ; Professional:; Scottish Claymores (NFL Europe) 2004 ; Barcelona Dragons (NFL Europe) 2001-2003 ; Cleveland Browns (Head Coach) 1978-1984 ; New Orleans Saints 1976-1977; New York Jets1974-1975 ; New England Patriots 1971-1973 ; Denver Broncos 1967-1970
Coaching Stats
Record (W/L/T):	47-50-0
Career Stats
NFL Season Win Pct. (%)	.485
NCAA Win Pct. (%)	,558
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Coaching stats	Pro Football Reference
	DatabaseFootball
Career highlights
Highlights	47-50 head coaching record (NFL); 67-53 head coaching record(NCAA); Founder, Inner Circle substance abuse player recovery support group with Cleveland Browns (1979);
Awards and Honors
Awards	* NFL Coach of the Year (UPI) NFL (1979, 1980); * National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence's (NCADD) Bronze Key Award (2007)

Latest revision as of 08:46, 14 December 2019

Sam Rutigliano (born July 1, 1933) is a former National Football League head coach.

Career

Rutigliano, the son of Italian immigrants, played high school football at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn.^[1] He played college football at Tennessee and Tulsa. He coached at the high school level in New York. This included a stint at Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, NY where he tried to change the school's nickname from "Quakers" to the more masculine sounding "Falcons". He then coached at the college level at Connecticut, Maryland and Tennessee before landing a professional football assistant coaching job with the American Football League's Denver Broncos in 1967. He would be an assistant with the New England Patriots, New York Jets, and New Orleans Saints over the next 11 years before being given the head coaching job for the Cleveland Browns in 1978.

Over the next six years, Rutigliano was the coach of the famed "Kardiac Kids" Browns. He led the 1980 Browns to the AFC Central Division Championship. The final play of the Browns' playoff game with the Oakland Raiders would be the most memorable moment in Rutigliano's coaching career. Down 14–12 and within field goal range, Rutigliano decided to run one more play rather than kick a game-winning field goal. The play, called "Red Right 88", resulted in a game-ending interception. Despite the early playoff exit, Rutigliano received NFL Coach of the Year honors for the 1980 season.

Rutigliano was fired in 1984 after starting the season 1–7. He was replaced by Marty Schottenheimer. In his six and a half seasons with the Browns, Rutigliano compiled a 47–50 record.

After being let go by the Browns, Rutigliano would serve as an analyst for NBC Sports and ESPN for three years. In 1988, he was given the head coaching job at Liberty University, a post he would hold for eleven years until retiring in 1999.

Rutigliano would go on to be an assistant coach under Jack Bicknell with the Barcelona Dragons and Scottish Claymores, both of NFL Europe.

Beginning in 2005, "Coach Sam" (as he is known as in Cleveland) became a Browns analyst for WKYC channel 3 in Cleveland (NBC), and also for SportsTime Ohio when it began operations in 2006. In 2011, he moved to WEWS-TV 5 (ABC) to become a Browns analyst.

Player addiction recovery program

Throughout the 1970s, substance abuse, particularly of cocaine, was a rampant problem among unmarried NFL players. During Rutigliano's tenure with the Browns, the NFL mandated the hiring of a psychiatric professional specializing in substance abuse, and Rutigliano was the first NFL coach to comply with the policy. Dr. Gregory Collins of the Cleveland Clinic was hired as the Browns' addiction recovery physician. Wanting to take the policy further to assist those players who would not come forward with their addiction problems, with the support of team owner Art Modell, Rutigliano founded an anonymous support group known as the "Inner Circle", which was attended by approximately a dozen Browns players. The support group was assisted by the efforts of Calvin Hill and Paul Warfield. Only Charles White, who chose to go into a rehab center in Los Angeles, lost his anonymity among the group's members.

Rutigliano considered the Inner Circle his greatest accomplishment as an NFL coach,^[2] and on November 14, 2007, Rutigliano was given the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence's Bronze Key Award by the NCADD's Northeast Ohio affiliate, Recovery Resources. In his speech presenting the award to Rutigliano, Dr. Collins, now Section Head of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation's Drug and Alcohol Recovery Center and 2006 Bronze Key Award winner, lobbied to have Rutigliano inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame for his work with the Inner Circle.

