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Vote for Coach Malosky!

Coach Jim Malosky is on the 2010 College Football Hall of Fame Ballot!
Coach Malosky is the winningest coach listed on the 2010 Ballot.

Highlights:

  • James Malosky-Minnesota-Duluth (1958-97)
  • Winningest coach in Division II history at time of retirement
  • Led teams to nine conference championships
  • Named NSIC, MIAC and/or NAIA Coach of the Year 13 times
  • Produced 33 winning seasons in 40 years at UMD

Full Bio:

A Crosby-Irontonnative, Malosky cultivated winning football programs at Morris and Morningside (Edina) High Schools before becoming the head coach at UMD from 1958 until 1997.  Malosky’s teams won more than 250 games during his 40-year tenure and amassed a 255-125-13 overall record for a .655 winning percentage. His wins included two MIAC conference crowns (1960, ’61), five Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Championship crowns (1979, ’80, ’85, ’90, ’95, ’96), and a perfect 10-0-0 season in 1980 and was named Coach of the Year by the MIAC, the NSIC, and NAA District 13 on 10 occasions. In his final 28 years as head coach, he held down the No. 11 spot on college football’s all-time coaching list at the time with those 255 victories. The Bulldogs had a win-loss record below .500 only twice in 1994 and 1997. No less than 20 of his Bulldogs attained various All-American honors during his tenure and five went on to play in the National Football League. When Malosky retired in 1997, he was the winningest coach in Division II college football. Malosky was inductedinto the Minnesota High School Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1994, the UMD Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998, and the NSIC Hall of Fame in 2000. The stadium where the Bulldogs play today (James S. Malosky Stadium) is named in his honor. He is also the namesake of the Jim Malosky Award which will be presented annually by USA Football to the NCAA Division II Coach of the Year.  Malosky also served as an associate professor in UMD’s Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation and spent five seasons (1958-63) with the Bulldog men’s program in an assistant coaching capacity.

The Minnesota Chapter of the National Football Foundation presented the 2009 Distinguished Minnesotan Award to Coach Jim Malosky.  The award honors a person who has made a lifelong contribution to football in the state of Minnesota.

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