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Tippy Dye was born on 1 April, 1915 in Harrisonville, Ohio, U.S., is an American athlete and coach (1915–2012). Discover Tippy Dye's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 97 years old?

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Age 97 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 1 April 1915
Birthday 1 April
Birthplace Harrisonville, Ohio, U.S.
Date of death 11 April, 2012
Died Place Grass Valley, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1840

Harrison used the campaign nickname of Tippecanoe in 1840, which led in turn to Dye's nickname of "Tippy."

1915

William Henry Harrison "Tippy" Dye (April 1, 1915 – April 11, 2012) was an American college athlete, coach, and athletic director.

1933

Born in Harrisonville, Ohio, Dye enrolled at Ohio State University in 1933 and became a star three-sport athlete for the Buckeyes.

1934

He earned three varsity letters as a football quarterback in 1934, 1935, and 1936.

1935

Dye also played guard on the basketball team, lettering in 1935, 1936, and 1937.

Dye lettered in baseball in 1935 and 1936.

1936

He was an All-Conference selection in the Big Ten in 1936 and 1937.

1937

In 1937 he was also the team's captain.

After graduation, Dye played in the 1937 College All-Star Football Game against the Green Bay Packers at Soldier Field (collegians upset the defending champion Packers 6–0).

In that game, Dye played in a backfield that included future pro legend, Sammy Baugh.

Dye then signed to play with the first incarnation of the Cincinnati Bengals, a member of the second American Football League, in 1937.

After his one-year stint with the Bengals, Dye entered the coaching ranks.

1939

He coached first at Grandview Heights High School just outside Columbus from 1939–41.

The Buckeye's basketball team was coached by Harold Olsen at the time, one of the men who spearheaded the creation of an NCAA basketball tournament in 1939.

During World War II, Dye served for three years in the U.S. Navy.

1941

On April 3, 1941, Dye was named the coach at Brown where he also was an assistant coach for the football team under Paul Brown.

The next year, Dye returned to Ohio State to be an assistant for the football and basketball teams.

1947

He then went on to become the basketball coach at his alma mater, Ohio State, from 1947 to 1950.

1950

In 1950, the Buckeyes won the Big Ten title and finished in the Elite Eight of the NCAA basketball tournament.

Dye then moved on to the University of Washington in Seattle, where he was the head coach from 1950 to 1959.

1951

Washington won three consecutive Pacific Coast titles (1951–53), and advanced to the 1953 NCAA Final Four.

Dye's 156–91 record (.630) with the Huskies ranks him as the fourth winningest coach in UW basketball history, behind coaches Hec Edmundson (488 wins), Marv Harshman (246 wins), and Lorenzo Romar (298 wins).

1953

As a basketball head coach, Dye led the University of Washington to its only NCAA Final Four appearance in 1953.

1959

Long desiring an administrative role, Dye left Seattle in 1959 to become the athletic director at the University of Wichita, at an annual salary of $13,000.

1960

As an athletic director, Dye helped build the University of Nebraska football dynasty in the 1960s.

1961

Prior to hiring Dye, the Nebraska football program had an all-time winning percentage of less than 62%, and had a Lackluster two decades; Dye hired Bob Devaney from Wyoming following the 1961 season as head coach.

1962

After three years, he moved up to the Big Eight Conference at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln in 1962.

1967

Devaney would coach ten years and win two national championships while being asked to replace Dye as director in 1967.

He hired head basketball coach Joe Cipriano, the scrappy leader from his Final Four team at Washington.

Dye moved on to Northwestern University in 1967 and retired in 1974, retiring to Florida.

Dye was named after William Henry Harrison, the ninth U.S. President.

1980

Cipriano coached the Huskers for 17 seasons, until his death from cancer in 1980.

2001

In recent years, he had lived in California with his daughter and her husband following his wife's death, who died in 2001 after 64 years of marriage.

He was buried next to her in Pomeroy, Ohio.

2006

His team finished those seasons with records of 7–1, 7–1, and 5–3, respectively, and until 2006 he was the only Buckeye quarterback to win three consecutive games over the University of Michigan.

2012

Dye died in 2012 in Grass Valley, California, ten days after his 97th birthday.