We want to wish a belated Happy Birthday to the greatest Ohio State coach to ever live, Wayne Woodrow Hayes. Hayes accumulated a record of 205 victories, sixty-eight losses, and ten ties. His teams won three national championships (1954, 1957, 1968) and thirteen Big Ten Conference championships. Because of this impressive coaching record, Hayes received National Coach of the Year honors on two separate occasions. He was also one of the first college football coaches to recruit African-American players. The coach was legendary on all accounts, and I simply cannot believe we forgot his birthday. Woody Hayes was always said to have a big heart, and you could see it when he coached during games. He always went in and had his players play the game as hard as they could. It may just be a conicidence that he was born on Valentine's Day, but most people thought it was God's intent to do that. So again, Happy Birthday to him, on behalf of the staff of ITS.