Head coaching record

NFL

Team	Year	Regular Season					Post Season
Team	Year	Won	Lost	Ties	Win %	Finish	Won	Lost	Win %	Result
CLE	1978	8	8	0	.500	3^rd in AFC Central	-	-	-	-
CLE	1979	9	7	0	.563	3^rd in AFC Central	-	-	-	-
CLE	1980	11	5	0	.688	1^st in AFC Central	0	1	.000	Lost to Oakland Raiders in AFC Divisional Game.
CLE	1981	5	11	0	.313	4^th in AFC Central	-	-	-	-
CLE	1982	4	5	0	.444	3^rd in AFC Central	0	1	.000	Lost to L.A. Raiders in AFC Wild-Card Game.
CLE	1983	9	7	0	.563	2^nd in AFC Central	-	-	-	-
CLE	1984	1	7	0	.125	3^rd in AFC Central	-	-	-	-
CLE Total		47	50	0	.485		0	2	.000
Total^[3]		47	50	0	.485		0	2	.000

College

Year	Team	Overall
Liberty Flames (I-AA Independent) (1989–1999)
1989	Liberty	7-3
1990	Liberty	7-4
1991	Liberty	4-7
1992	Liberty	7-4
1993	Liberty	6-5
1994	Liberty	5-6
1995	Liberty	8-3
1996	Liberty	5-6
1997	Liberty	9-2
1998	Liberty	5-6
1999	Liberty	4-7
Liberty:		67-53
Total:		67-53
National championship Conference title Conference division title

References

↑ "The Rumble: AN OFF-THE-BALL LOOK AT YOUR FAVORITE SPORTS CELEBRITIES", New York Post, December 31, 2006. Accessed December 13, 2007. "The five Erasmus Hall of Fame legends include Raiders owner Al Davis, Bears quarterback Sid Luckman, Yankee pitching great Waite Hoyt, Billy Cunningham and Knicks founder Ned Irish. Other sports notables include Bulls/White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, chess champion Bobby Fischer, ex-Browns head coach Sam Rutigliano, legendary NBA referee Norm Drucker and "Boys of Summer" author Roger Kahn."
↑ Sam Rutigliano: A Coach of Football - and Life. Retrieved on 2007-11-20.
↑ Sam Rutigliano Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks - Pro-Football-Reference.com
↑ Final poll standings are from The Sports Network.

External links

[1] "The Rumble: AN OFF-THE-BALL LOOK AT YOUR FAVORITE SPORTS CELEBRITIES", New York Post, December 31, 2006. Accessed December 13, 2007. "The five Erasmus Hall of Fame legends include Raiders owner Al Davis, Bears quarterback Sid Luckman, Yankee pitching great Waite Hoyt, Billy Cunningham and Knicks founder Ned Irish. Other sports notables include Bulls/White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, chess champion Bobby Fischer, ex-Browns head coach Sam Rutigliano, legendary NBA referee Norm Drucker and "Boys of Summer" author Roger Kahn."

[2] Sam Rutigliano: A Coach of Football - and Life. Retrieved on 2007-11-20.

[3] Sam Rutigliano Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks - Pro-Football-Reference.com

[tsnpoll-4] Final poll standings are from The Sports Network.

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Sam Rutigliano
Rutigliano around 1979 as Cleveland Browns head coach
Personal information
Born:	July 1 1933 (1933-07-01) (age 90)
Birthplace:	Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
High School	Erasmus H.S., Brooklyn, NY
College	Tennessee, Tulsa
Position(s): End, Head Coach	Jersey #(s):
Height:: 5 ft 11 in (1.8 m)	Weight:: 175 lb (79 kg)
Career information
NFL Draft	Undrafted, 1955 / Round N/A / Pick N/A
Career
Teams
As player:
As coach:
Teams coached	Collegiate: Maryland 1966 Connecticut 1964-1966 Liberty Univeristy (Head Coach) 1989-1999 Professional: Scottish Claymores (NFL Europe) 2004 Barcelona Dragons (NFL Europe) 2001-2003 Cleveland Browns (Head Coach) 1978-1984 New Orleans Saints 1976-1977 New York Jets1974-1975 New England Patriots 1971-1973 Denver Broncos 1967-1970
Coaching Stats
Record (W/L/T):	47-50-0
Career Stats
NFL Season Win Pct. (%)	.485
NCAA Win Pct. (%)	,558
'
Coaching stats	Pro Football Reference
	DatabaseFootball
Career highlights
Highlights	47-50 head coaching record (NFL) 67-53 head coaching record(NCAA) Founder, Inner Circle substance abuse player recovery support group with Cleveland Browns (1979)
Awards and Honors
Awards	* NFL Coach of the Year (UPI) NFL (1979, 1980) * National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence's (NCADD) Bronze Key Award (2007)

Persondata
Name	Rutigliano, Sam
Alternative names
Short description	American football coach
Date of birth	July 1, 1933
Place of birth	Brooklyn, New York
Date of death
Place of death