UCLA Football: Winningest Coach In Team History To Get Rose Bowl Statue
The UCLA Bruins and the Rose Bowl will honor one of the greatest college coaches of all time and the greatest UCLA football coach of all time, Terry Donahue.
Donahue will be honored with an unveiling of a commemorative statue at the Rose Bowl today.
The Bruins head coach from 19976-1995 is as accomplished as a head coach can be. He led the Bruins to a 151-74-8 record; those 151 wins are the most in UCLA Bruisn history, and his 98 wins in the Pac-10, now known as the Pac-12, remain the most in conference history.
The late great Donahue also led the Bruins to five Pac-10 championships, three Rose Bowl wins, and was named Pac-10 Coach of the Year two times in 1985 and 1993.
The UCLA great was Los Angeles through and through, born and raised in the city of Angeles, attended powerhouse high school Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, and even attended UCLA as a student and played football from 1965-1966.
Outside of UCLA, he coached at Kansas as a defensive lineman coach but quickly made his way back to UCLA as an offensive line coach for four years before becoming the man at the helm, and the rest is history.
This is beyond well deserved for the great Terry Donuahe. Unfortunately, he passed away in 2021 after two years of battling cancer, so his wife, Andre Donahue, and family will be in attendance, and she shared what this moment means to them.
“On behalf of the Terry Donahue family, we are humbled by this outpouring of support for the Terry Donahue Statue and 151 Roses Dedication,” Andrea Donahue, Terry’s wife, said. “The Rose Bowl has always played a meaningful part in our lives and provided us many opportunities and great joy. We can’t begin to express our gratitude for this iconic stadium and all the people that make it so special. It is a great honor to continue Coach Terry Donahue’s legacy so that he may continue to impact the lives of others.”
It is well deserved, and we cannot wait to see the statue.
